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Operation: Tectonic Fury
Explore Earth's Mysteries with JASON
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Curriculum Corner
|  Operation: Tectonic Fury - JASON's New Geology Curriculum
Curriculum Highlights
Operation: Tectonic Fury is designed to fit within school districts' core curriculum. It provides at least five to nine weeks of learning material including:
- A 136-page full color student edition featuring four Missions providing students the science background knowledge and the tools to help solve each mission challenge
- A 160-page teacher edition including student pages, wrap-around teacher notes, lesson plans, extensions, worksheets, and resources
- A DVD introducing students to some of the world's top researchers and their work exploring the mysteries of Earth's geology
- Numerous online resources including digital labs and games, classroom management tools, and online community features. Additional online resources for teachers and students will be posted in the coming weeks.
Available in Print and Free Online Editions
 Operation: Tectonic Fury is available free online as either an interactive Web site, or as free PDF downloads for printing. Additionally, print editions can be purchased from JASON's online store.
 Meet the Team
In Operation: Tectonic Fury, you'll meet scientists who study rare minerals, the slopes of Mount St. Helens, the bottom of the seafloor, and even places underground to store carbon dioxide! These four host researchers are the guides who explain the science and work with students to unlock the geologic mysteries of Earth.
 | Mission 1: The Building Blocks - Earth's Rocks and Minerals
Host Researcher:
Dr. Mike Wise
Geologist, Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC
Mission:
Search for and discover invaluable rocks and prized minerals hidden deep under our feet. |  | Mission 2: Earth's Changing Face - Weathering, Erosion, and Soils
Host Researcher:
Dr. Virginia Dale
Mathematical Ecologist, Director, Center for BioEnergy Sustainability - Oak Ridge National Lab
Oak Ridge, TN
Mission:
Scour Earth's surface for evidence of weathering and erosion - processes that sculpt and shape our ever-changing planet. |  | Mission 3: Analyzing the Evidence - Dating, Fossils, and Geologic Time
Host Researcher:
Dr. George Guthrie
Focus Area Leader, Geosciences, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Morgantown, WV
Mission:
Unravel the mysteries of Planet Earth using ancient clues and cutting-edge technologies. |  | Mission 4: Earth on the Move - Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
Host Researcher:
Dr. Walter Smith
Geophysicist, NOAA
Silver Spring, MD
Mission:
Journey through the oceans and Earth's outer layers to its core to better understand the dynamic nature of our planet. |
Play Landform Detectives
 A
violent explosion occurs suddenly and a landscape is altered for
generations. Across the world, 7,000 years of raindrops delicately and
slowly weave a haunting landscape. Thick, crushing sheets of ice melt
away to give rise to great cities, and deep in our primordial past, the
most awe-inspiring mountains were sludge at the bottom of a forgotten
sea.
 Join Dr. Bob Ballard and travel the globe to unlock
the secrets of Earth's strangest and most inspiring landforms in The
JASON Project's new game for Operation:
Tectonic Fury - Landform Detectives. Unlock new, challenging
landforms and earn commendations to place on the leaderboard!
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Argonaut Updates
| Follow the Argonauts in the Field this Summer
JASON's newest class of National Argonauts are in the field, working side-by-side with researchers in order to learn about JASON's next three curriculum topics: Climate, Space, and Forces & Motion. Their amazing explorations will take them from Boot Camp in Washington, D.C. to climate research facilities at NOAA, the research labs of the National Institute for Standards and Technology, and even to a car crash demonstration at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety!
The Argos will post updates from the field over the next few weeks, and will post updates from additional research locations later this summer. Be sure to follow along every day!
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