Geog Animations

Educypedia

2007-05-21T09:10:00.000-07:00

This online 'educypedia' provides an extensive list of climate animation links:

http://www.educypedia.be/education/climateanimations.htm

A high speed hydrological cycle

2007-04-24T07:41:00.001-07:00

http://www.piercecollege.com/offices/weather/flash/hydrocycle.sw f

Interactive Lapse Rates graph

2007-04-24T07:38:00.001-07:00

Ideal for AS/A2:
http://www.piercecollege.com/offices/weather/flash/lapserates.swf

Air parcel's orographic uplift up a mountain slope

2007-04-24T07:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.piercecollege.com/offices/weather/flash/orographiclift.sw f

Animated Climate Map

2007-04-24T07:29:00.001-07:00

Thanks to Alan Parkinson for finding this gem:
"Very nice animated climate map http://www.vattenfall.com/climatemap/
Link from item in May's (2007) National Geographic, which also features fascinating article on Dharavi in India, and photo essay on US Mexico border..."

Edumedia

2007-03-15T09:20:00.000-07:00

Edumedia offers a few Earth Science animations but you have to subscribe:
http://www.edumedia-sciences.com/index.php5?l=2
Here is a mantle convection demo:
http://www.edumedia-sciences.com/_a399_l2-mantle-convection.html

National Grid for Learning Cymru

2007-03-15T09:16:00.000-07:00

N The National Grid for Learning Cymru is funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and is managed by Curriculum Data Wales. The site has a number of excellent animations:
Click here

Topographic simulation

2007-02-07T06:41:00.001-08:00

This is a real-time 3D simulation from Prentice Hall that illustrates how topographic maps are created and used to depict changes in elevation. Students are able to sculpt mountains and valleys in real-time and see the changes to the corresponding topographic map.
http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/topo/topo.htm

Topographic simulation

2007-02-07T06:41:00.000-08:00

Earthquake animation from the Edinburgh Earth Observatory

2007-01-27T23:18:00.000-08:00

View earthquakes over the last month as an animation (magnitude 4 or above).
CLICK

Katrina Time Animation in Google Earth

2007-01-27T04:34:00.000-08:00

From Google Earth blog - a link to a stunning animation of Katrina (needs GE4)
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/09/katrina_time_animati.html

Hurricane animation

2007-01-27T04:32:00.000-08:00

Courtesy of a NASA website:
http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/kids/Problem_Board/problems/weather/hurricanebasics.swf

The Globe Unwrapped and Holey Moley

2007-01-20T00:45:00.000-08:00

Interactive animations from the Oxfam UK site. The Globe from different angles and what it looks like flattened out and journey through the earth with Holey Moley:
Click for Globe Unwrapped!
Click for Holey Moley!

Cold and warm front animation

2007-01-19T23:56:00.000-08:00

From the University of Illinois' site:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/gifs/fpr2.gif
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/gifs/fpr4.gif
Check out some the Online Guides on this site also:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

Great Interactive Glacial Valley Animation

2007-01-09T18:19:00.000-08:00

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/howell/goodies/elearning/module13swf.swf
Thanks to the University of Kentucky for this one.

Tectonics animations

2007-01-07T20:18:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Rob Chambers for this link:
http://animations.geol.ucsb.edu/downloads.php

Water Cycle from the BBC

2007-01-05T23:21:00.000-08:00

CLICK

Glacier Animation from University of Wisconsin

2007-01-05T22:37:00.000-08:00

This link starts a short animation showing debris transport by an alpine glacier and the formation of a terminal and a recessional moraine. It requires the Shockwave plugin to work properly.
CLICK

Carleton College Geoscience Faculty

2007-01-05T22:23:00.000-08:00

Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively
Guidelines and "Visualizations" on variety of topics including glaciation, flooding, tornado formation.
CLICK

Curriculum bits

2007-01-05T22:13:00.000-08:00

Animations on coastal processes, types of rainfall and waterfall formation.
http://www.curriculumbits.com/products.php?cat=23

The Spring Valley High School Visual learning aids

2006-12-04T22:21:00.000-08:00

Many, may, many animations and images on offer here, from Plate tectonics to meterology:
CLICK

Essentials of Geology animations

2006-12-04T22:14:00.000-08:00

CLICK HERE

List of animations from the University of Oregan

2006-12-04T22:10:00.000-08:00

Topics listed:

ATMOSPHERE, WEATHER, AND CLIMATE
EARTH PROCESSES, GEOMORPHOLOGY, LANDFORMS
BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT, BIOGEOGRAPHY

Click!!!!!!!!

List of links fromt the GA

2006-12-04T22:08:00.001-08:00

http://www.geography.org.uk/resources/egeography/chapter7/

How to insert SWF files into Powerpoint

2006-12-04T22:05:00.000-08:00

http://www.mix-fx.com/tutorials/importpowerpoint.html

Soil

2006-12-04T21:53:00.000-08:00

From Wycombe High School site - some very useful soil animations:

CLICK HERE

The meatrix

2006-12-04T21:48:00.000-08:00

If you're teaching about the dangers of factory farming, this animation should amuse your students, especially those fans of "The Matrix"

http://www.themeatrix.com/

If you're teaching about organic farming view this five minute mini-movie which tells the tale of a small band of organic vegetable puppets -- Cuke Skywalker, Ham Solo and Chewbroccoli
http://www.storewars.org/flash/

Some great Y8 animations from Pencoed School in Wales

2006-12-04T21:46:00.001-08:00

http://pencoedgeography.co.uk/pupilanimations8.htm

My favourite animation of all

2006-12-04T21:03:00.000-08:00

Nice BBC climate change animations

2006-12-04T21:01:00.000-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/climate_change/html/greenhouse.stm

This link is to the Greenhouse Effect animation. Try the others also.

Some earth system and atmosphre "visualisations"

2006-12-04T20:48:00.000-08:00

Click!!

Thanks to Rob Chambers for these!

2006-12-04T20:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.nuls.org.uk/?pageid=62.

http://www.cleo.net.uk/resources/index.php?ks=4&cur=10

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/howell/goodies/

Physical Geog

2006-12-02T22:02:00.001-08:00

Courtesy of the West Virginia University:
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~donovan/geol101/animationindex-mh.htm

Geology animations (AS/A2 Level)

2006-11-30T06:03:00.000-08:00

http://duedall.fit.edu/wholeearth/geology_animations1.htm

Earth Science Animations Topics

2006-11-30T05:59:00.000-08:00

Courtsey of the Central Michigan University:
Click here!!

Tectonics animations

2006-11-30T05:56:00.000-08:00

Great site with lots of animations - especially tectonics.
Click!

Alphabetized Earth Science Animations

2006-11-30T05:53:00.000-08:00

A real treasure trove of animations:
http://geography.cst.cmich.edu/Franc1M/Animations/animation_list_posted.htm

High Wycombe Geography animations site

2006-11-30T05:41:00.001-08:00

This is the High Wycombe Geography animations site. There are links to a lot of physical and human geography animations.Wll worth a look.
http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=12426

The 7-11 Geo - animation guide

2006-11-30T05:37:00.000-08:00

Links from the SLN Geo site:
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/7-11animation.htm

River and atmospheric processes

2006-11-30T05:32:00.000-08:00

These were made by Noel Jenkins using Koolmoves software;
http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/animations.htm

Welcome note

2006-11-30T05:29:00.000-08:00

I've set up this blog in order to collect together as many links to geography animations as possible. Some I've saved and are available for download.
If you find any animations, please email the links:
pauliswi@gmail.com
Here goes...
Paul W