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The
National Science Digital Library
This
fantastic web site is supported by the National Science Teachers’ Association
and the National Science Foundation!
A
site where no serious biology question goes unanswered
Ask a Scientist, a Web site hosted by the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, fields about 3,500 questions each year, mostly from
American high school students, on such perplexing topics as the molecular bases
for zebras' stripes and why flu season occurs during winter. Project coordinator
Katherine Wood says the best inquiries -- such as why no mammals have green fur
-- come from the youngest children.
The Washington Post (free registration)
Read,
Write, and Think Printing Press
This Web site, which is sponsored by the International Reading Association (IRA)
and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is designed to help
students create all types of newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets. There
are many templates to choose from, as well as a variety of publishing tools to
add interest to the final product.
Catchy science songs make learning memorable
University of Washington lecturer Greg Crowther has found just the ticket for
energizing sleepy students in his biology class -- he hits them with a few bars
of "Glucose, ah Sugar Sugar," or "That's What Slugs are For" or one of the many
other science songs he's created. Crowther runs a
database
of 2,000 such songs he's compiled from the works of other singers.
 Oklahoma
PASS Projects:
PASSPORT
(Registration and password required) A searchable database of
Oklahoma’s Priority Academic Student Skills by subject matter and grade level.
A MUST for all teachers. As you address a PASS objective, go to this site to
find a project/lesson to enhance the teaching of the objective. You will have
to register as a user.
 Standards-based
Projects:
MarcoPolo
Main page of
MarcoPolo.
High quality, standards-based Internet content and professional development for
K-12 teachers and students. Explore this extensive site, or if you would like
to begin directly searching for projects, you can go directly to the
MarcoPolo
search pages.
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Oklahoma Science Teachers’
Association
National Science Teachers Association
Oklahoma Science Teachers
Association is a state affiliate of the National Science Teachers Association
and has hosted regional NSTA conventions in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Other National Science Teacher
Organizations
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National Geographic Videos: Cool new interactive solar system site
You
Innovate 21 Century: It's Your Century
Take
the JETS Challenge and Win Prizes!
The JETS (Junior Engineering Technology Society) Challenge is a weekly word
problem posted each Friday during the academic year. Students can submit answers
individually, teachers can use the Challenge in the classroom, or engineering
clubs can use the Challenge as a team building exercise. How you use the JETS
Challenge is up to you.
Journey North Project
Teachers and students in K-12 classrooms are invited to participate this spring
in Journey North’s 15th annual global study of wildlife migration and seasonal
change, a free Internet-based “citizen science” project. Students monitor
migration patterns of butterflies, birds, and other animals; the blooming of
plants; and changing sunlight, temperatures, and other signs of spring. They
share their local observations and look for patterns on maps. Participants put
their observations into a global context, and connect with field scientists.
Spring projects begin February 1st.
Earth & Sky International Polar Year Resources
On this website, Earth & Sky editors have compiled radio programs, podcasts,
and a photo gallery with content related to polar science to help NASA celebrate
the International Polar Year. They will continue to update this site with
relevant interviews and sessions with polar scientists.
NASA Quest
Challenge
NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations designed
to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The
solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel. Registration for
the next Challenge begins in February 2008.
National Science Digital Library –
Chemistry Resources
Live on the web – it’s the Periodic Table! The new home page of Chemistry
Pathway includes a point-and-click guide to each element, along with several
other features that make web resources on chemistry easier to use. “ChemEd DLib
will create new communities centered around different educational levels,” says
Pathway PI John Moore. “It will provide resources in different sub-disciplines
of chemistry and different pedagogical areas, such as problem-based learning.”
The new site makes digital resources on chemistry much easier to find, and it
gives a prominent position to the award-winning “Chemistry Comes Alive!” videos,
with their slow-motion presentations of fires, explosions, and other chemical
reactions.
Engineers
Week
Engineers Week is next month and the festivities are lining up all over the
country. Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2008 is celebrated Thursday,
February 21. Thousands of women engineers and their male counterparts directly
mentor more than one million girls and young women in K-12 with firsthand
experiences in engineering.
Click Here to see a listing of Girl Day events nationwide and be
sure to post your activities. A free Girl Day kit is available for online
ordering in the Engineers Week product catalog.
If you are planning to entertain middle and high school students during an event
for Engineers Week or later in the year, we have a new and fabulous pre and post
engineer careers
Bingo Game
assessment. It gives you an engaging way to find out if students really
understand what engineers do. The kit is for 30 students.
