Wednesday, December 10, 2008

EARTH SCIENCE

Web Pages
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USGS Learning Web - http://education.usgs.gov
Educational resources for the earth sciences from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Water Science for Schools - http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/
Information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center.
Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere - http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Intro.html
Detailed non-mathematical introduction to the research on the Earth's magnetic environment in space and its history. Contains master directory of more than 70 related text files.
Our Dynamic Earth - http://www.dynamicearth.co.uk/
Interactive exhibits about planet earth. Utilises the QuickTime, Shockwave and Acrobat Reader plug-ins.
NASA Planetary Science Research Discoveries - http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/index.html
An educational on-line magazine describing discoveries in planetary and space sciences. Written for teachers, students, and the general public.
Science for Everyone - http://earth.agu.org/sci_soc/everyone.html
Collections of recent articles on topics related to the science of planet Earth. From AGU.
Earth Fact Sheet - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html
Basic earth statistics from the NSSDC.
International Geoscience Education Organisation - http://www.geoscied.org/
Goal is to work for the improvement of education within the earth science fields, especially in K-12 grades. Page includes newsletters and conference schedule.
Understanding our Planet Through Chemistry - http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/
U.S.Geological Survey site links to reports showing how chemists and geologists use analytical chemistry to study earth science questions.
EarthNet - http://earthnet-geonet.ca/
Earth science information for both teachers and students. Glossary, lesson plans, extensive links, lists of topics, and other resources.
California Underground: Our Caves and Subterranean Habitats - http://www.museumca.org/caves/onli_realm.html
Educational materials and photographic tours on the formation and occurrence of different types of caves, cave biology, and cave conservation.
Earth Science from Moorland School - http://www.moorlandschool.co.uk/earth/
Earth science for schools including the rock cycle, plate tectonics, planetary structure and origins, volcanoes, atmosphere, fossil fuels and polymers.
Museums Teaching Planet Earth - http://earth.rice.edu/mtpe/
Educational earth science resources and software produced by Rice University in collaboration with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, funded by NASA under the Office of Earth Science
Adirondack Science Online - http://www.adkscience.org/
Educational program using the Adirondack mountains. Includes areas for contributing data, reporting events, discussing observations, and learning from findings.
Geology Postgraduate Research Supervision Survey - http://www.geocities.com/gprss_edu/
Survey of geoscience research students, focusing on the quality of supervision and problem areas experienced by students doing their research.
Earth Science Resource Center - http://www.mines.edu/Outreach/Cont_Ed/esrc.shtml
A division of the Office of Special Programs and Continuing Education at the Colorado School of Mines. The ESRC publishes relevant science-related

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