Enchanted Learning: Plate Tectonics
"With lots of colorful illustrations, Enchanting Learning introduces continental drift and theEarth’s plates to both elementary and middle-school students. If a picture is worth a thousandwords, how much is an animation worth? Perhaps they are priceless. The Continental Driftanimation, which can be run both forward and backwards, is a must-see that shows how thecontinents have moved over the last 800 million years. Also noteworthy (about three quartersdown the page) are the paragraph on the father of plate tectonics, Alfred Wegener, and thequizzes and printable activity sheets."
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Earth Floor: Plate Tectonics
"Developed in partnership with NASA Classroom of the Future, this two-story virtual museumfor elementary and middle school students has an Earth Floor, and one dedicated to dinosaurs. This four-page exhibit explains plate tectonics theory and three kinds of plate movement:converging, diverging and transforming. Keep in mind that continental movement is very, veryslow: "from two centimeters to ten centimeters per year about the speed at which your fingernailsgrow.""
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Discovery Channel Online: Fossil Zone
"Since no one has ever seen a living dinosaur, scientists use fossil clues to extrapolate dinosaur behavior, color, gait and even vocalizations. Discovery.com introduces four paleontologists who are going beyond simply putting together dinosaur skeletons. Don’t miss the dino sounds created by Japanese voice print expert Matsumi Suzuki. Interested in doing some digging of your own? Check out the map of fossil sites within our National Parks, and catch up on news of recent fossil finds."
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Discovery Online: Wayback Machine
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Discovering Dinosaurs
"Discovering Dinosaurs, from Britannica.com, explores ""how our conception of dinosaurs has evolved in the 150 years since the creatures were first ‘discovered.’ Despite 66 million years of extinction, dinosaurs continue to change as we do, because they exist as much in our science and imagination as they do deep within the ground, in scattered fossil remnants."" For middle and high school students (and adults) this site is arranged on a grid time line, exploring science’s view of dinosaur environment, anatomy, behavior and physiology. The activity guide is superb."
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Diplodocus
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Dinos R’ Us
Reviewed June 4, 2000 by Mrs. McMillan, a teacher from Miami, Florida who is affiliated with the site. This is an award winning site for Dade County Public Schools!!
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Dinosaur Illustrations
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Dinorama
Reviewed May 23, 2000 by Aaron, a reader from New York who is affiliated with the site. While computer-animated dinosaurs may have reigned supreme at the movies this weekend, National Geographic is upping the ante by offering Web wanderers the "real thing" at Nationalgeographic.com’s Dinorama: www.nationalgeographic.com/dinorama. Dinorama is the online hub that combines the Society’s latest findings with some of the site’s most popular dino-centric features - including the recent "Archaeoraptor" debate, an amazing T. Rex CT scan, a dinosaur egg hunt and a "Family Xpedition" that encourages kids and their parents to help a dinosaur shop for Jurassic Real Estate. So log on to nationalgeographic.com and take a Jurassic-sized bite out of the doldrums of summer.
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Dinorama @National Geographic
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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