Mrs. Adams' Classroom Blog: 2007

Monday, December 10, 2007

Mineral Websites

Below is a list of exciting and informative Mineral Websites. Make sure you take notes as you come across information you'd like to include in your presentation!

Mineral Gallery
http://mineral.galleries.com/

The Mineral Kingdom
http://www.minerals.net/

Pictures of Minerals
http://www.theimage.com/mineral/index.htm

San Diego Natural History Museum Minerals
www.sdnhm.org/fieldguide/minerals/index.html

Mineral List of Links
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/rocks.html

Mineral Database
http://web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral/index.htm

Mineral Town
www.mineraltown.com

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

GLOBAL WARMING INTERNET GUIDE

Global Warming General Information

Background Information by by US Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basicinfo.html

Background Information by National Climatic Data Center: US Dept of Commerce
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

Background Information SGW; non profit site
http://www.climatecrisis.net/thescience/

Global Warming and Greenhouse Overview in an interactive slideshow format Geoscience Research Division:UC San Diego
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/greenhouse/

An Interactive Guide to understanding Global Warming by Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream
http://www.lickglobalwarming.org/educate.cfm

Facts, Information, Tips and How to Help by Global Green USA Environmental Organization
http://www.globalgreen.org/programs/climate/index.html

Get Fired Up About Global Warming!: how-to tips, information
http://www.care2.com/globalwarming

Scientific Facts with colorful, easy to read maps on Global Warming
http://www.greenfacts.org/climate-change/global-warming/global-warming.htm

Global Warming Animations specifically for Kids in an easy-to-understand, colorful format US Environmental Protection Agency
http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/animations.html

Global Warming Information, causes and scientific pictures of impact by NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_worldbook.html

Lesson Plan Ideas and Activities

Headline Earth Podcasts AccuWeather: The World’s Weather Authority
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/global-warming/headline-earth.asp?
partner=accuweather&traveler=0

Online Tutorial: Global Warming Facts and our Future sponsored by National Academy of Sciences; Washington DC
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/predicted02activity.jsp

Personal Emissions Calculator offered by the US Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html

Human Impacts and Responses guide to many activities and lessons for teachers, Association of American Geographers; sponsored by Pearson Prentice Hall
http://www.aag.org/HDGC/www/intro/units/unit4/html/4actguide.html#act41

Environet : Informational Articles
http://environet.policy.net/warming/

Google for Educators Top 50 Ideas to help our environment by Global School net
http://www.google.com/educators/globalwarming_results.html

Focus on the Future: eye catching pictures and slideshows by NASA
http://globalwarming.enviroweb.org/

Climate Change: problems, solutions and what you can do to help solve global warming presented by World Wildlife Federation
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/index.cfm

Online Radio Show in Real Video by the Mount Washington Observatory and National Science Foundation
http://www.weathernotebook.org/

http://www.weathernotebook.org/transcripts/1999/11/05.html

Interactive Slideshow: Dimming the Sun by PBS and NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/dimming.html

PBS and NOVA Dimming the Sun: Video and Lesson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/viewing/3310_sun.html

A Growing Concern: Watch video clips and explain how global warming is impacting our earth
Union of Concerned Scientists; non-profit science organization in association with MIT:
http://www.climatechoices.org/impacts_agriculture/index.html

Greenhouse Gas Lab by National Academy of Sciences; Washington DC
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/teachers/postvgw-act008.jsp

Comprehensive Unit with lessons by WGBH, PBS and NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/now/classroom/globalwarming.html

Write a letter to President Bush!
Tell President Bush it’s Time to Get Serious! Sponsored by Sierra Club Environmental Organization
https://secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/Advocacy?
JServSessionIdr005=abtrfjmwu2.app13b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=181

Send a letter to Congress! Through Save our Environment.org
http://ga3.org/campaign/GlobalWarming

