Lesson Plans and Activities

Academy Curriculum Exchange (K-5). Academy Curriculum Exchange (K-5) provides 130 mini-lesson plans for the elementary school covering a variety of science topics. Among these are microscope use, mapping constellations, water pollution, studying owl pellets and caterpillars to butterflies.

Academy Curriculum Exchange (6-8). Academy Curriculum Exchange (6-8) features 60 mini-lesson plans for many science topics covered in the middle school. Among these are weather forcasting, photosynthesis, building a psychrometer and "ph" and solvent activities.

Academy Curriculum Exchange (9-12). Academy Curriculum Exchange (9-12) offers 22 mini-Lessons plans suitable for the high school science. Among these are chemistry magic, a parallax experiment with candles, and a magnetic fields activity.

Access Excellence Activities Exchange. Access Excellence Activities Exchange contains an archive of hundreds of lessons and activities submitted by high school biology and life sciences teachers participating in the Access Excellence program. High school teachers will find the activities from the 1996 collection, the 1995 collection, the 1994 collection,the partners collection , and the classic collection. Teachers can also search for individual activities from the Access Excellence archive. A new collection, "The Mystery Spot" , was added in 1997.

Activities Index. Activities Index, provided by the Franklin Institute Museum of Science in Philadelphia, is a collection of approximately 40 science activities arranged by topic for grades K-8. Among the activitites are heartbeat, the earth bowl, ocean in a bottle, clear as crystal and spinning satellites.

Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin. Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin features a curriculum database where the K-8 teachers can search for science lesson plans and activities by grade level. You can also browse activities by theme to find science lesson plans.

Africanized Honey Bees on the Move: Lesson Plans. Africanized Honey Bees on the Move, maintained by Roberta Gibson at the University of Arizona, features 30 lesson plans organized by grade clusters. The plans are also integrated with Information Sheets and Activity Sheets for grades K-12.

Air Quality Lesson Plans. Air Quality Lesson Plans, provided by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC), features a collection of lesson plans and activities to teach the subject of air quality in the K-12 classroom.

AMATEUR SCIENCE. AMATEUR SCIENCE contains hundreds of science activities, experiments, and projects for grades 4-12. For starters, visit Bill Beaty's collection of science projects and the collection of science projects from various Web sites.

Amazing Space. Amazing Space, developed by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in partnership with classroom teachers, is a collection of interactive online lesson plans for grades K-12 that use real space telescope images, astronomical data, and astronomer's observations. Lessons include solar system trading cards, Hubble Deep Field Academy, stars: birth, life, death, and rebirth, student astronaut challenge, and Galileo to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Awesome Library. Awesome Library, maintained by Jerry Adams, provides comprehensive educational resources including lesson plans for grades K-12. For an alphabetical list of science lesson plans arranged by topic, click here and for health lesson plans, click here. You can also use its search engine and visit the science classroom to find science lesson plans.

Barbara's Lesson Plans in Science. Barbara's Lesson Plans in Science, for grades K-12, feature plans for a variety of topics including weather, air pressure, and inertia.

Biology Lessons for Teachers. Biology Lessons for Teachers, contributed by students at San Diego State University, feature a variety of lesson plans organized by topic for use in elementary school classrooms.

Blue Web'n Learning Applications. Blue Web'n Learning Applications, sponsored by Pacific Bell, provides a wealth of resources for science teachers. To search for lessons, activities, and other science sites in the Blue Web'n Library, click on Find Application, select the appropriate entries from the pull-down menus, and click on the SEARCH button. Also, click on Applications Table and scroll to Science where you will find lessons, activities, projects, resources, and references in the table.

Branching Out: The North Carolina Forest Stewardship Activity Guide. Branching Out: The North Carolina Forest Stewardship Activity Guide contains 14 middle school environmental lessons on soil, water, trees, recreation, and the natural beauty in the world. Teachers will need Acrobat Reader to view these files.

California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (CFAC). California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (CFAC) provides two thematic science for teaching about the medfly in the elementary school. For grades K-3, there is the Invaders Unit and for grades 4-6, there is the Invasion Unit. Each unit contains an overview, a series of lessons, teacher resources with a glossary.

Charlotte. Charlotte, developed by Canada's Association for the Promotion and Advancement of Science Education (APASE), provides lessons and ineractive activities about technology and the natural environment for grades 5-8. To find the lesson material on energy, click here , and to find activities on forest ecology and human environments, click here. For a list of email activities, click here , for life science lessons from the British Columbia curriculum for grades 2-3, click here , and for a list of amazing facts on energy, click here.

Cody's Science Education Zone. Cody's Science Education Zone provides imaginative lesson plans including humorous lesson ideas for grades 6-12.

