Geo TeachNet resources and websites:

Software-
EarthBrowser- This is a WONDERFUL piece of software which accesses & displays realtime data for volcanoes, earthquakes, cloud cover, and other earth info…. Displays on big glove in starry sky. Under $20 and the best buy for individual or whole group interactions. (http://earthbrowser.com/school/ Lunar Software)

Videos-
Bill Nye-
Earth’s Crust- Good intro and overview to the topics…. Show early in unit.
www.billnye.com

Eyewitness Video Series-
Volcano


Websites-

General Starting Points
The US Geological Survey Learning Web- great entry to resources, both net and print, for students, teachers, and “explorers”. http://usgs.gov/education/index.html

NASA EarthObservatory- This is both a website, and an e-mail list that sends updates regularly. Basically a way to use NASA satellite pictures to follow events in different parts of the globe. Volcanic activity seen from the sky, is one application for this unit.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Tanya Atwater Homepage- Dr. Tanya Atwater is a recognized expert in plate tectonic research, especially know for her seminal research on the formation of California coastline.
She also has been very active for years assisting k-12 teachers and students, and has many resources online….. note especially the animations of plate movements….. very kid friendly, and can be dragged/played repeatedly (quicktime movie format) to really understand what is happening.
http://geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/atwater/

Paper Model of a Volcano- This printable cutout is well liked by kids, and helps them create a 3 dimensional model instead of the usual 2-d views.
http://giseis.alaska.edu/Input/affiliated/lahr/taurho/volcano/volcano.html


Global Vulcanism Program- This has many elements, to the site, but this link could be used for a lesson in using map coordinates to place volcano markers, and to color code them by date (as in century or decade) to create visual understanding of volcanoes in human history.
http://volcano.si.edu/world/summgeog.cfm


The Savage Earth- This PBS website is dramatic and well done for a number of topics. Most likely useful either for teams getting background learning, or to lead an online discovery session for all.
- summarize text and draw
- describe what the animation shows about the processes
- match vocabulary term with graphic
http://pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/

Along the Faultline- Part of the Exploratorium Learning website.
Good links to a variety of California quake resources.
http://exploratorium.edu/ls/pathfinders/earthquakes

http://exploratorium.edu/faultline/earthquakescience/eqscience3.html

Shaking and Quaking-
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/lessons/indiv/davis/hs/Earthquakes3.html

PARKFIELD WEBSITE!!
http://smjuhsd.k12.ca.us/%7ewbunning/science/resources/geopage.html#quakes

http://smjuhsd.k12.ca.us/%7ewbunning/science/activities/SAF/main.html


This is an EXCEPTIONALLY student friendly site. Chunks of comprehensible input, with well executed animations to help model a whole range of processes. Useful for student activities such as:
- summarize text and draw
- describe what the animation shows about the processes
- match vocabulary term with graphic

http://sizzle.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes/

http://sizzle.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes/plates/divergent.html

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/lessons/indiv/coe/details.html


Designing Structures to Perform Well During Earthquakes-
This page briefly and concisely introduces the things engineers consider, and has some ideas for kids to try with structures.
http://mceer.buffalo.edu/education/exercises/struct.asp

Minerals Museums- Websites for students to work with rocks and minerals vary widely in quality. One activity that can work is to try to match student collected samples with online photos. An important understanding is that rocks are made up of minerals…. Online collections can help with that.
http://carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/minerals/hillman/


Rockdoctor 2000 This site provides basic information needed to identify common rocks and mineral.
http://cobweb.net/~bug2/rock1.htm

GeoMan's Mineral and Rock Identification This is another site to help you identify your rocks and minerals
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/MinRockID/MinRockIndex.html

Discovery School-
this has a cool lesson, and can listen to definitions of rocks as well as reading them
has a link to free teaching tools, so kids can create worksheets, puzzles,etc. for the others.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/rocks/index.html

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/trackingearthquakes/

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/talesofterrain/

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/earthquakes-gettingready/

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/earthquakeproof/

awesome links, and challenging, but excellent model for trying it all out
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/understanding/

Online Geo quiz for kids- Check it out….. useful for some.
http://fi.edu/fellows/fellow4/nov98/games/quiz.html

Students can e-mail questions to geologists-
ask@usgs.gov

http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/index.htm