Geoteach.com - Terms of Use

Dear Teachers and Students:

This is not a free site. I maintain it at my expense.
However, all assignments are posted for you to freely use. I enjoy creating lessons, assignments and worksheets for you, many of which take considerable time to write, especially those accompanied by illustrations.

First and foremost, this site is, always has been and always will be, for students and this means the individual student, at home and outside the classroom environment. Postings offer them the opportunity to reinforce what they learn in school and also to boost their science grade.

Increasingly more and more teachers are using materials presented on Geoteach.com. I ask that teachers please read and honor the Terms of Use presented here.

Please give credit where credit is due.

Please do not claim any lessons, assignments, worksheets, labs or images as your own by removing watermarks, copyright imprints or copyright information by means of White-Out, Cut and Paste, Blurring, Re-Typing or any other method that would obscure or delete this information.

Please do not post my work on your website without giving proper credit. I am not referring to links. I am addressing the copying and pasting of entire Geoteach.com assignments onto a personal web page without providing credit back to the author. The text then appears to be that of the teacher who maintains the website. This is plagiarism, intellectual theft that does not speak well of teachers who are supposed to be role models for our students.
This practice is being done on several school sites. Students will not think less of us when we use and reference another person's work instead they will be learning the correct way to handle the restating of outside sources, thoughts and research. Teaching students to plagiarize is not good teaching at all.

If Geoteach.com documents are being used on a website and proper credit has not been given to the author(s) of the text and/or images, an attempt will be made to contact the person in violation.

This includes postings that belong to Geoteach.com or any belonging to external sites that are linked from this domain.

Please do not pass along what you find here without proper reference back to the author.
Please do not use any images with a Geoteach.com logo on them without providing proper credit back to this site.

If the person misusing images or documents from this domain on educational websites does not respond to emails, amend images and documents with correct citations or remove my work from their site, I reserve the right to list the school or teacher's website on Geoteach.com, providing myself with the credit that is absent on the offending website.
Please consider this before blurring out my logo or copying entire assignments. I as the author, have every right to credit myself if sites using my work will not.
Credit to Geoteach.com

Geoteach.com has authored the majority of lessons and assignments linked from the Geoteach Menu and my logo and/or copyright information appear at the bottom of a page.
When an external link is used and another person's work is posted on the menu, I state that fact in the assignment's description.
In these situations, when you are crediting the author of one of these assignments, please use their name and website and not Geoteach.com.

At any time, if you are unsure to whom credit should be given, please do not hesitate to EMAIL Lorrie at GEOTEACH and ask. Thank you.

For further information: What is Copyright Protection?    Back to Jump Menu

Using Geoteach.com Documents on Classroom Computers

This educational site is for and all about the STUDENTS! The purpose of Geoteach.com is to provide individual students with opportunities to boost their science grade and to reinforce their knowledge of subject matter. It is not meant for excessive access inside a teacher's classroom.

Teachers! Please print documents for distribution to your students. If an online document is not formatted for printing, please request the Adobe Acrobat .Pdf version. Then print and distribute that document. Your help with this issue will be greatly appreciated.

Site Reports show teachers accessing one document, loaded with images, in excess of 100-600 times in one online session, often leaving a socket open for many hours.
Monthly Bandwidth has a limit and a few individuals are using a disproportionate amount of bandwidth in their classrooms. Back to Jump Menu

Linking to Geoteach.com

LINKING: I appreciate all links back to my site! Thank you!
However, please be aware that, if you link to any page other than http://www.geoteach.com, you run the risk of having those Page Not Found messages when people open your links to me.

Geoteach.com is a domain. It will not change. The web addresses of my individual pages may change over time.

Since most websites linking back to Geoteach are doing so by setting web addresses to go directly to the Extra Credit Assignment Page, may I suggest an alternative method of linking? If you want people to access my Extra Credit Assignments Page, you could provide them with the Geoteach.com link and then add a note directing people to "Click on the Earth Science Assignments Button".

Please never link to Geoteach.com image web addresses out of their page context.
Link only to online .Html pages.

Thank you for your compliance. Back to Jump Menu

Password Protected Areas

Adobe Acrobat .pdf files are now available by E-mail request only.

The password for accessing what is left of the Geoteach .Pdf files, the Powerpoint files and Notes is: guest/geoteach. Back to Jump Menu

Using Geoteach.com Image Addresses on Your Website

In 3 words. "Don't Do It!"
This practice is called hotlinking. You are using hosting space that belongs to another person and that person is paying for you to use the images. This is actually illegal and it is termed "theft of graphic images".
I have seen Geoteach images, linked with Geoteach web addresses on MySpace and Blog sites. Much worse, is finding them on bonafide educational websites, en masse. Sometimes the code for an entire page, including text and all images, is used and credit is not even given back to Geoteach.

The entire Geoteach.com site is monitored and, when hotlinking is discovered, images are either:
Removed from Geoteach, giving the offending website a "Not Found" message.
Replaced with an image the thief will definitely not like, or
Password Protected, meaning that a visitor cannot access that person's site without one or more Password PopUps annoying the heck out of everyone.

No one can prevent visitors from saving and using images. But, if you post them onto a website, use your own image addresses and provide credit. Back to Jump Menu

Answer Keys

Teachers: I sometimes receive emails requesting answer keys for worksheets posted on Geoteach.
Geoteach does not offer Answer Keys.

It takes many hours of work to write lessons and assignments and it is not my practice to write and offer the answer sheets as well. I actually receive e-mails from time to time in which one teacher asks for answer keys to all documents posted on this domain! That would be hundreds.
If I offered answer keys I would be inundated with student requests! Already, students have emailed me pleading for answers with phrases such as, "PLEASE! HELP! Give us the answers to this homework assignment!"
Please do not email me with a list of assignments for which you need an Answer Key.

I proceed under the assumption that Earth Science teachers and students will be using worksheets.
If teachers need assistance with answers they should confer with colleagues.
Teachers can also e-mail me if they are stuck on an answer or concept and I will be more than happy to assist.

If you e-mail me for assistance, please allow my return e-mail address and be sure your mail box has room to receive mail. You cannot imagine how many e-mails are returned to me as "undeliverable". The end result is that the person thinks I don't answer e-mails when I do.

Please email me from your school email address and not from a personal email server. This helps identify you as an instructor versus a student.

Students! Do not email Geoteach.com for answers to work assigned to you by your teacher. Back to Jump Menu

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All Rights Reserved
Revised October, 2006