Curated OER
National Park Service: Chiricahua National Monument
National Park Services provides this background for the Chiricahua National Monument in Willcox, Arizona. This spectacular land formation was recognized for its beauty by the Apaches and later by Congress to become a national monument....
NASA
Nasa: Mars Odyssey
Within the rocky landscape of Mars you will find the Mariner Valley. This expansive landform is as deep as the Grand Canyon and encompasses an area as wide as the distance between New York and Los Angeles.
Curated OER
University of Texas: Sri Lanka: Relief Map
A very easy to read relief map of Sri Lanka from the Perry-Castaneda Collection showing the land forms along with the major highways and rail lines.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Land Mass Formation
The Franklin Institute has provided a demonstration that theorizes how the earth's crust was formed. This is a lesson plan that needs only a few materials.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Geography, Humans, and Environment
A learning module on how humans change and shape their local environment. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Department of Interior: Lake Pontchartrain Basin Lessons
An entire unit regarding the wetlands of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. Students can find comparisons or relationships between elevation, vegetation, soils, geologic formations, rainfall, pollution, public land use, coastal wetlands,...
US Department of Agriculture
China's Food and Agriculture: Issues for the 21st Cent.
A series of reports published but the United States Department of Agriculture in April of 2002 (in PDF format) from the USDA that covers "China's food consumption, marketing, international trade, agricultural policy, transportation...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hawaiian Islands: Erosion and Giant Landslides
High-resolution elevation data on land and in the ocean is used to examine the effects of erosion on the Hawaiian Islands. The remains of offshore landslides are also studied, and consistency with a hotspot model of formation for the...
Other
Tulane University: Physical Geology: Glaciers and Glaciation
Lots of information here about glaciation, types of glaciers, the formation of glacial ice, changes in glacier size, how glaciers move, glacial erosion, landforms produced by glaciers, glacial deposition and drift, effects of glaciation...
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies
A large site that tracks the history of the Nebraska area begins with the formation of the earth, moves through the earliest human activity in Nebraska, and then through proto-historical and historical Nebraska. The Kansas-Nebraska Act,...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Pop Goes the Geyser!
Our home, Earth, is a living planet. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are proof that the geological forces that shaped our planet and created the land masses are ongoing. An amazing example of geologic activity that is less damaging is...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Atchafalaya Bay Deltas
The Mississippi Delta is disappearing because of rising sea levels and the construction of levees, yet the deltas in the Atchafalaya Bay are growing. View this video from NASA showing images collected over 31 years showing the growth of...
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz in this full-text sequel to L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Multiple digital formats of the full text are available.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The full text of one of L. Frank Baum's sequels to The Wizard of Oz. This novel is about Glinda, the Good Witch of the West. Multiple digital formats of the full text are available.
Science Struck
Science Struck: An Explanation of How Waterfalls Are Formed
Describes the processes that cause the formation of waterfalls, examples of waterfalls around the world, and the different types.
Quia
Quia: Geography World: Earth's Surface Matching Game
Match the vocabulary term with the definition to reinforce and practice your vocabulary terms. View the list of terms before beginning to become familiar with the words and improve your score. Users must enable JavaScript.
Other
Okanagan University: Eolian Processes and Landforms
A wonderfully detailed introduction to the topic of wind erosion and landforms. Contains many illustrations and maps which show the concepts that are presented in the text.
Geographyiq
Geography Iq
Detailed geographical information on any country is available at this site. Within the World Map section, you can get facts and figures about each country's geography, demographics, government, political system, flags, historical and...
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Geography
This parent guide helps you to teach your child geography. The site features a section on each of the five themes of geography and how to specifically teach a child to learn and be able to apply each theme. Although published in 1996, it...
University of Texas at Austin
France
Excellent series of maps from University of Texas at Austin - Provides political and shaded relief maps of France and a multitude of historical maps and maps of overseas territories overseas. Also includes maps of several large cities.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Varying Valleys
The NPS offers a good description of the three main types of valleys, lesson objectives, and modeling activities.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Can You Catch the Water?
Students construct a three-dimensional model of a water catchment basin using everyday objects to create hills, mountains, valleys and water sources. They experiment to see where rain travels and collects, and survey water pathways to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Carve That Mountain
In this activity, students further investigate major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, hills, oceans and plateaus). They build a three-dimensional model of a landscape depicting several of these landforms. Once they have built...
Other
Physical geography.net: Concept of Uniformitarianism
This fundamentals of physical geography site provides a good overview of this early theory on the development landforms and the scientists that were involved in its conception.