Blue Marble

Simulations

Each one runs in a browser with nothing to install. The simulations come with questions for middle school, high school, and upper high school. More are on the way.

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Moon phases

MS-ESS1-1

Fly around a real 3D Moon, then stand on Earth and look up. The phase is which part of the lit half faces you.

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Eclipses

MS-ESS1-1

Run the real Sun and Moon from 2000 to 2050. Most new and full moons miss: find the ones that line up, and see each shadow to scale.

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The greenhouse effect

MS-ESS3-5 · HS-ESS2-4

You are a photon of sunlight. Aim at Earth, warm the ground, then try to get back out to space as infrared.

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Greenhouse planets

MS-ESS3-5 · HS-ESS2-4

Venus is almost twice as far from the Sun as Mercury. Which one is hotter? Change each planet's greenhouse gas and find out.

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Seasons

MS-ESS1-1

Fly Earth around the Sun, then stand anywhere on it. Seasons come from the tilt, not from how close we are to the Sun.

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The carbon cycle

MS-LS2-3 · HS-LS2-5 · HS-ESS2-6

Be a carbon atom. Fly an island as carbon dioxide, slip into a leaf and become sugar, then choose: burned for energy, grown into wood, fallen and rotted, or eaten by a cow.

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