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Environmental
Education 
- Earth & Us
Green Pages is an excellent
compilation of resources.
- The American Forum for Global
Education is an online resource for
curriculum materials, pulications, and an issue
forum.
- Create maps of resouces in your community.
- The Leopold Education Project is an innovative,
interdisciplinary conservation ethics curriculum.
- World Resources and Institute is an independent
center for policy research and technical
assistance on global environmental and
development issues.
- The Discovery Channel Home Page is a
diverse web site which includes lesson plans,
discussion pages and many web links.
- At Environmental
Literacy Web Site, download watershed maps,
data about global energy use, lesson plans,
activities, fact sheets, etc.
- NatureNet: The Environmental
Learning Network is a consortium of outdoor
education centers in Wisconsin that provides
curriculum, networking support, and resources for
K-12 educators
- Environmental Action Center
(EAC), Normal, IL
- Edu-Source: Environmental
Resources for Education (Free Posters!)
- EE-LINK (Main Home Page)
- EE-Link Toolbox: Using
Computers in Environmental Education
- EE-Link: Classroom Activities
for Environmental Education
- EE-Link: NAAEE's
Environmental Communicator
- Enviroleague
- Environmental Education
Network (EnviroLink)
- NAAEE (North American
Association for Environmental Education)
- Project Learning Tree
- Project WILD
- Sierra Club--Environmental
Education
- 40 Tips to Go Green
- Recycling
Information
- Critical Ecoregions Program
- AP Environmental Science
(College Board Online)
- Earth Systems
Science Resource Center - Excellent links
to sites relating to all aspects of earth
science: lithosphere, hydrosphere, oceans,
atmosphere, planetary, gis/remote sensing, the
environment, plus a section of "exercises in
earth system sciences" for educators.
- EPA Student Center - This is a resource
primer on environmental issue for students. This
site contains a decent amount of information
about a wide range of topics, activities,
scholarships and clubs that may be of interest to
students of environmental problems.
- Environmental Inquiry Project - Environmental
Inquiry is a secondary school curriculum
development project at Cornell University,
dedicated to the creation, evaluation, and
distribution of environmental science materials.
The subject-matter includes environmental
toxicology, bioremediation and waste management,
and watershed studies.
- National Resources
Information - Also includes wildlife
protection and management, and threatened and
endangered species information.
- Planetpals Earthzone - This site teaches
the importance of our planet and offers solutions
to saving our environment. It is a valuable
source of earth science and ecology information.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service
- CESIP Summer Program
-
The Cornell Environmental Sciences Interns
Program (CESIP) sponsors a summer program for
high school juniors at Cornell University. It
includes a week-long orientation at Cornell's
Arnot Research Forest and a 5-week on-campus
program. It's too late to register for the 1997
program, but I'm leaving this link in anyway, to
make people aware of the program for future
summers. From the Center for the Environment at Cornell
University.
- Bright Edges of the
World: The Earth's Evolving Drylands - Drylands include
arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas all over
the world. The aim of this exhibit is to show the
importance these environments have in the lives
of people everywhere. From The Smithsonian
Institution and the United Nations Environment
Programme.
- Composting - Interesting and
useful information about composting, targeted for
students and educators. Find out how to compost
drowned turkeys and TNT. From Cornell
University's Center for the Environment.
- EnergyEd - This site is made
by Ergon Energy, an Australian energy company. It
is an interactive, multi-media energy education
site. You can take a virtual reality tour of
different types of power stations, watch videos,
or take an on-line quiz.
- Environmental Education Link - This page is
dedicated to compiling information from the
internet concerning environmental education.
There are areas for students, teachers and
organizations. There is a lot of information here
so take some time to explore and find what you
need.
- Gap Analysis in
Biodiversity - Gap Analysis is a
proactive approach to protecting biodiversity. It
seeks to identify gaps in the biological reserve
network that may be filled through the
establishment of new reserves or changes in land
management practices.
- GLOBE Project - A worldwide
network of students, teachers, and scientists
working together to study and understand the
global environment. GLOBE students make
environmental observations at or near their
schools and report their data through the
Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their
research and provide feedback to the students to
enrich their science education.