Columbia Education Center (CEC). The Columbia Education Center (CEC) provides hundreds of lesson plans created by teachers for use in their own classrooms. There are over 350 science lesson plans organized as following: the elementary (K-5) grades, the intermediate (6-8) grades, and the high school (9-12) level.

Connections+. Connections+ consists of Internet resources---lesson plans, activities and curriculum resources provided by Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McRel). K-12 science teachers can select from among these topics: Primates , Chemistry , Life on Mars? , All About Insects, The Third Domain, and Solar Energy. Also, other science topics can be found in Health and Multi/Inter-disciplinary.

CoVis Geosiences. CoVis Geosiences is an Internet project for learning through collaborative visualization (CoVis) that involves thousands of students, over a hundred teachers, and dozens of researchers and scientists working to improve science education in middle and high schools. To find monthly CoVis Interschool activities, click here. There are interactive classroom projects for water quality, land use, weather, global warming, and soil science. In addition, CoVis provides a list of other online learning resources for the geosciences.

Crystal Radio. Crystal Radio provides the Xtal Set Society's complete plans for building an AM broadcast radio with a Quaker Oats cereal box. The plans, for students in grades 7-12, include clear instructions, a listing of assembly steps, and a drawing for building the set.

Digital Education Network (DEN). Digital Education Network (DEN), created by ACT Laboratory, offers Internet-based lessons in various curriculum areas for students in grades 6-12 . The SkyDEN offers a series of online lessons with interactive quizzes on the universe including our solar system, galaxies, clusters, black holes, supernovas, and other topics. Click on enter to start your journey of the universe. To have access to all areas of the DEN site, you must register. It's free!

Earth Science Toolkit. Earth Science Toolkit, part of the middle and high school program of the U.C. Berkeley Center for EUV Astrophysics, features ready-made classroom activities for How Satellites See , The Light Tour , Auroras: Paintings in the Sky , and Graphing Stratospheric Ozone.

Education. The Education home page, provided by Central Virginia region, contains a science page with Internet-based lessons for various topics in grades 5-12.

Education and Lesson Plans Page. Education and Lesson Plans Page, created by Kyle Yamnitz, contains over 100 elementary school lesson plans for math, science, social studies, language arts, music, art, and physical education. These plans are contributed by students and faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia. To find science lesson plans, you can browse the page or enter search term(s) such as weather.

Educator's Guide to the NEAR Project. Educator's Guide to the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Project provides lesson plans for students in grades 6-12 to study the first spacecraft to orbit the Eros asteroid. The site also includes teacher's information, photos and diagrams of the NEAR spacecraft and its instrument payload, and a movie gallery.

Education World. Education World, created by American Fidelty Educational Services, features a variety of lesson plans for grades K-12. For more science lesson plan sites, click here.

EE Link: Environmental Education on the Internet. EE Link, created by the National Consortium for Environmental Education and Training, is appropriate for students in grades K-12. To find links to a wide assortment of lesson plans and classroom resources for environmental education , click on activities. Among its topics are Air Quality and Climate Change , Energy , Toxics and Risk , and Animal Tracks Online.

Encarta Lesson Collection. The Encarta Lesson Collection provides lesson plans and student activity sheets for a variety of K-12 curriculum areas. For science lesson plans, click here. Each detailed lesson plan, designed by a teacher, includes the complete procedure along with Microsoft software references and related Web sites. The collection is updated regularly.

Energy & Science Projects. Energy & Science Projects, provided by California Energy Commission's Energy Quest Web site, is a list of science experiments and energy activities for grades K-12. Many of the projects include printable student activity sheets.

EnviroLink. EnviroLink contains an education library featuring an alphabetical list of lesson plans, activities, and educational resources for environmental education in grades K-12. To search the EnviroLink site, click here and type the word "lessons" or a specific environmental term such as "ozone" in the box.

Episode Guides. Episode Guides for Bill Nye's television shows contain science activitites that include an explanation, "Did You Know That" facts section, and a "Try This" experiment for grades 4-8. Each show features a different topic and the topics are organized in physical, planetary, and life science categories. Just choose a show in a category, and click on the "Go" gear.

Exploratorium Science Snackbook. Exploratorium Science Snackbook contains over 40 online lessons and activities for grades 4-12, from a book published by the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco. For an index of activities organized by subject, click here. The sample activities, designed by science teachers, include blue sky, charge and carry, Doppler effect, and electroscope.

Explore Our Resources. Explore Our Resources, for the grades K-6, contain a collection of online science lessons and activities contributed by museums in the Science Learning Network (SLN). . Among the topics are acids and bases, science of ballons, physics of water fountains, hurricanes, wind, cow's eye dissection, and light, shadow, and images.

