Earth@Home is your free online toolkit for learning about Earth and its 4.5-billion-year history.
Read MoreThe PRI Teacher-Friendly Guide series has two volumes on evolution, each focused on an organism — bivalves and maize — that is widely familiar to students, that is readily available, and that can be used in classroom curricula to discuss the process of evolution.
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The Digital Atlas of Ancient Life is an online platform designed to help students, their teachers, and avocational paleontologists identify fossils and learn about ancient life.
Read MoreA content resource for teaching about climate change. The guide includes the basics of climate change science, social science concepts important for teaching climate change, regional information, and climate change solutions.
Read MoreA gateway to climate change data, maps, tools, and other resources to support scientifically sound decision making in New York State.
Read MoreVisitors to the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center can learn about climate change and energy through permanent and temporary exhibits.
Read MoreParticipate in and learn about citizen science projects at the Cayuga Nature Center and the Museum of the Earth, and find climate and weather activities that you can do in your backyard or classroom.
Read MoreInformation about Central New York’s climate, including historical observations, future projections, impacts on plants and wildlife, and resources for further exploration.
Read MoreAccess to and information about environmental data we collect at the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center, as well as links to other data sources.
Read MoreWe offer a broad range of programs, including teacher professional development, group workshops and programs, and presentations, both live and online.
Read MorePRI is a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador, providing information from the National Weather Service to help you be informed and prepared for extreme weather.
Read MoreA BioBlitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Groups of scientists, naturalists and volunteers conduct an intensive field study over a continuous time period.
Read MoreEPICC virtual fieldwork experiences (VFEs) provide opportunities to virtually visit classic paleontological field sites along the Pacific coast and to explore images and data from specimens that have been collected there.
Read MorePRI is a leader in creating and teaching about virtual fieldwork experiences. On the Virtual Fieldwork section of PRI’s Earth@Home website, you can find extensive information about making VFEs, together with links to VFEs by PRI staff and by teachers from PRI workshops.
Read MorePRI’s series of regional Teacher-Friendly Guides to Earth Science cover the U.S. in seven volumes. The guides provide an overview Earth science in a format useful for teachers, but potentially of interest to anyone who wants to know more about their local area.
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