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American Geosciences Institute: Nuclear Energy: Background
A resource page on nuclear energy. Learn what nuclear energy is, how it is produced, the history of the power, and advantages and disadvantages.
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American Geosciences Institute: Wind: Background
A reference page on wind. Learn about the properties of air that allow wind to form as well as how wind is used to make energy. The page also describes the advantages and disadvantages to wind energy.
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Agi: Why Earth Science
An article discussing why it is important to have an earth science curriculum in schools.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week
A wealth of resources for celebrating Earth Science Week, complete with educational materials in both English and Spanish. Teachers will find classroom activities, information on contests and Earth Science Week events, and ideas for...
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Climate Visualizations
These six interactive visualizations to help students understand different aspects of the climate.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring for Petroleum Modeling an Oil Reserve
Experience the process of searching and drilling for oil in this hands-on activity.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring Porosity
Experiment to find out which size of gravel has the most porosity by measuring volume.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Flood!
Explore how flooding can be caused be soil's ability to contain water.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Fossil Formation
Learn how fossils are created.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Freddy the Fish
Explore how pollution can affect natural organisms and habitats.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geography of a Pencil
Work to find out how natural resources from around the world can be used to make a single product.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Age
Explore geologic time of the Earth and learn how radioactive decay helps to establish a timeline.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Maps & Earthquakes
This activity is designed to give students practice using a geologic map to assess the likelihood and location of a particular natural hazard- earthquakes- in California.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Time Scale Analogy
Introduce students to the vastness of geologic time and the concept of scale.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geoscience and Petroleum Careers
For this activity, learners think about how various real-world careers relate to personal interests and Earth's systems- the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Global Change: Where Land, Air and Water Meet
To develop an understanding of parts per million as a concept, teams of young scholars create successive dilutions of a solution to reach a parts-per-million concentration.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Global Gis Lesson: Exploring North American Earthquakes
In this series of lessons, students use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) together with the tools and data from the North America Global GIS CD to investigate earthquakes, volcanoes, and population from a local to global scale....
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Lightning
This activity will demonstrate the attraction of positive and negative charges and what happens when those opposite charges meet each other.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Look Up!
Get ready to set a course for sky exploration. The following activity is designed to help learners learn to listen, read, and communicate in both written and oral formats about the sky.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Making a Cave
This activity simulates the way that dissolution, a chemical weathering process, leads to the formation of caves.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Map Making Basics
This activity will help students discover some features as they create a geologic map.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Mapping Vertical Movements
Using flubber and plastic wrap, students study the Earth's crust and mantle.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Mapping Your Soil
Use the Web Soil Survey developed by the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service to determine what soil is around your school and how it can be used.
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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Measuring Permeabilities of Soil, Sand, and Gravel
This investigation will help young scholars learn that different geologic materials have different characteristics.