Stars and Beyond

1. Components of the Universe
2. Reading a Celestial Globe - Lab
3. Stars - Lab
4. Constellation - Lab
5. Constellations of the Zodiac

Solar System

1.  Searching for Planets
2.  Inner Planets / Outer Planets
3.  Planetary Information - Lab
4.  Solar System Characters - Lab
5.  Comets - A Story

Space Exploration

1.  Early History of Exploration
2.  Development of Telescopes
3.  Telescope - Lab
4.  Virtual Space Travel - Lab
5.  Hubble Telescope - A Story

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Types of Maps

1. What is a map?
2.  Different Types of Maps - Lab
3.  Lesson 3 - Reading a Globe - Lab
4. Topographic Map - Lab
5. Geographic Information Systems

Maps as a Tool

1. What is a landform?
.  Interpreting landforms
3. Creating Landforms
4. Angel Island - A Story
5. Topographic Model - Lab

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Volcanoes

1. Types of Volcanoes
2. Volcanic Rock - Lab
3. Virtual Volcanic Tour
4.  Pompeii - A forgotten lesson
5. Volcanic Myths and Stories

Earthquakes

1.  General Earthquake Information
2.  Earthquake Legends and Science
3.  Plotting Earthquake - Lab
4.  New Madrid, Missouri
5.  Earthquake Damage

Evidence of Plate Tectonics

1.  Evidence of Plate Tectonics
2.  Plotting Earthquakes and Volcanoes
3.  Case History - Geology of California
4.  Continents through the Ages
5.  Virtual Plate Tectonics

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Minerals

1. What is a mineral?
2. Mineral Characteristics - Lab
3.  Family of Minerals
4.  Uses of Minerals
5.  Borate Minerals

Gems

1. What is a gemstone?
2.  Describing gemstones
3. Gem - Lab
4.  Hope Diamond
5. Gemstones Myths and Stories

Igneous

1. Rock Cycle
2. Formation of Igneous Rocks
3. Classification of Igneous Rocks
4. Igneous Rocks - Lab
5. Formation of Granite

Sedimentary

1.  Overview of Sedimentary Rocks
2.  Classifying Sedimentary Rocks
3.  Sand - Lab
4.  Sedimentary Rocks - Lab
5.  Sandstones through Time

Metamorphic

1. Formation of Metamorphic  Rocks
2. Metamorphic Rock Classification Chart
3. Metamorphic Rocks - Lab
4. The many Facies of Metamorphic Rocks
5. Michelangelo and Marble

 Past Life

1.  Present is Key to Past
2.  Fossilization
3.  Present Day Organisms -  Lab
4.  Fossil  -  Lab
5.  Ammonites

Stratigraphy

1.  What is stratigraphy?
2.  Correlation - Lab
3.  Geologic Time
4.  Earth’s History - Lab
5.  Environments through Time 

Petroleum

1.  History of petroleum
2.  How Oil and Gas are created
3.  Extracting Petroleum - Lab
4.  Products of Petroleum
5.  Finding Black Gold

Mining

1.  Mining Industry
2.  Coal Mining - Lab
3.  Aggregate and Concrete Industry
4.  Aggregate and Concrete - Lab
5.  Mining Resources that Changed the World 

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Water

1.  Importance of Water
2.  Water Properties - Lab
3.  Water Chemistry - Lab
4.  Movement of Water
5.  Watersheds

Oceanography

1.  Oceans
2.  Oceanic Features - Lab
3.  Geologic Oceanography
4.  Chemical Ocean Lab
5.   Physical Oceanography

Atmosphere

1.  Composition of the atmosphere
2.  Air Pressure - Lab
3.  Causes of Wind
4.  Movement in the Atmosphere - Lab
5.  Pollution or Just Evolution

Weather

1.  Fact or Folklore?
2.  Interaction of Ocean and Atmosphere
3.  Charting Weather Patterns - Lab
4.  Causes of Precipitation
5.  Severe Weather