BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY
Access Excellence
www.accessexcellence.org/index.html
National education program that provides health, biology & life science teachers’ access to new scientific information. Teachers can visit the virtual library and other related resources.
American Museum of Natural History
www.amnh.org/science/?src=toolbar
The American Museum of Natural History science site shares information about their scientific collections. They include anthropology, zoology, paleontology, and physical science. Also, learn more from featured scientists.
American Museum of Natural History- Resources for Learning
www.amnh.org/education/resources
This site includes a collection of activities, articles, evidence and analysis for anyone interested in teaching or learning about science.
Animal Planet
http://animal.discovery.com
Animal Planet provides activities, games, videos, and features about animals. Learn all things animal.
Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC)
www.aaalac.org
This organization “promotes the human treatment of animals in science through voluntary accreditation and assessment.” It offers a student resource section that is designed to help students write research papers or participate in debates on the topic of animal research.
Burroughs Audubon Society of Kansas City
www.burroughs.org
The Burroughs Audubon Society is the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the National Audubon Society. The site contains events and sponsored hikes for bird observation. There are links for activities for students under the WingNuts tab.
Conservation International
www.conservation.org
Conservational International is the world’s leading wildlife conservation organization. Come explore an interactive map of environmental hotspots and learn what can be done to help with conservation.
Monarch Watch
www.monarchwatch.org
Monarch Watch gets students involved in science education. Monarch Watch provides information on biology and the conservation of monarch butterflies for students to use on science fair projects or reports. Monarch Watch provides resources and encouraging hands-on research projects and activities.
National Geographic Kids!
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
National Geographic Kids is an fun interactive website with games, activities, stories, information on animals and so much more for students of all ages.
National Geographic Explorer!
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer
The online National Geographic magazine for Kids. Teacher can explore grant opportunities.
National Geographic Society
www.nationalgeographic.com
The National Geographic Society is the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organization.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
www.fws.gov
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website has educators’ and kids sections with topics that explore the animal kingdom with videos, online libraries, and lots of links to more information.
CAREERS
Biotech Institute
www.biotechinstitute.org
This site aimed at high school offers resources on biotechnology as a career, downloadable lab activities and resource guides.
Internet Science and Technology Fair
http://istf.ucf.edu
An online investigation in science, engineering, and other technical fields for students to become more interested in science careers and to understand the innovation process.
LaunchPad
http://www.uplinkthefuture.org/
LaunchPad connects students to job shadowing and student internships.
CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
www.faseb.org
FASEB provides up-to-date information for high school students and teachers in topics of biomedical research.
Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls
www.cdc.gov/powerfulbones
Powerful girls have powerful bones! This girl-friendly website teaches girls understand how weight bearing physical activity and calcium can be fun (and important!) part of everyday life. The site include interactive games and quizzes, recipes for tasty foods with calcium, and ideas to help girls get plenty of weight-bearing physical activity.
CHEMISTRY
American Chemical Society Interative Periodical Table
http://acswebcontent.acs.org/games/pt.html
An interactive, on-screen periodic chart letting students learn more about elemets and all the pertinent information about the element.
Periodic Table of Elements
www.ptable.com/
This interactive periodic table links to descriptions and even videos of the elements. This is a helpful study tool to make memorizing all the elements.
EARTH SCIENCE
Cave Spring Interpretive Center
www.cavespring.org
Cave Springs is a 36 acre historic site in Kansas City, Missouri, once a site on the Santa Fe Trail. This site contains information on field trip program options and overnight experiences and badges for Boy and Girl Scouts.
Geocaching with Kids
www.eduscapes.com/geocaching/kids.htm
Geocaching with Kids provides a learning experience for students and teachers about geocaching.
The GLOBE Program
www.globe.gov
Global Learning & Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) provides hands-on school based science and education programs for teachers, students, and scientist around the world on the environment and Earth systems.
National Geographic Kids!
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
National Geographic Kids is an fun interactive website with games, activities, stories, information on animals and so much more for students of all ages.
National Geographic Explorer!
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer
The online National Geographic magazine for Kids. Teacher can explore grant opportunities.
National Geographic Society
www.nationalgeographic.com
The National Geographic Society is the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organization.
NOAA Education
www.education.noaa.gov
This section of the NOAA website has student resources and interactive activities are in age level sections under different topics. There are topical resources and lesson plans for teachers. NOAA’s home page has a link to free stuff for students and teachers.
National Zoological Park
http://nationalzoo.si.edu
Under the Education homepage, there is a list of online resources, including homework help. Conservation Central (A habitat education program that explores the temperate forest, home of the giant panda and black bear, through online activities.)
SouthEast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEA-COOS) Virtual Waves Classroom
http://seacoos.org/
The South East U.S. Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System has posters, charts, and maps available for download or ordering. The community and classroom tab contains sample lessons on topics like hurricanes. There are computer learning games for students.
U.S. Geological Survey
www.usgs.gov
The U.S. Geological Survey has an education tab on its navigation bar. Within that section are primary and secondary section links to grade specific teacher guide books on many, many science topics. There is any easy icon code about what is contained in each listed link. Many contain full teacher guidebooks with lessons and activities geared to national standards.
Water Center
www.watercenter.org
Water Center has various hands-on water projects to help students become more aware of problems with water and why water quality is important.
