College Teachers' Resources

Geoscience teachers can find all kinds of career and pedagogical help at this award-winning site from Carleton College.

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

Hannula, a tenured professor with a constant focus on teaching, writes the excellent geology blog All My Faults Are Stress-Related.

A "Joy of Cooking" for doing science in school with real datasets.

The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College maintains this first-rate portal for geoscience faculty.

The CHRONOS database project has this page of links to resources for undergraduate students.

This Canadian educational site actually won a medal in 1997.

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."

A one-page lesson on building compelling classroom lessons with Google Earth.

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.

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

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

GEE is an education and outreach tool for seismology that aims to make it easy for non-seismologists to retrieve, display and analyze seismic data.

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.

Hundreds of freely usable seismic profiles and their interpretations, made available by industry and academic contributors.