Science and Math Teaching Websites for Lesson Plans
Science
NASA Website
http://education.nasa.gov/
This is a government sponsored website that connects the public to
the latest research, resources, projects, and outreach of
astronomers. Included in the domain of NASA's research are the
areas of Aerospace Technology, Biological and Physical Research,
Earth Science, Human Exploration and Development of Space, and
General Space Science. There are numerous education projects
including mars exploration projects with kids as well as interactive
sites corresponding to launches and missions. NASA TV is also a
way to access online the latest projects and missions. Educational
resources can be found for students at
http://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/2002/nep/programs/index.html
and opportunities for educators to participate with NASA can be
found at http://education.nasa.gov/.
Endangered Species Web Site
http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/dunnagane/especies/index.html
This web site had a good lesson plan to teach about endangered
species. The lesson is self contained and requires very little set up.
I have used this for honors biology students and it has worked very
well as a single day lesson or you can turn it into a week long
discussion.
More endangered species web sites
http://endangered.fws.gov/
this web site is wonderful. it is put up by U.S. fish and game and it
is a wonderful resource for students to learn about endangered
species. it lists the species and you can also find information about
the species from this web site. This site has a kids corner and some
of the lastest publications about the species http://www.wwf.org/
this site is from the world wildlife fund. This site has provided me
with a web page to tell students where to go if they want to help
the environment. this gives them an organization to turn to if they
want to donate money or see what the latest things that are
happening in the environment.
http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/dunnagane/especies/index.htm here is a
web site that includes a lesson plan on how to teach about
endangered species. the lesson plans were designed by another
SDSU student and work very well. they can be used very easily as
a last minute thing because the site is well organized and thought
out. You can simply tell students to go to the site and they will be
able to figure it out. I have used this as single day activities but I
think it would be easy to make this a week long unit for an
ecology/conservation unit
http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
This a Tree of Life Web Project. It is a collaborative Internet
project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
If you click on "Root of the Tree" you will see phylogenetic
relationships of bacteria. Further down on the page there are more
links to life, biodiversity, phylogenetic relationships, etc. If you
click on "Popular pages" you will find Popular Groups on the Tree
of Life such as Eukaryotes, Fungi, Arthropoda, etc.
HowStuffWorks.com
http://HowStuffWorks.com
This is an excellent website which has in-depth articles, complete
with pictures, animations, Q&A, forums, etc., dealing with - you'll
never guess - how stuff works. Everything is at this site - from
automotive, electronics, internet, money, weapons, and more. You
want to know how it works? This site will tell/show you. Check it
out.
Science Teacher Stuff
http://www.scienceteacherstuff.com
This site at www.scienceteacherstuff.com is a resource of lesson
plans in many different areas of science. It is categorized by field
of science and has a listing of other sites ranging from individual
teacher lesson plans for a specific subject to other search engines
dealing with teaching the particular subject. Besides lesson plans,
this site also includes other useful information such as laboratory
safety guidelines, national science standards and current news
articles on science education.
Surfrider Foundation
http://www.surfrider.org
This website is your connection to the National Surfrider
Foundation. Surfrider is a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the
waves, oceans and beaches of the world through education,
conservation, and political action. Surfrider rallied for the Clean
Water Act, which passed and has won many cases for public beach
access. Surfrider has local chapters all along the coast of the U.S.
and Australia, and will send any interested teacher lesson materials
about the water cycle and pollution. I used to test water for E. coli
for the Blue Water Task Force, and there are many activities like
this that teachers can do with their students. These materials
include an entertaining video and written materials. Your whole
class can join Surfrider and feel like they are actually contributing
to their local and global community.
World's Biomes
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/
Right now my tenth grade biology class is covering biomes. This
website has pictures and descriptions of all the biomes for quick
reference. At the bottom of the first page there is also a glossary,
and not just on biome terms. The glossary is broken down into
different volumes, including geology, cell biology, etc. There is
also a question section and online exhibits. After typing "biomes"
into google, it came up as the first site, so out of all biome sites, it
probably has the most material and comes in the best.
Biology Lessons
http://www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/
This website is a San Diego State run website. It has a nice
collection of lesson plan idea for biology classes. It is especially
good for middle school teachers. It breaks lessons down into
vocabulary, concepts, group work, and demonstrations.
Exploratorium Ten Cool Sites
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html
This is a site sponsored by the Exploratorium of San Francisco. It
has links to many really cool science web sites, more than 10
actually. There is a subject index archive on the left side. You can
find out info on astronomy, general science, environmental
science, science literature, and many other subjects,
http://www.exploratorium.edu/index.html This is the home page
for the Exploratorium. There is information on global climate
change.
Teachnet
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/science/
This is a general search engine for science lesson plans and I'm
sure their are math lesson plans as well. It appears that the website
is rather new because the lesson plans aren't that numerous. But,
the lesson plans (the ones I have looked at) do seem well
developed. When you click on individual lesson plans they offer
hyperlinks to cool video clips, animations, and pictures. Further the
lesson plans offer many ways to do complete the task at hand. For
example, the terrarium lesson lists many plants that do well in
terrariums not just one specific plant for a teacher to use.
