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Selected Internet Resources: Resources for Science Teachers
Access Excellence is a national educational program that provides high school biology teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. Access Excellence is sponsored by Genentech, Inc., and the site reflects the company's commitment Schools and the Ann Arbor Public Schools and is producing a new generation of middle-school science curriculum that leverages the affordances of the emerging computational and communications technologies to uniquely scaffold students' learning and support teachers' instructional strategies. The CERES (Center for Educational Resources) Project is made available through funding from NASA, faculty at Montana State University and classroom teachers from across the nation. The site contains an extensive library of on-line and interactive K-12 science education materials for teaching astronomy. Closely aligned with the NRC National Science Education Standards, these web based lessons make maximum use of exciting on-line NASA resources, data, and images. In addition to classroom-ready materials using contemporary teaching strategies, CERES has developed several on-line NASA data search engines and two graduate level distance learning courses, available over the Internet to K-12 teachers. Challenger Center for Space Science Education The web site of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, a not-for-profit organization committed to promoting science literacy. A network of Challenger Learning Centers in partnership with museums, science centers, schools, universities, and communities across North America, Challenger Center uses the theme of space exploration to create positive learning experiences, foster interest in science, math, and technology, and motivate young people to explore. Connecticut Academy for Education in Mathematics, Science, & Technology Inc. The Academy is a non-profit organization funded in part by the National Science Foundation. The Academy administers Connecticut's Statewide Systemic Initiative entitled Project CONNSTRUCT. Project CONNSTRUCT will, over the course of a twelve-year educational generation (1991 to 2003), work with local school districts, teachers, administrators, State agencies, businesses, communities, and other partners to implement the long-term institutional changes that are necessary to raise the quality and quantity of all students' engagement with mathematics, science, and technology; to ensure that students take courses that are useful in the technical workplace; are preparatory for higher education; and, contribute to their intellectual development. The activities at this site were developed by five museums that receive support from the Precollege and Public Science Education Program of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The Institute's grants program supports these and hundreds of other innovative science education projects at museums, universities, medical schools, zoos and other institutions across the United States. The grants complement the Institute's primary mission of carrying out biomedical research with its own scientific teams nationwide. Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway The Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway for secondary school students and educators provides an easy starting point for locating science and mathematics resources on the web. It is tailored to the needs of students in grades 9 through 12, with links to resources in subject areas such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, computing, the environment, health, mathematics, and physics. An annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. These sites are sorted by subject and lifestage. A list of educational World Wide Web bookmarks compiled the by the NASA Lewis Research Center's Learning Technologies K-12 Program. Explorers' Club is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's web site for children ages 5-12. This site uses art, coloring, comics, stories and games to involve children in environmental science. A web site for teachers and students developed by the Museum of Science, Boston for the Science Learning Network. Exploring Leonardo was designed for students in grades four through eight, although many of the activities can be adapted for older or younger students. The site contains four content sections, provides five lesson plans for hands-on classroom activities, and supports three activities for communicating students' ideas via e-mail. The site includes four pages with "cool interactive elements": Playing Around with Size and Distance, Exploring Linear Perspective, Investigating Aerial Perspective, and Gadget Anatomy. Franklin Institute Science Museum The web site of the Franklin Institute Science Museum, whose mission is to stimulate interest in science, to promote public understanding of science, and to strengthen science education. The Institute maintains an exemplary, innovative museum of science with engaging, educational exhibits and programs; supports a diverse set of partnerships with all levels of the formal educational system; interprets the social and historical impact of science and technology; recognizes outstanding achievement; and provides a forum for discussion of important scientific issues. The Franklin Institute also serves to perpetuate the legacy of Benjamin Franklin. GEM: The Gateway to Educational Materials The Gateway to Educational Materials project is a consortium effort, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's National Library of Education, to create an operational framework to provide the nation's teachers with "one-stop, any-stop" access to substantial, but uncataloged, collections of Internet-based educational materials available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM provides access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources. GenScope is a learning environment that uses the computer to provide an alternative to text-based science education. GenScope provides teachers and learners with a new tool that enables students to investigate scientific and mathematical concepts through direct manipulation and experimentation. The Geometry Center is a mathematics research and education center at the University of Minnesota. It is funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the Science and Technology Center program. The Center has a unified mathematics computing environment supporting math and computer science research, mathematical visualization, software development, application development, video animation production, and K-16 math education. Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. GLOBE students make a core set of environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data via the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education. Each day, images created from the GLOBE student data sets are posted on the World Wide Web, allowing students and visitors to the GLOBE web site to visualize the student environmental observations. A service of the High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center, the Imagine the Universe! web site gives students, teachers, and the general public a window on using high-energy astrophysics to probe the structure and evolution of the Universe. Information is presented on topics ranging from the Sun to black holes to X-ray and gamma-ray satellites. The site also features a Teacher's Corner with study guides, lesson plans, and information on other education resources. IMSEnet is a Network of Instructional Materials for Science Educators. IMSEnet serves as a support network for science teachers on the World Wide Web who attend the SERVIT group's workshops using the IMSE (Instructional Materials for Science Education) CD-ROM. The IMSEnet web site contains many annotated web links to the best science instructional materials on the World Wide Web for K-12 classroom instruction as well as a variety of K-12 interdisciplinary web resources. INTEC (International Netcourse Teacher Enhancement Coalition) is an online professional development course that introduces inquiry-based teaching and learning to mathematics and science classrooms. The goal of the course is to support teachers directly in implementing the use of student investigations in mathematics and science at the middle and high school levels by offering a set of network-based high quality netcourses linking participants with exemplary National Science Foundation curriculum development efforts. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Education Program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Education Program web site provides current educational information and instructional resource materials to teachers, faculty, and students. A wide range of information is available, including science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education plans, historical information related to the aeronautics and space program, current status reports on NASA projects, news releases, information on NASA educational programs, and useful software and graphics files. Educators and students can also use NASA resources as learning tools to explore the Internet, access information about educational grants, interact with other schools on the Web. PUMAS (Practical Uses of Math And Science) PUMAS is a collection of one-page examples of how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can be used in interesting settings, including everyday life. The examples are written primarily by scientists and engineers, and are available to teachers, students and other interested parties. The site is intended to capture, for the benefit of pre-college education, the flavor of the vast experience that working scientists have with interesting and practical uses of math and science. PUMAS is produced and maintained at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) / California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Quest: NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative The web site of the Quest Project, a service of the Education Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Project's mission it to provide support and services for schools, teachers and students to fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information technologies, as a basic tool for learning. The Science Center strives to provide teachers and students with resources that help improve the way scientific and environmental issues are discussed in the classroom. The Science Center features great lessons plans and classroom activities, provides educators with a Teacher Lounge where they can share information and discuss the latest issues, and provides users with a Gateway to other great educational resources on the Internet. SEGway (Science Education Gateway) is a collaborative NASA project which brings together the expertise of NASA scientists, science museums, and K-12 educators to produce NASA science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom and public use via the World Wide Web. SEGway materials are produced by teachers in locally-grown collaborations with program staff at nearby partnering science museums. The partnerships support teacher-developers in achieving the goals of teaching Earth and space science online, and provide them with the training technical support needed for their curriculum projects. Spacelink is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's electronic resources specifically developed for use by the educational community. Spacelink is a comprehensive electronic library that contains current information related to NASA's aeronautics and space research. Teachers, faculty, and students will find that Spacelink offers not only information about NASA programs and projects, but also teacher guides and pictures that can enhance classroom instruction. While NASA understands that people from a wide variety of backgrounds will use NASA Spacelink, the system is specifically designed for educators and students. The Teachers' Lab is a web site where teachers and educators can experiment with new ideas in learning and identify activities they can use in the classroom. Working in the Teachers' Lab, educators can develop a deeper understanding of math and science concepts they have been teaching for years or are just introducing to their students for the first time. The Labs are based upon professional development series and workshops broadcast on the Annenberg/CPB Channel. Each Lab combines online activities with background information and interactive polls or worksheets participants can use in their classrooms, plus links to related Web sites. The Water Science for Schools web site was created by the U.S. Geological Survey and is designed to offer information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where students and teachers can give opinions and test their water knowledge. WebMath is an Internet based math problem solver, equipped with an online "math-engine" that can instantly provide a user with an answer to the particular math problem the user may be working on. Java-based animations are used to take the user step by step through the various solutions.
The Why Files: Science Behind the News A project of the National Institute for Science Education, and funded by the National Science Foundation, the Why Files explores the science, math and technology lurking behind the daily headlines. The project's goal is to uncover the scientific issues in current events, and to serve as a research platform for how people learn about science on the World Wide Web. Other Selected Resources:
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