Science Education 390:

Offered Winter 2000: M & W 8:00-9:50, F 8:00-8:50

National and Local Standards

National Science Education Standards The online version of the National Science Education Standards as developed by the National Research Council.

Project 2061 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Includes information about the Benchmarks for Science Literacy through clickable links.

Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements in Science You can peruse the standards clicking on "Science". If you scroll to the end you'll find that you can download the EALRs in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

Bellingham Public Schools You can check out their curriculum pages, teacher resources, etc.

Curricular Resources

Science NetLinks The AAAS site is a comprehensive "home page" for science teachers, librarians, and others involved in science education. It provides curriculum that is appropriate to the Benchmarks for Science Literacy.

GEMS - Great Explorations in Math and Science Leading resource for the advancement of activity-based science and mathematics. From the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley

AIMS Education Another leading resource for elementary school science and math

Scope Sequence and Coordination - A great program aimed at improving science literacy in high school

Science 2000 - Lesson Plans and Activities Lesson plans in Astonomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Physics for grades K-8.

Science Lessons by Subject and Grade Level Lesson plans in Astonomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Technology. Grades K-8. Includes greenhouse effect, etc. also.

NASA Washington Space Grant Consortium Teaching resources, public programs, and more through a network of institutions around Washington State. The link for the electronic newsletter is informative and gives details of upcoming seminars for teachers at the UW.

Project Astro is a partnership between astronomers and educators at the University of Washington. If you look on the left side of the page, there is a link called Educational Activities that is a collection of hundreds of astronomy lesson plans for k-12 science teachers for classroom use.

Bill Nye the Science Guy No explanation needed!

The Magic School Bus Homepage Take a drive with Ms. Frizzle!

Concept Mapping A great site for downloading Concept Maps activities and related stuff

Network of Instructional Materials for Science Educators IMSENet. An overwhelming network of web links to science instructional materials, and K-12 interdisciplinary resources.

Science Fair Project Resource Guide Some advice on putting a science fair project together

The handiest ever site for Unit conversions (Celsius to Fahrenheit, metric to English, etc.)

Physics Links click here

Astronomy Links (mostly NASA related) click here

Earth Science Links click here

Chemistry Links click here

Biology Links click here

Meteorology Links click here

Ask-A-Scientist Links:

Ask-A-Scientist This is a fabulous link to every single "ask-a........." scientist type E-mail connection in the world. Almost every subject!. No questions are too dumb!!!

Ask-A-Geologist web page
Direct email link is: Ask-A-Geologist

Ask Dr. Universe A question site at Washington State University. Postings to answers of previous questions. For example, "do frogs sleep?"

Ask-A-Scientist (personalized version) Here is a list of individual scientists, divided by subject, that you can write to with your questions.

Current Events

Science Daily provides links to the latest science research news, headlines, articles on scientific discoveries, and archives of stories.

Nationwide participatory teacher/classroom projects

The JASON Project Students and teachers chat with scientists, share their ideas, discuss scientific questions related to JASON Project expeditions, and collaborate with one another on curriculum investigations using the internet. This year, JASON X goes to the rainforests.

GLOBE project An international research project involving K-12 schools around the world.

Gender issues

Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries, Revised Edition (2001). This is a downloadable, free book!!!

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