This CD-ROM is intended to be a practical resource for science education specialists seeking access to the professional literature and research findings in the field. Here you will find a mixture of text materials, databases, and links to online resources. The resources and links contained here have been selected for their potential to promote improved teaching and learning in science through ongoing research, scholarship, and the active exchange of ideas.

the CSTA seeks to:

    * Promote and support all aspects of effective science teaching, including new technologies and instructional strategies;

    * Encourage the natural curiosity of learners at all levels;

    * Increase scientific literacy and the application of science to everyday life;

    * Promote science as a vehicle for lifelong learning for all citizens;

    * Assume a leadership role in advocating for science education and creating an understanding of the value of science.

 The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) founded Project 2061 in 1985 to help all Americans become literate in science, mathematics, and technology. (Link to report on two events celebrating Project 2061's 20th Anniversary.) Its work has earned the project a reputation as the "single most visible attempt at science education reform in American history" (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, 1996). Or, as journalist Julia Steiny recently described it in the Providence Journal, "Project 2061 is the ultimate science project."

 OELA's National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) under Title III of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.

 Learning Power is presented by Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power, each a part of Southern Company, one of the largest generators of electricity in the United States. Have fun learning about electricity and power companies, if you need to know something you can't find, send us a note.

 The goal of the Teachers' Lab is to provide teachers and educators with a deeper understanding of commonly taught math and science concepts. Many of the Labs are based upon professional development workshops broadcast on the Annenberg Channel.

 Welcome to the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Science for Schools web site! We offer information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge. You can choose a topic from the menu below, get a description of our main water topics, or view our site map.

 Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes — and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events.

 With that in mind, the emeritus professor from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., and his wife, Priscilla, visit elementary schools and teacher conventions.  At elementary schools they teach classes during the day on a schedule set up by the school's principal, conduct a teacher workshop on hands-on science activities, hold a Family Science Night for parents and students to work together on hands-on science activities, and conduct a parent/teacher workshop to teach them how to conduct a Family Science Night.

 Invention Dimension is a fun-filled and at times wacky approach to making learning about invention exciting for the kid in all of us. Have some fun with our invention games and explore the wealth of inventor and invention resources, including inventor profiles and patent guidelines, offered in our highlighted sections below.

 The Science Fair Foundation BC serves to support, organize, stage and fund-raise for Science Fairs in BC. This extends to Local, Regional, Canada-Wide and International Science Fairs where students supported by the foundation have consistently produced high standard projects.

 GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSPs) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment.

 Welcome to lhsfoss.org, the FOSS project site at the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS). FOSS is a research-based science program for grades K–8 developed at LHS with support from the National Science Foundation and published by Delta Education. This research, development, information, and issues website is closely linked to the FOSS-user website, FOSSweb.com. FOSSweb is designed to provide enrichment for students and support for teachers, administrators, and families who are actively involve in implementing and enjoying FOSS program materials.

 Since 1938, Carolina's prestigious newsletter has featured in-depth articles and how-to tips for classroom teachers. Each issue also includes columns from Carolina's various departments and information on the hottest new teaching materials. Carolina Tips® is printed in March and August and mailed free to teachers at their school addresses. Carolina Tips® online is emailed monthly.

 The Association for Women in Science is dedicated to achieving equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. We are a Network, a Resource, and a Voice.

 Project Learning Tree® is an award winning, multi-disciplinary environmental education program for educators and students in PreK-grade 12. PLT, a program of the American Forest Foundation, is one of the most widely used environmental education programs in the United States and abroad.  PLT continues to set the standard for environmental education excellence.

 Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides health, biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. The program was originally developed and launched by Genentech Inc., and in 1999 joined the National Health Museum, a non-profit organization founded by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop as a national center for health education

 To promote gender equity in science, engineering and mathematics, the National Science Foundation's Programs for Women and Girls (PWG) Division has supported over 100 curricular innovations, professional development efforts, and informal learning opportunities for women and girls. In 1998, the EDC/Center for Children and Technology published the CD-ROM NSF Program for Women and Girls: A Lifetime of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics to showcase the broad range of solutions that innovators across the country have developed to address key gender equity issues at every developmental stage in women's lives. The material included on that CD-ROM is now available in full on this Website.

