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Educational program using the Adirondack mountains. Includes areas for contributing data, reporting events, discussing observations, and learning from findings.
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Welcome to the Online Citizen Science Base Camp A program to involve everyone in the scientific process: contributing data, reporting events, discussing observations, and learning from THE findings. Adirondack Natural History Adirondack Cooperative Loon Program Weather in the Adirondacks Natural Science Gallery Discussion Area New York River Otter...An educational on-line magazine describing discoveries in planetary and space sciences. Written for teachers, students, and the general public.
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Planetary Science Research Discoveries PSRD Planetary scientists sharing ideas and discoveries. Planetary Science Research Discoveries (PSRD) is an educational site sharing the latest research on meteorites, planets, and other solar system bodies being made by NASA-sponsored scientists. The web site is supported by the Cosmochemistry...Educational earth science resources and software produced by Rice University in collaboration with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, funded by NASA under the Office of Earth Science
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Museums Teaching Planet Earth ...Collections of recent articles on topics related to the science of planet Earth. From AGU.
http://earth.agu.org/sci_soc/everyone.html
A division of the Office of Special Programs and Continuing Education at the Colorado School of Mines. The ESRC publishes relevant science-related materials.
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Special Programs Continuing Education K-12 Outreach Programs C publishes relevant science-related materials. Several publications are currently available, including: Conference proceedings proceedings from previous conferences held both at CSM and around the nation. K-12 publications activities for classroom teachers and other special interest publications. Special K-12 classroom aids...Basic earth statistics from the NSSDC.
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Earth Fact Sheet Number of natural satellites 1 Planetary ring system No Orbital parameters Semimajor axis (106 km) 149.60 Sidereal orbit period (days) 365.256 Tropical orbit period (days) 365.242 Perihelion (106 km) 147.09 Aphelion (106 km) 152.10 Mean orbital velocity (km/s) 29.78 Max....U.S.Geological Survey site links to reports showing how chemists and geologists use analytical chemistry to study earth science questions.
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Fast Start Version of Understanding our Planet Through Chemistry Survey site shows how chemists and geologists use analytical chemistry to: determine the age of the Earth; show an extraterrestrial body collided with the Earth; predict volcanic eruptions; observe atmospheric change over millions of years; and document damage by acid...Survey of geoscience research students, focusing on the quality of supervision and problem areas experienced by students doing their research.
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Geology Postgraduate Research Supervision Survey Most of the data analysis has now been completed, and the initial report prepared. I will make some results from the survey available on this web site soon, including an interactive component allowing visitors to create their own graphs from...Earth science for schools including the rock cycle, plate tectonics, planetary structure and origins, volcanoes, atmosphere, fossil fuels and polymers.
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Earth Science for Schools from Moorland School, Plate tectonics, Earth history Click here for a huge selection of science web sites 149;The Rock Cycle 149;Plate Tectonics 149;Earth Structure 149;Earth Origin 149;Volcanoes 149;Earth's Atmosphere 149;Fossil Fuels 149;Polymers 149;home Moorland School Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 2AJ England email...Earth science information for both teachers and students. Glossary, lesson plans, extensive links, lists of topics, and other resources.
http://earthnet.bio.ns.ca/
Goal is to work for the improvement of education within the earth science fields, especially in K-12 grades. Page includes newsletters and conference schedule.
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International Geoscience Education Organisation The aims of the International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO) are to promote geoscience education internationally at all levels, to work for enhancement of the quality of geoscience education internationally and to encourage developments raising public awareness of geoscience, particularly amongst...Earth science information for both teachers and students. Glossary, lesson plans, extensive links, lists of topics, and other resources.
http://earthnet-geonet.ca/