Science Web Resources
Portland Public Schools Science Expo
The 2nd Annual PPSSE will be held on March 4, 2010 at Benson HS. This is for high school students only. If you would like to bring a class or come by yourself to celebrate the students science research a schedule is available at nwse.org
Astronomy
Welcome to HHMI's Bioactive (Howard Hughes Medical Institution)
http://www.biointeractive.org/
Virtual labs, animations, software & freebies
General Interest
Create a Graph
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/
An online graphing generator
Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
This site has lots of printable resources, mainly for an elementary classroom.
NASA Spacelink - An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/.index.html
Mega-site for space info - focused for teachers
National Science Teachers Association
http://www.nsta.org
Topics, events & opportunities for science teachers
Newton's Apple
http://www.ktca.org/newtons/index.html
Activities, TV clips, resources on topic activities
Science Explorer
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/index.html
Home-based hands-on activities from the Exploratorium
Science Olympiad
http://www.scioly.org/
Interscholastic competitions in fun and challenging events-Good inquiry.
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
Hundreds of biographies, sorted by discipline
The Why Files - Science behind the News
http://whyfiles.org/
150+ topics explained in depth and understandably-new stories weekly & archive
Earth Science
Ask a Geologist
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/ask-a-ge.html
Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
http://dlese.org/dds/index.jsp
This site is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels. DLESE resources include electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much more. Funding for DLESE comes in part from the National Science Foundation.
Earth Science Activities/Lesson Plans
http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/geology/crest/lesplans/NESEN_April96/active.html
Teacher's favorites in astronomy, geology, mapping, soils, water & weather.
Life Science
The MicrobeWorld Portal Page (American Society for Microbiology)
http://www.microbeworld.org/
Lesson plans, resources, kids page
Oceanography
Oceanography an ONR Science & Technology Focus Site
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/
Activities, information, links
Physical Science
NETL's Cool Science (National Energy Technology Laboratory)
http://www.fetc.doe.gov/coolscience/index.html
Activities, information, links
Physics
The Brockport High School Science Department
http://www.frontiernet.net/~jlkeefer/science.htm
Lots of labs, problems, & references
Science Education, Policy and Research
Access Excellence: Classrooms of the 21st Century
http://www.gene.com/ae/21st/
Papers on Teaching & Learning, Technology in Edcuation & Science Ed. Reform
American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.aaas.org
Advocates for research and public policy
National Science Foundation (NSF)
http://www.nsf.gov
Funding for research and education through major grants and programs
Weather
UM Weather (by the Weather Underground)
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
Great Organization - easy to find exactly what you need
The Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/homepage.html
Miscellaneous
Carolina Biological Supply Company - Teacher Resources
http://www.carolina.com/teacher.htm
Interactive Physics and Math with Java
http://www.lightlink.com/sergey/java/index.html
Animation with variables
K-12 Outreach Program
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/mainpage.html
Straight-forward science lesson plans
Microbes.info
http://www.microbes.info/
This site is designed to bring useful and interesting microbiology informational resources to you and attempts to reduced the clutter and the size of the haystack in an effort to help you filter through the information in an organized manner.
Minnetonka Science Center - Ooey Gooey Recipes
http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/science/tools/ooey.html
Online Onion Root Tips
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html
Cell division phase activity online
Welcome to Simply Science
http://www.simplyscience.com/
Many useful links
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
