Here’s a short list of activities you can do to celebrate National Earth Science Week (Oct 11-17) with your students:
http://www.earthsciweek.org/forteachers/classroomactivities.html
Activities are listed by grade level and content standards. This list is provided by the American Geological Institute, AGI.
Want more? Try the NSDL Science Literacy Maps to find NSDL resources using science benchmarks around […]

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is an online professional development magazine–or rather cyberzine–that serves as a great resource with lots of ideas for teaching. You can find tips on teaching a unit on fossils (a student favorite). In the Science and Literacy Department of the April 2008 issue, author Jessica Fries-Gaither provides […]

No Child Left Inside…
We are in the midst of Earth Science Week 2008 (October 12-18)! Take the opportunity before the week is over (as well as beyond it) to access the valuable materials for teachers and students at the American Geological Institute’s (AGI) Earth Science Week site. With the theme of “No Child Left Inside,” […]