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Standards, Assessments, and Accountability
Science Web Resources
General Instructional Resources
National Science Digital Library (NSDL):
http://nsdl.org/
Science Skills Lessons is a collection of interactive Internet lessons on lab safety, metrics, and measurement.
http://www.class.com/demo/hisd_science_level2/semesterA/TOC/TOC7_1.htm
eSchool News’s Enhancing Your Curriculum with Web-enabled Resources:
This site organizes the Web's vast wealth into a system that is easy to retrieve, certified for instructional merit, and presented in ways most likely to advance learning. The link below will take you to 20 science experiment Web sites that sizzle.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=3226
Explore Learning----Multimedia, Interactive, and Virtual Labs:
http://www.explorelearning.com
Event-Based Science:
http://www.ebsinstitute.com/
Activities for Probe Use (Integrating technology into instruction and activities):
http://probesight.concord.org/curriculum/template_section.htm
Online Science Games:
http://education.jlab.org/million/index.html
Rubrics Generators:
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
http://www.rubrics4teachers.com
Kathy Schrock's Guide:
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
Classroom Management Website
http://drwilliampmartin.tripod.com/classm.html
Internet Lessons:
http://trackstar.4teachers.org
Miscellaneous Materials:
http://www.filamentality.com/wired/bluewebn/categories.html#Science
Interactive Periodic Table:
http://www.webelements.com
Teacher Universe:
http://www.teacheruniverse.com
PBS: Nova
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova
Newton's Apple:
http://www.tpt.org/newtons/
Science Junction:
http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction
NASA Education Resources:
http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA Educational Resource Center:
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/
New York Times Learning Network:
http://nytimes.com/learning/index.html
Create a Graph: Use this site to make your own graphs.
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/
Math and Science Activity Center:
http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/math_science.htm
Science News:
http://www.sciencenews.org
Exploratorium:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/educate/index.html
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators:
This site, developed for teachers of grades K through 12, lists hundreds of Internet sites designed to enhance curriculum and teacher professional growth. Updated daily, the home page contains links to general information about all aspects of teaching.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
Exploring Data:
This Australian site is designed to help teachers develop an understanding and appreciation of statistics. The site offers background information and classroom activities on statistics topics, ranging from exploring patterns to hypothesis testing and curve fitting. A special feature of the site is a classroom-ready collection of real data sets with descriptions of how or why the data sets were developed.
http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/
Actionbioscience:
Promotes bioscience literacy
http://www.actionbioscience.org
NASA Explores:
Express lessons and resources online. Use the search function and type in your topic.
http://nasaexplores.com
Science NetLinks:
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/
Frank Potter’s Science Gems contains resources for teaching at all levels:
http://www.sciencegems.com/
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE Lesson Clearinghouse):
http://www.iit.edu/~smile/index1.html
Scholastic’s Lesson Plans (for all levels):
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/index.asp
How Stuff Works:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/
Understandings of Consequence: Harvard Teacher Resource Web contains lessons on density, ecosystems, pressure and electrical circuits.
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/ucp/curriculum/ecosystems/index.htm
Virtual Statistics Labs:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/index.html
Case Study Links:
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/cases/
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/cases/index_body.php
http://www.dlese.org/dds/query.do?q=Case%20Studies&re=0b&s=0
http://www.bioquest.org/case99.html
https://hallway.org/index.php
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/olc_linkedcontent/bioethics_cases/
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Physical Sciences
Interactive Periodic Table by American Chemical Society allows students to access data on each element as well as its electron configuration.
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=sitetools%5Cper
It’s Elemental: Interactive Periodic Table:
This site contains lots of information on each element plus radioactive decay and isotopes.
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/index.html
Atoms Family: This resource contains lessons and activities relating to different forms of energy. Each is presented by a famous gothic horror character. At The Mummy's Tomb: Learn about energy conservation, kinetic, and potential energy. At the Phantom's Portrait Parlor: principles of atoms and matter. Dracula's Library: includes properties of light, waves, and particles. Wolf Man's Ghostly Graveyard: covers fuel conservation and energy transfer. Frankenstein's Lightning Laboratory: includes different forms of electricity and electrical safety. Requires javascript. Something for all grades, K–12!