  We offer a complete line of over 70 GEMS Teacher's Guides (stand-alone, supplementary science and math curriculum), and Handbooks. Both GEMS Kits and GEMS Curriculum Sequences are available through our partnership with Carolina Biological Supply Company.

 oin the Girls Science Network and contribute to important scientific research NOW! The results will become part of a shared database and document local, national and, eventually even global results. The first two research projects will gather valuable information which would be difficult or impossible for an individual researcher to accomplish. Here is a short description.

  The scientific process of asking questions and seeking answers serves as the foundation of the Institute for Inquiry. The Institute provides a variety of workshops, forums, and resources to support an international community of scientists and educators dedicated to developing innovation and leadership in science education.

 Try to work out why things happen first, then compare your ideas with the explanations and comments provided as links. This is a sampler page that makes a good place to start: you can just browse around, using the idex on the left, or you can go off first and find out about the rest of this very large site -- there are lots of other pages, with even more stuff to play around with, and even project ideas for science fairs.

 Welcome to AIMS, a non-profit foundation dedicated to helping you help kids learn math and science. When your textbook isn't enough, or you need tools for differentiated instruction, let us help you with hands-on teaching.

  That was how Science for All Americans (SFAA), the first Project 2061 publication, identified itself. Now, four years later, those words serve equally well to introduce Benchmarks for Science Literacy, a companion report. SFAA answers the question of what constitutes adult science literacy, recommending what all students should know and be able to do in science, mathematics, and technology by the time they graduate from high school.  Benchmarks specifies how students should progress toward science literacy, recommending what they should know and be able to do by the time they reach certain grade levels. Together, the two publications can help guide reform in science, mathematics, and technology education.

 As Science for All Americans neared completion, questions of implementation came into view, and the need for Project 2061 to have a better understanding of the education system became more and more apparent. To that end, the project arbitrarily—but with lots of advice—identified a dozen key parts of the education system and then sought the help of experts in describing those parts and their interactions. The result of all of this was Blueprints for Reform.

 This publication and the February 1998 Forum on Early Childhood Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education were supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (grant number ESI 96189093). Any interpretations and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the American Association for the Advancement of Science or the National Science Foundation.

  Welcome to the science education website! Here’s your invitation to think about science, learning, and teaching and to find cool stuff on the Web that will make science more accessible and fun.

It’s an exciting time to be an elementary science teacher for many reasons. One reason is because the Web has many content sites that teachers can visit to refresh and expand their basic knowledge of science. As with any tool, with a little practice, the Web can become a teacher’s very own professional development service, accessible at any time with the use of a personal computer.

 The National Science Education Standards present a vision of a scientifically literate populace. They outline what students need to know, understand, and be able to do to be scientifically literate at different grade levels. They describe an educational system in which all students demonstrate high levels of performance, in which teachers are empowered to make the decisions essential for effective learning, in which interlocking communities of teachers and students are focused on learning science, and in which supportive educational programs and systems nurture achievement.

 AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.

 What is the National Curriculum for England? The National Curriculum sets out a clear, full and statutory entitlement to learning for all pupils up to the age of 16. It determines the content of what will be taught and sets attainment targets for learning. It also determines how performance will be assessed and reported.

 The National Science Resources Center (NSRC) provides leadership, services and products for improving the learning and teaching of science. More School districts that have adopted NSRC-developed curriculum or that adhere to the NSRC theory of action can point to improved student performance in science.

THE SITE OF THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST

  The California Science Project (CSP) is a university-based professional development network for teachers of science at ALL levels. This statewide network works toward the common goal of improving science education for all students in California. CSP sites exist across the state at campuses of the California State University, the University of California and independent colleges/universities.

 ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes.