Birch Aquarium at Scripps
http://aquarium.ucsd.edu
This site is wonderful. this is the site for the Birch Aquarium at
Scripps. It tells about all of the upcoming events at the aquarium
and off site that student could attend by themselves or as a group.
The aquarium provides some ideas for lesson plans before and
after the class visits the aquarium's education department for a
discovery lab. www.noaa.gov This is a government web site so it is
not the best but it supplies great data about current research that the
government is funding. It can tell students about the different
instruments and the different boats that researchers use. I like to
use this web site for research for the students to have pictures to go
with the ideas that I am talking about during a data collection
lesson plan in an ecology unit.
Effects of Smoking Lab
http://www.smartlink.net/%7Ephillipj/smoking.html
A great science experiment conducted by a seventh grade boy with
excellent layout, pictures, and graphics. This can be an example of
a good science experiment for your students to model, and at the
same time it teaches them the harmful effects of smokingsomething that middle school and high schoolers are probably just
about to try for the first time.
Biology Labs
http://www.biologylab.awlonline.com/
You have to register for this site, but afterwords you gain access to
a pedigree lab, an enzyme lab, an evolution lab, a transition lab,
etc. These labs however are for AP or college students, but you
could modify them for a lower level course.
Mr. Biology's Biology Web site
http://www.sc2000.net/~czaremba/
This site is nominated for many scientific and educational awards.
It has class notes, sample exams, transparencies, help for teachers,
material for AP classes, and labs. What else would you need?
Thanks Mr. Biology!
Flying Turtle Science and Technology Exploring
http://www.ftexploring.com/
This fun award winning site explores energy and basic science
principles in nature and human technology. The articles are
carefully researched, accurate, easy to understand, and in addition
to providing good basic explanations, the creative throughout
provoking approach helps to generate an interest in science an
technology.
VolcanoWorld
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
VolcanoWorld is an outstanding resource for any earth science
classroom interested in learning about volcanoes. This website
contains real-time volcano information including an interactive
clickable map of active volcanoes world-wide and remote sensing
satellite images. Topics covered at VolcanoWorld include how
volcanoes work, submarine volcanoes, planetary volcanoes, career
information on becoming a volcanologist, volcanic parks and
monuments and volcano exploration on the moon, Mars and
Venus. It contains an area where students can post experiments
including building a variety of different types of volcanoes.
Teachers can also download a collection of interactive
HyperStudio lessons on volcanoes from this web site.
The GLOBE Program
http://www.globe.gov/globe_flash.html
The GLOBE (Global learning and Observations to Benefit the
Environment) Program is a world-wide network of students,
teachers and scientists engaged in a tele-collaboration project to do
meaningful real-life science. In the GLOBE Program, students
make environmental observations and report their data findings on
the internet. Scientists use the students' data to formulate
atmospheric models, then provide feedback to the students. The
measurements conducted by the students include air temperature,
cloud observations, precipitation, surface water temperature and
pH, soil moisture, biometrics, land cover assessment and species
identification. Students also share findings and communicate with
other students using e-mail from the web site. GLOBE includes
excellent descriptions of equipment and procedures for data
acquisition and a user-friendly searchable data archive. The unique
aspect of the GLOBE Program is that students are interactive
partners with scientists.
Bioscope.org
http://Bioscope.org
This is an excellent site for science teachers. There is a great
interactive building a cell activity that students will love. There is
also a plant model where the organelles lite up and worked well
when I presented it to my 7th grade class. This site also has a
Teacher's Web link that gives you access to multiple resources on
the net (lesson plans standards, etc.)
Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
This a great site for teachers to refer to when teaching students
about the Nervous System. It includes ideas on experiments,
activities, games, and lesson plans. In addition, it gives links to
several Internet and commercial Neuroscience resources that can
be referred to. As an added bonus, it also has current news and new
discoveries in Neuroscience research.
Dive & Discover for Middle School
www.divediscover.whoi.edu
Dive and Discover Expedition site is a great site for oceanography
and geology units. It offers live cam studies of various expeditions.
There are also links to other information, like instrumentation,
ships, studies, etc. The site is supported by Woods HOle
Oceanography Institute.
Discovery Channel for Middle School Units
www.discovery.com
The discovery channel site offers live cam streaming of various
mammals and sea life, e.g. tigers to sharks. The offer information
and facts that are useful for ecology units. The site is kid friendly
and fun to explore.
The Sourcebook for teaching Science
www.csun.edu
This is a companion site for The Sourcebook for Teaching Science:
Strategies, Activities, and Internet Resources. The book and site
provide information for secondary grades, including lesson plans,
activities, and teaching strategies.
Premier Science for Middle School
www.premierscience.com
This site provides information and resources to support their
Middle School curriculum. The curriculum is based on the
National Science Education Content Standards, and provides
teachers with tools for lessons grounded in active, inquiry based
learning.
Great place to start for new teachers.
FUN SITE FOR TEACHERS & KIDS
http://www.yahooligans.com/science_and_nature/Experiements_an
d_Activities/
This site in fun and interactive, offering homework help, science
fair ideas, lesson ideas, and class activities. Geared toward middle
school and younger, the site is fun, inviting, and easy to use. Great
resource. Activities include edible science, always a sure hit. Also
has a variety of science experiments to fit any unit.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
http://www.enc.org/professional/timesavers/lessonplans/
The Eisenhower National Clearing house has lesson plan ideas for
grades K-12, math and science. There is also a section devoted to
professional development.
