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Children's Misconceptions about Weather: A Review of the Literature
No full textThe resource being annotated is: http://www.dlese.org/dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-008-169.htm
The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change
No full textThe resource being annotated is: DLESE-000-000-004-664
Greenhouse Gas Online
No full textThe resource being annotated is: http://www.dlese.org/dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-004-206.htm
Annotation of: Plotting Earthquakes
No full textThis resource is used in the Evidence for Plate Tectonics Teaching Box Lesson 1 Activity 1: "Plotting recent earthquakes". It is used as a source of procedures for plotting earthquakes by magnitude on a large classroom map. The resource being annotated is: DLESE-000-000-009-459
Annotation of: Build Your Bridge
No full textThis resource is used in the Living in Earthquake Country Teaching Box, Lesson 6, activity 3: "Earthquakes and Structural Failure". It is used to provide an overview of how and why man-made structures are designed to withstand earthquakes. The page of the resource being annotated is: http://www.newbaybridge.org/classroom/engineeringfor.html
Introduction to the Lithosphere: Mountain Building
No full textThis resource is used in the Mountain Building Teaching Box, Lesson 1, 'Why Do Mountains Look the Way They Do?'. It is used as teacher background material. The resource being annotated is: http://www.dlese.org/dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-005-415.htm
Annotation of: Rating the Size of Earthquakes
No full textThis resource is used in the 'Living in Earthquake Country' Teaching Box, Lesson 5: 'A Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On!'. It is used as background for teachers to provide a short history of earthquake magnitude and Charles Richter. The resource being annotated is: http://www.dlese.org/dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-006-735.htm
Annotation of: Hurricanes: The Phenomena (Title from webpage)
No full textThis is used in the introductory activity "Weather Happens" and the culminating activity "Following Dynamic Weather" to provide information on how hurricanes form. The page of the resource being annotated is: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/hurricanes/phenomena.html
Annotation of: Contemporary Newspaper Accounts of Mississippi Valley Earthquakes of 1811-1812
No full textThis resource is used in the Living in Earthquake Country Teaching Box, Lesson 5, activity 2: "Determining the Intensity". It is used as an extension activity in which students examine contemporary newspaper accounts of the New Madrid Earthquake, from which intensity values were derived. The resource being annotated is: DLESE-000-000-008-894
Annotation of: Global temperature, atmospheric circulation, and trade winds map
No full textThis is used in "Ways of wind" Lesson 4 Activity 1: "Follow the air globally". It is used as a reference for student's maps. The page of the resource being annotated is: http://www.ucar.edu/learn/images/fastcirc.gif