Earth to Class

Selected Teacher-Created Web Sites

[See also "Lesson Plans", "Teaching Tips", and "Selected Activities and PowerPoints".]

James Ebert (SUNY Oneonta)
     Earth Science Websites From New York Teachers
     E.S. and other Listservs
   Archived E.S. List-serv messages

Mark Francek (Central Michigan University) provides hundreds of reviewed links through RESGI (Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction): http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi/.

Charles Burrows (Spring Valley High School) creates some of the best animations and other review materials for Regents E.S.
    Earth Science Students - CLICK HERE!!! - Earth Science Home
    Earth Science Activities and Labs
    Hangman games
    Interactive Regents Exams
    Earth Science References Tables (pdf)
    Regents Exams images
         Regents Exams images Set 2     Set 2 Inverted

Christopher Sheehan ((Baldwin SHS, Baldwin, NY) hosts New York Science Teacher.
    Direct link to Earth Science resources
    E.S. Share-a-Thon
    Regents E.S. examinations word frequency analysis

Steve Kluge (retired from Fox Lane HS) has created a vast amount of useful resources at http://www.stevekluge.com/geoscience/default.html.
     Of particular interest for users of Google Earth are these activities: http://www.stevekluge.com/geoscience/default.html
    Kluge's Geoscience News (blog)

Ken Abbott (Bellmore-Merrick District) provides these ES Learning Resources and these Regents Exam review links.

Gail K. Bennington and J. Bret Bennington: NYS Geology

Michael Breed: http://web.me.com/cvscience/CVHS_Earth_Science/Welcome.html

Tim Brisley: Mr. Brisley's Earth Science Page

John Cafarella: Science Gnus

Jeffrey Callister (Newburgh Free Academy, ret.)
Regents Earth Science Examinations topic distribution patterns

Earth Science @ Clarkstown South: http://www.ccsd.edu/south/science/esci

Eric Cohen (Westhampton Beach HS) provides these resources: http://www.westhamptonbeach.k12.ny.us/Teachers/cohen/sciweb/earthscience/earthintro.htm
WBHS Intel Research Program Presentations 2006

Scott Danville (Beekmantown High School) Earth Science Is Cool

Joe Henderson (Roth MS, Rush-Henrietta School District) provides these "Quotes to Ponder": http://www.rhnet.org/webpages/jhenderson/quotes.cfm
Joe's Homepage: http://www.rhnet.org/webpages/jhenderson/index.cfm

Bob Klein (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis HS for International Careers, NYC) provides these links through his "Oblate Spheroid" web site: http://homepage.mac.com/theoblatespheroid/earthscience/index.html

Michael P. Klimetz (John Dewey H.S., Brooklyn, NY): http://www.earthphysicsteaching.homestead.com/

Tom McGuire's Westchester Geology page, one of the most useful for teachers in this area: http://home.computer.net/~tmcguire/

Phil Medina (R.C. Murphy JHS, Stony Brook) provides these resources: http://www.mrsciguy.com/

Elizabeth LaRosa: Middle School Science

Heather Renyck (Milford, NH) provides many landscape images: http://photos.heathersgemjewelry.com/index.php

Rose Sanders (Mt. Vernon HS): http://web.me.com/rose.sanders/Site/Welcome.html

Dawn Sherwood (Highland Springs HS, Henrico, VA): Poetry in Science
     Acrostic     Cinquain     Concrete Poem    Free Verse     Haiku

     Imagery     Limerick      Personification    Tanka

Chris Visco (Sachem S.D. ) "New York Earth Science Teacher": http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cvisco/

ckmorgan's Bookmarks (lots of good resources for students and teachers)

Help in Preparing for the Regents Earth Science Exam

Julie Ann Hugick (Eastchester MS) provides these guides for an Earth Science Reference Table review (Word) (pdf format)

Deena Bollinger (South Orangetown Middle School): Vocabulary for the Regents E.S. Exam

Christopher Sheehan and Glenn Dolphin: "100 Illustrated Ways to Pass the Earth Science Regents"

Sheila Ornstein (South JHS, Newburgh) provides these suggested web sites for reviewing Earth Science concepts.

Fred Welfare (H.S. for the Humanities, Queens, NY) provides this list of relationships (direct/indirect/cyclic/constant)

Other Teacher-Created Sites of Interest

Toms River Regional Summer Institute Interactive Science Web Labs created by Christine Girtain: (Word | HTML)

Educational activities created by Christine Girtain using Quia software: http://www.quia.com/pages/girtain.html

"Space Scavenger Hunt" submitted by Lisa G. Berkowitz : http://www.cipce.rpi.edu/~gottll

Earth Science Practice Exams" by Timothy Heaton, U. South Dakota

Craigmont HS, Memphis, TN: http://www.craigmont.org/planetarium.htm

Geological diagrams created by Dr. Bruce Railsback (U. of Georgia)

Additional Miscellaneous Resources

AP (Advanced Placement) Central: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/Controller.jpf

Center for Science Teaching and Learning: http://www.cstl.org/

Earth Education Online: http://earthednet.org/

Earthlearningideas: http://www.earthlearningidea.com/

Earth Science World Image Bank: http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/

Education World: http://www.educationworld.com/index.shtml

Exploring the Environment: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/volcano.html

Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: http://free.ed.gov/

Geology.com: http://geology.com/teacher/

Hooked on Science with Jason Lindsey: http://www.hookedonscience.org/

Jigzone Jigsaw Puzzle Paradise: http://www.jigzone.com/

LabWrite: http://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/

Learn Earth Science

Learning Science: http://www.learningscience.org/index.htm

Molecular Expressions "Science, Optics, and You": http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/tutorials/index.html

Pi Across America: http://www.piacrossamerica.org/

Regents Earth Science "Wikibook": http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Regents_Earth_Science_%28High_School%29

ReSciPE -- Resources for Scientists in Partnership with Education:
http://cires.colorado.edu/education/k12/rescipe/
CIRES -- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies:
http://cires.colorado.edu/

Science Review Games: http://sciencereviewgames.com/srg/

Science Spot: http://www.sciencespot.net/

SciLinks: http://www.scilinks.org/

Study Skills Guide: http://www.educationatlas.com/study-skills.html

Teachers' Domain: http://www.teachersdomain.org/

Teaching Guides http://msnucleus.org/membership/html/jh/earth/index.html

ThinkFinity/Marco Polo Education: http://www.mped.org/EducatorHome.aspx

UCAR Digital Image Library: http://www.fin.ucar.edu/ucardil/

Online Textbook Links

Exploring Earth -- McDougal Littell

Understanding Earth 3e -- W H Freeman