Explorer. Explorer offers a large collection of science lesson plans and activities for K-12. Browse the Natural Sciences Curriculum where you will find a variety of plans for the following topics: general science, life science, physical science, earth science, and common themes. You can also search for specific science lesson plans in the Explorer database.

Exploring Planets in the Classroom. Exploring Planets in the Classroom for grades 4-12 contains more than 25 hands-on activities for geology, earth, and planetary sciences. To see the list of all of the activities, click on course activities. Teachers can also access A Teacher's Guide with Activities for Earth and Space Sciences for exploring the moon.

Fighting Disease: Health At The End Of The Millennium. Fighting Disease: Health At The End Of The Millennium, prepared by the United Nations CyberSchoolBus in recognition of World Health Day, contains six online health units for studying infectious diseases in grades 5-12. The site also includes an interactive health quiz, a disease list, and a glossary.

Genetic Lesson Plan Ideas. Genetic Lesson Plan Ideas provides a variety of genetic lesson plans gathered from various Internet sources for high school biology teachers.

GHBooks.com. GHBooks.com is the online version of Gryphon House, Inc., a leading publisher of early childhood books. The site provides hundreds of sample activities taken directly from their books for variety of curriculum areas . To find activities that can be used as science lessons in grades preK-3, go to Science & Nature and then click on the title of a book whose activities you want to view.

GLOBE Program. Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is an online international program in English, French, and Spanish. To partcipate K-12 students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data via the Internet. Scientists use this data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education. To find a list of interactive student measurement activities, click on the new Science Protocols. The activities include atmosphere, biology, global positioning, hydrology, and soil investigations.

Going To A Museum?: A Teacher's Guide. Going To A Museum?: A Teacher's Guide, for teachers in grades prek-12, contains three sections: Museum Field Trip Planning Guide, Sample Lesson Plans written by teachers, and Internet Resources. The science lesson plans provide many classroom activities and practical ideas related to museum field trips.

Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary. Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary provides an illustrated fish guide , an unit entitled, Tales of Whales, Turtles, Sharks, and Snails , containing teacher materials and student activities for grades 4-6, and a handbook useful to middle school teachers interested in a marine curriculum.

Green & Growing Presents: From the Ground Up. Green & Growing presents an online version of From the Ground Up, a teacher's guide with five detailed lesson plans on food, agriculture, and sustainable development for grades 5-8. Teachers are encouraged to use the complete teacher's guide and all the accompanying worksheets in their classrooms.

Gulf of Maine Aquarium. Gulf of Maine Aquarium provides over 50 learning that help students in grades 5-12 to understand the principles of remote sensing, imaging science, oceanography, meteorology, and ecology. The topics include space available, all about turtles, on location, Katahdin to the Sea, streams, creatures and places, and design the aquarium.

Hands-on Activities in the Physical Sciences. Hands-on Activities in the Physical Sciences, provided by Rich Bady of Marshall University, contains a large collection of practical demos and experiments for a variety physics topics in grades 4-12.

Harlem Environmental Access Project (HEAP). HEAP provides lesson plans & activities for teaching about recycling and our environment in grades 4-8.

HAZ-ED: Classroom Activities for Understanding Hazardous Waste. HAZ-ED: Classroom Activities for Understanding Hazardous Waste, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), contains a collection of warm-up exercises, classroom activities, and fact flashes to teach students about hazardous waste in grades 6-12. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files.

Helping Your Child Learn Science. Helping Your Child Learn Science, prepared the U.S. Department of Education, provides a list of hands-on activities for parents/teachers and kids, ages 6-12.

High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center (HEASARC). HEASARC provides math/science lesson plans intended for middle to high school students. The site also includes an online dictionary of astrophysics terms, and teachers can request study guides with answers from HEASARC.

Hypertext Lesson Plans. Hypertext Lesson Plans by West Virginia Ruralnet teachers are 45 Internet-based lesson plans for a variety of science topics. The plans are organized by elementary, middle, and secondary school levels.

IBM Internet Activities. IBM Internet Activities, updated monthly, features lesson plans/activities that encourage students in grades 4-12 to use the Internet to do research in various subject areas.

John Muir Exhibit. John Muir Exhibit, sponsored by the Sierra Club, features the life and legacy of John Muir, the father of modern conservationism. The site contains K-12 lesson plans and activities in a John Muir Day Study Guide and includes background information on John Muir's life and contributions and a biographical timeline of his life.

JPL Learning Link. JPL Learning Link offers a collection of earth and space science lesson plans for grades 5-12. Among the topics are comets, eclipses, impact craters, moon phases, and Venus topography box.

