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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geoscience and Petroleum Careers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students think about how various real-world careers relate to personal interests and Earth's systems- the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.
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Interactions Between the Atmosphere & Hydrosphere [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the interactions between the four spheres of Earth and how they affect weather and climate. The slideshow is divided into two parts. The first deals with interactions between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere and the...
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Other

Institute of Ecotechnics: Bio Sphere 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Biosphere 2 project and the history of Biospherics.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Physical Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a general grasp on the four spheres, five sub-fields, and two scales of physical geography.
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University of Wisconsin

Ssec: Real Time Imagery and Data: Satellite Images of the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out real-time satellite photos of the earth to study weather patterns.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Major Domains of the Earth Biosphere

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn about the biosphere, when it originated, how life sustains itself, and what processes occur.
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Other

Earth History: The Paleomap Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The Paleomap Project illustrates the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1,100 million years.
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Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Curvature of the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Distance problem using a spherical radius and height.
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Center for Educational Technologies

Nasa: Classroom of the Future: Spheres: Biosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about the different areas of the biosphere, known as biomes.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Researching the Oceans of the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This unit is a result of collaboration between the librarian and the 5th grade Science teacher. The Ocean Unit developed by the librarian is hands-on research in various areas of the library utilizing print, software and Internet access....
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 1: Think Globally: Act Locally

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores Earth Science Systems. This lab introduces students to the parts of the Earth system: the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and pedosphere. As the students learn about the...
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Weber State University: The Sun and the Seasons

For Students Pre-K - 1st
To those of us who live on earth, the most important astronomical object by far is the sun. This article explains how the motion of the sun through our sky cause day and night, the passage of the seasons, and earth's varied climates.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Relationships Between Tree Ring Dating, Wildfires, and Floods

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson young scholars will understand the four spheres of the earth and how they relate to one another. This project uses a combination of Internet investigations and multiple field investigations to develop an understanding of...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the rock surface of the Earth, its water, and the gas layers that surround it.
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: El Globo Terraqueo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Spanish. What size and shape is the Earth? What abstract body is closer? Gain this knowledge through this interactive activity. A 31 question quiz is provided at the end.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: How the Greeks Used Geometry to Understand the Stars

For Students 9th - 10th
An article explaining how the Greeks were able to use their science and mathematics to predict where astronomical objects such as the Planets could be found in the nighttime sky even though their underlying premise was that the earth did...
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Center for Educational Technologies

Wheeling Jesuit University: How Are Things Divided Among Earth's Four Spheres?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
See if you can classify various objects in the categories of land, water, air or living thing. This activity is interactive and you will receive a score for your performance.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Space Race

For Students 9th - 10th
In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. The 184-pound, 22.5-inch sphere orbited the earth once every 96 minutes. Sputnik transmitted radio signals for 21 days and later burned up in...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Traveling on Good Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this high-level math lesson has students delve into the topic of Great Circles on a sphere (specifically, the Earth), in order to find the shortest distances between locations. Students will...
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NASA

Nasa: Climate Kids: What Is Happening in the Ocean?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out why the oceans on Earth are so vital to the cycling of matter and energy through its spheres.
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Other

Lee Trampleasure: Science Education: Coriolis Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine three examples of the Coriolis Effect with reference to wind. The effect is that when an object is moving perpendicular to the rotation of a sphere the object will appear to travel in a curved line. Prevailing winds will look as...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biogeochemical Cycles Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review information on the cycling of matter throughout the spheres of Earth.
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NOAA

Noaa: Ngdc: Globe Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore some topographic data at the Globe site. What environmental measurements are taken in the study? How are these measurements presented?
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Nicolaus Copernicus

For Students 9th - 10th
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus...

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