Student Sites
Earth Science Enterprise
Find out about how NASA studies the earth and its land, water, air, and natural hazards. You can move a water droplet through the water cycle, play a Pangea map game, test your tectonics knowledge, and more in the site's game section.
Intended Audience: Students
Reading Level: Elementary School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Ology
Learn all about marine biology, genetics, biodiversity, paleontology, astronomy, Earth Science, and Einstein at this site from the American Museum of Natural History. You'll find loads of information, games, and activities.
Intended Audience: Students
Reading Level: Elementary
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Exploring the Environment
This site from NASA Classroom of the Future at Wheeling Jesuit University features interdisciplinary, problem-based learning modules for grades 5-12. Student work in teams and analyze remotely-sensed satellite images to solve real-world problems related to weather, population growth, biodiversity, land use patterns, volcanoes, water pollution, and global warming. You'll need a password to access module notes. Click
here to access a teacher information page.
Intended Audience: Students
Reading Level: Middle/High School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
K-4 Earth Science Modules
This site from NASA Classroom of the Future at Wheeling Jesuit University features teaching and learning modules for grades K-4 on biomes; weather, seasons, and climate; remote sensing; and Earth systems. You can play the weather game and see how much you know, learn about biomes in funworld, or play an Earth system card game.
Intended Audience: Students/Teachers
Reading Level: Elementary School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Earth Net
This site from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia is designed to be a resource for teachers and students. You'll find a great overview of the Earth, minerals, rocks, volcanoes, and the elements as well as lesson plans and activities. You will also fond a wealth of information about the geology of Canada.
Intended Audience: Students/Teachers
Reading Level: Elementary/Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Earth Science Explorer
Students can learn more about biomes, plate tectonics, geologic time, cycles, spheres, and diversity at this site from NASA Classroom of the Future at Wheeling Jesuit University.
Intended Audience: Students/Teachers
Reading Level: Elementary School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Earth Guide
You can locate tons of resources about the Earth, the oceans and the environment at this site from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. You'll find news, images, maps, diagrams, web links, articles, and lots more.
Intended Audience: Students/Teachers
Reading Level: Middle/High
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Earth Science World
Visit the image gallery, view an interactive geological timeline, get climate data from weather stations around the world, learn about careers in geoscience, or play the interactive virtual oil well game at this site from the American Geological Institute.
Intended Audience: Students
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
Discover Our Earth
Learn more about the planet using primary Earth science data at this site for high school and college students from Cornell University. You'll find background information and activities focused on Earthquakes, volcanoes, topography, plate tectonics, and sea level change as well as an interactive mapping tool, QUEST, that lets you to query data sets and make maps of geological and geophysical features.
Intended Audience: Students
Reading Level: High School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Ology
Learn all about marine biology, genetics, biodiversity, paleontology, astronomy, archaeology, and Einstein at this site from the American Museum of Natural History. You'll find loads of information, games, and activities.
Intended Audience: Students
Reading Level: Elementary
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
Images
The Earth from Space
View images of the Earth taken during NASA missions. You can search for images by city, landscape feature, or weather. This site is part of a larger NASA collection of 400,000 photos,
Astronaut Photography of Earth, that features photographs taken from 1961 to today.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
World Wind
Zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth at this site from NASA with this downloadable program! Very, very cool!!!
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
Visible Earth
Meteor craters, the fall colors in New England, and glaciers. Get a birds-eye view of these and other features of the Earth at this site from NASA.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
Earth Science World ImageBank
You can view thousands of images at this site from the American Geological Institute. View volcanoes, rocks and minerals, lakes, weather, waterfalls, caves, earthquakes, floods, glaciers, oceans, and lots more. All images can be used in educational slideshows or in personal materials.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
TerraServer
Get a satellite-eye view of places around the U.S. at this site. You can search for satellite images by location or you can look for images of famous places like the Space Needle and Mount St. Helens. In addition to satellite images, you can also view topographic maps.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
Earth and Moon Viewer
Look at the earth and moon from a variety of perspectives. See where day and night are currently on Earth, view the moon from Earth or the Earth from the moon and lots more!
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
Playing with Time
This site features time-lapse movies of everything from the blink of an eye (5/10th of a second) to the creation of today's continents from the single land mass Pangaea (240 million years). When you've finished viewing the movies go to the activities center to sequence events in time! If you want to learn how to create your own time-lapse images, visit the toolkit section.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
Earth Science Picture of the Day
The title says it all. View a different earth science based photo, imagery, graphic, or artwork everyday. You can browse the archives back to September 2000.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
Teacher Sites
Digital Library for Earth System Education
You can locate Earth, biological and environmental science resources by grade level, resource type, or standards at this site funded by the National Science Foundation.
Intended Audience: Teachers
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: N/A
Searchable: Yes
The Globe Program
The GLOBE Program (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program that focuses on students taking and working with scientifically valid measurements in the fields of atmosphere, hydrology, soils, and land cover/phenology. You can learn more about the program at the site as well as find resources for the classroom.
Intended Audience: Teachers
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network
Looking for teaching resources? Check out this site that offers lesson ideas, reviewed Websites, and more.
Intended Audience: Teachers
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: N/A
Searchable: No
Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction
This site from Central Michigan University features links to hundreds of Websites that explore Earth science and geography.
Intended Audience: Teachers
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: N/A
Searchable: No
Earth Science Practice Exams
Test your Earth science knowledge with this set of online exams for elementary school teachers from the University of South Dakota.
Intended Audience: Teachers/College Students
Reading Level: High School
Teacher Section: N/A
Searchable: No
National Earth Science Teachers Association
You'll find organizational information as well as an overview of what Earth science is, and conference information. You;ll also find links to lesson plans, web resources, and Earth science news.
Intended Audience: Teachers
Reading Level: N/A
Teacher Section: N/A
Searchable: Yes
General Audience Sites
Global Change Master Directory
This site from NASA contains Earth science data sets and services relevant to the global change and Earth science research.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: High School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
Geology.com
Get the latest geology news, view satellite images from across the country, or check out a geology dictionary.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
Earth Science Week
Held the second week of October, Earth Science Week is sponsored by the American Geological Institute and is designed to help the public gain a better understanding and appreciation for the Earth Sciences. This site has information about the event along with resources and information for teachers and students.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
EarthPulse
Keep tabs on the health and vitality of the planet at this site from National Geographic. Sections on the Ocean, Climate, Population, Land, Wild Species, Ecosystems, and Energy include online activities and articles that will help you explore topics like tornados, rivers,overpopulation, and conservation.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
One World Journeys
Discover the natural wonders of the world at this site that features online expeditions that focus on wildlife, natural resources, and cultures. Take an expedition to Florida's springs and learn about the manatee, travel to Tanzania and learn about Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees, learn about the cougar and the threats it faces, dive down into the Palmyra Atoll and explore life in a coral reef, travel upstream with the Pacific salmon, or take a trip to the Sonoran Desert and discover the secrets of one of the worlds most biologically diverse ecosystems.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
