Blog Posts Tagged "informal educator"

Explore the Louisville Seamount Trail using Google Earth

Submitted by Educator Ideas on Sun, 12/19/2010 - 10:37
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Google Earth is a free, downloadable program that allows anyone to actively explore the geography and topography of the entire world, including the ocean floor.

Make a Seamount Trail in the Classroom

Submitted by Educator Ideas on Tue, 12/28/2010 - 18:16
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Learn about a hands-on activity that can help students visualize how a hotspot and a moving plate can create a seamount trail.

Learn About Seafloor Spreading with Real Ocean Drilling Data

Submitted by Educator Ideas on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 09:13
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In the last “Educator Ideas” blog, I shared an activity that showed students what it looks like when an ocean plate moves over a hotspot. Deep Earth Academy has an activity for 5th-8th graders that shows how ocean plates move through seafloor spreading that can be used in conjunction with the first one.