K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook. K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook, a NASA sponsored project produced by Cislunar Aerospace and UC Davis, presents an online package of instructional materials, complete with lesson plans and activities for the study of the principles of aeronautics in grades K-8. The package contains an aeronautics textbook written in English and Spanish at various reading levels, a library of lesson plans with fun experiments and exercises to compliment the study of aeronautics, an archive of thematic cross-curricular lessons, found in curriculum bridges, to supplement the study, and a list useful classroom experiments/activities arranged by topic and difficulty level.

Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) KAB is a national American education organization with local affiliates, dedicated to preserving the natural beauty and environment and improving waste handling practices. It publishes environmental books for teachers in grades K-12 containing sample lessons like Garbage Pizza . In addition, it offers 14 Ideas for keeping America Beautiful and litter information for kids.

Kodak: Lesson Plans. Kodak provides a variety of lesson plans, using a camera, in many curriculum areas for grades K-12. For a list of more than 30 science plans, click here.

Learning from the Fossil Record. Learning from the Fossil Record, presented by University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), contains lesson plans, activities, and essays for studying about dinosaurs and fossils in grades K-12. To find a list of plans and activities, click here.

LDAPS. Lego Data Application Prototyping System (LDAPS), a Tufts University project sponsored by NASA, contains aerodynamics activities for grades K-6. Click on sample curriculum to find online instructions for building an elaborative Baals wind tunnel or a simpler wind tunnel. For a list of 26 classroom physics experiments sorted by category, click here.

LeRC K-12 Wind Tunnel Home Page. NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio (LeRC) provides Classroom Aeronautics Activities which feature lesson plans, experiments, and student woksheets for grades K-12. The site also includes related links and information about wind tunnels and how high school students built their own tunnels.

Lesson Plan: The Impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9. Lesson Plan: The Impact of Shoemaker-Levy, provided by Small Planet Communications, is an online astronomy unit for the middle school with student activities, background information for students and teachers, and an answer key.

Lesson Plan-Transistors. Lesson Plan-Transistors by Isadore Snook is a plan for high school students to learn about transistors. For other electronics lesson plans by Professor Snook, click here.

Library in the Sky. Library in the Sky, sponsored by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), provides a wealth of lesson plans and resources for grades K-12. The site includes science lesson plans for a variety of topics including astronomy, biology, earth sciences, and general science. The site also offers grade-level, alphabetical lists of science lesson plans and health lesson plans .

Live From Antarctica. Live From Antarctica, a Passport to Knowledge project designed for the middle school students and teachers, offers two electronic field trips down to Antarctica, the coldest place on the planet. The first 1994-1995 trip was Live From Antarctica , and the second 1997 trip is Live From Antarctica2. Both sites provide classroom activities and interdisciplinary lesson plans from the Live From Antarctica's Teacher Guide and the Live From Antarctica2 Teacher Home Page. Students can also review field reports with photos and journal entries from the Long-Term Ecological Research project team based at Palmer Station, Antarctica, click on the maps of the polar region under investigation, answer challenge questions, or read an archive of past questions submitted by students all over the U.S. that were answered by the scientists.

Live From Earth and Mars. Live From Earth and Mars, a NASA project of the University of Washington at Seattle , provides a collection of hands-on lesson plans in the atmospheric and space science developed by classroom teachers for grades K-12. To find the lessons, click here.

Live From Mars (LFM). Live From Mars, sponsored by NASA for the middle school, offers a teacher's guide with a list of student activities sheets to study about NASA's Mars missions. Teachers also can scroll to Other Teacher Helpers to find additional lessons about Mars from ralated sites. For teacher/student background information, click here and for a photo gallery, click here. NASA provides an abridged 10-15 minute guided tour of the LFM site.

Louisiana Challenge Educational Resources: Lesson Plans. Louisiana Challenge Educational Resources: Lesson Plans is a collection of Internet-based lesson plans for various curriclum areas in grades K-12 that focus on Louisiana. For science plans organized by school level, click here.

Math and Science Hands-On (MASH). MASH, developed by Southern Illinois University and local school districts, is a kit containing hands-on science lesson plans for grades K-9. At the primary level (K-3), the topics include interdisciplinary activities for magnets, the five senses, oceanography, plants, chemistry, and the environment, and at the intermediate level (4-6), the topics include electricity and magnetism, body systems, kitchen-chemistry experiments, and light and color. At the present, there are no online lesson plans for grades 7-9.

McREL's Whelmers. McREL's Whelmers presents monthly five new science flashy demonstrations and lessons for students and teachers in grades K-12. The material is from Steven L. Jacobs' book, Whelmers, Volume 1 which is distributed by Sargent-Welch Scientific Company.

