ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
I. BUILDING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY
(Kiev)
Multimap
Latitude and longitude available from the
bottom of the map.
High quality map delivery based in London,
with centers in Australia and US.
Offers aerial images with map overlays. Take screen shots of your area!
(Milan region)
Map machine
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
A variety of maps (physical, geographical,
satellite and thematic) are available. Again, capture with screenshots in your
local computer. Maps can be sent to email addresses.
II. EXPLORING LIFE AT OUR STUDY SITE
The World's Biomes
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/index.php
Major biomes are described, illustrated, and
linked to subdivisions. Key characteristics are listed.
Earth Trends (World Resources
Institute - WRI)
http://earthtrends.wri.org/maps_spatial/watersheds/index.php
Pick your region and
compare with yours on a dimension (e.g. amount of forest, amount of built urban
landscape, amount of cropland, population density, number of fish species,
number amphibian species
http://earthtrends.wri.org/maps_spatial/index.php?theme=7
See maps of, for
example, Ecoregions in this large map collection.
Fun with Maps: Map Wizard
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/fun/map.asp
US -centric, but
interesting dynamic maps of wildlife spread.
e.g.,
spread of Zebra mussels:
http://nationalatlas.gov/dynamic/dyn_zm.html
III. SIGNALING SEEDS
Bottle Biology
The best known of the
US's National Science Foundation's-sponsored growing projects. Project has
extensive curriculum and research strategies requiring the simplest low-cost
materials.
Growing
a School Organic Garden
http://www.championtrees.org/Goff/History.htm
Inspiring record of
school's creation of an organic garden, including soil replenishment. This strategy could be coupled with
seed preservation.
Agripedia – Seed
Identification
http://www.ca.uky.edu/agripedia/agmania/seedid/
Basic seed
identification for beans, grasses, vegetables and weeds.
IV. DOWN THE SCALES TO MOLECULES
Nanoscale Education
http://ced.ncsu.edu/nanoscale/
Includes extensive web
links on scale:
http://ced.ncsu.edu/nanoscale/scale.htm
Molecular
Expressions
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery.html
This brilliant site
relates the history of optics with the discoveries enabled by the microscopes.
It includes a Powers of Ten
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
and Levels of
Magnification.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/virtual/magnifying/index.html
V. EARTH HISTORY RECORDED IN ROCKS
Schoolyard Geology
(USGS)
http://education.usgs.gov/schoolyard/index.html
Detection of rock history in one's schoolyard,
e.g. glacial striations, fossils, erosion.
Rock Stories
http://education.usgs.gov/schoolyard/RockActivity.html
Rocks and Images, includes information
on the three types of rocks.
http://geology.usgs.gov/index.htm
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/explorer/topic_rocks.htm
American Geology
Institute
http://www.agiweb.org/geoeducation.html
This is a rich site with many curricula for
earth science (ex. http://www.agiweb.org/ies/) and maps
(http://www.agiweb.org/education/ies/maps.html)
Growing Crystals
http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/u/scienceprojects.htm#s3
Practical steps on
growing crystals
University of
California Museum of Paleontology
Field notes from
paleontologists in process of working, a huge set of exhibit related materials,
a mystery fossil of the month.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/index.php
VI.
THE GL SNAPSHOT (SPRING)
Angle
of the Sun
http://www.waukesha.k12.wi.us/South/EarthScience/AngleOfTheSun/AngleOfTheSun.shtml
Includes calculator
Sun Lab review and
links
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature104.shtml
One teacher's
innovative way to engage students in sun measurement.
Project
Budburst
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/
A site in which all can contribute
their findings related to timing of the seasons as measured by the timing of
bud opening.
VII. YOUR STUDY SITE IN TIME
National Geographic Time Line includes the breaking
apart of the early large continents.
Viewers can see the early forms of life in 3D.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/seamonsters/timeline/index.html#introduction
V
Virtual Dig
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/seamonsters/virtualdig/index.html
Uncover fossils using the tools of
paleontologists, hammers, picks and brushes.
Atlas of the Human Community
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html
Study the migration of humans and the trail of
genes.
