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