Miami Museum of Science. Miami Museum of Science provides online science guides with lesson plans and classroom activities to teach about hurricanes and the pH Factor in acids and bases for grades 3-6.

Microscopes, Cells, DNA and You. Microscopes, Cells, DNA and You, a project by the University of Washington's Department of Molecular Biotechnology for grades 4-6, contains a COURSE CURRICULUM featuring a collection of hands-on biology lesson plans with overheads and handouts. The topics include optics, investigations of cells, independent student projects, and studies of DNA.

MicroWorlds: Exploring the Structure of Materials. MicroWorlds: Exploring the Structure of Materials is an interactive tour of current research in the materials sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source. To take the tour, click on contents where you will find a collection of online lessons for high school students. Among these are "A Tool for Solving the Mysteries of Materials", "The Bright & The Busy", "Exploring the Material World", "Kevlar-The Wonder Material", and "Selenium: A Window on Wetlands".

Mn/DOT Office of Aeronautics Home Page. Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) provides a variety of aviation lesson plans and student worksheets for grades K-8. To find the plans, click here.

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Lesson Plans (MVNWR). MVNWR offers a link to DNR which has lesson plans and activities for the classroom.

Mount St. Helens. Mount St. Helens Web site contains activities and lessons for grades 4-12 about the famous1980 Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption. Along with the lessons , there is a list of classroom supplements containing word puzzles, worksheets, and resources for students and teachers. In addition, the site includes movies, spectacular pictures, and information about Mount St. Helens.

Museum of Science and Industry (MSI): Education Department. Museum of Science and Industry (MSI): Education Department publishes a teacher's guide, AIDS: The War Within , which contains information and classroom activities about HIV and AIDS for high school biology students. MSI provides online of sample material from the guide that may be printed out and used with students.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). NASA/GSFC contains a collection of lessons and materials for teaching about space and for student support, grades K-12, click here.

NASA Lewis Teacher Resource Center (TRC). NASA Lewis Teacher Resource Center (TRC), located in Cleveland, Ohio, provides hands-on classroom activities for teaching about aeronautics and rockets in grades 7-12. TRC also includes an index of space terms.

NASA SpaceLink. NASA SpaceLink provides a collection of instructional materials for learning about space in grades K-12. The curriculum materials contain a wealth of classrom activities for teaching about aeronautics and other subject areas. The Curriculum Support includes lesson plans and activities for a variety of topics, teacher activity guides, activities for looking at earth from space, and video resource guides.

National Science & Technology Week Online (NSTW). National Science & Technology Week Online (NSTW), a yearly feature of the National Science Foundation (NSF), provides interactive, hands-on thematic teaching activities in English and Spanish for students in grades K-12. For 1998, the theme was Polar Connections; for 1997, the theme was Webs Wires Waves; for 1996, the theme was Design Connections ; and for 1995, the theme was Explore New Worlds.

Natural History of Genes. Natural History of Genes provides teachers in grades 7-12 with a genetic science activities and hands-on experiments that bring disease genetics, conservation genetics, forensics, and DNA into the real world for students. For teaching activities, click here and for student projects, click here.

Nebraska Earth Science Educaton Network (NESEN). NESEN provides a large collection of earth science lesson plans and activities for grades K-12 created primarily by teachers attending the 1996-2000 NESEN Summer Workshops. The subject areas include astronomy, geology, mapping, and weather/meteorolgy.

New South Polar Times (NSPT). The New South Polar Times (NSPT), an online newsletter written by the staff of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole, Antarctica, provides students and teachers in grades 6-12 around the world with information on Antarctica, the scientific research taking place there, and fun facts about life at the station. NSPT includes lesson plans and activities to teach about the South Pole. For an index of NSPT past issues, click here.

Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation. Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation in Syracuse, N.Y., provides an Educator's Guide with 12 middle and high school, multidisciplinary units for studying the environment.

NJ NIE Project: Curriculum Resources. NJ NIE Project: Curriculum Resources, for grades 1-12, is a collection of Internet-based lesson plans in which students participate in scientific explorations on a variety of topics ranging from the aurora borealis to earthquakes.

New Lesson Plans-September 2003. AskERIC library contains a collection of new interdisciplinary lesson plans for grades K-12.

New Lesson Plans 2003-Science. AskERIC library contains a collection of new science lesson plans for K-12.

Newspaper-In-Education (NIE) Online. Newspaper-In-Education (NIE) Online, sponsored by the Detroit News, contains a collection of lesson plans using the daily newspaper in the classroom for grades 6-12. The site features links to daily lesson plans and an index of weekly plans presenting a variety of science topics and problems.

