High School
- E3.p1 Landforms and Soils (prerequisite)
Landforms are the result of a combination of constructive
and destructive forces. Constructive forces include
crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions, and deposition
of sediments transported in rivers, streams, and lakes
through watersheds. Destructive forces include weathering
and erosion. The weathering of rocks and decomposed
organic matter result in the formation of soils. (prerequisite)
- Earth
and Space Science For Middle School Teachers
Outstanding!
Not only does it cover the geosphere, but covers
a mulitude of topics that meet several of the
Glec's. This site also has links into the NASA
web site. You should try this one it is a winner.
- National
Geologic Map Database (USGS)
The USGS National Geologic Map Database has many
links to other maps and interactive activities.
The site contains links to a catalog of paper
and digital maps, and where to find them. The
Association of American State Geologists provides
links to State Geological Surveys and related
agencies. Grades 5 - 8.
- Science Spot New
This site describes and provides
pictures from rocks and minerals, including indepth
descriptions and chemical formulas of minerals.
It includes how the Rock Cycle works and the
soil sciences as well.
- Soil
Forming Factors
This site is about Earth Deposits: A Basis for
Creating Landforms and Soil. The site offers many
links and information for students.
- Soil/landform
Mapping
Over 200 soil/landform units have been defined
for the region. Each soil/landform described includes
photographs of the general landscape as well as
3-D block diagrams and topographic section profiles.
For each soil-landform appropriate soil sites
are listed - that are considered to be good examples
of soil types that can occur in these units.
- Surface
Features of the Earth
This site will allow students to obtain descriptions,
definitions, pictures and animation for the following
surface features on Earth: mid-ocean spreading,
island formation, continental subduction, volcanoes
(including the Ring of Fire, mountain ranges,
insland arcs, and faulting. There are three different
levels for students: Beginner, intermediate, and
advanced. Students can also access additional
information from the two interactive and animated
links on the page: Plate Tectonics and Earth's
Surface and Interior
- Topozone.com
This web site will allow students and teachers
to create instant topographical maps anywhere
in the United States. In addition, this site also
provides the elevation, latitude and longitude
for a specific location. Students will find this
site interesting as they can obtain a topographical
map for their hometown or anywhere of interest.
- USDA's
Natural Resources Conservation Resources
Image bank of soil profiles taken from around
the U.S. (arranged by state)
- Visualizing
Topography
Outstanding!
This is a highly interactive site that uses animations
and movies to help students better understand
topographical maps. Students can change maps by
tiliting and rotating, shading, water flooding,
and profile slicing. It has a teacher content,
and student guide that may be utilized as a reference.
This site would work well as a cross curriculum
site with art.
- E3.p2 Rocks and Minerals (prerequisite)
Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are constantly
forming and changing through various processes. As
they do so, elements move through the geosphere. In
addition to other geologic features, rocks and minerals
are indicators of geologic and environmental conditions
that existed in the past. (prerequisite)
- Earth's Changing Surface New
On these pages
information is presented on investigating changes
in the earth's crust and climate. This includes
information about the rock cycle, dating rocks,
climate and variables that affect the climate,
and other processes that change the earth's crust.
- Geomysteries
Outstanding -
This is an outstanding interactive web site.
It has excellent pictures, video, and animation
of several rocks, their properties, and how igneous,
metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are formed,
complete with an interactive geologic timeline.
In addition, it also has a question answer section
which briefly asks students to respond, to check
their understanding of the material. Three major
mysteries must be solved by students: Mystery
of the Floating Rock (lava), Broken Necklace (fossils),
and Golden Cube (Pyrite vs. Gold). Under the mystery
of the Golden Cube students will discover why
crystals have different shapes and that minerals
can be classified according to their hardness,
color, density, cleavage and fracture. Students
can also see fast facts or check out where they
could go for a field trip. Several links for state
geological survey units are provided.
- Rock
Hounds With Rocky the Dog - Sedimentary, Igneous
& Metamorphic Rocks
Describes and provides animation of various rock
processes. Shows pictures and describes rocks
from each category of rock type. The site is an
in depth look at igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary
rocks.
