The Mysterious Life of Caves
Drip, drip, drip. Watch as rainwater, bacteria, lava, and waves form caves. Explore Lechuguilla cave in New Mexico and find out about the life of some of the extremophiles that make caves their home at this companion site to the PBS NOVA episode.
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More Than Skin Deep: A Teacher's Guide to Caves
How caves form, the biology of caves, cave activities and more from this site from the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
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Caves: A Window Into the Edwards Aquifer
Learn more about how caves are formed at this site from the University of Texas. You can learn more about the Edwards aquifer in central Texas; discover what karst is; learn how caves form; or check out cave formations like flowstone, stalagtites, and columns. You can also view archived webcasts and download lesson plans.
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Virtual Cave
Be a virtual spelunker and learn about lava tube caves, solution caves, sea caves, and erosional caves.This site features lots of images of cave formations and explanations how they came to be.
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Exploring Caves
This teaching packet for grades K-3 from the USGS integrates earth science, hydrology, mapping, biology, and anthropology and includes handouts. The guide is also available in PDF form.
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Carlsbad National Park High School Geology Curriculum Guide
While emphasizing the regional geology of Carlsbad Caverns National Park and cavern formation, it also provides a general overview of geologic history and processes. Lessons include field trip trips to the Permian strata and caverns in conjunction with hands-on, introductory college-style laboratories to provide background geologic concepts. A glossary, maps, photos, and additional resources are also provided.
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Caves, Canyons, Cactus, and Critters
This middle school curriculum guide is geared toward the geology of Carlsbad Caverns National Park but it is applicable to other parts of the country. The curriculum includes six units focusing on the development of the Delaware Basin and Captain Reef, plate tectonics, uplift and mountain building, the role of anaerobic bacteria in the formation of caves in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, weathering and erosion, and the origin of various cave formations.
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About Bats, Caves, and Deserts
This elementary curriculum guide provides basic background information on bats, caves and deserts and includes supplemental activities to enrich each unit relating to history, geology, bats, animals, plants, fire, and stewardship.
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Exploring Caves
Learn about different types of caves, cave animals, and how to care for caves at this site from the USGS. You'll also find a downloadable teaching unit at the site.
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The Science of Caves
This site from Scholastic provides teachers with lesson ideas and resources for teaching about caves to students in grades 3-8.
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Cave Formations
Learn stalactites, stalagmites and other cave formations and cave plants and animals at this site from Louisiana Tech University.
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