Here you will find resources to help educators and their students use a process to build consensus from many diverse opinions; develop a list of factors that are most important to consider when making land-use decisions for your community; develop an appreciation for the importance and difficulty of considering different points of view when making land-use decisions for a community; understand that land features and natural resources play an important role in a community's planning process.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students collect, study and describe local soils and develop a classification system for them; understand how soils form, what a soil profile is, and the importance of soil as a natural resource; understand the relationship between the physical characteristics of a soil and how the soil formed; understand that soil characteristics may vary over time, and that these variations can greatly impact a community; map the location of different soils in your community.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students calculate the angle of repose for the different kinds of soil and other granular materials; determine if any areas in your community have slopes that are too steep for safe development; understand the importance of considering slopes in land development.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students determine which areas of your community would be affected by floods of various levels; gather and analyze rainfall data for the community for the past 50 years; propose areas for development and areas not to be developed, using data on floods and rainfall; understand the importance of floodplains in land-use planning.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students investigate how urban heat islands can affect local temperatures; develop an understanding for factors that cause the urban-heat-island effect; investigate ways to minimize the urban-heat-island effect.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students map the drainage basin(s) in which your community lies, and identify the drainage divides; locate and identify water sources within the community; understand the importance of protecting the water resources of a community; understand the importance of knowing the location of a community's watersheds and drainage divides for land-use and planning purposes.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students interpret and describe how weathering, transportation, and deposition occur in your local stream, describe your parkland site in terms of its relation to the river system and the water cycle, develop a scaled drawing of your parkland site that shows its relationship to Earth systems and cycles.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students interpret topographic maps to identify large and small streams within your community, understand the nature of a drainage basin, analyze maps to identify the drainage basin in which your community is located, evaluate important interactions between communities and river systems.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students describe and classify sediments according to particle size and shape, describe what happens to sediments composed of different rock types as they are transported in streams, understand the relationship between stream velocity and particle size, understand the relationship between transport distance and particle size.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students use models and real-time stream-flow data to understand the characteristics of low-gradient streams, understand how models can help scientists interpret the natural world, identify areas likely to have low-gradient streams, describe hazards of low-gradient streams.