 From AAAS  - Tools are sorted according to grade level by default. To sort the tools by tool title or benchmark, click on the corresponding header

 Providing a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.

 Fun Science Gallery was born in 1995, it suggests experimental activities, it addresses Amateur Scientists and it can be useful in school too. In fact, experimental activities have important didactic functions in making the comprehension of abstract concepts easier, in motivating inattentive boys and girls toward scientific study.

  This Teacher's Guide accompanies the NATURE miniseries, DOGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. The series explores the 15,000-year-old relationship between dogs and humans and the evolution of wolves into the wide variety of dogs we know today.

 Education at the National Academies

  On the cusp of the millennium, A Science Odyssey takes a look back at the twentieth century, traveling from the days before antibiotics to the age of gene therapy; from Kitty Hawk to Cape Canaveral; from Freud's first explorations of the psyche to the latest research in neurophysiology; from the belief that the Milky Way was the entire universe to the discovery of 100 billion galaxies.

 Smithsonian Libraries' Catalog

 Welcome to Classroom Resources -- a diverse collection of lessons and web resources for classroom teachers, their students, and students’ families. Materials are arranged by subject area to help you quickly find resources in your interest area, and then use them to create lesson plans or at-home activities.

 Find all your classroom tools here, including classroom activities, TV program descriptions, related NOVA resources, and interactives for students.

 Educational Resources Page

From USGS

 Complete SEGway Catalog by Grade

 SEGway develops educational resources through several NASA-supported projects. These resources range from web-based lessons to hands-on, inquiry based-lessons for grades K-12. All resources are developed to align with the National Science Education Standards and Project 2061 Benchmarks for Science Literacy.

 Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers. Use the pull-down menus below to browse by subject, grade, or both.

 Solar System Exploration

 JASON’s award-winning supplementary curricula are designed by the world’s leading scientists and educators. The curricula provide rich learning experiences using a hands-on inquiry based approach that mirrors the work of real scientists.

 The National Science Resources Center (NSRC) provides leadership, services and products for improving the learning and teaching of science.

 The Wright Center is dedicated to the creation and sharing of novel instructional techniques and interdisciplinary resources for pre-college teachers. Through its fellowships, workshops, seminars, and a variety of public-outreach activities, the Center provides leadership in the training and retraining of science teachers to use innovative methods to stimulate young minds.

 Americans agree that our students urgently need better science education. The Standards offers a coherent vision of what it means to be scientifically literate, describing what all students should understand and be able to do in science.

  PRISMS is a collection of reviewed phenomena and representations for middle school. Our goal is to help increase the amount of content aligned and pedagogically useful resources available in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) for middle school teachers and students.

 This book is about science literacy. Science for All Americans consists of a set of recommendations on what understandings and ways of thinking are essential for all citizens in a world shaped by science and technology.

 FOSS is a research-based science curriculum for grades K–8 developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley. FOSS is also an ongoing research project dedicated to improving the learning and teaching of science.

 Educational Links

 From NSTA

Teacher Features 

• View vetted Web pages just for you
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• Track student usage
• Save Favorite SciLinks keyword codes

Schools and Teachers: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) is a dynamic center for teacher education, research, and curriculum development in preK—12 science and math education.

  We offer a broad range of educational materials on our web site. Use this 2-page guide to find activities and resources that are useful to you and your students.

 Explore fabulous ideas for enhancing your science curriculum, both at the Museum and in your classroom!

 Our Mission: To promote understanding, support and participation in the protection and conservation of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

 The Noyce Center for Learning at The Tech Museum is a vibrant, growing network of teachers engaged in using design and problem-solving as a method of teaching science and integrating other disciplines.

 The Exploratorium Teacher Institute (TI) has been a professional home for middle and high school science teachers for over twenty years.

 Educators Take your students beyond the classroom. We turn science into a thrilling learning experience – and so can you.

 

Use the search fields below to access more than 1,300 rich Smithsonian educational resources.

