Links to Useful Science Education Sites

• TAMUCC Science, Mathematics and Technology Education (SMTE) program website

SMTE Classes Links:

Cool K-4 Science links:

Read "The Early Years" a blog devoted http://science.nsta.org/earlyyearsblog . You will find teaching advice, management tips, favorite resources, and activity ideas specifically for teachers of grades preK–2.

General information links:

• National Science Teacher Association

• NSTA Scilink

• The Library of Congress has all sorts of resources on all topics

• Selected Resources in Science and Technology from the Library of Congress

• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence / Science

• California Science Project

• Summaries of 15 Strategies for Professional Development (Implementation of inquiry based curriculum, teacher professional development and references)

• What Works Clearing House: Report on studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies)

• Library of Congress resources on Science and Invention. Contains a number of historical perspective on important discoveries and inventions

• TIMSS: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (Access the actual results as the headlines are usually taken out of context)

• Understanding Evolution, a site created by the University of California Museum of Paleontology with support provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

'Links related to the environment

Jet Stream website by NOAA is arranged by weather subject; beginning with global and large scale weather patterns followed by lessons on air masses, wind patterns, cloud formations, thunderstorms, lightning, hail, damaging winds, tornados, tropical storms, cyclones and flooding. Interspersed in JetStream^? are "Learning Lessons" which can be used to enhance the educational experience. Visit http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream for more information.

National Science Digital Library (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. Visit http://www.nsdl.org for more information.

Digital Library for Earth Science Education (DLESE) focuses on Earth sciences. DLESE features the ability to annotate some of the digital resources with tips, suggestions for how to use the resources in addressing concerns like diversity and other review-like comments. Visit http://www.dlese.org for more information.

GLOBE: GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. GLOBE is a cooperative effort of schools, led in the United States by a Federal interagency program supported by NASA, NSF and the U.S. State Department, in partnership with colleges and universities, state and local school systems, and non-government organizations. Internationally, GLOBE is a partnership between the United States and over 100 other countries. Over a million primary and secondary students in more than 14,000 schools have taken part in the program; there are more than 24,000 GLOBE-trained teachers and those numbers are growing! "GLOBE is the quintessentially ideal program for involving kids in science," - Nobel laureate Dr. Leon Lederman.http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/aboutglobe.cgi?intro&lang=en&nav=1#join

GLOBE Protocols: How to measure most environmental variables, related lesson plans and teacher resources. http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?measpage&lang=en&nav=1

Environmental Science Education: Pedagogy, Curricula and Funding. The information available at this website builds on a 20-year history of undergraduate teaching, research, curriculum development and faculty enhancement activities that use environmental problem solving to teach science. Link: http://www.envsci-ed.brockport.edu/

Ask Dr. Global Change, searchable collection of answers to questions about global warming, ozone depletion, greenhouse gases, and other issues related to climate change. This free service from the Global Change Research Information Office can be found at: http://www.ed.gov/free/s-scienc.html.

Geologic Time, a short, easily understandable U.S. Geological Survey booklet that discusses the relative time scale, fossil succession, rocks and fossils, and radiometric time scale. Access it at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/contents.html.

The Environmental Education Exchange develops programs and materials on environmental issues in the United States and Mexico, including water conservation, recycling and waste reduction, and endangered species. Find out more about the organization's free materials at: http://www.eeexchange.org/ee/HTML/PH.htm.

Earth Environmental Spheres Interactions:

Earth System Science Analysis: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/ESS/ESSmain.html

 (Wheeling Jesuit University/NASA-supported Classroom of the Future)

Earth a Dynamic Structure: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/dynamic/session4/sess4_interactions.htm

 (University of California Museum of Paleontology)

Schools Information and Lesson Plans:

Detailed information including size, student backgrounds, salaries from schools from different states: http://www.schools-data.com/

Brown University Swearer Center Lesson Plans: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/Projects/PSO/lessons.html

Science Education at Jefferson Lab is also available at that site, which offers 16 hands-on activities to answer these and other questions: How do scientists measure the size of an atom? What kind of coat will keep you the warmest: one made from cotton, steel wool, or air? Students can learn the periodic table of elements and other science information via flash cards, matching games, and crossword puzzles. http://www.ed.gov/free/s-scienc.html.

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Your Timesavers, the Best Lessons, collection of teacher-developed, web-based lesson plans for topics in science, math, technology, and other subjects. Each lesson plan contains a brief description, learning objectives, and detailed procedures for teachers, including a list of sites to bookmark. Students can use the printable activity organizers accompanying each lesson plan. This website is connected with WNET-TV New York. Access the collection at: http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/index.html.

"Investigating Water Rockets," water bottle rocket activity from the Genesis Mission's Dynamic Design: Launch and Propulsion module. This science module focuses on the launch and propulsion of the Genesis spacecraft. It also contains video and audio clips featuring Boeing's Genesis Mission Integration Officer Kris Walsh. Refer to: http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/Launch_Propulsion.html.

High School Specific:

Pics4Learning^? is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning^? collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning^? collection. Formerly known as PhotoShare^?, a recipient of the ComputerWorld^? Smithsonian Award, Pics4Learning^? is a partnership between Orange County Public Schools Technology Development Unit of Orlando, Florida, and Tech4Learning^?, Inc. Click http://www.pics4learning.com for more information or view images.

Video Placement Worldwide offers an ever-growing list of high-quality educational videos and teaching materials FREE to educators and youth leaders. This list is kept up-to-date and changes as new programs are added or existing programs are discontinued. Visit http://www.vpw.com for more information.

Powerful Practices in Mathematics & Sciences: Research-based Strategies for Teaching and Learning features in-class research conducted through the National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research-based CD-ROMs^? feature classroom episodes that demonstrate the use of modeling, generalization, and justification to strengthen students' learning and understanding of complex mathematics and science ideas. Professional development leaders and teachers will find Powerful Practices a valuable resource.Visit http://www.learningpt.org/msc to order.

RubiStar^? is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. While many teachers want to use rubrics or are experimenting with writing rubrics, they can be quite time-consuming to develop. RubiStar^? is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar^? provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The unique thing about RubiStar^?, however, is that it provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project. Visit http://rubistar.4teachers.org for more information.

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