Geology Webquest Internet Investigations Links

USE Google Chrome for these Internet Investigations if you are in class.

Physics Lessons for Dr. E’s Summer School Physics Class on Friday, June 27, 2014: Update

Direct Links to Dr. E’s Summer School Schedule and Unit 8: Electric Circuits

The Physics Classroom: Current Electricity

YouTube Video: Solar Power: From Sunlight to Outlet

La Canada High School Solar Panel Images and Solar Panel Data

How Solar Cells Work and How Do Photovoltaics Work? and How Photovoltaic Solar Panels Work video

Cosmos: The Electric Boy

Direct Links for Phet Webquests

Electric Field Hockey

John Travoltage

Signal Circuit

Circuit Construction Kit (DC Only)

Internet Investigation for Wednesday and Thursday, May 28 and 29, 2014

ESU501: How Might Global Climate Change Affect Life on Earth?

Read the article CO₂ levels in the atmosphere have gone over 400 parts per million to re-acquaint yourself with the levels of CO₂ we are now seeing in the atmosphere.

Carbon Calculator Assignment using CoolClimate Carbon Footprint Calculator

Internet Investigation for Thursday and Friday, May 22 and 23, 2014

ES1706: How Does the Temperature at One Location Change Over a Year?

Climographs: Use this site to find climographs of temperature and precipitation in various cities in the US and around the World. Pick at least Three (3) of your favorite cities in the US and/or World and report on the climate of those cities with respect to temperature and precipitation.

ES2101: What Factors Control Your Local Climate?

Links to Help you Complete Part 1 of the worksheet Galaxies and the Expanding Universe

Hubble Space Telescope: Galaxy images

WISE Mission Galaxy Images: These are nine new images released on May 25, 2011 that show nine different galaxies in the infrared spectrum.

Galaxy Zoo: A website dedicated to galaxy classification

Galaxy Classification: from University of Alabama

More Information on Galaxy Classification: from PBS

Hubble’s Galaxy Classification Scheme: Go here to fill in #7.

Perspectives: See our Milky Way Galaxy at different scales.

Classifying Galaxies: Go here to learn the difference between E3 and Sb.

Hubble Tuning Fork Diagram: Why it’s somewhat wrong

Google Sky Tour: Open Google Sky (inside Google Earth). Change to Google Sky. Go to the layers section on the lower left hand side. Maximize “Education Center” and then double click on “User’s Guide to Galaxies.” Click on “User’s Guide to Galaxies Introduction” and then go through steps 1 through 11. Write down on a separate sheet of paper what it is that you see in each step and how it relates to the Hubble Tuning Fork classification scheme. In other words: Summarize the “What am I Looking at?” part. Staple this separate sheet to your worksheet entitled Galaxies and the Expanding Universe.

Homework due April 18, 2014

ES2803: What Does the Spectrum of a Star Tell Us about Its Temperature?

Light the Astronomer’s Friend Lab Links for April 14 and 17, 2014

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Season 1, Episode 5: Hiding in the Light video and questions.

Infrared: More than Your Eyes can See video: Use this to answer questions in part 2.

Electromagnetic Spectrum Overview Video: Traeger will show this.

Electromagnetic Radiation is Electricity and Magnetism working together: Good Diagram for Part 1, Question 6

Blackbody Curve: Use this to help answer Part 5, Question #6

Emission Spectra of the Elements: This site will help to identify what elements were in each of the gas tubes that you viewed in class.

Spectra of Gas Discharges: Another site that will help you to identify the elements that you saw in lab.

Periodic Table and Emission Spectra: Another site for help in identifying emission spectra elements.

Emission Spectra of the Elements #2: Another site for help in identifying the emission spectra of elements

KSU Spectroscopy Site: Put different elements in the power supply to see what their emission spectra are.

Make cereal box spectroscopes. I did this one year, but they take a while to make. Do this at home if it interests you.

The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Link 1 and Link 2 and an exploded star in multiple wavelengths

What wavelength goes with each color?

Multi-wavelength Astronomy

Energy Levels and Spectrum of the Hydrogen Atom

Light spectra

The Doppler Effect

Stellar Spectra and the Doppler Effect

How Telescopes Work: Site 1 and Site 2 and Site 3

Links for Electromagnetic Spectrum: What’s the Use?

