2061 -- Project 2061 -- http://project2061.aaas.org/ -- Science Literacy -- Project 2061 Tools http://www.project2061.org/publications/default.htm Science NetLinks lists a large number of science and math links, all screened by an "expert review board". This web directory is organized around the Benchmarks from AAAS' Project 2061: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/benchmark_index.htm

AIMS Education Foundation http://www.AIMSedu.org/

Air Quality -- California Air Resources Board education web site http://www.arb.ca.gov/knowzone/knowzone.htm

ANIMATIONS

• VARIETY OF SCIENCE VIDEOS, sciencehack, (suggested by Keith A. McKain), there is no earth science category but there are a variety of YouTube videos here that will interest anyone interested in science. http://sciencehack.com/
• CLASSACTION, NSF CCLI-ASA, (suggested by David Doe), Interactive Classroom Materials for Introductory Astronomy, University of Nebraska, find a variety of highly interactive animations dealing with astronomy. Instructor’s manuals and PowerPoints are available. http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/

Archaeology--http://www.learningsites.com -- 3D Renderings of archaeological sites

Annenberg/CPB Channel http://www.learner.org/channel/ Interactive math & science educational media, including courses for teachers.

Astrobiology http://astrobio.terc.edu/ -- at TERC

Astronomy Camp http://ethel.as.arizona.edu/astro_camp/ -- The University of Arizona Alumni Association

The Atom's Family -- Miami Science Center -- http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/

ATT education support http://www.att.com/foundation/

Biographies

• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/;
  (women) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Women.html;
  Some are scientists also, e.g. Newton http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html

Biotechnology--Access Excellence http://www.accessexcellence.org/

Britannica http://www.eb.com/

Bubbles http://bubbles.org/

Calculators

• Measure for Measure http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm Sites organized into the following categories: Science/Math, Health, Finance, etc.
• http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html More than 18655 calculators available divided into categories mathematical, science, engineering, other.
• CBL Calculator Based Laboratory (Texas instruments) http://www.ti.com/calc/
  Calculators on loan from Texas instruments http://www.ti.com/calc/docs/loan.htm If you are a teacher, you may borrow calculators, at no charge, from TI for teacher workshops or in-service training. You may also borrow individual calculators so that you and other teachers in your department can review them.
• Personal Finance Calculators (Mortgage Loans, Credit Cards and More - http://www.calculatorplus.com/creditcard/.

California Science

• A Guide to Selecting & Purchasing Science Instructional Materialshttp://www.k12Alliance.net/ from the K12 Alliance; includes Maps of Instructional Materials to the Standards
• California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. http://star.cde.ca.gov

California Standards for Public Schools K-12 -- http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/ -- Standards and Assessment Division http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/di/or/division.asp?id=sad

California Science Teachers Association (CSTA) http://www.cascience.org/

Careers--

• Career Resources for Scientists http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/
• Human Sciences Schools http://education-portal.com/directory/category/Human_Sciences.html Find information about colleges, schools, and universities offering programs in Human Sciences.
• KTEH*s Real Science http://www.realscience.org/
• Women In Engineering Organization -- http://www.WIEO.org

Carnegie Science Academy http://csa.clpgh.org/ by and for Teens

Charter Schools, National Study of -- First Year Report http://www.ed.gov/pubs/charter/ "A Study of Charter Schools: First-Year Report" provides a survey of 90% of all charter schools (a total of 427) in operation as of the 1995-96 school year. 7/97

Chemistry -- Companies -- Earth Science -- Math -- Organizations -- Periodicals -- Physics

CHEMISTRY

• Chemistry teaching http://www.anachem.umu.se/eks/pointers.htm
• CHEMISTRY WEBERCISES DIRECTORY http://www.wiley.com/college/webercises/
• Chemistry Experiments http://www.uq.edu.au/Chemistry_Dictionary
• Periodic Tables
  • Periodic Table (LANL) http://periodic.lanl.gov/default.htm
  • http://dayah.com/periodic/
  • Periodic Table of Comic Books http://www.uky.edu/~holler/periodic/periodic.html
  • 1001 Periodic Table Quiz Questions -- http://www.1001-periodic-table-quiz-questions.com/
  • Humorous Periodic Table http://sakaki.jamesoff.net/~james/periodic%20table%20copy.jpg
  • Videos - The Periodic Table of Videos, http://www.periodicvideos.com . 118 videos, each about 2 minutes long. Scientists perform experiments with the elements or describe unusual properties of each one.
• Wondernet -- Chemistry Activities http://www.ChemCenter.org/wondernet/