- NOAA Paleo Global
Warming Home - This site is dedicated to
helping educate, inform and highlight the
importance of paleoclimate research, as well as
to show how paleoclimate research relates to
global warming.
- Science and the
Environment - Current news on
environmental issues such as biodiversity,
alternative energy, population, and recycling.
This is an excellent
collection of articles.
- Toxics and the
Environment- The Chemical Scorecard
sponsored by the Environmental Defense
Fund makes it easy to find information
concerning toxics in your local environment fast.
You can answer questions like: where these
chemicals come from in your community, what the
known or suspected effects are, and what actions
you can take.
- U.S. Geological
Survey Fact Sheets - On topics such as
earthquakes, flooding, the environment, water
resources, and information management.
Ecosystem(s), Ecotypes, Biomes
 Oceans, Lakes, Rivers & Wetlands
-
- San Francisco Estuary
Institute Data on local watersheds and
water quality.America's Wetlands - This site will
give you a better understanding of the rich
variety of wetlands, their importance, how they
are threatened, and what can be done to conserve
them for future generations. From the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's
- Office of Wetlands,
Oceans, and Watersheds.
- Educational
Resources for Oceanography and Earth Sciences - These resources
deal primarily with global change, oceanography
and science education. From JPL.
- JASON Project - Dr. Robert D.
Ballard founded the JASON Project in 1989, after
receiving thousands of letters from children
wanting to know how he discovered the RMS
Titanic. Each year, a two-week scientific
expedition is mounted in a remote part of the
world and broadcast in real-time, using
state-of-the-art technology.
- Ocean of Know - Working to
re-configure the ways in which marine biology is
taught and learned, and to explore the
educational potential of distance learning. This
site is an on-line biology lab and lesson plan,
where tele-students can read about a topic and
then participate in scientific experiments.
- Oceanography from
the Space Shuttle - Beautiful photographs and
descriptions of the Earth's oceans, islands, and
coastlines. This is a Web version of the 1989
publication Oceanography from the Space
Shuttle produced by NASA in
cooperation with the Office of Naval Research and
the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
- Seaweed! - This site is a
fairly technical exploration of Seaweed...if you
have any questions about this organism this is
the place to find yourself.
- Studying Ocean Color
From Space - Includes topics such as
phytoplankton, ocean chemistry, and the role of
carbon dioxide. This is intended to be a
teacher's guide, but is equally interesting to
students. From SEAWIFS, NASA's global
ocean colour monitoring mission.
- Shoals Marine
Laboratory, run by Cornell University
and the University of New Hampshire, offers
summer courses for high school students. For
example, the most recent course, Oceanography of the
Gulf of Maine, offered a unique
opportunity for students to experience life on
board a sailing vessel and on an island off the
coast of New Hampshire, studying oceanic and
coastal marine environments.
- Texas Marine Mammal Stranding
Network - The Texas Marine Mammal
Stranding Network (TMMSN) is an organization
dedicated to the study and conservation of marine
mammals. One of the things they focus on is
handling stranded (beached) animals.
- USGS Water Resources - A great resource
for real-time and historical data on water
resources in the United States. This site has a
great deal of primary information that can be
used by teachers and students in the classroom
for analysis. You can also search for data
collection points that are close to where you
live to make the analysis more interesting!!
- Water Tidbits - Questions and
answers about water, including such topics as
water use in the United States, water data and
measurements, chemistry and water, and water use
in the home. From the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Whale Watching Web - This site is all
about whale watching and politics surrounding the
protection of whales and other cetaceans. Has
some good political and scientific information
and many pictures!
HUMAN Populations, &
Development
Population
Links
 Environmental/Ecology
ON-LINE GAMES
- Energy
Quest E-Patrol,
Captain Planet, Eddy the Ecodog, PlanetWorks and
Terraquest
Environmental
"CENTERS" at UNIVERSITIES
 Environmental
LINKS (LISTS/DIRECTORIES)
 Environmental MONITORING PROJECTS
 Environmental "NETWORKS"
Environmental
NEWS/REPORTS
Environmental
ORGANIZATIONS, Associations, Clubs, etc.
