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The Using Data in the Classroom project was active between 2003 and 2010. Much of the content dates from that time period and so may not be up to date. We are preserving the content here because it still contains useful ideas.

The Activities Collection draws from newer projects across SERC. You may also want to explore the Data and Models resources discoverable through Teach the Earth

Data Sources and Tools

These sites provide on-line or downloadable tools for visualizing or manipulating data or datasets that can be used in the classroom.



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Nuclear Fission Simulation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/nuclear-fission
A PhET simulation showing nuclear fission. Companion activities are linked from the simulation page.

Tsunamis Database part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsu_db.shtml
The tsunamis database allows users to find and compare tsunamis that have struck across the world based on their location, date, intensity, and the number of lives they have claimed

Earthquakes Database part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://earth-quakes.findthebest.com/
The NGDC database allow users to find and compare significant or major earthquakes by Magnitude, Year, Injuries, Death Count, and Damage.

USGS Water Data for the Nation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis
This site provides access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and ...

University of California, Santa Barbara LA MC ICP MS part of Petrology:Petrology Instrument Collection
LA MC ICP MS - University of California, Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara - CALIFORNIA -

University of California, Santa Barbara LA ICP MS part of Petrology:Petrology Instrument Collection
University of California, Santa Barbara LA ICP MS - University of California, Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara - CALIFORNIA -

ModeMaker Software part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://geology.wwu.edu/dept/faculty/hirschd/research/cod...
This is a program for the Macintosh that allow the user to create diagrams with up to five phases each with a known size mode shape color aspect ratio and alignment. These diagrams can be used by ...

Exploring Forest Extent, Composition and C Storage using US Forest Inventory and Analysis Data & Reports part of Datasheets
1987, 1992, 1997 data on U.S. forest acreage, ownership, carbon stock, and change in carbon stock by state/region and forest type. For 2002, forest age by region, and the above categories.

PASDA Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access: The Pennsylvania Geospatial Data Clearinghouse part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.pasda.psu.edu/
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access, PASDA, is the State Geospatial Data clearinghouse for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. PASDA is also a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Clearinghouse ...

How do polar and tropical ice cores correlate? part of Climate Change:Ideas for Teaching about Ice Cores
This activity was developed during the Teaching Climate Change Using Ice Core Data workshop, held in June 2008.Contributed by John Wehwiller, Tara Curtin, Thom Davis Topic: Timing of Climatic Shifts Course Type: ...