PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Layers of the Earth
Players will test their knowledge of the layers of the Earth. Know terms such as core, crust, and upper and lower mantle.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Composition of the Earth
Provides a discussion of the layers of the earth including the crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core.
World Geography Games
World Geography Games: Earth's Layers
Explore the layers of the Earth through this interactive quiz.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: Structure of Earth's Interior
Windows to the Universe provides a brief overview of the structure of the interior of Earth.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Earthquakes and the Earth's Interior
In this interactive tutorial you will learn about earthquakes and seismic waves. Learn about why and how these form and also discuss the hazards - direct and indirect - posed by earthquakes. You will then learn how our knowledge of...
Read Works
Read Works: A Hole in the Planet
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the layers of the Earth and a place near the Canary Islands where there is a hole in the crust. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa: Classroom of the Future: Spheres: Lithosphere
At this site from the NASA Classroom of the Future, you can learn about the many different layers of the earth and see what the earth would look like cut in half.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismic Tomography [Pdf]
Learn how seismic tomography imaging helps scientists understand the formation of the Earth's interior.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Los Cambios en El Medio Natural I
In this unit you can learn about the internal structure of the Earth. It has 13 interactive activities.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: The Geologic Timeline
Take this online quiz and test your knowledge of geological history, and the formation of our atmosphere, water, crust, oxygen, tectonic plates, Moon, and the rest of the Earth.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Geology: Plate Tectonics
An basic introduction to plate tectonics and the Earth's processes related to this phenomenon.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Uncovering Plate Tectonics
In this investigation, middle schoolers will be given an opportunity to make the connection between plate boundary movement and the topographic features of the earth.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Blocks 3 D Interactive 3 D Geologic Blocks
This interactive tutorial on visualizing geologic features contains animated block diagrams that show how the surface expressions of dipping layers, folds, igneous intrusions, and faults are related to subsurface structure and cross...
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Nagt: Geology Map Observations
In jigsaw groups, students construct the Earth's tectonic plates using geologic maps. Skills such as careful observation, presentation, and synthesis are used to create a map that shows the type and location the plates.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Landforms
Understand the formation and geology of different landforms around the Earth.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Layers of the Earth
[Free Registration/Login Required] The lesson teaches fifth grade students about the 4 layers of the Earth. Characteristics of each layer are presented. The lesson incorporates video, student participation, and Activote assessment. The...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Plate Tectonics
This site helps students learn about the Earth science subject of plate tectonics including major and minor plates, convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries.
Other
Boardworks: The Earth's Structure
The Earth is at your fingertips. Simply click on the piece you are looking for and explore.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Earth Structure
Brief informational site provides information about the Earth's structure, plates and core.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: What Lies Beneath the Upper Crust?
Students use the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program as an example to help them find ways of checking science news stories for accuracy. They are given a science news story and instructed to investigate the accuracy of the claims made in...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Mountain Building
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How mountains are formed as a result of plate tectonic processes.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Petrology
A review, including notes and labs, of a Petrology course provided b MIT. Petrology is the study of the history and chemical make up of rocks.
Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington: Foldable Fault Blocks [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will create three-dimensional (3-D) blocks out of paper to learn about the types of faulting that occur at the Earth's surface and its interior. Students will manipulate three fault blocks to demonstrate a normal...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Under Pressure: Sand Under Lateral Compression
Here's a project that involves a different kind of sandbox than the ones you usually think of. This one has a moving wall inside, acting like a piston, to compress the sand. You can make layers using two different colors of sand, and...
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