Links for Precollege Teachers: Curriculum Links

:: Science Teaching Standards

Georgia Standards

National Science Education Standards

Project 2061
"Project 2061 is the long-term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science working to reform K-12 science, mathematics, and technology education nationwide." - AAAS website

AIMS Education Foundation
The Foundation is engaged in a major long-term research and development effort to develop a comprehensive math/science program guided by the recommendations in Project 2061 Benchmarks, NCTM Standards, and NRC National Science Education Standards." - AIMS Website

Science Olympiad and Science Education Standards
Science Olympiad Activities illustrate how to bring Science Education Standards into the classroom.

:: Teaching Science - Curriculum

Georgia Learning Connections
"The mission is to provide a dynamic, interactive, online resource that will enhance and support teaching and learning in Georgia with the Quality Core Curriculum (QCC) standards as the main focus." -Georgia Learning Connections

National Standards Matrix
Links to content standards and grade levels identified for each activity, paleontology-based lessons

Dichotomous Key [Water Quality Project]

University of Wisconsin's Center for Biology Education

The IrYdium Project at Carnegie Mellon University
This contains a virtual laboratory allowing students and teachers to conduct virtual experiments to see how different chemicals will react.

Teaching Strategies and Disciplinary Resources

BIOQUEST

The Shodor Education Foundation
"The Shodor Foundation is a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the advancement of science and math education, specifically through the use of modeling and simulation technologies. Included on this site are instructional resources and software ready to be used in the classroom. " - Shodor website

The Talking Glossary

The Visible Heart

Cool Science for Curious Kids

Science in Action

Yes I Can! Science
Curriculum materials

Frank Virizi's Educational Resources in Biology and Chemistry

The Awesome Library
Excellent, comprehensive, cross-reference link collection that includes teaching plans

Bioeducation.net

Chemistry and Biology classes and syllabi available on-line

Biocomputing Course Resource List : Course Syllabi

Bioinformations Class Resources

:: Ideas for Science Teachers

PBS Teachersource

EducationWorld
"Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom." - Education World

The Busy Teacher's Website

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's News for Kids Online
Includes lesson plans and other classroom resources

Chemistry Teaching Websites
Contains a list of several websites with tips on how to teach chemistry.

:: Science-Related Portals

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Legislative Information on the Net

:: News and Journal Websites

New York Times

Atlanta Journal Constitution

The New South Polar Times

250 Best On-Line Newspapers

BBC World Service

National Public Radio Morning Edition

Science Magazine

NATURE - International Weekly Journal of Science

The New England Journal of Medicine

JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association

MMWR - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

:: Search Engines

Google

Altavista

SearchSpaniel

Northern Light Search

:: Teaching Science - Initiatives

CEISMC: The Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing

The Science Learning Network
An online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education.

INGEAR: Integrating Gender Equality and Reform

Center for Science and Mathematics Teaching at Tufts University

Association for Science Education

Math and Science Institutes

The Long Island Consortium for Interconnected Learning

The Inquiry Learning Forum

American Association for the Advancement of Science - Project 2061

Integrating Research and Undergraduate Learning


Links by Topic
(more links coming soon)

:: Anthropology

Anthropology in the News

:: Astronomy

Known Planetary Systems

Today's Space Weather Presented by the Space Environment Center

Astronomical Headlines International Astronomical Union

NASA Human SpaceFlight

Space Station Processing Facility

KSC Video Feeds

Where is the International Space Station?

NASA Watch

:: Biological Diversity

The Tree of Life

:: Botany

The Tree-Ring Web Sites

:: Chemistry

Chemland - interactive experiments demonstrate the laws of chemistry (Shockwave Required)

T Arnold’s Chemstars and T Molden’s Chemhouse - Syllabus and teaching plans for A.P. Chemistry developed by summer 2003 GIFT fellows

:: Disaster Relief

AirDisaster.Com

FEMA

:: Emerging Diseases

PROMed: The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases

Microbes in the News

AIRNOW - Real Time Air Pollution Data

EXCITE - teaching materials designed to introduce students to epidemiology

:: Genetics and Human Genomics

GeneMap'99 - A new human map of the human genome

Genes and Human Behavior - a module

Human Genome Project - Teaching aids

:: Geoscience

Update on Current Volcanic Activity

NEIC: Near-Real-Time Earthquake Bulletin

Recent Infra-Red Satellite of Asia and Pacific

:: Mathematics and Statistics

Calculators On-Line

Statistics on the Web

:: Medicine

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Treatment

WebMD

:: Neuroscience

Reviewed Neuroscience Sites

:: Weather

The Internet Weather Report

SPC Daily Severe Weather Report Log

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