Sunday, February 28, 2010

Volcanoes

Print one of the following maps to complete the activity on page 220

Maps of the World

http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-maps/world-map-with-latitude-and-longitude.html

National Geographic Maps

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/xpeditions/atlas/

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/moremaps.htm


Sunday, February 7, 2010

Earthquakes and Seismic Waves

Directions:
Go to the sites below. Do the activities, look at the pictures, and read some. Afterward, write or type your opinion in at least five sentences. Think about what you liked and didn't like. Also, write down at least three questions you can ask to deepen what you've learned.

Observe Animations of Earthquakes!
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es1002/es1002page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization

Other Animations

http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es1009/es1009page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization


Go to the textbook links for other activities

http://www.phschool.com/

Use the following codes for:

Seismic Waves activity: cfp-1022
Earthquake measurement: scn-1023
Earth quake risk: cfd-1024
For seismic safe buildings: cfh-1020

Prentice Hall Online Links

http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=cwk&wcsuffix=9999

Mighty Mighty Wave Maker

http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/seismic/index.htm

Seismic Wave Activity
Directions:
http://www.data.scec.org/Module/s3act02a.html

Activity
http://www.data.scec.org/Module/s3act02b.html

Pictures of waves
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/seismic-waves.html

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Earthquake sites!

Check out this earthquake simulator!

It's on Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/earthquake/interactive/interactive.html

See the effects of Haiti's Earthquake on this Newsweek site

http://www.newsweek.com/id/230578?digg=1


Earthquakes for Kids from the USGS
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/


Test yourself in earthquake preparedness
http://www.pe.com/reports/quake/misc/quake2/

Beat the Quake!
http://www.dropcoverholdon.org/beatthequake/game/

San Andreas Fault Interactive
http://www.thulescientific.com/san-andreas-fault-map.html

Earthquakes for Kids from the USGS
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/

Monday, January 25, 2010

Plate Tectonics

Plate tectonics

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/

http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/drift3.html

http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/plate.html

http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/plate2.html

Continental Drift Activity

http://www.phschool.com/

Code cfp-1015

layers of the earth

There are additional links on this blog- scroll down

http://sciencemslee.blogspot.com/


Make Beliefs Comix
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Read Write Think

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/