Dinosaur National Monument preserves a fossil bone deposit containing the bones of hundreds of dinosaurs, which was once enclosed in the sands of an ancient river. Features of the site include park geology information, maps, photographs, related links, visitor information, multimedia resources, and resources for teaching geology with National Park examples. The geology section discusses the park's ... Full description.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument preserves huge petrified redwood trees and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants. Features include park geology information, photographs of fossils, related links, visitor information, multimedia resources, and resources for teaching geology with National Park examples. The park geology section discusses the park's geologic history and the ... Full description.

Visitors can access park geology information, photographs, related links, visitor information, multimedia resources, and resources for teaching geology with National Park examples. The park geology section discusses the Grand Canyon's geologic history, structural geology, and features a question-and-answer section about the canyon. The history of the canyon as a park and environmental issues surrounding ... Full description.

This 21 page guide highlights field trip sites between San Diego and Santa Cruz, California; California environmental organizations and programs (entire state); and a special section on California wetlands (entire state). Each field trip listing includes the site name, contact information, and a description of the site and the programs if offers. Full description.

This guide provides directions and descriptions for stops on a walking tour of the Calaveras Fault in Hollister, California. Maps and photos are used to show offset and damage to man-made structures caused by creep along the fault. Full description.

Created and maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in partnership with federal, state, tribal, and local agencies and groups, this is a major gateway to information and data on Lake Tahoe and its basin. The primary goal of this clearinghouse is to facilitate the coordination of research, monitoring, and environmental management activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin, and to ensure the widest ... Full description.

This is the home page for Earthmaps.com. The primary objective of this site is to provide access to variety of earth science data, books, and map tools from many individuals, companies, and organizations. The service is free, but the books, data products, maps and tools are for sale. Earthmaps.com provides a short description of the products available, along with a link to the vendor. This site also ... Full description.

This site presents a field lesson that is designed to enhance classroom education about urban resource management issues. The lesson consists of web materials and a self-guided field study of Boulder Creek, located in Boulder, Colorado. By completing this field lesson, students can learn about the tremendous benefits and dangers posed by an important urban-aquatic resource (Boulder Creek). The field ... Full description.

This National Park Service resource contains information pages about cave safety and biology, how caves and speleothems form (stalactites and stalagmites), a glossary of karst and cave terms, and specific information about Round Spring Caverns in Missouri. The site also contains a number of K-12 classroom activities where learners apply both critical thinking skills and hands-on methodologies that ... Full description.

These biology lesson plans involve spiders, ants, Arizona Hedgehog Cactus, plant collecting, alien plant invasion, unhealthy plants, Drosophila melanogaster, the ecology of the Sonoran Desert soil crusts, diffusion, osmosis and cell membranes, plants and pollination, extracting and analyzing our own DNA, and marine biology. There are also field trip plans to Saguaro National Park West; Puerto Penasco, ... Full description.