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	Water Science for Schools URL: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/ ODP description: Information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center. Page title: Water Science for Schools (USGS): All about water! Page description: All about water - the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Science for Schools information site.
	Earth Fact Sheet URL: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html ODP description: Basic earth statistics from the NSSDC.
	NASA Planetary Science Research Discoveries URL: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/index.html ODP description: An educational on-line magazine describing discoveries in planetary and space sciences. Written for teachers, students, and the general public. Page title: Planetary Science Research Discoveries \| PSRD
	Our Dynamic Earth URL: http://www.dynamicearth.co.uk/ ODP description: Interactive exhibits about planet earth. Utilises the QuickTime, Shockwave and Acrobat Reader plug-ins.
	The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere URL: http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Intro.html ODP description: A detailed non-mathematical introduction to the research on the Earth's magnetic environment in space and its history. Contains master directory of many related text files. Page title: The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" Page description: Home page of a detailed non-mathematical introduction to the research on the Earth's magnetic environment in space and its history. Contains master directory of more than 70 related text files.
	Earth Science from Moorland School URL: http://www.moorlandschool.co.uk/earth/ ODP description: Earth science for schools including the rock cycle, plate tectonics, planetary structure and origins, volcanoes, atmosphere, fossil fuels and polymers. Page title: Earth Science for Schools from Moorland School, Plate tectonics, Earth history..... Page description: Earth Science web site aimed at GCSE Science. Earth History and Structure, the Rock Cycle, Plate Tectonics, Energy Resources. KS3 and KS4
	International Geoscience Education Organisation URL: http://www.geoscied.org/ ODP description: Goal is to work for the improvement of education within the earth science fields, especially in K-12 grades. Page includes newsletters and conference schedule.
	California Underground: Our Caves and Subterranean Habitats URL: http://www.museumca.org/caves/onli_realm.html ODP description: Educational materials and photographic tours on the formation and occurrence of different types of caves, cave biology, and cave conservation. Page title: California Underground, Realms Page description: Online presentation based upon excerpts from the California Underground exhibition from the Oakland Museum of California.
	Adirondack Science Online URL: http://www.adkscience.org/ ODP description: Educational program using the Adirondack mountains. Includes areas for contributing data, reporting events, discussing observations, and learning from findings. Page title: Welcome to the Online Citizen Science Base Camp
	Science for Everyone URL: http://earth.agu.org/sci_soc/everyone.html ODP description: Collections of recent articles on topics related to the science of planet Earth. From AGU. Page title: AGU Web Site: Science for Everyone
	EarthNet URL: http://earthnet-geonet.ca/ ODP description: Earth science information for both teachers and students. Glossary, lesson plans, extensive links, lists of topics, and other resources. Page title: Earthnet Page description: Earthnet
	Earth Science Resource Center URL: http://www.mines.edu/Outreach/Cont_Ed/esrc.shtml ODP description: A division of the Office of Special Programs and Continuing Education at the Colorado School of Mines. The ESRC publishes relevant science-related materials. Page title: Special Programs & Continuing Education - K-12 Outreach Programs
	USGS Learning Web URL: http://education.usgs.gov ODP description: K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning. Explore the Earth through plants and animals, land, water, and maps. Learn how Biology, Geology, Hydrology, and Geography can help us understand our changing world. Page title: USGS Education Page description: Educational Resources of the U.S. Geological Survey serving primary and secondary education (K-12) repositories, reports, publications, maps, aerial photography.
	Geology Postgraduate Research Supervision Survey URL: http://www.geocities.com/gprss_edu/ ODP description: Survey of geoscience research students, focusing on the quality of supervision and problem areas experienced by students doing their research. Page description: GPRSS is a survey of geoscience research students, focusing on the quality of supervision and problem areas experienced by students doing their research. It is endeavouring to diagnose problem areas, and identify trends in postgraduate geology degrees.
	Museums Teaching Planet Earth URL: http://earth.rice.edu/mtpe/ ODP description: Educational earth science resources and software produced by Rice University in collaboration with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, funded by NASA under the Office of Earth Science
	Understanding our Planet Through Chemistry URL: http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/ ODP description: U.S.Geological Survey site links to reports showing how chemists and geologists use analytical chemistry to study earth science questions. Page title: Home Page- Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry Page description: Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry -