ESC 400 Earth Science Education Exemplary Web Links

 

Links for Content Support

  Methods and Management Topics

Links for Methods and Management Topics

 

Foundations of Scientific Inquiry

 

     
1 CONTENT LINKS

-Scientific Proofs, Laws, and Theories
-Girl Saves Tourists from Tsunami

 

  METHODS:
-How Michigan Benchmarks are Organized?
 

 

METHODS LINKS:
-Earth Facts Icebreaker Activity
-MI Big Overview Of Science Content Standards (old standards)
-National Science Standards
-AAAS Science NetLinks
-MTTC Study Guide
-Atlas of Science Literacy

-Your Gross and Cool Body
New : High School
-Michigan Merit High School Curriculum: Science
-Earth Science and Biology High School Big Ideas or "Bookmarks"
-Earth Science Alignment Record
-New : Primary and Middle School
-Grade Level Science Content Expectations (GLCE)
**Earth Science Across the Grades
**Life Science Across the Grades 
**Physical Science Across the Grades

 
2 CONTENT LINKS

--What is Earth System Science?

  METHODS:
-Inquiry Based Learning
-Citing References Properly

 

 

-So you need notes or PowerPoint for a lecture tomorrow?
 

 

METHODS LINKS:
-
Having students develop testable questions
-Inquiry Based Learning
-Inquiry Page-Learning Begins with Questions
-Fundamentals of Inquiry from the Institute on Inquiry

-Reading the Triple Beam Balance
-
The Keys to Inquiry
-Teaching Practice Videos
-Questions for a Shoebox
-Citation Machine


-Regents Earth Science Course Overview
-Teacher Resources

-Science Class-Net
-World of Teaching PowerPoints
-DLESE lesson plans

3     MANAGEMENT:
-Field Trip Tips
- Safety in the Classroom and in the Field
-ICE (In case of emergency)


 

 

 

 

 

 MANAGEMENT LINKS
--What Not to do in the Lab Activity
   Sheet

--Answer Key and Worksheet for "What Not.." above

-Leading a Field Trip
-What Students Should Wear
-Field Trip Safety Tips
-How to use Field Labs - Logistical Tips

-Field Trip Safety Tips
-Classroom Hazard Hunt
-EPA Healthy Schools


 

4 CONTENT LINKS
-ACME Mapper
 

METHODS:
-Assessment and Rubrics
-Bloom's Taxonomy
-Informal Assessment with Games

 

 

 

 

 

 


MANAGEMENT:

-Ideas for Communicating with Parents

 

METHODS LINKS:
-How to Create a Rubric
-Rubric Generator
New
-On Line Science Assessment Question Tool
-
Science/Technology Report Card Comments
-
Ten Games for Classroom Fun!
-PowerPoint Games: Templates
-Secret Island for Learning Lat./Long
-Secret Island Game Board
-Earth Science Taboo Game Cards
-Soccer and Basketball Earth Science
-Earth Science Hangman
-Puzzle Generator
-Science Review Games
-Wheel of Bloom

-Begin Class with EPOD
-Begin Class with Earth from Above (must use Explorer)


MANAGEMENT LINKS
-
Form for Communicating with Parents
-Parental Contact Form
-
Special FX Permission

 

  Physical and Historical Geology      
5 CONTENT LINKS
--A Place Called Earth PowerPoint

-
Minerals in Sports
-
Rocks and Minerals in Michigan
-
This Planet Really Rocks
-Rock Cycle Animation
-Rock Cycle2 Animation
-Rice Krispies and Sedimentary Rocks
 

METHODS:
-Geosphere Misconceptions 



 




 

MANAGEMENT:

--Homework Management Part 2: Organizing for individual classes and for the semester

 METHODS LINKS:
-MISCONCEPTIONS

-
Earth Science Misconceptions
-Children's Misconceptions about Science


 

MANAGEMENT:

