Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Can You Catch the Water?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students construct a three-dimensional model of a water catchment basin using everyday objects to create hills, mountains, valleys and water sources. They experiment to see where rain travels and collects, and survey water pathways to...
Graphic
Fourmilab Switzerland

John Walker: Named Lunar Formations

For Students 9th - 10th
This atlas of the Lunar surface features lists all named features. Click on a name and see an image of that item, or at least an image of the Moon centered on that item.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Types of Landforms

For Students 4th - 8th
Describes different landform types and their features. includes many good quality photographs.
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Landforms

For Students 4th - 8th
Understand the formation and geology of different landforms around the Earth.
Handout
Other

Tulane University: Physical Geology: Glaciers and Glaciation

For Students 9th - 10th
Lots of information here about glaciation, types of glaciers, the formation of glacial ice, changes in glacier size, how glaciers move, glacial erosion, landforms produced by glaciers, glacial deposition and drift, effects of glaciation...
eBook
Pennsylvania State University

Penn State: Still More Plate Tectonics, the Great Smoky Mountains

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Smoky Mountain National Park of North Carolina and Tennessee includes 16 mountains over 6,000 feet (about 2,000 m) high, making this generally the highest region in North America east of the Mississippi River. Gatlinburg is a...
Handout
NSTATE

Netstate.com: The Geography of Virginia

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find a variety of facts about the geography of Virginia: geographic center, total area, elevations, and much more.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Field Activity: Exploring Glaciers, Ancient Seas, and Volcanism

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this geoscience all day field activity at Interstate State Park at Taylors Falls, MN, students investigate and explore three events in Minnesota geological history.