Resource Area for Teachers
http://www.raft.net/
Powers of 10 Webcast
http://www.powersof10.com/index.php?mod=watch_powersof10
Deb DeWitt Submitted a few sites
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/sizing-up-sperm-4921/Overview#tab-Videos/07830_00
http://www.iptv.org/exploremore/ge/Teacher_Resources/teaching_materials/sci3_gene.cfm
Christopher F. Van Meier submitted a site
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vk4_2xboOE
Friday, June 18, 2010
Microbes @ NASA Stromatolite – Extreme Biology
http://microbes.arc.nasa.gov/
Virtual Fieldtrip
http://pilbara.mq.edu.au/wiki/NASA_tools
Stromatolite Background information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite
NASA Mission Archive
http://www.extremeenvironment.com/
http://microbes.arc.nasa.gov/
Virtual Fieldtrip
http://pilbara.mq.edu.au/wiki/NASA_tools
Stromatolite Background information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite
NASA Mission Archive
http://www.extremeenvironment.com/
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Science Resources II
Session 13
Perodic Table of Elementse
http://webelements.com/ NEW
http://www.ptable.com/
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
http://www.chemicool.com/
http://www.periodictable.com/
http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/pertable_fla.htm
Session 14
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/courses/toolkits/123/js/lewis/
http://www.fordhamprep.org/gcurran/sho/sho/lessons/lesson53.htm
Session 15
http://richardbowles.tripod.com/chemistry/balance.htm#part4
Use site for molar mass calculations:
http://misterguch.brinkster.net/molarmass.html
Use this Web site to see animations on strong vs. weak acids:
http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/chang7/esp/folder_structure/ac/m2/s1/
Use the following Web site for the pH scale animation:
http://www.purchon.com/chemistry/acids.htm#animation
Session 16
Useful Web site for explanation:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/thermo/heatra.html
Excellent site for review of each type of heat transfer:
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=SCE304
Interactive Web site:
http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=GCH8705
Session 17
Video clip, Mitosis (1:30 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlN7K1-9QB0&NR=1
Video clip, Stages of Mitosis (1:22 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGV3fv-uZYI&annotation_id=annotation_706798&feature=iv
Animation, Mitosis and Cytokinesis:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__mitosis_and_cytokinesis.html
Online mitosis activity,
Online Onion Root Tips:
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html
Video clip, Meiosis (1:48 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_-mQS_FZ0&feature=related
Video clip, Meiosis (1:47 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7c8YbYGqo&NR=1
Animation, Diffusion:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_diffusion_works.html
Animation, Facilitated Diffusion:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_facilitated_diffusion_works.html
Animation, Osmosis:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_osmosis_works.html
Animation, Sodium Potassium Pump—Active Transport:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_the_sodium_potassium_pump_works.html
Session 18
Video (15:12 min.), Discovery Streaming, Biology: The Science of Life: The World of Plants:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Animation, Photosynthesis - Light Reaction:
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/Bio231/ltrxn.html
Video clip (0:49 min.), Conifer Reproduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq8NWh98wQs&feature=PlayList&p=D78EA08CA527FC68&index=19
Video clip (1:03 min.), Moss Reproduction:
http://www.youtube.comwatch/?v=jcWYAnmm-QE&feature=related
Animation, Life Cycle of a Moss:
http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/moss.html
Animation: Life Cycle of an Angiosperm:
http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/angiosperm.html
Session 19
Video clip, Muscle Contraction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ309LfHQ3M&feature=player_embedded%20
Animation, Sarcomere Shortening:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120104/bio_b.swf::Sarcomere%20Shortening
Video clip, Nerve Impulse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m79HiApDJ2I
Animation, Neuromuscular Junction:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olc/dl/120107/bio_c.swf
Animation, Digestion: http://kitses.com/animation/swfs/digestion.swf