 General
SCIENCE Education
- ScienceNet
provides services designed for anyone with an
interest in science, technology, engineering or
medicine. Search the ScienceNet database of
scientific questions and answers.
- StarChild is
a learning center for young astronomers.
- Students for the
Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) -
Astronomy and rocketry information, links and
resources from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
atthe University of Arizona.
- Why Files
explore the science behind the news. From the
National Institute for Science Education.
- Biology
Project is
nn online, interactive resource for learning
biology, from the University of Arizona.
- Chem4Kids.com
provides students with a link to a family of
detailed science sites designed just for kids.
Includes Biology4kids, Chem4kids, Physics4kids,
and Terrarum, the physical geography site.
- Exploratorium:
ExploraNet
wisks you off to the San Francisco
Exploratorium's Web site, including electronic
exhibits and suggested education sites.
- Interactive
Frog Dissection
provides a valuable
preparation tool or even a useful substitute for
laboratory dissection.
- Interactive
Frog Dissection is
an online tutorial was designed for use in high
school biology classrooms.
- IPPEX --
Internet Plasma Physics Educational Experience leads the inquiring
mind to a host of nteractive pages on matter,
electricity, magnetism, energy and fusion geared
for advanced middle school students and higher.
- Journey
North is a
internet-based learning project about global
wildlife migration and seasonal change.
- Martindale's
Health Science Guide is a
multimedia specialized information resource with
teaching files, medical cases, multimedia
courses/textbooks, multimedia tutorials,
databases, and movies.
- NPR Science
Friday Kids Connection
give kids a chance to put on their thinking caps
and explore science.
General
Environmental Topic Links
 Environmental / Human Rights
ACTIVISM/POLITICS
- Locating Your Members of
Congress
- Contacting the 104th (U.S.)
Congress (Addresses)
- 20/20 Vision!
- Campus Green Vote Project
- EcoMall's Environmrntal
Activism Directory
- Environmental Activism (from
EcoMall)
- Essential Information (Ralph
Nader)
- GREEN (Grassroots Envir.
Effectiveness Network -- Defenders of Wildlife)
- Green Market
- Green Parties of North
America
- Nationwide Green org's in the
USA (Green Parties)
- NRDC Web: Earth Action
- Public Citizen (Ralph Nader)
- SEAC (Student Environmental
Action Coalition)
- SEACnet
- SEACweb
- WebActive
- SEEDWeb (Students for
Environmental & Ecological Development)
- Youth In Action Network Home
Page
- Kids' Action
- American Rivers - American Rivers a
leading national river-conservation organization
with a goal to protect and restore America's
river systems and to foster a river stewardship
ethic.
- Earth Day - An Earth Day web
site that includes an interactive kids page, an
environmental quiz, a message from the Founder of
Earth Day, and much more.
- Econet - An activist based
network for ecological sustainability and
environmental justice. Political place but there
is lots of information here if you can separate
the wheat from the chaff!
- EnviroLink - A non-profit
organization that unites hundreds of
organizations an volunteers around the world with
millions of people in over 150 countries.
Projects include libraries, news service,
environmental chat rooms, and educational
resources. Lots here to look at if your
interested.
- Global Learning and
Observations to Benefit the Environment - GLOBE is a
worldwide science and education program
coordinating the work of students, teachers, and
scientists to monitor the global environment. It
was announced by Vice President Al Gore on Earth
Day in 1994 as a hands-on program to link your
students with other students and with scientists
around the world.
- John Muir Exhibit - A collection of
materials on the life and legacy of this
naturalist, conservationist, and writer. John
Muir was one of the founders of the Sierra Club,
and he worked with Theodore Roosevelt to
establish many National Forests, Parks, and
Monuments.
- Rainforest Action Network - Rainforest
information, kids' activities, and info about how
you can get involved to preserve the Earth's
rainforests.
 ENERGY
GEOGRAPHICAL/GEOLOGICAL
INFO 
- GIS (Global Information
System: Maps, Imaging, etc.)
- USGS Maps List
- USGS Maps Order Form
- Ask-A-Geologist - Send your earth
science questions to the geologist of the day,
via e-mail.
