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Malcolm Hall
You depend on rocks for many things, so wouldn't it be nice to know more about them? This app provides a starting point for learning about rocks without being a course in geology. A small collection of common rocks is provided with photographs and descriptions. There are five quizzes of...
Resource Type: Curricula and Instruction, Curriculum Materials
Grade Level: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
An Educator's Guide to the Pontchartrain Basin is to educate students, grades 5-12, about the environmental importance of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. The guide facilitates instruction for teachers, allows easy access to information on environmental issues surrounding the watershed, and...
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction
Grade Level: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
The tectonic plates do not randomly drift or wander about the Earth's surface; they are driven by definite yet unseen forces. Although scientists can neither precisely describe nor fully understand the forces, most believe that the relatively shallow forces driving the lithospheric plates are...
Resource Type: Curricula and Instruction, Curriculum Materials
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
United States Department of the Interior (DOI)
This report contains instructions and two patterns for making a terrestrial globe and a tectonic globe. The pattern or map projection is designed to be glued onto a used tennis ball. The terrestrial globe is intended to help visualize the location of the continents and oceans. The purpose of the...
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
United States Department of the Interior (DOI)
This report contains instructions and a pattern for making a 3-D paper model of a volcano. This model is intended to help students and others to visualize a stratovolcano (inside and out) and to learn some of the terms used by geologists in describing it. By constructing and examining the model,...
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
This online publication is an excellent overview of earthquakes and includes a lot of good graphics and photos.
Resource Type: Curricula and Instruction, Curriculum Materials
Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Geologists generally group volcanoes into four main kinds--cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes, and lava domes. Read a more detailed description of the main types of volcanoes. Text includes pictures for each example (but are all in black and white).
Resource Type: Curricula and Instruction, Curriculum Materials
Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
United States Department of the Interior (DOI)
This report illustrates how crinoids lived and became fossilized. By studying animations and the paper model, students will better understand the flower-like animal that is referred to as a sea-lily and its ocean-floor environment. Included are templates for making the paper model, instructions for...
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
United States Department of the Interior (DOI)
This report illustrates how two organisms, a trilobite and a nautiloid, became fossils. The report is intended to help students and others visualize the size and shape of a trilobite and a nautiloid, the environment in which they lived, and the circumstances of their fossilization and subsequent...
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
This site contains lessons and teacher information for the Map Adventures activity. Map Adventures, with seven accompanying lessons, is appropriate for grades K-3. Students will learn basic concepts for visualizing objects from different perspectives and how to understand /and use maps.
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction
Grade Level: K, 1, 2, 3

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Common Misconceptions About States and Changes of Matter and the Water Cycle
Ohio State University (OSU)
Water is a commonly used example of the solid, liquid, and gaseous states of matter. The properties of these states, along with the phase changes between them, are complex and easily misunderstood. The water cycle, too, is a subject with great potential for misconceptions among students and adults...
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction, Curriculum Materials, Teaching Strategies
Grade Level: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Nourish the Future
Both food and fuel come from corn and soybeans. In this unit, students learn about fermentation and transesterification, ethanol and biodiesel production, what enzyme action can do, and how co-products from ethanol and biodiesel are valuable in their own right.
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction, Curriculum Materials
Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
Students will have an opportunity to understand how organisms can be manipulated and changed and for what purposes this might happen. They will meet with Research Scientist José Gonzalez from SDSU to discuss his experiences with breeding to produce plants with specific qualities. Students will...
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction
Grade Level: 6, 7, 8
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Photo Collections from the USGS
Resource Type: Image Collections, Teaching Media
Grade Level: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning (NJCTL)
The New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning provides editable course materials to learn (and teach) K-12 and AP science, mathematics, and computer science, whether in the classroom or on a video platform. They can be used with the entire class, small groups, or individual students. They also...
Resource Type: Professional Resources, Teacher Professional Development
Grade Level:
Xplorelabs
This module-based online learning platform encourages middle school students to find solutions to real-world engineering challenges in science safety. Designed to complement existing science, engineering, and technology curricula, the first module, Portable Electric Power, explores the science of...
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction
Grade Level: 6, 7, 8
Blue Apprentice
Designed for students ages 6-12 (grades 1-6), this intergalactic, story-driven game follows adventures of young scientist Thalo and his alien friend Grit as they explore alien worlds and apply science learning to solve problems throughout the galaxy on their quest to release the galaxy from the...
Resource Type: Classroom Activities, Curricula and Instruction
Grade Level: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
The Awesome Foundation
This foundation funds projects that bring communities together. Awesome ideas spark an instant of joy and delight and inspire long-term hope for a more awesome future. Some chapters also routinely contact applicants for interviews before awarding the fellowships. Anyone can apply, and grants of...
Resource Type: Funding for Science Teachers, Professional Resources
Grade Level:
Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
The Turnaround Management Association (TMA) honors teachers who have demonstrated their capacity to change student's lives and the communities in which they teach. Two teachers will receive ¤5,000 cash prizes and up to ¤1,000 for travel, lodging, and meals while at TMA...
Resource Type: Professional Resources, Teaching Awards
Grade Level:
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
The National Water Information System (NWIS) provides map-interface access to data at over 1.5 million water-monitoring sites.
Resource Type: Maps and Visualizations, Teaching Media
Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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