Guided Tour to Miscellaneous Science Education Resources on the Web
Guided Tour to
Miscellaneous Science Education Resources on the Web
A short listing of other sites that don't fall into the categories listed so far are provided after the Table of Contents below.

This ends the Guided Tour of the Internet. I hope you have come to recognize and appreciate the vast resources that are available to the science teacher on the internet. Happy hunting!

Table of Contents

o Introduction to the Guided Tour
o Starting Points
o Science Education Organizations
o Science Organizations
o Science Education Publications
o Science Education Research
o Science Education Discussion Lists
o Science Education Vendors
o Miscellaneous Sites

WARNING: These have not been updated since 1999.

Home pages linking teachers
Science Course Material
Programs or activities
Resources from other sources
Distance Learning
Other

Home pages linking teachers

o Teacher.Net (Lesson Plans, chat board, resources)
o Science Learning Network
o Teachers Helping Teachers
A good way to network with other teachers and find neat lesson plans
o Teacher Talk Home Page
A good way to learn how to address classroom concerns
o Teacher's Edition Online
o Galileo (University of Washington)
Science lesson plans for K-12
o Canada's SchoolNet (Carleton University)
Electronic link of Canada's schools
o Newton (Argonne National Lab)
Bulletin board system for science, math and computer science/technology teachers and students

Science Course Material for the Secondary School

o FAST (Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching; for middle school science)
o A series of weather lessons appropriate for the middle-school is offered by the The NSTA has some microplans for implementing the National Science Standards via their Scope, Sequence and Coordination program
o CELLS Alive! offers nice pictures and commentary on various aspects of cells and does a good job of relating the content to our lives.
o The home page of the methods class at the University of Nebraska has links to demonstrations (particularly biology)
o Promising Practices - this is searchable list of promising practices in math and science education
o JASON Project - this is a curriculum involving students and teachers through the internet in scientific work
o About Temperature - this basically describes a unit on temperature with related web links
o Global Atmospheric Change - a teacher's guide to a STS issue investigation and action unit
o Physical Science Activity Manual - 34 hands-on activities by the Center of Excellence for Science and Mathematics Education
o Whales - a thematic unit for cooperative learning
o How Things Work (explanations by Louis A. Bloomfield, Professor of Physics, The University of Virginia)
o Human Anatomy On-line

Programs or activities of interest to science teachers

o Center for EUV Astrophysics Education Program
o PBS Educational materials, with links to Newton's Apple, Bill Nye, etc.
o Discovery Channel Educator Guide
o Global SchoolNet Foundation (linking schools around the world)
o InfoList (List of internet sites of interest to the teacher)
o Michigan Gateways (Michigan State University)
The TV program for Teachers of Mathematics and Science
o National Science and Technology Week
o The Virtual Science and Mathematics Fair
Washington State University
o DRAGONFLY, a magazine of investigation for children (U of Miami Ohio)
o AIMS (Activities Integrating Math and Science)
o NOVA Online--Teachers
o US Food and Drug Administration's Kids Homepage

Educational Resources for Other Sources

o Knowledge Revolution (Interactive Physics Experiments)
o Web Library for Introductory Physics (University of Florida)
o The Why Files Science behind the news

Educational Resources for Distance Learning

o The National Teachers Enhancement Network
Take science classes through the net and improve your teaching
o Home Page of IBM Teaching Theater (University of Maryland)
o Asynchonous Learning Networks (Alfred Sloan Foundation)
Program in Learning Outside the Classroom
o The Globewide Network Academy
Courses on the Internet
o New Brunswick TeleEducation Home Page
Distance Learning on the Internet in New Brunswick, Canada
o Computers in the Classroom
(an example of a Web-supported university class)

Other Resources for Science Teachers

Not sorted yet

Last updated: 6 February 1999.

bbq@esu.edu