Science

• Access Excellence Activities-To-Go is a place for all science teachers to share innovative, successful teaching strategies and activities to help students learn the concepts and processes of the life sciences. You may UPLOAD an activity, or do a search by Keyword, Grade Level, Subject and Special Categories, or National Science Education Standards (NSES).
• Access Excellence Mystery Spot: Two Forks, Idaho: It's a small town. There aren't supposed to be secrets. So who's spreading disease around? Nobody knows... it's up to you to find out! Interactive, online scientific mysteries for classroom use that encourage student problem-solving and inquiry. Grades 9-12
• Access Excellence Fellows Collection: This is an archive of the favorite classroom activities submitted by high school biology and life sciences teachers participating in the Access Excellence program. This web site contains several hundred detailed lesson plans for high school level biology topics. Each lesson includes objectives, instructions, methodology, and outcomes.
• American Field Guide: Grades: 6 - Post-secondary; Embark on a transcontinental journey through the American
  wilderness without ever having to lug a backpack or worry about getting blisters on your feet. The American Field Guide hosts more than 1,400 video clips that bring you the sights and sounds of the great outdoors.
• Amusement Park Physics: Physics is fun on this site where visitors build a conceptual roller coaster using concepts that are used to design real coasters. Students determine the height and shape of hills and loops, and their exit paths. Once completed, designs are subject to a safety insprection based on the laws of pf physics.
• Anatomia: An interactive game for practicing anatomy terminology.
• Biointeractive offers students click-and-learn biology lessons illustrated with animations; virtual labs that allow student scientists to explore a human heart, identify deadly pathogens, dissect a leech, and diagnose disease; and a virtual museum to help students learn more about vital signs, hearing and seeing, and biological clocks.
• Biology in Motion: The number of web-based science simulations has mushroomed in recent years. Biology in Motion offers several sophisticated models that do real teaching in an imaginative way. If you teach biology, these applications are well worth a look.
• Center for Educational Resources (CERES) Project: Through funding from NASA, faculty at Montana State University and classroom teachers from across the nation have developed 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.
• Chem4Kids: Matter, Atoms, Elements, Reactions, and Biochemistry
• Chemistry.org
• Cool Science for Curious Kids: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology... on screen, off screen, and in between.
• Create a Graph: an easy way to make graphs online
• Creative Chemistry: There are full-colour worksheets and teaching notes for fun activities suitable for a chemistry club, and around two hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides for GCSE Chemistry (ages 14-16) and AS Level Chemistry (ages 16-18). You will also find fun chemistry puzzles, interactive revision quizzes, molecular models, and the Sc1 Tune-up Garage to help improve your GCSE science investigations.
• Ecology explorers: K-12, This site features protocols for surveying resident arthropods, seeds, birds, and vegetation, as well as lesson plans, additional online resources, and downloadable presentations for teaching the protocols.
• EcoKids Online: Teach elementary students about our environment and ecology using this web sites activities: contests, games, interactive stories, gallery for on-line publishing of students' work, and printable coloring pages and word games.
• Enrich Biology Links includes: anatomy, animal cams, genetics, microbiology, dissections, simulations, paleontology, and more
• Enrich Biology Lessons: These lessons are the result of a project (AT&T ENRICH), funded by the AT&T Foundation, that trained teachers to develop lessons integrating biology, technology and engaged learning.
• EPA Homepage
• EPA Wastes--Kids Page: Activities to help kids learn how to save our environment.
• Explore-a-Pond: is a site that presents the ecology of a typical pond. Resources include: an Adopt A Pond program, suggestions for studying pond life, a discussion board, a virtual pond, collaboration opportunities, links to water resources, and lesson plans targeted at pond ecology.
• Fear of Physics takes physics and tries to make it simple. Some of the many topics covered include: Why things fall: What is "the pull" in "the pull of gravity?"; Why Satellites Don't Fall: How is it that they stay up there?; Roller Coasters: Sure they're fun...and loaded with Physics too!; Make your Jump Shot: The science behind making a shot in basketball.
• Forensics in the Classroom: Court TV, in cooperation with the American Academy of Forensic Science, provides these three science units that incorporate scientific concepts and lab experiments into forensic-based mysteries. Each standards-based unit includes an overview, a list of required materials, background information, student handouts, extension activities, assessment tools, and more. The site also provides a glossary of forensic terms and links to additional forensics materials. These activities for high school students will help answer the perennial question, “Why do we need to learn chemistry?”
• How Stuff Works: Click Science Stuff to access this remarkable site’s extensive science resources. Categories listed in those resources include earth science, engineering, physical science, life science, space, and the supernatural. Each category offers many individual tutorials that clearly and completely explain a particular topic.
• iwaswondering.org: Promote an interest is science among your middle school students by letting Lia, the teenage cartoon character who hosts the site, lead them through these interactive resources and activities. The site focuses on inspiring girls to think about a career in science. The accomplishments and careers of ten women in science are featured.
• Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia, is a Department of Energy facility; The primary mission of the lab's Web site is to improve science and math education and to encourage students to explore possible careers in math and science. The site's Teacher Resources section offers online and printable worksheets, games and puzzles, as well as a number of hands-on activities on topics ranging from bicycles to ooblecks. The student Zone provides online games and puzzles, homework help, and information about internship programs.
• Lawerence Hall of Science: PreK - 5, Belly on up to the Alien Juice Bar and learn how to whip up fizzy concoctions for your interstellar guests while learning about acids and bases, pH, and identifying chemicals. Or, if you prefer,
  play music on online bottles filled with water and learn how they work. These are just some of the activities, online and off, that kids are sure to enjoy at this site.
• Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope: The Molecular Expressions Web site features hundreds of
  photomicrographs (photographs through the microscope) of everything from superconductors and high-tech materials to ice cream and beer.
• Monterey Bay Aquarium: Our live web cams offer a look at marine life in our exhibits and off our oceanfront decks from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Pacific Time. Click the "Kid's EQ" to access aquarium games and activities
• Naturescapes is a web project that provides multilevel, informational readings, resources, and activities related to nature including plants, animals, and habitats.
• Ology: The American Museum of Natural History in NYC has developed this interactive science website for kids ages 7-11.
• Physics Classroom: offers an online tutorial of physics concepts, from kinematics to waves to reflection and refraction of light. It also features a multimedia studio that uses animations and other graphics to help students visualize abstract physics concepts.
  Within each section there are numerous lessons, animations, and quizzes. Grades 9-12
• PathFinder Science offers tons of collaborative research projects for students. Topics for projects include the ozone, stream monitoring, monarch migration, and how different varieties of cookies crumble. Most projects offer background information and a structure for students to follow in gathering, analyzing, and sharing data using the Internet.
• Reptiles: Taken an animal tour of the Galapagos Islands which are known for their rich reptilian population.
• Science Learning Network (SLN) is an online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education.
• Science NetLinks: lessons, on-line resources, K-12
• SciQ: Science Revealed: science games, simulations, activities and videos organized into zones; digital videos about science-related careers; an electronic magazine about science for kids; searchable zones that highlight science-related areas, such as wildlife, engineering and palaeontology; a companion teacher's guide
• Science, Optics, & You is a complete package for teaching the physics of light, color, and optics. Resources range from historical background on the scientists and tools involved in optics over the centuries, to lesson ideas for teachers, to activities for students. Several interactive tutorials allow web site visitors to manipulate elements of optics to understand the concepts.
• ScienceMaster: each major science category (space, life, physical, earth, technology) has its own page, chock full of information, news, links, pictures, products and services, with the best content from NASA, the USGS, the EPA, NOAA & leading colleges & universities.
• Smile Program Physics Index is a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons. The physics lessons are divided into the following categories: Matter, Mechanics, Fluids, Electricity & Magnetism, Waves, Sound and Optics, and Miscellaneous.
• Shodor's Interactivate
• Switcheroozoo: Kids will love this web site where they can switch the animals' heads, legs and tails to make new creatures at this surrealistic virtual zoo.
• Super Science Fair Projects: is designed to help middle school, jr. high and high school students through the intricacies of science fair projects one step at a time, also includes a parents guide and a teachers resource page. Grades 5-12
• Teacher's Domain: After completing the free registration, you will have access to a wealth of K-12 science-related media and professional development materials. Some examples of the material include a video segment on honeybee navigation and communication, part of the collection of resources and lessons that explore regulation and behavior.
• TerrificScience.org has published a Lesson and Lab Exchange that contains Free Resources for Teachers of Kindergarten to College.
• National Doppler Radar Sites: Select a location in the US for a Doppler Radar display.
• US Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library System : This is a collection of copyright-free, downloadable images of numerous plant and animal species. Image quality is adequate for either web or most publication use. The search feature - the only way to access images - finds species easily, but doesn't do as well with place names. This is a good source of animal images for WebQuests, reports, and slideshows.
• Webwatchers' SciGuides: created by Science Teachers and intended for use at all levels, K-12. This is a must-see for anyone who teaches Science at any grade level. The Lessons and Units include topics such as Organisms, Genetics, Atomic Structures, Energy, Reproduction and Heredity, Oceans, Matter and much, much more.
• Why Files: This site, maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, can be used to extend your students' knowledge of science and current events. Each week, The Why Files posts three new features that explore the science behind the news. A fourth feature offers past Why Files stories that relate to current news headlines. If there's an earthquake in Mexico, you can be sure the Why Files will explain what caused it!
• Wondernet: Each month, Wondernet, an online publication of the American Chemical Society, offers several new hands-on activities designed to increase elementary school students’ understanding of a single scientific concept. Previous months’ activities, which deal with such concepts as heat, food science, polymers, chemical reactions, and many more.
• WWF World Wildlife Fund: Endangered species facts, conservation information, on-line games, and more.