Science Topics

Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Astronomy

1. The space place
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 012548
   This Internet site, maintained for students, contains projects and activities with information designed to help kids understand the techniques scientists use to explore and map objects in deep space and on Earth. From the homepage, visitors can choose from activities, and projects such as (Make Spacey Things), word games and puzzles with space facts (Do Spacey Things).
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2. Astro-venture
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2000 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 025712
   This web site is designed to teach students in grades 5-8 about astronomy, by using movies, narration, and interactive exercises. The resource is part of the NASA QUEST series, which informs and trains students about the factors required to support life on a planet.
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3. Newton's Apple
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 008489
   This Internet site, designed for grades 6-9, offers educational resources for students to explore science in the world around them. The site is based on the television show, Newton's Apple, which airs on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
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4. Blossoms of science Internet Astronomy School
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2000 Grade(s): 3 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016446
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grade 3 and up as part of the Blossoms of Science project by the staff of the Jordan Valley Academic College in Israel, presents various educational projects in scientific research and in astronomy utilizing the Internet. The Blassrooms of Science is an initiative in Israel to advance science education into the 21st century.
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5. The science spot
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 015464
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains links and information for teachers who are interested in enriching their science classes. They can find lesson plans, activities, and worksheets for five different areas of science.
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6. spaceKids
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2000 Grade(s): 3 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016560
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grade 3 and up as one of the SPACE.COM astronomy sites, presents space and space related subjects. The goal of the site is to enhance students' understanding and enthusiasm about space.
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7. StarChild, a learning center for young astronomers
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 002387
   This Internet site, contains general astronomy and space exploration information for children young children. Activities, most of which are interactive, are included.
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8. Infrared astronomy
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016020
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 6 to 12 by the NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), introduces students to Infrared Astronomy and the detection and study of infrared radiation emitted from objects in the Universe. The homepage features four sections that provides William Herschel's discovery of infrared radiation, the background and technology of infrared astronomy, news and discovery from infrared missions, and infrared learning activities with educational links.
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9. CERES Project
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013855
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 12, presents a library of Web based astronomy lessons developed by the Center for Educational Resources (CERES) Project. The CERES project is a collaboration between NASA, the University of Minnesota, and classroom teachers from across the nation to develop online, interactive science education materials that make maximum use of NASA resources, data, and images.
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10. Genesis: search for origins
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013858
    This Internet site, maintained by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), describes the Genesis mission. This mission, with a launch date of January 2001, will send a spacecraft toward the sun to collect solar wind for two years before returning to Earth.
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11. PlanetDiary
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011879
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for middle school and high school science students by Scott Foresman Addison Wesley (SFAW) publishers, contains Internet lessons and articles that correlate with SFAW textbooks. Every week, this site presents geological, astronomical, meteorological, biological, and environmental news from around the globe.
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12. National Science and Technology Week (NSTW)
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 002453
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grades K to 12 by the National Science Foundation (NSF), houses information and activities to help students explore science and technology at school and at home. National Science and Technology Week (NSTW) was created in 1984 to foster the public's understanding of and appreciation for the role that science and engineering play in everyone's life and occurs annually in late April.
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13. Virtual Laboratory
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 012425
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the University of Oregon Physics department for nonmajors physics classes, offers a series of online curriculum modules that demonstrate concepts in mechanics, energy, thermodynamics, and astrophysics. Each module contains a series interactive lesson plans with JAVA applets.
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14. Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer: education and public outreach
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002325
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 3 to 12 by the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (CEA), provides lesson plans and activities that teachers have developed using the Internet. In a sample lesson, student weather reporters investigate seasons, temperatures and clouds on Mars and compare them to Earth.
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15. Athena: Earth and space science for K-12
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002000
    The goal of this World Wide Web (WWW) site is to provide instructional material for K to 12 science based data acquired via the Internet. The materials, which are delivered to classrooms via pages on the Web site, include data sets with appropriate explanations, student activities, and background information for teachers.
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16. Stanford SOLAR Center: providing Solar On-Line Activity Resources for the joy of solar science exploration
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012424
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for general audiences by the Stanford SOLAR (Solar On-Line Activity Resources) Center, offers a collection of educational activities based on Solar Oscillations Investigation (SOI) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) data. Visitors can learn about the sun's magnetic field, sunspots, and what's happening inside the sun.
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17. Live from the stratosphere
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 003460
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grades K to 12, is the second in the PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE series of electronic field trips. In addition to the WWW sites, these multimedia projects involve live television over PBS and NASA-TV and print materials suggesting hands on, in class activities.
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18. Live from the Hubble Space Telescope
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004116
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grades K to 12, is part of the Passport to Knowledge ongoing series of electronic field trips to scientific frontiers via interactive television and the Internet. In addition to the WWW sites, these multimedia projects involve live television over PBS and NASA-TV and print materials suggesting hands on, in class activities.
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19. Que tal in the current sky: an Earth in space online monthly newsletter
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004494
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for those interested in astronomical events, provides answers to what's up in the sky today. Celestial events are illustrated and highlighted by month.
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20. Discoveryschool.com
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 008734
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site was developed to help teachers and parents find ways to use the resources of the Discovery Channel with their students. In addition to weekly and monthly television schedules, the site also provides (as of January 27, 1997) curriculum support, stories about educators, and opportunities for parents and educators to join listservs and to sign up for free Educator Guides.
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