Learn & Teach

Earth@Home is your free online toolkit for learning about Earth and its 4.5-billion-year history.

The Digital Atlas of Ancient Life is an online platform designed to help students, their teachers, and avocational paleontologists identify fossils and learn about ancient life.

A content resource for teaching about climate change. The guide includes the basics of climate change science, social science concepts important for teaching climate change, regional information, and climate change solutions.

Resources for teaching about climate change, including toolkits, videos, workshops, and more.

An ongoing list of our online teaching and learning resources.

PRI’s series of regional Teacher-Friendly Guides to Earth Science cover the U.S. in seven volumes. The guides provide an overview Earth science in a format useful for teachers, but potentially of interest to anyone who wants to know more about their local area.

PRI provides a wide range of programs for all ages, from preschool to adults, at the Museum of the Earth, the Cayuga Nature Center, and offsite.

The Cayuga Nature Center provides an opportunity for nature enthusiasts of all ages to learn about environmental and outdoor education in a fun and engaging way through the camps we offer for young people during the year.

A content resource for teaching about climate change. The guide includes the basics of climate change science, social science concepts important for teaching climate change, regional information, and climate change solutions.

A gateway to climate change data, maps, tools, and other resources to support scientifically sound decision making in New York State.

Visitors to the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center can learn about climate change and energy through permanent and temporary exhibits.

EPICC virtual fieldwork experiences (VFEs) provide opportunities to virtually visit classic paleontological field sites along the Pacific coast and to explore images and data from specimens that have been collected there. 

Participate in and learn about citizen science projects at the Cayuga Nature Center and the Museum of the Earth, and find climate and weather activities that you can do in your backyard or classroom.

A BioBlitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Groups of scientists, naturalists and volunteers conduct an intensive field study over a continuous time period.

The PRI Teacher-Friendly Guide series has two volumes on evolution, each focused on an organism — bivalves and maize — that is widely familiar to students, that is readily available, and that can be used in classroom curricula to discuss the process of evolution.

A BioBlitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Groups of scientists, naturalists and volunteers conduct an intensive field study over a continuous time period.