-Assignment Tracking Form
-Top Nine Tips to Cut Writing Assignment Grading Time

6

CONTENT LINKS
-Extra Credit Opportunity-Uncertainty in Measurement and Significant Figures
-Plate Jigsaw Activity

-Stripes on the Sea Floor Activity and Origin of Magnetic Anomolies Animation
-
Discovering Plate Boundaries
- Explanation of Plate Tectonics
- Asian Tsunami Before-After
 Photos
-Mantle Convection Demo with Hot
 Chocolate

-Seismic Wave Slinky
-Seismic Wave Students
-Seismic Wave Students Doing "The Wave"
--Lava Lamp Activity

 

 

METHODS:
-Geosphere Misconceptions 



 


MANAGEMENT:

--Homework Management:

 METHODS LINKS:
-
Earth Science Misconceptions
-MOSART-a Tool for Diagnosing Misconceptions
-Children's Misconceptions about Science
-Clarification of Some Selected Misconceptions in Physical Geography

 

MANAGEMENT:

-
Course Planner
-Top Nine Tips to Cut Writing Assignment Grading Time

7 CONTENT LINKS
--VOLCANO WORLD

--Live Interactive Worldwide
  Earthquake Activity

--EARTHQUAKE FACTS AND
  EARTHQUAKE FANTASY

--Earthquakes, Megaquakes, and the
  Movies

--Megaquakes, the Mini-Series
--EARTHQUAKE FOR KIDS
--Earthquakes Hazards Program
--Animated Earthquake Book for Kids
  METHODS/MANAGEMENT


The First Day of Class













Multilingual Resources

 
METHODS/MANAGEMENT  LINKS

-How to Get a Course Off to a Great Start
-Top Ten Teacher Tips
-Procedures Checklist
-
101 Things to Do the First Week of Class
-101 Amazing Earth Facts
-
Best of the Icebreakers
-What to Look for and Avoid in Icebreakers
-
A Guide for Bulletin Boards
-
What to do Before Class Starts

-Tips for the First Day of Class: -Getting Students on Task Immediately

--*Multilingual Resources
8 CONTENT LINKS
-LifeSaver Weathering
-Cemetery Studies
-
When Is Mud Dangerous?
-
How Does Soil Vary from Place to Place?
-Glaciers PowerPoint
-
Glacier Lakes Flip Book
-
Origin of the Great Lakes animation
-Snickers/Baby Ruth Weathering Activity

 
DRAG AND DROP REVIEW
--Rivers
 

MANAGEMENT:
- Tracking Student Behavior in and out of the Classroom


 

 
MANAGEMENT LINKS
-
*The “Little Yellow Sheet” A Paper Trail for Documenting Student Behavior
- 10 Approaches to Better Discipline

-A Teacher's Frustration
-Techniques for Working with
  Emotionally and Behaviorally
  Challenged Students

-What is Your Classroom Management Profile?
-*A Reference for Handling over 117 Misbehaviors

-
Checklist Of Characteristics Of Youth Who Have Caused School-Associated Violent Deaths
9 CONTENT LINKS
-Michigan Geology Resources from
 MDEQ

- Petoskey Stone
-Michigan Fossil Guide Package
-Evolution from National Academies
-Paleontology Portal

-Practice Block Diagram for Determining Relative Deposit Age
-The History of Life in 50 Seconds Flat
-Dr. Bob's Geologic Time Page
-Using Toilet Paper to Understand Geologic Time
-Fossil Identification Images
-Scientific American's "15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense"
-Frequently Asked Questions About "Intelligent Design"
-Textbook Disclaimer Stickers
  METHODS:
-Active Learning
-KWL

 

 

MANAGEMENT:
-Homework Management  

 METHODS LINKS:
-
Active Learning
-KWL handout
-KWL generator

 

MANAGEMENT LINKS
-
Lesson Template
-Lesson Template 2
-Lesson Template 3

10

CONTENT LINKS
-This Land is your Land

-Mineral Needs for Every American
-Calculate your Radiation Dose
-EPA Student Center
-EPA High School Environmental Center