- Hawaiian Volcano Observatory - USGS website
monitoring the Hawaiian volcanoes! Lots of
pictures and historical information about
eruptions. A very neat and easy site to navigate.
- NASA Volcanology
Team - Information about the
project activities of the NASA Earth Observing
System Interdisciplinary Science Investigation
Volcanology Team. EOS is a series of
polar-orbiting remote-sensing satellites planned
for launch starting in 1998 and spanning a period
of at least 15 years.
- Paleontological
Research Institution - This museum has an
enormous fossil collection. Their online exhibits
take you on a tour of the fossils, and also
include other earth science resources. In Ithaca,
NY.
- RockHounds - Lots of info
about Gems and Minerals. Has a limited amount
information related to other aspects of geology.
- Smithsonian Gem
& Mineral Collection - This is a
collection of photographs of gems and minerals,
with a small amount of text about each. The
images are very beautiful.
- Virtual Earthquake - An interactive
web site designed to introduce you to the
concepts of how an earthquake epicenter is
located and how the Richter Magnitude of an
earthquake is determined.
- VolcanoWorld - This volcano site
is geared to students, and includes topics such
as Volcanoes of the World, Ask a Volcanologist,
Volcano History, and more.
- USGS Education
Resources - Links to a variety of
education resources from the U.S. Geological
Survey, including Ask a Geologist,
an e-mail based question and answer resource.
- Gateway to Canadian
Geography - This site contains
information about Canada's landscape and natural
wonders. Visitors can view maps or create their
own. A searchable database contains geographical
names. A "Did you know" section imparts
interesting facts about Canada's geographical
features and a quiz lets visitors test their
knowledge. Includes links to other geographical
locales as well.
- Images from Space - Spaceborne Imaging
Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SIR-C/X-SAR) is a joint U.S.-German-Italian
project that uses a highly sophisticated imaging
radar to capture images of Earth that are useful
to scientists across a great range of
disciplines. Check out NASA's Jet
Propulsion Lab for more interesting Earth
photographs.
- Mining Co. Geography
Site - Lots of info on all types
of geography science, it will take some time to
explore!
- Odden's Bookmarks - A fantastic site
for maps, cartography and GIS data covering the
entire world. You can find many thousands of
thematic maps for sites all over the planet. Huge
site with tons of information.
- National Geographic
Educational Pages - The education page of
National Geographic what else is there to say?!
This site contains, maps, classroom ideas,
resources and a Faculty Forum. There is also
information about receiving grants from National
Geographic for interesting geography curricula.
- Vegetation Satellite
Imagery - Vegetation Condition images
based on NDVI (Normalized DifferenceVegetation
Index) are available for viewing at this site.
The NDVI measures vegetation vigor caused by
chlorophyll activity; this is sometimes called
"greenness". There are great images
here showing the effects of the massive Midwest
flood in 1993, the early freeze in 1995, the
serious drought in 1996 winter wheat areas, and
the late 1996 planting in the eastern corn belt.
 U.S. GOV'T
Envir. / Natural Resources Programs
STATE
OF CALIFORNIA Envir. / Natural Resources Programs
Agencies
and Organizations
Biodiversity
and Endangered Species
- Bibliography on the
Conservation of Biological Diversity:
Biological/Ecological, Economic, and Policy
Issues Extensive bibliography
compiled by Stephen Polasky, Steve Pavich,
Christian Vossler, Nancy Bergeron and Michael
Jaspin. Funded by the Agricultural Experiment
Station, Oregon State University,Project 143 and
the Environment, Infrastructure, and Agriculture
Division, Policy Research Department,World Bank.
- Biodiversity and
Endangered Species (P. Hammett and J. Merriman
for ENSP)
- California
Threatened & Endangered Species Map Produced by the
California Dept. of Fish and Game.
- Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of
Fauna and Flora (CITES)
- U.S. Endangered
Species Program
- World Conservation
Monitoring Centre: Threatened Animals of the
World Part of this database is
used to generate The IUCN Red List of Threatened
Animals.
Planning
- California LUPIN:
Land Use Planning Information Network A project of
California Environmental Resources Evaluation
System (CERES). Provides state and federal
planning-related reports, legal and legislative
material, county and city general plans, EIRs,
special status species data and maps.