Choices for the 21st Century Education Project http://www.choices.edu/ Global Environmental Problems

CLASS (Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey) - http://class.colorado.edu/ - Carl Wieman

Closeminded Science http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/wclose.html

Colleges

• BrainTrack's US Colleges and Universities page - http://www.braintrack.com/us-colleges
• College Handbook http://www.collegeboard.org
• Education-Portal.com is a directory of colleges, schools, and career information to help students make informed decisions about their education.

COLORCUBE: 3D Color Puzzle made of plastic cubes and nylon rods (176 pieces) in a 9" cube. It's a teaching tool for learning the advanced principles of color that govern the human eye, television, computers, and digital printing. There is also a suite of color imaging tools understand color.

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) http://www.csicop.org

Chemistry -- Companies -- Earth Science -- Math -- Organizations -- Periodicals -- Physics

COMPANIES

• Major Science Equipment Manufacturers http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/~dstille/manufact.html
• Accent Science http://www.accentscience.com/
• Educational Innovations http://www.teachersource.com
• The Educators Market () http://www.educatorsmarket.com/
• Forcefield http://www.wondermagnet.com/ magnet store in Ft Collins, CO. Supplier of very strong magnets.
• Free Teaching Aids http://www.freeteachingaids.com/
• Information Unlimited - http://www.amazing1.com/ - Jacob's Ladders, Tesla Coils
• It's About Time Publishing http://www.its-about-time.com/ -- Earth Comm http://www.its-about-time.com/htmls/ec.html -- High school Earth Science course.
• MMI http://members.aol.com/mmicorp
• PITSCO http://www.shop-pitsco.com/ has Aquaport Bottle Rocket Launcher (W55499; $139); also W54976 Economy Rocket Pack (50 black powder rockets) $175
• Riverside Scientific, Inc. http://www.riversci.com/ Earth Science software
• Science Master http://www.sciencemaster.com/
• Sensing Science Laboratory Software (Data Harvest) http://www.dataharvest.com/index.htm

Computers

• The Computer Clubhouse: An after school program for teens from underserved communities, open to Clubhouse members only, the flagship of a larger network of Computer Clubhouses. http://www.computerclubhouse.org/
• Computer Haves and Have-Nots in the Schools (NY Times article, October 22, 1998) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/circuits/articles/22have.html
• Free computers from NASA http://www.computers.fed.gov/School/user.asp
• LapTopical—http://www.laptopical.com/learning-laptops.html—weblog for laptops in education

Constants -- Fundamental Constants -- http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html -- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

The Constitution of the United States http://www.constitution.org/wr/rawle-00.htm

Controversy in Science

• Gravity Theory
• http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/gravity/gravity.asp -- The Speed of Gravity - What the Experiments Say, Van Flandern, discusses all the experimental evidence that bears on the intriguing question of the speed of gravity, concluding that it must be many orders of magnitude faster than light in forward time (i.e., no causality violations). Caution: same author also has "proof" that the Face on Mars must be of non-natural origin.
• Credibility Gauge http://physics.uwstout.edu/stoutsci/

Demonstrations - Wiki of Demos http://scidaho.org/wikidemo/index.php?title=Main_Page - Please add your favorite demo (and images of it) to the site for everyone to use. Created by T. Woody Sobey, Discovery Center of Idaho

Dive and Discover http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/ -- brings you right on board a series of research cruises to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

DigitalThink -- Web-based courses http://www.digitalthink.com/ subjects from C++ programming to wine-tasting. Mostly computer science, multimedia, and Internet courses.

