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Teacher's Domain

www.teachersdomain.org
Teachers' Domain is a multimedia digital library for the classroom that provides learning experiences in ways no textbook can. This ever-expanding library currently includes collections on:

  • Science: Life Science, Physical Science, Engineering
  • Social Studies: The Civil Rights Movement, Brown v. Board of Education
  • High-quality multimedia from NOVA, American Experience, and other public television productions and partners
  • Video, audio, interactives, images, and documents
  • Explanatory background articles for each resource
  • Correlations to national and state curriculum standards
  • Media-rich lesson plans
  • Resource management tools

Science Fair Projects

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com
This site has over 500 fully searchable and categorized science fair projects, with full instructions and explanations. Students can search for ideas for projects by simply entering a keyword on whatever interests them.

American Museum of Natural History - Two web sites

www.ology.amnh.org
This interactive site provides students with science information, games, and activities related to dinosaurs, astonomy, fossils, DNA, Einstein, and more. Strudents can also quizzes and participate in polls, read interviews with scientists, and collect OLogy cards.

www.amnh.org/resources
This site serves as a gateway to an online database of the museum's scientific and educational materials on anthropology, astronomy, biology, earth science, and paleontology.

ARKive, a "digital Noah's ark"

http://www.arkive.org/
The web site for ARKive says it "is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era - the world's centralized digital library of films, photographs and associated recordings of species, accessible to all via the world wide web.

"ARKive is being designed so that anyone from school children to scientists can use it - with the information layered and presented in different ways on ARKive's other websites:

  • "Planet ARKive - designed for children with a reading age of 9 - 10 years.
  • "ARKive Education - designed for teachers, educators and parents, with lesson plans, project ideas and support materials.

"ARKive is leading the virtual conservation effort - finding, sorting, cataloguing and copying the key records of species, and building them into a comprehensive and enduring audio-visual record.

"For each species, we are selecting and digitising an average of 10 minutes of moving footage, 6 - 10 stills and sound recordings (where appropriate), to compile a complete profile of the species' characteristic behaviour and appearance.

"It is ARKive's ultimate aim to compile an audio-visual record, where possible, for the 12,000 animals and plants threatened with extinction, according to the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Red Lists of Threatened Species."

U.S. Government Science site

http://www.science.gov
Science and technology impact our daily lives from new drug discoveries, to interest in the environment in our back yard, to the incorporation of new technologies into business and industry. This creates an enormous demand for scientific and technical information by a very large population with diverse backgrounds. To meet these needs, science.gov provides a gateway to information resources at the U.S. Government science agencies. Science.gov contains reliable information resources selected by the respective agencies.

Two major types of information are included-selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials. (The specific content varies by database.) The selected Web sites can be explored from the science.gov homepage. The Web pages and the databases can be searched individually or simultaneously from the search page.

National Science Digital Library

http://nsdl.org/render.userLayoutRootNode.uP
According to the NDSL Web site, "A digital library allows users to access distributed multimedia resources that have been organized and managed for their needs. NSDL is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels. Starting with a partnership of NSDL-funded projects, NSDL is emerging as a center of innovation in digital libraries as applied to education, and a community center for groups focused on digital-library-enabled science education."

Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Science

http://www.treasure-troves.com/
Eric Weisstein's Treasure Troves of Science is truly a treasure. The topics covered include astronomy, biography, chemistry, mathematics, music, physics, and more.

This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the internet community. Eric Weisstein's Treasure Troves are written and maintained by the author as a public service for scientific knowledge and education. Although it is often difficult to find explanations for technical subjects thatare both clear and accessible, this site bridges the gap by placing an interlinked framework of mathematical exposition and illustrative examples at the fingertips of every internet user.

Internet Public Library's (IPL) Science Fair Resource Guide

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/projectguide/
The IPL science fair portal will guide your students to a variety of web site resources, leading them through the necessary steps to successfully complete a science experiment, from understanding the scientific method to choosing a topic to sample projects, as well as tips for presentations and papers.

ReadWriteThink offers standards-based online lesson plan

http://www.readwritethink.org
ReadWriteThink offers a wide array of standards-based lesson plans that meaningfully integrate Internet content into the teaching and/or learning experience. Lessons can be selected according to grade band (K-2, 3-5, 6-8) and area of literacy practice. Each lesson is research-based, and includes a detailed instructional plan. The lessons are written for the teacher but include student-ready materials such as worksheets, interactives, and reviewed Web resources.

More Science Sites

Lesson plans about dinosaurs at Dino Lab:
http://www.jpinstitute.com

The Cloud Quest interactive learning unit for 2nd graders examines how different clouds affect weather: http://www2.lhric.org/kat/wq3rd.htm

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