Grades 9–12 Teachers' Resources

How to deal with students who know things that just ain't so.

Dozens of undergraduate and graduate courses available from the MIT Open Courseware site.

An appetizing introduction to these heavenly wonders from the Exploratorium.

A great resource for teachers from the University of New York at Binghamton.

"The CLEAN project, a part of the National Science Digital Library, provides a reviewed collection of resources coupled with the tools to enable an online community to share and discuss teaching about climate and energy science."

Dale Sawyer of Rice University has created excellent, yet simple materials to get a whole roomful of students to think and act just like scientists working out plate tectonics.

The Discovery Channel has a wide-ranging set of lesson plans under the Teachers tab.

Downloadable publications, images, links, and stuff from space, courtesy of NASA.

"Earthquakes" by Tarbuck, Lutgens and Tasa is realized in a Flash-enriched online version, including quiz modules.

Online professional development courses for three levels of K-12 teachers are presented by institutions across the United States.

This NASA site presents education resources for high-schoolers in oceanography and Earth science.

The pearl of the Kentucky Earth Science Education Network is this list of key topics from the National Science Education Standards (grades K–4, 5–8, and 9–12) with links to resources about each topic.

Even if you can't take your classes to this San Francisco edu-destination, you can use its free geology-related online content.

Teach geology using examples from New York's Finger Lakes. Open to all.

This site, created by Doug and Claudia Mann of fossilicious.com, has short articles and teaching resources on the subject of fossils.

Virtual Earthquake and Virtual Dating are two high-school exercises on this California State University site.

Minerals and other Earth materials for teachers.

The Society of Sedimentary Geologists maintains this superb list of 40 lesson activities prepared by science educators.

Physicist John Hubisz gives independent reviews of teexts, videos and more--because sometimes you know things better than your state board of education.

A page full of teacher guides and park programs to help you teach geological lessons.

The full text is online—or you can buy the book instead here at the National Academy Press site.

A Long Island high-school teacher has maintained this site for several years with links, lesson plans, and project ideas.

A great list from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

Teacher's guide from NASA's Spacelink site with materials on cratering, geologic mapping, and lots more (a 7MB PDF file).

A teacher's guide to designing Web-based science instruction lives here, along with an Earth science "textbook."

Lessons about this ever-present sediment from Pasadena City College in California.

The U.S. Geological Survey's center for lesson plans. Major topics are geologic time, maps, and Earth hazards.

An ecological preserve outside New York City that, among other things, teaches science research techniques to schoolkids out in the woods.

The U.S. Geological Survey's Howard Perlman, a hydrologist in Atlanta, maintains this friendly site for teachers and students (who can earn a certificate here).

Pick and choose from this understated site. Some of its resources, like "Minerals in Makeup" or "Minerals in Fireworks," are perfect for that certain lesson.