 Smithsonian - Educator's Resources

The Museum strives to support the work educators do by producing materials for them, which bring the expertise of our research and collections to the classroom.  The materials are either developed around exhibitions at the Museum, or they are to be used together with online electronic resources that are designed for students and educators.  The Teacher's Guides to exhibits are intended to help educators plan a visit to a particular exhibit, however, they are also meant as classroom resources on their own, or as pre-visit, or post-visit materials for classroom use.

 Teachers - need a little help? On this page you will find opportunities to increase your skills in teaching Environmental Education, as well as some key opportunities for the kids in your classroom. Check back, as the information changes often. --- Want to know more about what the CREEC Network can do for you?

  To preserve, protect, and manage biological resources and related ecosystem processes in the National Park System

 The Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE) was founded in 1979 to promote information exchange among university and college educators actively concerned with teaching biology in a laboratory setting. The focus of ABLE is to improve the undergraduate biology laboratory experience by promoting the development and dissemination of interesting, innovative, and reliable laboratory exercises.

 From the National Acadamies

 From the National Academies

Project WILD is one of the most widely-used conservation and environmental education programs among educators of students in kindergarten through high school. It is based on the premise that young people and educators have a vital interest in learning about our natural world.

 eNature.com was cofounded in February 2000 by Andrew Stewart, the publisher of Chanticleer Press, Robert Ellis, former publisher and lead investor of XOOM.com, and Chris Krueger and Amy Pertschuk, founders of C-Wave, a San Francisco-based internet design and development agency. In February 2001, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), the nation’s largest conservation group, announced its acquisition of eNature.com. The non-profit eNature site continues to operate independently, but now shares unparalleled content and nature discovery tools with the non-profit NWF.org.

 Part land, part sea...where fresh river water and salty sea water mix. This is a world like no other.  It's called an estuary.  And only now are we beginning to recognize the beauty, the wealth and the mystery of this world

 Join thousands of teachers worldwide who use Fast Plants® to bring science alive in their classrooms!

These petite, hardy, fast-growing plants whiz through an entire life cycle in about 40 days, making them ideal for inquiry-based science investigations and for learning about plant biology.

Welcome to the Great Plant Escape, an elementary program for 4th and 5th grade students.

Each of the lessons in this program is interdisciplinary, designed to introduce students to plant science and increase their understanding of how foods grow.

 NGA is a leading national provider of K-12, plant-based educational materials. With teachers and community leaders serving as guides, our school and youth gardening programs help children gain knowledge in science, literacy, social studies, nutrition, the environment, and personal skill areas such as leadership, problem-solving, and team building.

 WhaleNet, in conjunction with research groups, educational organizations, and whale watch companies, provides a program to enhance the educational opportunities of students.

WhaleNet offers students and teachers curriculum resources and support, a source of data for interdisciplinary classroom activities, and interactive informational support through WhaleNet utilizing telecommunications.

  The Visible Human Project has generated over 18000 digitized sections of the human body. This introduction and tour uses images and animals from the project to teach key concepts in human anatomy.

 A CSMEE Companion

 Welcome to Imagine the Universe! This site is intended for students age 14 and up, and for anyone interested in learning about our universe. If you're looking for grade school level astronomy information, please see the StarChild web site. Enjoy your cosmic journey!

 A collection of information and resources for physical sciences education is just a mouse-click away! You may search the collection by keyword or name, or browse the collection by topic, object type, or grade level.

 The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams.

 Thousands of teachers are saddled with error-filled physical science textbooks that fail to present what science is all about. Physicists deserve some of the blame.

 Mission

To improve and promote the education of future physics and physical science teachers.

 Investigating Fountains

  From the National Academies

 From the National Academies

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  From the National Academies

  From the National Academies

  From the National Academies

  From the National Academies

 Founded in 1985, Project 2061 is a long-term initiative of AAAS to help all Americans become literate in science, mathematics, and technology. To achieve that goal, Project 2061 conducts research and develops tools and services—books, CD-ROMS, on-line resources, professional development, and public outreach—that educators, researchers, parents and families, and community leaders can use to make critical and lasting improvements in the nation’s education system.

