Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
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Unit 1
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Chapter 1: Volcanoes and Your Community
Activity 1: What are Volcanoes?
15-Minute Audio
Activity 2: Volcanic Landforms
Activity 3: Volcanic Hazards: Flows
Activity 4: Volcanic Hazards: Airborne Debris
Activity 5: Volcanoes and the Atmosphere
15-Minute Audio
Activity 6: Volcanic History of Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 7: Monitoring Active Volcanoes
15-Minute Audio
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Chapter 2: Plate Tectonics and Your Community
Activity 1: Taking a Ride on a Lithospheric Plate
Activity 2: Plate Boundaries and Plate Interactions
Activity 3: What Drives the Plates?
Activity 4: Effects of Plate Tectonics
Activity 5: The Changing Geography of Your Community
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Chapter 3: Earthquakes and Your Community
Activity 1: An Earthquake in Your Community
Activity 2: Detecting Earthquake Waves
Activity 3: How Big Was It?
15-Minute Audio
Activity 4: Earthquake History of Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 5: Lessening Earthquake Damage
15-Minute Audio
Activity 6: Designing Earthquake-Proof Structures
15-Minute Audio
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Unit 2
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Chapter 1: Bedrock Geology and Your Community
Activity 1: Sedimentary Rocks and the Geologic History of Your Community
Activity 2: Igneous Rocks and the Geologic History of Your Community
Activity 3: Metamorphic Rocks and Your Community
Activity 4: Rock Units and Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 5: Structural Geology and Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 6: Reading the Geological History of Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 7: Geology of the United States
15-Minute Audio
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Chapter 2: River Systems and Your Community
Activity 1: High-Gradient Streams
Activity 2: Low-Gradient Streams
Activity 3: Sediments in Streams
Activity 4: Rivers and Drainage Basins
15-Minute Audio
Activity 5: Parkland Field Study
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Chapter 3: Land Use Planning and Your Community
Activity 1: Your Community's Water Resources
15-Minute Audio
Activity 2: Urban Development and Air Quality
15-Minute Audio
Activity 3: Flooding in Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 4: Slope of Land in Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 5: Soil and Land Use in Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 6: Surveying the Community on Land Use
15-Minute Audio
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Unit 3
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Chapter 1: Oceans and Your Community
Activity 1: The Causes of Ocean Circulation
Activity 2: The Deep Circulation of the Ocean
Activity 3: The Surface Circulation of the Ocean
Activity 4: El Nino and Ocean Circulation
Activity 5: Weather, Climate, and El Nino
Activity 6: El Nino and the Oceanic Food Chain
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Chapter 2: Severe Weather and Your Community
Activity 1: What Conditions Create Thunderstorms?
Activity 2: A Thunderstorm Matures
Activity 3: Tracking Thunderstorm Movement through Radar
15-Minute Audio
Activity 4: Severe Weather Hazards - Flash Floods
15-Minute Audio
Activity 5: Lightning and Thunder
Activity 6: Severe Winds and Tornadoes
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Chapter 3: The Cryosphere and Your Community
Activity 1: Ice Is an Unusual Material
15-Minute Audio
Activity 2: How Glaciers Respond to Changes in Climate
15-Minute Audio
Activity 3: How Do Glaciers Affect Sea Level?
15-Minute Audio
Activity 4: How Rising and Falling Sea Levels Modify the Landscape
15-Minute Audio
Activity 5: How Glaciers Modify the Landscape
15-Minute Audio
Activity 6: Catastrophic Floods from Glacial Lakes
15-Minute Audio
Activity 7: Nonglacial Ice on the Earth's Surface
15-Minute Audio
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Unit 4
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Chapter 1: Energy Resources and Your Community
Activity 1: Exploring Energy Resource Concepts
Activity 2: Electricity and Your Community
Activity 3: Energy from Coal
Activity 4: Coal and Your Community
Activity 5: Environmental Impacts and Energy Consumption
Activity 6: Petroleum and Your Community
Activity 7: Oil and Gas Production
Activity 8: Renewable Energy Sources – Solar and Wind
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Chapter 2: Mineral Resources and Your Community
Activity 1: Minerals Used for Beverage Containers in Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 2: What are Minerals?
15-Minute Audio
Activity 3: Where are Mineral Resources Foound?
15-Minute Audio
Activity 4: How are Mineral Found?
15-Minute Audio
Activity 5: What are Costs and Benefits of Mining Minerals?
15-Minute Audio
Activity 6: How are Minerals Turned into Usable Materials?
15-Minute Audio
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Chapter 3, Water Resources and Your Community
Activity 1: Sources of Water in the World and in your Community
Activity 2: How Does Your Community Maintain its Water Supply
Activity 3: Using and Conserving Water
Activity 4: Water Supply and Demand: Water Budgets
Activity 5:
15-Minute Audio
Activity 6: Water Treatment
15-Minute Audio
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Unit 5
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Chapter 1: Astronomy and Your Community
Activity 1: The History and Scale of the Solar System
Activity 2: The Earth-Moon System
Activity 3: Orbits and Effects
Activity 4: Impact Events and the Earth System
Activity 5: The Sun and its Effects on Your Community
Activity 6: The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Your Community
Activity 7: Our Community's Place Among the Stars
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Chapter 2: Climate Change and Your Community
Activity 1: Present-Day Climate in Your Community
Activity 2: Paleoclimates
Activity 3: How Do Earth’s Orbital Variations Affect Climate?
Activity 4: How Do Plate Tectonics and Ocean Currents Affect Global Climate?
Activity 5: How Do Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in the Atmosphere Affect Global Climate?
Activity 6: How Might Global Warming Affect Your Community?
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Chapter 3: Changing Life and Your Community
Activity 1: The Fossil Record and Your Community
15-Minute Audio
Activity 2: North American Biomes
15-Minute Audio
Activity 3: Your Community and the Last Glacial Maximum
15-Minute Audio
Activity 4: The Mesozoic-Cenozoic Boundary Event
15-Minute Audio
Activity 5: How Different is Your Community Today from that of the Very Deep Past?
15-Minute Audio
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The Teacher’s iPod™ (TiP) project was funded in part under NIH NIEHS grant R44ES016474. Its contents are solely the responsibilities of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH NIEHS."