Access the following sites and/or use Google Earth Google Sky to complete this part.

Mission Science Electromagnetic Spectrum Site: This is the Main site you will use for the Electromagnetic Spectrum: What’s the Use assignment.

What wavelengths and frequencies go with each section of the electromagnetic spectrum?: Use this site to find that information.

JPL Space Images

Spitzer Space Telescope Images

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Hubble Site Gallery

Multi-wavelength Astronomy

Helioviewer

Solar Monitor

Planetary Photojournal

Windows to the Universe

Internet Investigation for April 10, 2014

NOVA Sun Lab: Go here for videos about the Sun and an activity where you can investigate more about the Sun.

Awesome solar resources for your open investigation and to see the full version of Helioviewer: Helioviewer, Solar Monitor, The Sun Today,Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Site, Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Second Site

Internet Investigation for April 7, 2014

ES2605: How Does the Sunspot Cycle Affect Earth? Do this first!

ES2810: What Happens as a Star Runs Out of Hydrogen? Do this second.

Old Solar Cycle Returns: A NASA story dated 3/28/08 explains that the sunspots we’re seeing now are due to the old solar cycle and not the new one.

SOHO Images: Go here for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Images of the Sun.

Spaceweather: Go here for a current picture of the sun.

Solar Minimum Has Arrived: This story explains why the sun was inactive in 2008.

Solar Cycles: Go here for a story concerning solar cycles and why the sun’s activity changes.

Solar Cycles Again: Go here for a similar story about solar cycles.

Solar Storm Warning: Go here to find out why the next solar maximum could produce many sunspots and solar flares.

Solar Dynamics Observatory Story: Read up on the newest spacecraft to be launched to study our nearest star!

Solar Dynamics Observatory: Go here for breathtaking images of our Sun.

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Page: More images from SDO

Einstein and the Power of Tiny Things

Internet Investigation for February 20, 2014

ES2506: What if Earth and the Moon Were Hit by Twin Asteroids?

Impact: Earth!: Use this site as an additional resource for calculating crater sizes on numbers 2 and 3 of second page of Internet Investigation.

Internet Investigations and Apollo PowerPoint projects for February 12 and 19, 2014

Google Moon: Go here for geologic analysis of the moon.

Apollo Mission Information: Go here for detailed information about the lunar geology explored by Apollo missions. Use this site to make your PowerPoint detailing your chosen Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, or 17 mission.

Far Side of the Moon: Go here and here to see images of what the far side (the side we never see) of the Moon looks like!

Traeger’s Moon PowerPoint®: This will be helpful for some of the questions.

NASA’s Constellation Program Canceled: President Obama just canceled future missions to the moon. Find out how future lunar exploration will be conducted.

Internet Investigation for Wednesday, January 22, 2014

ES1102: How do Rocks Respond to Stress?

ES1106: What Forces Created These Geologic Features?

Relative Geologic Time Dating for Wednesday, January 08, 2014

ES2903: What Stories do Rocks Tell?

Volcanic Eruption Prediction Activity for Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Volcano Eruption Prediction website and USGS Volcano Website. Go here for worksheet.

Google Earth Investigation Links for Tuesday and Wednesday, December 17 and 18, 2013

Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program: Go here for more information about your volcanoes and to download the Holocene volcano files. Hover over “Learn” tab and then click “Google Earth Placemarks” and then click on “Download Holocene Volcanoes Network Link.”

Google Earth Earthquake and Plate Boundaries File: Click on appropriate files and then click “Open with Google Earth.”

National Geographic Forces of Nature: Go here to get a good overview of the types of volcanoes and where they form.

Internet Investigations for Monday, December 2, 2013

ES0602: How do Rocks Undergo Change?

ES0603: How do Igneous Rocks Form?

Plate Tectonics Lab for Block Day, Thursday, 11/6/13

This Dynamic Planet: Go here to access an interactive map that tells what direction the plates are moving and where the boundaries are. You will use this link to complete the computer lab.

Use This Dynamic Earth Book, Plate Tectonics in a Nutshell, and This Dynamic Planet PDF Maps to help answer some of the questions.

Use the USGS website Understanding Plate Motions to answer some of the questions.

National Geographic Interactive Map: This map is helpful with place names.

