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Reference Area

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Purpose: Students provide important reference information to help with the selection of targets. 

This area provides direct support to the targeters. For example, they might want to help in selecting among several potential targets showing rain forests in the Amazon. In this case, the reference specialists would find a more detailed map of the Amazon, and help pinpoint good targets. Also, individual students might have particular areas of expertise, such as rain forests or Islands of the Pacific, and they could be called on for help. 

The reference area has three parts: 

• computer — connected to the Web to provide live weather data, to keep track of newsworthy events that might be seen from space (such as a volcano) and to support web-based searches of reference information about any of the potential targets.

• library — a set of reference books such as atlases, Earth science textbooks, encyclopedias, books about the space shuttle, or any other related reference. A globe would also be helpful.

• work table — where students can spread out their reference materials during their active use.

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