- Science
Spot New
- This site describes and provides pictures
from rocks and minerals, including indepth
descriptions
and chemical formulas of minerals. It includes
how the Rock Cycle works and the soil sciences
as well.
- E3.p3 Basic Plate Tectonics (prerequisite)
Early evidence for the movement of continents was
based on the similarities of coastlines, geology,
faunal distributions, and paleoclimatelogical data
across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the 1960s,
additional evidence from marine geophysical surveys,
seismology, volcanology, and paleomagnetism resulted
in the development of the theory of plate tectonics.
(prerequisite)
- CIESE
On Line Classroom Projects - Musical Plates
A study of Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics Project.
This is an on-line project for students.
They are given a senario where they have to pinpoint
recent earthquakes, determine whether or not certain
parts of the earth experience more earthquakes
than others, determine what is causing the earthquakes,
organize the information into a report for the
President of the United States. Student
reports can be submitted to be published on-line,
if accepted. There are hyperlinks where students
can access data for their reports. There
is also a Teacher Area and an On-Line Help.
- Earth's
Changing Surface New
- On these pages information is presented
on investigating changes in the earth's crust
and climate. This
includes information about the rock cycle, dating
rocks, climate and variables that affect the
climate, and other processes that change the
earth's crust.
- Geology:
Plate Tectonics
Very basic discussion of plate tectonics. Has
some nice animations, but they take a long time
to download.
- Mountain
Maker, Earth Shaker
A description of plate tectonics and an illustrative
exercise are the main activities of this site.
Shockwave plugin is required and may be downloaded
from this site
- Plate
Tectonics
This site describes the different plate tectonics
of earth's outermost layer. It describes the
3
types of boundaries. There are several problems
presented for students to solve. There is a
Problem
Solving icon at the bottom of the page that outlines
a problem solving process to assist the students.
- Plate
Tectonic Reconstruction Service
This model is used to create maps of different
stages of continental drift and the plate tectonic
theory. By changing the time scale on the data
chart, a new map of the location of the continents
is brought up.
- Savage
Earth Animations
This site has very good animations of several
geologic processes that occur on the earth.
All
animations have written text to provide further
information.
- SCIGN
Education Module
A proper scientific treatment of plate tectonics
includes a history of the subject and types
of
plate boundary.
- The
Gateway to Astronaut Photography
- This site focuses on the interconnections
among processes taking place in the Earth's
atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
Many processes within the Earth System are
being
observed and monitored from Earth's orbit.
Astronauts have photograph the Earth on a
continuous basis.
This record spans more than 35 years.
- This
Dynamic Earth-USGS
This is an informational website about plate
tectonics. It provides some illustrations and
maps that may
be useful in presentations.
- Understanding
Plate Motions
General information about plate tectonics, describing
various plates, boundaries and motions.
- UNR
Seismological Laboratory
The site takes the student through the basics
of plate tectonics and earthquakes. It has lots
of links, however, the student will be mainly
reading. The pictures are excellent.
- USGS
Includes information about volcanoes, earthquakes,
and plate tectonics. Includes activities, models,
and much, much more.
- Volcanic
World New
- This describes the Earths Interior and
the effect of Plate tectonics, it has pictures,
a good deal
of information and links for other helpful information.
- Volcano
World
Provides information about every volcano in the
world. When it last erupted, etc.
- Xpeditions
"Ring of Fire"
This site is one of many lesson plans available
at the Xpedition/National Geographic Site. What
I like most about this site is that each lesson
has many interactive websites linked to it.
In
this lesson, students will link to an interactive
site discussing/showing types of volcanoes as
well as allowing them to create their own online
volcano (a national geographic forces of nature
site).
- E3.1 Advanced Rock Cycle
Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are indicators
of geologic and environmental conditions and processes
that existed in the past. These include cooling and
crystallization, weathering and erosion, sedimentation
and lithification, and metamorphism. In some way,
all of these processes are influenced by plate tectonics,
and some are influenced by climate.
- Earth's Changing Surface New
On these pages
information is presented on investigating changes
in the earth's crust and climate. This includes
information about the rock cycle, dating rocks,
climate and variables that affect the climate,
and other processes that change the earth's crust.
- The
Rock CycleThe basics on the rock cycle.
