Educational+Websites

=Technology in the Classroom= This page is home to links out to websites that can be used to support your science curriculum.

__**//Primary/Elementary Grades//**__
[|"Elementary Education Science Resources on the Internet"] - this is chalk-full of links that will take you to virtual field trips & experiences, science museums, lesson & unit plans, people connections, publications & books, science pointers, science information & ideas, videos & software, and organizations. I can't promise that all of the links are active - most are.

Interactive [|acrostic builder] for primary grades.

This website by [|NSTA] (National Science Teachers Association) is dedicated to Pre-K thru 2nd grade science teachers. It provides "resources and conversations" for teachers of the "Early Years".

Howard Hughes Medical Institute website, [|Cool Science for Curious Kids], helps elementary aged students explore Biology.

[|WONDERNET!] - physical science activities for elementary aged students - sponsored by the American Chemical Society.

[|Harcourt Science] online-activities and support. Most activities do not require a log-in or password.

[|Houghton Mifflin Science] online-activities, pre-made graphic organizers and vocabulary games. Most activities do not require a log-in or password.

The [|EPA Environmental Kids Club] is a website for students Pre-K through 4th grade. The websites helps them explore their environment and learn how to protect it. They've got games, pictures, activities, and stories. [|The Magic School Bus] - click on the bus to take you to a variety of different games and activities based on science explorations.

**//__Middle Grades__//**
[|I Was Wondering] - This is a website that I thought was really interesting. It focuses on women who are scientists. If you click on the "10 Cool Scientists" link you will find 10 choices of women scientists. If you pick one, you will find a variety of different options for your students to explore, including experiments, biographies, and comic book stories that tell about some aspect of the scientist's content area. There are also educational games for the students to play.

[|Science News for Kids] is a website that has a lot of science articles that are at the middle school reading level. There are also reading questions for a lot of the articles and other activities as well. This might be something you could add as anchors, “Do Now’s”, use with substitutes, or current events…etc.

[|Science Friday] - Every week during the school year, the Kids’ Connection translates information from NPR’s //Science Friday// into curriculum for middle school teachers. //Science Friday// host Ira Flatow discusses the latest research with scientists and policymakers, authors, and advocates. The broad range of topics he covers includes subjects your students will need to understand, from global warming to genetically modified foods. The //Science Friday// Kids’ Connection then takes that often complex material and translates it into easily digestible information. Each topic contains a complete summary of the discussion, along with resources and references. Also included are suggested questions for students, activities, and related resources available online. - Compliments of NSTA's Building a Presence for Science.

This will link you to the [|Yellowstone National Park] website and will provided you with a series of virtual field trips geard for students in grades 5-8.

The [|American Chemical Society] has put together loads of resources that help students understand the chemical world around us. The website contains featured activities, interactive games, safety tips, and interviews of scientists by a students named Meg A. Mole.

[|Interactive Biology] On-Line Labs and Activities

[|Windows to the Universe] is an OUTSTANDING resource for students middle-high school aged. The reading content can be differentiated according to "beginner", "intermediate" and "advanced". Additionally, the website has a button to click that will translate the content into Spanish. I have personally used this website in my 9th grade Earth/Science class and have had extremely positive results.

[|Virtual Microscope] will help your students learn the parts of a microscope as well as how to correctly use it in a virtual environment. Additionally, there is a short video tutorial of the proper steps in using a microscope.

[|Project NeMO Education] - An undersea mystery to solve - created by NOAA. Curriculum materials are geared for MS or HS level.

[|EdHeads] - Activate your Mind! Interactive online simulations and activities for MS aged students. Teacher's manuals, lesson plan ideas, integration tips as well as national science standards are provided on topics related to physical, life, and earth sciences. Topics include: simple and compound machines, weather, virtual knee surgery, and virtual hip surgery.

__**//High School//**__
[|The Tree of Life Web Project] (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 5000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. Each page contains information about a particular group of organisms (e.g., echinoderms, tyrannosaurs, phlox flowers, cephalopods, club fungi, or the salamander fish of Western Australia). ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things. - courtesy of ToL website.

[|Project NeMO Education] - An undersea mystery to solve - created by NOAA. Curriculum materials are geared for MS or HS level.

[|Theoretical Physics Fun] - The following review is provided by AAAS - This website comes from the Cal Tech theory group and is generally well done. The first section, Time Travel in Flatland, is very well done and is by far the most useful. Its major strength is an entertaining account of the evolution of theoretical space/time physics from the Pythagorean rule to Newton and on to Einstein. It is cleverly done and broken up into small chunks so that students can probably get something at many different levels. I don't know if this fits in general lesson plans, but it could be quite useful for extra projects for motivated students. The section called Solve the Einstein Equations Yourself may be good for students who are really interested in science and math or it could be a useful part of a lesson plan. The other science section, The Superstring Revolution, is probably beyond most 9-12 students and teachers. It is also presented in a more formal, less entertaining way.

//__All Grades__//
[|The Hubble Space Telescope]**//__.__//** Within this website, there are teacher tool links for educators as well as links for students to explore, all pertaining to this remarkable space-based observatory.

This website is through [|PBS 39] - Lehigh Valley, PA. Short (45 seconds) video clips are shown about a concept in science then a writing prompt is provided.

[|BBC's Interactive Science] activities, games and quizzes for students age 4-11.

[|BBC's Interactive Body] - choose between "building a body" by placing either organs, muscles, skeleton, or nervous system into a male or female body structure. Animations help to "connect" how all parts work together. Information about each body part is provided to the participant.

[|NASA Visible Earth] - a large collection of NASA satellite images and animations.

[|60 Second Science] are podcasts that would be a great addition to your lesson as a possible "warm-up" activity to help get your students ready to learn. There is one podcast released everyday.

[|Explore Learning] provides "gizmos" that provide online simulations for secondary math and science students. There is the opportunity for you to access it for a free 30 day trial and there are many activities for each of the concepts.

[|National Library of Virtual Manipulatives] - PreK-12 interactive activities on Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability

//__Teacher Resources__//
[|Science Misconceptions Podcasts] - recorded by Orange County Department of Education, CA.

Use this website to access the [|NSTA's "unofficial" listserve archive].

[|National Science Foundation] website

Sample [|Daily Reinforcers], Grades 1-8

[| Project 2061] - The NSF funded project for American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that resulted in the K-12 Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the Atlas for Science Literacy.

[|Robert Krampf Science Education Co.] provides "experiments of the week" and "science experiment videos" across all science disciplines.

[|Yahoo! Teachers] in a new website that will allow teachers to create, modify, and share standard-based materials. Sign-up for free and collaborate with teachers across the country.

[|Science Netlinks: Lesson Index] - Lessons K-12 provided by AAAS aligned to the national standards and benchmarks.