Enduring Resources for Earth Sciences Education (ERESE)
Promoting, creating and publishing of Enduring Resources for Earth Science Education in a collaboration between middle and high school teachers and Earth scientists. 		 
RESEARCHABLE HYPOTHESES
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The predefined ERESE questions will guide you through some important Earth science questions and concepts, helping you in your search for lesson materials and other scientific materials in the EarthRef.org and SIOExplorer scientific databases.
RESOURCE MATRICES
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Each ERESE resource matrix contains objects and materials for a certain Earth science concept or subject. You can directly browse the available matrices and select the objects you need for your lesson plan or project based on content type and expert level.
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Seamount Catalog
View and Download Maps from over more than 1,800 Undersea Mountains. Find Data Files to make your own Maps, or discover Data collected during Seagoing Expeditions studying the Geology and Biology of Seamounts.

Geochemical Reservoir Database
Findout about the Composition of the Earth and the Solar System. You can answer Questions about the Major and Trace Element Composition of the Earth's Mantle, Core and Crust. Or you can find out about the Isotope Composition of Rivers, Seawater or any Rock Type.

SIOExplorer
Search the Collection of Shipboard Data collected during more than 900 Scientific Expeditions of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
  • A two week learning segment on Hotspot Volcanoes has been implemented through a collaborative effort between Melanie McWilliams, a high school Earth and Planetary Science teacher at Chula Vista High School in California, and Jamie A. Russell, a masters student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Utilizing data collected during Jamie's research, the students were taught about the hotspot theory and how hotspot volcanoes are important to understanding other Earth science concepts. The segment begins with five lessons, one for each day of the week and culminates with a group project for the students. Read more ...
  • Three scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Hawaii are traveling to Antarctica to study the geological history of Earth's magnetic field. This scientific endeavor, project G-182 (spelled 'golf-1-8-2') of the US Antarctic Program will begin on November 16, 2006 with a flight from Christchurch/New Zealand to McMurdo in Antarctica. We will provide you with regular updates of the 2006/2007 expedition, but above all, you will be able to contact us and ask questions or get more information, because McMurdo station has high-speed internet access. So, we are looking forward to share our adventures with you or to chat to you over the internet! Expedition home page ...
  • The EarthRef Digital Archive (ERDA) invites User Upload of digital files. We recommend that you use this digital archive to store any digital file that does not fit into the structure used by the MagIC Upload Wizard found on the upper left of this page. Typical ERDA file uploads may include field work pictures, animations, video excerpts, custom software, location maps, white reports, workshop volumes, field trip guides, etc. Uploaded files will be immediately available to all users of the EarthRef.org website. Start a new ERDA file upload ...
  • The basic design of the EarthRef.org website has been updated based on feedback from many of its users. Currently, we are about to finish the Second Phase of this Redesign Project, in which we have improved the functionality and information displayed on the home pages for EarthRef.org, GERM, MagIC and ERESE. Each of these web sites will function as the Web Portal for its corresponding database, while taking advantage of the infra-structure provided by the EarthRef.org umbrella web site and database. Please check back with us on a regular basis to see how the design evolves over the next few months. We would appreciate your comments or suggestions through the Feedback form.
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