Earth Science Webquest Internet Investigations Links

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

Light the Astronomer’s Friend Lab Links for May 4-6, 2016

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 27, 2016

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 Investigations for April 20, 2016

Click on the first two links for the Internet Investigations. The other links are background information.

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

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

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

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 April 13, 2016

ES2506: What if Earth and the Moon Were Hit by Twin Asteroids? Do impact calculator portion in Firefox.

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

Starry Night D3: Impact: Near Earth Objects. Please Download Patch File to be able to do the activity.

Internet Investigation for March 30, 2016

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.

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.

Internet Investigation for Wednesday, 3/16/16

ES2406 Internet Investigation: How Tides Work

Internet Investigation for Thursday, 1/21/16

ES1003: Where Was That Earthquake? (You will need to use Firefox to complete this.)

ES1001: How Are Earthquakes Related to Plate Tectonics?

Internet Investigation for Friday, January 8, 2016

ES1102: How do Rocks Respond to Stress?

ES1106: What Forces Created These Geologic Features? (Extra Credit) You will need to use Firefox for the last three sections, as Shockwave plugin is required.

IRIS Fault Types Animation: This will help greatly to envision the fault types.

Internet Investigations for Friday, November 20, 2015

ES0602: How do Rocks Undergo Change?

ES0603: How do Igneous Rocks Form?

Internet Investigation for Wednesday, 10/27/15 (USE FIREFOX FOR THESE!)

ES0801: What is Earth’s Crust Like?

ES0802: How Old Is The Atlantic Ocean?

Internet Investigations for Tuesday, October 6, 2015

ES0506: How Do Crystals Grow? Write the answers to the questions in blue text in the Internet Investigation on a separate sheet of paper.

Internet Investigation for Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Internet Investigation Worksheet

Part 1: ES0501: How Many Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons are in Common Elements? Use Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Build an Atom: Use this animation in place of steps 4 and 5 of the Internet Investigation, as the animations in Shockwave were found to run slow or not at all.

Part 2: NOVA Elements: Use Firefox or Safari Only. 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 Tuesday and Wednesday, 9/15 and 9/16/15

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

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

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

Internet Investigation for Friday, August 14, 2015

Class Textbook Website: Log in and try your username and password. Familiarize yourself with the online textbook. Remember that the main link for the textbook is always on the class website.

ES0103: How are Earth’s Spheres Interacting?

ES0108: How do Interactions among Earth’s Spheres Vary Regionally? Extra Credit if you want to do it.