ENERGY
Kansas City Power & Light Kids
www.kcplkids.com
KCP&L Kids give students in elementary and middle schools a chance to learn more about electricity in games and experiments with their interactive website.
U.S. Department of Energy
www.energy.gov
The Department of Energy site has easy-to-locate sections for educators and for students & kids. The teachers’ section contains catalogs for ordering lesson plans by age level, freebies and grants, plus student activities. There are also sections on the science fair and fair projects. There kids’ section has activities and links to other sites.
ENGINEERING
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
www.usace.army.mil/
The corporate website for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a crayon icon in the top bar which leads to links to science subjects with related Corps projects, lesson plans and student activities. There is an Engineers’ Club for kids, games links to other government sites with kids’ activities.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Animal Planet
http://animal.discovery.com
Animal Planet provides activities, games, videos, and features about animals. Learn all things animal.
Blue River Watershed Association (BRWA)
www.brwa.net
Blue River Watershed Association shares how to clean and protect local watersheds in the Kansas City Metro area. Learn how the watersheds impact quality of life of all who live in the Metro area.
Conservation International
www.conservation.org
Conservational International is the world’s leading wildlife conservation organization. Come explore an interactive map of environmental hotspots and learn what can be done to help with conservation.
Environmental Literacy
www.enviroliteracy.org
The Environmental Literacy Council is a K-12 teachers & students resource site, designed to help find the best sources of data on the Internet about environmental topics.
Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov
This site is designed with kids and teachers in mind, but there is something here for everyone. You will fine information about EPA, about environmental issues in Region 7 (which covers Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska), fun activities, a contest and more.
Environmental Protection Agency- Education
www.epa.gov/epawaste/index.htm
The EPA education section is rich with downloadable curricula with grade level lesson plans, activities for schools, kids, students and teens.
Environmental Protection Agency for Kids
www.epa.gov/kids
This site is kid friendly with interactive web activities and information for pre-K through 4th grade. Kids can use the environmental information and activities to learn about being environmentally friendly. It also has links for grades 5-8 and 9-12.
Environmental Projection Agency-Radtown
www.epa.gov/radtown/enter-radtown.html
RadTown USA is a virtual community for middle school students to learn about sources of radiation in their community.
The GLOBE Program
www.globe.gov
Global Learning & Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) provides hands-on school based science and education programs for teachers, students, and scientist around the world on the environment and Earth systems.
Missouri Department of Conservation
http://mdc.mo.gov
The Education Tab of this site opens to pages for information on water quality, air quality, household hazardous waste and recycling. Find the page with educational resources through the Kansas City Environment Education Network (KCEEN).
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
www.dnr.mo.gov
At the bottom of all pages except the home page is a section called Kids and Education, which contains information, and links for both teachers and students. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources offers six environmental education courses for teachers. These courses include background information, suggested teaching strategies, student activities and Missouri Standards correlations on the selected topic.
Water Center
www.watercenter.org
Water Center has various hands-on water projects to help students become more aware of problems with water and why water quality is important.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
American Museum of Natural History
www.amnh.org/science/?src=toolbar
The American Museum of Natural History science site shares information about their scientific collections. They include anthropology, zoology, paleontology, and physical science. Also, learn more from featured scientists.
American Museum of Natural History- Resources for Learning
www.amnh.org/education/resources
This site includes a collection of activities, articles, evidence and analysis for anyone interested in teaching or learning about science.
Interactive Physics Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/new/index.php
Fun interactive simulations in physics and math with accompanying lesson plans.
Quarked
www.quarked.org
Students and teachers can learn about subatomic particles with games and resources.
SPACE SCIENCE
Amazing Space
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
An astronomy and space science education NASA site offers activities and videos for kids. There is online space exploration on topics like telescopes, galaxies, comets. Tonight’s sky is a narrated video of features of the current month’s sky. Under the educators’ area, there are math and science tools, including online photos and charts with accompanying inquiry based activities.
Future Flight
http://futureflight.arc.nasa.gov
This downloadable website is an interactive, problem-based learning environment for students’ grades 5-8. Through different problems, students can work in groups to solve aircraft design problems and air transportation system problems. Under resources section, there are activities, which are grade level lesson plans tied to national standards.
NASA’s Kids Page
www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html
The official NASA site for Kids’ only! Have fun with all the interactive games, activities, stories and much more from NASA.
NASA’s Kids Science News Network (KSNN)
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov
Kids Science news Network, students K-5 can get questions answered about math, technology, computers, NASA facts and many more topics.
NASA SciFiles
http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov
This website has free programs for grades 3-5 emphasizing science inquiry. It has wonderful activities with online activities for students to complete.
NASA Solar System Exploration
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/index.cfm
This website offers access to an array of educational resources- from a current calendar of mission-related events to a “people’s choice” gallery of popular celestial images—for everyone interested in space.
NASA Visible Earth
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov
NASA has complied numerous images and animations of Earth from space. Educators can browse the images by state, country, or geographic region; by the satellite used to capture the image; and by such subcategories as astronaut photography, agriculture, and oceans. Nearly all of the images can be downloaded and used free with proper credit to NASA.
Windows to the Universe
www.windows.ucar.edu
This website unites the Earth and space sciences in a rich array of documents, images, movies, animations, and classroom activities that describe scientific concepts. |
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