Alaska Geology

Supplemental Resources for Alaska Geology Teachers

Find our Open Source Alaska Geology text book on ck12.org The book follow is organized by the following topics. Below are supplemental resources to enrich the informational text.

1. Fossils to Fuel

• Getting into the Fossil Record- https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/fossil/guide/guide.html 
• Unit 4 Fossil Fuel Formation from SERC ( Amazing Resources throughout the whole site)
• Stories from the fossil record – https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/stories/middle/intro.html 
• The Great Fossil Find – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DyFusYXXE–hZZb3DwBHZliYAieb29o1/view?usp=sharing 
• Index Fossil Lab 
• Dinosaurs: Activities and Lessons form the American Museum on Natural History https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/dinosaurs-activities-and-lesson-plans

2. Interpreting Alaska’s Past

• ADI Earth Science Lab 5. Geologic Time and the Fossil Record: Which Time Intervals in the Past 650 Million Years of Earth’s History Are Associated With the Most Extinctions and Which Are Associated With the Most Diversification of Life?

• Alaska Dinosaur Project – http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/alaska/update1.html
• How Do Scientists Know What Dinosaurs Looked Like? https://sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/how-do-scientists-know-what-dinosaurs-looked-308605
• Paleontology Portal – http://paleoportal.org/
• AK Geology Info- http://akgeology.info/
• Earth Viewer (Lesson and interactive) https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/earthviewer 
• The Day the Mesozoic Died- https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/day-mesozoic-died
• Explorations Through Time- https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explotime.html
• Paleo Nerds (Ray Troll) – https://www.paleonerds.com/ 

3. Rock It

• Alaska Resource Education (Mining and Natural Resources) http://www.akresource.org/ (email them to get your free rock kit)
• Virtual Mineral and Rock Identification 
• Virtual Metamorphic Rock Identification Lab
• Virtual Sedimentary Rock Identification Lab
• Virtual Igneous Rock Identification Lab

4.  Plate Tectonics

• Determining and measuring the layers of the Earth https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/lesson/determining_and_measuring_earths_layered_interior
• Sea Floor Spreading Activity (JOIDES)
• Earth Science ADI Lab 6. Plate Interactions: How Is the Nature of the Geologic Activity That Is Observed Near a Plate Boundary Related to the Type of Plate Interaction That Occurs at That Boundary? 
• Lab Kit Density of the Earth Kit* Flinn AP6738  (in Earth Science too)
• Plate Tectonics Visualizations – https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/geophysics/visualizations/PTMovements.html

• This Dynamic Planet Map and Teaching Guide. 
• Interactives: Dynamic Earth – https://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/ 
• Plate Tectonic Animations – http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/eoc/teachers/t_tectonics/t_tectonics.html
• The Earth Revealed(Annenberg Video Series)
• https://www.learner.org/series/earth-revealed/
• Decent to the Mid Atlantic Ridge http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/mar/
• Teachers on the Leading Edge https://sites.up.edu/totle/
• Discovering Plate Boundaries http://plateboundary.rice.edu/tg.html
• Earthquake Machine https://sites.up.edu/totle/2012/09/earthquake-machine/

5. Eruption! (Volcanoes)

• Alaska Volcanoes Guidebook for Teachers (grades 6 – 12) provides locally relevant and useful resources and activities for the exploration of numerous and truly unique volcanic landscapes in Alaska. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/99/

• Alaska Volcano Observatory – http://www.avo.alaska.edu/
• Volcano World

6. Shake It Up! (Earthquakes)

• Seismology in the classroom https://earthquake.alaska.edu/classroom2017
• Alaska Earthquake Center – http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/

• Earthquake machine Lesson 1 https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/lesson/defining_an_earthquake 
• Earthquake Machine Lesson 2 https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/lesson/developing_arguments_about_earthquake_occurrenc
• Alaska Native Geoscience Learning Experience Lessons- https://serc.carleton.edu/ANGLE/index.html

7. Build Me Up, Break me down!(Erosion)

• Denali Rocks Curriculum

8 . Denali Rocks (Virtual Field Trip)

• Denali National Park Virtual Field Trip Opportunity

• Alaska Geology Society – http://alaskageology.org/publications.htm
• Alaska Science Outreach- http://www.alaskascienceoutreach.com/
• Teacher Friendly Guide to the Earth
• Aurora in the Classroom – http://asahi-classroom.gi.alaska.edu/
• UAF Geophysical Institute – http://www.gi.alaska.edu/
• Geologic Mineral Map for Alaska – http://mrdata.usgs.gov/sim3340/
• USGS Alaska Science Center – http://alaska.usgs.gov/
• Geologic Map Index of Alaska – http://maps.dggs.alaska.gov/mapindex/
• Alaska Public Lands Information Center http://alaskacenters.gov/statekits.cfm
• EarthScope Resources http://www.earthscope.org/resources/educators
• Arctic Research Consortium – https://www.arcus.org/trec
• Permafrost Outreach Project – http://ine.uaf.edu/werc/projects/permafrost/
• Alaska Science Curriculum Initiative – http://www.aksci.org/
• Virtual Tour of Denali – https://www.nps.gov/features/dena/003/landchange/virtual_tour.html

Miscellaneous Links

• Exploring Earth Visualizations
• Deep Earth Academy
• Earth2Class
• Starting Point – Teaching Entry Level Earth Science
• Earth System Science and Virtual Field Work
• https://opentextbc.ca/geology/
• Alaska Native Geoscience Learning Experience
• Mr Mulroy’s Earth Science Teaching Resources
• GeoScience Videos – https://geosciencevideos.wordpress.com/
• National Earth Science Teachers Association (good Resources too) https://youtu.be/bzusii4UueE 
• LKSD has access to ARCGIS tools, please contact Andyp@lksd.org for more information
• GeoScience Videos Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/c/GeoScienceVideos/featured
• Mike Sammartano – https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelSammartano/featured