Human Anatomy Online
http://www.innerbody.com/
A great resource for students and teachers! This interactive website
contains animations, graphics, and descriptive links for each topic
covered. You can find information about everything from single
anatomical structures (i.e. bone, muscles, etc), to physiological
systems (i.e. digestive, reproductive, etc.) This a great tool for
teachers to use to help students improve their understanding of
human anatomy.
Science songs
http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/
Science Songs This site has all the lyrics and MP3 files of songs
from a series of albums from the late 50s and early 60s: Space
Songs, Energy and Motion Songs, Weather Songs, Experiment
Songs, Nature Songs, and More Nature Songs.
Bio-interactive
http://www.biointeractive.org/
Bio-interactive has virtual labs where you can examine heart
patients, probe the nervous system and assay antibodies. It has
animations that allow you to see things like bacteria invade an
intestinal cell. There are descriptions that accompany the
animations.
National Association for Biology Teachers
http://www.nabt.org/
The National Association for Biology Teachers website. These
organization publishes The American Biology Teacher Journal. As
a student there is a discount to join the organization. The site has
information about upcoming conferences and workshops. There is
also information posted regarding Educational and Professional
Development.
San Diego Physics
www.sandiegophysics.com
This website represents a beautiful web resource for teachers of
physics in San Diego City Schools. This website contains Rubrics,
lesson plans, alternative assessments, as well as feedback on
activities. Because San Diego Unified School District has adopted
a new Physics curriculum that is based upon inquiry and the 5E
model of teaching/learning, this site is very useful for teacher
collaboration, and for assistance with the "rough spots" that most
new curriculums contain. Most importantly, this website contains
useful information about how to present science as inquiry to
students...
The Physics Classroom
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/newtlaws/U2L1a.html
The Physics Classroom is useful in examining topics that are
covered in a high school physics class. Topics ranging from
Kinematics, Newton's Laws, Vectors, Forces, Energy, Power... and
many more. This site will be useful as an information gathering
tool, not so much for presentation. It is sort of "cut-and-dry," so
some interpretation will be necessary before bringing into the
classroom, but it is still a very valuable resource for a teacher to
have. Personally, I have found that this site is really only useful as
an support tool, to supplant your lesson planning, but it has proven
most effective. It is worth more than just a cursory glance.
The Explorer
http://unite.ukans.edu/
This website contains various educational resources for science
and math teachers. You can browse math and science curricula and
also search for a specific topic. Each curriculum is presented in
outline form to make it easier for you to browse through the list of
topics in a faster manner. When you reach your topic of interest,
you will be given a list of resources. You will be able to see what
type of resource it is, which grade level it is for, and also a brief
description of it. Many of the resources are in Acrobat Reader
Format.
The High School Science Classroom of the Future
http://horizon.unc.edu/projects/HSJ/Baird.asp
This site is useful for a teacher who is pondering what the future of
science education is going to be like. This is a most informative
site that contains information on topics like Assessment,
curriculum, teaching science to all students, and actual structure of
science classrooms, including time management and expectations,
etc. This site can be used as a "crystal-ball" if you will to gage the
appropriateness of current topics and how they may change in the
near future.
Teacher Resources at the CCE
http://www.terrificscience.org/coursefollowup/PACTsym.shtml
Usefulness to any teacher of Chemistry. This site is literally
packed with content on useful subjects pertaining to teaching,
students, and topics in Chemistry. Any Chemistry teacher should
appreciate this site, which is not so much content matter based, but
as a resource tool. This site can provide access to catalogues,
books, courses, materials, etc.
Fun@Learning.Physics
http://thorin.adnc.com/~topquark/fun/fun.html
This website contains wonderful graphics for various topics in
Physics. Many of the graphics are very snazzy (if you will) and
would be useful as an attention grabber, that would be Engagement
in the 5E method of teaching, so it's application in the classroom is
limited as a teaching tool. Students do seem to like bells and
whistles, and a lot of this stuff is available for free download.
Classroom application applies more to advanced, or honors style
classes, but this site is worth checking out if you are a teacher of
Physics...
Physicsclassroom
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Default2.html
This site was helpful when for information regarding common real
world physics problems. It gives a curriculum and some good
examples and a few interactive examples. It also has ideas for
lessons.
Sciencespot
http://sciencespot.net/Pages/classgen.html
This is a good site for experiments and lesson plans. Some of it is
too young for middle and high school, but it can probably be
kicked up a few notches if you think the ideas are good. There are
also some cool links on the site itself that could lead you to other
valuable websites.
http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/explorerdb/browse/dynamic/Natural^Science/index.html
This site has many ideas from evolution to astronomy. It is given
in outline form. Once you click on a topic many lessons, activities
and lectures come up.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/gardens/Horticulture/The%20Structu
re%20of%20Plants.htm#Flowerz
This is a good site if you are in your plant unit. I am sure many of
the photos could be imported into a power point presentation. It
may also give you ideas of how to present plant biology
information. I couldn't figure out what the homepage was, but at
the bottom of the page it has a link to education. It has stuff about
field trips to the botanical gardens. I realize that you won't be
going to Canada anytime soon but the info might be applicable to
botanical gardens in Encinitas or Balboa Park.
