Originally created as printed products, each teacher packet contains a teacher guide, materials, and activities covering volcanoes, maps, geologic age, fossils, caves, or ecosystems. Suitable for K-12, as indicated...

This database is a compilation of selected videotaped lectures made at the USGS. All of these lectures should be suitable for a viewing audience ranging from the general public to undergraduate-level students. The videos are in Windows Media format and are typically 60-90 minutes long...

Wish you could take more field trips? You can! Your own schoolyard is filled with great geologic features! This website is filled with activities and examples of what to look for to turn your schoolyard into a rich geologic experience...

Wish you could take more field trips? You can! Your own schoolyard is filled with great geologic features! In this lesson, students learn that a rock's properties tell stories about where it came from and where it has been. The lesson illustrates how to make geologic observations and gives background about the important properties of rocks to observe. Students then use those observation skills to describe rocks they find on their own Schoolyard...

The main goal of this lesson is to get students familiar with the idea that geology is something tangible and that it affects the world around them. They should be inspired to ask questions about how geologic processes shaped the world around them and make observations to answer those questions. All of this on their schoolyard...

This Web site contains selected USGS educational resources that may be useful to educators in secondary school grades (Grade 7 to Grade 12). Many of these resources can be used directly in the classroom or will be useful in classroom lessons or demonstration activities preparation, or as resources for teacher education and curriculum development...

This teacher's guide defines what a mineral deposit is and how a mineral deposit is identified and measured, how the mineral resources are extracted, and how the mining site is reclaimed; how minerals and mineral resources are processed; and how we use mineral resources in our every day lives. Included are 10 activity-based learning exercises that educate students on basic geologic concepts; the processes of finding, identifying, and extracting the resources from a mineral deposit; and the uses of minerals. The guide is intended for K through 12 Earth science teachers and students and is designed to meet the National Science Content Standards as defined by the National Research Council (1996). To assist in the understanding of some of the geology and mineral terms, see the Glossary (appendix 1) and Minerals and Their Uses (appendix 2)...

A collection of classroom exercises-A Teaching Companion-specifically geared to the existing USGS plate tectonics map and booklet. This Teaching Companion is intended to assist teachers in teaching plate tectonics...

The Geography Discipline has created educational resources in a variety of media explaining the mapping sciences and earth resources...