Earth 2 Class

Core/Mantle Studies

Core & Mantle Studies—Selected Resources

IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) Consortium homepage:

http://www.iris.edu/

For the complete text and images of Paul G. Richards’s Jeffreys Lecture:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/Jefflec.html

Interesting information and animations from Monash University, Australia:

http://www.earth.monash.edu.au/OpenDay/

On-line feature about modeling mantle convection by Paul Tackley of UCLA:

http://www.npaci.edu/enVision/v14.2/tackley.html

Some interesting ideas for hands-on activities and assessments:

http://www.math.montana.edu/~nmp/materials/ess/geosphere/index.html

For an example of how these and related concepts are presented in a museum:

http://www.amnh.org/rose/hope/highlts/welcm.htm

Volcano World’s lesson about “The Earth’s Layers”

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Earths_layers/Earths_layers1.html

Southern California Earthquake Center home page:

http://www.scec.org/

National Geophysical Data Center home page:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

U.S. Geological Survey home page:

WebQuest Resources

Their are two great tutorials you can take on line made just for teachers... see:

http://www.webteacher.org/winexp/indextc.html

http://www.teachersweb.com/training/search/index.htm

Tips on Searching (Boolean style)

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/WebQuest/searching/sevensteps.html

About Search Engines

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/liberty/workshop/searching.html

And How To Cite What You Find:

http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm

Homework assignment: Go to the following links and search for a WebQuest on a topic you may be teaching either now or in the near future. If you're lucky enough to find one, the challenge for the New Year is to try it out with your students, so you get the feel for how to use a WebQuest in the classroom. Let us know how it went. We'll save time in the next workshop for you.

Also, feel free to send your impressions to cristiana@baggio.com . Your experience is what allows us to grow together and build a better workshop and website for you.

Places to look for WebQuests: (taken from Dr. Susan Lowe's WebQuest agenda that we looked at in the link above)

Here is a matrix of WebQuest example that Bernie Dodge has collected, organized by grade level:

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html

Here is a set created by a group of teachers last summer:

http://www.tttc.org/
[Click on Summer 2000 Webquests]

Here is a set created by participants in a project in San Diego:

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/
[Click on Featured Webquests]

And here is a set collected by a professor at ASU:

http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/wqmatrix.html

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