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Considerations About Computer Software:

 When considering the incorporation of new software into your curriculum, ask yourself this: who does the questioning, organizing, decision making: the student or the programmer?

Learning from the use of the software should be at least as great as the learning required to use the software.

• Earthquake Programs from Alan Jones 
 
• Screen Capture of Seismic/Eruption
• Screen Capture of Seismic Waves
• Portrait USA 
 
• USA Shaded Relief and Zooming
• Menu with Geographic Overlays
• Menu with Geologic Overlays
• Multi-dimensional Profiles
• Thematic Maps
• Geophysics of North America (GNA) 
 
• Base Maps
• Zooming for Detail
• Setting Multi-dimensional Profiles
 
• Weather Data on CD-rom
• Global Data Sets
• Geologic Hazards Photos on CD-rom 
 
• Used to Support Student Created Web Pages
• On-line Copies: Distributed by the National Geophysical Data Center
  
  
 
• Spreadsheets
• Water Data
• Climate Data
• Geographic Information Systems
 
• Local Contour Maps
• Processed DEM Images

Tools of Research

• Library CD-roms
• Internet through the use of a Curriculum Page
• Access to otherwise remote data, images and ideas.
• Access to programs that present huge data sets (e.g. climate, salmon and the CoVis Visualizer).
• Access to Electronic Communities
 
• CoVis
• Joint Educational Initiative
• Earth Systems Science Community
• The Math Forum
• NASA's Classroom of the Future
• Integration of the Internet into an Investigative Curriculum This is a list ideas, instructions and lessons that support faculty who wish to integrate internet effectively in their curriculum. Topping the list is an 8 hour staff development course developed by Bellingham School District's former Director of Technology, Jamie McKenzie.