- California Digital
Library - Environment Includes documents,
maps, articles, and reports on the California
environment including Environmental Impact
Reports (EIRs), educational pamphlets, water
usage bulletins, and county plans from the
California Department of Water Resources (DWR),
California Department of Fish and Game (DFG), and
many other Cal. agencies.
- CEQA: California
Environmental Quality Act
- Cornell Law School Excellent site for
easy access to legal information, searchable by
category, e.g., court opinion, constitutions and
codes.
- Federal
Environmental Law (project of CERES). Links to
federal law, policy and regulation.
- FindLaw A law library of
over 15,000 publications.
- Internet Access to
Administrative Rules Links by state to the
administrative codes, registers, and manuals
available on the Internet.
- MSC: Map Service Center FEMA's official
site for flood insurance maps
- On Shaky Ground The Association of
Bay Area Government's local earthquake hazard
assessment database.
- REGIS GRASSLinks
3.1: Public Access GIS Includes many local
area datasets.
- Sprawl Resource
Guide Website of the Planning
Commisioners Journal
- Superfund Risk
Assessment Homepage This new Environmental
Protection Agency site helps all interested
parties evaluate the risks posed by hazardous
waste sites.
- Tiger Mapsurfer
Pollution
and Toxicology
- AirNow Air pollution maps
and public information, produced by the EPA.
- Ashland University
toxicology links
- EPA Search Your Watershed A searchable index
of water quality indicators.
- EXTOXNET - The
EXtension TOXicology NETwork
- Scorecard Environmental
Defense Fund site, searchable by zip code.
Includes:
- Pollution,
hazardous waste sites, and other
regulatory information -- through
Envirofacts.
- Computer-generated
maps of regulated sites in your area --
through Maps on Demand.
- Environmental
conditions and activities in your
watershed -- through Surf Your Watershed.
- Toxnet - Toxicology
Data Network
Access to HSDB (Hazardous Substance Data Bank),
IRIS, Toxline, and TRI (Toxic Release Inventory)
as well as substance identification databases
such as ChemIDplus.
SEARCH
ENGINES (Specialized for Environmental/Education Focus)
-
 CURRENT
LOCAL WEATHER
GENERAL
WEATHER STUFF
Global
Warming Links
Agriculture,
Climate and Soil
 SCIENCE
EDUCATION LESSON PLAN SITES
- Academy Curricular
Exhange. Columbia Education Center.
An archive of lesson plans grouped by subject
matter and grade level. The topic science is
divided into Elementary School (K-5),
Intermediate School (6-8) and High School (9-12).
- Access Excellence
Activities Exchange. A site with a large number
of lesson plans and activities for high school
curricula. The emphasis is on cellular biology,
but some of the plans deal with ecology and
natural history.
- Activity Search. Houghton Mifflin.
A searchable database of over 400 original
classroom activities and lesson plans. Grades
K-8.
- AIMS Education Foundation. This web site has
a collection of teacher resources, puzzles and
activities for kids, a magazine, workshops, and
other materials for both students and teachers.
- Animal Tracks
On-Line. National Wildlife
Federation. A collection of lesson plans covering
the environment, habitats, air, water, and
endangered species.
- Ask Eric Lesson
Plans. A very large compendium of
lesson plans.
- Athena Curriculum. A wonderful
collection of curricular materials and lesson
plans for space, weather, earth sciences, and the
oceans. Recommended.
- Baltimore Curriculum
Project Lesson Plans. Lesson plans for
kindergarden through the fifth grades ordered by
grade level and subject matter.
- Big Sky Telegraph
Sciences Lesson Plans. A long series of
lesson plans and activities in the sciences
including the natural sciences.
- Biology Lessons for
Prospective and Practicing Teachers. San Diego State
University. A very good set of lesson plans for
biology ranging from the basic principles of the
chemistry of life to populations and habitats.
- CEC Lesson Plans. Columbia Education
Center. A large archive of lesson plans divided
by topic (including science) and by grade level
(elementary, intermediate, and high school).
- Cody's Science
Education Zone. Lesson Plans. Lesson plans
on insects, parasites, and seashells.
