GREAT WEBSITES FOR TEACHERS & PARENTS
SCIENCE
This is a website that has science lesson plans for almost anything and it’s organized in different ways, such a s grade level, topic, etc.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/
This website is funded b the National Academy of Sciences, and contains just about everything you could want. It is called The National Science Digital Library, need we say more?
http://nsdl.org
The Future’s Channel is another encyclopedic science site that contains lots of videos and interactive modules. This is a good starting place for any K-12 science research or interest.
http://www.thefutureschannel.com/
TEACH Engineering is a website focused on all tings engineering. Check it out!
http://teachengineering.com/index.php
Great website for science teachers. It has a lot of lab experiments and lectures to go with them. The lesson plans are very hands on and simple to prep for.
http://www.lessonplans.com/?SciExperiments.htm
This is the Exploring Leonardo website and it is really great. It was built for teachers and could be used in science, having a segment on his inventions, art, geography and even history. For example, it is interactive and kids can write their name and then it will transform it into the backwards writing that Leonardo did. Kids love to do this.
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
Scientific American puts out its web awards each year, look for the link. There are ten categories each containing 5 websites. The categories are: anthropology and paleontology, astronomy & astrophysics, biology, chemistry, earth & environment, engineering & technology, great minds, mathematics, medicine and physics.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/
This is a great website for any age! You can travel through space down to earth and end up viewing the electrons and protons of a leaf! It is amazing, and can be applied to science and math. When the video begins, you see how small Earth is compared to the universe. Then the view moves in closer and a whole subatomic universe is unveiled!
http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
DNA from the Beginning is for any biology class. This site is very well done, is interactive, has biographies, comments from scientists and shows how putting together clues led to great discoveries.
http://www.dnaftb.org/
This is a great 6th grade science site with virtual dissection and other facts about owl and owl pellets.
http://www.kidswings.com/
This is a virtual frog dissection and lab site for 7th grade life science.
http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html
This website is based on California content standards and can be searched in a variety of ways.
http://scorescience.humboldt.k12.ca.us/
Guch made this excellent site for his Chemistry students. He has some very good worksheets and tutorials.
http://misterguch.brinkster.net/chemfiestanew.html
An animation of Tom Lehrer’s element song. He put a tune to all the elements of the periodic table.
http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
American Chemical Society. Science for kids, science podcasts, National Historic Chemical landmarks and more.
http://www.acs.org/education
An excellent website featuring photo galleries that explore the fascinating world of optical microscopy. This site offers one of the Web’s largest collections of color photographs taken through an optical microscope. It is well worth looking at this site and then going to its home page.
http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
This website has some virtual biology labs in the biology, cell section that will be useful to my independent study students. The site has resources and activities for every subject, even recess, and the teacher resources at the are really great.
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/
Windows to the Universe lets you choose beginner, intermediate or advanced levels. This site has a lot of information and hands-on activities as well as teacher resources.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
This science site is an excellent resource for science related subjects from the elementary to university grade level. There are individual sites that address topics in the different subjects of science including Life Science, Earth Science and Physics. There is a “Virtual Observatory on the Net” site that allow students to view the Solar System from various positions.
http://sciencegems.com/earth.html