Earth Sciences at Free-Ed.Net

Hands-On Earth Sciences

Let Free-Ed.Net be your window to the future.

The ancient Greeks separated all matter into air, earth, and fire. Today's earth sciences are a bit more sophisticated, but they are all about the air around us, the earth beneath our feet, and the bodies of water that cover most of the world.

General Earth Science

The primary purpose of a General Earth Science course is to introduce you to a broad range of chemistry topics. The range and depth of coverage varies from material suitable for homeschoolers who are seeing the subject for the first time, to college students preparing careers that require extensive knowledge of the subject.

A Video Introduction to the Earth Sciences
A series of 1-hour videos dealing with each of the seven major disciplines of earth science.

Essentials of Physical Geography
And introductory course that familiarizes the learner with the basic ideas of earth science as it relates to geography.

Geology

A Video Introduction to Geology
This is a video instructional series on geology for college and high school classrooms and adult learners. There are 26 half-hour video programs.

Fundamentals of Geology

Meteorology

Fundamentals of Meteorology

Oceanography

Introduction to Oceanography
This is an introductory program built around the Web-based textbook, Our Ocean Planet: Oceanography in the 21st Century, by Robert Stewart.

Environmental Science

A Video Survey of Environmental Science

Advanced Opportunities and Resources

Environmental Science is one of Free-Ed.Net's fields of study that offer guidance for those who have an intense interest in the subject and wish to pursue the work to the point of making original contributions to humanity's understanding of the living universe.

Earth science is any of several essentially geologic sciences that are concerned with the origin, structure, and physical phenomena of the earth.

Adapted from Answers.Com

David L. Heiserman, Editor
SweetHaven Publishing Services, Publisher