Selected Teacher-Created Web Sites
[See also "Lesson Plans", "Teaching Tips", and "Selected Activities and PowerPoints".]
James Ebert (SUNY Oneonta)
Earth Science Websites From New York Teachers
E.S. and other Listservs
Archived E.S. List-serv messages
Mark Francek (Central Michigan University) provides hundreds of reviewed links through RESGI (Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction): http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi/.
Charles Burrows (Spring Valley High School) creates some of the best animations and other review materials for Regents E.S.
Earth Science Students - CLICK HERE!!! - Earth Science Home
Earth Science Activities and Labs
Hangman games
Interactive Regents Exams
Earth Science References Tables (pdf)
Regents Exams images
Regents Exams images Set 2 Set 2 Inverted
Christopher Sheehan ((Baldwin SHS, Baldwin, NY) hosts New York Science Teacher.
Direct link to Earth Science resources
E.S. Share-a-Thon
Regents E.S. examinations word frequency analysis
Steve Kluge (retired from Fox Lane HS) has created a vast amount of useful resources at http://www.stevekluge.com/geoscience/default.html.
Of particular interest for users of Google Earth are these activities: http://www.stevekluge.com/geoscience/default.html
Ken Abbott (Bellmore-Merrick District) provides these ES Learning Resources and these Regents Exam review links.
Gail K. Bennington and J. Bret Bennington: NYS Geology
Tim Brisley: Mr. Brisley's Earth Science Page
John Cafarella: Science Gnus
Jeffrey Callister (Newburgh Free Academy, ret.)
Regents Earth Science Examinations topic distribution patterns
Earth Science @ Clarkstown South: http://www.ccsd.edu/south/science/esci
Eric Cohen (Westhampton Beach HS) provides these resources: http://www.westhamptonbeach.k12.ny.us/Teachers/cohen/sciweb/earthscience/earthintro.htm
WBHS Intel Research Program Presentations 2006
Scott Danville (Beekmantown High School) Earth Science Is Cool
Joe Henderson (Roth MS, Rush-Henrietta School District) provides these "Quotes to Ponder": http://www.rhnet.org/webpages/jhenderson/quotes.cfm
Joe's Homepage: http://www.rhnet.org/webpages/jhenderson/index.cfm
Bob Klein (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis HS for International Careers, NYC) provides these links through his "Oblate Spheroid" web site: http://homepage.mac.com/theoblatespheroid/earthscience/index.html
Michael P. Klimetz (John Dewey H.S., Brooklyn, NY): http://www.earthphysicsteaching.homestead.com/
Tom McGuire's Westchester Geology page, one of the most useful for teachers in this area: http://home.computer.net/~tmcguire/
Phil Medina (R.C. Murphy JHS, Stony Brook) provides these resources: http://www.mrsciguy.com/
Elizabeth LaRosa: Middle School Science
Heather Renyck (Milford, NH) provides many landscape images: http://photos.heathersgemjewelry.com/index.php
Dawn Sherwood (Highland Springs HS, Henrico, VA): Poetry in Science
Acrostic Cinquain Concrete Poem Free Verse Haiku
Imagery Limerick Personification Tanka
Chris Visco (Sachem S.D. ) "New York Earth Science Teacher": http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cvisco/
Help in Preparing for the Regents Earth Science Exam
Julie Ann Hugick (Eastchester MS) provides these guides for an Earth Science Reference Table review (Word) (pdf format)
Deena Bollinger (South Orangetown Middle School): Vocabulary for the Regents E.S. Exam
Christopher Sheehan and Glenn Dolphin: "100 Illustrated Ways to Pass the Earth Science Regents"
Sheila Ornstein (South JHS, Newburgh) provides these suggested web sites for reviewing Earth Science concepts.
Fred Welfare (H.S. for the Humanities, Queens, NY) provides this list of relationships (direct/indirect/cyclic/constant)
Other Teacher-Created Sites of Interest
Toms River Regional Summer Institute Interactive Science Web Labs created by Christine Girtain: (Word | HTML)
Educational activities created by Christine Girtain using Quia software: http://www.quia.com/pages/girtain.html
"Space Scavenger Hunt" submitted by Lisa G. Berkowitz : http://www.cipce.rpi.edu/~gottll
Earth Science Practice Exams" by Timothy Heaton, U. South Dakota
Craigmont HS, Memphis, TN: http://www.craigmont.org/planetarium.htm
Geological diagrams created by Dr. Bruce Railsback (U. of Georgia)
Additional Miscellaneous Resources
AP (Advanced Placement) Central: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/Controller.jpf
Center for Science Teaching and Learning: http://www.cstl.org/
Earth Education Online: http://earthednet.org/
Earthlearningideas: http://www.earthlearningidea.com/
Earth Science World Image Bank: http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/
Education World: http://www.educationworld.com/index.shtml
Exploring the Environment: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/volcano.html
Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: http://free.ed.gov/
Geology.com: http://geology.com/teacher/
Hooked on Science with Jason Lindsey: http://www.hookedonscience.org/
Jigzone Jigsaw Puzzle Paradise: http://www.jigzone.com/
LabWrite: http://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/
Learning Science: http://www.learningscience.org/index.htm
Molecular Expressions "Science, Optics, and You": http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/tutorials/index.html
Pi Across America: http://www.piacrossamerica.org/
Regents Earth Science "Wikibook": http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Regents_Earth_Science_%28High_School%29
ReSciPE -- Resources for Scientists in Partnership with Education:
http://cires.colorado.edu/education/k12/rescipe/
CIRES -- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies:
http://cires.colorado.edu/
Science Review Games: http://sciencereviewgames.com/srg/
Science Spot: http://www.sciencespot.net/
SciLinks: http://www.scilinks.org/
Study Skills Guide: http://www.educationatlas.com/study-skills.html
Teachers' Domain: http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Teaching Guides http://msnucleus.org/membership/html/jh/earth/index.html
ThinkFinity/Marco Polo Education: http://www.mped.org/EducatorHome.aspx
UCAR Digital Image Library: http://www.fin.ucar.edu/ucardil/
Online Textbook Links
Exploring Earth -- McDougal Littell
Understanding Earth 3e -- W H Freeman
Links to Links
Earth Science Webquest Internet Investigations Links