AMNH offers several webcast features, visualizations and snapshots on a variety of topics on the Earth’s geology, environment and resources. Some of the topics explored include melting glaciers, ice and rising seas, monitorying underground fires in Yellowstone, global ozone, world sea surface temperatures, and carbon monoxide.
Center for Ecoliteracy
From site: The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living.
We provide information, inspiration, and support to the vital movement of K-12 educators, parents, and other members of the school community who are helping young people gain the knowledge, skills, and values essential to sustainable living.
We base our work on these four guiding principles:
- Nature is our teacher
- Sustainability is a community practice
- The real world is the optimal learning environment
- Sustainable living is rooted in a deep knowledge of place
Subduction Construction Game
From site: Subduction Construction is an educational game in which players examine Franciscan Complex rocks of the Golden Gate Headlands to place them in the context of the Cretaceous Period subduction zone.
Players use high-quality, digital images of rocks from seven collection sites of the Golden Gate Headlands to record geologic data in the field. Then they bring their rock samples to the lab and perform tests to complete the identification of the rock samples.
Players are ready to visit the subduction zone and begin construction once they accurately identify the rock samples. Successful placement of all the rocks starts an animation of the subduction zone, which helps players visualize the tectonic movements that formed much of the dramatic geologic scenery of the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Global Volcanism Program
The Global Volcanism program provides students an interactive world map of volcanic activity. The accompanying database of volcanoes is searchable by name, type, features, country, rock type, and more. View time-lapsed animations of volcanic and seismic activity since 1960. The site includes links to numerous other resources
Geography4Kids!
From site: This site has an introduction to the earth sciences that includes topics on the Earth’s structure, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere (for a start)…
Many of you may not be familiar with PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. It’s the biggest EARTH SCIENCE around. It uses many ideas from other sciences that you have seen before. We can only begin to explain how ideas from many different fields combine into the knowledge of physical geography. You will find information from chemistry, biology, physics, climatology, astronomy and many other sciences.
One big thing to remember… This kind of geography is not about countries and gross domestic products. Physical geography is all about the Earth and the things that happen on Earth. Humans are only one part of the overall equation.