Newton's Apple. Newton's Apple, for grades 4-8, features a collection of over 100 science lessons from the 9th-14th seasons of its award-winning PBS television series. To browse all the lessons in an index, click on Teacher's Guides. The lessons cover a wide variety of science topics and can be used independently of the TV program.

NSTA's Scope, Sequence & Coordination Project. NSTA's Scope, Sequence & Coordination Project contain more than 100 science micro-units for biology, chemistry, earth/space, and physics in grades 9-12. Technical sheets are also available to accompany the units.

Nye Labs Online. Nye Labs Online is the Internet home of Bill Nye, known as the science guy. Bill Nye provides a series of hands-on activities and experiments that can be used as science lessons in grades 4-8.

Ocean News. Ocean News is a marine science magazine for grades K-12 published by the Bamfield Marine Station in Canada. It provides an online version with a list of sample (selected) activities from issues 2-5 about marine life.

Ocean Planet. Ocean Planet, for grades K-12, is Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit. To find a collection of lesson plans and other online resources associated with the exhibit and for teaching about marine life, click on educational materials.

Online from Jupiter 97: Featured Activities. Online from Jupiter 97 provides a list of lesson plans and interactive activities to help students learn more about Jupiter in grades 5-12. Among the topics are new images of new worlds, designing a spacecraft, finding Jupiter in the night sky, life on Europa, the end of the probe (ProbeSquash), and a mnemonics game.

Online Guides: Instructional Resources and Curriculum. Online Guides, provided by the University of Illinios WW2010 world weather server for grades 6-12, contains a collection of instructional resources and curriculum for meteorology with teaching materials from fronts to forecasting and optics to El Niño., projects and activities with classroom lessons for a wide variety of meteorological topics, plus accompanying teacher guides, and remote sensing with information about satellite technology and the fundamentals of radar meteorology. In addition, the site includes archives with descriptions of memorable weather events.

Ounce of Prevention. An Ounce of Prevention, developed by NSTA and Dow, provide 15 curricular activities for the study of waste prevention and management in grades 6-8. Students learn that it is better not to create something (source reduction) than to have to deal with its disposal later.

Physics Classroom. The Physics Classroom is an online illustrated, clearly-written textbook featuring a comprehensive collection of lessons for the study of motion in physics. The lessons, contributed by teachers at Glenbrook South High School in Illinois, include one-dimensional kinematics, Newton's Laws, vectors, momentum and its conservation, and work, energy, and power. To accompany the lessons are student physics projects with detailed descriptions and criteria for scoring the project. The site also provides interactive practice for graphing and vector addition, and offers the physics question of the week.

Physics Demonstrations. Physics Demonstrations by Julien C. Sprott is an online sourcebook that can be used to enhance the teaching of high school physics. It contains a variety of dramatic demos in the following topics: motion, heat, sound, electricity, magnetism, and light. In addition, Professor Sprott has included a bibliography for science experiment books and a list of scientific supply houses.

Project Center. Project Center from Houghton Mifflin, updated weekly, features a variety of curricular activities from the Kidsphere and Classroom Connect mailing lists involving the Internet . To find science projects, click here. You can also post your own projects at projects@hmco.com.

Questacon. Questacon, located in Canberra, Australia is the world's leading hands-on science and technology museum for kids in grades K-6. For hands-on activities, incredible illusions, and online puzzles, click on Fun Zone. For interactive dinosaur activities that you can print, click on Dinosaurs Alive!

Raptor Center: Highway to the Tropics. The Raptor Center: Highway to the Tropics, an educational/research project at the University of Minnesota, contains a collection of 15 multi-disciplinary lesson plans for grades 4-8 which center around learning about ospreys and studying migratory birds.

Reaching for the Red Planet. Reaching for the Red Planet is an online eight week multi-purpose curriculum developed by Mary Urquhart for students in grades 4-6 that focuses on planning a Mars colony. Students learn general facts about the planets, learn about the Earth's environment, choose a purpose for a colony on Mars, and plan and design a colony on Mars. For a topical outline that includes teacher guides, student assignments, experiments, and recommended Web sites , click here.

Rockets: Physical Science Teacher's Guide with Activities. Rockets: Physical Science Teacher's Guide with Activities is an online version of a complete teacher unit which includes student activities on rockets. The unit, for grades 5-12, contains background information, objectives, lists of materials needed, pictures, and additional rocket project.

Science Activities Manual: K-8 (SAM). SAM, based on the Tennessee Science Curriculum Framework, provides a hands-on science curriculum for grades K-8. For K-3 sample lessons, click on kindergarten science, first grade science, second grade science, and third grade science. To view an individual lesson plan, click on the blue button within a small box.