Use the following links if you want to do this assignment in Google Earth instead.

Google Earth Plate Boundaries File: Scroll down to the bottom, click on “USGS: Tectonics Plates Boundaries,” and then click “KML File.”

Google Earth Earthquakes and Google Earth Volcanoes Files: Scroll down, click on either volcanoes or earthquakes, and then click “View in Google Earth.”

Google Earth Earthquakes File: Click on “M1+ Real Time Earthquakes Past 7 Days” and then click “Open with Google Earth.”

Internet Investigations for Thursday and Friday, October 31-November 1, 2013

ES0802: How Old Is The Atlantic Ocean?

ES0810: How Fast Do Plates Move?

This Dynamic Planet: Go here to access an interactive map that tells what direction the plates are moving and where the boundaries are.

Research Project on Mineral Resources Links for Monday and Tuesday, October 28-29, 2013

Part 1: Mineral Resources Baby and Per Capita Use of Minerals: Use these graphics to answer question 1 in part 1.

Part 2: Geology and Natural Resource Development: Read this article to answer the appropriate questions.

Part 3: The Earth: Nature’s Storehouse: Read this article to answer the appropriate questions.

Part 4: Minerals in your Life Fact Sheets: Pick one of the items on this page to research in more depth.

Part 5: Minerals Database and USGS Commodities: Use these sites to research a mineral commodity that interests you. This commodity should be something that you personally use in the products you buy.

Internet Investigation for Thursday, October 17, 2013

Part 1: ES0506: How Do Crystals Grow?

Part 2: Crystal Structures. Use the following links to explore the different mineral crystal structures and find examples of the crystal structure of minerals themselves

Introduction to Crystallography: Use this link to describe the geometry of the seven different mineral crystal systems

Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules: Good site for envisioning crystal structures in 3-D.

Crystal Structure and Crystal Systems: Good descriptions of crystal systems and crystal forms.

Crystal Structure Databases: Good site for searching minerals by their crystal structure.

Mineral Gallery: Good pictures of minerals

Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom: More good information about minerals, including their crystal systems

Internet Investigation for Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Internet Investigation Worksheet

Part 1: ES0501: How Many Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons are in Common Elements?

Part 2: NOVA Elements: Scroll down to the last link on the bottom left entitled “NOVA Elements” and click on that. Then click on “Explore the Interactive Periodic Table.” Turn your sound down on your computer to not annoy the people around you. You may be prompted to install Unity Web Player. If you are, please install it. When the animation loads, click on the circle that says “Explore the Interactive Periodic Table.”

Internet Investigation for Monday, September 30, 2013

Finish From Eratosthenes to Global Positioning Systems: Calculating the Size of the Earth lab. ACCESS THE KEY TO CHECK YOUR ANSWERS BEFORE TURNING IN!

Part 1: ES0402: How do We Know about Layers Deep within Earth?

Part 2: Why do Seismic Waves Travel a Curving Path through Earth?

Part 3: How do P & S Waves Give Evidence for a Liquid Outer Core?

Internet Investigations for Thursday, September 12, 2013 in Class

Play Find Your Longitude and answer questions in the animation. Write these questions and answers down on the same sheet of paper that you wrote your summary for the video you watched. Do this after you have watched the video called The Search for Longitude. Do this at least 3 times.

ESU101: How Can Getting Farther Away from Earth Help us to See It More Clearly?

ES0307: How are Landforms Represented on Flat Maps?

Internet Investigation for Homework Tuesday, September 10, 2013

ES0301: How Do Map Projections Distort Earth’s Surface?

ES0303: How Do Latitude and Longitude Coordinates Help Us See Patterns on Earth? (Extra Credit if you wish to do it. You will need Shockwave plug-in to complete this.)

Geocaching Lab Links to help you finish it for Monday, September 09, 2013

What is GPS?: This link will help you to answer questions 1-11 if you didn’t get them.

GPS: The New Navigation: Use this site to answer question #14. Use the Non-Shockwave animation, as there is no Shockwave loaded as a browser plug-in (yet).

Use your brain to answer the remainder of the questions on the lab.

Internet Investigation for Tuesday, September 3, 2013

ES0103: How are Earth’s Spheres Interacting?

ES0108: How do Interactions among Earth’s Spheres Vary Regionally?