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Welcome to the Earth Sciences Pathfinder!

Here, you will find different kinds of resources that align with the topics that are taught in your class. These topics follow the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) ideas of:

Space Systems

History of the Earth

Earth's Systems

Weather and Climate

Human Sustainability

The resources included in the Pathfinder align with class materials and can be used by you (or your teachers) to get a new perspective on information. You can use these resources for research, projects, and presentations, as well as study help for exams and the Physical Setting/Earth Science Regents. Maybe there will be something in here that is interesting beyond class, too!

Everything is grouped by media type, and organized alphabetically within that type. Click on each item to view more information and links to digital resources.

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Earth: A Primer provides a textbook's wealth of information with stunning illustrations that can be manipulated as you play your way through the science that formed the Earth and its features.

Download here: http://www.earthprimer.com/

***This app costs $9.99 so your instructor or library will be the one to provide it.

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Discover how Earth works through play! Earth Primer is a science book for playful people. Visit volcanoes, glaciers, sand dunes. Play with them, look inside, and see how they work. The forces of nature are at your fingertips.

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HoloGlobe is an interactive 3D hologram of the Earth that projects onto a Merge Cube. View altitude maps, real-time weather and disaster data, satellite activity, and informational videos in the palm of your hand.

Download here: https://miniverse.io/experience?cr=4207&amp;amp;amp;e=hologlobe-for-merge-cube

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Biointeractive is an award-winning site that allows students and educators in high schools and colleges to search for science resources, including activities, videos, and interactive data visualizations.

Search here: https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources

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Students can search for online interactive textbooks (or FlexBooks), articles, videos, and simulations (also called PLIX) that relate to earth science topics. The platform and resources are searchable by subject and grade level, and are entirely free to use.

Visit here: https://www.ck12.org/student/

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There are many Gale in Context databases, but two that will be important for this subject are the general Science and the more specific Environmental Studies databases. Each are searchable by standard Boolean operators and other common limiters like date and peer review, but users can also browse by resources related to current issues and popular topics directly from the homepage.

Gale in Context Science: https://go-gale-com.queens.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/start.do?p=SCIC&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;u=cuny_queens

Gale in Context Environmental Studies: https://go-gale-com.queens.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/start.do?p=GRNR&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;u=cuny_queens

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This database contains an index of over 700 "eco-fiction" titles of different genres.

Learn more and search for books here: https://dragonfly.eco/

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Enter data about lifestyle into this calculator to find out what causes a carbon footprint to be high, and what variables may lower it. This particular carbon calculator also has a leaderboard for low carbon footprints.

Visit here: https://coolclimate.org/calculator

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The homepage for the Environmental Protection Agency documents legislation and projects that the United States government is undertaking with regard to the environment.

Visit here: https://www.epa.gov/

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The United States Geological Survey was created almost as a Census of the land within US jurisdiction and its changes. The data it collects is made into a variety of maps and other publications which are available on the organization's homepage.

Visit here: https://www.usgs.gov/

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We provide science about the natural hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods; the water, energy, minerals, and other natural resources we rely on; the health of our ecosystems and environment; and the impacts of climate and land-use change. Our scientists develop new methods and tools to supply timely, relevant, and useful information about the Earth and its processes.

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Google Arts & Culture - Carlsbad Caverns

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Google Arts & Culture - Carlsbad Caverns

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Sites like the Carlsbad Caverns contain dazzling displays of geological phenomena. This page contains a video and a few photos, but the street view of the cavern brings you face-to-face with stalactites, striations, and maybe even a few bats.

Visit here: https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/carlsbad-caverns-national-park/m0281q55

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park is an American national park in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park is the show cave, Carlsbad Cavern. Visitors to the cave can hike in on their own via the natural entrance or take an elevator from the visitor center.
The park entrance is located on US Highway 62/180, approximately 18 miles southwest of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Carlsbad Caverns National Park participates in the Junior Ranger Program. The park has two entries on the National Register of Historic Places: The Caverns Historic District and the Rattlesnake Springs Historic District. Approximately two thirds of the park has been set aside as a wilderness area, helping to ensure no future changes will be made to the habitat.
Carlsbad Cavern includes a large limestone chamber, named simply the Big Room, which is almost 4,000 feet long, 625 feet wide, and 255 feet high at its highest point. The Big Room is the fifth largest chamber in North America and the twenty-eighth largest in the world.

