Middle School / High School

Earth Science | Oceanography | Biology | Chemistry | Ecology

Earth Science

• For fascinating animations created by NASA scientists in an effort to visualize collected data, visit their Holo-Globe of Cumulative Earthquake activity.  For an index of all of the animations currently available on their site, visit this link: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Center Index of the Animation Series.  (Choose this link to search by keyword.)
   

• Celestia:  Explore the universe in 3-D at this site.  This resource is more powerful than typical planetarium resources and it is available on the internet for free. There are also links to instructional resources to use with the tools available.
   

• BrainPop has great video and Flash animations that help students explore many fields of study. They have an especially rich section of science videos.
   

• The American Museum of Natural History has an entire website, "Ology" dedicated to the great "ologies" such as paleontology, astronomy, marine biology, and more.
   

This Croatian web site tracks all political, geological, meteorological, social, and medical problems around the world. Just click on the map to visit their site. The current map will have icons that you can click to read full reports on all events.

• NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies Institute on Climate and Planets presents an excellent learning module titled: Earth Climate Course: What Determines a Planet's Climate?
  
  
  
  
   

• The Futures Channel internet site provides short videos highlighting real world science careers. They also create four page teaching guides to build a curricular connection with concepts featured in the video. Sign up to receive a newsletter with teaching ideas and an announcement of the movie of the week. Here is a link to all the science movies at this site. You'll especially enjoy the one of Amar Bose describing how he determined the best solution for blocking unwanted noise in headphones.

Chemistry

• Intute Interactive Chemistry Tutorials: this site provides 92 pages of unique problems and detailed solutions that support students in their study of chemistry. It was created by CSU, Dominguez Hills. It is the sole copyright of George Wiger. Intute has permission to post the exercises and tutorials on its website.
   

• Chemistry PowerPoint lessons and instructional resources (including labs)
   

• Virtual Chemistry Textbook: This is a great virtual chemistry textbook created by Professor Stephen Lower of Simon Fraser University.  It "virtually" replaced a hardcopy text for his courses.  It also includes  links, tutorials, and exercises.

Biology

• The Human Genome Project maintains an extensive website for educational resources.

• The American Museum of Natural History has an entire website, "Ology" dedicated to the great "ologies" such as paleontology, astronomy, marine biology, and more.

Oceanography

Ecology

• Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems:  The mission of this center from the University of Santa Cruz is: "to research, develop and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsible, nonexploitative, and that serve as a foundation for future generations."

Linda Foote
Instructional Technology Specialist
Poway Unified School District
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