- The
Rock Cycle - Beyond BooksOutstanding!
This web site is an excellent tool for student
learning. It contains the basics and much more
such as: (1) Focus Topics - Igneous, Sedimentary,
and Metamorphic Rocks, (2) "Read More"
sections, (3) write a story called "I, Rock" pretending
that they are a rock traveling through the rock
cycle and, (4) interactive Monumental
stone activity where they can identify rock types
for major national monuments.
- The
Rock Cycle in Michigan
- The Rock Cycle in Michigan - from this PowerPoint
presentation students can learn about the geological
principals which explain how the rock types
are related, with Michigan references.Teacher
notes are found at:
http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-ogs-gimdl-SAT.pdf
- Rock
Cycle: The Story of a Rock
In this activity, students will use more
creative story telling to describe the rock cycle.
This activity is intended to be used at the end
of a unit on rocks and minerals, and may even
constitute an assessment of the unit.
- E3.2 Interior of the Earth
The Earth can also be subdivided into concentric layers
based on their physical characteristics: (lithosphere,
asthenosphere, lower mantle, outer core, and inner
core). The crust and upper mantle compose the rigid
lithosphere (plates) that moves over a “softer”
asthenosphere (part of the upper mantle). The magnetic
field of the Earth is generated in the outer core.
The interior of the Earth cannot be directly sampled
and must be modeled using data from seismology.
- Earth's
Interior
This site shows the interior of the earth and
it various part.
- Optiputer Outreach New
This has an overview
of earth layers, plate tectonics, its theory,
plus interior Earth views. It includes pictures
and animations along with quciktime views of
Earthquakes and volcanoes.
- Structure
of The Earth
This site has several animations for teachers.
Geophysics, which studies the physics of the Earth,
has led to many significant discoveries about
the Earth and its make-up. Seismologic studies
of the Earth have uncovered new information about
the interior of the Earth that has helped to give
credence to plate tectonic theory
- Surface
and Interior of Earth
The site provides detail views of the earths interior.
- The
Interior of The Earth
This site shows the Earth's surface and interior
and several other geology areas. Talks about how
we explore the interior using Seismic Waves.
- Volcanic World New
This describes the Earths
Interior and the effect of Plate tectonics, it
has pictures, a good deal of information and
links for other helpful information.
- E3.3 Plate Tectonics Theory
The Earth’s crust and upper mantle make up the
lithosphere, which is broken into large mobile pieces
called tectonic plates. The plates move at velocities
in units of centimeters per year as measured using
the global positioning system (GPS). Motion histories
are determined with calculations that relate rate,
time, and distance of offset geologic features. Oceanic
plates are created at mid-ocean ridges by magmatic
activity and cooled until they sink back into the
Earth at subduction zones. At some localities, plates
slide by each other. Mountain belts are formed both
by continental collision and as a result of subduction.
The outward flow of heat from Earth’s interior
provides the driving energy for plate tectonics.
- CIESE
On Line Classroom Projects - Musical Plates
A study of Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics Project.
This is an on-line project for students.
They are given a senario where they have to pinpoint
recent earthquakes, determine whether or not certain
parts of the earth experience more earthquakes
than others, determine what is causing the earthquakes,
organize the information into a report for the
President of the United States. Student
reports can be submitted to be published on-line,
if accepted. There are hyperlinks where students
can access data for their reports. There
is also a Teacher Area and an On-Line Help.
- DEQ,
Geology in Michigan
- Presentations, classroom materials, and maps
of Michigan's geology past and present. Once
in this site make sure to go to the "For
students and Teachers" link which contains
games, lessons, diagrams, pictures, and multimedia.
- Earth
Science Animations This
site contains several plate tectonic, continental
drift, and geologic timeline animations.
- Geological
List of Applets
This contains a list of geology related applets.
- Geology:
Plate Tectonics
Very basic discussion of plate tectonics. Has
some nice animations, but they take a long time
to download.
- Mountain
Maker, Earth Shaker
A description of plate tectonics and an illustrative
exercise are the main activities of this site.
Shockwave plugin is required and may be downloaded
from this site
- Plate
Tectonics
This site describes the different plate tectonics
of earth's outermost layer. It describes the 3
types of boundaries. There are several problems
presented for students to solve. There is a Problem
Solving icon at the bottom of the page that outlines
a problem solving process to assist the students.
