This week's 29 January 2005 "Earth Science Sites of the Week" feature:
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1) historic hazards
2) free on line screen timer
3) tsunami PowerPoint
4) teaching structural geology
5) remote sensing lessons
6) mass wasting animations
7) good read: beer and geology
8) A quote on discovery
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1) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANT EVENT IMAGERY, NOAA, this site has hundreds of
selected satellite images capturing some of the more important weather
and environmental events over the last 30 years. In addition to
pictures of hurricanes, tornadoes, and other severe storms, there is a
satellite imagery of the recent Indonesian tsunami.
http://www5.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/hsei/hsei.pl?directive=welcome
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2) SREEN TIMER, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory,
(suggested by Virginia Malone, Hondo, TX), this easy to use, free
utility allows you to put a countdown clock on your computer screen.
Use it to time student discussion sessions and quizzes. Set the minutes
and seconds from the tool bar. Downloading the program necessitates you
entering your e-mail address but there is an option not to receive the
company's informational e-mails. Upon downloading the program I found it
virus free after testing it with the latest McAfee virus definitions.
http://www.ncrtec.org/timer/timerdownload.php
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3) SUPERCOURSE TSUNAMI, University of Pittsburgh, (suggested by Randy
Schaetezl, Michigan State University), the purpose of this PowerPoint
lecture is to synthesize the best possible scholarly information on the
South Asia tsunami disaster and make it available to educators. This
presentation represents the efforts of four disaster experts from Iran,
Russia and the United States.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec18091/index.htm
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4) RESOURCES FOR TEACHING STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY, SERC,
(suggested by John McDaris, SERC), this special topics area of the On
the Cutting Edge website brings together information from workshops,
essay and presentations, and discussion groups on the emerging trends in
teaching Structural Geology. Users can find activities and assignments,
internet and computer resources, useful articles and maps and lots of
creative ideas to use in their classes.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/structure/index.html
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5) STUDYING EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT FROM SPACE, NASA, Old Dominion
University, (suggested by Holly Devaul, DLESE), this program aims to
increase the use of satellite data in science classrooms by developing
classroom materials linked to guided inquiry computer exercises. There
are four modules: stratospheric ozone, global land vegetation,
oceanography, and polar sea ice processes. Each module contains
background material and classroom and computer lab resources. The
classroom resources are presented as electronic textbooks or lectures.
The computer lab materials contain public domain software for data
display and analysis (for both Macs and PCs), tutorials, satellite data,
and computer exercises for students. An Instructor's Guide accompanies
the exercises for each module.
http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/SEES/index.html
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6) MASS WASTING ANIMATIONS: variety of sources, find a several mass
wasting animations including slumps, earthflows, and rock falls.
http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi/links.asp?mc=Other%20Resource%20Links&cad=Earth%20Science%20Animations&to=276&tod=Mass%20Wasting%20Animations
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7) GOOD READ: NY Times, With Great Beer, It's All in the Rocks (and That
Doesn't Mean Ice) Read how beer and geology and intertwined.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/science/14beer.html?ex=1106802000&en=c5d81e24ee95c706&ei=5070
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8) GOOD QUOTE: (suggested by Virginia Malone, Hondo, TX) "Discovery is
to see what everyone else has seen, but to think what no one else has
thought." --- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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These links are archived at RESOURCES FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY
INSTRUCTION at http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi . The links are organized
around the sequence of topics typically taught in an introductory earth
science or physical geography class. Links are also, available for
environmental science, earth science/geography education, career
opportunities, and more. The sites selected are based on image quality,
ease with which lesson plans can be developed, organization,
authenticity, scope, and format. Please contact me at
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