Science Lesson Plans and Activities A to Z

Academy Curriculum Exchange (K-5). Academy Curriculum Exchange (K-5) provides 130 mini-lesson plans for the elementary school covering a variety of science topics. Among these are microscope use, mapping constellations, water pollution, studying owl pellets and caterpillars to butterflies.

Academy Curriculum Exchange (6-8). Academy Curriculum Exchange (6-8) features 60 mini-lesson plans for many science topics covered in the middle school. Among these are weather forcasting, photosynthesis, building a psychrometer and "ph" and solvent activities.

Academy Curriculum Exchange (9-12). Academy Curriculum Exchange (9-12) offers 22 mini-Lessons plans suitable for the high school science. Among these are chemistry magic, a parallax experiment with candles, and a magnetic fields activity.

Access Excellence Activities Exchange. Access Excellence Activities Exchange contains an archive of hundreds of lessons and activities submitted by high school biology and life sciences teachers participating in the Access Excellence program. High school teachers will find the activities from the 1996 collection, the 1994-1995 collection, the 1996 Share-A-Thon collection , the partners collection , and the classic collection. Teachers can also search for individual activities from the Access Excellence archive. A new collection, "The Mystery Spot", will added in 1997.

Activities and Demonstrations. Activities and Demonstrations, contributed by 1995-1996 secondary science methods students at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) contain 119 science lesson plans and activities for grades 9-12.

Activities Index. Activities Index, provided by the Franklin Institute Museum of Science in Philadelphia, is a collection of approximately 40 science activities arranged by topic for grades K-8. Among the activitites are heartbeat, the earth bowl, ocean in a bottle, clear as crystal and spinning satellites.

Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin. Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin features a curriculum database where the K-8 teachers can search for science lesson plans and activities by grade level. You can also browse activities by theme to find science lesson plans.

Africanized Honey Bees on the Move: Lesson Plans. Africanized Honey Bees on the Move, maintained by Roberta Gibson at the University of Arizona, features 30 lesson plans organized by grade clusters. The plans are also integrated with Information Sheets and Activity Sheets for grades K-12.

Air Quality Lesson Plans. Air Quality Lesson Plans, provided by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC), features a collection of lesson plans and activities to teach the subject of air quality in the K-12 classroom.

ALCOM K-12 Education Outreach Program. The NSF Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) K-12 Education Outreach Program features a collection of lesson plans prepared by a team of teachers particpating in a SAM-NET workshops held at Kent State University in 1994-1995.

AMATEUR SCIENCE. AMATEUR SCIENCE contains hundreds of science activities, experiments, and projects for grades 4-12. For starters, visit Bill Beaty's collection of science projects and the collection of science projects from various Web sites.

Amazing Science at the Roxy. Amazing Science at the Roxy, provided by Hood Consulting Group, features a collection of physical science lesson plans and activities for grades 5-12. To find the plans, click on the teacher workroom for bubbleology, cell theory, data analysis, ecology, and mixtures & solutions. For sparkling activities from the Electronic National Chemistry Week Editions of WonderScience, click here.

Amazing Space. Amazing Space, developed by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in partnership with classroom teachers, is a collection of interactive online lesson plans for grades K-12 that use real space telescope images, astronomical data, and astronomer's observations. Lessons include solar system trading cards, Hubble Deep Field Academy, stars: birth, life, death, and rebirth, student astronaut challenge, and Galileo to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomy Course for students Using the Internet. An Astronomy Course for students in grades 5-12 using the Internet contains a table of contents which includes "Observing The Night Sky", "The Solar System Stars", "Nebulae and Star Clusters", and more.

Athena. Athena is a joint project of NASA and SAIC for grades K-12 featuring a collection of online science lessons and instuctional materials for oceans, earth resources, weather and atmosphere, and space and astronomy. For a list of Athena's classroom activities, click on What's New?.

Aurora Project: An Internet-Based Space Physics Lesson. The Aurora Project: An Internet-Based Space Physics Lesson involves collaborative12 step-by-step Internet assignments where high school students learn about the earth's aurora.

