- American Museum of
Natural History New This splendid
site is user friendly, contains current scientific
information and interpretations, and is compelling
to audiences from children through senior citizens.
The main menu has more than 90 links grouped within
categories entitled: The Museum, Exhibitions, Science
and Research, Education, and Just for Kids.
- BBC-Space
Articles, games and audio-visual animation
about space and the solar system.
- Best
Animations
Variety of gifs animations for science. The
site gives you access to hundreds of Clip Art Images,
Unique Icons, Freemovingclipart.com, Free Animated
Clip Art, Photographs, 3-D, Animated Clipart, and
Original High Quality Color Clipart.
- Blue
Web'n Homepage
Blue Web'n (a word play of blue ribbon) is an online
library of educational resources. It's 1200+
sites are catagorized by subject, grade level, and
format. The library is searchable and being
expanded all the time.
- Digital
Library for Earth System Education
Outstanding: DLESE is the Digital
Library for Earth System Education, a geoscience community
resource that supports teaching and learning about
the Earth system. DLESE is funded by the National
Science Foundation and is being built by a distributed
community of educators, students, and scientists to
support Earth system education at all levels. DLESE
provides: 1. Easy access to quality teaching and learning
resources about the Earth as a system for a wide range
of learners 2. Services to help users effectively
create, use and evaluate digital learning resources.
3. Interfaces and tools to allow student exploration
of Earth data. 4. A community center that fosters
interaction, collaboration and sharing.
- Dragonfly
TV from PBS Kids New A website with
science video, activities, scigirls, and podcasts. "Real
Kids, Real Science." Also available as free
video podcasts on iTunes.
- Discovery
Education New
Outstanding - The Discovery
Channel School site is a large collection of pages
and links that can be used by anyone on any level
to research and explore numerous areas of science.
The structure of the site allows it to be used by
the teacher, the parent, or the student. The wealth
of information presented was accurate, well documented,
and highly u
- Education
World Eduction Center
- General site for resources for science students
and teachers.
- Encarta
This is an encyclopedia of multiple subject areas
in science and it also includes other areas of information
for various disciplines.
- First Gov for
Science
This site is a gateway to numerous links provided
by U.S. government agencies. The information found
here is carefully selected by known authorities of
scientific information.
- Forensic
Science New This site describes lesson
plans and lab activities using forensic applications
for blood analysis, hair analysis and DNA typing.
It lists materials and estimated time needed for
each activity. These activities would work best for
biology, chemistry and physics classes.
- Free
Animated Science Gifs, Clipart and Science Animations
Hundreds of gifs, clipart and science animations.
- FREE
(Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
Database for free teaching and learning resources
from Federal Agencies. New sites are added regularly.
- Hands-on
Science Centers Worldwide
This site is a directory of Hands-on Science Centers
around the world. Gives links to centers in
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and
South America.
- Internet
Travels in the Life Sciences
- This general science site contains numerous links
to a variety of Life Science topics found on the
Internet. The site is organized into major Life
Science links listed under topics such as: Bio Ethics;
BioTech & BioChem; Cell Biology; Chemistry;
Microbiology; Plant Biology; & etc.
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- Intute
Intute is a free online database providing access
to the very best web resources for education and research.
All material is evaluated and selected by a network
of subject specialists to create the Intute database.
The database contains 116943 records.
It allows access to both subject-specific and cross-subject
resources, all of which have been evaluated for their
quality and relevance.
- Learning
Point Associates
This is the Great Lakes East Comprehensive Center home page. It contains numerous
links to a large variety of information devoted to the increased use of technology
to improve instruction.
- Learningscience.org
- Outstanding
Learningscience.org is an organization dedicated
to sharing the newer and emerging "learning
tools" of science education. Tools such as
real-time data collection, simulations, inquiry
based lessons, interactive web lessons, micro-worlds,
and imaging, among others, can help make teaching
science an exciting and engaging endeavor.
- Martindale's
The Reference Desk
Site is all-inclusive. Not just science, but every
topic you can think of. Easy to navigate, lots
of information. A very good reference.
- MEL
Databases by Topic
This is a list of databases for teachers and students
to use. A link to the best of the internet is
given for multiple subjects.
- Michigan
eLibrary
Michigan eLibrary supports Michigan K-12 educators
in the successful use of technology by providing best
practices, professional developemnt, and evaluated
curriculum resources. Educator-reviewed activities,
lesson plans, and resources are provided for a variety
of subjects and educational levels, including all
core areas.
