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Please check out the following links for resources you can use in your classroom. You can also search all available resources. If you are a member of NESTA, you can submit resources to share with others, as well as save resources you'd like to use in "My NESTA". If you're not a member of NESTA, join NESTA today.

  • Climate and Weather animations
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    This website has numerous animations to assist students in visualizing difficult weather and climate concepts.

  • Compare Images of Arctic Sea Ice Extent Side-by-side
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    These pictures show sea ice around the North Pole. You can click on the popup menus above the pictures to choose which pictures to look at. You can look at two pictures at once and compare them. Some things you can compare with this animation: the sea ice in March and September for the same year, the sea ice in March for two different years, or the sea ice in September for two different years.
  • Hertzsprung Russell Diagram Animation
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    A great tool for exploring the Hertzsprung Russell Diagram. You can change the units on the scale. Also you can copy it as a screen shot and paste it into a MS Word doc.
  • NASA IPY Educator Resources
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    The NASA International Polar Year Educator Resource Page is a one-stop site for useful classroom materials. On this site, you will find videos, images, reading materials, curriculum-based lesson plans, posters, and more, all through our easy-to-use, searchable NASA Polar Express database. All of these items are free to download to support your teaching activities.

  • Orbit Shapes Interactive Animation
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    This interactive animation shows two important features of orbits - shape and size. Use the sliders in the interactive animation to change the shape and size of the orbit of "your planet". Earth's orbit is shown for comparison.
  • Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction
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    Traditionally known as the Mark Francek homepage, this website is one to bookmark as a place to start your search for webbased instructional resources. Sign up on this website to receive weekly updates of new resources.

  • Seafloor Spreading and Magnetic Field Reversals
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    Earth's magnetic field reverses itself from time to time; North becomes South and South becomes North. Lava that cools and becomes rock at a given time in Earth's history stores a record of our planet's magnetic polarity at the time of the rock's formation. Rocks on the seafloor on either side of a mid-ocean spreading ridge preserve a record of the Earth's magnetic field over time. The discovery of this phenomenon was an important bit of evidence that helped confirm the theory of plate tectonics. This interactive animation illustrates this concept.
  • WxWise
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    This website contains a collection of interactive Java animations that will help students learn about the dynamic nature of our weather.