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln
Tutorial on Equations and Types of Reactions:
http://www.chem.vt.edu/RVGS/ACT/notes/Types_of_Equations.html
Chemistry Microscale Labs:
http://dwb.unl.edu/Chemistry/MicroScale/MScale00.html#Anchor-The-3800
Gas Laws:
http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ChemistryApplets/GasLaws/index.html
Chemistry Shareware:
http://www.chemware.co.nz/links.htm#shareware
iPhysics: Interactive simulations of physics and physical science experiments, Grades: 9–12. Appropriate for physical science and physics. These interactive online experiments let you drop balls, incline planes, chase a magnetic current, and do a world of other physical activities as you venture on a carefully plotted journey to a mastery of physics concepts.
http://www.physicslessons.com/iphysics.htm
Physics Central: You'll find innovative lesson plans, stimulating activities, and challenging worksheets developed by VayaVentures in conjunction with members of the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University.
http://www.physicscentral.org/index.html
The Energy Scrapbook: This site contains information on sustainable energy resources, a brief history of our use of power, and an energy timeline.
http://geothermal.marin.org/escrap.html
The Physics Classroom:
Contains a tutorial, practice problems, and a multimedia studio that allows students to actually see and understand physics principles.
http://www.physicsclassroom.com
Science, Optics, and You:
Interactive Java site with a powerful impact.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powerof10
Roller Coaster Physics (High School):
http://www.scilinks.org/retrieve_outside.asp?sl=9263569911221022
High School Chemistry Support Group:
http://www.csun.edu/chemteach/
PhysLink---The Ultimate Physics Resource:
http://www.physlink.com/
Center for the History of Physics:
http://www.aip.org/history/
Skateboard Science:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/skateboarding/
Science of Baseball:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/
Physics 2000:
http://www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000/
American Physical Society:
http://www.aps.org/studentsandeducators/
IEEE Virtual Museum:
This site contains audio and video clips and interactive features. Two exhibits are "Socket to Me! How Electricity Came to Be" and "The Beat Goes On: How Sounds Are Recorded and Played." Visitors can learn the answers to such questions as "What was the first computer?"; "Did Thomas Edison really invent the light bulb?"; "How did the patterns in a Utah cornfield lead to the development of TV?" and much more.
http://www.ieee.org/museum
Chemistry Lesson Plans:
Part of Science Spot, this site offers chemistry laboratory activities that include the Cookie Mystery, Adopt an Element, Amazing Marshmallows, and Bursting Balloons. It also suggests interesting links for teachers.
http://sciencespot.net/Pages/classchem.html
Chemicool Periodic Table:
An interactive periodic table, by clicking on any element in the periodic table, a student can find extensive information about the element. Information offered for each element includes name, symbol, periodic group, density, atomic weight, number, volume, melting and boiling points, and more.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool/
National Mole Day Foundation:
Site contains a history of Mole Day, jokes, themes, and activities.
http://www.moleday.org/
Voltage Circuit Simulator:
An exercise to help you determine the relationahip between voltage (V) and amperage (l), and resistance (R), a relationship called Ohm's Law.