 

  METHODS:
--Edible Earth Science

 

MANAGEMENT:

--How to Randomly Call Students
--Proactively Informing Parents of Progress

METHODS LINKS:
Edible Earth Science On Line Resources


MANAGEMENT LINKS
--How to Randomly Call Students
--Proactively Informing Parents of Progress

 

 

 

 

Meteorology

 

     
11 CONTENT LINKS
-Journey to the Center of the Earth
-Tanker Car Crushed
--Tanker Car Crushed Video
-Sunwise
Program
-Study: Rates of non-melanoma skin cancers rise in young people
-Ozone Over Your House
-Optics For Kids
-

 

 Of A Sonic Boom
-Lightness Perception And
 Lightness Illusions

-USA Today Animated Graphics

-Global Warning Animation by DiCaprio

 

METHODS:
-Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
-Direct Instruction

 

 

 

 

MANAGEMENT:
So how much do I lecture?  What about the effectiveness of PowerPoint?

 METHODS LINKS:
-
Projects for Multiple Intelligences
--Project Based Learning Checklist Generator
-Eight Ways of Knowing
-21 Years Later, 'Multiple Intelligences' Still Debated
-Learning Styles Questionnaire
--Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Instructional Methods
-What Direct Instruction Is and Is Not
-Strategies for Reading Comprehension


MANAGEMENT LINKS
-
Interactive Lectures

12 CONTENT LINKS
Weather Tracker/Atmospheric Mummy
-Cloud Identification Chart
-Cloud animation

-
LIGHTNESS PERCEPTION AND LIGHTNESS ILLUSIONS
-MOON ILLUSION
-OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

-24 Hours of Weather
-Ingredients of Weather
-
Kid’s Crossing
-Web Weather for Kids
-The Weather Unit
-NOAA Education Weather
-Weather Wiz Kids
 

METHODS:
-Music and Earth Science
--Music before Classes

 

 

MANAGEMENT:
-Homework Buddies
-Filing System for Loans

-Filing System for Student
 Discipline Issues

 METHODS LINKS:
-
Web Elements Sing Along
-
Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere
-
Massive Radio
-
Singing Science Records


 

13

CONTENT LINKS

-On Line Weather School
-USA Today Guide to the science of the atmosphere
-WW2010 On line Guide for Meteorology
-Michigan weather station reports
-Surface weather map
- Compare Warm And Cold Fronts animation
-Severe and Hazardous Weather

 

METHODS:
-Literature and Earth Science
-Earth Science Mnemonics


 

 METHODS LINKS:
-Reading List- Earth Science Related
  Titles
--Earth Science Reading List
-Earth Science Mnemonics

 

14 CONTENT LINKS
-Forecasting
-Radar Meteorology
-Reading Weather Maps
--Convection, Advection, and a Forest Fire
 

METHODS:
-Misconceptions in Weather

 

 

 

METHODS LINKS:
MISCONCEPTIONS
-Children's Misconceptions about
 Weather: A review of the literature

-Bad Meteorology

 

15

CONTENT LINKS
-Climate Lesson Plan
-
U.S. Climate At A Glance

-Climate Control Climographs
-Climate Extremes
-Climate Timeline
-
NOAA El Nino Page

-The Day After Tomorrow™: Could it really happen?

 

METHODS:
-Art and Earth Science
- Earth Facts cooperative group lamination project

MANAGEMENT:
-Ordering Supplies
-Whiteboards: Advantages and Disadvantages

 METHODS LINKS:
-
Earth as Art



MANAGEMENT LINKS

-
Supply “Wish List”
-Book and Magazine Wish List
-Ward’s Scientific

16

CONTENT LINKS
-Personal Greenhouse Gas Calculator
-Global Warming By State
-One Tonne Challenge
-Indoor Air Pollution

-Indoor Air Quality In Schools
-EPA Air Curriculum Resources

-EPA Student Center Resources-Air

-In the Air, Air Quality Resources for 
 K-3, 3-6, 6-8, 9-12


-NWS Hazard Statistics
-FEMA for Kids
-Owlie Skywarn Page
-FEMA hazards factsheets
-NOAA hazard factsheets

-Lightning Distance Applet
-EarthWeek Diary of a Planet

-Fatalities due to weather hazards
-Katrina Storm Damage Set to the Music of John Mellencamp

 

METHODS:
-Earth Science at the Movies Presentation

 

METHODS LINKS:
--Bad Movie Physics

--Bad Astronomy Movies

--The Day After Tomorrow™: Could it really happen?

