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Geologist Elizabeth Cottrell gestures with her hands while sitting at a table talking to two students.

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A rock with yellow and white crystals
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A large poster coming out of a printer being grabbed by two hands
Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
Drawing of skeleton of Megatherium cuvieri
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Explore more than 300 resources! Science resources in this library align with Disciplinary Core Ideas and Crosscutting Concepts from the Next Generation Science Standards and social studies resources support the themes in the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. 

 

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Illustration of a crossection of a hillside showing horizontal geological layers, some of which have fossils in them.

It's a Date

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
Hands-On Activities
Two hands holding a cellphone that has its back removed, exposing the circuitry and parts.

Cellphone Science

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Powder moving away from the source

Modeling and Measuring Volcanic Eruptions

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Two hands cupped to hold soil

Minerals and Microbes

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Deep red garnet crystals on white irregular surface

Geology of Gems and Minerals

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Allende Meteorite - a rock with sharp edges displayed on a wood surface

Asteroids and Meteorites

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Brilliant mix of shapes colors like stained glass of a thin section of Antarctic meteorite.

Antarctic Meteorites and Mars

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Grey stone with brown leaf imprint

Reading Climate Change from Fossil Leaves

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Small shells of various sizes and shapes.

Tracking Global Change Through Ocean Fossils

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Overhead view of a long, triangular fossil skull

Triassic Life, Extinction, and Recovery

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An insect with large wings on the branch of a plant

Plant-Insect Relationships Through Time

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A bearded man wearing a brown fedora, standing behind a table with two large, gray fossils on it. One fossil is roughly triangular in shape, while the other is long and thin and arches upward at one end.

Fossil Whales and Whale Evolution

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