NASA Glenn Center

This is another great example of your tax dollars at work. Aside from videoconferencing opportunities, there are all sorts of animations and other great classroom activities available at this site, named after John Glenn

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/education/index.html

A Field Guide to The Geology of the NYC Region

From Hofstra University, this comprehensive guide will take you from Long Island to the wilds of NJ

Hofstra NYC Regional Geology Field Guide

G-116 Our Planet and its Future

This is a great interactive intro geology course!!!

An Introductory Geology Course Course for Non-science Majors

Professor Jeremy Dunning dunning@indiana.edu

Winner of the UCEA Distinguished Course Award*

*Given each year to the best distance or technology-mediated course in the U.S

G-116 at Indiana U

A Great Earth Science Resource

There is a gentleman at Cochise College who has posted an amazing website that is just a goldmine of information and images. His name is Roger Weller, and he has made all of this available for educational use.

Cochise College Geology

The Dynamic Earth

This link is to a site that covers quite a lot of information in a very visual form....specifically Plate Tectonics, Minerals and Rocks, and the Solar System. The GeoGallery section has great pictures and a lot of information about rocks and minerals, and the Gem section has some REALLY beautiful stuff, as well as information about how gemstones are cut. It is posted by the Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution...your tax dollars at work!

The Dynamic Earth

Locating Earthquake Epicenters

This site has an activity where you read the P-S wave time differences and use the information to locate the epicenter of an earthquake. You can also determine the magnitude of the quake.
Virtual Earthquake

Rock and Mineral Catalog

This site, sponsored by Cochise college, has a great collection of mineral and rock photos, as well as a discussion of identification properties.



Chochise College Virtual Geology Museum

Age of Atlantic Ocean-Interactive

This is a great activity to use in understanding the relatively recent formation of the Atlantic Ocean.


http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0802/es0802page01.cfm

Lesson Plans On Line From NOAA

Here is a lesson plan related to Plate Tectonics and Physical Science . It deals with the relationships between pressure and phase change as related to how volcanoes form at subducting plates. There are many other great resources at the NOAA site.


http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05fire/background/edu/media/rof05_gas.pdf