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Voltage/index.html
The Physics Classroom: Newton’s Laws:
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/class/newtlaws/u2l1b.html
Doppler Effect Simulations:
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/dopplereff.htm
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/doppler.html
Electricity and Circuits:
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits
Electromagnetic Spectrum:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ems1.html
Properties of Light:
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/light/measure.html
The Science of Light: Spectrograms of Stars:
http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/color/spectra/
Mixtures----Solutions & Colloids Activity:
https://www.freyscientific.com/resources/lessonPlans/high/chem_mixtures.htm
HyperPhysics:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
General Chemistry Online----Tutorial, Drill, and Quiz Index on significant figures:
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/senese/tutorials/sigfig/index.cgi
SMILE Program Chemistry Index:
http://www.iit.edu/~smile/cheminde.html
Virtual Physics Labs and Simulations:
http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/applets.html
High School Chemistry Resources on the Web:
http://www.chemistrycoach.com/high.htm
Types of Equations:
http://www.chem.vt.edu/RVGS/ACT/notes/Types_of_Equations.html
Elements, Compounds, Ions, and Acids + Nomenclature:
http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch2/mixframe.html
ChemLab----Titration Techniques Illustrations:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/techniques/titration.html
Carbon----Structure Matters:
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=154
Naming Organic Compounds:
http://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtualText/nomen1.htm
3-D Molecular Structures:
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/library/
Crystal Lattice Structures:
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/
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Life Sciences
Natural Selection is a Web site developed by Modeling for Understanding in Science Education (MUSE) at the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research. It includes several units developed based on research at high schools. The units contain extensive materials to be used in teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution through the use of models and data that provide evidence.
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ncisla/muse/naturalselection/index.html
Understanding Evolution:
http://evolution.berkeley.edu
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS):
BSCS is a research-based curriculum group created by the NSF to develop curricula that allow students to learn science by "doing science." They design programs and strategies to help with innovatative materials, host summer institutes, publish textbooks, present at convention workshops, and promote Internet-based instruction. You can find curricula for all levels of science education, integrated science, and professional development programs. If your high school is thinking about implementing an integrated science program, download the "Making Sense of Integrated Science Guide."
http://www.bscs.org
Genetic Science Learning Center:
Students can build a strand of DNA, transcribe and translate it at this site. It has wonderful basic information on genetic engineering, genetic disorders, cloning, and stem cell research. An interactive cell with explanations of organelles is also found here.
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu
The Cell Cycle & Mitosis Tutorial at The Biology Project: Cell Biology. This site contains visuals and descriptions of stages of the cell cycle and a videoclip of this process.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cell_cycle/cells3.html
Developmental Biology contains links to embryology sites.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/developmental_bio/developmental_bio.html
Virtual Museum of Bacteria contains information on bacteria and images. How to culture, benefits, diseases, prevention and food safety are all included in this Web site.
http://www.bacteriamuseum.org/map.shtml
Animal Behavior and Ethology contains pictures, descriptions, and adaptive functions of behavioral patterns.
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/animal_behavior_and_ethology.htm
Kingdoms:
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/trfeb98.htm
Genetics-Human Genome Project Educational Resources:
Provides links to publications, downloadable curriculum modules, videos, images, animations, and links. Topics include DNA, genetics, and genomics.
http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/education/education.html
Cells Alive!
http://www.cellsalive.com/
Access Excellence Resource Center:
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/index.html#students
Microbe Zoo:
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dcl-me/zoo/
Living Things:
http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/
Beyond Bio 101:
http://www.hhmi.org/BeyondBio101
The Journey North:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
The Biology Project---University of Arizona:
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/
eNature:
http://www.enature.com/
BioInteractive (HHMI):
http://www.biointeractive.org
Sea World:
http://www.seaworld.org
Virtual Field Trips:
http://www.field-guides.com/
Birds/Ornithology:
http://birds.cornell.edu/
Nervous System:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
Seeing Color:
http://ls.la.asu.edu/askabiologist/research/seecolor/
Biology Lessons for Prospective and Practicing Teachers:
http://www.BiologyLessons.sdsu.edu/
Thematic Unit on Bats:
http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/
Facts about Fungi:
http://herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/FunFacts/factindx.htm
DNA from the Beginning:
This site is designed to be a multimedia primer on the basics of DNA and heredity.
http://www.dnaftb.org/
Blood and the Circulatory System:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/journey/index.html
Genetics Education resources, lesson, and links:
http://www.kumc.edu/gec
DNA Learning Center Biology Animation Library:
http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/animations.html
A Decade of Advances in Medicine:
Merck Institute for Science Education developed this timeline with links for medical advances from 1992-2003.
