When Mount St. Helens threatened to erupt again in 2004, it grabbed headlines and captured the imagination of the country. Science classrooms nationwide used the event as an opportunity to make real-world connections to Earth science concepts introduced in the classroom. Thanks to modern technology, teachers no longer have to wait for the next…

A field and laboratory exercise for an undergraduate geomorphology class is described that focuses on the beach. The project requires one day of fieldwork and two laboratory sessions. In the field, students measure water surface fluctuations (waves) with a pressure sensor, survey beach profiles, collect sediment samples, and observe the beach…

Earthlearningidea will use the opportunity of the International Year of Planet Earth (2008) to publish on the internet a new Earthlearningidea each week for use in classrooms that have few resources. The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was proclaimed by the United Nations for 2008, with the activities extending from 2007-2009. IYPE has a…

Earthquake, a natural disaster, is among the fundamental problems of many countries. If people know how to protect themselves from earthquake and arrange their life styles in compliance with this, damage they will suffer will reduce to that extent. In particular, a good training regarding earthquake to be received in primary schools is considered…

Constructing model hot air balloons is an activity that captures the imaginations of students, enabling teachers to present required content to minds that are open to receive it. Additionally, there are few activities that lend themselves to integrating so much content across subject areas. In this article, the authors describe how they have…

With funding from the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering, the University of Edinburgh has developed a series of truly interdisciplinary design courses aimed at improving penultimate-year students' ability to operate across disciplines and improve their preparation for industry. Led by a Visiting Industrial Professor, the course on hydropower design…

While the knowledge economy has reshaped the world, schools lag behind in producing appropriate learning for this social change. Science education needs to prepare students for a future world in which multiple representations are the norm and adults are required to "think like scientists." Location-based augmented reality games offer an…

This book is a collection of 201 science experiments designed to be fun and to show that science is not just a list of facts, but a way of solving problems and discovering why things happen the way they do. The activities cover five different fields of science: astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics. Each experiment contains the…

Ground Truth Studies is an interdisciplinary activity-based program that draws on the broad range of sciences that make up the study of global change and the complementary technology of remote sensing. It integrates local environmental issues with global change topics, such as the greenhouse effect, loss of biological diversity, and ozone…

This bilingual earth science handbook is one in a series designed to assist high school students who are literate in their native Lao, but are limited-English-proficient, in meeting graduation requirements. The handbook is essentially a glossary. The first part, in Lao, contains major concepts in earth science and definitions of important and…

Earth science is the subject of this bilingual glossary, one in a series developed to help high school students who are literate in their native Vietnamese, but limited-English-proficient, to meet their graduation requirements. Major earth science concepts and definitions of important and commonly used terms are presented in both Vietnamese and…

This bilingual earth science handbook is one in a series developed to help high school students who are literate in their native Spanish, but not in English, to meet graduation requirements. The first part of the handbook contains major earth science concepts and a glossary of important and commonly used terms, in Spanish. This is followed by an…

Presents the latest developments concerning the following topics: astrogeology, coal, deep sea drilling project, engineering geology; environmental geology, exploration geophysics, geochemistry, geodynamics project, hydrology, industrial minerals, international geology, mapping, mathematical geology, metals, mineralogy, oil and gas, invertebrate…

Provides an assessment chart that can be used in evaluating students in student-oriented, inquiry-oriented science courses. (BR)