Education

Adirondack Science Online
Educational program using the Adirondack mountains. Includes areas for contributing data, reporting events, discussing observations, and learning from findings.
http://www.adkscience.org/

California Underground: Our Caves and Subterranean Habitats
Educational materials and photographic tours on the formation and occurrence of different types of caves, cave biology, and cave conservation.
http://www.museumca.org/caves/onli_realm.html

Earth Fact Sheet
Basic earth statistics from the NSSDC.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html

Earth Science from Moorland School
Earth science for schools including the rock cycle, plate tectonics, planetary structure and origins, volcanoes, atmosphere, fossil fuels and polymers.
http://www.moorlandschool.co.uk/earth/

Earth Science Resource Center
A division of the Office of Special Programs and Continuing Education at the Colorado School of Mines. The ESRC publishes relevant science-related materials.
http://www.mines.edu/Outreach/Cont_Ed/esrc.shtml

EarthNet
Earth science information for both teachers and students. Glossary, lesson plans, extensive links, lists of topics, and other resources.
http://earthnet-geonet.ca/

Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere
Detailed non-mathematical introduction to the research on the Earth's magnetic environment in space and its history. Contains master directory of more than 70 related text files.
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Intro.html

Geology Postgraduate Research Supervision Survey
Survey of geoscience research students, focusing on the quality of supervision and problem areas experienced by students doing their research.
http://www.geocities.com/gprss_edu/

International Geoscience Education Organisation
Goal is to work for the improvement of education within the earth science fields, especially in K-12 grades. Page includes newsletters and conference schedule.
http://www.geoscied.org/

Museums Teaching Planet Earth
Educational earth science resources and software produced by Rice University in collaboration with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, funded by NASA under the Office of Earth Science
http://earth.rice.edu/mtpe/

NASA Planetary Science Research Discoveries
An educational on-line magazine describing discoveries in planetary and space sciences. Written for teachers, students, and the general public.
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/index.html

Our Dynamic Earth
Interactive exhibits about planet earth. Utilises the QuickTime, Shockwave and Acrobat Reader plug-ins.
http://www.dynamicearth.co.uk/

Science for Everyone
Collections of recent articles on topics related to the science of planet Earth. From AGU.
http://earth.agu.org/sci_soc/everyone.html

Understanding our Planet Through Chemistry
U.S.Geological Survey site links to reports showing how chemists and geologists use analytical chemistry to study earth science questions.
http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/

USGS Learning Web
Educational resources for the earth sciences from the U.S. Geological Survey.
http://education.usgs.gov

Water Science for Schools
Information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center.
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/