TOP INTERNET WEB SITES FOR SCIENCE TEACHERS

Mary Kander, Rachel Sadler, Angi Jurkovic & Matt Ludwig

Newton's Apple

Newton's Apple is an award-winning national science program for kids and adults. It has many lessons developed for all ages. They are designed to accompany the television show and are also a great stand-alone resource.

Frank Potter's Science Gems

This site has a variety of listings for all areas of science from Engineering to Physical and Earth Science. There are at least 2000 resources here!

Explorer

The Explorer is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans...) for K-12 mathematics and science education.

NSTA Sites

This site is a general hotlink through which one can access the NSTA; curriculum development and evaluation projects; and Scope, Sequence & Coordination Projects.

Science Power

This site includes lessons and activities in Natural Science, Earth Science, and Astronomy & Space Science. It also includes interactive math and other resourceful links.

ALIVE! Education Net

ALIVE is an education link site through which one can hotlink to a vast number of sites in the following science areas: General, Space, Earth, and Biology.

Einstein's Study

Einstein's Study has many tools for teachers, kids, and parents dealing with science topics.

Dragonfly

This site goes with Dragonfly magazine. There are many different things for kids of all ages to discover here.

Dr. Bob's Interesting Science Stuff

This site is devoted to the wonders of science and technology. This is an interactive place where you can explore, learn, and ask questions. The focus is on unusual, interesting, and thought provoking topics!

Physical Science Activity Manual

The Physical Science Activity Manual contains 34 hands-on activities to bring excitement to your classroom.

Volcano World

This site is an interactive site dealing with all aspects of volcanoes.

Interactive Frog Dissection

This site gives an interactive hands on approach to the dissection of the frog, but without the mess.

The Whole Brain Atlas

This site provides informational tools dealing with the anatomy of the brain, diseases of the brain, as well as self quizzes.

Tree of Life

Tree of life is a project designed to contain information about phylogentic relationships and characteristics of organisms, and to illustrate the diversity and unity of living organisms.

Ocean World

This site is devoted to the structure and function of the ocean as well as all living things that inhabit the ocean.

Mathmol

Mathmol is a web site that enhances the students knowledge of the concept of the mol.

Earthquake Images

Almost 8,000 images from more than 80 earthquakes are available through an informative system developed with support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in cooperation with the University of California Museum Informatics Project.

Science Lesson Plans

This teachers guide is set up to enable teachers to gather new lesson plan ideas from different teachers throughout the United States and the world.

Natural Science

This informative site gives teachers ideas to take to their classrooms involving lesson plans from the field of Natural Science.

Exploring Planets In the Classroom- Hands-on Activities

More than 25 hands-on activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring geology, earth, and planetary sciences.

Virtual Fly Lab

This site allows the student to play the role of a research geneticist. It is an educational application for learning the principles of genetic inheritance. The student can design matings between female and male fruit flies carrying one or a few genetic mutations.

Worm World

This site provides a unique and interactive process for learning more about the worm family. Both students and teachers will enjoy the useful and interesting informational resources.

The WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences: Medicine

This site provides information to use concerning the field of medicine which can be helpful to teachers trying to keep up with the changing information in the medicine field.

AIDS Virtual Library

A subset of the WWW Virtual Library, it becomes a useful source for teachers to use on educating the students about the AIDS epidemic.

Plant Biology Program for Undergrads

This site can be helpful to science majors in college which comes with both a teacher's manual as well as a student's manual concerning the area of plants.

Biology Resources

This site has useful references for teachers to supplement material into their biology classrooms.

Biotechnology Education Resources

This site provides resources for the biotechnology field that can help teachers and students with gathering more information in this field pertaining to genetics, recombinant DNA, and many others.

World-Wide Web Biology Sources

This site provides the user with access to biology topics spanning over two continents.

Biology

This site contains references, papers, journals, databases, societies, institutes, centers, and museums all related to the field of biology.

Useful Links from Darst Lab

This site created by Darst Lab allows the user to access information from various sources concerning information in the biology field.


December 11, 1996

Indiana University South Bend

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