Video clip, Nephron Function:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glu0dzK4dbU
Animation, The Male Reproductive System:
http://wps.aw.com/bc_goodenough_boh_3/104/26719/6840147.cw/index.html
Animation, The Female Reproductive System:
http://wps.aw.com/bc_goodenough_boh_3/104/26719/6840147.cw/index.html
Video clip, Reproduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_eNmc_gHyE
Session 20
Video clip, DNA Structure
(1:19 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8dk5iS1f0&NR=1
Video clip, DNA Replication (1:02 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z685FFqmrpo&feature=related
Video clip, DNA Replication (0:48 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfZ8o9D1tus&feature=related
Video clip, DNA Replication (0:53 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUuX4PGlCc&feature=related
Video clip, Chemical Structure of DNA: Part 1 (1:31 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nExcd_wTcHg&feature=channel
Video clip, Chemical Structure of DNA: Part 2 (3:03 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZiAwqo77GM&feature=channel
Video clip, Chemical Structure of DNA: Part 3 (3:42 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54n8DLreEe4&feature=related
Video clip, DNA Lab 2 (DNA Extraction) (6:33 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyb7fwduuGM&feature=channel
Animation, DNA Replication:
http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAreplic.swf
Animation, DNA Replication:
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/giannini/flashanimat/molgenetics/dna-rna2.swf
Animation, DNA Replication:
http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/Losick/images/TromboneFINALd.swf
Animation, Processing Gene Information: Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120077/bio25.swf::Processing%20of%20Gene%20Information%20-%20Prokaryotes%20versus%20Eukaryotes
Animation, Protein Synthesis:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120077/micro06.swf::Protein%20Synthesis
Activity, Have Your DNA and Eat It Too:
http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/Have%20Your%20DNA%20and%20Eat%20It%20Too.pdf
Activity, Reading DNA:
http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/Reading%20DNA.pdf
Activity, DNA Extraction:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/extraction/howto/
Activity, Tour the Basics-WebQuest:
http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/tour/Tour%20of%20the%20Basics%20Web%20Quest.pdf
3D Organic Molecular Viewer Model - NOTE: Select JMOL setting at top right of window
http://www.rsc.org/education/teachers/learnnet/cfb/chime/index.htm?molecule=alphaglucose.mol&display=chime
Building DNA Internactive Demonstration
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/builddna/
DNA Transcription and Translation
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/transcribe/
Session 21 Genetics
Video clip, DNA Structure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8dk5iS1f0&NR=1
Video clip, DNA Replication (1:59 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teV62zrm2P0&feature=related
Video clip, DNA Replication (2:04 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mtLXpgjHL0&feature=related
Activity, Central Dogma in Motion:
http://www.nslc.ucla.edu/Step/GK12/lessons.htm#Biology/Life%20Science
Video, Cell Division (19 min.):from Discovery Education,
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Video, Genes, Genetics, DNA (24:13 min.):from Discovery Education,
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Video clip, Meiosis(1:48 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_-mQS_FZ0&feature=related
Video clip, Meiosis (1:47 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7c8YbYGqo&NR=1
Animation, DNA Coiling in a Chromosome:
http://www.biostudio.com/demo_freeman_dna_coiling.htm
Animation, DNA Coiling:
http://www.dnai.org/text/mediashowcase/index2.html?id=557
Video clip, Damage to DNA Leads to Mutation(1:03 min.):
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/media/DNAi_damage_mutation-lg.mov
Lesson/Activity, The Chromosomes of a Frimpanzee:
http://www.nslc.ucla.edu/Step/GK12/lessons.htm#7grLifeSci
Activity, Marmot Genetics:
http://measure.igpp.ucla.edu/GK12-SEE-LA/Lesson_Files_08/Lessons0809/lesson_TW_marmots.html
Lesson/Activity, Personal Pedigree Lesson:
http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/connections/genetics/pedigree.html
Animation, One and Two Trait Crosses:
http://wps.aw.com/bc_goodenough_boh_3/104/26719/6840147.cw/index.html