Theteachersguide
http://www.theteachersguide.com/
This website has some freebies and downloadable sounds, pictures,
and clipart. I know that it isn't going to be very informative, but
you may want to go there when you are putting together a
presentation for power point.
Genome
http://www.genome.gov/Education/
This is a site for educators wanting to incorporate human genome
info into their curriculum. Once on this page you can go to the
curriculum supplement and then they have web or adobe type
lesson plans for different aspects of the human genome project.
The home page www.genome.gov has information if you want to
read up on the project itself.
Busy Teachers' Website K-12
www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
This site is pretty nifty. It's front page directs you to subjectspecific pages - where you can find oodles (is that a word?) of
links to various education related websites sorted into general info,
subject history, lesson plans, etc.
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
www.ncela.gwu.edu/library/index.htm
"The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) is
funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual
Education and Minority Languages Affairs to collect, analyze, and
disseminate information relating to the effective education of
linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S."
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
http://www.epa.gov/teachers/curriculum_resources.htm
This site offers a collection of lesson plans relating to
environmental issues such as conservation and pollution. It also
offers information on community service projects as well as details
on conferences and workshops.
The Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment
http://btsa.ca.gov
The Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment (BTSA) Program
provides opportunities for fully-prepared first and second year
teachers to expand and deepen their teaching knowledge and skill.
The BTSA Program also provides a smooth transition into the
complex responsibilities of teaching, increases the retention of
beginning teachers, and improves learning opportunities for their
K-12 students. This site offers information on the BTSA Program.
http://www.bigchalk.com
This is a great website for all teachers, parents and students. It has
extensive information and resources for all grade levels and
subjects. For teachers it offers countless lesson plans, tips on
classroom management, subject support, links to jobs in education
and tons of other resources and links that are subject appropriate.
Be prepared to spend some time on this website as it contains a lot
of good information.
HighSchoolHub.org
http://www.HighSchoolHub.org
The High School Hub is a noncommercial learning portal to
excellent free educational resources for high school students. It
features online learning activities, an ongoing teen poetry contest,
a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for
English, mathematics, science, social studies, and world
languages." This website has tons of applet activities that are very
interesting and easy to use.
Integrated Science Program objectives
http://www.ccet.ua.edu/program.htm
I found this site by chance and thought it was good for this class. It
discuses objectives that teachers can have to integrate technology
into the classroom. It also has links that further discuss the bullets
in the outline
Life Science Connections
www.vilenski.org/science/index.html
Mrs. Vilenski connects her classroom to the internet where
students and parents can access the site to see exactly what’s
happening in class. This is a Jr. High level science class. She
integrates technology in the classroom and if that’s your thing the
check this out!
Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
The name says it all. So far this is one of the larger databases for
teachers I've found. I had a little difficulty finding exactly what I
needed, but in the process I found many resources covering various
subjects. This would be a site worth checking out.
US Census 2000 website
www.census.gov
Bring up this homepage, scroll to the bottom and click For
Teachers under Special Topics. This will bring up a page entitled
Census in Schools. Here there is a program overview and teaching
materials including lesson plans and maps for all grades free.
There is also a listing of events, a lesson plan contest and reference
materials.
Smithsonian Institute
www.si.edu
This is the education website for the Smithsonian Institute. Bring
up this page and click on Teachers. The next page provides a
cornucopia of resources available for teachers from the
Smithsonian including lesson plans, resource bank, media catalog.
If you scroll to the bottom of this page, there is a sampling of
topics available for study. Click on Search Our Resources and
there is a search engine where you con search on many topics
including math and science.
US Geological Survey
www.usgs.gov
Bring up this homepage and click on Teachers and Students. This
will bring up Audience Tracks - Teachers and Students. Click on
The Learning Web and the next page will include resources for
students teachers including project ideas, lesson plans, paper
models and homework help.
Center for Disease Control - Excite
www.cdc.gov/excite
EXCITE is a collection of teaching materials developed by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to introduce
students to public health and epidemiology, the science used by
"Disease Detectives" everywhere. Students will learn about the
scientific method of inquiry, basic biostatistics, and outbreak
investigation. EXCITE adapts readily to team teaching across a
variety of subjects, including mathematics, social studies, history,
and physical education.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
www.education.noaa.gov
All kinds of information for teachers including Operation
Pathfinder (a 14-day course for credit), Teachers at Sea Program,
Resources for Educators, The Bridge - Ocean Science Education
Teacher Resource Center and Cool Sites for Everyone.
ETA/Cuisenaire
http://www.etacuisenaire.com/
ETA/Cuisenaire is a company that develops and supplies math
manipulatives, science materials, and reading/language arts
products for all grade levels. the materials in each curriculum area
meet the latest state and national instructional standards. I've been
familiar with this company and its products for a while now from
being an education major in VA. my methods instructor actually
had us learn to teach using some of their materials and you could
see how they definitely would help students to visualize and truly
understand the concepts behind the math they were studying.
Really fine supplemental materials to have if you can afford it.
http://www.freelearning.com/
This site has a little of everything on it to help with any subject
although it mostly centers around math. it seems a math teacher
developed it. in a nutshell, it's got lesson plans, links and resource
lists, online reference searches, an online math forum, problems
and puzzles to be solved, discussions of particular areas of math
and their histories, a page dedicated to his math classes and details
of what their doing, and a bunch more. i found it fun and
potentially useful.
PADI Dive Tables
www.mindspring.com/~rgonzalez/scuba/tables.htm
This website provides the PADI Dive Tables and an explanation
for the tables. It explains how to calculate the maximum allowable
time for the dive based on the divers depth as well as an
explanation of basic SCUBA diving procedures. With air
consumption, tank volume, depth pressure, and decompression
requirements, there are a lot of interesting ways for students to get
involved with math and physics through learning about diving.
The Noon Observation
http://w3.ed.uiuc.edu/noon-project/
This web site was created as a math project which connected
students in schools around the world in order for the students to
calculate the circumference of the earth. It includes a description of
the project and a description of how the students calculated local
noon at their specific school using celestial computations.
Science Nerds
www.billnye.com
Bill Nye the Science guy is an AWESOME website to inspire
students and get cool ideas for demos. It has cool science facts and
if you go for any reason at all, go to check out the cool loading
featuring. From the original page it takes a minute to load and it
shows human evolution from ape to man on a timeline with
millions of years. Its really neat. There is a question of the week
feature, which would be great to engage students. His actually
science demos tapes are great for teaching students too, which are
available through the site.
National Geographic rocks!
www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
This is the best, most helpful website I could ever imagine for kids,
even high school and college students. It has a HOMEWORK
HELP feature in which there is a dictionary link, a thesaurus link,
maps and photos available, as well as lots of topics. It also has a
search engine that will search NG and NG kids magazines to find
articles on topics you need, which you can then go and check out
the right magazines.
www.planetcatfish.com
This site has "Touch Pools" that allow students to put the mouse
over a pool of catfish and the water moves wherever they move the
cursor. You could use them as neat ways to identify fish or inspire
kids to use technology. From the homepage you go to Fun Stuff,
then Touch pools. The site also includes current science news and
an image and data file for thousands of fish.
Science Investigation - peregrine falcons
www.naturemuseum.org/online/index.html
This site is a good resource to get students involved in scientific
research. The Bird alert activity has each student become an
investigator. The site provides all the information students need to
solve the problem of declining peregrine falcon populations (based
on DDT research), however, allows them to choice their own way,
make mistakes and formulate a hypothesis and conclusion that they
turn in. the website also has good information on butterflies and
water.
Science lab help
www.madsci.org
This site has good labs and lots of links to other science sites.
Including links to science fair sites, which are important resources
for teachers to give to students for help on science fair projects.
There is a Random Knowledge locator that asks questions like
"What gets warmer, sand or dirt?" and "can ice be made without
containing air?"
Open Directory
Http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Humor/Science/Biology/
This is a site to check out. It covers just about every subject with
stories, jokes, other ideas, etc. I gave the URL for the biology
section but from here you can go back to the home page and find
your content area.
Nova teachers website
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/
This site offers various online activities for students as well as
lesson plans for teachers. It has information on Nova programs
including length, content, and whether the video is available for
purchase. It has a section in which teacher describe how they use
the NOVA website in the classroom.
Energy and Science Lesson Plans
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/teachers_resources/lesson_plans.ht
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This site offers a list of several other websites on Energy and
Science. Currently, there are many science grants offered for
teachers who will teach about energy in the classroom. That is
what I believe this website is addressing.
http://www.scsa.ca.gov/energy_education_grants.htm (information
about energy grants)
Project Wild
http://www.projectwild.org/materials/materials.htm
Project wild is a curriculum that has activities for K-12 classrooms.
The main focus of Project Wild and Project Aquatic is
conservation and ecology. Some of the lesson plans are games that
students play to understand how wild populations are formed and
controlled.
Keypress.com
http://Keypress.com
Keypress.com is another very useful website. Keypress is the
company that created the computer program, "Geometer's
Sketchpad." Gemometer's Sketchpad is a very interesting program
that allows you to actually see some interesting mathematical
concepts that are difficult to visualize. Some of the interesting
things that are possible on Geometer's Sketchpad are animated
graphing, trigonometry, and calculus. All of these concepts can be
visualized on Geometer's Sketchpad.
www.denniskunkel.com
This website is great for images. They are all electron micrographs
and have alot of color. There are around 15 areas in science that
Dennis Kunkel shoots and can be used as mind capture or part of
the lesson. I used the root hair last lesson as the question of the day
and my students went nuts over trying to figure out what it was.
www.cellsalive.com
This site is also a great source for images and video. There is a lot
of good links which is a great supplement to your lessons.
www.phschool.com
This site is the prentice hall site that is great for any teacher. It
gives lessons, activities, pictures, and much more. You can sign up
for weekly reports and read about textbooks.
www.biology.arizona.edu
The University of Arizona runs a website as a resource for students
and teachers involved with biology. The site called "The Biology
Project" is and interactive resource for learning biology. Some of
the topics it covers are Biochemistry, cell biology and chemicals
and human health. It has a link to youth resources and activities
called the "kids corner" as well as submitted lesson plans for
middle and high school teachers.
