DeBari's Earth Science Links

Earth Science educational links:

Tutorial on Fossils and Methods of Dating of Paleoanthropological Material This is a readable tutorial and is very thorough. If you have any questions about how radiometric dating methods work, this will help you. Go to the next site to actually test yourself

Virtual Dating This is an interactive exercise about Geologic Time. Here you'll learn how geologists and archeologists determine the ages of rocks and ancient artifacts.

RODNEY'S HOMEPAGE for Earth Science Teachers Rod Benson, freshman earth science teacher at Helena High School, developed this site to share some of his demonstrations, activities, favorite products, and ideas with other earth science teachers.

Volcano Links All the volcano sites you'd ever want to meet (lots of K-12 stuff here)

Earthquakes - Links to lots of earthquake sites on the web

Plate Tectonics - Links to interesting sites on plate tectonics (no K-12 activities, just content and plate tectonic animations) Colored map of Earth's topography This map is incredibly beautiful, and extremely detailed.

Finding Your Way with Map and Compass A great description of topographic maps, map scales, and the use of a compass in locating oneself.

What Do Maps Show Some great excercises designed to help upper elementary and junior high school students understand and use maps.



Aerial photos of the Washington coastline!

An incredible site that lets you successively click down to see oblique aerial photos of the entire Washington coastline. It's from the WA Dept. of Ecology. Great for checking out cliff erosion, bedrock exposures, kayaking sites, beaches, etc. Make sure you keep clicking on the location you want until you get to a red dot.