NASA
Nasa: The Space Place
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration allows students to explore topics related to planet earth and outer space. A number of games and interactive features are available.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution: Time and Navigation
Explore navigation methods by sea, air, and space, what latitude and longitude mean, how GPS works, about satellite navigation, and learn about professional navigators. Includes a timeline of developments in navigation from 1280 to the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Our Big Blue Marble
Students are introduced to the fabulous planet on which they live. Even though we spend our entire lives on Earth, we still do not always understand how it fits into the rest of the solar system. Students learn about the Earth's position...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Science Labelling Game
In a series of five interactive science games, students first study labeled diagrams to learn the names of the Earth's layers, of a flower's parts, of a fish's anatomy, of the human respiratory system, and of layers of the atmosphere....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Natural Disasters
Students are introduced to our planet's structure and its dynamic system of natural forces through an examination of the natural hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornados, as well as avalanches, fires,...
Nature Research
Nature Education: Studying and Projecting Climate Change
A model organizes what we think we know about something in order to predict how it might behave in the present, future, or past as well as how it might respond to external influence. Models are especially useful when direct, controlled...
Idaho State University
Idaho State University: Environmental Geology: Earthquakes
Study earthquakes from the earth's faults to the measurement system used in researching the shakers. Investigate what the primary and secondary effects are.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, & Antarctic Circle
Students examine the Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, and Antarctic Circle. Related questions are included.