Animation, Codominance and Incomplete Dominance:
http://wps.aw.com/bc_goodenough_boh_3/104/26719/6840147.cw/index.html
Video clip, A Mutation Story (sickle cell anemia)(4:50 min.):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/2/l_012_02.html
Animation, Genetic Engineering of Insulin:
http://www.abpischools.org.uk/res/coResourceImport/modules/hormones/en-flash/geneticeng.cfm
Perodic Table of Elementse
http://webelements.com/ NEW
http://www.ptable.com/
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
http://www.chemicool.com/
http://www.periodictable.com/
http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/pertable_fla.htm
Session 14
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/courses/toolkits/123/js/lewis/
http://www.fordhamprep.org/gcurran/sho/sho/lessons/lesson53.htm
Session 15
http://richardbowles.tripod.com/chemistry/balance.htm#part4
Use site for molar mass calculations:
http://misterguch.brinkster.net/molarmass.html
Use this Web site to see animations on strong vs. weak acids:
http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/chang7/esp/folder_structure/ac/m2/s1/
Use the following Web site for the pH scale animation:
http://www.purchon.com/chemistry/acids.htm#animation
Session 16
Useful Web site for explanation:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/thermo/heatra.html
Excellent site for review of each type of heat transfer:
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=SCE304
Interactive Web site:
http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=GCH8705
Session 17
Video clip, Mitosis (1:30 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlN7K1-9QB0&NR=1
Video clip, Stages of Mitosis (1:22 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGV3fv-uZYI&annotation_id=annotation_706798&feature=iv
Animation, Mitosis and Cytokinesis:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__mitosis_and_cytokinesis.html
Online mitosis activity,
Online Onion Root Tips:
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html
Video clip, Meiosis (1:48 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_-mQS_FZ0&feature=related
Video clip, Meiosis (1:47 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7c8YbYGqo&NR=1
Animation, Diffusion:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_diffusion_works.html
Animation, Facilitated Diffusion:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_facilitated_diffusion_works.html
Animation, Osmosis:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_osmosis_works.html
Animation, Sodium Potassium Pump—Active Transport:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_the_sodium_potassium_pump_works.html
Session 18
Video (15:12 min.), Discovery Streaming, Biology: The Science of Life: The World of Plants:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Animation, Photosynthesis - Light Reaction:
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/Bio231/ltrxn.html
Video clip (0:49 min.), Conifer Reproduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq8NWh98wQs&feature=PlayList&p=D78EA08CA527FC68&index=19
Video clip (1:03 min.), Moss Reproduction:
http://www.youtube.comwatch/?v=jcWYAnmm-QE&feature=related
Animation, Life Cycle of a Moss:
http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/moss.html
Animation: Life Cycle of an Angiosperm:
http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/angiosperm.html
Session 19
Video clip, Muscle Contraction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ309LfHQ3M&feature=player_embedded%20
Animation, Sarcomere Shortening:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120104/bio_b.swf::Sarcomere%20Shortening
Video clip, Nerve Impulse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m79HiApDJ2I
Animation, Neuromuscular Junction:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olc/dl/120107/bio_c.swf
Animation, Digestion: http://kitses.com/animation/swfs/digestion.swf
Video clip, Nephron Function:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glu0dzK4dbU
Animation, The Male Reproductive System:
http://wps.aw.com/bc_goodenough_boh_3/104/26719/6840147.cw/index.html
Animation, The Female Reproductive System:
http://wps.aw.com/bc_goodenough_boh_3/104/26719/6840147.cw/index.html
Video clip, Reproduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_eNmc_gHyE
Session 20
Video clip, DNA Structure
(1:19 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8dk5iS1f0&NR=1
Video clip, DNA Replication (1:02 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z685FFqmrpo&feature=related
Video clip, DNA Replication (0:48 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfZ8o9D1tus&feature=related
