Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science and Physics Sites
NASA
http://www.nasa.gov
This fabulous site explores the world of space exploration, but also has links that provide information on weather, erosion, tides, and other scientific areas. The site has quick links to the following:
Kids including links to NASAKids, Space Kids, NASA Quest, The Space Place, Starchild, and Astro-Venture
Students Learning resources and information for students
Teachers Teaching resources and information for educators
Media & Press Latest news and resources for media professionals
Search Allows users to search entire NASA site by subject
Life on Earth Shows (obviously) all about life as we know it
Humans in Space Discusses all aspects of space travel for astronauts
Exploring the Universe Provides interesting info about the universe
News Keeps users current with news about space
More NASA sites Provides links to other valuable NASA sites
Discovery
http://www.discovery.com
This fun-filled Web site provides parents, teachers, and students with exciting information and activities for anyone interested in science. Links include the following:
Animal Planet Provides excellent information on animals, including great photographs
Discovery Health Discusses major health issues
Discovery Times News information
Discovery Kids Information of interest to students
Science Channel Science news and information
Home & Leisure Fun stuff for home and recreation
Discovery en Espaol Provides Discovery channel information in Spanish
Discovery School Gives a curriculum center with activities, worksheets puzzles, quizzes, and more. A
click on BJ Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper will give more than 700 links to sites to help with
homework, including a great link for science fair projects.
BBC America News for American audiences
Discovery Channel Radio Allows the user to get the Discovery Channel Radio info
International Sites Provides a least of international sites
Search Searches the entire Web or just Discovery.com
Science News Online
http://www.sciencenews.org
This site provides the latest up-to-date information about any science issue. Links include the following:
Science Safari in Cyberspace Has an interesting link to Frog Guts, a site for the squeamish that provides an online virtual frog dissection.
Search Gives a user-friendly search engine for any science subject from dinosaurs to worms to viruses to space
Math Trek Provides information on Math
Food for Thought Provides interesting information to make students think
Timeline Gives a science timeline
Welcome to Edu.Space
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/edugroup/educational-activities.html
This site, sponsored by the Office of Public Outreach’s Education Group, provides science education support K-12 in astronomy and space science. The site contains boasts of numerous interactive games and visual learning activities and includes the following links:
Amazing Space Takes education “to the Farthest Reaches of Space! A collection on online interactive educational resources for grades K-12. Using spectacular Hubble images, students explore the universe while learning the principles of math and science.
Grants Gives information about obtaining grants for educational outreach projects.
Informal Science Provides resources for museums, planetariums and others
Education Resources Gives a variety of educational materials and information about Hubble Space Telescope and more!
Education Projects Lists other education projects in and around the Space Telescope Science Institute
What’s New Provides information about the latest discoveries and events involving the Hubble Telescope
Origins Gives information about galaxies, stars, planets and other space subjects.
Wonders of the Seas
http://www.oceanicresearch.org/lesson.html
This page, sponsored by the Oceanic Research Group, “highlights different animals with text and images.” Each lesson features a different sea creature, from sponges to mollusks, arthropods, whales. and sharks.
How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
A wonderful site for the curious student or teacher who wants to know how things work. Tabs lead the user to computer stuff, auto stuff, electronic stuff, science stuff, home stuff, entertainment stuff, health stuff, and MORE stuff!! Explanations are simple with lots of pictures and diagrams. Lessons range from how hot air balloons work to how cholesterol works. This site gives many ideas for science projects and research topics.
Space Science Activities for Students
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/kids.html
Sponsored by NASA, this site provides links to answer all those questions about space travel. The Just for Kids link gives interactive games that make learning fun! Students find out about eating in space, liftoff, and sleeping in space. In addition, students can get lots of space trivia and find out about those terrific Star Trek inventions.
Jefferson Lab
http://education.jlab.org/
Jefferson Lab is the site for Science Education help. It is dedicated to “increasing the number of teachers with substantial background in math and science, strengthening the motivation and preparation of all students, especially minorities and females, and addressing the serious under representation of minorities and females in science, math, engineering and technology careers.” The site provides the following links:
Teacher Resources
Student Zone
Games and Puzzles
Programs and Events
In addition, the following Quick Links can be found:
All About Atoms
Table of Elements
Who Wants to Win. . .
SOL Practice Tests
SpeedMath!
Element Hangman
The Center for Science Education
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/
Funded by University of California Berkeley, NASA, and the National Science Foundation, this site provides top-quality links to a number of different sites about science. The links include the following:
Ask a Scientist
At Home Astronomy
Auroras
Classifying Galaxies
Comet’s Tale
Coronal Weather Report
Exploring the Planets
Eye on the Sky Weather Journal
Geography from Space
Light Tour
Solar Eclipses
Solarmax
Space Weather
Sunspots
Third from the Sun
Various links provide tons of interesting, easy-to-read information, Quicktime movies, activities, and lessons.
Earth Science Classroom Activities
http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/activities.html#time
As the name of the site implies, it “is designed to provide educators and students with handouts, demonstrations, and suggestions for classroom activities, which foster an interest in the earth sciences.” Many fun activities and lessons are available, with key word links to make them easily to locate. The following links are included:
It’s About Time Provides exercises and activities to demonstrate geological time using paper, clocks, calendars, fields, etc. Also includes important dates in geologic time and fabulous images
Geologic and Paleontologic Cookbook Gives recipes that use food to demonstrate earth concepts during class or at the dinner table
Trilobite Masks Features an activity in which students use paper plates to make masks based on fossils of trilobites. Great for Mardi Gras!
