There are many research institutions in the United States, together hosting thousands of researchers that make it their daily business to create and analyze a mountain of data. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one such institutions and is a great resource of interesting research data, in particular, on the topic of plate tectonics. The key question is: how do teachers, students and other researchers outside Scripps find these data and can make use of them? The simple answer would be that it is very hard to find these data on the world wide web, lets stand to make any good use of it. For that reason, we started ERESE (Enduring Resources for Earth Science Education) which is a NSDL sponsored effort to harvest the richness in the Scripps data archives and distill it down to make it useful in the class room and for users outside research. What kind of data would you like to use in your classroom? In which format would you like to get this material? How should it be presented to you on the ERESE website?