Best Practices
Earth Structures
Big Ideas
A unit on Hawaii incoperates many aspects, including activities and materials on Hawaiian volcanoes
Article, activity and worksheet on 'Mapping the Ocean Floor'
Brief description of a microscopic soil investigation
Discover why some rocks are smelly
Experiment with the cratering process in multiple activities which are described for the teacher
Lab modeling the impact of creaters and their conditions
Land formations study on the Devil's Tower and a sample of indigenous rock
Model to explain what happened when tectonic plates move
Modeling the soil horizon with dessert
Puzzle activity to correlate the rock layers from a complex geological site
Students plot wells and make a 3D map as well as completing the activity on the geology of wells