Science Education Plans (SEP). SEP, provided by the University of California at Irvine, features a collection of more than 2,000 science lesson plans and activities for grades K-12. To find these plans, click on Frank Potter's Science Gems. Among the topics are physical science (part I), earth science, and life science. Many lessons include links to related sites.

Science Lessons by Subject. Science Lessons by Subject, collected by the Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition, features lessons/experiments in astronomy , biology, chemistry, earth science, physical science and technology for grades K-12. The lessons are also sorted by age groups.

Science Try Its from Newton's Apple. Science Try Its from Newton's Apple, for kids in grades 4-8, features a collection of science experiments from six seasons of its award-winning PBS television series. There are Science Try Its from SEASON 9, SEASON 10, SEASON 11, SEASON 12, SEASON 13, and SEASON 14.

Science Teachers Lounge. Science Teachers Lounge provides resources for secondary science teachers including Trade Secrets , Science in Action! with workshops and seminars, and Think Tank, resources and links.

Science Online: Space Science Resources. Science Online: Space Science Resources, provides a searchable directory, by grade or by subject.

SciTech. SciTech hands on museum contains categories of online hands-on science activities that can be expanded into projects for students in grades 4-8. The categories include the experiment, the center for learning, exhibits, and virtual reality.

SCORE Science. Schools of California Online Resource for Educators (SCORE) Mathematics home page is intended to reflect the California Science Framework for the K-12 curriculum. SCORE Science, a Humboldt County Office of Education project, provides students and teachers with Curriculum Resources including a collection of lesson plan resources, online student resources, and collaborative projects.

SeaWiFS Project. SeaWiFS, provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, contains a Living Ocean Teacher's Guide with online activities for high school students to study ocean color from space. The topics include life in the ocean, the ocean isn't just blue, phytoplankton, the earth, and carbon.

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The SETI Institute offers sample lessons from its Life in the Universe Curriculum Project to supplement the science curricula for elementary and middle school students.

Smithsonian Educators Resources. Smithsonian Educators Resources provides online lesson plans integrating science and other curriculum areas. To find these plans, click on Lesson Plans.

Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC): Southern Atmospheric Education Resource (AER). SERCC publishes an online quarterly bulletin, Southern AER, featuring interactive weather activities and related sites for teachers and students in grades 5-9.

Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C Education (SIR-CED). SIR-CED is the latest generation of imaging radars produced by JPL for NASA. It features a TEACHER'S RESOURCE GUIDE and LESSON GUIDE that include computer activities and seatwork activities for middle school and high school students and teachers.

STEM~Net Curriculum Page. STEM~Net Curriculum Page provides a thematic search for many subjects, including Science . Developed by pre-service teachers from Memorial University in Newfoundland. It features a variety of cross-curricular lesson plans for students in the primary grades.

Smart Catalog. Smart Catalog, provided by the Los Angeles Educational Partnership, is a collection of interactive, interdisciplinary earth, life and physical science units designed by teachers for other teachers.

Teachers Helping Teachers. Teachers Helping Teachers, updated weekly, is a forum where teachers can share lesson plans/activities in science and other subject areas. The site also offers practical suggestions for Classroom management.

Teacher/Pathfinder: An Educational Village. Teacher/Pathfinder: An Educational Village provides a vast array of educational resources including lesson plans for grades K-12. To find lesson plans for science and health organized by topic, click on science and click on health.

Teacher Preparation Academy. Teacher Preparation Academy of the College of Education and Applied Professional Studies at Chattanooga's University of Tennessee, provides a collection of lesson plans using Microsoft software for grades K-12. These Microsoft lesson plans , developed by students in Dr. McAllister's secondary education classes, include online science lessons with related Web links for endangered species, ocean animals, dinosaurs, the nine planets, human body, and other topics.

Teacher Talk Forum. Teacher Talk Forum, sponsored by the Center for Adolescent Studies at the Indiana University School of Education, provides a collection of electronic lesson plans for Science and Health.

TEAMS Distance Learning. Telecommunication Education Advance for Mathematics & Science (TEAMS) distance learning, maintainted by the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE), features a variety of lessons, online classroom projects, and resources for K-12. To find lesson plans for science, click here, a science classroom project, click here, and science resources categorized by subject, click here.

Thinking Fountain. Thinking Fountain, provided by the Science Museum of Minnesota, is an interactive mural featuring a collection of science activities that can be used as lessons in grades K-6. To find an an alphabetical list of these activities, click on A to Z. The individual activities (cards) also are arranged by thematic topics, called theme clusters. A student, using the template, can make a card to be included on the mural by sending a science activity or idea .