Interactive and Animated Climate Map
http://www.lickglobalwarming.org/map.cfm

Look at Digital Images in the Multimedia Gallery and describe how related to global warming by National Center for Atmospheric Research
http://www.ucar.edu/news/features/climatechange/multimedia.jsp

Building Green: How to build environmentally friendly homes and structures
http://www.abcnews.go.com/images/GMA/01_what_is_green_building.pdf

Global Warming Virtual March: how to stop global warming
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/

Climate Hot Map: Lesson Activity and Map Skills Lesson Plan

http://www.climatehotmap.org/index.html

Curriculum Guide for Climate Impacts Map
http://www.climatehotmap.org/curriculum/index.html

Earth Friendly House Hunt, Time Magazine
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/games/white/0,9970,107748,00.html

What is your E.Q? by Time Magazine
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/games/white/0,9970,106964,00.html

Use the interactive map to find organic food grown closest to you! Through the Local Harvest Farming Group
www.LocalHarvest.org

The SUV report: How automobiles are impacting our climate
http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/SUVreport/

What’s Hot in Hollywood: Going Green!
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/GlobalWarming/story?id=2781681&page=2

Animals: Polar Bears: Is Extinction on the Horizon?
Teacher Webquest: http://teacherweb.com/PA/EastStroudsburgNorthHigh/
PolarBearsIsExtinctionontheHorizon/h3.stm

Videos and Games

Video: An Inconvenient Truth
www.climatecrisis.net

Memory Card Matching Game
http://www.lickglobalwarming.org/memory.cfm

What’s important: Global Warming short video clip
http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/whatsimportant/globalwarming_movie01.htm

Ben and Jerry’s Lick Global Warming Game!
http://www.lickglobalwarming.org/game.cfm

ABC News seven minute Video clip: What’s to blame for the warm weather?
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2772778

Temperature Puzzle
http://globalwarming.enviroweb.org/games/climpuzzle/index.html

20 Things YOU can do!
http://globalwarming.enviroweb.org/games/index.html

CO2FX
http://www.globalwarminginteractive.com/

Global Warming Games Site
http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/games/index.html

Great Green Web Game
http://go.ucsusa.org/game/

Test your global warming knowledge with a quiz!

http://www.redjellyfish.com/quiz/si-warmingquiz.html

Global Warming Drag and Drop Game

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/words/activities/global_warming02.html

Global Warming Games for Kids!

http://globalwarmingkids.net/

Monday, April 2, 2007

Earthquake Damage Worksheet

Earthquake Damage!

Study each of the slides located at the following address and complete the chart below.

The Slides begin with #2.
In the second column, make sure you include the city and state in which it occured.
For the fourth column, describe what you see happening and write "Structural Failure, Landshift, Landslide, Liquefaction, etc."

www.teachingboxes.org/earthquakes/lessons/lesson1_supplement/earthquakeDamage.pdf

Friday, March 30, 2007

Global Warming

We are going to begin a comprehensive unit on Global Warming. We are going to learn what it is, and what can we do about it.

Let's learn about what it is, first, here:

http://www.lickglobalwarming.org/educate.cfm

http://www.alligatorboogaloo.com/kids/features/globey/globey001.html

Follow Tiki the Penguin in this Global Warming Cartoon:

http://tiki.oneworld.net/global_warming/climate_home.html

Now, calculate your personal impact. Go to this website: http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/carboncalculator.cfm

Play some of the Global Warming games on this interactive website.

http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/games/index.html

Watch this animation of the greenhouse effect:

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/environment3.html

Check out Ben and Jerry's sponsored website, "Lick Global Warming"

http://www.lickglobalwarming.org/

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Create an Earthquake Safety Brochure!

Now that you know more about Earthquakes, it’s time for an extension activity!

