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Here is a list of interactive web sites with learning objects useful for teaching Earth Science concepts:
Sample technology integration lesson:
POSE THE FOLLOWING PROBLEM:
A rancher in the western U.S. has lost a few cattle after a flood. He rides a horse downstream to search for his missing cattle, that he fears may have been swept away in a flashflood. When he reaches a section of a trail midway up the canyon wall he sees what appears to be bones embedded in the rock walls of the canyon. He climbs up the cliff to take a closer look. The bones are very hard, as if they were made of rock. Do you think this could be the bones of his cows? What other bones might they be? How did the bones end up buried within that rock? How did they become exposed again? Why are the bones so hard?
Technology Integration Lesson for Earth Science Unit
Step 1:
Review the websites below and choose a couple to use with your students. You may wish to view them as a whole group activity, with discussion, or as a learning station activity with an accountability piece you create.
Step 2:
Create a document or file with pictures, or you can teach students how to find their own pictures using Google search and using the usage rights filters.
Step 3:
Students create a timeline describing their ideas for the problem posed above. Read-Write-Think Timeline Tool
URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/
More sites with assessment games:
Earth & Space Science
Earth & Space Science
Explore the various processes in the rock cycle. See how igneous, metamorphic and
sedimentary rocks change into one another in a
subduction zone setting.
Move the oceanic and continental plates around
and watch mountain building and a volcanic eruption. A map of the continents shows where various plate boundaries are.
Virtual Earthquake is an interactive computer
program designed to introduce you to the concepts of how an earthquake epicenter is located and how the Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determined.
Make a Quake is an interactive computer program designed to explain what kind of damage occurs during an earthquake to various types of building
structures depending on how the building is reinforced and what type of foundation it is built upon.
Seismic waves are vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake. This real-time 3D application allows users to create seismic waves of any magnitude and pass them through a variety of terrains. The student can view the seismic activity in the terrain through both a textured and wire frame view.
Most waves form when winds blowing across the water's surface transmit their energy to the water. This is a real-time 3D wave simulator which demonstrates the connection between wind speed and ocean particle motion depth. The student can modify the properties of an ocean wave and see the effect from any perspective.
Adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see the glacier grow and shrink. Use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.
Just how do greenhouse gases change the climate? Select the level of atmospheric greenhouse gases during an ice age, in the year 1750, today, or some time in the future and see how the Earth's temperature changes. Add clouds or panes of glass.
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