This website, developed to support the GLOBE Contrail Protocol, contains the latest information pertaining to contrails, including the history and science of contrails, and their importance to society. It also contains examples of imagery available from satellites in a contrail gallery. It provides learning resources for teachers like the crossword puzzle, word search and contrail ID chart. Lastly ... Full description.

This article describes a study analyzing narrative essays, stories of rock formation, written by pre-service elementary school teachers. Most of these students had completed a college-level course in earth science, yet they expressed startling misconceptions about how rocks form. These misconceptions arise from deeply held but largely unexamined beliefs (conceptual prisms) that result from the interaction ... Full description.

The Crow Place Names project at Little Big Horn College documents and preserves traditional place names, including the stories connected to those names. Stories about places often relate to important historical incidents and to behavioral values. Crow places are named more often for the physical characteristics of the land than after specific people, as is the case in American culture, and names commonly ... Full description.

Anishinaabe traditional knowledge of constellations, comets, and meteorites connects people to the night sky in ways that modern astronomy does not. The stories of historical events bear within them wisdom about future possibilities as well as the past, and stories of constellations convey crucial information about cultural worldview and philosophy. Summer 2002, vol. 17, no. 3 Full description.

The TRIBES program, Tribal Resource Institute in Business, Engineering, and Science, is a powerful education program developed and run by the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT). Native high school students attend the program for seven intense weeks at the University of New Mexico. They learn leadership skills, take coursework designed to help them be better prepared for college, and form a community ... Full description.

A college environmental science course for students at an Anishinaabe tribal college is designed to incorporate cultural values into the curriculum. Goals are that students learn both Western and Indigenous science, that they earn a fully transferrable degree, that they learn more of Anishinaabe culture at an academic level, and that they enroll more often in natural science courses. Specific laboratory ... Full description.

In Diné culture, land use planning is natural and develops from specific processes of thought or consciousness, planned action and responses, equilibrium and life outcomes, and sustainable stability. Every member of a natural community participates in these processes -- the air, rocks, animals, water, plants, and people. A college course in environmental planning based on the Din&#233 land use ... Full description.

Traditional knowledge is most similar to ecology of Western science, but it has added dimensions of being deeply integrated in Indigenous culture, language, spirituality, and philosophy. As such, it constitutes a wealth of ideas, understandings, and information developed during a healthy past, by healthy people who lived in a world whose health and sacred vitality was respected and preserved. This ... Full description.

This article describes the occurrence of listric normal faults (those which gradually flatten out with depth) in the continental shelf offshore Oregon and Washington, as seen in seismic reflection profiles. There is also a discussion of the faulting mechanics, the timing of uplift on the continental shelf, and the separation of compressional and extensional tectonic regimes on the lower and upper ... Full description.

This article describes an Earth Systems approach that was developed to prepare preservice elementary school teachers in understanding science content and pedagogy with emphases in technology and mathematics. This approach, developed at the University of New Orleans, uses Lake Ponchartrain as the unifying theme for four courses in which students learn both scientific content and process. The authors ... Full description.