Earth Motion3: Our Changing Earth Hotlist
General
Geology.com
http://geology.com/
Geology News (Updated daily)
http://geology.com/news/
Lesson Plans
Teaching Plate Tectonics with Easy-to-Draw Illustrations
http://geology.com/nsta/
Layers of the Earth
Earth’s Internal Structure Diagrams and animations
http://geology.com/nsta/earth-internal-structure.shtml
Plate Tectonics
Divergent Plate Boundaries
http://geology.com/nsta/divergent-plate-boundaries.shtml
Earth Floor: Plate Tectonics — Convergent Plates
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates2.html
Earth’s Plates and Continental Drift Animation of the moving of the plates and much more.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml
Geology: Plate Tectonics Animation of how continents were joined (Pangaea) and how they moved apart to where they are today
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html
Giant Fossil Found in Madagascar
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/headline_universe/olpa/frog_20feb08.html
Lithosphere
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=lithosphere
Newly Found Rock May Prove Antarctica and North America Were Connected
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/headline_universe/olpa/antarcticrock_17july08.html
Ocean Trenches
http://www.enotes.com/earth-science/ocean-trenches
Pangea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
Plate Tectonics
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/interior/plate_tectonics.html
Plate Tectonics
http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/pt/plate/2/ptpt2_1a.html
Plate Tectonics: Pangea Continent Maps Gives maps showing the stages of the movement of the plates
http://geology.com/pangea.htm
Plate Tectonics: The Rocky History of an Idea — This is difficult reading, but has good information
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/techist.html
Plate Tectonics Map — Plate Boundary Map Takes a long time to load
http://geology.com/plate-tectonics.shtml
Plate Tectonics Cycle: Earth’s Moving Force Lessons for grades K-6 on earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics and hazards
http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/pt/index.html
Science Odyssey: You Try It Uses a boiled egg as a metaphor of the earth
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/
Subduction
http://geology.com/nsta/convergent-plate-boundaries.shtml
Transform Plate Boundaries
http://geology.com/nsta/transform-plate-boundaries.shtml
Types of Plates
Understanding Plate Motion
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
Forces of Nature
Forces of Nature (National Geographic) Information and interactives about volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes and tornados
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/index.html?section=v
USGA: Ring of Fire, Plate Tectonics, Sea-floor Spreading, Subduction Zones and Hot Spots
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/description_plate_tectonics.html
Earthquakes
How Earthquakes Work
http://science.howstuffworks.com/earthquake.htm
Earthquakes for Kids — Games, information and more
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/
Kidipedi: Earthquakes
http://www.historyforkids.org/scienceforkids/geology/earthquakes/index.htm
The Science of Earthquakes
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/eqscience.php
WeatherWiz Kids: Earthquakes — Has an animation of an earthquake
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-earthquake.htm
Volcanoes
Hot Spots and the Ring of Fire: Map
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/map_plate_tectonics_world.html
Impact and Effects
http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/english.html
Photo Gallery: Volcanoes
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Home.html
Ring of Fire
http://www.crystalinks.com/rof.html
Ring of Fire
http://geography.about.com/cs/earthquakes/a/ringoffire.htm
Volcanoes
http://42explore.com/volcano.htm
Volcanoes: FEMA
http://www.fema.gov/kids/volcano.htm
Volcanoes Online Clear explanations
http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/english.html
Volcano World — Facts games and more
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/kids/index.html
What is a Volcano?
http://wwww.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/index.html?section=v
What Is the Ring of Fire?
http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzringoffire.htm
Transfer of Energy
The Atoms Family Lesson plans with cute format. (Grades 4-8)
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/
Convection, Conduction, Radiation Short explanation
http://www.mansfieldct.org/schools/mms/staff/hand/convcondrad.htm
Heat Energy and Efficiency Short explanation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/energy/heatrev1.shtml
Quia — Heat Game
http://www.quia.com/pop/10875.html
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