Science and Science Education Links |
There are tons of excellent science teaching links out there. Email me if there are sites you want added, especially if it is one you've created. In time, they will be added here, too. Quick jump to sections on this page: |
WWW Resources or Sites that Focus on a Semi-Specific Science Content Area |
At this point, this page is continuously being updated, so if you have a favorite link, email Melissa so she can add it. Be sure to check back again to see what's been added. If you click on a link and it does not go where you expect it to go, PLEASE tell me so it can be fixed. Links working on Feb 14, 2006. |
WWW Resources or Sites that Focus ona Semi-Specific Science Content AreaGeneral Science Education or sites that cater to multiple science topics (that are not government, comercial, non-profit, maintained by teachers, or falling in some other category)
Nature of Science
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Photosynthesis
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Anatomy and physiology
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Environmental Science Education
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Global Warming (and Michael Crichton)
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Earth Science Education
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MetricsScience News Resources (indirectly to help support literacy)
Science Websites that offer lots of info that might be useful in the classroom
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Science Teacher Written or Maintained Pages
Non-Profit (or gov't funded) Organizations that have general science education information
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Government Sponsored Science or Science Education
National Science Education / Professional Development Organizations
Science related Professional Organizations that serve as excellent resources
Commercial sites especially for K-12 science education
Companies that sell technology to be used specifically with science education
Databases
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Resources or Museums that also help out teachers or students in their geographic area:
SF Bay Area or Northern CA
Places
- Chabot Space and Science Center (CSSC)
- SF Exploratorium
- Lawrence Livermore National Labs
- The Tech museum in San Jose
- Explorit Science Center (Davis)
- RAFT (resource area for teachers)
- Hall of Health (in Berkeley)
- UCMP: UC Museum of Palentology (Berkeley)
- Childrens Discovery Museum (San Jose)
- Lick Observatory
- Oakland Zoo
- Marine Mammal Center
- Lindsay Wildlife Museum (Walnut Creek)
- Ruth Bancroft Garden (Walnut Creek)
- Filoli Garden and Museum (Woodside)
- Bay Area Discovery Museum (caters to K-3 science ed)
- NASA Ames Research Center (Moffit Field)
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- The Garden Classroom (Santa Cruz)
- CA Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)
- Point Reyes National Seashore- has DVD and other information to supplement curriculum
Organizations for Curriculum or Professional Development
- CSTA
- CSTA teaching links
- FEAST- the Saturday Teacher fun at CSSC
- BABEC biotech education (Bay Area)
- Lawrence Berkeley Labs
- CEPRAP biotech education (Davis)
- Lawrence Livermore National Labs
- CREEC (environmental education)
- The Watershed Project- kids in creeks, kids in gardens
- Water Education Foundation tours
- Water education links to agencies, bay area foundations
- Bay Area Science Collaboratory
- Bay Area Science Project
- California Environmental Education Interagency Network (CEEIN)
- CA Science Education Advisory Committee
- CA Science Project
- CISC Science Subcommittee
- BASA Bay Area Science Aliance
- AEOE Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education
- SCCSTA Santa Clara County Science Teachers Assn
- CASME Contra Costa County Science and Math
- Project Astro (Astronomy)
- Marine Science Institute, Redwood City
- Save the Bay
- Physiographic Provinces of CA
- Exploring CA Insects
- MASTEP new math and science teacher support
- California Association of Chemistry Teachers, Northern Section (NCACT)
- Gene Connection's list of favorite websites
- California Teachers dot net
- Edjoin: Education Job Opportunity network in CA
Resources or Museums that also help out teachers or students in their geographic area:
Southern CA
- CSTA
- CSTA teaching links
- San Diego Science Alliance
- CA Science Center
- RHFleet Science Center
- Southern CA Marine Institute
- Marine Ed in Urban Areas
- NOAA Marine Ed in Urban Areas
- CREEC (environmental education)
- Discovery Science Center
- California Environmental Education Interagency Network (CEEIN)
- CA Science Education Advisory Committee
- CISC Science Subcommittee
- AEOE Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education
- SDSEA San Diego Science Educators Alliance
- Physiographic Provinces of CA
- Exploring CA Insects
- Northridge High School Chemistry Teacher support network
- San Diego Natural History Museum
- California Teachers dot net
- Edjoin: Education Job Opportunity network in CA
Resources or Museums that also help out teachers or students in their geographic area:
Located outside of CA
- Smithsonian
- Fralin Biotechnology Center (VA Tech)
- Arkansas Math and Science Institute
- Ruth Patrick Science Education Center- South Carolina
- University of Arkansas, K-16 education outreach
- University of Georgia
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Education Minnesota
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Iowa State Biotechnology Program
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Kansas State Department of Education
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Kansas Citizens for Science
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New York Science Education Listserv
- North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers
- National Research Center Canada- education resources
- VIMS: Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
- CREATE for Mississippi
- Hawai'i: Bishop Museum
- Vermont: Montshire Museum of Science
- Boston: Museum of Science
- St. Louis Science Center
- OMSI: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
- Philadelphia: Franklin Institute
- Tennesee: Highlander Research and Education Center- environmental social change
- List of Natural History Museums at the UCMP website
- Museums Hotlist- list of museums at the Franklin Institute Online website
- Virtual Museum of Natural History
- Chicago Academy of Sciences- Notebaert Nature Museum
- Field Museum, Chicago
- Honolulu CC Dinosaur Exhibit
- Houston Musuem of Natural Science
- Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences
- Pennsylvania: North Museum of Natural History
- CMNH: Cleveland Museum of Natural History
- Florida Museum of Natural History
- Bern, Switzerland: Naturhistoriches Museum
- London: Natural History Museum
- Royal British Columbia Museum
- Alberta: Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Sweedish Museum of Natural History
- Charolotte, The Vermont Whale
- Australian Academy of Science, science education pages
General Education Websites
Sites for teachers about teaching or with teaching ideas
- Student teacher survival guide
- new teachers dot com
- Teacher Talk: Student teaching
- Iloveteaching.com
- Pro-teachers new teacher info
- US Dept of Ed: new teacher survival guide
- Education World
- teachers.net
- Internet Resources for Substitutes- get a clue what you can do to help out a substitute who may be watching your kids
- Teacher Resource Exchange - a site designed to help teachers hook up with materials they need for their classroom
- RNT: National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse- Why Teach?
