ESST - Course Links Page - Summer 2008
Here you will find links for the Summer Institute - 2008
This site is being updated during the Summer Institute - July 20 - August 1, 2008.
Inquiry | Websites | Excel | Carbon Cycle | Class Presentations | Other Resources | ESST2
Inquiry-based Teaching Resources
Website Links
- Exploratorium
- NH Geology - geared for students and teachers
Recommended Reading
Curriculum Links
- Science Education Research Center -- resources for teaching Earth System Science
- Digital Library of Earth Science Education (DLESE)
- Gulf of Maine as Seen from Sapce (links page)
Rocks Links
Resources
- Mt. Washington - Look under weather for data on temperature, precipitation, wind speed etc. for the current day and for past months (past data is available in pdf files).
- Madison Boulder website
- Maps index
- Download USGS topo maps
- National Science Education Standards
ESST Teacher - Resources
Excel Practice
Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
- climate check - Climate Check is the EPA's carbon emissions inventory tool for schools.
It is a fantastic tool in the level of detail that it brings to the
process--it is as good as most professional tools that exist. You will need to download the excel program contained in item #2. Make
sure that you follow instructions precisely, especially those for enabling
macros.
- Using EOS-Webster data 1 |
Using EOS-Webster data 2
Use the EOS-Webster site to access climate modeling prediction data. The accompanying documents walk you through the process of downloading and "cleaning," and graphing the data. - Carbon Wedge Game - This game relates to the Socolow wedges that were mentioned in both Field Notes from a Catastrophe and An Inconvenient Truth. The game looks to be most appropriate for high school students.
Class Presentations
Professor Julie Bryce
- Google Earth, Moon and Mars
- Mt. Washington Topographic Maps
- Cycles
- Time Tectonics
- Earth Science links
- Rock and Mineral Kits - Inventory Sheet
- Radioactivity
- Rock Dice
Professor Liza Finkel
- Essential Features of Inquiry
- Is it Inquiry-based?
- Inquiry example 1
- Inquiry example 2
- Mt. Washington assignment
- Mt. Washinton rubric
- Estuary Cruise assignment
- Estuary Cruise rubric
- Final assignment
- Final assignement rubric
Professor Joel Johnson
- Tectonic Timescales (ppt)
- Glacial-Interglacial Timescales (ppt)
- Maps, Timescales, and Earth Processes Activity
- Geologic Map of New Hampshire
- Why does plate tectonics occur only on Earth?
- Maps, Timescales, and Earth's Processes - Activity
- Geological and Geomorphological Processes in the Great Bay Estuary
- Land to Ocean Transition
Estuary Charts
Professor Ruth Varner
Eric Kelsey
Jill McDermott
- Temperature Averages for the Gulf of Maine
- Timescales of Change in the Coastal Ocean
- Gulf of Maine as Seen from Sapce (links page)
Other Resources
- A River Ran Wild - A book about the Nashua River - recommended by ESST1 participant Stephanie Ward
ESST2 - course materials
Recommended Readings
- Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Sedimentary Trace Metal Concentrations in Mid-Coast Maine
- Sediment geochemistry of Jeffreys Basin, Gulf of Maine
- The Biogeochemistry of Sediments in Two Gulf of Maine Basins
- An Inexpensive Titration Method for the Determination of Organic Carbon in Recent Sediments
- Minor Elements in Sediments of Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire