Online
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Lesson
Plans Correlated to Standards |
- Access
Excellence
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the National Health Museum. A bioscience and health resource for
teachers and learners. Of particular interest: the Activities
Exchange, home to a variety of fun, interactive science games
and mysteries. http://www.accessexcellence.org
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- Athena:
Earth and Space Science for K-12
- Ideas,
background, lesson plans using on-line scientific data, on earth,
weather, space, oceans and more from NASA. http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/index.html
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- Cells
Alive
- Animated and interactive
information on cell activity. Helps biology students understand
what is going on at the cellular level in a wide variety of situations.
Excellent tool in any biology classroom. http://www.cellsalive.com/home.htm
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- Chandra
Mission
- From a site devoted
to exploring NASA's x-ray observatory comes Interactive games,
puzzles and quizzes Site runs the gamut from standards based lessons
to fun activities for kids, ranging from a coloring book to a
very sophisticated crossword puzzle for advanced science students.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/index.html
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- Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse
- Links
to some of the most outstanding math and science lessons on the
web, divided by topic. http://www.enc.org/weblinks/lessonplans/science/
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Yes |
Lesson
plans are from many sources. Most are aligned with standards. |
- Exploratorium
- Site of the San Francisco
Exploratorium Museum. Not quite the same as being there,
but almost. http://www.exploratorium.edu/
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- Explorer
- A
collection of math/science lesson plans from the University of
Kansas. Many are in downloadable .pdf format. http://unite.ukans.edu/explorer-db/browse/static/Natural^Science/index.html
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- GirlTech
- Lesson plans that
use internet resources and are designed to make math and science
particularly appealing to girls. http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/Women/GirlTECH/Lessons/
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- HomePlanet
for Windows
- This is a free
astronomy / space / satellite-tracking package for Microsoft Windows
95/98/Me and Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP that allows users to see an
earth map showing day and night regions, location of the moon
and current phase, position of planets, databases of asteroids
and comets, a telescope window, a horizon window, a satellite
tracking panel and much, much more. http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html
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- How
Stuff Works
- How cell phones,
jet engines, networks, car engines, pcs, silencers, rootbeer and
dozens more. http://www.howstuffworks.com/
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- Imagine
Mars
- Students use science,
math, technology and the arts to create a community on Mars. A
national arts and science technology initiative. http://imaginemars.jpl.nasa.gov/index3.html
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- Interactive
Science Activities on the Web
- Interactive physics
activities for high school and college students. http://www.bridgewater.edu/departments/physics/ISAW/
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- MultiMedia
Activities to Help Students Understand Scientific Concepts
- Wave motion, building
blocks, astronomy, fun and games. Kids can learn and have fun
at the same time. http://www.explorescience.com/activities/index.cfm
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- NASA
Educators Resource Center
- This site contains
a wealth of resources: raw data, links to scientists, ideas. Click
Thursday's
Classroom for ready-to-use lesson plans. Click the
library to see other educator support resources. The site
is a gold mine. For instance, check out NASA links on Ozone
Studies, one of the links under NASA
projects. Many lessons are aligned to NSTA standards. J-Track
allows users to track the various satellites that circle the earth
in real time. Set the program to see what will fly over your house
and when it will get there. Find out what's up there, where it
is, who put it there and why. http://education.nasa.gov/
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- The
Ology Site
- The American Museum
of Natural History lets kids learn about biology, astronomy, paleontology
and biodiversity with a variety of well-illustrated sites and
lots of interactive activities. Less of a site
for teachers; more for kids to explore science on their own.
