Learning Landscapes - Bureau of Land Management

The Home Page features three main sections of the site: TEACHERS, STUDENTS, and EXPLORERS. The TEACHERS section includes a listing of Teaching Resources in nearly 30 topic areas. Teachers looking for materials on a variety of topics, from archaeology to water resources, should check here for links. The Teacher section also includes a listing of more than 75 classroom activities on related subjects, and a correlation of several of our activities to national standards of learning for education. Most of the material here is based on our long-running series of in-depth articles that have appeared since 1992 in Science and Children magagzine, published by the National Science Teachers Association. STUDENTS has links to several student-oriented BLM sites, as well as a special section called Homework Helpers with links on more than a dozen "hot topics" such as dinosaurs and fire. We have scoured BLM's state and field office web sites to find the best information for student projects. EXPLORERS is designed for explorers of all ages. It has links to several of the BLM-managed National Conservation Areas and National Monuments, and two sections with links: Get Out and Join In highlights volunteer opportunities, urban campouts and field trips, and detailed information on service projects and internships on BLM lands. Lifetime Learning is similar to the Homework Helpers in the student section. It includes BLM resources on such topics as mapping and the transcontinental railroad.