Updated on March 2, 2017
These 30 websites have games, videos, interactives and lessons to help kids and students learn about geology, minerals, and forces such as earthquakes and volcanoes.
This USGS website offers students of all ages opportunities to learn about earthquakes. For younger kids, their are earthquake games, puzzles, pictures and facts. For older students and any student looking for information, there are maps of earthquake patterns, strength,…
The ck-12 Foundation offers several free digital textbooks – flexbooks – in Earth Science and geology for students in middle school and high school. You can read the textbooks online or download them to your ereader, with the Flexbook app…
From site: Sixty-five million years ago the Earth was not the way we know it. Where now an ocean ebbs and flows, the Earth supported land plateaus. The land upon which you now stride was underneath an ocean’s tide. And…
From site: Welcome to the Earth Science portal on Extreme Science! This is the place to find information on world records in earth science and geological formations and to also read about key science concepts in the earth sciences, such…
Learn about the earth’s layers, composition, plate tectonics, rocks and minerals, and gravity. Do some fun activities and experiments, like growing rock candy, creating a compass and making earth stationary.
From site: Amethyst Galleries’ Mineral Gallery describes over 600 mineral species (and varieties) and more than 5000 specimens (see our new specimens last updated 09-Feb-2009, and What’s New last updated 03-Feb-2009), together with several ways of accessing these descriptions. The…
Mineralogy 4 Kids, the Rockin Internet Site, is the BEST place to learn about rocks and minerals. Enter mineralogy to learn about minerals in your house, mineral groups, mineral properties, all about crystals, and play some mineral games.Get all the…
In Volcano World, kids can share volcano art, take virtual field trips, read stories and play interactive games. For teachers, there is information on Hawaiian volcanoes, Mt. St. Helens, submarine volcanoes, volcanic gases and minerals, lessons, models, facts and a…
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The Colorado Geology Photojournals provides excellent photos and illustrations of earth layers and the dynamic action of plate tectonics.
This is a nine-part series of videos titled “Earthquake Country Los Angeles” that discusses plate tectonics, faults, the Northridge earthquake and seimic waves, as well as ways we can minimize the damage created by earthquakes.
From site: Subduction Construction is an educational game in which players examine Franciscan Complex rocks of the Golden Gate Headlands to place them in the context of the Cretaceous Period subduction zone. Players use high-quality, digital images of rocks from…
From the Global Volcanism program, this site provides students an interactive world map of volcanic activity. The accompanying database of volcanoes is searchable by name, type, features, country, rock type, and more. View time-lapsed animations of volcanic and seismic activity…
From site: Why do volcanoes erupt? How are rocks made and destroyed? Why do rivers wiggle back and forth? What sorts of animals roamed the Earth long ago? These questions and many more can be answered if we know a…
From site: This website is an educational resource that describes the science behind volcanoes and volcanic processes. The site is sponsored by NASA under the auspices of Project ALERT (Augmented Learning Environment and Renewable Teaching). It is intended for the…