Video clip, DNA Replication (0:53 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUuX4PGlCc&feature=related
Video clip, Chemical Structure of DNA: Part 1 (1:31 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nExcd_wTcHg&feature=channel
Video clip, Chemical Structure of DNA: Part 2 (3:03 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZiAwqo77GM&feature=channel
Video clip, Chemical Structure of DNA: Part 3 (3:42 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54n8DLreEe4&feature=related
Video clip, DNA Lab 2 (DNA Extraction) (6:33 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyb7fwduuGM&feature=channel
Animation, DNA Replication:
http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAreplic.swf
Animation, DNA Replication:
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/giannini/flashanimat/molgenetics/dna-rna2.swf
Animation, DNA Replication:
http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/Losick/images/TromboneFINALd.swf
Animation, Processing Gene Information: Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120077/bio25.swf::Processing%20of%20Gene%20Information%20-%20Prokaryotes%20versus%20Eukaryotes
Animation, Protein Synthesis:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120077/micro06.swf::Protein%20Synthesis
Activity, Have Your DNA and Eat It Too:
http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/Have%20Your%20DNA%20and%20Eat%20It%20Too.pdf
Activity, Reading DNA:
http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/Reading%20DNA.pdf
Activity, DNA Extraction:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/extraction/howto/
Activity, Tour the Basics-WebQuest:
http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/tour/Tour%20of%20the%20Basics%20Web%20Quest.pdf
3D Organic Molecular Viewer Model - NOTE: Select JMOL setting at top right of window
http://www.rsc.org/education/teachers/learnnet/cfb/chime/index.htm?molecule=alphaglucose.mol&display=chime
Building DNA Internactive Demonstration
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/builddna/
DNA Transcription and Translation
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/transcribe/
Session 21 Genetics
Video clip, DNA Structure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8dk5iS1f0&NR=1
Video clip, DNA Replication (1:59 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teV62zrm2P0&feature=related
Video clip, DNA Replication (2:04 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mtLXpgjHL0&feature=related
Activity, Central Dogma in Motion:
http://www.nslc.ucla.edu/Step/GK12/lessons.htm#Biology/Life%20Science
Video, Cell Division (19 min.):from Discovery Education,
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Video, Genes, Genetics, DNA (24:13 min.):from Discovery Education,
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Video clip, Meiosis(1:48 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_-mQS_FZ0&feature=related
Video clip, Meiosis (1:47 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7c8YbYGqo&NR=1
Animation, DNA Coiling in a Chromosome:
http://www.biostudio.com/demo_freeman_dna_coiling.htm
Animation, DNA Coiling:
http://www.dnai.org/text/mediashowcase/index2.html?id=557
Video clip, Damage to DNA Leads to Mutation(1:03 min.):
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/media/DNAi_damage_mutation-lg.mov
Lesson/Activity, The Chromosomes of a Frimpanzee:
http://www.nslc.ucla.edu/Step/GK12/lessons.htm#7grLifeSci
Activity, Marmot Genetics:
http://measure.igpp.ucla.edu/GK12-SEE-LA/Lesson_Files_08/Lessons0809/lesson_TW_marmots.html
Lesson/Activity, Personal Pedigree Lesson:
http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/connections/genetics/pedigree.html
Animation, One and Two Trait Crosses:
http://wps.aw.com/bc_goodenough_boh_3/104/26719/6840147.cw/index.html
Animation, Codominance and Incomplete Dominance:
http://wps.aw.com/bc_goodenough_boh_3/104/26719/6840147.cw/index.html
Video clip, A Mutation Story (sickle cell anemia)(4:50 min.):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/2/l_012_02.html
Animation, Genetic Engineering of Insulin:
http://www.abpischools.org.uk/res/coResourceImport/modules/hormones/en-flash/geneticeng.cfm
Science Resources I
Astronomy
Discover Magazine.
http://discovermagazine.com/2003/dec/cover/
Short movie clip showing the influence of Edwin Hubble’s findings:
http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/phy03_vid_hubble2/
Reference:
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Cooking up the first light elements.
