Crustal
Movement
Rocks and
Minerals
Done by a
ThinkQuest Junior Semi finalist -- http://library.thinkquest.org/J002744/adlm.html
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
An
interesting site on the two theories with colourful graphics and animation
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/index.html
Features of Vulcanicity
Volcanoes Online -- http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/english.html
Check out Pele's Journey to Kilauea http://library.thinkquest.org/J002917/
Beauty and the
Beast? Check it out!! http://library.thinkquest.org/J003007/introsc.html
Folding and Faulting
http://www.gpc.peachnet.edu/~pgore/geology/geo101/crustaldeform.php
View some geological features on topographical maps, see if you can
spot the features
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/slaymaker/Geol10L/landforms.htm
WEBSITES ON WEATHER
Websites on Factors influencing Temperature
University of
Illinois' Online Guide to Meteorology
Detailed and extensive coverage on various factors influencing temperature,
as well as great graphics, animations and other interactive elements. If you
don't have time, this is THE SITE to go to.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wx/satellite.rxml
Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page
A cool site by a weatherman!! With useful and simplified material on factors
influencing temperature and more!! Check it out!
Weather Here
and There
More for the upper primary but some ideas can be used. Good for
teachers planning lesson plans.
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEred/WeatherHome.html
Explorezone
A page to better understand high and low pressure. The site has excellent links
which extend to weather phenomena such as the El Nino, La Nina, storms etc.
Rather well laid out site.
http://explorezone.com/weather/index.htm
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/blynds/tmp.html
A basic unit on temperature. Oriented towards science but still very useful.
WEATHERING AND RIVERS
Huanghe
http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~huut/xia.html
http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~gleung/geofo/
Geography.html
Colorado River
http://www.udel.edu/mserc/colorado/
http://www.bastrop.isd.tenet.edu/
CyberFair96/RIVER.HTML