- What to expect your first year of teaching (compiled by the US gov't.)
- Middle School Science
- Inclusive Schools (urban Ed)
- Perspectives on Urban Education
- Educators Refernce Desk
- The Inquiry Page
- Sites for Teachers- a huge list of websites for teachers
- graphic organizer templates
- read write think literacy resources
- lesson plans at the funding factory (by teachers for teachers)
- Schoopy- a place to set up an online community for your students for free
- graphic organizer links (note their use of concept mapping is technically incorrect)
- Knowledge forum
- MASTEP new math and science teacher support
- Online dictionary
- Vocabulary builder- free online test prep
- Ed.net- educational news and resources
- Teachers helping teachers
- Kids Count
- Cornell Note-taking system (as a pdf) (as a document)
- Cornell Note Taking
- Basics of Effective Learning- a student studying help site
- Educational roadmap to the web- lists of links to various educational websites
- Horizon- lots of education resources
- Learning Point Associates- offers info about education (achievement gap, TIMSS, policy issues, and more); some publications are free
- PBL (project based learning) scoring rubric guide
- RubiStar- rubric making software
- Problem based learning at Samford University
- Problem based learning clearinghouse
- NASSPE- National Association for Single Sex Public Education
- Why Gender Matters- info for parents and teachers
- MERLOT- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
- Explorations in Learning and Instruction: The Theory into Practice Database
- Adopt a Classroom- apply to have your classroom adopted/supported
- Carousel brainstorming
- Sites for Teachers
- Project based learning multimedia project scoring rubric
- Teacher's Page- a page of links that connect to teacher-centered stuffs
- Education World- comprehensive info for teachers and administrators
- Eduscapes- lots of info for teachers
- Free tools for teachers
- Education planet- lots of resources for teachers: weblinks, lesson plans
- Scholastic
- Even though I think it is wrong to teach in a particular school just to erase student loans, this link will tell you how to do it.
- list of state departments of education
- US gov't section Just for Teachers- includes information on NCLB and highly qualified teacher requirements
- About Learning; 4MAT system; differentiated instruction
- Exemplars- Standards based assessment and teaching
- Excelsior Software- Assessment Management Systems. Although I have not tried it, this system was highly recommended by a presenter at a professional conference I recently attended.
- Kay Toliver- video highlighting success of an inner-city mathematics teacher
- Ten Tips for New Teachers
- Teachers First- the web resource for K-12 teachers
- Puzzlemaker website care of Discovery Channel
- SCORE- middle school/ high school instructional strategies
- Websites offering rubrics
- Teach-nology- Has samples, 1 year membership $29.99
- Teacher created rubrics for assessment- has links to various websites that either have rubrics or assist with making rubrics
- Federal Way Public Schools- middle school rubrics in science
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators- Assessment and rubrics
- Stone Middle School - Automating Authentic Assessment with Rubrics
- PALS: grades 5-8 performance tasks
- Webquests
- Middle Web- Assessment and Evaluation
- EduHound Weekly- the weekly newsletter for teachers
- Math 101- Free Math Help Online
- FreePrintables- has lists and links to websites that offer things you can print for free
- Tutor Hunt- a place to register as a tutor. I need to create a new area here for teachers looking for additional income, etc. If/when I do get that created, I'll move this link there.
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Commercial or Professional Organizations related to teaching
- ASCD
- Scholastic
- products for interactive classroom
- Recall Plus study software
- AFT- American Federation of Teachers, a teacher union
- NEA- National Education Assocation, a teacher union
- PLTW- project lead the way, wants to connect with science and math teachers to promote future engineers
- Discovery Channel Education resources
- PBS- tons of resources from public broadcasting
- AAE Teachers- Association of American Educators
- NCREL- North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
- REL: Regional Educational Laboratories- research based school reform
- Eye on Education- sells books about teaching
- Newsweek- Newsweek education program
Companies that sell technology for hands-on activities or interactive learning
- Promethean- not only do they have instant feedback devices, but they have a special white board that interacts with what is being presented. I saw their stuff at a conference and was very impressed. Check out their site!
