Earth and Beyond
The Earth | And Beyond
Find out about the TLF Earth and Beyond Learning Objects here!
The following table allows teachers to conduct a more exhaustive search for resources.
The top row will indicate new Earth and Beyond resources added to the EdNA database, while the lower rows include direct links to search the EdNA database preset for the indicated resources. These links will open in a new browser window.
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The Earth
Learn about Meterology: Teachers and
students
(http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/Students_Teachers/learnact.htm)
Your one-stop-shop for everything meterological!
Students & Teachers includes interactive animated models, a cloud quiz, teacher lesson plans and student worksheets, mostly for junior students. El Niño and Rainfall is suitable for years 7 & 8, The Ups and Downs of Ozone for students years 7 to 10. There are many brochures available, as well as weather kits - and more links!
See also:
Climate Education (http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/index.htm)
(http://www.ema.gov.au/agd/EMA/emaSchools.nsf/Page/Home)
This website hosts a range of resources, activities and links related to Tsunamis.
New: Australian Natural Disaster Webquest, suitable for upper primary/lower secondary students.
(http://www.schools.ash.org.au/paa2/).
Project Atmosphere Australia Online ran for a week in April 2005.
Find out what happened, or access a wide range of material relating to weather. Includes Online, Classroom, Challenge and Discovery Activities, Weather topics and much more. Some of the images could make the Weather Calendar - add yours too!
Check out the images in the Media Gallery
(suitable Years 4-10).
(http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/index.html)
Satellite imagery, interactives videos and more, all with the quality one has come to expect from NASA.
Links to many other sections of NASA.
(http://www.abc.net.au/science/planetslayer/default.htm)
From the ABC website, Planet Slayer is a game about Greenhouse for Juniors. Requires Flash 6.
Includes many useful Greenhouse related lnks.
(http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html)
Another wonderful NASA website.
Keep track of the ozone layer over the South Pole - a very useful summer activity!
Images and MPEG format movies, plus a range of teacher resources, including (for middle year and senior students), the ozone hole tour, UV menace, ozone in the stratosphere, a violent sun affects earth's ozone, and especially for seniors, stratospheric ozone.
(http://www.teachingboxes.org/index.jsp)
How to implement the web in your classroom!
Current topics largely in the Earth and Beyond stream.
- Evidence for Plate Tectonics
- Essentials of Weather
- Feeding Frenzy: Seasonal Upwelling
- Global Ups and Downs: Changing Sea Level
- Living in Earthquake Country
- Mountain Building
From their website:
What are Teaching Boxes?
Teaching boxes are classroom-ready instructional units created by collaboration between teachers, scientists, and designers. Each box helps to bridge the gap between educational resources and how to implement them in the classroom. The Teaching Boxes contain materials that model scientific inquiry, allowing teachers to build classroom experiences around data collection and analysis from multiple lines of evidence, and engaging students in the process of science. - focusing on gathering and analyzing scientific evidence. All educators may use DLESE Teaching Boxes free of charge.
(http://www.breathingearth.net/)
A single page world map.
As you mouseover different countries, you are presented with information on birthrate, deathrate and CO2 production.
Good discussion starter!
Requires Flash.
(http://www.windows.ucar.edu/)
Paraphrased from their website:
Windows to the Universe - documents, images, movies, animations, and data sets that explore the Earth and Space sciences and the historical and cultural ties between science, exploration, and the human experience. Especially helpful for Earth and Space sciences. Three reading levels approximating elementary, middle school and high school reading levels. Option for teacher newsletter.
Numerous resources categorised into: Earth science/Geology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Astronomy, Planetology, Space Science, Environmental Science, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mythology, History of Science, Other.
Added to the Lynx 16.05.2006
Extreme Science
“Extreme Science is home to the biggest, baddest, and the best in the world of extremes.” World records in earth sciences and in the plant and animal kingdom.
The Extreme Science website itself is large, and links off to numerous other websites. A considerable amount of advertising, but good for student research with nothing undesirable obvious.
A range of geology/earth science topics including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, plate tectonics and Antarctica.
