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 Disasters! Oh No!! Find out what these natural disasters are:
 * 1) Landslides
 * 2) Volcanic Eruptions
 * 3) Floods
 * 4) Earthquakes

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 * Go to PebbleGo (if you are at home, remember to get a password from your teacher). Click on Earth Science and then Earth in Action. You will find out about earthquakes, floods, and volcanoes.
 * See a diagram of a volcano. You will need the password from your teacher to use this website Picture of Volcano
 * To find out how volcanoes work, look at a magazine article from Scholastic News called Mountains of Fire.
 * Want to know about earthquakes? Try this WorldBook Encyclopedia article Earthquake

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 * Find out more about floods in this online book.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190%; text-align: center;">What on Earth?? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Find out what these Earth features are:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Glaciers
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Soil
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Sediment

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**What is a glacier?** Go to PebbleGo(if you are at home, remember to get a password from your teacher). Click on Earth Science and then Landforms.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**What is soil?** Go to PebbleGo(if you are at home, remember to get a password from your teacher). Click on Earth Science and then Earth Features.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">See a video and read about glaciers in the Worldbook online encyclopedia Glaciers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Need to know about sediment? Read a magazine article from Wild Outdoor World. Clean Water
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read an online book about glaciers.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read an online book about soil

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190%; text-align: center;">The Earth's Rocks! Find out what rocks and minerals are found in the earth. Learn about sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks, how they are formed, how we use rocks, and what fossils are found in rocks. //Recommended for ESL.// ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**What are rocks?** Go to PebbleGo(if you are at home, remember to get a password from your teacher). Click on Earth Science and then Earth Features.
 * Learn about the color, hardness, and shapes of rocks and minerals from Weekly Reader Magazine. You will need to use a password if you want to read this magazine from home. Rocks and Minerals
 * National Geographic Explorer magazine tells you all about earth's amazing story with rocks. You will need to use a password if you want to read this magazine from home. Rock Hound
 * Play a game. Can you identify types of rocks? Geology Games for Kids
 * == __<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Rocks __ ==
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The Rock Cycle

 * ebook** ||< Learn about the rock cycle, see how rocks form, break down, and reform over thousands of years, find out what causes rocks to change. ||
 * ==Rocks==
 * ebook** || Find out where where rocks are found, what they look like, and how the three types of rock--igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic--form. //Recommended for ESL.// ||
 * ==Blocks of Rocks==
 * ebook** || See things that are built with rocks, and look at different ways rocks are used in construction, including streets, bridges, sculpture, and buildings. ||


 * =Websites= ||  ||
 * == __<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Rock Hounds with Rocky __ == || === ===

A geologist will show you how to collect great rock samples. Includes puzzles, quizzes and how rocks are made.
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__A Wonderful World of Minerals__
||< This site is created for kids by kids. Learn about different rocks and minerals including gems, birthstones, volcanoes, and many more. Includes games such as rock memory and word searches.

|| <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> and interviews with real rock experts: geologists and earth science professionals. || Find out about a rock that floats, little rocks with holes in the middle, and a golden cube! Scroll through the geologic timeline. The farther you scroll down the page, the farther you'll go back in time. Check the field trip section to get some great tips for studying and collecting rocks. This site has great photos of rocks, minerals and fossils. || if it wears well, or if it splits. Then, try the other activities to learn about the characteristics and uses of rocks, and to read about different types of soils. Take the quiz to find out how much you have learned. || and metamorphic rocks are formed and about their properties. Click on a rock photograph to get information about each rock. Includes information about minerals. Play the Doom game that tests your knowledge about the hardness of rocks. || Interview six rocks to learn about their stories. First up is a meteorite, a rock from another planet that didn't completely burn up travelling through Earth's atmosphere. Next, meet a conglomerate who has travelled through the rock cycle. Greet a piece of granite that was formed five miles beneath the Earth's surface, carried by a giant glacier, and deposited on the ocean floor. ||
 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Rocks and Minerals__** == ||< Rocks are minerals, but not all minerals are rocks- that and other interesting information on this website . ||
 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Adventures of Mineral Man & Rockhound == ||< <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Fun puzzles to solve, interesting photos, pictures,
 * == GeoMysteries == ||< Rex the Dino Detective will help you solve mysteries about rocks, fossils and minerals.
 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__Rocks and Soils__ == || Which rock can float in a beaker of water? Test each of the rocks to find out if it is permeable,
 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fossweb == || Choose a type of rock from the rock database and explore how igneous, sedimentary,
 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If Rocks Could Talk == || If rocks could talk, they would have a story to tell about the history of the Earth.
 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Minerology 4 Kids == || Look at minerals in your home and mineral groups, play mineral games, Learn about rock formation, and crystals. If you have a "rocky" question, you can ask a mineralogist. ||
 * ==Uses of Rocks== || Find out how people used rocks in the past and how we use rocks now. ||
 * == Gemstones == || Great photos and interesting facts about gemstones. ||

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 * BBC Rocks Game **

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190%; text-align: center;">The Earth is Changing??

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Find out how the earth changes. What do these words mean?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Erosion
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Weathering


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What is erosion? Go to PebbleGo(if you are at home, remember to get a password from your teacher). Click on Earth Science and then Earth Features.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read an online book on weathering and erosion (still looking for information on sediments? That's here too)

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read an online book on erosion

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 * Video on Erosion**
 * Song on Erosion**

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Extinction
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Prehistoric life
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Dinosaurs
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Fossils
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Prehistoric animals? What are those? Look in the World Book online encyclopedia to find out. Prehistoric Animals
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What is a dinosaur? Look at this website to find out. (You will need a user name and password from your teacher)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read more about dinosaurs. Go to PebbleGo (if you are at home, remember to get a password from your teacher). Click on the Animals section and then Dinosaurs.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What are fossils Look at this website to find out. (You will need a user name and password from your teacher)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read and watch a movie about fossils. Go to PebbleGo (if you are at home, remember to get a password from your teacher). Click on Earth Science and then Earth Features.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">This website has interesting information about dinosaurs and fossils. What's a Dinosaur?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Find some basic information about dinosaurs in the World Book online encyclopedia. Dinosaurs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Solve mysteries about fossils on this website. GeoMysteries
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What are fossils and why are they important? Find out in this online book.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Why did all the dinosaurs die? Read this online book to find some possible answers.

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