Many free and/or inexpensive earth science educational materials are available at NBMG to Nevada educators (teacher, principal, counselor, librarian, home-schooler, etc). – Come in and browse our Teacher Corner located in room 310, and our Information Office in room 311, Scrugham Engineering-Mines building, University of Nevada, Reno, open to 3:00 p.m. M-F. If your work schedule as an educator prevents you from visiting us at these times, please call D.D. LaPointe (or email dlapoint@unr.edu) for an appointment that fits your schedule. Check out our Educational Series , which includes our newest additions: the Generalized Geological Map of Nevada, and the Map of the Truckee-Carson-Walker River Systems, the Map of the Humboldt River System with accompanying suggested student activities, and the Drainage Map of Southern Nevada and Adjacent Regions. See also Science of the Comstock prepared by local teachers and students for the "1999 ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers."

Some Exercises and Discussions using Maps of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology are also available on our website.

In addition to our Educational Series, we offer the following K-12 educational resources:

FREE EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
As a state Earth Science Education Center (ESIC) for the U.S. Geological Survey, NBMG offers the following U.S. Geological Survey and NBMG educational materials free to Nevada educators. To obtain these publications, please visit the NBMG Publications Sales Office (room 310, Scrugham Engineering-Mines building, University of Nevada, Reno). They are available free while quantities last, on a first come, first served basis with identification as a Nevada educator (teacher, principal, counselor, librarian, home-schooler, etc., one to a customer). They may also be ordered by mail, or fax, on school letterhead (see How to Order), using a credit card or check to pay shipping and handling charges. FAX request, one request per school year. For more information, please call 775-784-6691 ext. 2.

TEACHER PACKETS
Map Adventures (grade levels K-3)
Caves (grade levels K-3)
Volcanoes (grade levels 4-8)
What Do Maps Show? (grade levels 5-8)
Exploring Maps (grade levels 7-12)
Global Change (grade levels 4-6)
Water Resource Professionals Outreach Notebook (grade levels 6-8)

DRAINAGE MAPS
Map of the Truckee-Carson-Walker River Systems
Map of the Humboldt River System
Drainage Map of Southern Nevada and Adjacent Regions

WATER RESOURCE POSTERS (Elementary or Middle School Versions with accompanying activities printed on reverse):
Water, The Resource That Gets Used and Used and Used for Everything
Coastal Hazards (Elementary or Middle School Version)
Groundwater: the hidden Resource (Elementary or Middle School Version)
How Do We Treat our Wastewater? (Elementary or Middle School Version)
Wetlands: Water Wildlife, Plants and People!
Water Quality ... Potential Sources of Pollution
Hazardous Waste: Clean-Up and Prevention
Watersheds: Where We Live

OTHER POSTERS
When I Grow Up, I Want to Be ... Diversity of Careers, Diversity of People (K-6)
What, Me? A Scientist? (7-12)
Fossils Through Time (K-12)
Natural Hazards Poster Set (K-12)
Planetary Maps (geology of the moon) (K-12)
Map Projections

CD ROMs
Topographic Field Trip of Washington D.C. (7-12) (for Macintosh-based systems)

Another CD-ROM entitled "Teaching Earth Science" (for Macintosh-based systems) can be copied onto your blank CD brought or sent to us. It contains 17 teaching modules on various earth science topics including volcanoes, landslides, dinosaur extinction, fossils, coral reefs, faulting, seafloor-spreading, and glaciers. Each contains background information, simple animations, and printable paper models to construct illustrating each topic.

BOOKLETS (available free to the general public)
Scientists in Action -- News about careers in the natural sciences Helping Your Child Learn Geography (K-6 families)
Deserts: Geology and Resources
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Volcanoes of the U. S.
(many other brochures available ... please come in and browse in room 311)

VIDEO TITLES FOR LOAN TO NEVADA SCHOOLS (Not mailed out, please borrow in person: call 784-6691, ext. 134)
American Gold
Careers For Geoscientists
Gold in Modern Technology
Out of the Rock
Coeur Rochester Mine: Environmental Overview
Mining: Discoveries For Progress
Common Ground: Modern mining and You
Hazardous Waste Management: Doing it Right
Mining For Music
Women Who Walk Through Time
Bald Mountain Mine
Sleeper: the Awakening Giant
Geothermal Energy
Earthworks: A Profile of the Mining Industry
BHPeople
Let's Do Mineral Science
Chemistry at Work in a Nevada Gold Mine
The Project Mine Video Series
Teacher Orientation
Matter
Geology
Simple Machines
History
Careers

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