EarthScience-OBKprep

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 * =**=**About EarthScience: Geology**=**=**
 * =**=**About EarthScience: Geology**=**=**
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[|Shape It Up] is one of many good educational games and activities on [|Kinetic City]. The activity presents students with "before" and "after" images of a piece of Earth. Students then have to select the force nature and the span of time it took to create the "after" picture. If students choose incorrectly, Shape It Up will tell the student and they can choose again. || Grade 6 to 10 - Annenberg Media - 9115 - **Recommended by TeachersFirst** This website takes students on a virtual "rock hunt." Throughout the journey, students learn about the three main types of rock - sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous. Specific examples of each type of rock are highlighted. Other topics of interest include "How Rocks Change" and "The Rock Cycle Diagram." There are animations that demonstrate the effects of extreme heat or cold on a rock. Volcanoes are used to demonstrate some of the changes. Weathering, erosion, compacting, and cementing are also discussed. There are several interactive "rock" activities along the way. The final activity is a review "test" about the interactive "rock hunt." Many of the activities throughout the "rock hunt" require FLASH.
 * = [|**Rock Cycle**] =

**//In the Classroom://** Use your interactive whiteboard (or projector) to take your students on this virtual "rock" journey. This website would also work well as a learning station for learning groups. Why not set-up several stations all about rocks. Use this website as one station or a cluster of computers, have a "hands-on" rock center with examples of each type of rock and testing equipment, make a literature/research center with books about rocks and samples to identify. Other centers could include watching a short documentary on rocks and volcanoes, a lab-report writing station, and many others. || == ==

http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/
|| All of human history is the briefest moment at the end of How do geologists measure and order the Earth's milestones? Charles Darwin once wrote, "Geology is a capital science to begin, as it requires nothing but a little reading, thinking, and hammering."
 * ==Geologic Time==
 * four BILLION years of geologic time**.
 * [|Geologic Eons and Eras, the Large Scale]
 * [|Precambrian Time Scale, 4500 to 542 Million Years Ago]
 * [|Phanerozoic Time Scale, 542 Million Years Ago to Present]
 * [|How We Map Deep Time]
 * [|Paleozoic Era Time Scale (542 to 251 Million Years Ago)]
 * [|Mesozoic Era Time Scale (251 to 66 Million Years Ago)]
 * [|Cenozoic Era Time Scale (66 Million Years Ago to Present)]
 * [|How We Measure Deep Time] || ==Teaching and Learning Geology==
 * [|Do-It-Yourself Geology News]
 * [|Ten Good News Sources]
 * [|Geologic Journals Online]
 * [|Geology Webcams Around the World]
 * [|Learn to Read Geologic Maps]
 * [|Geologic Topics in a Nutshell]
 * [|Earth Science Scales]
 * [|Glossaries]
 * [|Teacher Resources Grades 5 to 8]
 * [|Teacher Resources Grades 9 to 12] ||
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