--
Watching The Core: A movie review

--
Climate Change — Hollywood Fiction or Reality?

--
Dante's Peak FAQ'S

--
List of Hollywood Movies to Show in Class
--The Internet and Jurassic Park: teaching students to think critically about dinosaurs

--Sample Movie Questions

 

Oceanography and Freshwater Systems

 

     
17

CONTENT LINKS
-Hydrologic Cycle
 
-Hydrologic cycle-quiz (easy)
-Hydrologic cycle-drag/drop
-Groundwater-drag/drop  
-Water Pretest
-Water Planet by DiCaprio
-Properties of Water
-Distribution of Water
-USGS Water Cycle
- Water Science For Schools

-Real Time Michigan Water Data

-
Hydrologic Cycle And Groundwater  animation

-NASA water cycle movie (click on link
 to right
-
Hydrologic Cycle Quiz animation quiz

-Chlora and Phil photosynthesis and 
 Water cycle activity

 

METHODS:
- Backyard Field Trips
-Nature Journaling

-Hydrosphere Activities
-Kinesthetic Water Activity and  
 Poem


 

METHODS LINKS:
-Backyard Field Trips-Geosphere
-Backyard Field Trips-Weather
-Backyard Field Trips-Astronomy
-Backyard Field Trips-Hydrosphere
-
-Project Globe Protocols

 

18

CONTENT LINKS

--Groundwater Module (be sure to click terms, read side bars.
--EPA Drinking Water and Ground
Water Kids Stuff

-EPA Drinking Water and Ground Water Kids Stuff
-Groundwater Kids
-Water Source Books
-EPA High School Water Resource and Water Pollution Resources
-
Watershed Animation
-
Lake Michigan Whale Watching

-Water Pretest

-Kinesthetic Groundwater Movement

 

METHODS
-Cooperative Learning and
  Gallery Walk

-Post It Cooperative Learning

 

METHODS LINKS:
-Gallery Walk

-Gallery Walk Step by Step Instructions
-Scripts to Improve Cooperative Learning
-Cooperative Learning Structures and Techniques

 

19 CONTENT LINKS
-Great Lakes Environmental Atlas

-Natural Processes in the Great Lakes
-Great Lakes Whales
-USGS Rivers (see links at bottom)
-Lake Physical Characteristics
-Great Lakes Physical Characteristics

 
 

METHODS:
-Misconceptions about Water and Weather

 

 

 

MANAGEMENT:
-
Language in the Classroom

 METHODS LINKS:
-MISCONCEPTIONS

-Children's Misconceptions about Science

-
Earth Science Misconceptions

- Bad Hydrogeology Misconceptions about Groundwater
-
Dispelling Common Ground Water Misconceptions


MANAGEMENT LINKS

-Sensitive Language

20 CONTENT LINKS
-Ocean Zonation
-Ocean Characteristics and Tides
-Ocean and Margins
-Ocean Current Drag and Drop Exercise
-El Nino and La Nina 
-Ocean floor-Drag/Drop
- Upwelling
  MANAGEMENT:

-Dealing with Problem Parents

MANAGEMENT:

-Dealing with Irate Parents

21

CONTENT LINKS
-
EPA Water Curriculum Resources
-EPA Student Center Resources

-Water Resources in the U.S.
-Water Use in the U.S.
- Great Lakes Management Plan
-
Robocow
Animation

-
Meatrix Animation

-Karst and NonPoint Pollution
 animation

-Permeability animation

 

