Silver Science Files & Links
- Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 7
Watch as the Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 7. - Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 6
Watch as the Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 6. - Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 5
Watch as the Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 5. - Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 4
Watch as the Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 4. - Whoa, I Remember: Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 3
Watch as the Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth: Part 3. - The Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth, Part 2
Watch as the Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth. Part 2 - The Magic School Bus
The Magic School Bus explores inside the earth. - Bill Nye the Science Guy: Rocks and Soil
In this video, Bill Nye talks about Rocks and Soil. - Bill Nye the Science Guy: Rocks
Watch as Billy Nye the Science Guy explains the different types of rocks and the rock cycle. - Minerals Down Under
Learn all about the physical properties of gold, copper, silver, iron, and mineral sands along with the techniques used to find them. Finish up with a quiz to check how much you learned.
(from the Minerals Council of Australia) - The Mineral Factory
Learn about minerals and virtually build your own minerals in the mineral factory. - Rocks and Soils: Your knowledge may help save Earth!
The Trickster has opened a time portal and is draining all life from Earth. Test your materials knowledge and save the planet in this Sarah Jane Adventures game.
- Interactives: Dynamic Earth
Introduction
The earth — think it's solid as a rock?
Our planet might seem fixed and rigid, but a closer look reveals that it is constantly shifting under our feet.
Delve into the earth's interior, learn about its tectonic plates and their movements, and discover how mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes are formed. - Vocabulary.com
- Science Kitchen
Learn all about the three types of rock in the Science Kitchen. - Science Court: Fossils
Another exciting episode of Science Court. Learn all about fossils. - Purpose Games: Plate Tectonics
Assess your knowledge of plate tectonics by playing this game. - The Story in the Rock
Earth's surface is constantly changing. Mountains are built and rivers cut canyons through them. Wind and water carry rock away and deposit it in new locations. Volcanoes erupt, burying former surfaces under new layers of rock. Flat layers become faulted and folded. Everywhere you look, you can find rocks that show evidence of past geologic events.
Click each image you see to look at larger version. Consider how the rocks in each photograph indicate their geologic history.
- Rocks and Soils Interactive Game
The Trickster has opened a time portal and is draining all life from Earth. Test your materials knowledge and save the planet in this Sarah Jane Adventures game.
- Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes and Volcanos
Click on a map to see where Earth's earthquakes, volcanos and tectonic plates are. - Earth's Layers
Click on a diagram of Earth to find out more about each layer. - Interactive Rock Cycle
Discover rock secrets through these activities. Create a rock collection as you learn about the three main types of rock, find out how to tell the different rock types apart, and see how rocks change from one type into another!
- Slip, Slide, & Collide
Figure out what geological events are occurring at these real life locations. - Fossils
Find out what story fossils have to tell. - The Rock Cycle
Learn how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock are constantly changing. - Study Jams: Rocks and Minerals
Find out more about the objects underneath your feet! - Sedimentary Rock
Find out how sedimentary rocks are formed and learn a song to help you remember. - Minerals
Find out how minerals are important to every living organism on the planet. - Earthquakes
Find out what really happens when Earth shakes! - Metamophic Rock
Find out metamorphic rocks can be forms from igneous and sedimentary rocks. - Igneous Rocks
Find out how igneous rocks are formed! - Volcanos
Learn all about volcanos! - Earth's Crust
Bill Nye the Science Guy tells all about the Earth's layers and crust.