Educational links

1. Exercises I have written, guiding students to one or more web sites. These web sites are maintained by other organizations.

A. Ohio Earthquake, Fall 1998 OhioEQ.html

B. Learn about the inner planets of the solar system (see below, "Views of the Solar system")

C. Virtual Field trip to the Hayward fault, Bay area of California bayareatrip.html

D. Examine the record of New Madrid Earthquakes 208newmadrid.html

2. Interactive web sites maintained by other groups.

A.The Watershed game. Manage a watershed to preserve water quality. (Fifth grade to adult) One of the best I have seen. http://www1.umn.edu/bellmuse/mnideals/watershed/watershed.html

C. Dimethylsulphide (DMS) model homepage. Supposedly one can alter input to a model - haven't tried it. This is more for Geochemistry. http://me-www.jrc.it/dms/dms.html

D. The NASA Qwhiz page. For levels K-12. What's great about this is that the quizzes are set up like the Jeopardy game -- and you can make your own! http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/Qwhiz/
The best ones are here.

E. Virtual Earthquake: http://vcourseware3.calstatela.edu/VirtualEarthquake/VQuakeIntro.html

3. Guided sites that are educational, but not interactive

If a written guide for the students were available, these would be very good to excellent.

A. Carolina Coastal Science "http://www.ncsu.edu/coast/ A quality educational resource with inquiry-based activities covering the Carolina coastline, including barrier island erosion, development pressures, and habitat conservation.

B. The Shell Island Dilemma http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/terminal/lessons/coast/shell/index.html from Carolina Coastal Science web page. this would make a great jigsaw exercise.

C. Ocean AdVENTure - Take a multimedia dive into the ocean's depths to learn about deep-sea hydrothermal vents, where some of the earth's most unusual creatures live! Another excellent resource from ThinkQuest students. http://library.advanced.org/18828/

D. Volcanoes - Learn how volcanoes work, explore plate tectonics, and much more. This site was designed by students in the ThinkQuest competition http://library.advanced.org/17457/english.html

E. big trouble in EQ country http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/SII/SII-eqcountry/5eqcountry.homepage.html I haven't explored this site fully.

F. on line guide to meteorology http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

G. CSIRO Greenhouse effect good beginning for a web guided tour http://www.dar.csiro.au/cc/default.htm also

H. Ozone depletion http://www.dar.csiro.au/ozone/default.htm

I. The Dawn of Animal Life- Explore the early formation of the planet Earth, and the earliest appearances of animals. http://geol.queensu.ca/museum/exhibits/dawnex.html

J. Views of the Solar System http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/eng/homepage.htm Great!

And when I have time to search for more web sites, this is where I will start: The Exploratorium best-of links page http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html. The exploratorium is a wonderful science museum in San Francisco.

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