METHODS:
- Earth in Motion, Using Visualizations Sounds, and Animations

 

MANAGEMENT:
- Saving Time with Computer Short Cuts Part 1

 

METHODS LINKS:
-RESGI Animations

-AESA Animations
-BrainPop Animations
--Science Sounds


MANAGEMENT LINKS

-Saving Time with Computer Short Cuts Part 1
-Computer Tips from David Pogue
 

  Space      
22

CONTENT LINKS

-Seasons Concept Map
-The Sun Earth Connection-multi age content presentation
-National Geographic Seasons Lesson Plans
-How Does an Eclipse Happen Activity
- Educational Sun Applets
- Sunrise/Sunset Calculation Program
- Explaining Day length
- Path Of The Sun At Different Latitudes animation
-Sun path, Subsolar pt. and Sunlight Concentration Animation

Private Universe on line at Learner.org

-NASA slide show (shown in class) (4 Mb)
-A Song for All Seasons
-Moonlight Madness
-Astronomy Picture Of The Day Archive
-Top 10 Space Science Photos
-
Ten Best Mars Images Ever

-Windows to the Universe
-Starchild

-Lunar Phases Web Tool

-Phases of the Moon Demonstration
-In the Beginning and Now : Moon Formation Animation
-
Apogee Moon, Perigee Moon
-
Kinesthetic Astronomy

-Moon Activity Fact Sheet

 

MANAGEMENT:
Jobs  Resources:

 

Professional Organizations:

NSTA, DLESE, AGI, TERC, MESTA, ESPRIT, and NESTA

 

 MANAGEMENT LINKS:
-
Smartbrief

-
SALARY CALCULATOR
-
SCHOOL MATTERS

--Job Hunting Link (EdZapp)
--Job Hunting Link (Teachers-Teachers)




NSTA
DLESE
AGI
TERC
MESTA
ESPRIT
NESTA

 

23

CONTENT LINKS
-Seasons Concept Map
-The Sun Earth Connection-multi age content presentation
-National Geographic Seasons Lesson Plans
-How Does an Eclipse Happen Activity
- Educational Sun Applets
- Sunrise/Sunset Calculation Program
- Explaining Day length
- Path Of The Sun At Different Latitudes animation
-Sun path, Subsolar pt. and Sunlight Concentration Animation

Private Universe on line at Learner.org

-NASA slide show (shown in class) (4 Mb)
-A Song for All Seasons
-Moonlight Madness
-Astronomy Picture Of The Day Archive
-Top 10 Space Science Photos
-
Ten Best Mars Images Ever

-Windows to the Universe
-Starchild

-Lunar Phases Web Tool

-Phases of the Moon Demonstration
-In the Beginning and Now : Moon Formation Animation
-
Apogee Moon, Perigee Moon
-
Kinesthetic Astronomy

-Moon Activity Fact Sheet

 

MANAGEMENT:
- Saving Time with Computer Short Cuts Part 2

 

Grant Writing Tips

MANAGEMENT LINKS
-Computer Tips from David Pogue

 

-Tips for Grant Writing and Funding Sources from NSTA
-Searching for Dollars

-Department of Education Grant Applications

24

CONTENT LINKS
-Moon Surface exercise (take notes)
-Eclipses (scroll to "Eclipse Interactive) ans. q. # 3 + 5
-Lunar Phases (scroll to "Lunar Phases" Interactive) ans. q. # 2 + 3
-Retrograde Motion (scroll to "Retrograde Motion" Interactive) ans. q. # 3
 

-Build a Solar System
-The Size of our World Compared to Other Stellar Bodies
-Flash into PowerPoint due
-The Nine Planets
-Views of the Solar System
-
My Weight on other Planets
-Peekskill meteor video
-
Asteroid-Earth Impact
program

-
Vast Distances Between Planets In The Solar System animation.

-
Movie of the Solar System animation
-Space Science unit PowerPoint
-
Life Cycle of Stars

-