Design Squad –Television Show:
The new season is premiering in April, but you can check out a sneak peek of the
first episode on our Web site during National Engineers Week, February 17-23,
2008. Stay tuned for more details on this.
ORDER THE NEW
FREE ACTIVITY GUIDE! Remember to
order your copy of our new Activity Guide. This guide, available at the end of
January, has five new hands-on challenges. Between this, the Event Guide
and the Educator's Guide, you'll have 17 great hands-on activities to use at
events, school visits, or in after school programs.
Please include your full name, company, mailing address (please indicate if it's
work or home), and phone number.
FREE
DVDS PROFILE WOMEN SCIENTISTS: Several DVDs
that profile women scientists are available for free upon request from the
National Institutes of Health. "Women Are Scientists" presentations showcase
successful female scientists in their respective specialties, and inform
students about educational requirements, rewards, and challenges of careers in
the biomedical sciences. Each presentation gives a detailed view of three women
scientists, from various backgrounds, as role models for their particular
career. This series is designed to motivate students to take more challenging
advanced science and math courses and to enable them to successfully direct
their own career paths. The latest illustrates exciting career possibilities in
dental research by following three amazing women at work in their laboratories.
For more information or to request the series see:
ARMADA Project - Research and
Mentoring Experiences for Teachers: Application
Deadline: February 4, 2008
Submit your application today to this exciting experience that provides K-12
teachers an opportunity to actively participate in ocean, environmental, and
polar research and peer mentoring. Chosen Master Teachers (with five or more
years of teaching experience) will spend one to three weeks participating in
research around the globe.
Contact: <armada@gso.uri.edu>
or 401-874-6211
Innovative New Outdoor Education
Web Site: This new Maryland Association for Environmental &
Outdoor Education (MAEOE) Web site features a user-friendly design and
comprehensive information on the MAEOE conference, Maryland Green Schools,
Schoolyard Habitat, and more. The new Schoolyard Habitat section features
inspiring before & after photos and information on how to successfully choose,
fund, implement, utilize, and maintain hundreds of habitat projects and avoid
common obstacles. In addition, visit the interactive map featuring Maryland
Green Schools & Centers, and (coming soon) Model Schoolyard Habitats.
New Marine Education Guide:
Treasures in the Sea: Our Bahamian Marine Resources provides educators with
scientific information and engaging, hands-on activities. Visit the Web site to
download the book or sections of the book, link to resources related to the
activities, find out about training workshops in the Bahamas, and share teaching
ideas and experiences in marine conservation education. Developed by the
American Museum of Natural History and Bahamian partners.
K-4
Curriculum on Global Sustainability: Facing the Future* is pleased
to announce the release of Teaching Global Sustainability in the Primary Grades:
A K-4 Curriculum Guide, a standards-aligned resource that addresses core
concepts related to sustainability while encouraging critical thinking and a
systems perspective among young students. The curriculum guide includes four
lessons that explore topics including identity and culture, food, biodiversity,
and systems. This curriculum features hands-on activities, teacher background
reading, vocabulary, service learning projects, and assessment rubrics.
All (FREE) lessons
included in this book have been reviewed and field tested by content experts,
teachers, and students. For questions or comments, contact Kim Rakow Bernier at
kim@facingthefuture.org or (206) 264-1503.
Science Netlinks - Internet-based learning, tools, and goals for K-12
science literacy.
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory -
Getting kids hooked on science is easy when you have the right materials to help
you—but finding good resources is sometimes a challenge.
Study Works Online
- Great Interactive Lessons
This is a really neat site. Be sure to choose your content area
in the left navigation bar. Also, go to
Study Works Online for other valuable resources, like "Test
Yourself."
Jungle Walk
Tons of audio, videos, and websites for students and teachers.
See and hear all the activities of the jungle.
Cells Alive!
Cell Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, and Microscopy
GREAT interactive site with videos, etc. Really neat!
NOVA Online
Mega Website!
Quick access to more than 500 of the popular science program's
resources, which includes a searchable database of program information,
activities, and other classroom tools. Includes more than 125 printable and 100
online activities with grade-level designations in anthropology, archaeology,
chemistry, earth science, forensics, health science, life science, mathematics,
paleontology, physical science, and space science.
Interactive
Site
A GREAT
SITE!
Great animations of many science topics. Virtual dissections.
Explore this site in-depth!
Online Science Experiments
Online Science Exhibits Science Museum of Minnesota
Links to online exhibits and activities. Instructions for growing mold,
windmill-powered whirligigs, lessons on the heart and lungs, and more. Great
site!
Worldwide Science Program
GLOBE
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the
Environment is a massive, hands-on, worldwide, school-based science program for
K-12students…over 16,000 schools worldwide participating.
