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Five lessons about maps and globes

"The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny)." Each page contains information about a particular group, e.g., salamanders, segmented worms, phlox flowers, tyrannosaurs, euglenids, Heliconius butterflies, club fungi, or the vampire squid. ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things." This looks like an outstanding natural science collaborative resource!

so much here for teaching about this topic~ there is also a teaching section for further links for learning ~ a great resource, so comprehensive it might be safe to say it could be a one stop site because it brings you along to so many other resources

Use a candy bar to demonstrate how core samples are taken and used by geologists.

This is a cool idea for showing how core samples are used by geologists!