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The GLOBE Program, Earth System Resources, animations of solar energy, average temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, soil moisture, vegetation

Animations corresponding with textbooks Earth: Portrait of a Planet and Geology in the News with Understanding Earth.

Animations corresponding with textbook Essentials of Geology.  Worth viewing are the animations for "What a Geologist Sees."

Animations appropriate for Geology 101

This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics, a U.S. Geological Survey online publication


The Introductory Geoscience Virtual Textbook, This resource represents an online reader and reference specifically designed to accompany an introductory geoscience course at the undergraduate level. It was compiled as a subset from the vast resources available online through DLESE.


The Physical Environment: An Introduction to Physical Geography, online physical geography textbook by Michael E. Ritter


Fundamentals of Physical Geography, an online physical geography textbook


Earth Science World Image Bank - The Earth Science World Image Bank is a service provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI). This Image Bank is designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.

Living On Earth - Living on Earth is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. Every week, Public Radio stations broadcast Living on Earth's news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.


Podcasts from National Geographic - Download the latest nature and science news, eye-opening photography, audio travel guides, classic video clips, world music coverage, and wild animal adventures with National Geographic's free podcasts. Be sure to check out additional podcasts at National Geographic News Podcasts


National Public Radio (NPR) - Health and Science news stories


Pulse of the Planet - Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides its listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound.


The NEST Project - NASA Earth Science for Teachers - a series of podcasts created by geology faculty at San Jose State University.  Current topics posted on the website include plate tectonics, water, and Earth's climate system.

National Geographic Video - Videos connected to National Geographic stories and news coverage relating to animals, daily news, environment, kids, music, people & places, science & space, and specials. Additional videos are in the library for the National Geographic Channel.


PBS - NOVA - Select NOVA programs are available to watch online, divided conveniently into chapters and closed captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers. There are also videos online for additional PBS programming, such as NOVA scienceNOW, Nature, and Scientific American Frontiers.


Research Channel - One of the founding goals is to lead the development and testing of new technological applications that enable institutions to exchange and distribute rich-media resources on an unmediated global scale -- using next-generation technologies, at any bandwidth, and in all forms and formats.


ScienCentralNews - ScienCentral is an independent source for science videos and the latest technology and science news. The stories and science videos appear on local TV newscasts, but can be viewed here, too - along with in-depth information to help you dig deeper.


Annenberg Video - www.learner.org - Online streaming videos appropriate for teacher develop and student learning across K-12 and university and adult learners.


HowStuffWorks Video Center and TeacherTube
YouTube - Earth Magazine, Scientific American, Discovery Channel


Cassiopeia Project - Online videos in chemistry, physics, biology, and general science that can be downloaded and edited for classroom use or viewed in their entirety online.


EARTHTIME - A source of lesson plans about the history of the Earth and radiometric dating for all age-groups. The lesson plans were developed by MIT and the Denver National History museum. You can go to the "Education overview" link to choose between posters, videos and curricula/lesson plans for 5-8 grades, 9-10 grade and 10-12 grades. You will also find time scales and other material to work with.


EARTH Magazine VideoCast - These videocasts cover current geologic news, including natural disasters, current research and public policy affecting the geosciences.  Anchored by staff writers of the magazine, the videocasts supplement EARTH's regular Earth science news items throughout the month.  In addition to the videos on the magainze's website, be sure to check out the larger video collection they maintain in YouTube.


Videos on Earth Science/Geoscience Careers

An outstanding video put together by the American Geological Institute, Why Earth Science?

The Geological Society of America has recently been featured in a National Environmental Report video targeting the environment industry and consumers in order to highlight issues that impact the environment and how organizations like GSA are playing a key role in finding solutions. VIDEO - The Importance of Geoscience Careers.

Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) - The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels. DLESE resources include electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much more.


Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) - MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.


The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) - The National Science Digital Library was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.


Teachers' Domain - Featuring public television content, Teachers' Domain provides multimedia classroom resources and professional development courses to K-12 educators.


Real-Time Data Sets - Many of the CISES classroom projects use realtime data sites that are difficult to find. This webpage contains links to some of the most compelling Internet web sites for educational use. These include a host of sites that have real time weather, air, water, and satellite information that will enhance traditional classroom lessons.

National Geographic
    Xpeditions - Lesson plans, activities, maps
    Seas - Oceans for life, classroom ideas, resources and links
    MyWonderfulWorld

Library of Congress - The Teachers Page
     Nature and the Environment themed resource
     Science and Invention themed resource
     Geography and Maps themed resource