ESST1 - Course Links Page - Summer 2007
Here you will find links for the Summer Institute - 2007
Websites | Excel | Carbon Cycle | Class Presentations | Other Resources
Website Links
Curriculum Links
- Oobleck
- For cemetery research (including tombstone weathering) | More cemetery research
- Hands on weathering activities
- Water cycle game
- Bottle Biology
- UNH COOA Lesson Plans
- MBARI - Earth Unit Plans
Animations
Education and Research
- Real climate blog website - hosted by real climate research scientists with the goal of responding to recent research findings and media coverage.
- Teaching Science Through Inquiry (an ERIC Digest)
- Newmann, Marks and Gamoran (19/96). Authentic Pedagogy and Student Performance
- Teaching Tips: Inquiry based learning
Resources
- Mauna Loa Observatory -- includes access to the data on CO2
- 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).
- Kid friendly carbon footprint book
- Madison Boulder website
- Maps index
- Download USGS topo maps
- Geology of Niagra Falls
- Christa McAuliffe Planetarium
- National Science Education Standards
- MSNBC Climate Change links -- scroll down and look on the right for more interactive links.
- NPR Series on Climate Change | More NPR Climate Connections Series
- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Top Tens
(scroll down for Top Ten Data sets, which includes information about Mauna Loa CO2 data) - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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 David Brown
Professor Julie Bryce
- Solar System Notes
- Spectrometry Activity
- Radioactivity Activity
- Terrestrial and Giant Planet Notes
- Deep Earth Cycles Notes
- Weathering Notes
- Introduction to River and Glacial erosional feature notes
- The Topographic Map exercise and information
- Spectrometer Instructions
Professor Tanya Furman
- Rocks and Minerals
- Hawaii & Indonesia Activity
- Plate Tectonics Introduction
- Land Forms
- Geologic Time
Professor Laura Guertin
Professor Joel Johnson
Professor Ruth Varner
Professor Karen Von Damm
- Class Presentation
- Conductivity, Temperature and Depth Image 1
- Conductivity, Temperature and Depth Image 2
Other Resources
- Core Sampler (submitted by Peter Cady)