Esri Story Maps

Esri Story Maps (click on image below to visit site)       Esri Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story. You can also engage students using Story Maps which others have…

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Arizona Geological Society and Resources

            Arizona Geological Survey Homepage (click on image) To support our mission and meet state statute responsibilities, the Arizona Geological Survey will: provide geologic information to enhance public understanding of the state’s geologic character, geologic hazards and limitations, and mineral resources; inform, advise and assist the Arizona public in matters…

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Geological Columns

                  Using fossils, plaster of Paris, and sand, create geological columns for your students to explore and discover. A great nature of science lesson!   Digging Through the Columns Worksheet   Rock Column Lab Revised

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The Great Fossil Find

                Students are taken on an imaginary fossil hunt. Following a script read by the teacher, students “find” (remove from envelope) paper “fossils” of some unknown creature, only a few at a time. Each time, they attempt to reconstruct the creature, and each time their interpretation tends to…

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