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Dynamic Earth: Our Universe PowerPoint Presentations

Michael Doig — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:29:20 +0000

Thank you everyone who attended the Dynamic Earth Professional Development. Below you will find the PowerPoint presentations that I used. If you have any questions about the presentations, feel free to leave a comment. Don’t forget to sign up for the forums.

Day 1 – The Big Bang

Day 2 – Our Solar System

Day 3 – Earth’s History

Day 4 – Dynamic Earth

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Science Terms In Modern Media

Michael Doig — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:00:02 +0000

In response to Dan Meyer’s Where is Your List?, I put together this collection of science related animations, movies, and interactive modules. This list features resources I find valuable and have used either in a PowerPoint presentation or as a stand alone example. I still like to keep science real, but sometimes an animation can bring a topic to life in ways a text or lecture can not.
1) Radiation & Conduction
2) Atmospheric Layers
3) Big Bang
4) Plate Tectonics
5) Earth Rotation
6) Sun Motions
7) The Seasons
8) Pangaea Breakup
9) Polar Sea Ice Melting
10) Lunar Landing
11) Making a Topographic Profile
12) Convection Currents
13) Density
14) Seismic Waves
15) Volcano animation: Mt. Kilauea
16) Minerals
17) The Rock Cycle
18) The Water Cycle
19) Land Slide
20) Flash Flood
21) Braided Stream
22) Soil Horizons
23) Half-Life
24) El Niño/ La Niña
25) Global Warming
26) Phases of the Moon
27) Tides
28) Orbital Eccentricity
29) Periodic Table (Thanks Todd)
30) Sun Dial (Thanks A. Mercer)

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Teaching Technology Keynote Slides and Handout

Michael Doig — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:26:51 +0000

Thank you everyone who attended the Environmental Symposium at Floydd Bennett Field. It was a pleasure presenting and I hope I get the chance to do it again. A really big thank you to Alix and John from the STEM grant for inviting me to speak. As promised here are my presentation slides and a color version of the handout I gave you.

Teaching Technology Presentation
Teaching Technology Handout
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21 Places To Find Amazing Scientific Images

Michael Doig — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:00:49 +0000

Amazing photographs can take your presentation from good to great. Don’t make your students sit through another PowerPoint with bad images. There are loads of free high quality images available online. Here are 22 places to get great images for use in your scientific presentations:

1) Visible Earth – A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet.

2) HubbleSite – Beautiful images of space from the Hubble Space Telescope.

3) Earth Observatory – A new collection of Earth images.

4) Earth As Art – View the Earth through the eyes of the Landsat-7 satellite.

5) National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery – Images, Video, Animations and Audio from the NSF.

6) National Geographic Photographs – Photography galleries from around the world by National Geographic.

7) iStockPhoto – Royalty Free Stock photography and photos.

8) NOAA Ocean Explorer – Images and videos of ocean exploration.

9) Earth Science World Image Bank – The Earth Science World Image Bank is a service provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI).

10) NOAA Photo Library – Thousands of stunning ocean exploration photographs, coral reef photographs, and polar regions photographs.

11) Naval Research Laboratory Images – The Naval Research Laboratory images are provided as a courtesy. All images are in the public domain.

12) U.S. Geological Survey: Photo and Image Collections – A comprehensive list of USGS photo and image collections.

13) Human Genome Project Images – U.S. Department of Energy Genome Program’s Genome Management Information System (GMIS).

14) NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery – Images of severe weather and natural disasters.

15) National Parks Service Digital Image Archives – 1000′s of images of U.S. National Parks.

16) Earth Science Image of the Day – Each day a different image or photograph is featured.

17) National Geophysical Data Center – Bathymetry, topography and relief images of the United States.

18) LiveScience.com Image Gallery – Loads of high quality scientific images.

19) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Digital Library – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s online digital media library.

20) The Association for Science Education Image Gallery – A small gallery of decent quality images.

21) Google Image Search – If all else fails…