This site provides all information, instructions, downloadable materials, and links to online materials for an exercise developed for use in a Geology of the National Parks course. Using the provided maps, groups of 3 to 6 students are asked to identify between 8 and 12 geologic provinces based on topography, the age of rocks, and the rock types. As a result of this exercise, students will become ... Full description.

This 'Young Naturalist' award-winning essay reviews the geologic history of Pikes Peak and the southern Rocky Mountains, from Precambrian foundation to roughly contoured summits. The essay, in the form of a field journal, focuses on how geologists divide Earth's 4.6-billion-year history into four major chronological eras (Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic). It also discusses the evolution ... Full description.

This National Park Service Geology site provides links to tours of individual National Parks, Monuments, and Recreation Areas that contain fossils. Where appropriate, for each park, links are provided to park geology, maps, photographs, geologic research, related links, visitor information, multimedia resources, and teacher features (resources for teaching geology with National Park examples). The ... Full description.

This site contains links to information about Mt. Adams, a volcano in the Cascade Range. The site features links to all aspects of the volcano, such as its geographic setting, geologic and eruptive history, and historical information. Hellroaring Volcano and Underwood Mountain are mentioned as two older volcanoes associated with Mount Adams and are partially responsible for the numerous lava fields, ... Full description.

In this interview, a geophysicist working in Antarctica describes her work reading the magnetic data of Antarctic rocks that lie below the ice's surface. She discusses her area of study, the Transantarctic Mountains near Byrd station, her study methods, and why her work is important. There is also a brief summary of personal information, and some advice for students about studying and conservation ... Full description.

This Thinkquest site provides information about: winter sports and health, including hypothermia and frostbite; the history of the ice age; and the science of snow, including glaciers, icebergs, ice caves, frost, animals that live in the snow, avalanches, and the water cycle. There are book reviews and poems, a snow dictionary, games and quizzes, activities (how to build a snowman and snow painting), ... Full description.

In this lab, students will learn how to take field notes as scientists do, using a simulated sediment core, constructed with edible items. Students will use metric notations to mark changes in the sediments, objects such as fossils and glacial pebbles in the core sample, and will select a spot to sample. They will use a small round cookie cutter to obtain a cylindrical sample of the core. The activity ... Full description.

In this activity students study trace fossils, which commonly occur in rocks that do not contain body fossils and may be the only evidence that organisms had once lived in a certain area. They will also learn how sediment type affects fossil preservation and how to design an experiment. This activity is located under topic "Fossil Explorations". Full description.

This resource helps students to understand the geological formation of the Great Lakes and how glaciers shaped the Great Lakes basin. Students will discover that about a billion years ago, a fracture in the earth running from what is now Oklahoma to Lake Superior generated volcanic activity that almost split North America and that this geomorphic age created mountains covering the region now known ... Full description.

This television program presents the story of the catastrophic flood unleashed by the draining of glacial Lake Missoula in western Montana about 15,000 years ago. Materials available on the website include an illustrated article on what the lake might looked like, and an interview with Vic Baker, an expert on the unusual landscape (the 'scablands') created by the flood. He discusses what it must have ... Full description.