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NEW! Visualizing PNW Landforms Using Overlays for Google Earth®

Google Earth® is an amazing tool that has revolutionized how we are able to view the Earth through satellite imagery. Now it can be even better: we've turned it into a powerful tool for viewing bare naked landforms by stripping the "noise" of vegetation and the patchwork nature of the imagery.

Explore the big picture of physiographic provinces, or get down to the nitty gritty of volcanic debris, scoria cones and volcanic plugs. Compare the different types of volcanoes in one frame and see explore connections among them. View the entire drainage systems of Mts. Rainier, St. Helens, Hood, and others to predict where lahars will flow and who is at risk. The possibilities are endless.

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earthquakes

geomap classroom activities

geomaps

missoula floods

pacific northwest geology

pacific northwest landforms

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Grouper Moon 7th Grade Language Arts Worksheets (Age Adaptable)

From Louise Marquering...

I picked up a copy of Grouper Moon at the 2002 NSTA NW convention. In the spring I read it to my seventh grade class and they loved it! The following year I did an integrated unit with Science and Language Arts, since I was teaching a self-contained seventh grade class. My principal did pay for a class set of the books!

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printables

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Treasures in the Sea

Treasures in the Sea is a resource book that provides teachers with scientific information and engaging, hands-on activities that encourage students to discover, cherish, and protect the sea and all of its treasures.

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coral reef ecology

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Don't have SCUBA diving experiences or pictures to share with your students? No worries! "Mrs. Cindy" can supply them for you.

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Introducing the Worlds of Cooper and Renny: A Companion CD for Grouper Moon

Experience the author's inspiration for Grouper Moon through her own eyes - and her camera lens!

"Mrs. Cindy" (as she is known when she's diving) presents a personal perspective of Caribbean reef and island life. Her narrative reads like a letter to students, and includes answers to questions kids have asked her in the past.

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coral reef ecology

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The Nisqually Earthquake, February 28, 2001

The location of this earthquake is very near the location of the 1949 magnitude 7.1 earthquake. The February 28, 2001 event occurred on a normal fault within the down-going Juan de Fuca plate. The earthquake name "Nisqually" is derived from a prominent delta in South Puget Sound. The area northeast of the delta (along Puget Sound) is known as Nisqually Landing. The delta is protected as part of the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. (Text by USGS)

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Rock Classification and the Rock Cycle

Grade level: 6-8 (adaptable for other grades)

Activity Summary: Students in a sixth grade science class keyed rock specimens to their possible locations of origin on the Pacific NW GeoMap. This activity was used as an informal assessment of students' knowledge of rock classification and the rock cycle.