Earth to Class

Selected Teacher-Created Web Sites

[See also "Teaching Tips", "Lesson Plans", 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

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

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

Steve Kluge, Drew Patrick, and their colleagues and students (Fox Lane HS) have great material available through:
http://www.bedford.k12.ny.us/flhs/science/geohome.html#_blank
One part of this site is devoted to lists of great books about Earth Science:
http://www.bedford.k12.ny.us/flhs/science/reading.html

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

Tim Brisley: Mr. Brisley's Earth Science Page

John Cafarella: Science Gnus

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

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

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

Keith McKain (Colonel Richardson HS, Federalsburg, MD) provides these Geoscience Links: http://cep.cl.k12.md.us/mckain/

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

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

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

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

Scott Danville (Beekmantown High School) Earth Science Is Cool

Elizabeth LaRosa: Middle School Science

Lesson Plans Created by E2C Participants and Others

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"

Andrew Tuomey (Great Neck South H.S.) provides "279 Ways to Avoid Summer School or to Get that 100!"

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

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

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

Learn Earth Science

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

Other Teacher-Created Sites of Interest

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

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

     Imagery     Limerick      Personification    Tanka

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

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

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

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

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

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

Science New York: http://scienceny.proboards15.com/

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/

Heartland Science by Jason Lindsey KFVS: http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/category.asp?C=88423

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

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

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

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/

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.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

Online Textbook Links

Exploring Earth -- McDougal Littell

Understanding Earth 3e -- W H Freeman