Useful+Links


 * Science Education Standards:**

[|National Science Education Standards] (National Research Council, 1996): [|Chapter 1] and [|Chapter 2]

[|Benchmarks for Science Literacy] (Project 2061, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993)

Pennsylvania Science Education Standards (Pennsylvania Department of Education, 2000)


 * Science Education Links:**

[|learningscience.org] - free, world class science interactives and resources for the K-12 science classroom.

Quia - Create your own educational games, quizzes, surveys, and web pages. Search millions of games and quizzes created by educators around the world.

[|National Science Teachers Association] - great journals for all ages of science learners and much more. The journal for elementary education is called //Science and Children//.

[|Vernier] - Real time data collection with probes and sensors. Check out their [|Go! Product] line of USB resources.

[|BrainPop]- short videos for every area of study featuring Tim and Moby.

Explorelearning.com - A pay site with math and science simulations called Gizmos. Some of the best ever developed!

[|Enchanted Learning] - Lots of ideas for lesson plans and acitivites for any content area, including science.

The Pollen Project - A community approach for a sustainable growth of science education in Europe.

Here Comes Science - Great science topics songs from They Might Be Giants. Check out Science Is Real and Meet the Elements and Electric Car on on YouTube.

Early childhod science education ideas from Let's Talk Science.

What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic Monthly

A Private Universe - Harvard students and teachers are asked: What Causes the Seasons?

The Brine Shrimp Life Cycle - A well done interactive on the life cycle of brine shrimp from the Genetics Science Learning Center of the University of Utah. Here is a simple experiment to measure the hatching rate of brine shrimp.

from the book Microscopic Explorations.

Archibald Frisby - Click this link and buy from Amazon.

Science Bob -


 * Technology: Software**

[|Easy Capture] - Free screen capture software.

Mac User?? _ "Command + Shift + 4" will take a picture of what you want and put it on your desktop

[|PrimoPDF] - totally free PDF creation, ONLINE!

[|Easy Thumbnails] - Free thumbnail creation software.

Zamzar - Video conversion and saving, thorugh email.

[|Voicethread] is a powerful online tool for group collaboration and learning. Here is a student science example, below:

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