Workshop at the 2007 NSTA National Conference in St. Louis
Windows to the Universe staff presented a workshop titled "Interactive Simulations and Hands-on Activities across the Earth and Space Sciences" at the NSTA National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, from 5-6 PM on Friday, March 30, 2007.
This workshop combined hands-on activities with computer-based interactives and animations. The bulk of the workshop dealt with three topics of potential relevance to Earth science teachers:
- Annual and Long-term Variations in Sea Ice Extent in the Arctic and Antarctic
- Magnetism, Geomagnetism, and Space Weather
- Paleoclimatology - Tree Rings and Dendrochronology
Below are links to the resources (write-ups of hands-on activities and accompanying student worksheets, interactive simulations, animations, images, and web pages with relevant background information) used or referred to during this workshop:
- Magnetism & Space Weather
- Hands-on activities
- Magnetometer (in
Spanish)
- Magnetometer
Extensions [Ore Deposits & Seafloor Spreading] (in
Spanish)
- Terrabagga (in
Spanish)
- Computer-based interactives
- Bar
magnet & compass
- Earth's
magnetic field
- Earth's
North Magnetic Pole
- Background info on site
- Planetary magnetosphere pages
- Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
- Detecting Planetary Magnetism
- Basics of magnetism pages
- Magnetic
Field, Magnetism, The
Force of Magnetism
- Paleoclimateology - Dendrochronology
- Dendrochronology Interactives
- "Build a Tree" Dendrochronology Activity
- Align Tree Ring Cores Activity
- Project Learn activity page
- "Time &
Cycles - Dendrochronology" activity
- Student
guide
- Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide activity - "Trees: Recorders of Climate Change"
- Sea Ice Extent Graphing Activity
- Activity: Graphing Sea Ice Extent in the Arctic and Antarctic
- Interactive Image Viewers (compare sea ice maps side-by-side)
- Compare Images of Arctic Sea Ice Extent Side-by-side
- Compare Images of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Side-by-side
- Animations
- Animation of Annual Variation in Sea Ice Extent in the Northern Hemisphere
- Animation of Annual Variation in Sea Ice Extent in the Southern Hemisphere
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