Geology of the Earth and Planets 2002
An Activity rich exploration of planetary geology
With Paul Doherty, Modesto Tamez and John Lahr
Planets, orbits and rotation
Rectified Globe, Set up an earth globe with your location at top dead center and the north pole pointing to the north. The sunlight striking the globe is the same as the sunlight striking the earth.The Annalemma, where the sun apears in the sky at noon each day.
Dance of the Day and Year, act out the rotation and revolution of a planet.
Gravity Well, discover Kepler's laws in a gravity well.
Gravity Well explainer, feel the force versus distance in a gravity well model.
Gravitational Slingshot, A simple model
Earth Rotation, measure the length of a sidereal day.
Planetary Gravity
Your weight on other worlds Explo website
freefall, punctured bottlemagnets repel on a stickcandle in a bottle
Tides
Playdough Moon, how big is the moon relative to earth?Spin a koosh, planetary equatorial bulges
Planet shapes, the fundamental building blocks of planet shape.
Tide-o-matic, explore how tides are made.
Solar Science
Solar Thermal Measure the total energy output of the sun using a liquid crystal thermal postcard.Solar Distance Measure the distance to the sun using a thermal postcard.
Solar Brightness Measure the brightness of the sun compared to a light bulb using a grease spot photometer.
Seismology
Montana squeeze box
Shake table
Whose fault is it?
velcro quake
Tien's earthquake structure walls
liquefaction
Tectonics
Sqeezebox
Atmosphere and hydrosphere
Magnetic Atmosphere Model, stack magnets on a pencil to model the density of the atmosphere.Boyle-ing water, boil water in a syringe by reducing pressure to Martian values.
Water Cycle Video, watch the video by Andre Zdravic and make a script for it.
Water Waves, measure them
Model of the earth's interior
egg/ clay model
Scale model of the earth. Eric.
other planets
Rotational angular momentum
San Francisco
Subway to subduction
Magnetism
PD magnet activities
Where's North?, hang magnets and they all hang in the same orientation.Magnetic Poles, likes repel and unlikes attract, so why does the north pole of a magnet point north?
Magnetic Globe, explore the magnetic field of the earth.
Magnetic field of planets, images of planetary magnetic fields.
Magnetic Tape, use pieces of magnetic tape to model continental driftBits and bytes
magnetic sand in foam
Tien's clear can magnetization
Radioactive dating
dice model (Snack)
Volcanology
Jello volcano: Will come from Modesto
Pillow lava chocolate: Wil come from Eric Muller
cooling fudge crystallization
polyurethane foam volcano
Cratering
PD craters, drop steel ball bearings into salt to study impact craters.
Crater Illusion, change the lighting on a crater and make it look like a mound.
Comets
Icy bodies, use dry ice on warm water to make patterns like comets with tails.
Mapping
Modesto's navigation brochure activity.
Coral's topographic mappingIron Science Teacher topographic map.
Sediments
sediment sorter
Exhibits
Settling Column
Turbulent Orb
Miscellaneous
freefall candle
freefall balloon popper
Seeing IR with a digital camera
Web Resources, a compilation of information on the web about planetary geology.
Scientific Explorations with Paul Doherty |
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10 July 2002 |