MERLOT Materials

This site provides information about our planet Earth. Material about rocks, minerals, natural disasters, fossils, the... see more

Academic Earth offers free in-depth Online classes and courses from the world's leading scholars to encourage worldwide... see more

a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours ocean surface current... see more

BBC Earth celebrates Sir David Attenborough's highly-acclaimed Nature series shown on BBC. The sister site to BBC Earth... see more

From its origins, NASA has studied our planet in novel ways, using ingenious tools to study physical processes at work.

'Earth is our home planet. Scientists believe Earth and its moon formed around the same time as the rest of the solar... see more

This collection of digitized items from the Science History Institute Museum and Library features materials related to... see more

Students listen to the book Earth Day Hooray! and learn how incentives change people'�s behavior. The students learn how... see more

This is a fun and interactive resource for kids and teachers. There is an online bookstore and a teacher resource section... see more

The Earth Science Reference Tables (ESRT) is an invaluable tool to the earth science student. It contains important... see more

In this hands-on and feet-on excursion, learners take a science walk to visualize the planet's immense size and numerous... see more

Note: A second edition of Introduction to Earth Science was released in 2025. See:... see more

Interactive Website encompassing Earth and Space

This is an activity about planetary sizes and distances. Learners will construct a scale model of the Earth, Earth�s... see more

This Stair project is directed at 3rd Graders but can be beneficial to other age groups. Students will be able to view... see more

This website allows you to examine virtually any section of the planet via satellite images. Easy to pull up any... see more

This text explores a few of the many concepts that frequently come up in the study of Earth systems and global climate... see more

This chapter of the Healing Earth e-textbook outlines the scientific meaning of biodiversity and utilizes Ignatian... see more

This movie shows Venus and Earth as they rotate. The images are superimposed on each other so that differences in... see more

More than a hundred scientific societies, universities, research institutes, and organizations all over the world have... see more

This section of the Windows to the Universe web site provides information and images about Earth's atmosphere including... see more

This is a peer-reviewed educational series of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) on Google Earth. The first presentation... see more

The magnetic field of the Earth is contained in a region called the magnetosphere. The magnetosphere prevents most of the... see more

A few weeks ago, I had to create a StAIR, or Stand Alone Instructional Resource, for a graduate class I am taking through... see more