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Exploring the Environment™ (ETE) is a series of interdisciplinary, problem-based learning (PBL) modules for high school students. The project engages student teams in addressing real-world problems related to weather, population growth, biodiversity, land use patterns, volcanoes, water pollution, and global warming. Teams analyze remotely-sensed satellite images to come up with solutions to open-ended earth science problems--problems that real scientists are working on today in much the same fashion. In this module, students are asked to track and predict landfall of the next hurricane to threaten the United States. Grade level: K-College. LINK >> |
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Extremophiles Microorganisms in Kamchatka Hot Springs. Follow scientists in this excellent interactive website looking for life in the seemingly hostile hot springs of the Russian Far East. There are four units to explore: getting to Kamchatka by helicopter, following the scientists into the laboratory to collect data, find out why these studies help us understand the first signs of life on Earth, and find out how microbes leave their mark for millenia. Maps, video, slideshows, and activities included. Requires Flash plug-in. [Source: Exploratorium (NASA/NSF/Moore)] Grade level: LINK >>
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As part of a high school course on astronomy, Newtonian mechanics, and spaceflight by Dr. David P. Stern, this webpage chapter explores the link between the tilt of the Earth's axis to the ecliptic and seasons of the year -- length of day, effectiveness of sunlight, polar day and night, and seasons south and north of the equator, as well as near it. Dr. Stern describes his website as a home page of a book-on-the-web, a coherent, self-contained course at the high-school level, also suitable for independent study, rich in history. Sections of Seasons of the Year include: Goals, Terms, Guiding questions, and Educators' Lesson Plans. Other chapters of interest for Educators include The Path of the Sun, the Ecliptic and The Sundial Grade level: 9-College. LINK >>
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A case study describing how Jennifer (Jenn) Bowdoin, a first-year teacher and science faculty member at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, uses the COSEE-OS multimedia tools to introduce the complex topics of global warming and climate change to her students. MORE >>
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Huntoon, J., Peach, C., & Hopkins, J. (2005). Geoscience Education and Diversity: Vision for the Future and Strategies for Success - Report of the 2nd Geoscience Education Working Group.
The second Geoscience Education Working Group's report that includes a discussion of the overall status of the of the geoscience education and diversity community, recommendations for how the community can best promote improvements in geoscience education, and a set of strategies for strengthening geoscience education and diversity programs. DOWNLOAD (313 KB) >>
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