(added to the Lynx 29.11.2005)
Minerals Council of Australia Secondary Education Page
(http://www.minerals.org.au/education/secondary)
Interesting resources include Enviro Smart, Oresome Froth, Fact Sheets and teacher Professional Development workshops.
Now Available: The Down to Earth Series of Learning Objects - Rock Back in Time, Palaeotraveller and Metal Matters, available for download (free, filesize from less than 1 MB to over 14 MB) or purchase ($22, download orderform). Requires Flash. Suitable for lower - middle secondary.
(http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/dinosaur-stampede/lark-quarry/index.html)
The Australian Dinosaur Story web site has been developed to help students and teachers discover more about the exciting creatures that inhabited the Australian landscape 180 to 65 million years ago as well as the environment that supported them. A particular focus is given to the discovery of dinosaur trackways at Lark Quarry, near Winton in central Queensland. Includes 3D animations of the Lark Quarry dinosaurs that students can manipulate, an interactive depicting the break up of Pangaea (the 'super continent') and, quiz and crossword interactives with sounds and reward animations for students on completion.
Animations require Shockwave or Flash. Suitable for juniors.
Emergency Management Australia: Tsunami activities
(http://www.ema.gov.au/agd/EMA/emaSchools.nsf/Page/Home)
This website hosts a range of resources, activities and links related to Tsunamis.
New: Australian Natural Disaster Webquest, suitable for upper primary/lower secondary students.
National Geographic's Forces of Nature interactives
(http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/)
These are excellent, but may be slow to load. A good place for your students to find out about Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tornadoes and Hurricanes (Cyclones to us). Years 7-10. Lots of other good stuff nearby.
(added to Lynx 06.04.05)
See Tech Topics described on the 'General' page.
Earthquakes (suddenly a popular topic!) includes the structure of the earth, measuring earthquakes and their effects on community.
Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame (Kalgoorlie)
(http://www.mininghall.com/learn/index.htm)
There are a few (mainly text-based) science-related activities and information sheets, plus a number of useful links to other mining/mineral related websites on this newly upgraded website, with the promise of more activities to come. Years 7-10.
Australian Atlas of Mineral Resources, Mines and Processing Centres
(http://www.nationalminesatlas.gov.au/TOC.jsp).
Interactive Mapping (including pdf printout or view operating mines via Google Earth), History of the Minerals Industry, Read about gold, aluminium, lead, zinc, coal and other major minerals, Search Australia's Mines and more!
National Earthquake Information Center
(http://neic.usgs.gov/).
“The mission of the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) is to rapidly determine location and size of all destructive earthquakes worldwide and to immediately disseminate this information to concerned national and international agencies, scientists, and the general public. As World Data Center for Seismology, Denver, the NEIC compiles and maintains an extensive, global seismic database on earthquake parameters and their effects that serves as a solid foundation for basic and applied earth science research.”
Earthquake Data Available from the NEIC:
- Current Worldwide Earthquake List
- Latest Fast Moment Tensor Solutions
- Latest Energy & Broadband Solutions
- Earthquake Catalog Search
- Moment Tensor & Broadband Source Parameter Search
- AutoDRM
- Data Available Through FTP
- Routine U.S. Mining Seismicity
- International Registry of Seismograph Station
- Large Earthquakes This Year
- Significant Earthquake Posters
Everything you might ever want to know about earthquakes. Includes many links, suitable for bright Year 9 and above, though fairly text dense.
The Paleontology Portal
(http://www.paleoportal.org/).
Hosted by the University of California Museum of Paleontology, “[t]his site is a resource for anyone interested in paleontology, from the professional in the lab to the interested amateur scouting for fossils to the student in any classroom. We have gathered many different resources into this single entry “portal” to paleontological information on the Internet.” Suitable for all year levels.
Fossil images are largely of American specimens.
(http://www.snowballearth.org/)
Planet Earth covered by ice from pole to pole for long periods in the geological past?
Snowball earth describes the coldest global climate imaginable - a planet covered by glacial ice from pole to pole. The global mean temperature would be about -50°C (-74°F) because most of the Sun's (Solar) radiation would be reflected back to space by the icy surface. The overall climate would have been similar to that seen on Mars today.