Timber Wolf Guide. Timber Wolf Guide, prepared by the Science Museum of Minnesota, is best used in conjunction with a field trip to a zoo or natural wolf habitat. It includes clearly defined concepts and objectives, pre- and post-visit tests, a vocabulary list, a bibliography, classroom activities, and activities to do at the zoo.

Turning the Tide on Trash. Turning the Tide on Trash, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), features a learning guide for grades 6-12 with three units of study on marine debris. Each unit includes student activities, objectives, a vocabulary list, materials needed, learning skills, and an estimated time to complete each unit. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files.

Using Science and the Internet as Everyday Classroom Tools.Using Science and the Internet as Everyday Classroom Tools, developed by the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, contains an online textbook, Eye on the Sky, Feet on the Ground, with seven chapters that provide a wide variety of hands-on astronomy activities for grades K-6.

U.S. Geolological Survey Learning Web. U.S. Geolological Survey Learning Web provides a collection of lessons and activities for teaching about earth science and volcanoes in grades K-12. Teaching in The Learning Web , divided into four parts, contains interdisciplinary classroom lesson plans with teacher's guides for Global change and working with maps, while the earth science part includes pictures and activities about earthquakes with a three faults page, and the Models and Animations part provides paper activities for making model glaciers and volcanoes.

Utah Science Home Page. Utah Science Home Page, maintained by the Utah State Office of Education (USOE), contains a Science Course Directory with a collection of lesson plans and experiments organized by grade level.

UtahLink. UtahLink, sponsored by the Utah State Office of Education (USOE), provides teacher-developed, elementary school science lesson plans organized by grade level. To find the Grade 3-8 plans with classroom activities for each topic, click on Science To view the complete list of science lesson activities, click on Curriculum Search, select science in the menu, and click on Search from curriculum units.

Vanishing Species. Vanishing Species is a curriculum about Texas' endangered species featuring thematic units of study for grades 5-8. Each unit contains extended lessons with a variety of classroom activities. The Unifying Web of Life is the concluding unit.

Volcano World. Volcano World contains a wealth of online resources about volcanoes for grades 4-12. It includes a search engine where you can find lessons and information To find classroom lesson plans and activities, click on Learning about Volcanoes. For background information, click on Ask a Volcanologist which features categories of answers to the most common asked questions about volcanoes. The site also includes a VolcanoWorld Searcher where you can find lessons and other items.

WeatherEye. WeatherEye, created by TV meteorologists Scott Hall and Roger Evans, features lesson plans and online resources for the study of weather in grades 2-12. To find the plans, click here.

Weather Unit. Weather Unit, for the grades 2-4, is a collection of thematic lesson plans and activities which integrates the study of weather into all curricular areas. To find 14 science lessons for weather, click on Science.

Weather Here and There. Weather Here and There is an interactive weather unit incorporating hands-on, collaborative problem solving lessons and activities for students in grades 4-6.

Whale Songs. Whale Songs contains interactive, interdisciplinary lesson plans about whales and their marine habitat for grades 5-8. Students can click on an island or a day to listen to whale sounds and search for cetaceans in the Azores Islands aboard the ship, Song of the Whale.

Whales: A Thematic Web Unit. Whales: A Thematic Web Unit is an integrated curriculum unit for use in grades 4-8. Table of contents contains cooperative lesson plans, teacher resources, interactive student activities and projects with links to related sites.

Wildlife Discovery Program. Wildlife Discovery Program for students in grades 3-6 is a partnership between the Houston Zoo and the Houston Independent School District. To find lessons for teaching about endangered animals, click on activity sheets which you can use with any zoo. The site also includes an online quiz about wild animals, bilingual glossary of zoo terms, and a list of frequently asked questions, and facts about wildlife.

Wind: Our Fierce Friend. Wind: Our Fierce Friend, created by the Franklin Institute Museum of Science, is an interactive collaborative unit that investigates wind energy. The site contains lessons and activities for grades 4-6 and includes student contributions from online schools.

Wizard's World. Wizard's World contains illustrative lessons & units and other online science resources for the study of the astronomy and earth science in grades 3-8.

Year-Long Project (YLP). Year-Long Project (YLP) is a collaborative project between University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and local elementary school teachers. YLP for fall of 1994 contains 11 cross-curricular science mini-units developed by student teachers, and YLP for 1995-1996 contains 8 cross-curricular science mini-units contributed by assistant teachers.

Yuckiest Site on the Internet. Yuckiest Site on the Internet, provided by Discovery Kids, features classroom activities and information about worms and cockroaches for kids in grades K-6. To find a variety of games, click on Yucky Fun and Games, and to find out about your body, click Your Gross and Cool Body. Need an answer to a question? Ask Wendell .

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