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park - Google Arts & Culture

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park is an American national park in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park is the show cave, Carlsbad Cavern. Visitors to the cave can hike in on their own via the natural entrance or take an elevator from the visitor center.The park entrance is located on US Highway 62/180, approximately 18 miles southwest of Carlsbad, New Mexico.

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Library of Congress: Images from USGS Rock Magnetics Laboratory

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Library of Congress: Images from USGS Rock Magnetics Laboratory

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In the 1950s-1960s, scientists at the USGS Rock Magnetics Laboratory

researched plate tectonics and Earth's electromagnetic fields. The facilities and instruments used are depicted in this photo set.

View here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ca2171.photos?st=gallery

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U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, San Mateo County, CA

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Photo(s): 36 | Measured Drawing(s): 2 | Data Page(s): 26 | Photo Caption Page(s): 4

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Wearable Media - Ceres and Project Reefstone

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Wearable Media - Ceres and Project Reefstone

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Wearable Media appeals to engineers, fashionistas, and anyone who has an interest in data of all kinds. Ceres is a jumpsuit outfitted with haptic motors and lights that activate when data from NASA indicates the presence of a near earth object. Project Reefstone is made from die-cut material in wavy patterns which were determined by trends in global temperature data.

Ceres: https://www.wearablemedia.co/ceres

Project Reefstone: https://www.wearablemedia.co/project-reefstone

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Wearable media is a design studio that creates custom responsive garments. We aim to re-imagining our relationship with technology and fashion as an interactive media.

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This BrainPOP game will give you a flashback to elementary school with its familiar characters (remember Moby the robot?), and even farther back to the formation of the Earth. Place events on a timeline to watch natural history unfold.

Play here: https://www.brainpop.com/games/timezonexearthscience/

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Are you ready for a disaster? Smithsonian's Disaster Detector lets you try your hand at disaster preparedness, and shows you how to predict an event based on clues from the Earth and its atmosphere.

Play here: https://ssec.si.edu/disaster-detector

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One of AASL's top resources in 2015, PhET houses a collection of simulations in all fields of science.

Visit here: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/earth-science

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Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

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Photographer Wyn Wiley becomes Pattie Gonia, the world's first environmental advocate drag queen, to connect people across the world with ideas of sustainability and other ecological issues in this documentary.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/8Yfk0vvVIoU

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REI Presents: Dear Mother Nature, starring Pattie Gonia

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NOVA is a program that dives into historical and scientific concepts. This episode explores the stories that gems can tell us about their formation and about the Earth as a whole.

Watch here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/treasures-of-the-earth-gems/

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A collection of TED talks that pertain to various earth science topics, some hosted by people, some animated. TED-Ed allows teachers to add questions to videos, which can be a great study tool.

Watch here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons?category=earth-and-space-science

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TED-Ed lessons on the subject Earth and Space Science. TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.

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Carl Sagan's Cosmos is a highly acclaimed book best known for bringing difficult science concepts into the public eye by using a more laid-back tone as opposed to writing in heavy academic jargon. It was adapted into two TV series - one called "Cosmos: A Personal Journey" featuring Sagan himself, and more recently, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" starring Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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Dry City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

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Dry City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

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Drowned City is Don Brown's illustrated recounting of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

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Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island

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Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island

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Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island by Loree Griffin Burns follows the geological and ecological history of the volcanic island and the scientists who study it. Gorgeous pictures of the island illuminate the geological phenomena that brought it into being.

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The Carbon Diaries: 2015 by Staci Lloyd follows the life of Laura, a sixteen year old girl living in England who just wants to play in her garage band, hang out with her friends, and keep warm during the first winter of the carbon ration, but her family and her planet are falling apart.

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Neal Shusterman's Dry takes place in a California ravaged by a drought called the Tap-Out (not too far from our own California, really). When the water runs out completely, a girl named Alyssa has to fight for her and her brother's survival.

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The NASA App gives you access to information about launches and current missions, real-time viewing of high definition footage from space, a radio station with songs selected by NASA's very own DJs, and more. The app blends science and art and makes both accessible.

Download here: https://www.nasa.gov/nasaapp

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NASA App for Smartphones, Tablets and Digital Media Players

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The NASA app for Smartphones, Tablets and Digital Media Players

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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline follows Frenchie, a 15-year-old Anishnaabe boy who is on the run in a dystopian North America. Climate change and Indigenous issues are at the core of this brutal yet poetic novel.