Virtual frog dissection
http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html
In some cases it is the cost of the supplies needed and others it is
new regulations on the disposal of hazardous wastes. In any case,
this site will give students the opportunity to supplement their units
on vertebrates with a virtual dissection of a frog.
www.eco-pros.com/teacher.htm
This teacher resource site focuses on ecology and associated
topics. Mainly a resource for finding sites with lesson plans and
actiivities, it only has a few pages of its own content. However,
topics are arranged well and also can be organized by specific
topic.
Sea World
http://www.seaworld.org/teacherguides/index.html
Hey, why not just look at our local resources before heading off
into some far off land of teacher lesson plan sites. Sea world has its
own web page designed specifically as a teacher resource. Beside
having some whales and dolphins in some pools, Sea World
actually does do a bit of scientific research (they charge so much
they can afford it). Anyways, The site has a variety of activities for
many topics. They are listed by category and accessible as pdf
files. Or, you may purchase the teacher manuals at the e-store
linked to the teacher resource site.
San Diego Supercomputer Center
http://www.sdsc.edu/
This website was one of the ones I used when I was the teacher for
a summer camp called "Rewarding Youth and Achievement"
funded by the Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP)at
UCSD. I used this site to show the connection between technology,
the sciences, and the world around the students. There is also the
San Diego Supercomputer Center magazine that is available
online. It is called Envision and provides the most cutting edge
information about supercomputers and its applications. There is
also a section that downloads are available that will help in
applications of lessons. This is a very technical place cause the
language is very dense and difficult at times, but the
interconnectivity of all disciplines was the part would emphasize.
http://www.nature.com/nature/
This the website that would be the greatest source of of up to date
information on a variety of science topics. These topics would
include everything from cancer to dentistry to genetics to physics.
The only thing is that these are journals and this limits the students
that will be able to understand most of these findings. This would
work great in an AP class or for students that want to learn and
know more than the teaching standards. This website also allows
you to search on a topic you type in and would be great for
research projects. A very good site.
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mcclean/plsc431/mendel/
This is actually a site from North Dakota State University and
gives all the info that the students need. I used some of the
overheads that they had available, but what was most helpful
planning lessons.
http://www.studyworksonline.com
The internet offers so many opportunities for teachers and students
to find information on practically any subject. This site contained
both math and science info. With regards to science, it had
information on Biology, Global Warming, and Navigation and
Mapping.
http://www.genetics.com.au
This was another site I used when I apprentice taught. It was one of
the most helpful ones I used when teaching the students about
genetics...especially the specific diseases. This site is from
Australia and is designed to help everyone from the student, the
teacher and families wanting to know more information. I like the
fact sheets that were available. They are all on PDF format which
made it easy to download and printed nicely. The site also had a
type-in-format glossary of any genetic terms, a guide to make your
own family tree and links to other genetics websites. This was a
great website to have when doing lessons in genetics.
http://www.borg.com/~lubehawk/biotopcs.htm
This site covers almost all parts of biology that a teacher would go
through in a school year. The sections are made to be funny and
based around cartoon characters. This makes the reading fun and
hopefully more enjoyable that just reading boring text. I made
overheads of some of the sections and used them to start
discussions about genetics. There were also review questions for
each of the sections that could be used for tests, quizzes or just
additional aides for students. And the good part is that the answers
are included but on a different page so there is no peeking allowed
=) Mr. Lubey, the person who made this site did a good job and
wants any and everyone to use it.
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciberoo/8th/sitemap.ht
m
This website can provide a plethora of info. From force and motion
to Inclined Planes. A site like this will help students understand
that science and physics can explain everyday occurrences. The
more students can relate to an assignment the more success they
will have, and this site will accomplish that.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/
An easy to use site with many well organized and interesting
questions and answers. For example, why the sky is blue and the
effects of air on an object. Science can be extremely interesting
and websites such as this one can allow students to find a topic that
they want to know more about.
http://www.sciencebob.com
This site is very user friendly with options that range from To the
Lab, Experiments, Get Answers Here, and Science Fair Help. I
found many good experiments that teachers can use to spark the
interest of their students. I feel that this site can be a great resource
to teachers who are looking for experiments that they can do in
class or have their students do and then report their results.
http://www.omsi.edu/explore/whatzit/
This site can be used to find answers to questions on practically
any science related topic. Teachers can ask their students a number
of questions and then allow them to find the answer or answers.
Also, this site can be used to gather additional information on
subjects that are discussed in class or in a text.
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/
This site has a ton of information on different mathematicians and
a great timeline on various cultures and the math of their times.
This site can be very useful in understanding the history of math
from the Greek period through today
Math
www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
A good site to send students that question the practicality of math.
It has different examples of applied math in gambling, cooking,
and even home decorating.
http://mathforum.org
Click on "high schools" and this site gives you access: a search
engine that searches different math topics (e.g., SAT math
problems), math forums and even a math library that breaks down
the different kinds of math and topics in each area.
Teacherlink
http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/
This site provides teachers with activities that integrate
mathematics with technology. The activities use graphing
calculators, geometer sketchpad, microsoft excel, and other sources
of technology.
NCTM
http://illuminations.nctm.org
http://nctm.org
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is the largest
Mathematics teaching organization in the US. This site offers
many resources for math teachers, including their own set of
standards, different than those of the state of CA. It is interesting to
compare the two. The site provides interactive and multimedia
math lesson plans that are based on the NCTM standards.
