Science Topics

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

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1 Cool science
Date: 2002 Grade: 6 - 12 ENC#: 014089
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Federal Energy Technology Center, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, provides science information to students and science resources to teachers. The section Fun Stuff offers information about regional...
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2 Optics for kids
Date: 2002 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 025420
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created for K-12 students, teachers, and parents by the Optical Society of America (OSA), explores real-world examples of optics to develop student understanding of the science of light. A team of chameleons, chosen as ...
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3 Sci4kids
Date: 2002, 2001 Grade: Kindergarten - 8 ENC#: 026615
This Internet site is a home page for the SCI4KIDS series, an online program developed by the United States Department of Agriculture to teach users about activities conducted by the Agricultural Research Service. The site provides links to other web ...
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4 Animal information database
Date: 2002 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 002381
This World Wide Web (WWW) site for K-12 students and teachers features information about marine and terrestrial animals. The site aims to increase awareness of the interrelationships of humans and the marine environment, to build students' basic competencies...
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5 Invention at play
Date: 2002 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 026129
This Internet site is the online version of a traveling exhibit that explores the interrelationship between invention and play. Developed by the Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the site offers information in three...
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6 Project oceanography
Date: 2001 Grade: 6 - 8 ENC#: 026462
This Internet site is a companion resource to Project Oceanography, a video production that brings students in contact with oceanographic researchers. Project Oceanography is a series of weekly live broadcasts by scientists into classrooms across the ...
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7 Profile of a scientist
Date: 2000 Grade: 10 - 12 ENC#: 018615
This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains the materials needed for a nine week interdisciplinary activity in which students in grades 10 to 12 explore the roles of inventors and scientists in society. The goal of the activity is to dispel negative student...
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8 Building big
Date: 2000 Grade: 5 - 12 ENC#: 018205
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed in conjunction with a PBS series of the same name, explores the history behind some of the world's greatest feats of engineering and the ingenuity of the engineers, architects, and builders who designed and...
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9 Applications of Working And Learning (AWAL) database
Date: 2000 Grade: 6 - Post-secondary ENC#: 013489
This Internet site, part of a national project in British Columbia, aims to help educators connect the curriculum they teach in the classroom with how that curriculum is used in the workplace. Among other things, this database helps users find workplace...
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10 USDA for kids
Date: 1999 Grade: 3 - 8 ENC#: 015905
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), contains links to help students learn about topics such as nutrition, agriculture, and statistics. In addition to the USDA maintained sites, students can...
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11 Brookhaven National Laboratory educator resources and student activities
Date: 1999 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 018468
This World Wide Web (WWW) site explains the educator and student opportunities at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and provides thematic sections related to the laboratory's work. Visitors to the site can find information about teacher professional...
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12 MicrobeWorld
Date: 1999 Grade: 7 - Post-secondary ENC#: 016459
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the American Society for Microbiology, contains information and experiments about microorganisms and careers in microbiology. Visitors join the character, Sam Sleuth, as he leads them through their explorations...
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13 EPA students' and teachers' page
Date: 1999 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 014003
This World Wide Web (WWW) site is designed for students and teachers in grades K to 12 to raise awareness about solid waste issues. The home page is divided into five main sections. These include Teacher Resources and Tools, Kids Page, and Waste Information...
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14 The rainforest connection
Date: 1999 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 015616
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, supported by Montclair State University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, provides students and teachers with information about ongoing research in the tropical rainforest on Barro Colorado Island (BCI) located...
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15 Discover engineering online
Date: 1999 Grade: 6 - 12 ENC#: 026088
This Internet site provides students with activities and career information about engineering. The site was developed as part of National Engineers Week to promote the various professions and highlight the many engineering accomplishments that affect ...
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16 A science odyssey
Date: 1998 Grade: 7 - 12 ENC#: 013318
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), presents a five part television series that takes the visitors on a journey through the last 100 years in the history of science and technology. The television series...
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17 EEK!, Environmental Education for Kids!
Date: 1998 Grade: 4 - 8 ENC#: 013466
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is an electronic magazine for kids in grades 4 to 8. Readers are invited to surf around and learn more about the great outdoors. The site features interactive...
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18 FAA aviation education
Date: 1998 Grade: 5 - 12 ENC#: 018052
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aviation Education center, features FAA's regional aviation education programs (an aviation oriented online resource library), and a wide range of aviation career...
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19 Evidence
Date: 1998 Grade: 7 - 12 ENC#: 014314
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by an international team of high school seniors as part of ThinkQuest 98, features an interactive game and information about careers in forensic science. ThinkQuest is a worldwide competition that challenges...
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20 Welcome to EPA's Environmental Education Center
Date: 1998 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 013956
This World Wide Web (WWW) site is designed to provide visitors information about the EPA, environmental issues, and resources and opportunities provided by the EPA. Visitors can find in the Background section fact sheets, brochures, and links to Web ...
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21 Welcome to the EPA student center
Date: 1998 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 014093
This World Wide Web (WWW) Web site is designed to provide students in middle school and high school with information about a range of environmental issues and facts that would be helpful in homework, research, and service projects. The home page is divided...
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22 Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS), Inc.
Date: 1998 Grade: 9 - 12 ENC#: 014523
This World Wide Web (WWW) site focuses on providing guidance to students, grades 9 to 12, who are interested in engineering. The site offers information about activities, events, programs, and materials that aim to connect high school students with engineers...
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23 Glacier
Date: 1997 Grade: 7 - 12 ENC#: 010889
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for students in grades 7 to 12, supplies extensive information on the continent of Antarctica and the research that is carried on there. The weather of Antarctica features information on temperature, snowfall,...
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24 K to 8 aeronautics Internet textbook
Date: 1997 Grade: Kindergarten - 8 ENC#: 012214
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grades K to 8, presents a multimedia course in aeronautics that features an online textbook of aeronautics principles, lesson plans and activities, and information about careers in aeronautics. The PRINCIPLES...
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25 Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS)
Date: 1997 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 014090
This World Wide Web (WWW) site introduces visitors to the CAPS program and its mission. The formal mission of CAPS, an NSF Science and Technology Center and part of the Oklahoma Weather Center (OWC), is to demonstrate the practicability of small scale...
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26 Hello Dolly
Date: 1997 Grade: 11 - Post-secondary ENC#: 011210
This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers an inquiry-oriented activity that helps students learn about the implications of cloning. The Web site describes a scenario in which the United States House Of Representatives is assembling a group of specialists...
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27 Franklin's forecast
Date: 1997 Grade: 5 - 10 ENC#: 013411
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Franklin Science Museum, introduces visitors to today's sophisticated weather technologies and includes weather information and data. From the home page, users have access to Franklin's shortlist...
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28 Snapshots of medicine and health
Date: 1996 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 000889
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grade K to 12 students and teachers by the National Institutes of Health, provides information about biomedical research technologies and the people involved in the biomedical enterprise with the hope that...
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29 Hands-on science
Date: 1996 Grade: 5 - 12 ENC#: 002147
This World Wide Web (WWW) site is funded by the Alaska Space Grant Program (ASGP), established at the University of Alaska to sponsor a range of programs to enhance teaching, research, and educational outreach within aerospace related disciplines. This...
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30 The Hubble Deep Field
Date: 1996 Grade: 7 - 12 ENC#: 013361
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Space Telescope Science Institute, introduces visitors to the observation project of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The HST obtained the deepest optical image of a high galactic latitude patch of sky...
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