Google Earth...Tour Ocean "Hope Spots"... a new default layer for oceans in Google Earth. The new oceans layer includes hundreds of sites generated from data, images, and videos from organizations like National Geographic, NOAA, and dozens of others. Hope Spots is a narrated tour of eight places around the world considered to be indicative of the health of the world's oceans and marine life.
2.6 Million Years of Climate Change ...gives plenty of information about how climate has changed since the ice ages. It covers: forces that cause climate change; changes that occur to plants and animals during climate change; how to read climate changes with tree rings, and many others. Very clear drawings and photos help support the text.
All About Snow ...Supposedly the native people of Alaska have dozens of words to describe snow. All About Snow, from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, goes even further by presenting just about everything you might want to know about snow, from avalanches to snow science. There is also a snow glossary to help understand the difference between a blizzard and a squall.
American Environmental Photographs, 1 - consists of 4,500 photographs of natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States taken between 1891 and 1936. These photographs show a wide range of American topography and its forestation, aridity, shifting coastal dune comple
Arctic Passage ...incredibly rich site, from Public Broadcasting's Nova series, is based on two Arctic explorations, one disastrous and the other successful, to find the fabled Northwest Passage. The site offers a description and a transcript of the Nova broadcast, a Teachers' Guide, and an amazing assortment of activities for students, offering them the chance to understand why one expedition failed (mysteriously disappearing) and the other succeeded. There's even a quiz on igloo building.
Atmospheric Optics – the lovely visual spectacles naturally formed by water and light. In addition to many gorgeous photos, the site contains short but informative explanations of each phenomenum.
Breathing Earth is an interactive map demonstrating CO2 emissions, birth rates, and death rates globally and by individual countries. From the moment that you first visit Breathing Earth it starts counting the number of births occurring worldwide. Placing your cursor over any country on the map reveals information about birthrate, death rate, and rate of CO2 emissions
Dynamic Earth Interactives...warns us that our Earth is not exactly rock solid, and invites users to explore the earth's inner structure, plate tectonics, plates and boundaries, and geologic processes, such as earthquakes and volcanoes. The site takes a multidimensional approach to coverage of basic geologic principles using colorful graphics, animated diagrams, easy-to-read explanations, and integrated critical-thinking activities.
Earth, observed ..see many amazing images of the earth that were taken by the Earth Observatory from 30,000 feet. These images are breathtaking.Earth Pulse...Investigate ecosystems and their value to humans, biomes, and conservation with these interactive maps. There is a special focus on Kenya and conservation of elephants. Additional maps and trends are provided towards the bottom of this page.
Explore Your Earth...Scholastic and Google Earth invite you to take a virtual tour around the world....includes: Lesson One: Climate Change& Lesson Two: My Earth Day Commitment
Extreme oil - tracks oil production from four oil-producing areas of the world, showing
all that is entailed in bringing the precious stuff up from the ground
and into our gas tanks. Additional sections cover the history of oil refinement
and consumption...
Green Dreams...Experts agree that there has to be an alternative to fossil fuels. But are plant-based Biofuels the answer? From national Geographic comes this incisive look at the very complex topic of finding ways to replace our dependence on oil as a fuel.
Hurricane
Field Trip - Hurican, the Carib god of evil. A telling origin for
the name of this storm of storms. Hurricanes occur in the tropical regions
of the world in 7 distinct basins, and are called Hurricanes in the Carribean,
Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and eastern Pacific, T
JetStream: Online Weather
School - The information contained in JetStream is arranged by subject;
beginning with global and large scale weather patterns followed by lessons
on air masses, wind patterns, cloud formations, thunderstorms, lightning,
hail, damaging winds, tornados, tropical st
Life along
the fault line - Do you think California is a heartbeat away from
falling into the Pacific Ocean? Go on a virtual field trip with the Exploratorium
Faultline crew as they explore research facilities, check ongoing experiments,
and observe daily life along the San Andreas fault.
Regents Earth Science...a variety of resources including a version of jeopardy.
Rock Cycle (Grades 7-9)...Learn how to distinguish between types of rocks and discover how rocks change over time.
The Science Behind Climate News. ..video in which atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike gives the audience a sense of how much scientific research goes into producing a climate change headline such as those found in popular newspapers and magazines. ... provides some insight into how many layers of study there are in the area of climate change research.Seafood Watch: Fishy Issues ... devoted to exploring that issue, from listing seafood that you should and should not purchase, the pros and cons of fish farming, the question of discarded species, and other environmental impact questions about our increasingly fragile oceans.
Seasons Interactive ...helps illustrate the concept of seasons by providing users with a series of tools to manipulate and observe this cycle. Change the Earth's inclination, the speed in which it travels, and how seasons would both feel and appear if our inclination was set to that of other planets.
South Pole Quest website is a great source of audio podcasts and images from the expedition. The South Pole Quest website also features some great lesson plans about Antarctica
Teaching with Google Earth ... ...There are files to tell you what Google Earth is, why bother teaching with it, and TONS more, including this page of classroom activities
Ultimate
Chase...Hurricane / Typhoon Video Stock Footage Page
The Virtual Library: Earth Science - A variety of resources
Virtual Courseware for Earth
and Environ - Earthquake, Virtual Dating, VirtualRiver, Global Warming
Virtual
Earthquake - Virtual Earthquake is an interactive Web-based program
designed to introduce you to the concepts of how an earthquake EPICENTER
is located and how the RICHTER MAGNITUDE of an earthquake is determined
Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Sciences: Global Warming ...Two interactive activities that illustrate the principles of global warming and climate change include separate tutorials on the fundamental science that underpins these two subjects, such as seasonal change, the carbon cycle, the hydrological cycle, and albedo and a variety of assessments.
Visualizations - from the National Science Foundation. 100 animations are included.
Volcanoes (Grades 9-12)...There are many active volcanoes worldwide. Is there anything we can do to predict how and when they will erupt?
Volcano Field Trip - Volcanoes can be exciting and dangerous. They are also educational since
they tell us a lot about the earth and even other planets. The inside
of the Earth is very hot. Sometimes, this heat melts through the rock
of the earth’s crust, ...
VolcanoWorld - a perfect starting
point for aspiring volcanologists. It contains plenty of images and data
on recent and past earthquakes and volcanic activity.
Weather (Grades 9-12)
Try your hand at tornado chasing or discover how wind chill works.
Weather -- Wind Chill...The effect that wind has on our perception of cold is called the wind chill factor. The greater the wind speed, the faster we lose body heat. ...
Welcome to Global Warming... Two interactive activities that illustrate the principles of global warming and climate change include separate tutorials on the fundamental science that underpins these two subjects, such as seasonal change, the carbon cycle, the hydrological cycle, and albedo and a variety of assessments.