You are working for the American Red Cross in San Francisco, CA. Your boss has asked you to create your own “Earthquake Safety” brochure to help inform people of what to do in an earthquake and how you should prepare. Your boss would like you to include at least 4 eye-catching, colorful pictures in your brochure. You must include the following information:

1. List those Emergency Supplies items every home should have
2. Describe what a Brief Family Safety plan is
3. Suggest the safest places to go indoors/outdoors
4. List the specific items or furniture that are considered hazardous in the home
5. Three things to do before an earthquake
6. Three things to do during an earthquake
7. Three things to do after an earthquake
8. Community Efforts (suggestions for how a community can prepare)

Use the following three reliable websites for research about what to do before, after and during an earthquake.

Red Cross Sponsored Website:

http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_583_,00.html

Federal Emergency Management Agency/US Department of Homeland Security:

http://www.fema.gov/hazard/earthquake/eq_before.shtm

USGS (US Geological Survey) Government Sponsored Website:

http://seagrant.uaf.edu/features/earthquake/reduce.html

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Earthquake Subject Sampler

Let's Learn about Earthquakes!

This is what we call a Subject Sampler within a Blog. A Blog is like a "Web Log" Take a minute and answer the following questions and browse around while you learn more about earthquakes! Answer each question on the handout that I gave you at the beginning of class!

1. What was the largest recorded earthquake in the world since 1900?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/10_largest_world.php

2. What is the epicenter of an earthquake?

http://www.4to40.com/qa/index.asp?id=954&category=science

3. Who were the two baseball teams playing in the World Series on October 17, 1989 when the earthquake hit?

http://www.exploratorium.com/faultline/great/loma1.html

4. What is the most recent earthquake that happened to date?

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ne/

5. What causes an earthquake?

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/earthquake1.htm

6. How much damage did the 1994 Northridge, CA earthquake cause?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/html/sidebar1.html

7. Fact or Fiction: Earthquakes usually happen in the morning?

http://www.fema.gov/kids/eqfact.htm

8. What are 3 things you could do before an Earthquake hits?

http://www.fema.gov/hazard/earthquake/eq_before.shtm

9. Based on the following map, what two states are at the highest risk for earthquakes!
http://www.fema.gov/kids/eqstate.htm

10. Click on the website below and then click "ARTICLE" hit "Check out these fault animations". Click "strike slip" then click "dip slip". How are they different?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/html/sidebar1.html

11. Stay on this website below for #12-15. What is the first and most well known way to measure the strength of earthquakes?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/topics/richter.php

12. How did it get it's name?

13. What is this scale based upon?

14. What is liquefaction? Note: You can find the answer below at this different website!!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/faq.php?categoryID=8&faqID=40

15. How many deaths were recorded for the earthquake in Price William Sound, Alaska in 1964?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/

16. Will California eventually fall off into the Ocean? What????? Find the answer and summarize in your own words. Do not copy word for word, please.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/

17. Which states have the smallest number of earthquakes?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/?categoryID=11

18. How many kilometers deep do earthquakes occur?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/?categoryID=1

19. What are the chances that we have an earthquake in New England? I want a percentage here.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/index.php?regionID=21

20. Go to the "Did you Feel it" page on the lefthand sidebar. Find out when the latest earthquake was. What was the MMI and Magnitude and Location? What was the shaking and damage?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

21. Scroll down and click on the animation: Blind Thrust Fault. What is a blind thrust fault?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/animations/

22. Read the page of "Interesting Earthquake Facts". 4 out of 5 earthquakes take place where?

http://earthquakefacts.net/Interesting-Earthquake-Facts.html

23. Stay on the same website and find the answer to the question: What kills the most people in an earthquake?

24. Where in Haiti did the earthquake take place?

http://www.nytimes.com/info/haiti-earthquake-2010/

25. How long has it been since an earthquake of this magnitude struck Haiti?

http://www.nytimes.com/info/haiti-earthquake-2010/

26. What kind of fault is Haiti near?

http://www.nytimes.com/info/haiti-earthquake-2010/