Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Great Continental Drift Mystery
A unit on plate tectonics designed for middle school students, this page must be read carefully to find the activities to be done in the class, but it provides a wealth of background for the teacher as well.
Other
Hartao: An Introduction to Plate Tectonics
Introduces South African Alexander Toit as naming Gondwanaland and Laurasia.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Paleobiology: The Mississippian Period
Journey into the past while reading this comprehensive overview of the Mississippian Period that covers topics such as life in the seas, tetrapods and other life on land, fossil evidence, and climate and tectonics.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Earth and Life History
In this amazingly comprehensive tutorial you will learn about the geological and environmental changes that occurred during the geologic time scale.
PBS
Nova: Gondwana Breakup
Watch the supercontinent Gondwana breakup into today's continents. The animation starts 150 million years ago and also shows the projected locations of the continents 50 million years into the future.
PBS
Garden of Eden: Seychelles
This interactive site on Seychelles discusses species diversity and much more! Learn all about how an island forms, how supercontinents divide, and why this atoll boasts both giant and miniature forms of species.
Other
Paleomap Project
Virtual reality animation map showing continental drift from 200mya to the present. The animation map is small but effective in showing the positions of the land masses.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: About Antarctica: Plate Tectonics
Explanation of why Antarctica has fossils of ferns, amphibians, and reptiles. Gondwanaland is discussed and shown in an interactive map.
Other
Grand Canyon Explorer: Continental Drift
Maps and detailed descriptions of the breakup of Pangea due to a great rift opening.