The following web sites are only a few of the ones available that
have information related to science education. Many of these have
links to more sites.
Illinois Learning Standards - look particularly at the Science standards.
Science Demonstration Web sites - listed for the CHM 290 class - January 2000
Science Demo Class of 2001 - Picture Gallery
GENERAL SCIENCE SITES:
K-8
Science Teacher Networking Project
A large list of contributed links to internet resources.
Scenic
Heights Elementary School and The University of West Florida,
Curriculum Project - contains good info on the All areas of
science - probably college student written with lesson ideas.
The Explorer Home Page
Has both Science and Math Curriculum and Activity type materials.
Some are in the form of downloadable lesson plans.
Science and Math Initiatives
This site is a clearinghouse of resources, funding, and curriculum
for math and science teachers. It contains links to Web66 and
other sites that would be of interest to K-12 teachers.
The Why Files
This site is a product of the National Institute for Science Education
at the University of Wisconsin and is designed to illuminate the
science, math and technolgy that lurk behind the headline news.
It is updated bi-weekly and past "issues" remain available.
inQuiry Almanack
inQuiry Almanack is part of the Franklin Institute Science Museum's
Web site. The January issue includes many ideas for science fair
projects, tips, ideas, sample projects, and a few online science
fairs. The Almanack is archived back to March 1995 so you can
find many more science resources.
Jason Project
This looked like a neat interactive program where students can
interact with others all over the globe. It has country information,
underwater studies, rainforest info. It is loaded! Take a look.
Science Infromation
Reference Page
Weather information from
Unisys
Home page loads a current composite weather map with sat, radar,
and fronts, High and lows. Probably the easiest weather site to
use.
Archive
sites from Unisys
University
of Illinois Cloud Catalog
Pictures and diagrams of cloud types and fronts.
Cloud
Types
Weather
Lesson Plans
More Weather
Lesson Plans
University
of Illinois Weather Visualizer
This is a good site to for you to select the parameters that will
be shown on the weather map.
University
of Illinois Weather World 2010 Project
Contains many educational terms and explanations.
Real Time Satellite
Data
From the U. of Wisconsin. Clouds, IR (infrared-heat data), water
vapor, global shots. Updated every 30 min. takes a little while
to load page, but gives the images in 3 x 3 inch squares. Includes
forcast map that could be compared to the actual map on the next
day.
Stennis
Space Center Weather Page Education Edition
Page is slow to load, but contains mainly good links to other
data. Use this to create your own hot list and then go directly
to those web pages.
Weather Net from
the U. of Michigan
300 Weather Internet Sites collected by U. Michigan
Another Weather
Reference Site
Historical
Graphs of Climate Data
Can select wide range of things to plot in a graph format, various
cities, by year and month
Climate
Data Sets
Maps of a variety of climate paremeters, can select sea temperature,
air temperature etc.
GLOBE Project
The GLOBE - Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment-
is an onging project in which students from the United States
and other nations make measurements and obserevations about the
environment. The data is then entered into a large data base.
The results may be obtained in a graphical or visual format. Data
included is air temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, water
temperature, pH soil moisture, plant species and land cover.
Graphing
Strastospheric Ozone
Example of a Lesson Plan
A
virtual tour of the Nine Planets
Many pictures of planets and moons.
Welcome to the planets.
Many pictures of planets and moons, also gives a listing of stats
about each planet.
Live Solar System.
Gives the exact up to date positions of the planets in the solar
system. Can also get a sky map from this site - got to "Your
Sky". Then may need to find city. When you get a map it is
possible to convert to balck and white for printing.
Center for Earth
and Planetary Studies
At the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution,
this site contains a collection of research and images of earth
and the planets, with an especially useful collection of photos
taken from the space shuttle.
International Space Physics Educational Consortium
Phases of the Moon - site for classroom use
Abrams Planetarium - Michigan State Univeristy Includes Skywatchers Diary and Calendar
A Free Monthly Star Map
- need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Chemistry Web Sites:
The Periodic Table of the Elements is an interactive chemistry
resource that allows you to click on an element to find various
properties of the element.
Periodic
Table of the Elements
Surfing
the Net for Earthquake data
Contains a very extensive listing of sites.
Internet
sources for Geology
Volcano World
News and current events, photos, and recent eruptions.
Listing
of Links to many sites with Volcano information.
U.S. Geological Survey
This site provides maps, water resources information, surveys,
and reports full of ideas and facts for earth science and geography
projects. Check out Geology for information on earthquakes and
volcanos.
Environment and Nature
Reference Sites
Biology
Whole
Frog Dissection Kit
Body Quest
An interactive tour through the human body in a game like form.
Human Body Pictures
Detailed and labeled pictures of the human body
ZooNet - lots
of pictures of zoo animals.
There are several web directories that may be used by typing
in a few well choosen search words. Extensive lists of web sites
are given which you may then check out. This process gives quite
a few web sites which may have only a passing reference to what
you might be interested in. For some of them you can get just
titles of web sites, or you may select to see summaries of the
sites. This may help to narrow down the more useful sites. In
addition the most likely sites are listed first.
Possible Key words for searching (Good Sites)