VolcanoWorld
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu
VolcanoWorld is an outstanding resource for
any earth science classroom interested in learning about
volcanoes. This website contains real-time volcano
information including an interactive clickable map of active
volcanoes world-wide and remote sensing satellite images.
Topics covered at VolcanoWorld include how volcanoes work,
submarine volcanoes, planetary volcanoes, career
information on becoming a volcanologist, volcanic parks and
monuments and volcano exploration on the moon, Mars and
Venus. It contains an area where students can post
experiments including building a variety of different types
of volcanoes. Teachers can also download a collection of
interactive HyperStudio lessons on volcanoes from this web
site.
Project Athena
http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/index.html
Project Athena contains science curriculum lesson plans
that use remote sensing data, QuickTime movies and data sets
containing current scientific information relating to
oceans, the atmosphere, earth resources and space/astronomy
for teaching scientific concepts to students of all ages.
This web site serves as a good model for developing lessons
plans using Internet science resources. The lesson plans at
Project Athena include hands-on activities and projects to
do in the classroom for a variety of science curricular
topics. Examples include using drifter buoy data to learn
how oceanographers measure the ocean currents using
spreadsheets and graphs of data plots, describing and
tracking actual hurricanes using quicktime movies and
satellite image maps, and comparing the weather in your city
with "live cams" placed all over the country. Each of the
lesson plans contains many topic-related resource links on
the WWW.
The GLOBE Program
http://www.globe.gov/
The GLOBE (Global learning and Observations to Benefit
the Environment) Program is a world-wide network of
students, teachers and scienctists engaged in a
tele-collaboration project to do meaningful real-life
science. In the GLOBE Program,students make environmental
observations and report their data findings on the internet.
Scientists use the students' data to formulate amospheric
models, then provide feedback to the students. The
measurements conducted by the students include air
temperature, cloud observations, precipitation, surface
water temperature and pH, soil moisture, biometrics, land
cover assessment and species identification. Students also
share findings and communicate with other students using
e-mail from the web site. GLOBE includes excellent
descriptions of equipment and procedures for data
acquisition and a user-friendly searchable data archive. The
unique aspect of the GLOBE Program is that students are
interactive partners with scientists.
NASA Earth Science Enterprise (ESE)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/mtpe/
For Kids Only
http://kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/
Earth System Science Education
http://www.usra.edu/esse/ESSE.html
NASA Classroom of the Future
http://www.cotf.edu/