Discovery Channel -- http://discoveryschool.com/ programs, lesson plans

Distance Learning -- Online Courses

• Curtin University of Technology - Australia -- http://www.curtin.edu.au/
• Swinburne Astronomy Online http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/sao/
• 10 Design Guidelines For Developing Online Interactive Learning Web Pages http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/lessons_learned.html - Steve Ackerman

Earth and Sky radio program -- http://earthsky.org/

Earth Photos (for geography--not satellite) http://GeoImages.Berkeley.EDU/

Earthquakes http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/ -- Recent earthquakes in California http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

Chemistry -- Companies -- Earth Science -- Math -- Organizations -- Periodicals -- Physics

EARTH SCIENCE

• American Geophysical Union (AGU) http://www.agu.org/homepage.html -- Nov. 30, 2001 -- AGI got a $1.7 million NSF grant to develop an inquiry-based Earth science textbook for middle-school students over the next three years. The new curriculum-development effort, Project CUES (Constructing Understandings of Earth Systems), will be based upon the modular Investigating Earth Systems program recently released by AGI. CUES will feature more than 50 "profiles in Earth system science." These inquiry narratives will be written by scientists about the fundamental questions they are exploring and the ways they use Earth science to tackle issues that confront society. In addition, CUES will feature 40 guided inquiry investigations, extended student-driven research projects on local issues, as well as four videos that provide additional profiles of Earth scientists at work. CUES is planned to be available commercially for the 2005-2006 school year by It's About Time Publishing of Armonk, NY. For more information, visit the AGI web site, http://www.agiweb.org/education, or contact Dr. Michael J. Smith, AGI Education Director, at msmith@agiweb.org. Eisenhower National Clearinghouse http://www.enc.org WestEd Eisenhower Regional Consortium http://www.wested.org/werc/
• California Mineral Education Foundation http://www.calmineraled.org/
• Center for Earth and Space Science Education (CESSE) http://CESSE.terc.edu/ aresearch and development centers for pre-college Earth and space science education. CESSE is based at TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• Earth Science Picture of the Day - http://epod.usra.edu
• Geological Glossary -- http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/parks/misc/glossaryo.html
• Geology of the National Parks, put together by the U.S. Geological Survey http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/parks/
• Global Systems Science (GSS) integrated high school science course - http://lhs.berkeley.edu/gss
• Google Earth teacher manual - http://stevekluge.com/geoscience/ges
• Magnetic Declination - Estimated Value - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/geomag/jsp/Declination.jsp
• Mineral Information Institute - http://www.mii.org/
• National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA) http://www.nestanet.org - The Earth Scientist magazine

The Electronic Journal of Science Education -- http://unr.edu/homepage/jcannon/ejse/ejse.html -- the first peer reviewed electronic journal of its kind devoted to the timely sharing of science education information via the World Wide Web.

Environmental Education

• Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI—State of California) draft curriculum units at http://www.calepa.ca.gov/Education/EEI/Curriculum/Default.htm#CurriculumUnits. Additional information is available at http://www.calepa.ca.gov/Education/EEI. [Mindy Fox California Integrated Waste Management Board]

ERIC Clearinghouse http://www.eric.ed.gov/

• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) http://www.thegateway.org/
• ERIC--AskERIC (Dept. of Educ. Resources Information Center) http://ericir.syr.edu

Evaluating -- An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms (Dept. of Ed) http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdTechGuide/

Evaluating Web Resources http://www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/webeval?ls=eu -- a list of things to look for and questions to ask while online. You'll also find some ideas for teaching your students to critically evaluate web sites. ENC Focus issue. With the number of web sites targeted to K-12 teachers and students growing daily, having some guidelines for evaluating these sites becomes essential.

Event Based Science (middle school) http://www.Mcps.k12.md.us/departments/eventscience/ -- Newsworthy events establish the relevance of science topics; authentic tasks create the need-to-know more about those topics; and lively interviews, photographs, Web pages, and inquiry-based science activities create a desire to know more about those topics.

Evolution

• Voyages Through Time (SETI) http://www.seti.org/education/
• Evolution--Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/ whole book

Exemplary and promising Science Programs -- http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ORAD/KAD/expert_panel/newscience_progs.html

Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry -- http://www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/index.html -- provides workshops, programs, on-line support

Exemplary and Promising Materials http://www.enc.org/ed/exemplary/ (U.S. Department of Education Mathematics and Science Expert Panel)

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) http://www.ed.gov/free

Feinman Anecdotes http://www.feynman.com/anecdotes.htm

First Amendment Schools -- http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/ -- "Schools must not only teach the First Amendment; they must also find ways to model and apply the democratic first principles that they are charged with teaching."