- Collaborative Lesson
Archive. An extremely large archive
of lesson plans. You can search the entire
archive. Alternatively lesson plans are arranged
by grade level
- Columbia Education
Center. A very large collection of
lesson plans arranged by subject and by grade
level.
- Connecting Students
Through Themes and Units. A very large
compendium of lesson plans and resources on a
variety of subjects including many in the natural
sciences.
- Core Knowledge. A collection of
lesson plans arranged by grade level between
kindergarden and the sixth grade.
- The Discovery
Channel. This site has a number of
features, activities, and lesson plans based on
viewing the various programs on the cable
network, The Discovery Channel, or by purchase.
- Education Place
Activity Search. Houghton Mifflin. An
archive of lesson plans and classroom activities,
mostly in the K-6 grade levels. You can search by
grade level and by subject (science in this
case).
- Encarta Online
Lesson Collection. Microsoft. Encarta Lesson
Collection is a large archive of lesson plans
arranged by subject. You can also do a key word
search. Each article also has links to Encarta
related subjects for additional information.
- Explorer. Explorer [number
1] is a large collection of different types of
educational resources including activities, and
educational software. The material is usually
available in the form of downloadable files in a
variety of formats.
- Exploring the Environment. ETE is an
experimental program to introduce students to the
environment and ecological problems. The program
revolves around a series of modules containing
both explanatory material and a series of
activities and problem solving exercises. The
site is divided into sections for students and
for teachers. Some of the modules are on
hurricanes, temperate rainforests, volcanoes,
mountain gorillas to name a few.
- Explorer. The Explorer
[number 2] is a collection of educational
resources (instructional software, lab
activities, lesson plans, student created
materials) for K-12 mathematics and science
education. These resources are arranged in a
hierarchy of subject matter. The files are
usually either in text form or Adobe Acrobat
(pdf) files. Each lesson plan is categorized by
grade level.
- Florida Geographic
Alliance Lesson Plans. Although most of
these lesson plans are on geography, some plans
on ecosystems and geology may also be found here.
- Going to a Museum?. Lesson plans
centered around the theme of a field trip to a
museum, zoo, or other educational location.
- Helping Your Child
Learn Science. U.S. Department of
Education. This site has a series of activities
and experiments you can use to illustrate various
basic principles of science. The activities are
intended for home use, but many apply to the
school environment as well. Grade level K-6.
- Homework Central Jr. Nosweat. com. A
large collection of teaching resources including
lesson plans and activities for grades K-6.
- Homework Central. Nosweat.com. A
large collection of teaching resources including
lesson plans and activities for grades 7-12.
- Kathy Schrock's
Guide for Educators. A huge web directory of
resources for educators containing subject
material, teaching resources, and general
information.
- Kent School District
Home Page. Among the multitude of
educational resources at this web site are lesson
plans submitted by the teachers from the Kent
School District. The lesson plans are divided by
grade level (K-3), (4-6), junior high school
(7-9), and high school (10-12).
- Lesson Plans Page. A compendium of
lesson plans categorized by subject. The site
comes in Java and non-Java versions and allows
you to do keyword searches.
- LETSNet. Michigan State
University College of Education. A series lesson
plans on ecology, weather, the environment, and
dinosaurs.
- Marc Sheehan's
Lesson Plans Page. This site has some lesson
plans, but is strongest in links to other sites
on the webs with general and specific lesson
plans.
- Microscopes, Cells,
DNA, and You. Center for Molecular
Biotechnology Outreach Program. A series of
related lesson plans specializing on molecular
and cellular biology suitable for early grade
levels.
- Minnesota Valley
National Wildlife Refuge. A large collection
of lesson plans on what students might learn and
find at a wildlife refuge.
- Minnetonka Public
Schools Elementary Science Center. A large collection
of lesson plans in science. Some of the lesson
plans are local and some are links to other
sites. Grades K-5.
- National Science
Teachers Association. The NSTA has a wonderful
collection of curricular resources arranged by
grade level, subject, and searchable by keyword.
Many of the resources require an Adobe Acrobat
Reader (pdf) to view.
- New Jersey
Networking Infrastructure Project. This site has a
number of projects and lesson plans for students
that emphasis the use of real time data from the
internet to solve a variety of scientific
problems. The activities are divided grades 3-6,
6-8 and 9-12.
- Newton's Apple. This web site is a
compendium of lesson plans based on the PBS
program. The list of lesson plans is very
extensive and covers most of the sciences. To
find a specific topic, visit the alphabetical
list.
- Paso Partners -
Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Language. A number of lesson
plans in both English and Spanish in Adobe
Acrobat (pdf) format.
- Preschool Teacher. Stormie Seevers.
Activities and lesson plans for pre-kindergarden
teachers and parents.
- Rachel Doppelt's
Lesson Plans. A set of lesson plans
suitable for kindergarden and first grade.
- Plymouth Public
Schools' Science and Technology Curriculum K-12. A wonderful set of
resources for teachers in science and technology
including lesson plans from K-12 and family
activities for grades K-8. You will also find
teacher resources and career guidance among the
many subject areas at this site.
- Resources for Early
Childhood Special Education. Preschool Zone.
Lesson plans and activities for preschool
children.
- Science Activities
Manual: K-8. Tennessee Science
Curriculum Framework. A collection of lesson
plans in science arranged by grade level and by
subject.
- Science Hobbyist:
Amateur Science Page. A very nice collection of
links to web sites with information on science
projects and experiments. Kids will have fun here
and teachers can use the site as a source of
ideas for classroom activities.
- Science Resource
Center. Patrick Gormley. A center
for teachers to exchange their educational
resources. The site is currently strongest in
chemistry.
- Science with OAR. Office of Oceanic
and Atmospheric Research. A great educational
tool dealing with a number of topics including El
Niño, storms, the atmosphere, fisheries, the
Great Lakes, and oceans. You'll find
introductions to each topic for the students, a
series of activities, and teachers' guides for
each of the subjects.
- Scope, Sequence, and
Coordination. National Science Teachers
Association. A truly great collection of
"micro units" on various topics in the
sciences. The lesson plans and activities are
particularly complete. The units are divided into
teacher and student components and may be
previewed as Adobe Acrobat documents or
downloaded to print.
- Smithsonian
Education. Lesson Plans. Lesson plans
from the Smithsonian including a number in the
biological sciences.
- Southeastern
Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition. This web site has
a wonderful collection of lesson plans and other
activities arranged by subject matter and grade
level.
- Teachers.net Lesson
Exchange. A group of lesson plans
arranged by subject matter.
- Teachnet.com. Lesson Ideas.
Short descriptions of lesson plans arranged by
subject. The site also has links to other lesson
plans and educational resources arranged by
subject.
- Teachers Helping
Teachers. Scott Mandel. A compendium
of lesson plans arranged by subject matter.
- Thematic Planning
Units. Extensive lesson plans
(called thematic units) for elementary schools.
The plans are in Adobe Acrobat format (pdf).
- Thematic Units for
Primary Grades. University of South
Carolina. Lesson plans on a variety of subjects
for elementary schools, including insects,
mammals, rocks and minerals, reptiles, plants,
oceans, and others.
- Thinking Fountain A
to Z. Science Museum of
Minnesota. A large collection of possible
classroom activities in the sciences.
- Tried *n* True. North Carolina
Public Schools. Model lesson plans arranged by
grade level.
- Waterford Press. We really love
this web site. The Waterford Press has a wealth
of materials you can download for both the
classroom and for fun at home. A section of games
has mazes, origami, shadow identifications,
animals tracks, and much more. Among the
materials for teachers are a number of activities
on plants, animals, weather, and geology. There
are also a series of very illustrated quizzes for
students to take.
- World Builders. Elizabeth Anne
Viau. A truly great web site. The basic concept
is that students build their own world and in the
process learn central information from all of the
sciences with particular information on the
biological sciences. The course is arranged in a
series of lessons. For each lesson activities are
laid out and supporting web sites listed. Among
the many virtues of this web site are games,
activities, a section on biomes, and examples of
planets constructed by other school classes.
- Yale-New Have
Teachers Institute. This institute has a wealth
of curricular resources in both the humanities
and sciences. Many of these resources are
adapatable as activities and lesson plans in
ecology and environmental sciences.
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