Keeping up with the Data Revolution with SOS Explorer Mobile

Modern society is awash with data.These observations and measurements are digital - they tell complex stories in the language of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Most humans, however, are intensely visual.

NOAA has mastered the challenge with the revolutionary 3-D Science On a Sphere (SOS) and Science On a Sphere Explorer (SOSx), which is now available as a FREE APP on your tablet or smartphone!

NOAA has been spreading data and scientific literacy worldwide with SOS for nearly two decades with real-time and archived weather, climate, land use, ocean, and space environmental datasets. SOSx Mobile displays NOAA and NASA observations and computer model animations right from a classroom tablet or telephone.

In this demonstration, we will go through some Phenomena - based examples of how to use SOSx Mobile in a facilitated or flipped classroom or in an informal science workshop dedicated to increasing data literacy for a 21st century student.