Mr. Reed's "Welcome to the Fourth Grade" video
(click here for more photos)
IN THE NEWS
Millions of years from now, what will the next supercontinent look like? Click here to watch an animation that shows how it might form.
Click here to see see the "plates" of the Earth's crust have slowly shifted over time! (Note that "Ma" means "millions of years ago!)
Animation is from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/science/tectonic-plates-continental-drift.html
Quick links
Jo Boaler - Inspirational Math videos:
Day 1 / Day 3 / Day 4 - Patterns / Day 5
/ "Believe in Yourself"
MAP Practice Test
(grow / grow)
Mystery Science video about Glaciers
NASA's "Climate Kids" - Ten Interesting Things about Glaciers
Bill Nye: Volcanoes video
USGS Volcano Hazards Program: interactive map
Effects of erosion:
Five Islands, Maine
Smithsonian's "Ocean Through Time"
Bill Nye: Earth's Crust video
Western Abenaki language - searchable dictionary
VT-ANR: Natural Resources Atlas
(turn on layers)
The Bering "land bridge," which connected Asia with North America around 20,000 years ago (when the sea level was much lower)
A modern-day glacier in Svaldbard, islands that are halfway between Norway and the North Pole
Expand your mind (or, give yourself a headache) with this mathematical model of a 4-dimensional object: