This is an on-line copy of the National Science Education Standards
Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is a long-term initiative to reform K-12 science education nationwide. The project is creating a coordinated set of reform tools and servicesbooks, CD-ROMS, on-line resources, and workshopsto help educaors work toward science literacy for all students. This Web site describes Project 2061 and its reform tools and provides access to resources that will help anyone in their work to improve science education.
This is a database of web sites for science education, developed in collaboration with KanCRN and SCR*Tec.
The Kansas Collaborative Research Network (KanCRN) is an open community made up of researchers, teachers, and students interested in conducting Internet-based, collaborative research. Thle KanCRN projects have been developed to create a unique understanding of the natural world.
The South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium helps educators, administrators, and technology coordinators power students' learning with technology. Let SCR*TEC's free solutions help you use educational technology to engage and excite students as they enter a learning environment that goes beyond the walls of the classroom.
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), founded in 1944 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is the largest organization in the world committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. NSTA's current membership of more than 53,000 includes science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in science education.
With data on half a million students from 41 countries, the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the largest, most comprehensive, and most rigorous international study of schools and students ever. Pursuing Excellence, the series of reports on U.S. findings from TIMSS, synthesizes initial findings at the fourth, eighth and twelfth grades. It provides a comparative picture of education in the United States and the world that sheds new light on education in the U.S. through the prism of other countries.
A national archive of information about resources for science education.
Click here to read the Learner-Centered Principles by the American Psychological Association. I highly recommend this document as a useful description of learning with implications for teaching.
Results of national assessment of science achievement.
IMSEnet is a science education clearinghouse Web site that is updated monthly. The IMSEnet Web site contains many annotated Web links to the best science instructional materials on the World Wide Web for K-12 classroom instruction as well as a variety of K-12 interdisciplinary web resources.
This page provides a large collection of links to lessons, teaching resources, and analogies in science teaching
A monograph by the National Academy of Sciences with information and strategies for supporting the teaching of evolution in the schools.
A web page devoted to Charles Darwin.
A web page for an organization whose mission is to support the teaching of eveolution in the schools.
This is the web site for an organization whose purpose is to promote and support laboratory safety. It has useful information on laboratory safety.
Comments, suggestions, or resources to add to
the page are greatly appreciated. Please e-mail medico@ukans.edu