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Science Teacher's Lounge - Bunsen Bob's listing of organizations and groups to support science teachers - links to sites that work (most are not repeated in this listing)
NSTA - National Science Teachers AssociationLeast Tern has included many science projects in its lists of recommended Collaborations.
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Teacher's Domain - this growing, FREE set of multimedia resources currently contains lesson plans and resources to support k-12 science topics
Selecting Computer-Based High School Science Curricula -
download the free guideAlso check the links at our Lesson Plans and Activities page.General Sites | Virtual Trips | Elementary | Image Processing
Data Mining | Biology/Botany | Chemistry | Earth Science & Weather
Physical Science | Health Science
General Sites of interest to Science teachers
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Full Listing of General Research Resources
Portals
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Ask Basil - a web search site specifically for Animal Information
- How Stuff Works - odd ball science and true science
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Primary Web Sites - Internet resources for primary students - includes a section on "teacher productivity"
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Science and Technology, Grades 1-8 - selected sites from CA
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Science Websites - a fabulous listing from MO
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Teacher's Domain - from WGBH Boston, highlights lessons and resource materials in k-12 science topics - requires free registration
Activities - see also our links to Probes and probeware and to specific fields of study:
Biology/Botany | Chemistry | Earth Science & Weather | Physical Science | Health Science | Elementary
- Brain Pop Science - short movies, with quizzes, on scientific topics - grade 3 and up - topics include Electricity, Atoms, Energy, Cell Structure, Fossils - students can complete 2 activities in a session without subscribing
- Bunsen Bob's Science Hunt - good site to know about when Science Fair time comes - good how-to's, ideas and links for students, Under 8th and 9-12.
- CBL - Calulator-Based Laboratory - from Texas Instruments, link from this site to product info, but more importantly to discussion forums in which you can share lessons and ideas with other teachers
- CoVis - The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project - dedicated to improve the teaching of science in the Middle and High Schools, this project - uses a variety of digital courseware resources, including a multimedia notebook, to create a collaborative study community of researchers, students, scientists and educators - the site itself has some technical issues - interested teachers should contact the project directly
- Daily Activities: Science - have an activity, vocabulary word, image, historical tidbit, animal fact, experiment (MORE!) delivered to you daily - a wide variety of content
- Educational Hotlists - from the Franklin Institute Online
- ExploreLearning
- online interactive lessons - requires Shockwave plugin - unfortunately,
no longer free - requires subscription
- Explorer - educational resources for K-12 math and science curricula, focused on the use of multimedia resources for active learning - contains a Natural Sciences curriculum - supported by University of Kansas - this is not materials themselves, but a searchable bibliography
- Exporatorium - both their materials and their links to Education projects and Cool Links are well worth your time
- Extreme Science - follow the Scientists links to access some top scientists who are willing to answer email - also sign up for the eZine
- Frank Potter's Science Gems - a gathering of lessons from all over the English speaking world
The GLOBE Program - scientific investigation in a global online community
- teacher training - both primary and secondary- iScience Projects from the Onset corporation - labs for use with the HOBO data probes and sensors (which you can request to get for free loan) - all labs will eventually be posted to the website
- Model-It - free software with which students can create and run virtual population study models
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NIEHS Kids' Pages - from the National Institutes of Health, activities, challenges/brainteasers, jokes, links for elementary - includes many educational activities that will engage and teach environmental and health issues
- National Science Digital Library - resources for teaching science, including an ASK NSDL feature - many activities are multimedia or interactive
- NSTA - web page of the National Science Teacher Association - membership is required to access most of the site, but there are free lesson plans and a "grab bag" of links to current research in science education, resource links, more
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Inquiry Resources for math and science selected by
ENC (Eisenhower National Clearinghouse) - follow links to specific activities,
then "track back" the URL to other resources
- Project Interactive - includes many interactive pages; the graphing and charting activities are useful for science
- Science and Mathematics resources - portal to high level sites from Community Technology Center's Network
- Science Experiments and Inventions - librarian created site - links include Science Fair Projects
- Science Learning Network - enter the site to find links to museums that support Inquiry learning, top web sites, and more
- Science Resources for Maine Teachers - an excellent and up-to-date listing
- Science Teacher's Resource Center - for High School courses
- skool - from Ireland, interactive lessons for our Middle and High School - Flash driven
- The Science Spot: Clip Art Links - links to online clip art and images for use by students and teachers
- Weekly Science Experiments You Can Do From Home - public Yahoo Group - Joining is free after you register - archive is maintained
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Why Files - science relating to current news (accessible to students)
and wonderful Interactives (tornado, snowflake, more)
- WISE
- the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment invites you to join inquiry
projects - Berkeley
Virtual Trips of interest to Science teachers
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Full Listing of Virtual Trips
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Innovative Teaching: The Best Virtual Field Trips - large listing - international
- MuseumStuff.com - locator for virtual museum exhibits - by topic
- NASA Quests - join current and view archived interactives on a variety of topics
- Nassau BOCES provides an excellent list of virtual video conferencing trips, many of which are in science museums
- Virtual Field Trips - elementary level listings for Social Studies, Science and Art - up to date and subdivided by topic - the site includes planning tips and activity template
Elementary/Early Middle - many of the General listings and Physical Science listings are appropriate for younger students
- Animal Planet : Mammal Guide - this site would be better without the ads, but it is useful to search for animals by biome (best use of the site) - you might also check out Live Cams and Animals A to Z
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Ask
Basil - type in an animal and be rewarded by a SAFE list of sites
to visit
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Crocodile Clips - learning software for electricity, grades 4 & 5 - can be downloaded free for use in school
- Dondero Computer Lab contains links to fabulous project and problem-based science projects and lessons, k-5 - be sure also to locate Owl Pellets and related pages from the Teacher Resources page
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Electronic Zoo - great place to find about animals - also links to organizations that can help with collaborations
- eNature - learn about the flora and fauna at your ZIP code or anywhere else in the USA
- Goose Holler Middle School Science - hands-on science lessons that make learning fun
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A Hotlist on ENDANGERED ANIMALS - portal site
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KDN: Kids Design Network at the DuPage Children's Museum - interactive, collaborative design challenges, including synchronous chats with other students and with engineers - registration required, private chats, journals, drawing space - teacher support materials - challenges involve simple machines, physical science
- Kinetic City - a slew of science activities for this age group - so far, it can be used without registration, but who knows... Chat is planned, as is chat with scientists - the overarching concept (futuristic save the world...) will be difficult, confusing or not interesting to many students, however, so guide them
- Little Shop of Physics - low-cost or no cost science, much of which can be done at home - the goal is to excite kids about science and to make them THINK - check out the Computer Experiments
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Planet Diary - international "events" are highlighted, background information, maps - kid-friendly site, clear language
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Pond Dipping - learn about pond life - participate by sending in drawings, text and photos
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PBS Kids has a set of short, interactive games that encourage logical problem-solving; gridding, directionality, logic, graphing
- Rainforest
Alliance Learning Site - k-6 curriculum has 2 or so essential questions
for each grade, around each of which is built an entire curricular unit
- appealing and up to date, but with a conservation of resources message
(not political)
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Science 4 Kids - short articles on kid-fascinating science topics - a site to keep bookmarked! - includes all areas of science and Weird Science - from the USDA
- Science Experiments and Inventions - links to site very useful for research and science fairs
- Smithsonian Kids - activities and features linking to their collections - Space, flight, more
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Switcheroo Zoo - elementary and lower Middle level art and science classes will love this site - uses Flash morphing to create a "new" animal from parts (an old activity) - then adds sound resource information and links to "beefaroo" up the project (that's the new activity)
