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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
Natural History Learning Lab Collections
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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
Image of two hands and a fieldbook while a drawing is being drawn onto the fieldbook

¡Descubre la Historia Natural!: Crea tu propio Cuaderno de Campo de Historia Natural

Hands-On Activities

Explorando más a Fondo en Casa: Diseña tu propia gema

Hands-On Activities
Black and white sketch of a landscape in rough shapes, with palm trees, ferns, a turtle, T rex, and salamander draw in more detail.

Paleo Art – Edge of Extinction: Make Your Own Dinosaur Ecosystem Mural

Hands-On Activities
A hand holding a pen and drawing a trilobite fossil on white paper.

Webinar: Drawing Fossils

Hands-On ActivitiesVideos and Webcasts
Meteorite on table

Meteorites: Messengers From Outer Space

Science Literacy Articles
Cartoon-style game board for Evolve or Perish.

Evolve or Perish Board Game

Hands-On Activities
Illustration of animals near the ocean floor 510 million years ago. A large squid-like creature hovers over smaller organisms.

Early Life on Earth – Animal Origins

Science Literacy Articles
Head shot of T. rex skeleton with Rocky Mountains in the background.

A New View of T. Rex

Science Literacy Articles
Painting of a swamp that has green colored ferns and plants. Foreground tree barks are brown, those in the distance are bare.

Global Climate Change in Perspective

Science Literacy Articles
Planet Earth seen from space with the cratered surface of the Moon in the foreground

Climate Change: ELA Connections through Poetry

Hands-On ActivitiesPrintable Lessons
A blue and orange mandarinfish, or Synchiropus splendidus

What Makes Things Blue?

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