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Why do hurricanes regularly hit Florida? How do earthquakes happen? What types of rocks are found in your backyard? Here you'll find answers to many of your questions about Earth science!

You can "dig deeper" into the science topics below. Explore curricula and instruction resources, teaching media resources, and outreach activities related to each topic. While this content is written for you, the teacher, you might find that you can adapt it for upper elementary students.

Explore the links below to deepen your knowledge and capacity to teach Earth science!

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Want to show your students examples of Earth processes? Use the search fields below to find image collections, presentations, videos and animations, virtual field trips, maps and visualizations and data sets in the Education Geosource database.