Students can even submit their own artwork. http://www.ology.amnh.org/
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- PhysicsWeb
- Articles, projects,
jobs, other valuable physics-related resources. http://physicsweb.org/
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- RiverDeep
Interactive Learning
- You
can take out a three month trial membership in this site and explore
their interactive lessons in k-12 math and science. You'll need
to download a couple of plug-ins for your web browser but it's
well worth the effort. Dozens of interactive simulations allow
students to see how something works, develop a hypothesis, change
assorted variables, chart the results of their changes, and begin
to understand their environment, their body or some scientific
concept. http://www.riverdeep.net/html/home_frame.html
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Some
lessons are keyed to national and state standards |
- Safe
Water
- K-12
Lesson plans in .pdf format, from the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/kids/exper.html
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- Science
Made Simple
- Hands-on projects
for children. Elementary science lesson plans. http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/index.html
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- Science
Netlinks
- K-12 lesson plans,
benchmarks and resources. An outstanding resource. http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/resource_index.htm
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Yes |
- Science
U
- Interactive
lesson plans and exhibits for teaching about astronomy. Included
art program allows students to modify images from the site. http://www.ScienceU.com/
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- The
Shodor Foundation
- A nonprofit research
and education organization uses modeling and simulation to teach
math and science. Project
Interactive provides interactive exercises for middle school
math. Braille Through
Remote Learning is just what its name suggests. ChemViz offers
interactive chemistry instruction. Site includes other interactive
teaching tools. http://www.shodor.org/
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- The
Whole Frog Project
- This project, according
to notes on the site, is "intended to introduce the concepts
of modern, computer based 3D visualization, and at the same time
to demonstrate the power of whole body, 3D imaging of anatomy
as a curriculum tool." It includes the interactive frog dissection
kit. Technical notes on the site explain how the site was created
and made ready for use on the Web. http://www-itg.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/Whole.Frog/Whole.Frog.html#frog_movie
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- Ask
Dr. Universe
- A place for kids (and
adults, too) to ask questions and get an answer from experts.
Site also includes links to fun sites for kids. http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/Contents.html
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- The
Biology Project
- From
the University of Arizona, an online, interactive resource for
learning biology. A good way for students to review. http://www.biology.arizona.edu/
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- The
Constellations and Their Stars
- Explanations, charts,
interactive astronomy exhibits, photos, references, resources,
links , star myths, star stories, and quizzes. http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations.html
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- Ecology
Resources for Teachers
- Outstanding
resources from the Franklin Institute. Links in main frame are
informational. Links in left-hand frame lead to activities and
lesson plans that utilize web resources. http://scrtec.org/track/tracks/f00533.html
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- Geosciences
WebServer
- Most
of the lesson plan links on this web site of the Learning Through
Collaborative Visualization Project (CoVis), don't work. But the
resources
link provides
an amazing list of earth science links. http://www.covis.nwu.edu/Geosciences/index.html
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- Math
and Science Resources
- Curriculum projects,
grant information, Internet sources, professional and government
organizations, web-based lessons.
http://www.col-ed.org/smcnws/msres/
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- Science
and Math Initiative
- An extensive set of
science links from SAMI, an Annenberg-CPB project. http://www.learner.org/sami/pages/other-l.php3
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- A
Science Educator's Research Webworks
- From a Professor of
Science Education at the University of Pittsburgh, links to journals,
research, organizations, stats and other things he thinks are
particularly valuable. http://www.pitt.edu/~apnous1/serw.html
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- Science
Gems
- Includes
WebQuests designed by teachers attending summer workshops at the
University of California at Irvine, as well as other science lessons
and dozens of great links, including the visual
human, exploratorium
science snacks, and Explore
Science, a must-see site. http://www.sciencegems.com/
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- Science
Resources from California State University, Fullerton
- Some
excellent links divided by subject, plus links to magazines, newsletters
and other valuable resources. http://hdcs.fullerton.edu/ElEd/Faculty
Own Pages/Recommended Sites/Web Sites Science.html
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- Solar
System Live
- View the entire solar
system or just the inner planets. Control time, date, viewpoint,
and a variety of other parameters. While you're on the site, be
sure to check out the earth
and moon viewer. View them by day or night, from almost anywhere.
Check topography, weather, cloud cover, land and sea temperature.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html
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- Thinking
Fountain
- Science
explorations for children, from the University of Minnesota Science
Museum. Outstanding graphics. Site shows interrelationship between
topics, encourages children to think. http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/
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