This resource begins with a learning module incorporating a major part of the Dust Bowl story concerning the Ogalalla Aquifer, an underground water source that covers 10,000 square miles from Texas to the Dakotas. Resources are provided for students to begin their investigations and guide their research. As students progress through the module they are exposed to the interdisciplinary nature of mathematics ... Full description.

This site provides an extensive set of references pertaining to instructional design. Models are grouped within prescriptive or phenomenological categories, broken down into behaviorist, cognivist, and constructivist approaches to instruction. With each model, the resource provides a liberal set of links to articles ranging from basic primers to in-depth analyses, including comparative studies and ... Full description.

The Mars Student Imaging Project (MSIP) allows students to participate in research, mapping activities, and labs relating to Mars exploration. The program, run by Arizona State University, offers students nationwide the opportunity to conduct authentic Mars research using data from the 2001 Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera. There are downloadable curriculum with National ... Full description.

For this activity students read the newspaper on a daily basis, listen to news on the radio, or watch television, to acquire material related to the earth sciences. They will look for natural hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, hurricanes, etc.), human-made hazards (urbanization, compromised engineering projects, etc.), environmental issues, or resource extraction issues which all appear ... Full description.

The purpose of this interdisciplinary lesson about Hurricane Georges is to motivate students to learn a wide variety of information about tropical storms and extend their understanding of the scientific relationships of meteorology. This lesson plan contains a list of materials needed, objectives, a discussion of lesson steps, and curriculum links. Full description.

This unit contains objectives, lesson plans and activities that relate to the Earth, Sun, Moon and Stars. Topics include black holes, galaxies, nebulas, the nine planets, stars, eclipses, movements of the Earth, Sun and Moon, gravity, early ideas and models of the Earth, and Earth resources. Full description.

This lesson provides a real-sense time scale experience to better visualize the vast extent of geological time. Using familiar linear analogs, students come to realize that the five main classes of vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds) each emerged several tens of millions of years apart, over the past 500 million years. Students also discover when the earliest fossils of each ... Full description.

This is an activity in which students role-play and present arguments to decide the fate of a fictional town's only bay. The debate is intended to stimulate each participant to delve deeply into the facts of the issue and develop articulate and persuasive ways of presenting the information. At the end of this activity students will be able to identify and discuss the problems associated with sound ... Full description.