On the morning of December 26, 2004, many coastal residents of northwestern Sumatra were startled as water at the shore dramatically receded below the normal low-water mark, leaving fish flapping on the exposed beach. The people drawn closer to the coast by this remarkable sight surely didn’t know how to explain the water’s bizarre behavior. Yet even in the early hours of the tsunami disaster, scientists began to grasp what was happening. In the following days, using maps of the seafloor and seismic data, tsunami researchers produced remarkably accurate computer simulations of the monstrous series of waves that took hundreds of thousands of lives.

In this interactive, examine some of these models and other graphics that reveal details of the tsunami from its initial generation in deep water to its deadly collision with coasts around the Indian Ocean.

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Online Learning by the United Nations University is an open educational resources that you can freely use as a learner for self-study and as an educator in your teaching.

This project is developed by the UNU Media Studio.

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Inquiryschools is dedicated to freely sharing quality educational practices with teachers, students and parents across the world. It begins with two movies.

The first movie, ‘Water Crossing’ shows how schools on different continents can together build a community of learners through the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). Using an inquiry approach to teaching and learning, students in Australia look at water issues together with a school in Hong Kong.

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Save our Seas Foundation is a non-profit making Swiss foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Its purpose is to implement and support diverse programmes of education, protection and conservation all around the world. Its Foundation Board discusses allocation of funds, sponsorship and policy. The Founder has provided the Foundation with sufficient means to cover its administrative costs and to insure that all future donations and sponsorships go directly to help worthy marine projects.

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These Flash Animations of Global Warming and Earth Processes are made available by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Here you will find animations of how Global Warming occurs and how it is linked to the Carbon and Water cycles. To view these animations, you will need to have Macromedia Flash Version 5 or higher.

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This on-line teaching module is for middle school science teachers. While some students may find portions of this site useful, the primary audience is classroom teachers and it has been developed with that target audience in mind. The site provides background information and supporting classroom teaching materials. The content focus is climate change and issues related to both stratospheric and tropospheric ozone.

There are seven sections, each with activities for classroom use. Each section provides background information, general learning concepts, and a list of activities. Read the rest of this story »

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On June 20 2001, one of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) Osprey (”Zuma”, a female nesting on North Spring Pool) was fitted with a telemetry transmitter to allow tracking her position. Like so many times before, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the U.S. Fish and Widlife Service at Montezuma National Wildife Refuge teamed up to provide an opportunity to learn about migration first hand. This combined effort resulted in the unique chance to track the movements of one of Montezuma’s nesting osprey.

Though this project started since 2001, many of the information on this site is useful for both educators and students. Check out the learning resources section.

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Join Inch in a Pinch on his travels around the world and learn all about the different habitats on planet Earth. You’ll also learn which habitats are threatened with extinction and, most importantly, what you can do to help out!! He sure would like to have you come along!!”

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For those of us who cares about global warming, here’s a story you haven’t heard, and you should have.

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The Global Climate Change Student Information Guide includes chapters on: the climate system; causes of climate change; empirical observation and climatic reconstruction; climate modelling; and palaeo- and contemporary climate change. It is suitable for all levels of undergraduate study, although 1st year students may find some of the mathematics in chapter 1 (the climate system) a little challenging.

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