Fuel Cells

• Fuel Cell Learning Kit http://e1ps.tripod.com
• Fuel Cell Store http://www.fuelcellstore.com/
• Heliocentris http://www.heliocentris.com/

Gardening

• Aggie Horticulture http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/index.html
• The Great Plant Escape http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/ Univ of Illinois
• Kids Gardening Resources http://extension-horticulture.tamu.edu/county/smith/kids.html
• Kid's Valley Gardening http://www.raw-connections.com/garden/
• Michigan 4-H Children's Garden http://4hgarden.msu.edu/tour/overview.html
• National Gardening Association http://www.garden.org/
• Suite101.com http://suite101.com/welcome.cfm/kids_gardening
• Urban Agriculture Notes http://www.cityfarmer.org/ by City Farmer--Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture

Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) http://www.thegateway.org/ sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and is a special project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology.

George Lucas Educational Foundation http://glef.org/welcome.html

Global Change Research Information Office http://www.gcrio.org

GLOBE--Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment; http://www.globe.gov a Global Lab Project from TERC: worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. GLOBE students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data through the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education.

Global Schoolhouse http://gsn.org

Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Grants

• NSF http://www.nsf.gov/home/grants.htm
• Federal Money Retriever http://www.federalgrants.com/
• The Foundation Center http://www.fdncenter.org/
• http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/top/grants.html
• A Grant Seeker's Guide To The Internet: Revised And Revisited http://www.mindspring.com/~ajgrant/guide.htm by Andrew J. Grant, Ph.D. and Suzy D. Sonenberg, M.S.W. Grant Writing
• GrantsWeb http://www.infoserv.rttonet.psu.edu/gweb.htm
• Philanthropy links http://www.philanthropy-journal.org/
• Technology Literacy Challenge Fund--US Dept of Ed. http://www.ed.gov/Technology/TLCF
• U.S. Department of Education http://www.ed.gov

Great Canadian Science Web Site http://fas.sfu.ca/css/gcs/main.html

Green Teacher Magazine http://www.greenteacher.com/

History

• BBC History Page http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/
• Winston Churchill speech http://www.winstonchurchill.org/
• History Net http://www.thehistorynet.com/
• History Wiz

Hotmath--Math Problem help http://hotmath.com/

How Things Work http://landau1.phys.virginia.edu/Education/Teaching/HowThingsWork/home.html Louis A. Bloomfield, Professor of Physics, The University of Virginia

How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Hurricanes http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/hurricane0.html

Image Processing -- Center for Image Processing and Education (CIPE) http://cipe.com/ uses NIH Image

Interactive Physics -- http://www.interactivephysics.com/

Jason Project http://www.jasonproject.org/ Explore life undersea via robot submersibles. K-12 World: A Global Education Community http://www.k-12world.com

CSU Northridge

Kathy Schrock's (librarian) Guide for Educators http://www.capecod.net/Wixon/Wixon.htm

Kid'sClick http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ -- web search for kids (below grade 7) by librarians

Laptops for Teachers -- http://www.teacherlaptop.org/ -- The Foundation's goal is to make it possible for every K-12 teacher in America to receive a state-of-the-art laptop computer with Internet service for home at no charge. If you go to the teacher registration page, they will notify you immediately when official registration for the Teacher Laptop program gets underway.

Learning Disabilities http://www.ld.org/

LESSON PLANS/ACTIVITIES

• Brain activities http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/experi.html
• Franklin Institute http://www.fi.edu/ -- activities at http://Sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/act-summ.html
• http://www.hunkinsexperiments.com/
• http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiments/
• http://www.abc.net.au/science/surfingscientist/tricks.htm
• http://www.tryscience.org/experiments/experiments_home.html
• Lawrence Hall of Science - http://lhs.berkeley.edu

Literature -- Recommended Literature, California Dept of Ed. http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/

Little Shop of Physics -- Colorado State University hands-on science outreach program http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/

Mad Scientist Network http://www.madsci.org/ --" ask a scientist" type site.