- Michigan
Electronic Library
This is a great place to start your search for information
of all kinds. Provides access to magazine articles,
lesson plans, information about our state and more
- National
Geographic
Perhaps no one has documented the natural and cultural
diversity of our planet more thoroughly and lushly
than the National Geographic Society. This site brings
the content of its magazines (including the maps),
TV shows, and more to the Web. Its archive of online
features is an adventuresome resource.
- Learning
Point Associates
This is the Great Lakes East Comprehensive Center
home page. It contains numerous links to a large
variety of information devoted to the increased
use of technology
to improve instruction.
- Ology New This site was created by the American
Museum of Natural History. It includes activities,
videos, book lists, etc. to cover a wide variety
of science concepts. It would be appropriate for
use at a wide variety of grade levels.
- Oracle
ThinkQuest Education Foundation
ThinkQuest is all about students thinking and learning
together. Students work in teams to create the best
educational websites and compete for exciting prizes.
The teams' websites are published for the world to
see in the ThinkQuest Library. This rich online resource
contains over 5,500 educational websites, created
by students for students. Search the library and you'll
be sure to find a site that intrigues you.
- Pathfinder
Science
This is an excellent resource for any teacher looking
for projects to interest students in science. There
are projects sponsored by the DOE and other governmental
agencies.
- Resources
Helping Students to Connect New
Outstanding - The Discovery Channel School site is a large collection
of pages and links that can be used by anyone on
any level to research and explore numerous areas
of science. The structure of the site allows it to
be used by the teacher, the parent, or the student.
The wealth of information presented was accurate,
well documented, and highly usable.
- RubiStar
Outstanding
RubiStar can help the teacher who wants to
use rubrics but does not have the time to develop
them from scratch. While many teachers want to use
rubrics or are experimenting with writing them, they
can be quite time-consuming to develop. RubiStar provides
generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used
for many typical projects and research assignments.
RubiStar is unique because it provides these generic
rubrics in a format that can be customized: Teachers
can change almost all suggested text in the rubric
to make it fit their own projects.
- Science
Daily New
Outstanding - Site that contains
up-to-date science informaiton.
- Science
Friday New
Outstanding. This website has
multiple downloads and videos about current science
issues. There is also a teacher resource section
for ideas on implementation into the classroom.
- Science
Inquiry New
Multiple links to many science
as well as math sites, includes student interactive
games, virtual activities along with srudent and
teacher resources.
- Science Learning
Network New The site is the product
of a partnership among six science museums and is
funded by Unisys and the National Science Foundation.
These resources cover a broad range of topics, many
of which are guaranteed to appeal to middle-school
and high-school students. But anyone can learn a
great deal through these resources.
- Science
NetLinks
The site provides a wealth of resources for K-12 science
educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful
standards-based Internet experiences for students.
- Science
Teacher Program from Columbia University New This site is from Columbia University. It is
a research based website where lesson plans, lab
activities and general information are held. This
is an excellent resource for teachers looking for
lesson plan or lab ideas in all areas of science.
- Shodor Education
Foundation, Inc.
The site's purpose to advance science and math education
through the use of computational science, modeling
and technology. Interactive activities and instruc-
tional materials for students, educators, and parents;
faculty development, and student enrichment are all
part of this outstanding site.
- Smart Tools for
Busy Teachers
- This site is a resource for teachers. There are
numerous lessons in all subject areas including
math and science. There are how-to for teachers:
from organizing the classroom to doing a fundraiser.
It is important for teachers to have sites to help
them in areas such as these.
- The
Source Book for Teaching Science
Outstanding!
The Sourcebook for Teaching Science: Strategies, Activities,
and Internet Resources, provides new and experienced
teachers with a wealth of useful teaching strategies,
resources, lessons, activities, and ideas to enhance
science teaching and learning. All ideas and activities
are based upon learning theory.
The Sourcebook for Teaching Science is designed to
compliment any secondary school science curricula.
Science teachers will find ready-to-use demonstrations,
experiments, illustrations, games, puzzles, analogies,
lessons, activities, and strategies, as well as explanations
of how to adapt these for various student populations.
- Venn
Diagram
This is a source for teachers or students to learn
more about Venn diagrams.The site includes ways to
use Venns and how to create your own. There
is a database of Venn Diagrams to view also.
- WolframAlpha
- Computational Knowledge Engine New
- Outstanding Today's
Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious,
long-term project to make all systematic knowledge
immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question
or calculation,and Wolfram Alpha uses its built-in
algorithms and a growing collection of data to
compute the answer.
- Yahoo
Science Directory
This site has identified many links to various science
web sites. The links are informational and/or
student interactive. The links cover a multitude
of topics in every science area.
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