Freshwater on Earth part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Unit Collection
Freshwater is a rare and precious resource on Earth. The hydrologic cycle extracts freshwater from the salty oceans through evaporation and deposits it on land as precipitation. Rainfall, snowfall, and the ...

Central Texas Field Stops part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Blueprints:GeoFORCE Texas 12th Grade Summer Academy
The rocks of the Texas Hill Country bear witness to the story of a dynamic and constantly changing Earth and reveal the existence of ancient mountains, inland seas, earthquakes, uplift, and power of water to ...

Marine Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks: A Dozen Dead Oceans part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Unit Collection
× Overview Life began in the ocean on Earth 3.5 billion years ago. The fossil record shows a general trend toward an increasing level of complexity of life forms, making it possible to also use the order in ...

Crossing the Shoreline: Gulf of Mexico part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Unit Collection
Unit Storyline The Gulf of Mexico is a marginal sea bounded by Mexico to the west and south, the United States to the north and northeast, and Cuba to the southeast. The Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba ...

Challenge A. Human Impact and Engineered Solutions part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Blueprints:GeoFORCE Texas 12th Grade Summer Academy
The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) has announced a plan to build a high-speed rail line connecting Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston. The line will have "scenic connectors" that ...

Challenge B. Over Earth's vast history, gradual and catastrophic changes have both produced change part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Blueprints:GeoFORCE Texas 12th Grade Summer Academy
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has noticed a significant decline in 18-30 year olds at State Parks. In an effort to target this age group, TWPD has commissioned your new company with its team of expert ...

Earth's History: Events, Places and Impacts part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Unit Collection
Unit Storyline Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Geologic time is vast, and students sometimes have a hard time grasping the concept of deep time. The unit builds on the basic understanding that students have ...

Earth's Cryosphere: Baby It's Cold Outside part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Unit Collection
Unit Storyline All the cold frozen parts of our planet make up the cryosphere. This includes the continental ice sheets found in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, and areas of snow and permafrost. The cryosphere ...

Documenting Past Climate part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Unit Collection
× Overview Earth's climate has changed, sometimes dramatically, in the past. If you had lived on the island of Manhattan about 20,000 years ago, you would have found yourself living during an ice age on ...

GeoFORCE Texas 12th Grade Summer Academy: 2018 and 2019 Field Program part of DIG Texas Blueprints:Blueprints:GeoFORCE Texas 12th Grade Summer Academy
Overview The Summer Academy is an immersive, weeklong program for rising 12th grade GeoFORCE Texas GeoFORCE Texas and STEMFORCE students. It is set in Austin with field excursions to the Texas Hill Country and ...