Mars Exploration Program (TERC-JPL) http://teaparty.terc.edu/projects/mars/marsed.html

Math Counts http://206.152.229.6/

Chemistry -- Companies -- Earth Science -- Math -- Organizations -- Periodicals -- Physics

MATHEMATICS

• Cube root calculator http://www.csgnetwork.com/cuberootcubecalc.html
• Math Forum Website http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
• Math Homework Help -- http://hotmath.com/
• Math Standards -- Principles and Standards for School Mathematics -- http://standards.nctm.org/ -- Mathematics Standards 2000 http://www.nctm.org/standards2000/ NCTM: Standards 2000---draft of updated Standards, entitled "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics".
• Math/Science Nucleus http://msnucleus.org/-- cycles are in "Curriculum" -- "K-6"
• National Math Trail -- http://www.nationalmathtrail.org/ K-12 teachers and students discover and share the math that exists in their own environments. Students explore their communities and create one or more math problems that relate to what they find. Teachers submit the problems to the National Math Trail site, along with photos, drawings, sound recordings, videos--whatever can be adapted to the Internet.
• Penny website; meganumbers http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/one.asp

math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org

Mentoring http://www.edc.org/CCT/telementoring/ Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, and Computing, is a project of EDC/Center for Children & Technology and is funded by the National Science Foundation,

Metric System http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/ -- US Metric Association

Mindful Education

• Association for Mindfulness in Education - http://www.mindfuleducation.org/
• In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind NY Times article, 12 June 2007.

Mini Grants, Information and Freebies - http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~jspeck/mini-grants.html

The Mining Company (Gayle Olsen) http://kidscience.miningco.com

Misconceptions

• Children's Misconceptions about Science - http://amasci.com/miscon/opphys.html

Montana State Univ. Courses http://www.montana.edu/wwwxs Special Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Astronomy, Landforms/Lifeforms, Immunology, Food Biotechnology ; Dr. Christian Stryker, Office of Extended Studies, Montana State University |, Bozeman, MT | uxscx@montana.edu

Mrs. Bogucki's Third Grade Class http://hbogucki.staffnet.com/aemes/default.htm

Mrs Silverman's Second Grade Class http://www.kids-learn.org/class98/

Multicultural Pavilion http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/

Museums and Science Centers

• Guide to Informal Science Centers http://www.scienceadventures.org/
• Informal Math and Science Education -- ENC listings http://www.enc.org/classroom/focus/133280/index.htm
• Museum educator's listserve: museum-ed; sign up by sending an e-mail to: listproc@mtn.org; In the body of the message, type: subscribe museum-ed [name] where [name] is your own name - not your e-mail address. (Do not use brackets.) Leave the subject line blank. To submit a message, send it to: museum-ed@mtn.org
• Museums and Learning--a Guide for Family Visits http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Museum/ (U.S. Department of Education)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Educational Resourceshttp://www.education.noaa.gov/ National Science and Technology Week http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nstw/start.htm

National Science Education Standards (NSES) http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/ published by National Academy of Sciences

National Science Foundation (NSF) http://www.nsf.gov/

National Sky Awareness Week -- sky data exchange http://www.weatherworks.com

New York Times http://www.nytimes.com

NASA Education Links

• http://education.nasa.gov/
• Space Science Education Resource Directory (NASA Office of Space Science) http://teachspacescience.org
• http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/SII/URLs/NASAeducation.html

National Center on Education and the Economy --Performance Standardshttp://www.ncee.org

National Chemistry Week http://www.acs.org/ncw/

National Teachers Enhancement Network (NTEN) http://scienceteacher.org/ offers graduate-credit science and mathematics courses to teachers nationally. Teachers are able to participate in the telecomputing courses from convenient home or work locations via the Internet.

Natural Disasters--Activities: http://school.discovery.com/schoolfeatures/featurestories/earthalert/

Newton's Aquarium http://www.eureka.ca/ n-body gravity simulator--from Eureka

NOVA (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Oceanography course http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/ocean608/

On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research http://www.nas.edu

Chemistry -- Companies -- Earth Science -- Math -- Organizations -- Periodicals -- Physics

