Teaching materials for geoscience classes

There is an urgent need to include Earth system sciences in the school curricula in order to enable the next generation to understand the basics of the Earth as a dynamic system and its global problems such as climate change or the sustainable use of georesources. In order to support school and student training but also for people who are generally interested in natural sciences and in particular in geoscience, I have created a whole series of websites and educational videos over the last four years, which are part of my collection of teaching materials that can be found on the DGGV website. Educational videos on my YouTube channel "Lehrvideos System Erde" (Educational videos on the Earth System) are integrated into the web pages. All texts, images and movie clips used in the videos can be downloaded free of charge and for free use. This web-based teaching material is particularly suitable for teachers in schools, but is also intended for students and interested laypeople.

The series is under construction, with 20 websites and videos completed so far. The chapters are currently available in English and German; Spanish will be added as a third language soon. The 20 completed chapters cover the structure of the Earth, isostasy, the development of the oceanic crust and lithospheric mantle, divergent plate boundaries, transform faults, the Earth´s magnetic field, and the geometry of plate movements. More websites and videos will follow soon.