PBS Mathline
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math
This site allows you to select a grade level or subject matter and
then it gives you different activities and problems that you can do
with your students.
Ask Eric
http://askeric.org
This website has lesson plans for all different subjects. It also has a
feature where you can "Ask Eric" any questions you may have
about teaching and "Eric" is supposed to get back to you.
Free online math tutoring
http://www.gomath.com
This site has FREE on-line math tutoring designed to assist
students from K-12, and their parents.
What is changing in math education
http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/what.htm
This is an interesting article that I found that talks about what is
changing in math education and why.
Puzzle maker
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com
This site allows you to create any kind of puzzle. You pick what
type of puzzle you want to make, and then you just enter the
information you want on it. After that, it creates your very own
puzzle!
Teachers Dot Net
http://www.teachers.net
This site has all of the resources for most subjects. Click on lesson
plans then find science or math and a wealth of lessons will come
up with related activities. There are chatrooms, and live meetings.
Definitely check this one out.
Math and Science Gateway (Cornell Theory Center)
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/
This is a great site for teachers and students! This site has several
links to educational resources in various areas of science and math.
When you click on a particular subject, such as "biology", you see
a variety of subtopics. When you click on a subtopic like
"vertebrates" you'll be given a list of links to other sites that are
specific for that subtopic. Besides having links for science and
math teachers, the site also has links for students to look up
information on colleges and financial aid. This site is a great
starting point for getting information on several topics of interest in
the science or math fields.
New Math Teachers
http://www.people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/terri/terri.html
This is the perfect site for new teachers. It has won numerous
awards and is a must see for math and science teachers. It contains
a multitude of various information such as: favorite math
problems, multicultural math, math and science internet lessons,
and many more. This site also offers numerous links to additional
resources.
MATH AND LOGIC PUZZLES
http://www.karplus.org/eli/puzzles/
This site has a variety of math and logic puzzles to entertain your
classroom. It includes geometry and sequence puzzles as well as
math word games. These puzzles would work great as group
activities for your math classroom.
ExploreMath.com
http://www.exploremath.com/index.cfm
This is a great interactive website for math teachers and students!
It shows math teachers strategies for using ExploreMath
Multimedia activities in the classroom. The site gives lab, lecture
and worksheet versions for each activity depending on what the
teacher needs. You must have an ExploreMath membership to
access the lesson plans that go with each activity, but don't worry
registering is free!
Exploremath.com
http://Exploremath.com
Complete with lesson plans, forums, and activities sorted by
category, this site uses the shockwave plug-in so you (and your
students!) can fidget with algebraic, geometric, and trigonometric
figures in real time to show exactly what's happening with those
stupid equations as you change relative values.
Texas Instruments
http://www.ti.com/calc/flash/index.html
You can download many wonderful applications from this
downloadable program for your graphing calculator. The
Interactive Graphing program allows you to type in a general
function containing coefficients A,B,C, and B. This program will
be able to help teachers use technology as part of their teaching.
Students' performance will improve with the provided visualization
from the programs.
The Mac Tutor history of Mathematics Archive
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history
It's very important to know the history of the world or our country,
so it's mathematics. This website will provides students with
biographies of many greatest mathematicians. Students will learn
more about mathematics history. Perhaps they will understand why
math is important instead of hate and fear math
Teacher2Teacher
http://www.mathforum.org/t2t/
This website has many great suggestions from experienced
teachers. You can find a best way to teach factoring once you
clicked on Discuss math education. Check it out and learn a few
tricks.
The Entangled Bank
http://www.old.jccc.net/~pdecell
This website has both mathematics and biology resources. Students
can go there and use the link to learn more about things like the
West Nile virus and mathematics and the new genetics.
Math Forum-Assessment in math teaching
http://mathforum.org/mathed/assessment.html
This website has topics like assessment, block scheduling, and
many more. Also the topic like college standards will aids the
teacher in preparing their students for a higher mathematics
education.
Math.com
http://Math.com
This site is dedicated to providing revolutionary ways for students,
parents, teachers, and everyone to learn math" This is an extensive
website that offers a lot of very useful tools and information. In the
Teacher Center you will find sample lesson plans, standards, and
links to find Free Stuff on the web. This site would be a great place
to send your students as it also offers online homework help for
students 24/7, as well as countless self tutorials. The Problem of
the week, games, worksheets and resource links could be valuable
tools for a teacher.
http://Coolmath4teachers.com
This site has applications in different math topics. In each topic it
explains in a very down to earth fashion complicated topics. For
example, it explains the concept of a limit in Calculus.
Math Goodies
www.mathgoodies.com
The site www.mathgoodies.com is a good resource for math
teachers and their students. This site provides lessons and
worksheets on different subjects in math. It also provides
worksheets on special themes in math such as the history of math
and genetics. For students, there are tutoring services available.
There are also forums for students, parents, and teachers.
Math lessons on-line
www.pbs.org/teachersource/math
The site not only provides lessons and activities for math teachers,
it also lets you look at these lessons online. There are a variety of
math lessons for all grade levels to view.
ORIGAMI
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/origami.html
This site offers a collection of links to origami articles and
activities. This site is great for geometry teachers looking for
hands-on activities for their students.
