This introductory online historical geology class teaches basic scientific principles like evolution and plate tectonics and reviews Earth history from the Precambrian to the present day. The course readings are online, as well as writable worksheets. The course also asks students to present their research findings as web pages. The course stresses the methods scientists use to determine the information ... Full description.

This is the webpage of an introductory Earth History course at the University of Michigan. The course focuses on basic geologic language and principles, earth materials, depositional environments, geologic time, plate tectonic and evolutionary theory. The website contains online study guides, lecture notes, homework, and useful links. Full description.

This is the homepage for a classic invertebrate paleontology course covering fossils and evolution. Students go through major invertebrate groups, examine and interpret fossils and assemblages. Rather than approach the whole world chronologically, the course covers each lineage one-at-a-time. The site is rich in photographs and informational links. Full description.

This website is the homepage of the St. Olaf interdisciplinary course, Global Climate Change. The course focuses on how and why Earth's climate has changed throughout its history and how it is likely to change in the near future. The course draws from geology, chemistry, meteorology, oceanography, and policy studies. Much of the science involved in this topic is cutting-edge, so quite a bit of the ... Full description.

This is a history-of-geology course that includes a great deal of Earth history material. The course describes historical development of geology as a scientific discipline from ancient civilizations to the modern space age, the historical context and cultural basis of major geological theories regarding the origin of the Earth and processes that have influenced the Earth's development, the lives and ... Full description.

This course module is a multimedia program designed to prepare adult students for Grade 12 science courses, primarily Canadian Aboriginal students who may not have been successful with traditional methods of learning science. The program consists of a seven-unit CD-ROM, printed instructor and student manuals, on-line testing, and a website with module overviews, objectives, and additional links and ... Full description.

This site contains resources that support an introductory course in exploration geophysics. The materials are designed for use in teaching geophysics to non-geophysicists. Course materials include all those that you would normally associate with an on-line course; lecture notes, references, on-line quizzes, etc. These materials are divided into four modules, one each describing the theory and use ... Full description.

This is an extensive collection of university-level courses, course supplements, and presentations concerning physics, with an emphasis on the subdiscipline of astronomy. Complete online courses are entitled Cosmology and the Origin of Life, Solar System Geology, Alternative Energies Class, and Physics (for Scientists and Engineers). These courses generally have the format of a course overview, a ... Full description.

The COMET Program is pleased to announce the publication of the Alberta Clipper Case Exercise module. This one and half- to 2-hour case study focuses on a snow and blowing snow event in the Canadian prairies and US northern high plains on 11-13 November 2003. The key aim of this module is to step through the forecast process during an Alberta Clipper event from the perspective of a forecaster with ... Full description.

This course homepage, from the University of California, Santa Cruz, contains problem sets, class notes, homework, lecture notes, labs, old tests, a syllabus, and lecture outlines. Topics covered include derivatives, vectors, differential equations, gradients, matrices, and the geological applications of these concepts. Full description.