Course Content
Atmosphere: El Niño and La Niña

ILLUSTRATED LECTURES

The El Niño CD-ROM: Teachers Notes (pdf)
REMedia, Inc.

El Niño: The Child Returns
NASA Classroom of the Future

La Niña Information
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)

El Niño: Making Sense of the Weather
Sharron Sample, NASA/For Kids Only

IMAGE BANKS, VIDEOS, AND INTERACTIVE RESOURCES

Earth Update: El Niño & La Niña
Caroline Sumners, Houston Museum of Natural Science

El Niño/La Niña
Educational Resources, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, NASA

El Niño and La Niña: Coping with Nature's Wild Cards
Orange County Register

El Niño Visualizations
Visualization Gallery, Scientific Computing Division, National Corporation for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

NewsOne Video
ABC News

EXERCISES AND LABS

Data Discovery: El Niño
Planet Earth Sciences: The Data Discovery Company (Santa Barbara, California)

Global-Change Labs: El Niño (Exercise #8)
David Hodell and Ray G. Thomas, University of Florida

El Niño Teacher's Guide
NASA Observatorium

Seasons Investigation: Putting It All Together (A GLOBE Learning Investigation) (PDF)
The GLOBE Program

Short-Term Climate Change: El Niño
David Barnes, Western Michigan University

RESEARCH & POLICY

Children of the Tropics
Bob Hensen and Kevin E. Trenberth, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

El Niño/La Niña and Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Ocean Surface Topography from Space, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

El Niño Theme Page
Department of Commerce and NOAA

Scientists Say New El Niño "Almost Certain" in Coming Months
Earth Institute News (8/12/02), Columbia University