Starting Point, presented by the Science Education Research Center at Carleton College, is designed for faculty and graduate students who teach undergraduate entry-level geoscience courses. Each section "describes a...

These web pages, authored and curated by David P. Stern, traces the processes involved in the sun's impact on weather. This is an exploration of the importance of radiation and reflection of light, both visible and...

The University of Michigan's educational site called Windows to the Universe (last mentioned in the January 6, 1999 Scout Report for Science and Engineering) has added many new lessons to their content. Highlights of...

This large NASA site presents the story of magnetic effects in near-Earth space. It describes Earth's magnetic field, its interaction with the stream of particles called the solar wind, Earth's radiation belts, and more....

This is a non-mathematical overview of magnetism and the Earth's magnetic field, written for the 400th anniversary of William Gilbert's book "De Magnete". It includes discussions of electromagnetism, solar magnetism,...