Graduate College of Marine Studies
Great site! Online
expedition of the deep. Very professionally done. Section for teacher
resources. Great photo gallery.
Physics in
the Movies Fun Site
Looks at the actions in movies
and relates the actions to physics. Projects that show how the actions many
times are physics blunders. A good site to make learning physics fun by using
today's movies.
Rainforest Action
Network Rainforest Activities K-8
Site to teach kids about the rainforest, its
people, animals, and problems. Many free educational resources. Online video,
downloadable teacher guides, lesson plans, and activity sheets. Much more. Virtual
tour of the rainforest
Canada's Science
Magazine for Kids
Great Project Site Gr. 4-8 Fun
resources and activities. Great projects along with an easy-to-understand
section explaining how scientific gadgets work.
Outstanding Collaborative Projects
Great site if you want
to expand your classroom across the globe with a collaborative project with
students in another location. Take your students across the globe while
exposing them first hand to the rest of the world.
Space Infrared Telescope Facility
Cool Infrared
Exhibit Explore the solar system, galaxy, and universe by looking at
infrared light. Many pictures of people, animals, and objects as appear in
infrared light.
Sunnyside's Water Habitat Project GREAT Example of a
Total Project
Visual and written documentation of a full, cross-curriculum
project carried out.
Weather Resources
Project-based learning
Site by the owner of the largest live
weather network. The site is an interactive learning tool that integrates
real-time local and national weather data and camera images into a variety of
hands-on science and math lessons for elementary, middle, and high school
students. Great site!
BrainPOP
Multimedia
Site
Movies on health, science, and technology. Consistent with the National
Science Education Standards.
Science Field Trips
20 science field trips. Helpful pre-teaching
activities are included for each trip.
Dragonfly TV Exciting Links for Kids Gr. 3-6
Get kids excited about science by combining
kids in actual scientific exploration with hip music and no scripts.
Cool Science for Kids Gr. K-3
Shows kids how to investigate scientific
topics at home or school. Offers 5 online adventures. Facts and animations.
Kids Go Wild
Wildlife Gr. 2-8
Great site for kids on all aspects of wildlife.
Zoobooks Gr. K-8
A kid-friendly destination about animals with
games, information, links, teacher resources, plus the world's first virtual
zoo. Great site.
Ocean Explorer Gr. K-8 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Allows visitors to follow ocean expeditions
as they uncover underwater mysteries. In its gallery, this site provides
authentic audio, video, and photographs that will make your students feel like
undersea divers peering over the shoulders of experts as they venture into new
and exciting regions of the deep. Also, check
http://www.education.noaa.gov/
Ranger Rick's Kid Zone
This site is an excellent resource for learning
about the environment. It includes activities, games, and resources on the web
as well as ideas for environmental activities outside.
Plants in Motion
A collection of
time-lapse movies that demonstrate various phases of plant growth. Interesting!
Infection Detection Protection
This site introduces kids to the basic of
microbes, bacteria, infection and disease prevention through fun, colorful
stories.
Electric Heart
GREAT SITE
Excellent graphics of how the heart works. Cross-sectioned. A must
site to visit. Have the students to perform a
heart transplant. (Shockwave required and
can be downloaded at this site)
Extensive Collection
An extensive collection
categorized by subject and grade level. Provides sites for teachers and
students.
Flinn Scientific, Inc. has all kinds of teacher resources.
Here are a couple of links to get you started. Once you are at their site,
you will find many more.
The
Flinn Material Safety (MSDS) Data Sheet Collection
Science
Teacher Resources
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Space Science PLUS
Los Alamos
National Laboratory
Over 50 lesson plans by grade
level and subject matter linked to National Science Standards. Activities for
school projects, Web Quests, Sports Physics, and much more.
Space Sites
NASA
Mars Exploration Program
NASA
Human Space Flight
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/reference/faq/index.html#8
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/hubble
http://hubble.stsci.edu/
3D Color
Images of the Solar System
50 unique 3D color images of the solar system. If you have 3D
glasses, the pictures look even neater. There are also 340 other pictures of
the planets as well as interactive quizzes to test your students' knowledge.
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 Great
Interactive Lessons:
Study Works Online
This is a really neat site. Be sure to choose your content area
in the left navigation bar. Also, go to
http://studyworksonline.com for other valuable resources, like "Test
Yourself."
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chemistry Fundamentals Program GREAT SITE:
Lessons, tests, and check out
this polyatomic ion calculator
http://www.shodor.org/UNChem/basic/nomen/polycalc.html
Chemistry Place
Visual, interactive type lessons to supplement classwork.
Chemtutor
Contains topics such as Elements, States of Matter, Compounds,
Reactions, and Acids and Bases.
