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Link to Wildlife and Contaminants Online.

USGS siteWildlife and Contaminants Online
Introduces high school students to ecotoxicology.


Link to Water Education Posters. Icon shows illustration of people collecting water samples.

USGS siteWater Education Posters
Water resource posters with classroom activities.


Link to Rocky Mountain Mapping Center: Education and Outreach. Icon shows a map of Africa.

USGS siteRocky Mountain Mapping Center: Education and Outreach
Contains lesson plans, classroom activities, and educational resources.


Link to A Guide for Teaching About Coastal Wetlands. Icon shows an illustration of a plant.

Non-USGS siteA Guide for Teaching About Coastal Wetlands
Lesson plans and activities to teach students about wetlands.



USGS site Earthquake Hazards Program
Provide and apply relevant earthquake science information and knowledge.

USGS site Activities to Explore Acid Rain and Building Stones
This 38-page report provides 12 activities for students to explore the effects of acid rain on building stones.

USGS site Table-Top Earthquakes
A demonstration of seismology for teachers and students that can be used to expand lessons in earth science, physics, math, social studies, and geography.

USGS site How to Build a Model Illustrating Sea-Floor Spreading and Subduction
Science project for students.

USGS site Hands-on Experiments To Test for Acid Mine Drainage
Experiments.

USGS site Rocky Mountain Mapping Center: Education and Outreach
Contains lesson plans, classroom activities, and educational resources

USGS site USGS Volcano Hazards Program
A comprehensive overview of the U.S. Geological

USGS site Cascades Volcano Observatory
Focuses on hazards, activity, history, and monitoring of volcanoes, with emphasis on volcanoes of the Western United States.

USGS site Water Education Posters
Water resource posters with classroom activities.

USGS site Lessons on the Lake
Provides lessons and activities that teach students basic water science and environmental issues.

USGS site USGS Teacher's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area Map
Teaching guide to describe the gravity and magnetic fields of the Bay area; discusses how earth scientists use gravity and magnetism to "see" beneath surface of the Earth.

USGS site Karst Topography
Illustrates, through computer animation and a paper model, why caves develop in limestone.

USGS site Earthquake ABC: A Child's View of Earthquake Facts and Feelings
A pictorial glossary for young kids with a complementary parents guide.

USGS site Wetland Science Lesson Plans
Provides lesson plans that focus upon topics ranging from wetlands science to microscopy to graphing calculators.

USGS site GeoMedia
An earth-science educational tool for students between the ages of 10 and 14.

Non-USGS site A Model of Sea-Floor Spreading Teacher's Guide
Make a paper model illustrating the concept of sea-floor spreading.

Non-USGS site Park Geology Teacher's Features
Teaching geology with national park examples.

Non-USGS site Park Geology Tour of National Parks
Learn geology through online tour of national parks.

Non-USGS site Science NetLinks
Connects to a library of online lessons.

Non-USGS site Glacier National Park
Take an electronic field trip to the crown jewel of the Rockies.

Non-USGS site Museum of Paleontology
Learn about fossils and earth history through background information and collection of fossils. Contains activities for both the classroom and students.

Non-USGS site Learning From the Fossil Record
Fun education site about paleontology and earth-science.

Non-USGS site The Fragile Fringe
Lesson plans and activities to teach students about wetlands.

Non-USGS site Earth Science Classroom Activities
Classroom activities on geology-related subjects for grades k-3.

Non-USGS site New Millennium Observatory Education Page
Features a curriculum for high school and middle school students based on the daily reports from expedictions at sea and NeMo results.

Non-USGS site Groundwater Basics
Contains information about ground water, glossary, issues, youth program, and ways to conserve and protect ground water. Includes kids section.

Non-USGS site Ground Water Basics Kids Corner
Contains home and classroom experiments, question and answering, and puzzles.

Non-USGS site IRIS Education and Outreach
Geology education page for teachers self learners.

Non-USGS site More Than Skin Deep
A teacher's guide to caves.

Non-USGS site Arctic Theme Page
Provides access to widely distributed Arctic data and information for scientists, students, teachers, academia, managers, decisionmakers and the general public.

Non-USGS site Athena, Earth and Space Science
K-12 education page for teachers and students.

Non-USGS site Earth Science Activities
Contains classroom activities including creating a model of the Earth's interior, identifying minerals, and more.

Non-USGS site Helping Your Child Learn Geography
Booklet designed to help parents stir children's curiosity about geography. The activities, which can be used in classrooms, are designed for children 5-10 years of age.

Non-USGS site Earthforce
Informative site about forces that cause eruptions, quakes, and floods.

Non-USGS site Science Activities
Science activities for teachers and students. Topics include earth science, bioscience, physcial science, computers, and more.

Non-USGS site Wired Antarctica
Learn about the people doing research in Antarctica, what it's like there and how their research is important. Learn also how glaciers work in a series of lesson plans.

Non-USGS site GLOBE: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environments Education Program
Teachers and students -- help scientists by sending your scientific data and observations to their data archive.

Non-USGS site American Geological Insititute Education
Produce innovative inquiry-based curriculum for K-12 earth science education.

Non-USGS site A Teacher's Guide to the Geology of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Contains information and classroom activities about plate tectonics, volcanoes, hot spots, mantles, lava, and more.

Non-USGS site Echo the Bat
Understand light, remote sensing, and biodiversity.




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