ORGANIZATIONS

• American Chemical Society http://www.acs.org/
• American Association of Physics Teachers http://aapt.org
• American Institute of Physics (AIP) http://www.aip.org/
• American Museum of Natural History http://www.amnh.org/
• American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) http://www.aapt.org/
• American Chemical Society http://www.acs.org/
• California Science Teachers Association (CSTA) http://www.cascience.org
• National Academy of Sciences http://www.nas.edu National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/index.html
• National Association of Biology Teachers http://www.nabt.org/
• National Association of Secondary School Principals http://www.nassp.org/
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics http://www.nctm.org/
• National Center for Science Education http://www.natcenscied.org/ -- improving and supporting education in evolution and the nature of science, and increasing public understanding of these subjects
• National Education Association http://www.nea.org/
• National Mining Association (NMA) http://www.nma.org/
• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory http://www.nwrel.org/ -- Science Inquiry Model http://www.nwrel.org/msec/science_inq/index.html
• NRC--Global Perspectives for Local Action: Using TIMSS to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education, Professional Development Guide (1999) -- http://www.nap.edu/books/0309067804/html/
• NSTA--National Science Teachers Association
  • http://www.nsta.org/
  • NSTA listing of useful web sites: http://www.nsta.org/resources/site/
  • NSTA News Digest http://www.nsta.org/mainnews
  • NSTA Reports! http://www.nsta.org/reports -- NSTA Reports! current Internet Connection lisstings: http://www.nsta.org/reports/netcon.htm
  • NSTA-Quantum http://www.nsta.org/quantum
  • SciLinks http://www.scilinks.org/ Example codes: HE084 (Temperate forests); hw116 (alternative fuels); hw182 (nuclear reactions); he100 (lakes and savannas); he123 (watersheds)
• National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org/ has Educator's Activity Guide, Animal Tracks
• TIMSS -- TIMSS-R: Highlights of the report & the *full* report --"Pursuing Excellence: Comparisons of International Eighth-Grade Mathematics & Science Achievement from a U.S. Perspective, 1995 & 1999" -- are at
  http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001028
  http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001027

Pac Bell's Blue Ribbon (Blue Web'n) web resources http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Parents Role in Education -- http://www.nsta.org/parents/

PBS http://www.pbs.org/ Most of these links have classroom activities...

• A Science Odyssey http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/
• Faith and Reason http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/
• Live Satellite Events--http://www.pbs.org/learn/als/programs/live/
• Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/ Interactive game that demonstrates how time determines longitude
• Mysteries of Deep Space http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/ -- Interactive timeline and classroom activities. Also how to purchase the show
• Stephen Hawking http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.htmlDownload a free, desktop-publishable quality PDF (Portable Document Format) version of the STEPHEN HAWKINGÕS UNIVERSE TeacherÕs Guide
• TeacherSource Website http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
• The Living Edens: Madagascar:A World Apart http://www.pbs.org/edens/madagascar/
• The Perfect Pearl http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pearl/
• Tracking El Nino http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/

Chemistry -- Companies -- Earth Science -- Math -- Organizations -- Periodicals -- Physics

PERIODICALS

• Education Week http://www.edweek.org/ education magazine for people interested in education reform, schools, and the policies that guide them
• Education World magazine http://www.education-world.com/ -- has searchable database of 115,000 education-related web sites Green Teacher Magazine http://www.greenteacher.com/
• New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/
• Physics News http://www.het.brown.edu/news/index.html
• Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/
• Science (magazine) http://www.sciencemag.org/ ScienceWeek http://scienceweek.com/ science newletter.
• Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/ --Archives at http://www.sciamarchive.com
• ScienceDaily http://www.sciencedaily.com latest research news
• Science News http://www.sciencenews.org/
• The Why Files (Science Behind the News) http://Whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/
• TIES magazine http://www.TCNJ.EDU/~ties/

Peterson's Guides, Inc. http://www.petersons.com
searchable data on education instututions

Chemistry -- Companies -- Earth Science -- Math -- Organizations -- Periodicals -- Physics

PHYSICS

• Atmospheric Optics http://www.atoptics.co.uk
• Bernouli - Airfoil Lifting Force Misconception Widespread in K-6 Textbooks - http://amasci.com/wing/airfoil.html
• Fermi national Accelerator Lab http://www.fnal.gov/
• Gravity games (applets, java, flash, ...)
  • Attractors & boards http://www.thecleverest.com/content/attractors.html?
  • NetLogo Models Library: N-Bodies http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/N-Bodies
  • NetLogo Models Library: Gravitation http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Gravitation
• Hyperphysics, Rod Nave, Georgia State University, An exploration environment for concepts in physics. Site has concept maps for navigation. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
• Interactive Physics -- http://www.interactivephysics.com/
• Internet Plasma Physics Educational Experience (IPPEX) http://ippex.pppl.gov/ excellent animations to teach concepts in physics on matter, atoms, etc.
• Optics activities from Astronomy Department, University of Texas at Austin, Mary Kay Hemenway at http://outreach.as.utexas.edu/marykay/optics.html
• Particle Adventure -- http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/index.html LBNL
• Physics 2000 http://www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000/ --interactive virtual physics experiments
• Physics Education Technology http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/web-pages/ - Fun, interactive simulations of physical phenomena that make bridges to the real world
• Physics Resources through Science Net: http://sciencenet.tpl.toronto.on.ca/
• Physics--Static Electricity http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/emotor/statelec.html
• Physics Web -- Website for Physicists -- http://physicsweb.org/ PhysLink-- Physics and Astronomy Education Reference http://www.physlink.com/
• Sodaconstructor http://sodaplay.com/index.htm interactive page that animates and edits two dimensional models made out of masses and springs--springs can be controlled by a wave to make pulsing muscles--models can be constructed that bounce, roll, walk etc
• Tesla Coils
  • Hoop's Tesla Coils - http://www.drspark.org/

