Earth+Science

**Earth Science**
 * Astronomy**

http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/star_life/starlife_main.html Here is website you may wish to keep for your Astronomy class…
 * Climate**

http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/home.cfm Online text with activities. Some of the visualizations are really neat. http://www.worldclimate.com/ Data on climate. http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/UniqueKeyLookup/SHSU5BWJQ7/$File/wheelcard.pdf Climate activity. http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/gmaps/climate-change/ Interactive map showing climate issues around the world. Interesting interface… http://www.realclimate.org/ Good information, but too much reading for me… http://www.ipcc.ch/press/webcast-171107.htm The IPCC has some neat political stuff. For instance this specific link has a  press conference with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and his UN proposal. http://www.srh.weather.gov/jetstream/matrix.htm  I love matrices...Sorry. http://www.microsoft.com/education/meteorologist.mspx  This may be a bit late, but it seems really neat. Have the kids dress up, use the Promethean Board as a weather map…
 * Epicenter of an Earthquake**

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/locating.html  Just open up this site and have the compass (and ruler if needed) from the power tools from your Promethean ActivBoard software do all the work.

**Foucault's Pendulum**

http://www.physclips.unsw.edu.au/jw/foucault_pendulum.html Not bad. http://www.calacademy.org/products/pendulum/ - This is a 14 page step by step. It is loaded with information in a very kid friendly style. Awesome. http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0403/es0403page01.cfm?chapter_no=04 Short animation with simultaneous 3 views. Not bad. http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash/ClassMechanics/Foucault/Foucault.html Animation [|www.youtube.com] Search for Foucault's Pendulum http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash/  A site with tons of physics animations.
 * Global Statistics**

http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldCLock.php This link is an interesting site for world statistics.

**Landslides and Erosion**

http://web.mala.bc.ca/geoscape/landslide!.htm Some nice info and graphics of landslides. http://landslides.usgs.gov/ A governmental program dedicated to landslide preparedness. http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/landslide/index.html Lesson from the USGS. http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/435 Really nice video (Slow Loading) w/ 5 page pdf lesson plan link at the right of the page. If you plan on showing this you may want to give it time to load before class starts. [|www.unitedstreaming.com] has an excellent resource video on landslides. Just type in the search bar land slides. There is even a lesson plan and quiz located under the “Related Materials” tab at the right of the page. Again slow loading, however you can download the entire video or just little segments and embed them right into a PowerPoint presentation. If you need any help using United Streaming, I received some training on it the last time I was at the IU. http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfjps/1300/weathering.html Site with definitions and representative pictures of the different types of Chemical and Mechanical Weathering. [|http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/visualization.cfm Check out Chapter 12].
 * Meteorology**

http://www.phschool.com/science/planetdiary/textbook_correlations/ph_sx_07_earth.html Check out book I. http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_tarbuck_escience_10/0,6440,219388-,00.html I think I’m a bit over my head with all of the stuff you can take with this site. Tons of material here. I downloaded and attached a Power Point form the Prentice Hall website. It looks pretty nice. There are others on: http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=cuk&wcsuffix=9999 Check out unit 6, there is a lot of neat stuff there. http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_tarbuck_escience_10/3/853/218532.cw/index.html An outline with assessment of an entire online textbook. http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=cud&wcsuffix=6212 A webquest on Global Warming (Pro or Con) http://www.atmos.millersville.edu/~wic/ Millersville Weather Information Center
 * Plate Tectonics**

http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp22/22020.html Not the best animation, but it does show how landmasses move. It also has a narrator. http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/ideas/gondwana2.html This site is specific to the origins of Antarctica. Cool animation though. http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/subduction.html Nice animation. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim4.html Another cool site.


 * Time Zone**

http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html This doesn’t have much in terms of interactivity, but it is loaded with some historical facts about the topic of time. http://www.worldtimezone.com/index24.php A little tricky to read, but it has the current time displayed in time zones across the globe. http://timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/ This site contains a list of all time zone abbreviations around the world. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html or http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0/java These sites have graphics that shows the places of day and night around the world.
 * Tornadoes and Hurricanes**

http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es2006/es2006page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization Awesome tornado animation. http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es2008/es2008page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization Okay hurricane animation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/5328524.stm Wow, this is awesome. More tornado animations, but cooler…You gotta check out the last slide…There are also links to the right of the presentation for hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. http://www.suu.edu/faculty/colberg/Hazards/Hurricanes_Noreasters/Hurricane_Anim_2.html Nice hurricane animation. http://profhorn.meteor.wisc.edu/wxwise/tornado/t.html Neat interactive tornado animation; set the controls to max and watch the cow. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/graphics/tornadoes/flash.htm Neat flash with some safety tornado tips. http://www.suu.edu/faculty/colberg/Hazards/Hurricanes_Noreasters/Hurricanes_Anim_1.html This animation has both tornadoes and hurricanes. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/supertwister/index.htm Intense tornado stuff.


 * Tsunami Resources**

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/ess05/sci/ess/watcyc/anatomytsunami/index.html What a cool site. Awesome video clips. One of them even shows an example of tidal drawback. Just click on the view button in the middle of the page. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/4136289.stm Less fancy, but adequate. http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/2005/video/video.html This has some ok videos.

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