National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: La Celula 2 Bachillerato
The cell is the structural and functional unit of life. This unit covers the cell from the outside to the inside. It contains 18 interactive activities.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Estructura Interna De La Tierra
In addition to exploring the inside of the earth, this unit will explore the consequences on the dynamics of the outer layers; it will deepen the knowledge of plate tectonics and the movement of the plates in the past. It includes 16...
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Inside the Earth
This is a website to learn not only about the inner and outer core, but also about the crust and the mantle of the interior of the earth.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Land Mass Formation
The Franklin Institute has provided a demonstration that theorizes how the earth's crust was formed. This is a lesson plan that needs only a few materials.
PBS
Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Earth on the Move
The interactive resource examines the plate tectonics, magnetic reversals, and continental drift of the Earth. An animation of the Earth's continental drift over the last 750 million years is included.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Sit in Movement
Just like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the first sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter was the beginning of a nonviolent movement to challenge "white only" laws. Read about how the sit-in movement spread across the South. See how...
Bryn Mawr College
Core: Montgomery Bus Boycott
Read about the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a year-long boycott of city buses that eventually brought an end to segregated seating on public buses in the south.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Scale Model of the Earth
In this activity, students gain an understanding of the layers of the Earth by designing and building a clay model.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Inner Layers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifies and describes the two internal layers of Earth.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Outer Layers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the various layers of the Earth.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Interior of the Sun
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify the layers of the sun's internal structure.
Read Works
Read Works: A Hole in the Planet!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It can be used as both a read-aloud exercise...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Interior
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discover how scientists learn about Earth's interior using seismic waves, meteorites, density, and the magnetic field. Additional resources are available for download.
Other
Spacetech's Orrery: Earth Our Home Planet
This site provides a very interesting overview of our home planet, Earth. Content includes a focus on the atmosphere, the pull of gravity, and the active surface.
Purdue University
Purdue University: Earth's Interior Structure
Purdue University provides a great lesson plan for learning about the Earth's interior structure. Focuses on the crust, mantle and core. Also includes examples and great charts that students will enjoy looking at.
The Tech Interactive
Tech Museum of Innovation: Inside the Earth
As an overview of the online exhibit on earthquakes, this site discusses the various sections inside the Earth. The crust, the mantle, and the core are each individually discussed.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Cupcake Core Sampling
In this activity, students learn about the technique of core sampling of the Earth by investigating the layers in cupcakes that they bake.
Other
Physics World: Radioactive Decay Accounts for Half of Earth's Heat
Find out about the source of heat from the Earth's core. (Published 19 July 2011)
Black Past
Black Past: Freedom Rides (1961)
This encyclopedia article gives an interesting account of the Freedom Rides of 1961, which sparked later civil rights movements.
Black Past
Black Past: Wiley, George Alvin
This concise encyclopedia entry recounts the life of George Alvin Wiley, founder of the civil rights organization, CORE.
Other
Greensboro Sit Ins: James Farmer
This resource provides a brief description of Farmer's role in support of the Greensboro sit-ins. An audio clip is included.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Layers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifies the various layers of the Earth, including the crust, mantle, core, lithosphere, and asthenosphere.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Core Sampling
Relate this to real-world drilling and why drill bits are used to churn up and break up rock in the sampling path. Explain to students that core sampling is one way that geologists determine the geologic formation of rocks and sediments...
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: Play Helios: A Game About How the Sun Makes Energy!
In this pairing game, keep the Sun shining bright by matching up particles. Convert hydrogen atoms into helium atoms. This process is called nuclear fusion.