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- E.SE.M.1 Soil -"Soils consist
of weathered rocks and decomposed organic materials
from dead plants, animals, and bacteria. Soils are
often found in layers with each having a different
chemical composition and texture."
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Explore Soil
Excellent site that has links for teachers on
soil type, what is soil?, and Soil Science education.
- Links
on Soil
Outstanding
site with links on every aspect of soil for this
standards.
- Soil Science
Education
Outstanding:
This site is everything a teacher needs to know
to teach students on soil.
- USDA's
Natural Resources Conservation Resources
Image bank of soil profiles taken from around
the U.S. (arranged by state)
- E.SE.M.4 Rock Formation -"Rocks
and rock formations bear evidence of the minerals,
materials, temperature/pressure conditions,
and forces that created them."
- Cycles
This site primarily gives students information
about the rock cycle. There is a very good graphic
that displays the three types of rock and how
they change. Information follows the graphic.
You'll need to go to the site then click on Rock
Cycle.
- 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 and the Rock Cycle New
llustrations, vocabulary,
and text explaining rock and rock formation.
- 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.
- The
Rock Cycle
The basics on the rock cycle.
- The
Rock Cycle - Beyond Books
Outstanding!
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
- E.SE.M.5 Plate Tectonics -"Earth’s
lithospheric plates constantly move, resulting in
major geological events, such as earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, and mountain building."
- 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.
- Geology:
Plate Tectonics
Very basic discussion of plate tectonics. Has
some nice animations, but they take a long time
to download.
- Meteor
Crater
This site contains information on meteor craters.
It also contains animation of the impact of a
meteor hitting the earth. Choose the link "meteor
crater-reference information" and then go back
and link to the "animation of impact" to see it
in action.
- 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.
- 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.
- Scholastic
Volcanoes, earthquakes,hurricanes, winterstorms,
and tornadoes from which to choose including for
each The Basics, In-Depth, Experiments (some interactive
and edible),Witness Accounts,Words to Know (interactive
pick a word pull down to complete text and then
TEST), Experts Say, and Be Ready.
- 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.
- 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).
- E.SE.M.6 Magnetic Field of Earth -"Earth
as a whole has a magnetic field that is detectable
at the surface with a compass."
- Curricular
Connections - Electricity/Magnetism
This lesson plan contains a list of materials,
set, instruction, closure, enrichment for teaching
north and south poles, repel and attract, line
of force, electromagnets and uses of magnets.
To find the material, scroll down to 4B4 in 4th
grade.
- Earth's
Magnetic Field Interactive
This interactive animation lets you explore the
magnetic field surrounding Earth. Drag the compass
through the space around Earth to explore the
shape of Earth's magnetic field.
- IPPEX
Interactive
This site explains the magnetic poles and
mentions the magnetic compass. A small activity
is provided for students to complete with materials
that you supply.
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