- Smartroom.com- an audience response system to spontaneously quiz your kids and know what they think
- Qwizdom- an audience response system to spontaneously quiz your kids and know what they think
- There is actually a company called audience response that sells systems
- PASCO- probeware
- Vernier- data collection technology
- Turning Point- audience response systems
- Edulaunch- online training on webdesign in high schools
- Options Technology Interactive- Audience response systems
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Want to create your own teacher website? Check out these links- some list free places to host your site, others are tools you can use to create a site
- list at Eduscape
- Schoolnotes
- ClassWebs.net- only $25 per year
- School Websites- list of various places that host web pages or web related informaiton for teachers
- Scholastic- offers free webpage
- ClassNotes online- free teacher website
- 30 minute websites for teachers- not free, but may be worth the $45 per year
- Webteacher software
- list of graphic links
- Class web pages- examples, hows whys
- Web development for schools and libraries
- Free websites with php- I know nothing about this company so make sure you read their site carefully
- School and teacher- free websites (for 1 year)
- Our Teachers Page dot com- I don't think it is free
- Mirahost- discount for teachers
- Teacher Web- only $25 per year (as of date of putting it on this website as a link)
- Education planet- web resources for schools and teacher
- Teachers website dot com- free website space
- School world- 30 day free trial
- Web Design Group- one of my favorite sites that gives good HTML help
- HTML goodies- webdesign info
- WebReference- reference pages on web design
- Webforumz- a huge message board with postings dealing with all kinds of webpage development stuff
- Webdesign Helper- says they have free help
- Tips and Tricks- online advice
- Dev Articles- online advice for web development
- HTML center- online HTML advice
- W3schools.com- I think this is supposed to be a good place to go for help and tutorials
- WebMonkey- a web developer's resource
- Schoopy- a place to set up an online community for your students for free
- We the Teachers
Technology or Multimedia information that focuses on teaching or instruction delivery
- 4 teachers- Online space for teachers integrating technology into the classroom
- i movie
- Teacher's Domain, multimedia resources for the classroom
- free Concept Mapping software
- Inspriation concept mapping software
- Classroom technology integration
- Center for learning technologies in urban schools
- Explore Learning interactive computer simulations
- the GLOBE program- interactive online learning
- Recall Plus study software
- project based learning with multimedia
- quick and easy method to make videos of classroom
- Annenberg Media- Learner dot org- on demand video; free, variety of subject matter areas including how to teach various subjects
- DIAGNOSER program to monitor student perceptions in science
- Web-based inquiry science environment (WISE)
- Modeling across the curriculum
- Molecular Literacy Project
- Molecular Logic Project
- Shodor- computational science- has curriculum for science areas
- DNA learning Center
- HHMI biointeractive
- Explore Learning- online Gizmos that help administer simulations to students
- Ed Gateway- place you can organize electronic communication
- Smartroom.com- an audience response system to spontaneously quiz your kids and know what they think
- Qwizdom- an audience response system to spontaneously quiz your kids and know what they think
- There is actually a company called audience response that sells systems
- PASCO- probeware
- Vernier- data collection technology
- Gaggle.net- safe email for students
- Discovery Channel Education resources
- Copyright info for Educators
- Software to make comics
- Turning Point- audience response systems
- ETIC- Educational Technology Information Center
- THE Journal- technology information for educators
- MERLOT- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
- Innovate- Journal of Online education
- Models of effective technology integration
- CREATE- challenging regional educators to advance technology in education
- Quizhub- online quizzes for students to take, membership may be required
- Wikipedia- the free online encyclopedia
- Logotron- thinking with pictures (a company)
- Funbrain- quizzes, teacher info, more
- R*TEC: Regional Technology in Education Consortia- lots of lessons, ideas, help
- GEM:Gateway to 21st Century Skills- a site promoted by the US gov't (educational technology)
- Government compiled list of educational technology websites, organizations, or related information.
- United Streaming- on demand video that is not free; part of Discovery Channel curriculum materials
- Annenberg videos that focus on education- A Private Universe is among their videos
- Sunburst Technology- offer hardware and software that allows teachers and students utilize technology, multimedia, and more
- Weston Woods- works with teachers to develop innovative curricula
- Cyber City Online- a huge educational environment online- tons of links to other websites
- Edutopia- sponsored by George Lucas, offers magazine and e-newsletter
- Webquests
- Free Clipart for teachers- EduHound sponsors clipart provided for free to educators
- Can Stock Photo- pay per image or subscribe; some images may be free
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Small Learning Communities, Houses, School-to-Career, Academies, etc.
- CASN- Career Academy Support Network
- Small Schools Workshop
- NWREL- small learning communities- written support materials and key questions
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