http://www.einstein-online.info/en/spotlights/BBN/index.html
Diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum:
http://www.lcse.umn.edu/specs/labs/images/spectrum.gif
Periodic Table:
http://www.webelements.com/
Star life cycle reference:
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/starlife_main.html
Short demo relating star life cycle to HR diagram:
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/hr_interactive.html
Plutoids:
http://www.iau.org/
A Private Universe (20:31 min.):
http://www.learner.org/resources/series28.html
A Closer Look at the Moon: Space Science Series (“Phases” segment, 4:09 min.) available from Discovery Education Streaming:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Dynamic Earth
Continents Adrift: An Introduction to Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics (26.05 min.) video available from Discovery Education Streaming:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
An insightful article about Alfred Wegener:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Giants/Wegener/
Video clips of the tectonic plates moving over 800 million years:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml
Interactive Web site with earth layers and plate tectonics:
http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/index.html
Convection Demonstrations:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/pie_pan_convection/index.html
Using the search term convection currents, search for short video clips at Convection Current Demonstrations: http://www.teachertube.com/
Animation of the three types of plates boundaries:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0804/es0804page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
Seafloor spreading activity: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Metzger3.html
Snack Tectonics, an edible plate tectonics activity:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/teacher_resources/teach_snacktectonics.html
Southern California Plate Tectonic Puzzle activity:
emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/download/%20%20Puzzle_Instructions.doc
Plate Tectonics by TASA
Earth Science: Earthquakes (20:00 min.) video available from Discovery Education Streaming: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Locating the epicenter:
http://www.iris.edu/edu/onepagers/no6.pdf
Movie clip of a fly-over of the San Andreas fault:
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/images/movies/san-andreas1.mov
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country:
http://www.earthquakecountry.info/roots/index.php/
There are both northern and southern California versions at this Web site; booklets are available for the classroom.
Multimedia earthquake information from NASA:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/earthquake1906/index-2008-0729.cfm
Plotting the epicenter of two real earthquakes:
http://www.geo-world.org/earthquake/teachers.html
Another epicenter activity:
http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/Jonathan-Mies/wkshop/wkshop_prod/epicenter.pdf
Animation of volcanism in a subduction zone:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0902/es0902page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
Animation of hot spot volcano formation:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0904/es0904page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
The Incredible Moving Volcano! activity:
http://www.ontariogeoscience.net/lessonplans/hot-spots.html
Wonderful reference sites for volcanoes:
Volcano World:
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/
USGS Volcano Hazard Program:
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/
Dynamic Earth II
Ask Geo-Man:
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/AskGeoMan/geoQuerry13.html
Interactive Web site about the rock cycle:
http://www.learner.org/.
Search for interactive rock cycle.
Ride the Rock Cycle activity:
http://sciencespot.net/Pages/classearth.html#Anchor6
Three interactive Rock Cycle pages:
http://www.blogger.com/goog_189906216
es0602/es0602page01.cfm?chapter_no=investigation
Excellent Web site for all the rock cycle processes:
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/education/rockcycle/page3446.html
Dirtmeister Erosion Lab:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirt/erosion/lab.htm
Animation of water sediment deposition:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0604/es0604page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
Coverage of faulting and folding:
http://www.indiana.edu/~g103/G103/week9/wk9.html
Sequencing Time activity:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ScotchmoorTime.html
Half Life Lab experiment:
http://www.middleschoolscience.com/halflife.pdf
Dynamic Processes of Earth III
Smith, P.S. & Ford, B.A. (1996). Project Earth Science: Meteorology. Arlington, VA: National Science Teachers Association
Konvicka, T. (1999). Teacher’s Weather Sourcebook. Englewood, CO: Teacher Idea Press
The Water Cycle, USGS diagram: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleprint.html
Water cycle (4:43 min.) and water planet (5:36 min.) video clips from Discovery Education: Simply Science: Water through the Ecosystem: http://discoveryeducation.com/
A Private Universe (20:31 min.): http://www.learner.org/resources/series28.html
Recommended: BROKE
Weather Prediction activity:
http://www.k12.wa.us/edtech/athena/curric/weather/hsweathr/predict.html
Weather Patterns activity:
http://www.k12.wa.us/edtech/athena/curric/weather/hsweathr/index.html
Precipitation Along Fronts activity
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/fpr.rxml
Interactive:
Control of Surface Temperature based on greenhouse gases, cloud cover, reflection, and so on:
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/courses/atmos100/program_lists/jnlp/Radiation.jnlp
Video (7:58 min.),
Launchpad: Global Warming: How Humans are Affecting Our Planet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDYqlTsZfgw/ http://www.solcomhouse.com/globalwarming.htm
National Weather Map: http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/index.html/.
