Core Module 3

Earth in the Universe

1. Earth processes
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Student notes Lesson 1 Essential Notes

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Websites to visit

tlc website - Flash - 'make an earthquake' simulation
Good fast site on earthquakes
The Savage Earth - lots on different geohazards - probably the best site to visit!
BBC Natural Disasters
Discover our Earth

2. The story in rocks
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Student notes Lesson 2 Essential Notes

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Interactive resources BBCs Flash interactive geological timescale
Websites to visit

Geological timescale

3. Wegener's bold hypothesis
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Student notes Lesson 3 Essential Notes

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Interactive resources Plates jigsaw
Volcano jigsaw
Websites to visit

History of Geology
Pangea Flash Puzzle
Rock cycle 1 (basic)
Rock cycle 2 (more detailed)

4. The battle over continental drift
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Student notes Lesson 4 Essential Notes

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5. A Mechanism that moves continents
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Student notes Lesson 5 Essential Notes

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Interactive resources Animation of mantle convection
Websites to visit

The Earth's magnetic Field
Sea-floor spreading

6. Plate Tectonics
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Student notes Lesson 6 Essential Notes

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Interactive resources Plate tectonics animation
Rock cycle - sedimentary rock formation animation
Faults - animations (basic)
Websites to visit

Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics 2

7. Forecasting disasters
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Student notes Lesson 7 Essential Notes

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Predicting volcanic eruptions

8. The Solar System
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Student notes Lesson 8 Essential Notes

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Websites to visit

www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk
Virtual Universe - heavily Flash but very pretty
Space images Archive

9. What killed the dinosaurs?
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Student notes Lesson 9 Essential Notes

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Websites to visit

Zoom Dinosaurs
Discovering Dinosaurs

10. The changing Sun
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Student notes Lesson 10 Essential Notes

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Websites to visit

www.telescope.org
Information on the Sun
Solar Views website

11. How big?
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Student notes Lesson 11 Essential Notes

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Websites to visit

Starchild Website

12. Beginnings and ends
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Student notes Lesson 12 Essential Notes

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Websites to visit

BBC Cosmology - history of ideas about the universe