Earth Scientist Gallery

Abstract:: This gallery of online resources is from the Museum's Seminars on Science, a series of distance-learning courses designed to help educators meet the new national science standards. The Earth Scientist Gallery, part of the Earth:Inside and Out seminar, features: A Video Gallery with four brief video clips, each with a printable PDF transcripts; Introduction to Ed Mathez, Introduction to Ro Kinzler, Creating the Hall of Planet Earth I, and Creating the Hall of Planet Earth II; An Image Gallery with three annotated looks inside the museum's collection; Drawers of Rock Samples, Collection Preparation, and Dr. Mathez in the Collection.

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Kids in the Hall of Planet Earth

Abstract:: This geology Web site for kids, part of the museum's Kids in Our Halls program, was created by high school interns at the Museum. It includes: Kids Interview Kids, in which kids visiting the Hall of Planet Earth are asked geology questions and scientists' answers are given alongside the kids' article that recounts how Dr. Richard Ash survived snake encounters during an expedition to collect meteorites an online challenge in which kids see which standard kitchen items contain rocks and minerals, a 10-question interactive geology quiz a Q&A interview with a planetary geologist about her work.

No Strings Attached

Abstract:: This site provides comprehensive information about earthquakes for students. Teachers will find animations, images, and real-time data of earthquake activity, and students will learn about the career of a geophysicist and how seismology works. Games, puzzles and quizzes provide additional learning opportunity.