Access Excellence is a national educational program that provides high school biology teacher’s access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web.
Science Related Websites
Amazing Space
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.
American Association for the Advancement of Science, The
This organization provides educators with newsletters on current scientific developments and links to interactive activities for the classroom. It also created three prominent curriculum publications as part of Project 2061.
American Chemical Society Interactive Periodical Table
An interactive, on-screen periodic chart letting students learn more about elements and all the pertinent information about the element.
American Museum of Natural History- Resources for Learning
Free online database of the Museum's scientific and cultural materials.
Animal Planet
The Animal Planet Homepage covers all things animal, where each week you'll find experts on a special "Creature of the Week," profiles of characters like Steve Irwin, otherwise known as The Crocodile Hunter, and the latest Web stories on just about any critter you can discover.
Arcademic Skill Builders
Arcademic Skill Builders are research-based and standards-aligned educational games that offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills.
Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC)
This organization “promotes the humane 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.
Bayer: Making Science Make Sense
A Bayer initiative supporting hands-on, inquiry-based science education. Offers a science library with definitions and links to sites by “-ology.” Includes an interactive periodic table for students to explore.
Biology Corner, The
The Biology Corner is a resource site for biology and other science teachers. It contains a variety of lessons, quizzes, labs, web quests, and information on science topics.
Biotech Institute
This site aimed at high school-level offers resources on biotechnology as a career, downloadable lab activities and resource guides.
Biotech Institute
This site is aimed at high school and offeres resources on biotechnology as a career, downloadable lab activities and resource guides.
Blue River Watershed Association
The purpose of Blue River Watershed Association -- BRWA is to improve the quality of the Blue River, its tributaries, and nearby streams through education and the development of community partnerships. To achieve this goal, BRWA sponsors several events and programs in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. BRWA encourages students and other citizens to protect their local watershed.
Burroughs Audubon Society of Kansas City
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.
Cambridge Physics Outlet (CPO)
Hands-on experiments and curriculum materials for teaching science and math from grades 6-12.
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
CReSIS contains a compilation of climate change research and works to collect information on the changes in global ice sheets.
Chlorine Tree, The
This website helps kids understand the ways that chlorine chemistry affects their everyday lives. Visitors to the site can "explore the branches of the chlorine tree" through activities featuring photographs, videos, animations, sound and text.
Concord Consortium for Parents
The consortium offers new technology to help children learn science and math with FREE software. Easy to use and get your children excited about learning and exploring new science & math ideas.
Concord Consortium Technologies project
A comprehensive innovative technologies (IT) project to assist teachers in preparing diverse students for careers in IT by engaging them in exciting, inquiry-based science projects that use computational models and real-time data acquisition. It has an activities tab for school and home, which are really lesson plans. They are searchable by subjecctc and by grade level.
Conservation International
CI focuses on trying to preserve and promote awareness about the world's most endangered biodiversity through scientific programs, local awareness campaigns, and economic initiatives.
Curriki
Internet site for Open Source Curriculum. Provides access to free K-12 materials in science, mathematics, language arts and social studies.
Directory Science
The Comprehensive Science Directory. This online science directory is designed to help its users find online science sources, companies, products, services, and information.
Discover Engineering
Discover Engineering explains what engineering is, describes various careers, and has informational videos and games on engineering.
Discover Engineering
Discover Engineering explains what engineering is, describes various careers, and has informational videos and games on engineering.
Discovery Channel, The
Lots of science information with just one click to areas of your choice. Enjoy interactive activities, science news, and more.
E=McQ
The Lab of Mr. Q provides a wealth of science resources and opportunities for homeschool families, public school students and educators. Be certain to sign up for the free "LabNotes" that are delivered monthly.
Earth Life
Earth Life Web is an encyclopedia which supplies information about life on this planet. It includes images, facts, book reviews and recommended reading on several species, divided into sub-domains. Currently includes insects, birds, mammals, lichens, microbes, invertebrates, chelicerata, fish and sharks.
Ecology Global Network Kids' Corner
The kids corner contains ecology activities, stories, and videos for kids. Parents and teacher information is provided. The site is part of a global network featuring television, radio and personal data delivery.
Education.com
The Science Fair section gives students the ability to access over a thousand helpful ideas and articles to aid them in completing their science fair project. The site includes advice and help and a great Science Fair Guide.
Educational Technology Journal, The
From Now On is an on-line education technology journal.
EduPic Graphical Resources
Free photographs and graphics for educators.
eGFI Dream Up the Future
A Variety of tools to boost your students math and science skills with engineering projects.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math & Science Education
The ENC provides K-12 teachers with a central source for information for mathematics and science curriculum materials and much more.
Engineer Girl
For middle school girls. Engineer Girl has profiles of women in engineering, what classes should be taken in high school and discusses engineering careers for women.
Engineer Your Life
A guide to engineering for high school girls. Dream jobs and inspiring women. There are sections for parents and counselors.
Engineering
Engineering.com provides lots of information about engineering with an ask section, a library and games & puzzles.
Environmental Literacy
A web site for K-12 teachers and students, designed to help find the best sources of data on the Internet about the environment and the natural world, including international and U.S. databases, research papers, lesson plans and activities.
Environmental Protection Agency
This site is designed with kids and teachers in mind, but there is something here for everyone. You will find 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
The EPA education section is rich with downloadable curricula with grade level lesson plans, activities for schools, kids, students and teens.
Exploratorium Digital Library
This site includes a digital library of images that can be sorted by grade level, curriculum area, etc. From the area, educators can also go to hands-on activities listed by science topics. There are webcasts and an educators' newsletter.
Fact Monster
This website has facts about all areas of science in an easy to understand format.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group to make hundreds of federally supported K-12 teaching and learning education resources available at this web site.
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
A web page featuring evolution resources, including tools for teaching evolution to K-12, statements made by scientific societies regarding evolution, and other resources of interest to scientists.
Food and Drug Administration
FDA launches consumer educational programs on the safe use of Over the Counter (OTC) Medicines, "Medicines in My Home." It is an interactive educational program about the safe and effective use of OTC medicines. The website provides classroom materials and resources for teachers and on-line information for students and their families.
Fun Science Project Ideas
A website that is full of “fun” science project ideas for teachers and students.
Future Flight
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.
Gateway to Educational Materials, The (GEM)
This site is designed for teachers to type a topic, grade level, and other information into a search screen that retrieves (from more than 140 sites) lessons, instructional units, and other free educational materials on that topic, for that grade level.
Geocaching with Kids
Geocaching with Kids provides a learning experience for students and teachers about geocaching. Explore nature and activate learning environments with hands-on experience.
GLOBE Program, The
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.
Google Earth
Provides access to the Earth's images, through digital maps, satellite imagery and other search tools.