Earth Resources
Energy Resources:
http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/index.htm
Biomass? Maybe…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kloBSpvxkJY
Off Shore Wind Technology Overview:
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/gen/fy07/40462.pdf
Video, Tsunamis: Know What to Do!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzR0Rt3i4kc
Simplified Geologic Map of California:
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/information/publications/ms/Documents/MS057.pdf
Force and Motion
Vectors: http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/vectors/vectors.html
S9 Waves
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Waves of Energy:
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/activities/electromagneticspectrum/
Snell’s Law Song:
http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/snell.htm
Refraction simulator:
http://interactagram.com/physics/optics/refraction/
Refraction Simulator:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/refraction/index.html
Ecology
Create a Food Chain activity:
http://cas.psu.edu/DOCS/WEBCOURSE/WETLAND/WET1/make.html
Identify the Food Chains activity:
http://cas.psu.edu/DOCS/WEBCOURSE/WETLAND/WET1/identify.html
Biodiversity Activities 1 and 2 from Access Excellence Activities Exchange: http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0534-KathyParis/index.php
Interactive Nitrogen Cycle related to cattle farming:
http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm/flash_mov/nitrogencycleintro.swf
Click on virtual farm, beef cow, and then nitrogen cycle.
Nitrogen Cycle Game
modified from:
http://www.naturenextdoor.org/PDF%20Files/thenitecycle.pdf
Discover Magazine.
http://discovermagazine.com/2003/dec/cover/
Short movie clip showing the influence of Edwin Hubble’s findings:
http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/phy03_vid_hubble2/
Reference:
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Cooking up the first light elements.
http://www.einstein-online.info/en/spotlights/BBN/index.html
Diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum:
http://www.lcse.umn.edu/specs/labs/images/spectrum.gif
Periodic Table:
http://www.webelements.com/
Star life cycle reference:
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/starlife_main.html
Short demo relating star life cycle to HR diagram:
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/hr_interactive.html
Plutoids:
http://www.iau.org/
A Private Universe (20:31 min.):
http://www.learner.org/resources/series28.html
A Closer Look at the Moon: Space Science Series (“Phases” segment, 4:09 min.) available from Discovery Education Streaming:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Dynamic Earth
Continents Adrift: An Introduction to Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics (26.05 min.) video available from Discovery Education Streaming:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
An insightful article about Alfred Wegener:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Giants/Wegener/
Video clips of the tectonic plates moving over 800 million years:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml
Interactive Web site with earth layers and plate tectonics:
http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/index.html
Convection Demonstrations:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/pie_pan_convection/index.html
Using the search term convection currents, search for short video clips at Convection Current Demonstrations: http://www.teachertube.com/
Animation of the three types of plates boundaries:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0804/es0804page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
Seafloor spreading activity: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Metzger3.html
Snack Tectonics, an edible plate tectonics activity:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/teacher_resources/teach_snacktectonics.html
Southern California Plate Tectonic Puzzle activity:
emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/download/%20%20Puzzle_Instructions.doc
Plate Tectonics by TASA
Earth Science: Earthquakes (20:00 min.) video available from Discovery Education Streaming: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Locating the epicenter:
http://www.iris.edu/edu/onepagers/no6.pdf
Movie clip of a fly-over of the San Andreas fault:
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/images/movies/san-andreas1.mov
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country:
http://www.earthquakecountry.info/roots/index.php/
There are both northern and southern California versions at this Web site; booklets are available for the classroom.