- Plate
Tectonics Animations
This
USGS site contains several animated gifs. You
may use these animations for any educational purpose,
you just need to cite the USGS as the source.
- Plate
Tectonic Reconstruction Service
This model is used to create maps of different
stages of continental drift and the plate tectonic
theory. By changing the time scale on the data
chart, a new map of the location of the continents
is brought up.
- Regents
Prep Earth Science
This site has a variety of Earth Science resources
appropriate for use by students and teachers.
- Savage
Earth Animations
This site has very good animations of several
geologic processes that occur on the earth. All
animations have written text to provide further
information.
- The
Gateway to Astronaut Photography
- This site focuses on the interconnections
among processes taking place in the Earth's
atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
Many processes within the Earth System are being
observed and monitored from Earth's orbit. Astronauts
have photograph the Earth on a continuous basis.
This record spans more than 35 years.
- This
Dynamic Earth-USGS
This is an informational website about plate tectonics.
It provides some illustrations and maps that may
be useful in presentations.
- Understanding
Plate Motions
General information about plate tectonics, describing
various plates, boundaries and motions.
- UNR
Seismological Laboratory
The site takes the student through the basics
of plate tectonics and earthquakes. It has lots
of links, however, the student will be mainly
reading. The pictures are excellent.
- USGS
Includes information about volcanoes, earthquakes,
and plate tectonics. Includes activities, models,
and much, much more.
- Volcanic
World New
- This describes the Earths Interior and
the effect of Plate tectonics, it has pictures,
a good deal
of information and links for other helpful information.
- Xpeditions "Ring
of Fire"
This site is one of many lesson plans available
at the Xpedition/National Geographic Site. What
I like most about this site is that each lesson
has many interactive websites linked to it.
In
this lesson, students will link to an interactive
site discussing/showing types of volcanoes as
well as allowing them to create their own online
volcano (a national geographic forces of nature
site).
- E3.4 Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Plate motions result in potentially catastrophic events
(earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, mass wasting) that
affect humanity. The intensity of volcanic eruptions
is controlled by the chemistry and properties of the
magma. Earthquakes are the result of abrupt movements
of the Earth. They generate energy in the form of
body and surface waves.
- 2004
Indian Ocean Tsunami
- This contains a list of geology related
applets.
- CIESE
On Line Classroom Projects - Musical Plates
A study of Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics Project.
This is an on-line project for students.
They are given a senario where they have to pinpoint
recent earthquakes, determine whether or not
certain
parts of the earth experience more earthquakes
than others, determine what is causing the earthquakes,
organize the information into a report for the
President of the United States. Student
reports can be submitted to be published on-line,
if accepted. There are hyperlinks where students
can access data for their reports. There
is also a Teacher Area and an On-Line Help.
- Earthquake Hazards New
Describes earthquakes
via simulations, pictures and more. Includes
links to other resources as well.
- Earthquakes
This site provides great factual and graphical information concerning earthquakes.
Good animated demonstrations.
- Optiputer
Outreach New
- This has an overview of earth layers, plate
tectonics, its theory, plus interior Earth
views. It includes
pictures and animations along with quciktime
views of Earthquakes and volcanoes.
- Teacher's
Guide to Hawaii Volcanoes
The site is a list of activities and pictures
of Hawaii's volcanoes. Terms and general information
about volcanoes are also a focus of topic.
- USGS
- Geosphere
Includes information about volcanoes, earthquakes,
and plate tectonics. Includes activities, models,
and much, much more.
- Volcanoes
This site has video clip and information on melting
rock, dynamic earth, forecasting, and many related
resources.
- Volcanic World New
This site has pictures,
internet activities,some simulations, plus sites
for teachers and kids. Although it was tested
for 5-8th grade it is geared toward the upper
levels and the activities give additional information
to adjust for higher grade levels.
- Volcanic
World New
This describes the Earths
Interior and the effect of Plate tectonics, it
has pictures, a good deal of information and
links for other helpful information.
- Volcano
World
Provides information about every volcano in the
world. When it last erupted, etc.
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