Pinhole Cameras http://www.paintcancamera.com/

Planetariums -- GLPA statement on the Educational Value of a Planetarium -- http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/GLPA/position.htm#value

Powers of Ten http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html By the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, The Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Private Universe Project -- Teachers' Lab http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/

Problem-Based Learning

• Center for Problem Based Learning (PBL) -- http://www.imsa.edu/team/cpbl/problem.html
• University of Delaware -- http://www.udel.edu/pbl/

Practical Uses of Math and Science http://pumas.jpl.nasa.gov/

Questions and Answers in science

• Online Quizzes in Math and Science at all grade levels http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/eyk/index.asp?flash=true

Reference Desk--Virtual --http://www.vrd.org/locator/subject.shtml

RISE--Resources for Involving Scientist in Education http://www.nas.edu/rise/

Rural Schools http://www.ruralschools.org/ Organizations Concerned about Rural Education (OCRE) is a coalition of more than two dozen education, farm, rural, technology and utility organizations with common concern for the economic future of rural America, particularly, the education of rural children.

School District Profiles http://www.sunspace.com

Science Education Newsgroup: news://schl.call.mathsci

Science Fair

• How to -- http://www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide/
• Science Fair Primer http://users.rcn.com/tedrowan/primer.html by Ted Rowan
• Science Fairs http://physics1.usc.edu/~gould/ScienceFairs/
• Science Fairs homepage. http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/sciencefairs/ A project of the Eastern Newfoundland Science Fairs Council
• http://sciencefairproject.virtualave.net/

Science Friday http://www.npr.org/programs/scifri/ Talk of the Nation: Science Friday is a science talk-show which can be heard each Friday afternoon, 2-4 pm ET over National Public Radio (NPR).

Science Learning Network http://www.sln.org/

Science on a Sphere (SOS) - formerly "The Blue Marble" - http://sos.noaa.gov - http://sos.noaa.gov/news/sos_sites.html

School Curriculum On Line Resource for Educators (SCORE) http://score.k12.ca.us/ database with teacher reviewed sites as well as built-in lessons and links, all of which are presently being cross-referenced to the CA Science Standards.

Schoolwork.ugh! http://www.schoolwork.org/ -- geared toward helping older students, grades 7 and up, with schoolwork.

Glenn Seaborg http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/seaborg.html

Seasons

• Teacher review of The Real Reasons for Seasons - Sun-Earth Connections GEMS guide. See http://aer.noao.edu/AERArticle.php?issue=1§ion=5&article=7; NSTA Recommends (http://www.nsta.org/recommends/) has a review of the Seasons guide posted at http://www.nsta.org/recommends/product.asp?id=12263
• SEPUP seasons interactive http://sepuplhs.org/students/iaes/simulations/SEPUP_Seasons_Interactive.swf

Skeptical Inquirer

-- put out by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) -- http://www.csicop.org/

-- Oct 2002, Things Creationists Hate: http://www.skepticreport.com/creationism/thingscreationistshate.htm

Songs http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/

Space Day http://www.spaceday.com/

Space Science Education Resource Directory (NASA Office of Space Science) http://teachspacescience.org

Spaceweek http://www.spaceweek.org

Standards

• Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks, by MCREL (Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning), for K-12 curriculum in both searchable and browsable formats. http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/
• National Science Education Standards (NSES) http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/ published by National Academy of Sciences
• Standards for Technology Education http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/TAA/TAA.html

Stereotypes -- "Psychological Science" article: Positive stereotypes can raise academic performance http://www.psychologicalscience.org

