A CD-based game and instructional tool called "Hurricane Strike" is available through FEMA. Hurricane Strike is designed to educate upper elementary and middle grades students about how to prepare for hurricane events and there is also excellent science content (aligned with NSES) contained in the games/lessons. If you are interested in receiving copies of the Hurricane Strike CD, please contact Brock Long. Brock can be reached via telephone at 770-220-5668 or via e-mail at brock.long@fema.gov.
New PBS Video Series "Journey to Planet Earth".
Earthguide is an educational website with a focus on earth, environmental, and oceanographic sciences, and global change.
EARTH SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHS. http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/cabston/dds21lib.htm is a database of photographs from the US Geological Survey. This collection is searchable by geologic category, national park or monument name, photographer, or search term. The photographs are both color and B&W, and many are accompanied by captions. The geologic categories include erosion, glaciation, ground water, volcanism, and sedimentary processes. This site has been described as a good source of stock photos of geological features.
NASA's Global Snow and Ice Cover Project is an ongoing global mapping project on snow and ice cover, glaciers, sea ice, lake ice, and images of snow and ice formation, with descriptions and explanations; however, the images and data shown are for the year 2000, not this year. http://snowmelt.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS_Snow/modis.html (MODIS=Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)
Free educational resources are available for teachers of Minnesota geology from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Minerals Division. Details of the publications and how to order them are given on their Web site: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us; then check under Minerals, and Publications and Educational Materials
The Career Guide for Atmospheric Sciences comprises the educational requirements, career opportunities, scholarships, universities, job market, and more. The guide can be obtained by writing to the American Meteorological Society, 45 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108-3693, or it can be downloaded from the Web site: http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS
RESOURCES FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY INSTRUCTION: http://www.cmich.edu/~franc1m/homepage.htm
MINNESOTA'S TOP ENVIRONMENTAL STORIES, 2000. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has released a list of top environmental issues for the past year. They are air pollution from mobile sources; the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness tinderbox that didn't ignite; adoption of feedlot rules; global warming; hypoxia, the aquatic dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico due to oxygen depleting fertilizer additions to the Mississippi River; methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE); fuel prices; and dangerous levels of asbestos from a Minnesota vermiculite plant that closed in 1971. Environmental issues to watch in 2001 include energy deregulation and alternative energy; ethanol plants; mercury contamination reduction; and the concept of smart growth. For information check http://www.pca.state.mn.us
A STONE WALL. In 1948, the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology--NIST) constructed a 4-meter-high by 12-meter-long outdoor wall in Washington, DC to answer questions concerning the durability of common American building stones used in monuments and commercial and government buildings. The wall has 2300 stones most of which have come from samples collected and displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. For comparative purposes, there are unexposed specimens of the same stones in storage. The wall was moved (32-metric tons) to Gaithersburg, MD in 1977. Now, with an online site you can visit the wall: http://stonewall.nist.gov. It includes a growing database on the individual stones it holds and eventually will include detailed petrologic studies relating each stone's mineralogical and texture attributes to is weathering and durability performance and pictures of well-known buildings constructed with specific stones will be available.
Water on the Web...Remote Underwater Sensing System
- A high school student in Wisconsin, a freshman, created a web page for his favorite lake where he and his family spend summers. The lake is Big Bass Lake and the website is http://www.bigbasslake.homepage.com . He presented it to the lake district as a present. It is his hope that one day every lake will have its own web page. Seems like a good idea.
- Expedition Outreach traverses the Amazon!
- Rivers 2000
- US Global Change Research Program
- Rodney's Earth Science Teacher's Page
- JASON XI Expedition looks at sea and space through the eyes of modern day explorer
- Sun resources
- The Nyanza Project...a Tanzanian teacher exchange for summer 1999
- High altitude ariel images around the globe
- K-12 astronomy activities utilizing NASA's Internet resources
- Space Scientists Online
- EarthComm Pilot Test Teachers sought
AGI's EarthComm Project, an NSF-funded curriculum development project for high school earth science, is nearly ready for pilot testing. High school Earth science teachers (grades 9-12) interested in piloting an EarthComm chapter should visit the EarthComm Web site at Earth and Sky- Astronomy & Space Science
- Infrared astronomy is a Web site designed by the NASA group at the California Institute of Technology for students and teachers of grades 6 to 12. It covers curriculum ideas, science evidence, lesson plans, and links. See at http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Edu/
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
- Astronomy sites Lots! (from USGS)
- Exploration In Education (astro stuff)
- Moonlink-Lunar Prospector
- STScI/HST Pictures
- NASA K-12 Internet: Live from the Hubble Space Telescope
Satellites & Space Missions
- Links to Remote sensing
- Spacelab Home Page
- View of Earth from Satellites
- APOLLO Manned Missions
- Satellites at SPRG
- Galileo Home Page (JPL)
- Mars Atlas home page
- Internet Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Resources
- Astronomy on Line
- Geology
- Searchable, Zoomable US Geological survey maps
- Live photos of Old Faithful Eruptions
- Teaching in The Learning Web at the USGS
- Bureau of Land Management Environmental Education Programs
- Virtual Earthquake - An Introduction
- Michigan Earth Science Teachers Association
- VolcanoWorld Home Page
- Welcome to the official Royal Tyrrell Museum Web Site
- Welcome to the Museum of Paleontology
- Geosciences (Science)
- Newton Horace Winchell Sch of Earth Sci (at U of MN)
- Earthquake Info from the U.S.G.S.
- UW Sea Grant Home Page
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- Weather
- Whipped Topping Ozone Demonstration
- * Live Weather Images *
- The CEOS IDN
- International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Program WWW INDEX
- Current Weather Maps/Movies