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Annotation of: Remote Sensing Using Satellites (Title from Webpage)
No full textThis resource is used in the culminating activity "Following Dynamic Weather" to teach about hurricanes and let students investigate a few specific storms. The page of the resource being annotated is: http://www.comet.ucar.edu/nsflab/web/index.htm
Annotation of: Melting Himalayan Glaciers May Doom Towns
No full textThis resource is used in the Global Ups and Downs: Changing Sea Level Teaching Box, Lesson 5, activity 3: "Impacts of Topography on Sea Level Change". It is used as a homework assignment for high school students to jumpstart their thinking about the impacts of ice melt and sea level rise. The resource being annotated is: http://www.dlese.org/dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-008-870.htm
Annotation of: Eye in the Sky: Tornadoes (Title from catalog)
No full textVersion of DLESE-000-000-006-293 (Skips intro). This is used in the introductory activity "Weather Happens" and in the culminating activity "Following Dynamic Weather" to provide background information about tornadoes. The page of the resource being annotated is: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/tornadoes/tornintro.html
Annotation of: Geologic Time (Short Version)
No full textThis resource is used in the Evidence for Plate Tectonics Teaching Box Lesson 2 Activity 1: "Understanding geologic time and fossil dating". It is used as an alternative shorter version of the lesson on geologic time. The resource being annotated is: http://www.dlese.org/dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-004-831.htm
Annotation of: Blank Map of the United States
No full textCatalog title: Outline Maps. This resource is used in "Ways of wind" Lesson 4 activity 2: "Follow the air around highs and lows." It is used as a base map for students to mark high and low pressure systems. The page of the resource being annotated is: http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/us_nl.pdf
Annotation of: Caltech Woodframe Project (Web site title)
No full textThis resource is used in the Living in Earthquake Country Teaching Box, Lesson 4: "Seismic Waves". It is used for an online extension activity in which students view videos of shake table testing of a two-story wood frame house. The resource being annotated is: http://www.dlese.org/dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-008-832.htm
Annotation of: Forces of Nature: Hurricanes (Title from webpage)
No full textThis is used in the introductory activity "Weather Happens" and the culminating activity "Following Dynamic Weather" to provide background information and an activity in which students set the conditions and see if a hurricane forms. The page of the resource being annotated is: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/index.html?section=h
Annotation of: Warming to Cause Catastrophic Rise in Sea Level?
No full textThis resource is used in the Global Ups and Downs: Changing Sea Level Teaching Box, Lesson 5, activity 3: "Impacts of Topography on Sea Level Change". It is used as a homework assignment for high school students. The resource being annotated is: DLESE-000-000-008-873
Annotation of: SCEC Education Module: Investigating Earthquakes through Regional Seismicity
No full textThe example graph from this resource is used in the Living in Earthquake Country Teaching Box, Lesson 3: "Earthquake Patterns", Activity 2: "Patterns of Recurrence". It is an example of a finished graph of occurrence dates of earthquakes along the San Andreas fault. The page of the resource being annotated is: http://www.data.scec.org/Module/s1act09b.html
Annotation of: Earthquakes in the California-Nevada Map Area
No full textThis resource is used in the Living in Earthquake Country Teaching Box, Lesson 2: "Faults are at Fault: Where Earthquakes Occur". It is used as a source of data for students to map earthquake locations as part of a homework assignment. The resource being annotated is: http://www.dlese.org/dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-008-816.htm