Science at Home
Experiments
Lesson Plan List Websites
Academy Curricular Exchange
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/inter.html
Frank Potter’s Science Gems
http://www.sciencegems.com
Access Excellence Activities Collection
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/
Franklin Institute Activities
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/act-summ.html
Microbiology-Related Activities
http://www.umsl.edu/~microbes/activities.html
Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
United States Geological Service Earth Science- and Geography-Related Lessons
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/index.htm
The Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu
The Exploratorium’s Ten Cool Sites
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html
Reach Out Michigan
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/subject.html
Newton’s Apple Lessons
http://www.tpt.org/newtons/alpha.html
Science Lesson Plans and Resources (including rubrics and items on scientific method)
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edsci.htm
List of Lesson Plan and Science Websites from North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/terminal/imse/lowres/4/lessons.htm
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Education
Resources and Curriculum Supplements (go to Teachers link)
http://science-education.nih.gov/homepage.nsf
NASA Education Enterprise
http://education.nasa.gov/home/index.html
Science House at NCSU
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/science_house/learn/index.html
The Science Spot
http://sciencespot.net
Chemistry-Related Activities and Information
http://www.chemistry.org
Sites for Water and Environmental Issues
Water Science for Schools
http://wwwga.usgs.gov/edu
US Geological Survey Home Page (Info about watersheds and water quality)
http://wwwga.usgs.gov
EPA Homepage—Water, Oceans and Wetlands
http://www.epa.gov/owow
Volunteer monitor homepage
http://www.epa.gov/owow/volunteer/vm_index.html
Izaak Walton League of America/Save Our Streams
http://www.iwla.org
Collaborative Research Network on water monitoring
http://www.kancrn.org
Know Your Watershed
http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/KYW.html
World Resources Institute homepage
http://www.wri.org
Other Websites of Interest
Reeko’s Mad Scientist Lab
http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/
Geology Museum of Tennessee
http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/geology/geology.htm
The Tennessee State Fossil
http://www.utm.edu/departments/ggp/statefossil.htm
DNALC Gene Almanac
http://www.dnalc.org/home.html
Elementlist.com (Science links)
http://www.elementlist.com/lnx/index.php
Misconceptions about Evolution
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/misconceps/index.shtml
Weather Education (from the NOAA)
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/edures.htm
Web Weather for Kids
http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/
Games and Simulations about the Nobel Prize
http://nobelprize.org/search/games-simulations.html
BrainyKids (from the Dana Foundation)
http://www.dana.org/kids/
DNAinteractive (from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/dna/index.html
Genetic Science Learning Center (from the University of Utah)
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/
Center of Science and Industry, Ohio
http://www.cosi.org/index.asp
(check out the online exhibits at the bottom of the page)