PRACTICAL USES OF MATH AND SCIENCE
http://pumas.jpl.nasa.gov/
This site offers a collection of examples of how math and science
can be used in everday life. It includes everything from preventing
hypothermia to using probability with traffic signals. Activities are
given a grade level, rating of the activity, and key words associated
with the example. Comments are made on activities, and you are
also given the opportunity to comment on activities as well as
submit your own ideas. There are some great ideas on this site to
use when students ask how math and science relates to them.
http://edhelper.com
This website in full of lesson plans, webquest, and worksheets for
math and science. It has worksheets and puzzles to download for
all subjects. You can also create your own worksheets.
OnlineLearning.net
http://OnlineLearning.net
This site lists many Online courses offered thru UCLA and USD.
There are quite a few education classes including the CLAD
courses. Taking a course online might help ease the burden of the
workload we are expected to carry for the two semesters it takes to
earn a teaching credential.
California Mathematics Council
http://cmc-math.org
The California Mathematics Council deals with State issues for
math teachers. They offer conferences, scholarships, a
magazine,and various other resources for teachers of math in CA.
Math Projects for Science Fair
http://camel.math.ca/Education/mpsf/
This is a very useful site for students who are looking to do a
mathematical based science project. This site includes great
science projects as elementary as basic number games, all the way
to advanced geometry. This would be a good site for anyone who
is looking for a good science project.
Mathematical Gateways to the WWW
http://www.math.uga.edu/~ntheory/gateways.html
This site is all about the different math websites that are available.
With this website anyone will be able to locate the mathematical
website that they are looking for.
Teaching Math With the Internet Mathematics Web Sites
http://mathforum.org/ruth/math.html
There are sections on Internet Math Projects, Lesson Plans, and
various math resources. The Math Projects section is especially
helpful with completely illustrated problems of the week in the
major math subject areas. There are also a number of interesting
discussion groups on different subjects, and these provide an
excellent opportunity for math educators to exchange information.
A great and useful site.
Word Problems for Kids
www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/
The site says Word Problems "for Kids", but there are challenging
and interesting problems for grades five through twelve. The
problems are great for warm-ups, extra credit, or special projects,
and include hints as well as the solutions.
The Teacher's Aid - Mathematics
www.aloha.net/~bry/teaching/math.html
This is a wonderful resource for teaching the historical perspective
of math, and can be found at
www.aloha.net/~bry/teaching/math.html. There are suggested
lessons on various math topics, and some beautiful color
photographs of fractals in nature. A great companion to geometry
and other math textbooks.
The Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library
http://mathforum.org/library
This is sort of a "refdesk" type source for the teaching of
mathematic, and it is located at //mathforum.org/library/. This site
is a little unique for the breadth of its information, including math
teaching resources for elementary school through college and
research.
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/math.html
This site contains an extensive list of lesson plans pertaining to a
wide range of mathematical concepts for all grade levels. when
you click on the lesson you want to check out from its brief
description, you get a neatly organized and typed lesson plan in a
standard format. i checked out several of the plans, and for the
most part, they all invovled fun hands-on activities and games
related to a certain math topic. i thought they were all pretty good really creative and interesting for students.
Algebra.com
http://www.algebra.com/
This site provides algebra homework help online: pre-algebra,
algebra I, algebra II, even SAT/ACT prep help. it shows the work
of numerous solvers of posted problems, it has links to great
algebra lessons, provides a forum for interactive solvers for algebra
word problems, you can ask questions on a question board, you
can do algebra searches, customize or solve posted problems
interactively; it even provides math scolarship info! pretty
awesome site - excellent site to refer algebra students to.
http://www.geom.umn.edu/~lori/mathed/problems/
This site consists of a huge databank of really interesting high
school-level (for the most part) math word problems compiled by a
CS major who, besides developing software, also taught high
school math and now tutors at a math learning center. the problems
are of various levels of difficulty with some being "real-world" and
some being simply neat and fun (but still potentially trying.)
besides the basic list of problems, you can view them by category,
you can search all problems for what concepts they cover or entail,
you can view her favorites, and even her sources for each problem.
for each problem you she even breaks down the individual math
concepts and "types of thinking" (with explanations) used to solve
it. a great resource for the teacher looking for interesting word
problems for their students to solve.
Daily Math in Our Lives
www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
This site is dedicated to finding math in our daily lives in order to
answer that never-ending questions for teachers everywhere
"When are we ever going to use this in real life?" It provides great
every day examples for teachers to use in the classroom.
Mathematical Constants
http://pauillac.inria.fr/algo/bsolve/constant/constant.html
This site lists over 100 mathematical constants and what they are
used for, what their name is, and examples of how they are used. If
you've ever seen a constant that you didn't recognize or know how
it's used, this site is for you! Constants listed are in the following
categories: Geometry, Complex Analysis, Functional Iteration,
Enumerating Discrete Structures, Approximation of Functions,
Analytic Inequalities, and Number Theory... to name a few.
Calculus
www.calculus.net
This site is used for students who need help in Calculus. It has
numerous sections dedicated to explaining Calculus terms,
problems, sample problems and answers, posting questions, and
calculus links if you can't get the answer you want at the site.
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
Purpose: Can be very useful in getting answers to problems you're
having hard time solving and has an archive of old questions.