This site shares an interview with George Ella Lyon, author and Kentucky Poet Laureate. Lyon provides advice on selecting books for children and young adults. She also shares her personal experiences with having her own books banned...

During your lifetime, you will use more than a million pounds of rocks, minerals, and metals. Dig through this web site and find out how.

This site contains information about a nonprofit organization that is protecting the resources of the central and southern Appalachian region.

Discover the origin of the Canadian Geologic Survey. Find out the qualifications necessary to be a geologist and how they locate fossil fuels.

This brief article emphasizing the importance of renewable and non-renewable resources urges readers to appreciate and not waste the earth's natural resources. Following the article, there is an activity, a "Mineral Search," through...

For this lesson students will compare and contrast regional energy production of 5 different US regions, including California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. Students will also analyze production and consumption data of...

A cross curricular unit where learners simulate an energy task meeting to discuss protecting human health through energy policies. The unit covers content for twelfth grade in math, physics, language arts, and government. Topics reviewed...

Get the basics on nonrenewable energy. Learn about its uses and conservation.

This site, which is provided for by the Penn State University, gives twenty one chapters of charts, graphs, and information on synthetic fuels.

An overview of historians' views of the causes of the Industrial Revolution in Britain and of the inventions, inventors, and industries that propelled it.

Here, students can learn all about energy sources and electricity. Activities include games and calculating energy costs in their homes.

The claim tester gang comes face-to-face with Orx-30. This comic focuses around the topic of sustainable forms of energy.

Discover the importance of plants to the ecosystem nad to humans.

Although this is a personal page, students will find great information and pictures all about the topics of Commodore Perrry, the Expedition, the Treaty of Kanagawa, and more.

Students learn about the history of the labor movement in Industrial America, including some of the major unions that emerged and the most well-known strikes. Next, they make connections to the role of unions today. They then work in...

Greenpeace offers an in-depth look at climate change (or global warming). Content includes a look at the cause of climate change, the scientific evidence that supports it, the problems that occur during climate change, foreboding...

"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...

A map of Alaska from 1914 showing the State capital at Juneau, cities, towns, ports, railroads, submarine telegraph lines, major rivers and lakes, mountains, coastal features, and islands. The map is keyed to show gold placers, gold and...

The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can still be seen - coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway...

An image of Montana Natural Resources.

An description of lignite coal as well as an explanation of some of its uses.

A map from 1858 of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, which surround the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The map shows major cities and ports, rivers, and coastal features. The figures attached to Cities and Towns indicate the number of...

" North China includes the densely populated and intensively cultivated North China Plain, the loess-covered uplands of Shansi, northern Shensi, and eastern Kansu, and the sparsely populated, semiarid steppes of Inner Mongolia....

A map of the battle site around the Manchurian city of Liao Yang during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Liao Yang was a strategic city along the Port Arthur-Mukden spur of the China Far East Railway that tied to the Trans-Siberian...