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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Volcanoes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive from Annenberg Learner asks the question of whether erumptions of volcanoes can be predicted. Review what you already know about volcanoes, and move on to forecasting potential. Several short video clips are included as...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Volcanic Panic!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the causes, composition and types of volcanoes. They begin with an overview of the Earth's interior and how volcanoes form. Once students know about how a volcano functions, they learn how engineers predict...
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Lesson Plan
Purdue University

Purdue University: Earth's Interior Structure

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Graphic
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Savage Earth: Waves of Destruction, a Tsunami Animation

For Students 3rd - 8th
View a brief animation that explains the science behind a tsunami.
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah State Office of Education: How Does Earth Impact Other Systems?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Have you ever noticed how some of the continents and land masses of Earth seem to fit together like pieces of a puzzle? This unit is designed to help you understand why continent shapes appear that way. In addition you will learn how...
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: How Was the Mid Atlantic Ridge Formed?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is, how it was formed in the Triassic Period, the volcanic activity that takes place there, and the benefits and negative impact of this activity.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa Space Place: What Is an Earthquake?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover why earthquakes happen, how we measure them, and why they only happen on Earth.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plate Tectonics Intro

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will take several class periods. This lesson begins to look at how the different landforms are created. There will be two follow up lessons - one on volcanoes and one on mountains.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plate Tectonics Volcano

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will take several class periods. This lesson begins to look at how volcanoes are created.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Destructive Forces of Nature

For Students 4th - 8th
Discusses the destructive forces unleashed by volcanic eruptions, and the movement of water, wind, ice, and tectonic plates.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Constructive Forces of Nature

For Students 4th - 8th
Discusses the constructive forces resulting from volcanic eruptions and the movement of water, wind, ice, and tectonic plates.
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Activity
Other

Paleomap Project

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Other

Pangea: Alfred L. Wegener Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
Two biographies of Wegener and his work including his theory on how raindrops form.
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Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Dynamic Earth Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Delve into the structure of the Earth to learn what causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and more.
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Handout
Other

University of Wisconsin Green Bay: Faults and Earthquakes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is primarily set up as an outline and is loaded with graphs, maps, and images. It covers a variety of earthquake-related topics, such as what causes earthquakes, fault lines and structures, seismology, a historical look at...
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Transform Boundary: Definition and Useful Examples

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what a transform boundary is and gives examples of well-known faults of this type.
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Website
US Geological Survey

Central California Earthquake Hazards Project

For Students 6th - 8th
Here is a review of the geology behind earthquakes and what is being done to predict the "Big One" on the San Andreas Fault.
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Handout
University of California

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Geology and Geologic Time

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about the geologic relationships of rock layers, as well as much about geologic time and the history of Earth.
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Unit Plan
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Los Cambios en El Medio Natural I

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit you can learn about the internal structure of the Earth. It has 13 interactive activities.
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Interactive
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Pacific Northwest vs. Sumatra: Flash Rollover

For Students 9th - 10th
This rollover compares the earthquake of 1700 in the Pacific Northwest with the 2004 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami.
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Website
Other

Scec: Wallace Creek Interpretive Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
Go on a geologic adventure in this interactive, online trail guide to the Wallace Creek site on the San Andreas Fault.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from an introduction to oceanography course taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. The course gives a general introduction to the processes and history of Earth's global oceanic system in...
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Engineering Geology

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the basics of engineering geology. Webpage includes forty lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length...

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