Interesting website with 13 slideshows for teachers examining this theory. For seniors.
Added to the Lynx 20.02.2006.
And Beyond
(http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/)
There are educational events, workshops and resources for juniors, seniors and teachers available on this website.
Includes materials to support NSW HSC Astrophysics and NSW HSC 8.5 The Cosmic Engine
Check out the images or have a look at the Parkes Webcam!
(http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/)
Includes mission reports and summaries.
Check out Discoveries on Hubblesite
(See also Physics in the SeniorLynx page)
(http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/)
The Australia Telescope Compact Array at Narrabri Open Day is on Saturday 19th July, 10am till 4pm. This is a rare opportunity for members of the public to tour a telescope antenna and the control building. There will be a range of talks by astronomers throughout the day and you will be able to 'Ask and Expert' about astronomical questions.
More details: http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/visiting/narrabri/openday.html.
SpaceWeather.com
(http://www.spaceweather.com/)
All sorts of interesting astronomical information at your fingertips on this somewhat America-centric website - Solar wind, flares and sunspot activity, What's up in space (includes any near earth asteriods actually near the earth). Option to upload your images and, of course, an extremely useful set of links.
(http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/wtd/index.html)
What's the Difference is a highly accessible and a simple to use “compare and contrast” tool for students. It is easily customizable to go well beyond the included module that covers the Solar System. “Solar System Explorer” covers every planet in depth with important facts such as atmosphere, composition, diameter, distance to sun, gravity strength, and simulated views of the surface.
System requirements:
Mac OSX, Windows: 98, 2000, or XP
Powerbook G4 or Intel Pentium 3, Celeron or AMD Athlon
256 MB of RAM + 500 MB of disk space + Quicktime®
Virtual Lab Notes. Further details on website.
Paul Floyd's Astronomy & Space Website
(http://www.paulfloyd.id.au/)
Designed to inspire residents in the Eastern states of Australia to take time to look at the night sky and to provide teachers/educators with 'hands on' activities and resources. Lots of great stuff for teachers and students. Prove the earth is round or make a scale model of the solar system. Includes a calendar of astronomical events.
(added to Lynx 02.03.05)
Mars Quest Online
(http://www.marsquestonline.org/index.html)
Aimed at junior to middle secondary students, you will need a reasonable connection speed plus Flash to get the most from this site.
Interactives include Flying over Mars and Driving a Mars Rover – as it was done by the NASA scientists.
The latest news from Saturn - have a look at the multimedia images available from the Cassini-Huygens website.
(http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm)
Australian Astronomy – Student & Teacher Resources
(http://www.astronomy.org.au/ngn/engine.php?SID=1000009).
“Astronomy has the power to instill a sense of wonder and joy in students and teachers like no other subject. Make learning fun while using the latest online resources and information. Presented here are links to interactive tutorials and worksheets, general educational links and public astronomy courses”. Slow to load, but a wonderful website for all budding astronomers of any age!
The Nine Planets
(http://www.nineplanets.org/nineplanets.html).
The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information. An excellent website for all aspects of astronomy.
NASA
NASA Homepage
(http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html).
The one-stop astronomy and space travel shop. Slow lines can be a problem due to the use of flash and many images. Best to navigate the website and work out where you want your students to go before class! Links to two specific NASA websites are available below.
Science at NASA
(http://science.nasa.gov/).
Latest science news and stories from NASA. Email link for updates.
NSSDC Photo Gallery
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/).
Excellent source of those wonderful NASA images you see on TV and can never find again! Classified by type – planetary, astronomical objects, ‘other’ and indexes of Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager and Galileo images.
The education page of the local arm of NASA, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, includes links to just about everything educational available at NASA (http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/pg06_education.html).
(Added to Lynx 19.10.04)
Hubblesite
(http://www.hubblesite.org/).
The Hubble Space Telescope website. Everything you ever wanted to know about Hubble, plus the wonderful images!
Check out Discoveries
A wealth of interactive material, images and text.
Note that many resources require Flash
Current items include:
- New Views of the Universe
- Hubble Deep Field
- A Decade of Discovery
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