http://www.mise.org/mise/index.jsp?p=decade_home
Curriculum in Life Science, All Levels:
The NIH Curriculum Supplement Series are interactive teaching units that combine cutting-edge science research discoveries from the National Institutes of Health, one of the world's foremost medical research centers, with state-of-the-art instructional materials. These units are free to teachers upon request.
http://science-education.nih.gov/supplements
Biology:
http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/
Evolution (2003) WGBH:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution
Evolution and the Fossil Record (AGI):
http://www.agiweb.org/news/evolution/
Classification, Nomenclature, and Keys:
http://csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/tfplab/lab1a.htm
Virtual Biology Labs:
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/
http://bio.rutgers.edu/~gb102/virtuallabs_102.html
Mitosis and Meiosis:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/baby/divi_text.html
Nitrogen Cycle:
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/9s.html
CNN Article on DNA, Blueprint of the Body, available online at:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/genome
Cold Spring Harbor Lab:
http://www.cshl.org
Comparative Embryology:
http://chsweb.lr.k12.nj.us/psidelsky/comparative_embryology.htm
Human Body Structures and Systems (for Biology):
http://training.seer.cancer.gov/module_anatomy/unit1_1_body_structure.html
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Middle School Level
Who Dunnit? Forensic Science or Reasoning for Grades 6--9:
A fun site where students learn about being a forensic scientist and solve crimes such as "Who took a bite out of the candy?"
http://www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/crime.html
Simple Machines Online Activities: Edheads present content in a clever, fun way.
http://edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.htm
SciJinks Weather Makes a Splash:
The Nimbus 1, a whimsical blimp-like weather lab in the sky, is ready to transport you to the world of weather science. SciJinks is a new, highly interactive website launched by NASA and NOAA. Its purpose is science fun for middle-schoolers.
http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov/weather/
Astro-Venture by NASA:
Encourages kids to research what elements of astronomy, geology, biology, and atmospheric science lend themselves to supporting human life. Students who join the Astro-Venture Academy will set out to design a habitable planet under the watchful eye of an animated guide named Astro-Ferret.
http://www.quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/astrobiology/astroventure/avhome.htm
The focus for Earth KAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students) is:
· To learn about the Earth from the unique perspective of space
· Using the collection of spectacular digital images of Earth in education
· Providing learning guides and activities for the locations photographed
These are extraordinary resources to support classes in Earth science, space science, geography, social studies, math, and art. Classes can request that astronauts on the ISS record images of specified locations for use in classroom research projects. This program ties in well with the Mission Geography Program, which is released in CD form.
http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu
http://www.missiongeography.org
IMAGERS:
The Interactive Multimedia Adventures Program (IMAGERS) is NASA¹s comprehensive Earth science education resource for the introduction of remote sensing and satellite imagery to children in grades K-8. The IMAGERS Program is comprised of two multimedia web sites: "Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon" and "Adventures of Echo the Bat." It includes activities on the electromagnetic spectrum.
http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov
Air Travelers:
http://www.omsi.edu/visit/physics/air/
Amusement Park Physics----Annenburg:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/
Discovery School Lesson Plan Library:
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/6-8.html
Math and Science Activity Center:
http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/math_science.htm
Chemistry 4 Kids:
http://www.chem4kids.com/
Biology 4 Kids:
http://www.biology4kids.com/
Energy Kids Page:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/science/formsofenergy.html
Activities on Simple Machines:
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemsci/gr5ugesc.html
Enviro-Tacklebox from LPB:
http://www.lpb.org/education/classroom/itv/envirotacklebox/
Balance in Ecosystems:
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/ucp/curriculum/ecosystems/s6_lessonplan.htm
Windows to the Universe:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
Amazing Space:
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
Creating Your Own Dichotomous Key:
http://lamer.lsu.edu/classroom/edonahalfshell/dicotkey2.htm
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