The Iowa Geoscience Education Information Network

Explore Iowa Geology

Teaching

Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the sprit for your own personal joy and to profit of the community to which your latter work belongs. - Albert Einstein

Discovering Iowa's diverse geologic landscapes

Geology activities (aligned with Iowa's Core Curriculum)

Activities will be added and updated often…

K-5

6-12

Using Google Earth to help your student's learn about the Geology of Iowa

Digital teaching resources

Links for Environmental Sustainability in Education

Classroom techniques

Gallery Walks

Think-Pair-Share

Pyramid testing

Amazing Quick Links

Earning a Geology Degree In Iowa

Understanding Science (UC Berkeley)

Science Education Resource Center (Carleton College)

National Lab Day