Although this site focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area, there is some valuable information that might inspire searching the USGS for similar information for your area. The site includes a tour of the USGS Web site, real time information about winds and earthquakes, data about water flow and water quality in California, geologic hazards, wetland information, links to sources of digital elevation maps, and access to other links. Students might find some inspiration for projects to extend several activities in the FOSS Earth Science Strand. RiverResource is a place where students studying rivers can explore valuable river resources and enter a gateway to further Internet exploration. There are no facts at the RiverResource, but rather connections to facts, books, and people studying rivers.
Classrooms can also share the information they are gathering about rivers.
The site includes links to other river pages and a bibliography of river books. We're particularly interested in links you've made to modules in the Physical Science and Scientific Reasoning Strands. This page was last updated October 18, 1996.