Chem 4 Kids
Learn about the states of matter; the periodic table; the
structure of atoms; formulas and symbols; and reactions (acids and bases).
Refer to the glossary for definitions and try a quiz.
Chemistry Drills
Test your knowledge of the Periodic Table of Elements with this
self-correcting quiz.
The
Science Room: Chemistry Class
This site offers chemistry pre-tests, concept discussions,
questions, and laboratory experiments.
Schoolchem.com Gr. 8-12
Use the index or
browse through the contents to learn about Elements, Compounds, Mixtures, Atomic
Structure, Acids and Alkalis, Rates of Reactions, and Catalysts.
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Earth Science World This is an interesting
web site. Included is:
1) Image Bank
2) Interactive Geological Timeline
3) Careers
4) Game-Virtual Oil Well
5) And best of all-Earth Science Week. Make sure you go into the
Earth Science Week Section-although it just ended you can request
materials-even kits from past years.
Order the
2004. 2005, and 2006 Tool Kits here. Also check out the student and
teacher sections with even more info.
Then visit the
Mineral Institute for more free materials.
Poster packs are available here.
5 different teacher packets are available here.
Links to additional sites
Geology Link - Learn what's new in geology, take a
virtual field trip, check out virtual geology courses, or ask a geology
professor.
The Learning Web - From the U.S. Geological Survey. Projects
in earth science for students and teachers.
Geology Lesson Plans - From ProTeacher.
Understanding Geologic Time - This online unit for students
has a teachers guide.
How Volcanoes Work - This is a good site if you need to
brush up on your knowledge of volcanoes. There are links to volcano lesson plans
on the Volcano Links page.
Mineral Information Institute - Free teaching materials and
lesson plans.
The Geological Society of America - Lesson plans for
grades k-12.
Wind and Sea - Extensive guide to resources dealing with the
earth and the atmosphere. Provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Canadian Rockhound Geological Magazine - Good geology
articles and a special Junior Rockhound section for students.
Tips and connections
Virtual Volcano
Great Book:
Moving the Earth: Teaching Earth Science Through Movement for Grades 3-6 (Young
Actors Series) by Helen Landalf and Mary Gerke (Paperback
- Mar 1997). Order at
Amazon new $19.95 - used + news from $17.45.
Great Magazine:
Green Teacher
at
greenteacher.com - Comes out 4X a year.
Fifty pages of ideas and activities, four times a year.
Each issue contains:
Perspective articles — ideas for rethinking education
in light of environmental and global problems.
Practical articles — reports of what successful
teachers, parents and other youth educators are doing.
Ready-to-use activities — cross-curricular activities
for various grade levels.
Resource listings and reviews — evaluations of dozens
of new books, kits, games and other resources.
Announcements, events and workshop listing of all kinds!
Check out the contents of our latest
issue,
Green Teacher, #79, Summer 2006
Check out
Green
Teacher's books
Federation of Earth Science Partners: Some items
free (crossword puzzles), some for sale (CDs) , some interactive (National Snow
and Ice Data Center).
Primary grades
Intermediate
Middle
Gr. 9-12
Earth Science Lessons: *Note: Please check
these out and make sure they are teaching the correct pattern/information to
your students.
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Carolina Biological Supply Company wants you and your students
experience with Science and Technology for Children to be not only instructive
and fun, but safe. Naturally, since the units were developed for young
children, they do not include items or activities that are dangerous when
performed according to the instructions. Still, there is room for caution.
The Teacher's Guides for the units include safety tips or classroom management
suggestions to minimize any hazards. Please read your Teacher's Guide
thoroughly and follow these tips and suggestions. Make students aware of
general science safety rules as well as any specific precautions associated with
particular activities. It is helpful to post a list of science safety
rules in the classroom. (Above text taken from Carolina's STS Safety
Sheets).
Click the desired Safety Sheet title to open. You may
print them if you wish.
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At the first of every school year, each student should be given a copy of
this contract. It must be signed by student, parent or guardian and
returned to you. One copy per student covers all elementary kits.
Keep them on file for the duration of the school year. You can open and
print the contract
here.
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At the first of every school year, each student should be given
a copy of this contract. It must be signed by student, parent or guardian
and returned to you. One copy per student covers all elementary kits.
Keep them on file for the duration of the school year.
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At the first of every school year, each student should be given
a copy of this contract. It must be signed by student, parent or guardian
and returned to you. One copy per student covers all elementary kits.
Keep them on file for the duration of the school year.
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Flinn
Scientific has a great utility for MSDS sheets. Just enter the
criteria into the search bar and hit the Search button. You can print the
sheets if you wish.
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