Awesome Library. Awesome Library, maintained by Jerry Adams, provides comprehensive educational resources including lesson plans for grades K-12. For an alphabetical list of science lesson plans arranged by topic, click here and for health lesson plans, click here. You can also use its search engine and visit the science classroom to find science lesson plans.

Barbara's Lesson Plans in Science. Barbara's Lesson Plans in Science, for grades K-12, feature plans for a variety of topics including weather, air pressure, and inertia.

Beakman's World. Beakman's World provides a variety of experiments for elementary school students that teachers can use as exciting classroom science lessons.

Big Sky Science Gopher Menu. Big Sky Science Gopher Menu provides over 200 science lesson plans for grades K-12. Among its topics are color mixing, orbital paths, soil erosion, blood circulation, bird study, and crystals.

Biology Lessons for Teachers. Biology Lessons for Teachers, contributed by students at San Diego State University, feature a variety of lesson plans organized by topic for use in elementary school classrooms.

Birds: Our Environmental Indicators. Birds: Our Environmental Indicators is an entire curriculum plan from Earth Generation's New York Educator's Guide in which middle school students investigate birds as indicator species by learning about endangered species and environmental pollutants.

Blue Web'n Learning Applications. Blue Web'n Learning Applications, sponsored by Pacific Bell, provides a wealth of resources for science teachers. To search for lessons, activities, and other science sites in the Blue Web'n Library, click on Find Application, select the appropriate entries from the pull-down menus, and click on the SEARCH button. Also, click on Applications Table and scroll to Science where you will find lessons, activities, projects, resources, and references in the table.

Branching Out: The North Carolina Forest Stewardship Activity Guide. Branching Out: The North Carolina Forest Stewardship Activity Guide contains 14 middle school environmental lessons on soil, water, trees, recreation, and the natural beauty in the world. Teachers will need Acrobat Reader to view these files.

California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (CFAC). California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (CFAC) provides two thematic science for teaching about the medfly in the elementary school. For grades K-3, there is the Invaders Unit and for grades 4-6, there is the Invasion Unit. Each unit contains an overview, a series of lessons, teacher resources with a glossary.

Canadian Nuture Federation (CNF) Lady Beetle Survey. Canadian Nuture Federation (CNF) Lady Beetle Survey provides, for grades 4-8, lesson plans, printable student activity sheets, background information, and pictures of different lady beetles that students can identify. To find the lessons, click on Teacher's Kit.

Champaign-Urbana Curriculum Guides and Lesson Plans. Champaign-Urbana Curriculum Guides and Lesson Plans feature a collection of lesson plans and ideas for teaching science in grades K-9. To find science plans and units, click on Franklin Science Center and Wiley Elementary School.

Charlotte. Charlotte, developed by Canada's Association for the Promotion and Advancement of Science Education (APASE), provides lessons and ineractive activities about technology and the natural environment for grades 5-8. To find the lesson material on energy, click here , and to find activities on forest ecology and human environments, click here. For a list of email activities, click here , for life science lessons from the British Columbia curriculum for grades 2-3, click here , and for a list of amazing facts on energy, click here.

Classroom Projects. Classroom Projects from the Education Exchange (Edex) in the UK provides science lessons for grades 3-6. Science in action and canned fruits feature a variety of student activities related to household electronic applicances, growing fruit, and healthy eating.

Cody's Science Education Zone. Cody's Science Education Zone provides imaginative lesson plans including humorous lesson ideas for grades 6-12.

Columbia Education Center (CEC). The Columbia Education Center (CEC) provides hundreds of lesson plans created by teachers for use in their own classrooms. There are over 350 science lesson plans organized as following: the elementary (K-5) grades, the intermediate (6-8) grades, and the high school (9-12) level.

Community of Explorers Lesson Plans. Community of Explorers Lesson Plans are learning activities for high school physics and biology students using the Internet. Among the topics are Galilean relativity, photosynthesis, and physiology.

Connections+. Connections+ consists of Internet resources---lesson plans, activities and curriculum resources provided by Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McRel). K-12 science teachers can select from among these topics: Space and Astronomy , Primates , Chemistry , Life on Mars? , All About Insects, The Third Domain, and Genetics and Disease. Also, other science topics can be found in Health and Multi/Inter-disciplinary.

