This company provides a collection of scientifically accurate and beautifully rendered fish, bird, mammal, and reptile posters available to order by mail. Full description.

This site utilizes an unconventional approach to the identification and recollection of the periodic elements. Each element is linked to one or more comic strips, which makes reference to the particular element of interest. Instructors will find this site useful for visual aides. A site-specific search allows resource users to pinpoint the perfect "elemental" comic. Regular site visitors are informed ... Full description.

This section of the Windows to the Universe website provides information and images about sculptures, paintings, drawings, and photographs of well-known scientists such as Archimedes, Aristotle, Copernicus, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Galileo, and Pythagoras. Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system pertaining to the Earth and Space sciences. The objective of this project is to ... Full description.

These twelve dark-line dinosaur drawings can be used as either a research or coloring activity. Overhead transparencies of the drawings can be projected to make large traced images of the animals. The site includes drawings of Ankylosaurus, Barosaurus, Coelophysis, Diplodocus, Iguanodon, Ornithomimus, Pachycephalosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Plateosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus rex. ... Full description.

This downloadable poster (36 in. by 60 in.) describes how minerals are used in household substances and objects, listed by name, with numbers corresponding to locations in a typical house. For example, in the kitchen, appliances contain steel and copper, clay minerals are found in china, and table salt contains the mineral halite. Full description.

This poster features a portrait of Gerardus Mercator on one side and examples of the eighteen most common map projections on the other. Each example includes a description that explains the properties and uses of the projection. There are also summary tables of projection properties, general uses, and geographic areas most suitable for mapping with a given projection. The poster is viewable online ... Full description.

This site consists of a gallery of artists' conceptions of catastrophic strikes on Earth by asteroids or comets, including the impact which occurred at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary and is suspected of causing mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Links to other related sites and a short movie of the Peekskill, New York meteorite, which fell in 1993, are also included. Full description.

This poster shows images of comets Hale-Bopp and Shoemaker-Levy 9. The accompanying text describes possible source regions for comets in our solar system, the behavior of comets as they approach the Sun, their possible role in the evolution of Earth, and significant dates in the study of comets. Full description.

Early Image is a collection of extinct-animal paintings and sketches produced before 1923 (and therefore in the public domain). Some of the works are of Victorian age and may lend atmosphere to a class emphasizing the history of geology. The works are divided into two categories; prehistoric life before KT and prehistoric life after KT. Full description.

This table presents the modified Mercalli Intensity Scale (MMI), a measure of earthquake intensity based on shaking severity and observed effects of earthquakes. It includes MMI value, a description of shaking severity, and a summary and full description of damage effects. Each MMI value is accompanied by an illustration showing its expected effects. Full description.