 This page provides educational resources and links for teaching geology with National Park examples.

 The National Association of Geoscience Teachers works to raise the quality of and emphasis on teaching the geosciences at all levels. We count among our members K-12 teachers and college and university faculty as well as educators working with the general public through outlets such as museums and science centers.

 The Home Page features three main sections of the site: TEACHERS, STUDENTS, and EXPLORERS.

The TEACHERS section includes a listing of Teaching Resources in nearly 30 topic areas. Teachers looking for materials on a variety of topics, from archaeology to water resources, should check here for links. The Teacher section also includes a listing of more than 75 classroom activities on related subjects, and a correlation of several of our activities to national standards of learning for education.

 Teaching resources - lesson plans and activities from EPA and many other sources, grouped by topic

 Here you can find suggested activities based on the National Science Education Standards. Each activity is also marked with an appropriate grade level. At the top of this list, you will find activities based on this year's Earth Science Week theme, "Be a Citizen Scientist!" Also included are many general Earth science activities that are fun and educational.

 Welcome to This Educational Site for High School and College Instructors and Students

 WeatherEye is a public service of KGAN and is sponsored by Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO).

 The U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and issues that affect our quality of life. Discover selected online resources, including lessons, data, maps, and more, to support teaching, learning, education (K-12), and university-level inquiry and research.

 NASA is committed to education, providing ideas and material for teachers and students through its many programs and centers.

Download lesson sets for, "Reading, Writing, and Rings", the Cassini Mission's language arts and science program for students in grades 1-4.
The Cassini-Huygens mission offers an extensive formal education program for students in grades K-12. Students at all grade levels are engaged in learning about Saturn and the Cassini Mission.

Teaching tools

Reveal the beauty and wonder of the cosmos to your students with this comprehensive listing of all of our interactive activities, graphic organizers, science content reading selections, and more.

  Our Teacher Resources include:

Lesson Plans

Hera - Let your students analyze data

Posters and Information/Activity Booklets:

Life Cycle of Stars The Anatomy of Black Holes Gamma-Ray Bursts Hidden Lives of Galaxies What is Your Cosmic Connection to the Elements?

Other Educational Materials:

 Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public. Windows to the Universe has been in development since 1995. Our goal is to build an internet site that includes a rich array of documents, including images, movies, animations, and data sets, that explore the Earth and Space sciences and the historical and cultural ties between science, exploration, and the human experience.

 The mission of Project WET is to reach children, parents, educators, and communities of the world with water education. We invite you to join us in educating children about the most precious resource on the planet – water.

 ISS EarthKAM is a NASA sponsored program that provides stunning, high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. Since 1996, ISS EarthKAM students have taken thousands of photographs of Earth by using the world wide web to direct a digital camera on select space flights and currently on the International Space Station.

 Get your hard hats on and let's go digging for some fun and facts!

 Nick's favorite resource materials for students to learn more about weather and other sciences:

 Lesson Plans

 Science Lesson Plans

 This page contains links regarding professional development for teachers.

  NSDL resources and information organized especially to fit the interests of teachers, media specialists, and others working with K-12 students.

 From the National Academies

 The Biology Corner is a resource site for biology and science teachers. The Lesson Plans section contains classroom activities, labs and worksheets, feel free to change any of these to suit your own classroom needs. The Webquest section contains inquiry based projects that utilize the internet. Internet lessons (also called miniquests) are smaller activities that use one or two science related web sites for the students to explore and answer questions about. Again, feel free to modify these activities so that they work for your class and your style of teaching.

 Serving all teachers and learners, this web site provides a wealth of education resources. This site is the primary educational zone that meets a variety of needs. From curriculum-based materials to resources assisting with student homework or research assignments, this site has a little something for everyone.

 ParkWise provides curriculum units and lesson plans for learning about the National Park Service and the resources under its care.

 The Wilderness Education Training Manual Series offer wilderness managers, educators and the interested public the opportunity to download curriculum, overheads, and other materials.