Sunwise http://www.epa.gov/sunwise/ an environmental and health education program (K-8) that aims to teach children and their caregivers how to protect themselves from overexposure to the sun. UV Measurement and Reporting (UV measurement device loaned to interested schools)

Survey Results of Urban School Classroom Practices -- 8 Urban Systemic Initiative sites. http://www.systemic.com/publication.cfm#pub5

TeachNet http://TeachNet.org -- IMPACT IIÑThe Teachers Network, a national nonprofit organization that supports classroom teachers in the United States. Daily Classroom Specials; Teacher-Designed Projects and Activities by Subject; Talk with Teachers; Grants/Resources for Teachers; TeachNet Store; Technology How-to

Technological Studies (Dept. of--College of NJ) http://www.tcnj.edu/~teched/

Telementoring Women http://www.edc.org/CCT/telementoring/

TERC http://www.terc.edu/--a nonprofit research and development organization committed to improving mathematics and science learning and teaching. Science-a-thon -- http://scithon.terc.edu/

The Internet and School: A Survey of Networking Activities http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/tracy-article.html

Tests -- Blueprints for all State of California science standard tests will be posted on the Department of Education web site: http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/di/or/division.asp?id=sad

Textbooks Online

• Global Systems Science -- http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/gss
• Holt Reinhart and Winston -- http://www.hrw.com/science/onlinese/index.htm

TIMSS--Third International Mathematics & Science Study http://www.ed.gov/inits/TIMSS/; see also

• ENC TIMSS website at http://timss.enc.org/;
• Global Perspectives for Local Action: Using TIMSS to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education, Professional Development Guide (1999) -- http://www.nap.edu/books/0309067804/html/ (National Academies Press)
• Mathematics and Science in the 8th Grade--Findings from TIMSS http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2000/2000014.pdf

Tree of Life http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html information about the diversity of life authored by biologists from around the world. Each page contains information about one group of organisms (eg, the Coleoptera page gives information about all beetles, the Salticidae page about jumping spiders, the Cephalopoda page about squids, octopi, and related molluscs, and the Fungi page about fungi).

Turner Learning http://learning.turner.com/ Electronic field trips, CNN videos (for sale), lesson plans

University of California, Berkeley http://www.berkeley.edu

• Interactive University Project http://iu.berkeley.edu/iu. This page also has a link to the Berkeley Pledge Home Page.
• Knowledge Integration Project (KIE) http://www.kie.berkeley.edu/KIE.html From UCB School of Education--a computer environment for promoting student learning
• Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu -- Curriculum development center. LHS Science Information infrastructure (SII)is at http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/SII/sii.html

United Nations Cyberschool http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/

US Dept of Education (DoEd) http://www.ed.gov/
and Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) ftp: ftp.ed.gov --- gopher: gopher.ed.gov

Video Editing/Production

• Video Production Curriculum -- Casablanca Digital Video Production curriculum http://www.videochuck.com/

Virtual Science and Mathematics Fair http://www.educ.wsu.edu/

A Walk Through Time -- http://www.globalcommunity.org/wtt/ -- Foundation for Global Community, http://www.globalcommunity.org

Water Science for Schools (USGS) http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/

Weather

• SciLinks Weather sites for elementary school http://www.scilinks.org/retrieve_outside.asp?sl=1174191044. also http://ecommerce.nsta.org/enewsletter/2002-04/elementary.htm
• Articles on weather for middle school http://ecommerce.nsta.org/enewsletter/2002-04/intermediate.htm

WestEd http://www.wested.org/ WestEd Eisenhower Regional Consortium http://www.wested.org/werc/ -- teacher resources and lesson plan searches; WestEd links http://www.wested.org/werc/links.html

WhaleNet http://whale.wheelock.edu/

Women in Science

• 4000 Years of Women in Science http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000ws/4000ws.html
• Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Resource Guide to Materials in English. by Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & Astronomical Society of the Pacific) - http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/womenast_bib.html

Why Files http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/

Worksheets

• Worksheet Library - http://www.worksheetlibrary.com - home to over 5,000 printable K-6 worksheets for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers. Many
  available at no charge. Also offer a free extensive library of teaching tip articles at http://www.worksheetlibrary.com/teachingtips/
• http://schoolexpress.com/

Virtual Reference Desk http://www.vrd.org/ -- US Dept of Ed

Yuckiest Site on the Internet http://www.yucky.com/

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