Draw T. rex Shows an activity in which students use knowledge of modern animals to flesh out the skull of a T. rex
In addition, the site gives other Earth Science links, such as the Earth Science Education Network, the Collaborative Lesson Archive, K-12 Earth Science On-Line Classroom Activities, Resources for Teaching Middle School Science-Environmental Science, and the Earth Science World.
Oceans Alive
http://www.mos.org/oceans/
Water, water everywhere—and this site has it! There are links to the following:
The Water Planet Discusses physical features of the ocean, the changing ocean, the water cycle, etc.; gives numerous pictures and diagrams such as the one below.
Oceans in Motion Discusses the oceans of both air and water, providing information on wind and ocean currents, waves, and tides
Life in the Sea Talks about life in the ocean, including both predators and prey
Scientists at Sea Gives an overview of scientific exploration of the seas
Resources Provides a list of resources, including a page of related Web sites
School for Champions
http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/#Astronomy
The wonders of science are explored in this fantastic site that gives an unbelievable index of topics to be covered. There are many interactive features; for example, after reading about Black Holes, the students is instructed to locate the black hole in the interactive picture with the mouse pointer. The site also gives experiments and science fair projects. The site covers physical science, chemistry, and physics. There are biographies, homework exercises, and interactive graded tests. This site cannot be beat for thoroughness and creativity.
Teachnet
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/science/earth/
Teachnet.com provides lesson plans and resources for almost all subject areas. For science, the user has only to click the Science link to get additional links to the following areas: General, Biology, Earth, Physics, Technology, Dinosaurs, Scientific Method, Space and Time, Weather, and Animals. After selecting the appropriate subject, the teacher can then click for lesson plans and ideas for activities.
New York Earth Science Teacher
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/CVisco/
Created by an earth science teacher, this site gives amazing links to the resources that teachers need. Links include the following:
Activity Ideas Provides new and different short activities that students can do in class and at home
Cool Earth Science Links Gives tons of sites to use for instruction in the areas of meteorology, geology, paleontology, astronomy, oceanography, etc. Links are to impressive and authoritative sites including the National Weather Service, the National Museum of Natural History, and NASA. Many of the links are interactive, providing such treats as an earth and moon viewer and a virtual deep-sea research trip.
Earth Science Labs Gives unique ideas for earth science labs
Long Term Projects Gives easy and interesting projects
Demonstrations Provides ideas for generating and maintaining student interest and attention
Great Earth Science Books Gives a list of books on the “must read” list for earth science
Earth Science Video Ideas Provides suggestions for using videos in the classroom
Earth Science Organizations Gives a list of organizations to contact for additional information
Science Jokes
http://www.sciencejokes.com/
This site can be used for great jokes (or not so great jokes) in science to help liven up lectures or to introduce new subjects. Jokes are arranged by subject. The site also contains the Science Fact of the Day and links to science items in the news.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Science—Earth Science
http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/cfapps/free/displaysubject.cfm?sid=8&subid=64
This free site provides numerous links to various science topics, including astronomy, biology and life sciences, careers, earth science, ecology, engineering, general science, geology, history, oceanography, paleontology, pharmacology, physical sciences, physics, space sciences, and technology. Wonderful resources are available at many of the links; for example, the link to American Memory provides environmental photographs of America from 1891-1936. The Exploring Earth: Visualizations link features “over 100 animations and images that illuminate key concepts in earth science. Examples are coal formation, nuclear fission, growth of continent, tectonic plate movement, volcanoes and earthquakes, fault motion, geyser eruption, wave motion, tornadoes, hurricanes, and more.”
Another great link is Exploring Earth: Investigations. This link “provides more than 75 earth science investigations. Each presents photos and text (and sometimes video) that help students understand key earth science concepts. Among the topics: earth’s layers, rocks, volcanoes and plate techtonics, earthquakes and mountains, surface and ground water, wind and currents, atmosphere and weather, climate change, oceans, our moon and solar system, and earth’s history.”
Links can be sorted in alphabetical order or by date. The site features a separate button for New Resources. There are also buttons for doing easy searches, locating resources for students, locating free stuff, and giving comments. This site is too good to miss!
Science: Earth and Space Science
http://www.ac.by/science/earth.html
For the ultimate in lists of science Internet links, everyone should visit this site. It has links for astronomy and astrophysics, space and planetary science, geosciences, geology, geophysics and geochemistry, atmospheric sciences, hydrology and oceanography, and remote sensing and GIS. There is something here for everyone!
Earth Sciences
http://www.strangescience.net/sters.htm
This Web page features lots of historical trivia about earth science with many photos, drawings, and images. There are links to other interesting areas of earth science, including the following:
Hurricane: Storm Science
http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/
For clear and valuable information on Hurricanes, this site is a jewel. It provides excellent information with diagrams and charts, such as the one below. The site takes the viewer inside a hurricane, discusses weather equipment, gives the event from survivors’ viewpoint, and provides historical information on killer storms. The site also provides links to the National Hurricane Center for tracking storms and other weather-related sites.
SciJinks: Weather Laboratory