Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: The Russian Revolution (1917)
This site provides an excellent lecture providing a wealth of information about the events of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Water Cycle
This site provides a comprehensive introduction to the water cycle. High schoolers construct a model to simulate parts of the water cycle. Includes background information, links to standards, lesson plans, and assessment ideas.
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US Department of Justice
Methamphetamine & Amphetamines: Fact Sheet [Pdf]
Learn what methamphetamine looks like, how it is used, and how it is imported and created. Contains bullet-point notes and is in question-and-answer format. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: I See Ice Viewer
Explore the solar system like never before with this photograph viewer. Choose the planet, then scroll through the many beautiful photographs taken by space missions. Read about how each photo shows evidence of the presence of ice.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Why Does Climate Change?
Factors that have the power to change global climate can be natural, like volcanic eruptions and changes in solar energy, or caused by humans, like the addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Changing the Freezing Point of Water With Salt
This lesson plan teaches first grade students basic chemistry and physics principles--that saltwater freezes at a lower temperature that plain water.
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: Regelation: Ice Under Pressure
A page from the University of Maryland Physics Lecture Demonstration Facility. Provides directions for a teacher demonstration on the phenomenon of regelation. Shows apparatus and set-up; provides suggestions. Easily adaptable as a...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science: Water
Kid's learn about the science and chemistry of water. Molecule H20 and states such as ice, liquid, and vapor.
NASA
Climate Kids: 10 Interesting Things About Water
Discover 10 very interesting things about water, including sources of life, ocean ecosystems, freshwater and ice, salt and salt water, sources of water, the body's water makeup, plant's consumption of water and the 3 states of water.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Ice Ages
Find out facts about the ice age on this site. Kids investigate about the ice ages and Earth sciences including glacial and interglacial periods, major ice ages, interesting facts, and their causes.
USA Today
Usa Today: Rising Air Creates Spring, Summer Ice
This article gives you basic information on hail. There are links at the bottom of the page to how hail forms, how updrafts breed hail and thunderstorms.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: What Controls the Climate?
Learn what aspects of our planet have an impact on climate. Links to related materials.
Other
Chemistry Lectures/regelation
An incredibly informative graphic depicting ice regelation. Explains the phenomenon using LeChatelier's principle. Identifies application of regelation.
Other
Newfoundland Coastal Safari: Icebergs
Discusses the icebergs which are formed off the coast of Greenland and flow through the Northern Atlantic. Contains a link to the International Ice Patrol, a Coast Guard project to monitor large icebergs.
Curated OER
Highly Magnified View of a Ice Crystal (Snowflake)
Using household items, one can demonstrate "the forces of pressure and how it can affect other objects."