About the Earth Exploration Toolbook
The Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) provides step-by-step instructions for using Earth science datasets and scientific tools in educational settings. Chapters in the EET walk users through case studies in which they use data and analysis tools to explore important issues and concepts in Earth system science. Clear instructions guide users through the steps to access and analyze data. Screenshots are available to help novice technology users complete detailed operations. Chapters also offer suggestions for further exploration of the data and other ways to use the tool.
Chapters are designed for use by K-12 teachers, undergraduate faculty, and their students. Each chapter features specific datasets and analysis or visualization tools, and provides enough experience and in-depth knowledge of the resource to enable an educator to use it, apply it to other teaching contexts, or help students use the resource to explore and investigate aspects of the Earth system. The purpose of the Earth Exploration Toolbook is to support the use of scientific datasets, data access and analysis tools, and other products by the broader educational community.
Who is developing the Earth Exploration Toolbook?
EET is a collection in the National Science Digital Library (more info) and the Digital Library for Earth System Education (more info) . The National Science Foundation provides funding for the development of the collection under NSF Award #0226199. Partners in the development of the EET include the Center for Earth and Space Science Education at TERC, the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College, the Complex Systems Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University.
Terms of Use
This website was developed by the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College with funding from the National Science Foundation. Any views expressed in this website do not necessarily reflect the views of SERC, Carleton College or any of its sponsors or affiliates.
We encourage the reuse and disemination of the material on this site for educational, noncommercial purposes as long as attribuition is retained. To this end the material on this site is offered under a Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0. (more info)
