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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Earthquake Country
A suite of lessons focusing on all aspects of earthquakes. Inquiry-based exploration of earthquakes includes measuring seismic waves, predicting earthquakes, investigating magnitude and intensity, mapping fault lines, and evaluating...
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Seasonal Upwelling
A suite of lessons focusing on the process of upwelling. Inquiry-based exploration of seasonal upwelling includes marine food webs, food production in the ocean, wind-driven ocean currents, and seasonal changes in biotic and abiotic...
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Living in Earthquake Country
An inquiry unit that teaches students about the how and why earthquakes cause damage and about life in earthquake country. Students specifically learn about: earthquake damage, where earthquake occur, earthquake patterns, seismic waves,...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Cycles of the Earth System: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks
Students will use a chemical indicator (BTB) to detect the presence of carbon dioxide.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Cycles of the Earth System: Make Convection Currents!
In this lesson, students will understand that temperature changes can cause density changes in water and in air.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Elementary Globe: Earth System in a Bottle
If you have seeds at home, try this activity to help kids learn what a seed needs to grow. Learners will create experimental conditions in terrariums to study what plants need to live. They will learn about the importance of the...
California State University
Csu: The Sourcebook for Teaching Science: Earth Systems Interactions
Explains what the four spheres of the Earth are and describes how volcanic eruptions affect the different spheres. Also provides a list of events that are examples of interactions.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Earth System
Learn about the systems that make up Earth, and find out how they interact.
NASA
Nasa Visualization Studio: Earth Science Week 2015: Visualizing Earth Systems
NASA provides a gallery of Earth science visualizations. The gallery was created for Earth Science Week in 2015. It includes a guide for teachers, and blogs from various NASA visualizers, scientists and science educators.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: The Water Planet
Observe different forms of water and how it covers about 75 percent of Earth's surface in this media gallery captured by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Use the satellite and ground images in this resource to enhance student...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: Wind and Water Change Earth's Surface
Observe how wind and water reshape the face of Earth's surface with these slideshows. Students will use evidence from videos and images to observe and describe how wind and water contribute to natural events that are constantly reshaping...
Center for Educational Technologies
Exploring the Environment: Earth System Science
Explains what the four spheres of the Earth are, and the interactions between them.
NOAA
Noaa: Earth System Research Laboratory: Psd: Interactive Climate Map of u.s.
Investigate climate trends across the United States by clicking on individual states and then specific cities. Data is presented from 1961-1990.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Cycles of the Earth System: Traveling Nitrogen
Through hands-on activities, students play the role of nitrogen atoms traveling through the nitrogen cycle to gain understanding of the varied pathways through the cycle and the relevance of nitrogen to living things.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Sea Ice Extension for the Earth as a System Learning Activity
The purpose of this lesson is for young scholars to learn how the Earth's systems interact on a global level. They will examine global environmental data and compare this to data on the polar regions. In the process, they will develop an...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 4: A Bird's Eye View: Exploring Your Region
An investigation that is part of a series of lab lessons that expose students to Earth Systems through research, data, and visualizations. In this lab, students will investigate their region by using Google Earth and predicting what...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 3: Discovering Local Data
An investigation that is part of a series of lab lessons that expose students to Earth Systems through research, data, and visulazations. This lab specifically has students using a database to gather and graph data to understand the role...
Globe
The Globe Program: Todo Sobre La Tierra: Nuestro Mundo en El Escenario [Pdf]
In Spanish. This science-based storybook introduces students to key concepts in earth systems. Includes classroom learning activities that complement the science covered in the book. Requires Adobe Reader.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 6: Air, Water, Land, & Life: A Global Perspective
An investigation that is part of a series of lab lessons that expose students to Earth Systems through research, data, and visualizations. In this lab, students will follow the pathway of water on a big scale and a small scale down to...
University of California
Ucmp: Creating an Earth System: Interactions in the Earth System
A brief description of the four spheres of the Earth, with an activity where students brainstorm interactions among them.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: Map It
Explore different types of maps and how different things are represented on maps in this media gallery from WGBH. Maps are used to help locate different places and different things. Map symbols are representations of larger things in the...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Earth as a System
An overview of content about Earth and its atmosphere. The module was developed for middle school science teachers to provide background information for teaching the curriculum.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Causes of Climate Change
Earth's temperature depends on the balance between energy entering and leaving the planet's system . When incoming energy from the sun is absorbed by the Earth system, Earth warms. When the sun's energy is reflected back into space,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 1: Think Globally: Act Locally
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores Earth Science Systems. This lab introduces students to the parts of the Earth system: the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and pedosphere. As the students learn about the...
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