Multimedia earthquake information from NASA:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/earthquake1906/index-2008-0729.cfm
Plotting the epicenter of two real earthquakes:
http://www.geo-world.org/earthquake/teachers.html
Another epicenter activity:
http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/Jonathan-Mies/wkshop/wkshop_prod/epicenter.pdf
Animation of volcanism in a subduction zone:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0902/es0902page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
Animation of hot spot volcano formation:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0904/es0904page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
The Incredible Moving Volcano! activity:
http://www.ontariogeoscience.net/lessonplans/hot-spots.html
Wonderful reference sites for volcanoes:
Volcano World:
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/
USGS Volcano Hazard Program:
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/
Dynamic Earth II
Ask Geo-Man:
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/AskGeoMan/geoQuerry13.html
Interactive Web site about the rock cycle:
http://www.learner.org/.
Search for interactive rock cycle.
Ride the Rock Cycle activity:
http://sciencespot.net/Pages/classearth.html#Anchor6
Three interactive Rock Cycle pages:
http://www.blogger.com/goog_189906216
es0602/es0602page01.cfm?chapter_no=investigation
Excellent Web site for all the rock cycle processes:
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/education/rockcycle/page3446.html
Dirtmeister Erosion Lab:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirt/erosion/lab.htm
Animation of water sediment deposition:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0604/es0604page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
Coverage of faulting and folding:
http://www.indiana.edu/~g103/G103/week9/wk9.html
Sequencing Time activity:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ScotchmoorTime.html
Half Life Lab experiment:
http://www.middleschoolscience.com/halflife.pdf
Dynamic Processes of Earth III
Smith, P.S. & Ford, B.A. (1996). Project Earth Science: Meteorology. Arlington, VA: National Science Teachers Association
Konvicka, T. (1999). Teacher’s Weather Sourcebook. Englewood, CO: Teacher Idea Press
The Water Cycle, USGS diagram: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleprint.html
Water cycle (4:43 min.) and water planet (5:36 min.) video clips from Discovery Education: Simply Science: Water through the Ecosystem: http://discoveryeducation.com/
A Private Universe (20:31 min.): http://www.learner.org/resources/series28.html
Recommended: BROKE
Weather Prediction activity:
http://www.k12.wa.us/edtech/athena/curric/weather/hsweathr/predict.html
Weather Patterns activity:
http://www.k12.wa.us/edtech/athena/curric/weather/hsweathr/index.html
Precipitation Along Fronts activity
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/fpr.rxml
Interactive:
Control of Surface Temperature based on greenhouse gases, cloud cover, reflection, and so on:
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/courses/atmos100/program_lists/jnlp/Radiation.jnlp
Video (7:58 min.),
Launchpad: Global Warming: How Humans are Affecting Our Planet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDYqlTsZfgw/ http://www.solcomhouse.com/globalwarming.htm
National Weather Map: http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/index.html/.
Earth Resources
Energy Resources:
http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/index.htm
Biomass? Maybe…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kloBSpvxkJY
Off Shore Wind Technology Overview:
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/gen/fy07/40462.pdf
Video, Tsunamis: Know What to Do!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzR0Rt3i4kc
Simplified Geologic Map of California:
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/information/publications/ms/Documents/MS057.pdf
Force and Motion
Vectors: http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/vectors/vectors.html
S9 Waves
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Waves of Energy:
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/activities/electromagneticspectrum/
Snell’s Law Song:
http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/snell.htm
Refraction simulator:
http://interactagram.com/physics/optics/refraction/
Refraction Simulator:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/refraction/index.html
Ecology
Create a Food Chain activity:
http://cas.psu.edu/DOCS/WEBCOURSE/WETLAND/WET1/make.html
Identify the Food Chains activity:
http://cas.psu.edu/DOCS/WEBCOURSE/WETLAND/WET1/identify.html
Biodiversity Activities 1 and 2 from Access Excellence Activities Exchange: http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0534-KathyParis/index.php
Interactive Nitrogen Cycle related to cattle farming:
http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm/flash_mov/nitrogencycleintro.swf
Click on virtual farm, beef cow, and then nitrogen cycle.
Nitrogen Cycle Game
modified from:
http://www.naturenextdoor.org/PDF%20Files/thenitecycle.pdf
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