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Mud feels good!: Students will listen to Mud Walk by Joy Cowley. Students will experience and describe mud using a bubble map to record their responses. Students will create a class book using chocolate pudding to imitate mud.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science); By Amanda Mcalpine, Carol Elliott, and Ginny Devine.

Mud: Format: image/photograph

Eastern Mud Turtle: Format: image/photograph

Flat, mud-roofed houses in Kaagbeni, Nepal: Stacks of wood are piled along the walls and on top of the flat mud-constructed rooftops of houses in in Kaagbeni village, Nepal. This region lies in the rain shadow, or more accurately, precipitation shadow, north of the Himalayan mountains. This area is...; Format: image/photograph

Interior of a groundhog kiln: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 19; Figure 17 shows the interior of a groundhog kiln during firing. Note the cherry-red color of the pots as the clay within them fuses together to make them hard and impervious. This is where the magical transformation of mud to stone occurs. This photograph...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Working with animals: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 7; In addition to providing labor, water buffalo also sometimes are eaten at major community feasts. Traditionally, buffalo were a major source of wealth for Southeast Asian families. They still are favored in highland wet-rice areas where neither humans not...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Mud flows in Taylor Creek, Kolob Canyons, Zion National Park, Utah: Mud in Taylor Creek, Kolob Canyons, Zion National Park, Utah. The mud flows in bulging ripples over rocks in the creek bed. The mud that has dried and flaked at the bottom of the flow takes on the appearance of chocolate shavings. The area was protected as...; Format: image/photograph

Extensive salt marsh: In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 7; Figure 5 is a view looking towards the mainland from the high dunes on Bear Island. It shows the extensive salt marsh that has developed on intertidal sands and mud west of Bogue Inlet. These are the marshes you could see in the right-hand background of figure...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Dried mud formations at Death Valley National Park, CA: Dried mud formations in the dunes at Death Valley National Park, California. These patterns were formed when an ancient lake bed dried up and cracked. Animals will sometimes bury under the edge of the mud to create a cool burrow with a roof beneath the hot...; Format: image/photograph

A tourist in front of her hotel room: A tourist stands in front of a door of her hotel room in Kaagbeni, Nepal. The hotel is mud-plastered on the sides and also has a roof of thick mud. It rains very rarely in this region, known as the rain shadow, or precipitation shadow, because it lies in the...; Format: image/photograph

The Piedmont's first human inhabitants: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 4; The first human inhabitants of the Piedmont to make use of its clays were the American Indians. People who lived along the banks of the Potomac and Savannah Rivers discovered the seemingly miraculous transformation of mud into stone by heat about 4500 years...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Animal tracks in the dried mud in Death Valley, California: Animal tracks in the dried mud in Death Valley, California. Occasional, brief rainstorms create a thin veneer of mud that later dries up into cracked plates, preserving the tracks of anything that walked on it when wet. Death Valley National Park is located...; Format: image/photograph

Houses in Kagbeni village, Nepal: A cluster of houses in Kagbeni, a village in the Mustang district of Nepal. The houses are rectangular with flat mud-plastered roofs and are built adjoining each other. Worn-down Tibetan prayer flags are flown at different points. Erosion of the flags is believed...; Format: image/photograph

Federal Point Basin: In Cape Fear estuaries: From river to sea, page 10; A few miles south of Snow's Cut, past Fort Fisher and the ferry to Southport, we come to the Federal Point Basin. The basin is part of the Zeke's Island Estuarine Reserve and is a research area for scientists at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher....; By Steve Keith.

Making salt: In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 7; This wide landscape view of salt-making fields along the coast south of Nha Trang shows sea water evaporating in some front and back fields, while salt is nearly ready for harvest in the middle fields. This type of salt production is a low-cost technology...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Making rubber: Pressing out the water: The island of Koh Sukorn, Thailand, has many rubber trees. This one man I encountered owned his own trees, collected the rubber, and processed it by squeezing it into bath-mat sized rectangular slabs. Here you can hear the recording of that process. The rubber...; Format: audio

Purang village with green fields and surrounding arid lands: As you can see in this picture, the houses in the village of Purang, Nepal have mud roofs that can last several years due to the lack of rain in this region. Mud roofs also control the temperature inside the house. Located southwest of Tibet, Purang covers...; Format: image/photograph

Making rubber: Loading press: The island of Koh Sukorn, Thailand, has many rubber trees. This one man I encountered owned his own trees, collected the rubber, and processed it by squeezing it into bath-mat sized rectangular slabs. Here you can hear the recording of that process. The rubber...; Format: audio

Making rubber: Separating and hanging: The island of Koh Sukorn, Thailand, has many rubber trees. This one man I encountered owned his own trees, collected the rubber, and processed it by squeezing it into bath-mat sized rectangular slabs. Here you can hear the recording of that process. The rubber...; Format: audio

Making rubber: Pressing with feet: The island of Koh Sukorn, Thailand, has many rubber trees. This one man I encountered owned his own trees, collected the rubber, and processed it by squeezing it into bath-mat sized rectangular slabs. Here you can hear the recording of that process. The rubber...; Format: audio

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