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Subtopic: Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition

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Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
Antarctica: A Challenging Work Day What happens when the ground under your feet is ice and it's moving? This video segment adapted from NOVA features some of the dangers faced by scientists conducting research in Antarctica.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Antarctica: Sea Ice This video segment adapted from NOVA uses microwave images to reveal how sea ice doubles the size of Antarctica each winter. Rare footage shows how sea ice crushed the famous ship Endurance in 1914.	K-12	QuickTime Video
Antarctic Ice Movement: Part I This video segment adapted from NOVA explains why ice sheets move. To find out how fast they move, scientists carve a tunnel through a glacier.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Antarctic Ice Movement: Part II Within Antarctic ice sheets are fast-moving streams of ice. This video segment adapted from NOVA hypothesizes about how ice streams are the result of warming at the end of the last ice age.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Avalanche Town The impact of natural disasters is made vivid in this video segment adapted from NOVA. A small town in Iceland, prepared for recurrent avalanches, is devastated when one takes a new and damaging path.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Body Breakdowns This interactive feature from the NOVA "Surviving Denali" Web site details the variety of ways the body can fail while climbing a high-altitude peak.	6-8	HTML Interactive
Breaking it Down - Weathering and Erosion This Nature lesson discusses the processes of weathering and erosion and how they work together to shape the earth’s landscape.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Build an Island This interactive resource from NOVA Online shows how an atoll is formed from a volcanic island and describes the role coral reefs play in this process.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Cave Formation: Biogeochemical Cycles This video segment adapted from NOVA chronicles the discoveries that led to a radical new theory in which living organisms, not just geological processes, play an active role in cave formation.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Cave Formation: Kane Cave This video segment adapted from NOVA describes a simple experiment that confirmed the idea that microbes can accelerate the biogeochemical process of cave formation.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Caves and Karst This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service presents the key concepts of cave and karst systems, including how and where they form, different types, and various cave environments.	3-12	HTML Interactive
Caves: Extreme Conditions for Life This video segment adapted from NOVA raises the provocative idea that if life can exist in the most extreme environments on Earth — such as in dark, toxic caves — then perhaps living things can also survive in harsh environments on other planets.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Climate Change Impacts Alaska Glaciers This video adapted from KTOO takes a look at Earth's warming and cooling cycles and the current atypical trend of warming that is impacting the glaciers in Alaska's Inside Passage.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Coastal Geological Materials This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service describes the different kinds of sediments that make up coastlines, with a focus on the variety in color, size, and sorting.	6-12	HTML Interactive
Compost Office This interactive activity from Keep America Beautiful, Inc. uses illustrated text and a game to explain why it is important to compost, the science involved, and the perfect recipe for decomposition.	3-8	Flash Interactive
Coral Kid In this video segment, ZOOM guest Cassie takes us on a tour of the coral reef near her home in Key Largo, Florida, and points out some of its unique features.	K-8	QuickTime Video
Erosion and Weathering Erosion and weathering may be caused by a variety of factors including wind and water. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features images of rock, soil, and beach erosion.	K-8	Flash Image
Everest: Test Your Brain This interactive feature from the NOVA "Everest" Web site lets you take the same brain quizzes that researchers used to test the brain function of climbers on Mount Everest.	6-8	Shockwave Interactive
Examine Global Surface Currents This visualization from McDougal Littell/TERC visualizes the relationship between global wind directions and the direction of ocean surface currents.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Forming the Burren This video segment from Nature describes how glaciers eroded the bedrock of Ireland’s landscape.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Glaciated Landscape In this video from Nature, learn about the many different features and effects of glaciers in Ireland.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Glaciers Featuring images of glacier formations, this interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service explains what glaciers are, where they are found, how they form, and how they move.	6-12	HTML Interactive
Global Warming Threatens Shishmaref In this video segment adapted from Spanner Films, visit the Alaska Native village of Shishmaref, and learn how an entire town may be forced to relocate because of warmer temperatures, melting sea ice, and coastal erosion.	6-12	QuickTime Video
The Grand Canyon: Conservation and Development This video segment adapted from NOVA explores the effects of the Glen Canyon Dam on the beaches, wildlife, and vegetation of the Colorado River.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Hawaiian Coastal Cliffs This video segment from Nature explains the geologic forces behind the creation of Hawaii’s dramatic shoreline.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Making Big Waves Certain sections of the Northern California coast are host to some of the largest, most spectacular ocean waves in the world. In this video segment from QUEST, learn about how these waves are able to get so large.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Melting Permafrost In this video adapted from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, see melting permafrost and hear Alaska Native peoples and Western scientists discuss its impact on Inuit culture and resources.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Steve MacLean: Conservationist In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet conservationist Steve MacLean, an Iñupiaq from Barrow, Alaska, who works to preserve the health of the Bering Sea ecosystem.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Students Making a Difference This interactive activity features three video segments produced by students in Alaska that demonstrate fun and innovative ways to help protect the environment.	3-8	Flash Interactive
Trying to Breathe on Mount Everest In this video segment adapted from NOVA, climbers attempting to reach Mount Everest's summit must contend with the low levels of oxygen at high altitudes.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Virtual Cave This interactive resource adapted from The Virtual Cave by Dave Bunnell, presents images of various features found in solution caves and includes detailed information on how these features are formed and where they occur.	3-12	Flash Interactive
Water Erosion In this video from Nature, learn about the erosive action of water on the Hawaiian landscape and human efforts to limit it.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Waterslides Join Valerie and Margie as they devise ways to measure how fast and how "wild" two waterslides are in this video from DragonflyTV.	3-8	QuickTime Video
Wave Action Students are asked to explain the interactions between the ocean and the shore.	6-12	QuickTime Video
You’re As Cold As Ice! In this Nature lesson, students learn how glaciers and glacial movement have affected the Earth through a series of Web interactives and hands-on activities.	9-12	Lesson Plan