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Earth & Environment Classroom Resources
This collection of lessons and web resources is aimed at classroom teachers, their students, and students’ families. Most of these resources come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). NSDL is the National Science Foundation’s online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. See www.nsdl.org
Base Camp Earth
http://basecampearth.org/
This Web site aims to help teachers teach about dynamic "headline science" in such areas as extremophiles, infectious diseases and ecological footprints.
Science Education Resource Center
http://serc.carleton.edu
This site works to improve undergraduate science education through projects that focus on supporting faculty. It offers special expertise, through an office of Carlton College, in geoscience education, community organization, workshop leadership, digital libraries and Web site development.
Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence
http://www.cosee.net
The Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence network promotes a better understanding of the key role the ocean plays in global environmental cycles and processes; highlights contributions by ocean-science researchers to scientific knowledge.
International Year of the Ocean
http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/
Created for the International Year of the Ocean (YOTO) in 1998, this site was created to help raise public awareness and understanding of the ocean and related issues.
Geography4Kids
http://www.geography4kids.com
This site offers an introduction to the earth sciences that includes topics on the Earth's structure, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. Not just for kids.
TryScience
http://www.tryscience.org
TryScience.org is your gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through online/offline interactivities with science and technology centers worldwide.
Web Weather for Kids
http://www.eo.ucar.edu/webweather/
Learn what makes weather wet and wild, do cool activities and become hot at forecasting the weather.
The EnviroLink Network
http://envirolink.org
Provides access to thousands of online environmental resources including comprehensive, up-to-date environmental information and news.
Triumph of Life
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/triumphoflife
Maintained by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), the Web companion to a six-part miniseries that examines how evolution has shaped the existence on our planet.
Environmental Kids Club
http://www.epa.gov/kids/
Get ready to explore your environment and learn about neat things you can do to protect it.
SIOExplorer
http://nsdl.sdsc.edu
K through grey users explore Scripps' voyages that bring the human side of oceanography to life.
Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE)
http://www.earth.nasa.gov/flash_top.html
Describes NASA's exploration of the Earth; helps scientists discover climatic patterns that will allow them to predict and respond to environmental events; "For Kids Only" page lets kids send a satellite image e-postcard.
Exploring Earth: Explore the World of Earth Science
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/home.cfm
Provides investigations and visualizations of earth science topics, with sections focused on
careers, data and local resources. Students can interact with the investigations and
visualizations through features such as clickable animations and images.
Teaching Earth Science
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/education/index.html
Outlines policies and procedures of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise section and provides links to earth science resources on the Web.
Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/
Color-enhanced satellite images of the Earth and the Moon. View a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at that particular moment; view the Earth from the Sun and from the Moon; and view the night side of the Earth.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov
Home page of the EPA, which aims to educate users about and increase their awareness of the environment.
Chemicals, the Environment and You
http://science-education.nih.gov/supplements/nih2/chemicals/default.htm
Online learning module for grades 7-8 that helps students learn how chemicals in the environment affect human health and how scientists can understand that relationship.
Avalanche! Slip Sliding Away
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2418_avalanch.html
This activity will help students in their understanding of the complexities of snowpack formation and use this data to make predictions about how particular slopes might behave. The kind of snow, the incline of the slope and the terrain all play a role in when and where avalanches will occur.
Life on Earth
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/features/index.html
Describes how NASA's aeronautics and environmental research has helped improve life on Earth; features sections on everyday life, the environment, living things and new technologies, as well as improving flight.
Earth & Environment Research Overview
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