US Geological Survey
Usgs: How to Build a Model Illustrating Sea Floor Spreading
This is a comprehensive website featuring how to build a model that illustrates sea-floor spreading and subduction. It has diagrams and pictures reviewing major geological concepts.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: K 12 Education Curriculum: Online Classroom Projects
This site presents projects for individual classrooms and collaborative projects that can be done with other classes or schools. Most of these are science projects.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Savage Earth Online
PBS produced "Savage Earth," a television series about volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Contains extensive information with great graphics.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek
See interactive, 360 degree panoramic photos of the San Andreas Fault. Aerial photos of the fault were taken using a technique called Kite Aerial Photography.
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Tech Museum: Building for the Big One [Pdf]
This resource presents a project where students design and build structures that can withstand an earthquake. The project can include an extension where students look at the factors of soil type and proximity to fault in their design....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Flex Book Textbooks: Earth Science Concepts for Middle School
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A complete, web-based, multi-media textbook covering a wide variety of Earth science concepts for middle grades.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Buildings and Earthquakes
Do you think you can build a house that can withstand the shaking from an earthquake? In this activity, students design and construct model building that will be tested on a shake table with a force sensor. Activity includes questions...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquakes for Kids
Comprehensive information on earthquakes. Includes photos from famous earthquakes, ask-an-expert feature, earthquake science, history of major earthquakes, a pictorial ABC, adults' guides for dealing with children's emotions, animations...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Explore Nature: Views: Volcanism: Embark on a Journey
A journey into the depths of a volcano teaches students about volcanic rocks, eruptions, features, and locations. Also find out how volcanologists monitor activity and conduct scientific research on eruptions.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: This Dynamic Planet
Research and explore past earthquake and volcanic activity on this interactive world map. User can manipulate which notable events and other map characteristics to view depending on the type of study being done.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Complexity and the Future
Will our descendants enjoy lives that are richer, more fulfilled, healthier, and in general better than those of today? Or will human societies collapse under the strain of depleted resources, brutal conflicts, and environmental damage?...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Dynamic Earth: Plates and Boundaries
Interactive website where students can learn about movement of earth's 15 major tectonoic plates and identify types of boundaries. Includes glossary and learning game.
Science Struck
Science Struck: The Theory of Continental Drift
Explains what is meant by the Theory of Continental Drift, its earliest proponents, the stages of continental drift, the causes related to tectonic plate movement, the evidence that has been found, and how the Himalaya Mountains offer...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Plate Interactions Challenge
Identify real-world cases of boundary interactions and predict the most likely future geologic outcomes. In the lightning round, unscramble four geologic terms.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: The Andes Mountains
Satellite photography and brief outline information describe the Andes mountains and provide links to specific features within the landscape - Atacama desert, or evidence of volcanic activity for example.
Curated OER
Hartao: An Introduction to Plate Tectonics
Introduces South African Alexander Toit as naming Gondwanaland and Laurasia.
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky: Earth Science Classroom Activities
A collection of links to activities and lessons that could be used for Earth science concepts including the foil record, creating a timeline of Earth's history, plate tectonics, dinosaurs, and the progression of life on Earth.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Earthquakes & Volcanoes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart shows diagrams of plate tectonics and how earthquakes and volcanoes are formed. Activotes are needed to answer several questions.
Other
University of Chicago: Dinosaur Extinction
This theory from the University of Chicago of dinosaur extinction revolves around the concept of plate tectonics, the movement of the continents over a sort of liquid around the planet.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Tectonic Plates Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on the earth's tectonic plates. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Tectonic Plates
Earth's tectonic plates and how they move.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Madagascar: What Are Tectonic Plates and How Are They Moving?
This lesson teaches students about tectonic plates, plate boundaries, and their role in earthquakes and volcanoes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tectonic Plate Movement in Alaska
In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, learn how tectonic plate movement is responsible for building mountains, such as the Wrangell and St. Elias Mountains. 2m 16s
Science Struck
Science Struck: The Divergent Plate Boundary Explained With a Diagram
Explains what tectonic plates are, what a divergent plate boundary is and some facts about them, and gives examples of divergent plate boundaries.
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