## News

- New Module: The First Day of Class describes a variety of ways to focus on student learning even on the first day of class, including a collection of examples of activities for the first day of geoscience classes.
- The Teach the Earth Portal has a new search interface which allows easy exploration of content across all the sites in the portal.
- The new Math You Need, When You Need It site is series of student-centered web-based quantitative topics that can be customized to and run concurrently with any introductory geoscience course.
- Announcing a new web-based guide for Teaching with GeoPads, field-based computers with integrated GPS, GIS, data management, and note-taking software. These tools can provide geoscientists and geology students with a fundamentally new way to map and collect data in the field.
- The 2008 On the Cutting Edge workshop schedule has been announced! Topics include teaching geomorphology, urban geology, teaching with visualizations, teaching introductory courses and more. Some dates and locations are still to be finalized.
- Visit the new Starting Point module on teaching with Experience-Based Environmental Projects, which features the Lifestyle Project. This three-week project challenges students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles.
- New collection of activities used in Preparing Teachers to Teach Earth Science is now available.
- Starting Point module on Studio Teaching is now available.

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- EarthScope in the Northern Rockies
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- Teaching with Chronos Data and Tools

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- A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial
- Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences
- Building Strong Geoscience Departments
- Climate Change Collection
- Coalition for Climate Literacy.
- Earth Exploration Toolbook.
- Earthlabs
- Integrating Research and Education