Reasons for the Seasons
Declan De Paor, Old Dominion University; Mladen Dordovic; Paul Karabinos; Stephen Burgin; Filis Coba; Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
Reasons for the seasons (RFTS for short) is an interactive learning resource that leverages the popular Google Earth virtual globe. It is designed to help students and members of the public visualize and understand ...

Virtual Marine Sediment Core Collection
Caroline Robinson, Geology Department, James Madison University; John Firth, Curator, Integrated Ocean Discovery Program, Gulf Coast Repository, Texas A&M University; Kristen St. John, James Madison University
A primary objective of marine science classes is to learn the location and formation of ocean sediment types. Nearly 50 years of scientific ocean drilling has produced a tremendous scientific collection of cores ...

Fold Analysis Challenge
Declan De Paor, Old Dominion University; Dr. Mladen Dordevic; Paul Karabinos, Williams College; Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College; Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University; Mladen Dorevic, Old Dominion University
The Fold Analysis Challenge (FAC) uses Google Earth and a customized Google Earth interface to help students visualize the orientations of eroded dipping sedimentary layers and to visualize the geometries of folds ...

Exploring Marine Sediments Using Google Earth
Kristen St. John, James Madison University; Caroline Robinson, James Madison University; Ben Suranovic, James Madison University; Cari Rand, James Madison University; Denise Bristol, Hillsborough Community College
This exercise uses empirical data and Google Earth to explore the surficial distribution of marine sediments in the modern ocean. Over 2500 sites are plotted with access to original data. We recommend first ...

Pangaea Breakup
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University; Tyler Hansen; Bill Swanger; Mladen Dorevic, Old Dominion University
A Google Earth animation files was developed to show the Pangaea breakup. The animation is utilized to illustrate the evidence for plate tectonics and plate motion. Three student exercises are build around this ...

A Grand Tour of the Ocean Basins
Declan De Paor, Old Dominion University
The Tour Stops are arranged in a teaching sequence, starting with continental rifting and incipient ocean basin formation in East Africa and the Red Sea and ending with the oldest surviving fragments of oceanic ...

Grand Tour of the Terrestrial Planets
Declan De Paor, Old Dominion University; Filis Coba; Stephen Burgin
In the age of publicly funded space exploration involving several national space agencies, knowing about the highest mountain in the solar system is as basic to geospatial literacy as knowing about the highest ...