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 * 'ISS EarthKAM** (**Earth** **K**nowledge **A**cquired by **M**iddle school students) is a NASA education program which enables students, teachers and the public to learn about Earth from the unique perspective of space.' At the heart of the program, are a group of images of Earth taken by a camera mounted on the International Space Station. The images are taken by students from selected middle schools around the world. Students identify specific areas on the Earth for further study, then detemine latitude, longitude and GMT time of ISS flyover. Requests to the ISS are submitted through the internet by way of Unversity of Californis San Deigo, which hosts the EarthKAM website. The camera aboard the ISS takes the picture using the information and data supplied by each middle school student; images are then stored in a database on the EarthKAM site. MMHS 8th grade students have participated in the EarthKAM missions for the past years.


 * EarthKAM at Mardela Middle High School **





= New****** - October 20 - 23, 2009 mission = Click here to register: []

Fall Mission 2008 November 28 - 31
1. Follow this link to complete the **Land Formations activity**: http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/students/activities/landformations/

2. Follow this link to complete the **Locate this Image activitiy**: http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/students/activities/locate_image/

3. We will use this site on Thursday 10/23 and 10/24 to practice finding sites and submitting requests. Practice Site: http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu:83/smoc/

Fall Mission 2007

 * Due** to the very busy fall schedule of the shuttle and space station astronauts and associated missions and repairs, the fall mission of EarthKAM will consist of a contest in which we investigate, explore, analyze and annotate images from previous EarthKAM and NASA missions.

My 8th grade classes decided to investigate the relationship between deforestation and climate change. The pages of this wiki are the results of their work!

WOW - WE WON in the category of Most Original Presentation!

SUPER job 8th graders! Mrs. H. :)

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