This message is from Mark Francek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Hello, To give a K-16 audience access to the best web sites in the earth and environmental sciences, I've developed, "RESOURCES FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY INSTRUCTION" at <http://www.cmich.edu/~franc1m/homepage.htm>. The sites are organized according to the topics covered in many earth science classes. Admittedly, the site is not flashy. You'll find no flash animations or Java applets. What you will find are 700 + sites selected on the basis of image quality, ease with which lesson plans can be developed, organization, authenticity, scope, and format. There are no commercial endorsements associated with the page. Please make your colleagues and students aware of this site if you feel it would be useful. I also maintain a weekly "Earth Science Site of the Week" listserv in which I review some of the most interesting sites found at the resource page. What follows is a typical mailing: This week's Sites of the Week feature maps, rivers, eclipses, and lesson plans. The USGS Rocky Mountain Mapping Center maintains USGS Topographic Maps Illustrating Physiographic Features which indexes the names and locations of topographic maps that illustrate landforms associated with coasts, escarpments, glaciation (alpine and continental), tectonics, solution, rivers, volcanic, wind and more. The index is also organized by state. If needing the name of a topographic map that illustrates process and landform then this is the site to visit. <http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/public/outreach/featureindex.html> Funded by the NSF, the Virtual River is part of Geology Labs On-Line from the California State University at Los Angeles. Geared toward middle school to introductory college level, this site uses flash animations and interactive testing to depict discharge, flooding, and flood frequency. Each activity requires students to make careful observations and measurements, do simple calculations, and answer questions. I did find a dead link in the Demo portion of the site but otherwise this is a good site for introducing rivers. <http://vcourseware.sonoma.edu/VirtualRiver/Flooding/> NASA's Eclipse Home Page should be the first stop for anyone interested in the dates and locations for lunar and solar eclipses, publications, climatic data associated with eclipses, and web resources. <http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html> The Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition's has assembled an impressive set of science lesson plans and science activities at "Science Lessons by Subject". I like the site because it quick loading, easy to follow, and differentiates lesson plans from activities, the latter typically being a demonstration that will perk student interest before a lecture. <http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/funexperiments/agesubject/ subject.html> If you would like to be added to this listserv please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . thank you, Mark Francek -- ***************************************** Mark Francek Professor of Geography and Earth Science Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (517) 774 7617 Fax: (517) 774-2907 Resource Page: http://www.cmich.edu/~Franc1m/homepage.htm Office Hours: MW 10-11, Th 1-4 ***************************************** -- This is the CPS Science Teacher List. To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For more information: <http://home.sprintmail.com/~mikelach/subscribe.html>. To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/science%40lists.csi.cps.k12.il.us/>
