Selected Earth Science Web Sites

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/


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