This collection provides a wide array of visual resources and supporting material about plate tectonic movements. Visualizations include simple animations, GIS-based animated maps, paleogeographic maps and globes, and numerous illustrations and photos. This collection is not exhaustive but does represent some of the best sources for teaching. Resources can be incorporated into lectures, labs, or other ... Full description.

The Climate Timeline (CTL) is a tool for examining climate change and variability at different time scales (days, months, decades, centuries). This site defines variability, links to related resources and offers an interactive climatic variance visualization. It is supported by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, and the National ... Full description.

This portal provides access to a large variety of online resources available from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and elsewhere for teachers, students, scientists, and others. They are arranged into three categories: general information and teaching sources, general interest publications, and non-USGS resources. Full description.

This site provides an overview of how the Grand Canyon was formed. Concepts discussed include erosion by water, ice and wind, continental drift, and deposition. A photo gallery and stratigraphic figures support the text. Full description.

This is an article by Andrew Campbell from The University of Chicago Magazine, December 1995. The article is about the Chicago's Paleogeographic Atlas Project, an effort Alfred Ziegler began in 1975 to chart Earth's changing face, from more than 500 million years ago to the present. The article contains four maps from the project: A Permian Supercontinent, Computers Rebuild Climates of the Paleozoic, ... Full description.

This is the home page for Teacher Resources at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley. The educational resources section contains lessons complete with learning objectives, background information for the teacher, links to other related lessons, and more. Included among these is Learning From the Fossil Record, Geoscience in Alaska; Understanding the California Landscape. ... Full description.

This is the web page for PLATES, a program of research into plate tectonic and geologic reconstructions at the University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics. The page contains links to a brief overview of plate tectonics and plate reconstructions using the PLATES Project's global plate reconstruction model, in addition to movies in the format of powerpoint animations which can be downloaded ... Full description.

This site offers information on two aspects of paleoclimatology, North American drought and global warming. Each topic is addressed via a narrative background (The Story) and instrumental and paleoclimatic data (The Data). The section entitled North American Drought: A Paleo Perspective, describes drought in the historical and paleoclimatic records and is designed to help educate, inform and highlight ... Full description.

Paleo data come from natural sources such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, and ocean and lake sediments - and extend the archive of weather and climate back hundreds to millions of years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Paleoclimatology Program helps the world share scientific data and information related to climate, providing scientists with data and information they ... Full description.

This short Why Files article describes how a newer technique, used with radiocarbon dating of sediments from the Bering Strait, allowed scientists to confirm that a land bridge between present-day Alaska and Northeast Asia (Russia) was a probable route taken by human settlers who reached the Americas 12,000 years ago. The previous date was too old by several thousand years, indicating the land bridge ... Full description.