Newly Updated Geology and Earth Science Resources for Students and Teachers Now Available at Geology.com
Students and teachers looking for help with geology and earth science lessons can now find a geology dictionary, printable geologic time scale, printable mineral identification chart, satellite image tutorial and many other resources at Geology.com.
(PRWEB via PR Web Direct) August 22,
2005 -- As the back-to-school season commences, Geology.com (www.geology.com) announces that
it has a variety of new resources as well as updated resources to serve teachers
and students of geology and earth science.
The site's most popular
features, the Geology Dictionary and the Geologic Time Scale, have been
completely updated and enhanced. Brand new to the site are the Mineral
Identification Chart and the Landsat Satellite Image Tutorial. The site also
includes vast collections of links to the best geology and earth science sites
across the Web.
The Geology Dictionary (http://geology.com/geology-dictionary.shtml) provides
definitions for over 500 of the most commonly used terms in geology, hydrology
and earth science. "The major benefit of this feature is that students don't
need to purchase a geology dictionary for a one-semester course since they now
have easy access to one on the Web," says Geology.com owner Hobart
King.
The Geologic Time Scale (http://geology.com/time.htm) covers the full 4.6 billion years
of geologic time and can be downloaded for printing as a Microsoft Word file.
Teachers can download and print for distribution in their classroom. "The
Geologic Time Scale is especially useful because it is a Word document, which
means teachers can easily revise it so that it is suitable for their curriculum
needs," King says.
A new feature to the site, the Mineral Identification
Chart (http://geology.com/minerals/mineral-identification.shtml) is a
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that students or teachers can print for use in the
laboratory. For teachers, the most important feature of this resource is that it
can easily be modified or expanded (like the Geologic Time Scale) to suit their
teaching style or customized for the mineral specimens available in their
classroom.
Also new to the site is the Landsat Satellite Image Tutorial
(http://geology.com/satellite/), which explains how to
interpret Landsat images in terms a beginner would understand; the tutorial also
provides many images as examples. This tutorial pairs with a collection of
Landsat images for all 50 states and detailed satellite images of nearly 100 of
the most populous cities in the United States.
Most important is
Geology.com's large collection of links to the best geology and earth science
Web sites on a variety of topics, including: astronomy, astrology, earthquakes,
energy, floods, geology jobs and careers, maps, satellite images, mineralogy,
plate tectonics, petroleum, paleontology, geology tools and software, tsunamis,
volcanoes and much more.
About Geology.com:
Geology.com serves as
a portal to geology and earth science information across the Web. It provides
resources for learning about geology and is visited by over 100,000 teachers,
students and geologists each month.
For more information, visit www.geology.com
Contact:
Hobart King
Geology.com
570-724-4728
http://geology.com
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