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HHMI’s BioInteractive initiative opens a window on cutting-edge science through interactive web features, short films, virtual labs, and scientific animations. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is a non-profit medical research organization that ranks as one of the nation’s largest philanthropies.

Global temperature maps for the last 100+ years.Sea level maps for the last 21,000 year and for 8,000 years into the future.Continental reconstructions and accompanying data dating back billions of years.Layer your view of shifting continents with data on atmospheric composition, temperature, biodiversity, day length, and solar luminosity, to get a more complete view of our dynamic planet. Follow a favorite landmark, be it Greenland or New York City, as its position shifts through time, or watch a famous fossil like Tiktaalik make an incredible journey from its origin to its current location. Based on the latest scientific research, it lets you scroll through the last 4.5 billion years with your fingertips. I wish my dad were still with us – he would like this too!ĭownload the HHMI EarthViewer app from the App Store.What did Earth’s continents and oceans look like 250 million years ago, or even 1 billion years ago? What do we know about the climate back when our planet formed? How has sea level changed since the melting of the last ice age and what does the future hold?ĮarthViewer is like a time machine for exploring Earth’s deep history. You can also Like this on Facebook to get updates and suggestions from other users. The “info” button has a brief tutorial showing some of the capabilities, and the HHMI EarthViewer website has additional resources and ideas. I suspect that students would catch on quickly, given a chance to explore. Seeing the change over time was stunning! For example, I centered the view over the north and south poles and over my hometown and looked at the mean temperature differences for the past 50 years. The app allows students to see continents grow and shift as they scroll through billions of years from molten mass to snowball.

The centerpiece is a virtual globe with a timeline on the left to scroll through time and options to view data charts, such as temperature or O 2 and CO 2 levels. You can with the EarthViewer, a free, interactive app designed for the iPad, that lets users explore the Earth’s history with the touch of a finger by scrolling through 4.5 billion years of geological evolution. (If you’re unfamiliar with their virtual labs, interactives, and animations, take a few minutes to browse and bookmark the HHMI site.) So I downloaded the app and explored for a while. It combines visual analysis with hard data, and helps students make connections between geological and biological change.Īs a SciLinks webwatcher and reviewer, I have a great deal of respect for the science education resources from HHMI. The app, developed by HHMI’s BioInteractive team, tracks the planet’s continental shifts, compares changes in climate as far back as the planet’s origin, and explores the Earth’s biodiversity over the last 540 million years. The app allows students to see continents grow and shift as they scroll through billions of years – from molten mass to snowball Earth. Students can also explore changes in the Earth’s atmospheric composition, temperature, biodiversity, day length, and solar luminosity over its entire development. Have you ever wanted to go back in time to see what the Earth looked like 400 million years ago? You can with the EarthViewer, a free, interactive app designed for the iPad, that lets users explore the Earth’s history with the touch of a finger by scrolling through 4.5 billion years of geological evolution. So I was excited when I saw a press release from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) about a new resource: As we studied biomes, my students would annotate the maps with sticky notes and push pins for all to see. The map wall was one of the centers in my middle school classroom. Even though I have a GPS, I usually have a road map open, too. Whenever a conversation centered on a particular location, his response was “Let’s get out the map!” One of the chief roles in family outings was that of navigator with a road map (this was before the age of GPS devices in the car).Īs they say, nuts don’t fall far from the tree, so I’m a map nut, too. We could spend hours browsing through an atlas or USGS topographic maps.