CoVis Geosiences. CoVis Geosiences is an Internet project for learning through collaborative visualization (CoVis) that involves thousands of students, over a hundred teachers, and dozens of researchers and scientists working to improve science education in middle and high schools. To find monthly CoVis Interschool activities, click here. There are interactive classroom projects for water quality, land use, weather, global warming, and soil science. In addition, CoVis provides a list of other online learning resources for the geosciences.

Crystal Radio. Crystal Radio provides the Xtal Set Society's complete plans for building an AM broadcast radio with a Quaker Oats cereal box. The plans, for students in grades 7-12, include clear instructions, a listing of assembly steps, and a drawing for building the set.

Digital Education Network (DEN). Digital Education Network (DEN), created by ACT Laboratory, offers Internet-based lessons in various curriculum areas for students in grades 6-12 . The SkyDEN offers a series of online lessons with interactive quizzes on the universe including our solar system, galaxies, clusters, black holes, supernovas, and other topics. Click on enter to start your journey of the universe. To have access to all areas of the DEN site, you must register. It's free!

Discover Magazine School Science Program. Discover Magazine offers an up-to-date science resource that includes monthly lesson plans, quizzes and activities to supplement the existing high school science curriculum. To find a sample Educator's Guide online for the April,1995 issue, click here. The guide features lesson plans, a hands-on activity, a challenge quiz, a glossary (vocabulary), trivia science facts (additional items), and ask a science expert (ask Paul).

1995 Dow/NSTA Summer Workshop Lesson Plans. 1995 Dow/NSTA Summer Workshop Lesson Plans is a collection of hands-on lesson plans for grades 9-12 developed by teachers who participated in a Dow Chemical Company summer workshop. To see a sneak preview of the workshop lesson plans for 1996 ( available in the spring of1997), click here.

EARTH CARE: A UNIT ON THE ENVIRONMENT. EARTH CARE: A UNIT ON THE ENVIRONMENT from the Minnetonka Science Center provides a list of activities and explorations that you can use in the teaching of environmental issues for grades K-6.

Earth Science Activities and Lesson Plans. Earth Science Activities and Lesson Plans, developed by secondary teachers participating in the 1994-1995 NESEN summer workshops, is a collection of lesson plans for astronomy, geology, weather, and other topics for grades 9-12.

Earth Science Toolkit. Earth Science Toolkit, part of the middle and high school program of the U.C. Berkeley Center for EUV Astrophysics, features ready-made classroom activities for Surfing for Earthquakes and Volcanoes , Earthquakes , Auroras: Paintings in the Sky , and Graphing Stratospheric Ozone.

Education. The Education home page, provided by Central Virginia region, contains a science page with Internet-based lessons for various topics in grades 5-12.

Education and Lesson Plans Page. Education and Lesson Plans Page, created by Kyle Yamnitz, contains over 100 elementary school lesson plans for math, science, social studies, language arts, music, art, and physical education. These plans are contributed by students and faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia. To find science lesson plans, you can browse the page or enter search term(s) such as weather.

EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS. EDUCATION STATION offers more than 150 science lesson plans for a variety of topics including chemistry, Energy, enviornmental science, geology health, meterology, and physics for K-12.

EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS FOR BIOLOGY. EDUCATION STATION offers an alphabetical listing of biology lesson plans compiled from a variety of online resources for K-12.

EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS FOR EARTH SCIENCE. EDUCATION STATION offers an alphabetical listing of earth science lesson plans compiled from a variety of online resources for K-12.

EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS FOR LIFE SCIENCE. EDUCATION STATION offers an alphabetical listing of life science lesson plans compiled from a variety of online resources for K-12.

EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS FOR SCIENCE. EDUCATION STATION offers an alphabetical listing of science lesson plans compiled from a variety of online resources for K-12.

Educator's Guide to the NEAR Project. Educator's Guide to the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Project provides lesson plans for students in grades 6-12 to study the first spacecraft to orbit the Eros asteroid. The site also includes teacher's information, photos and diagrams of the NEAR spacecraft and its instrument payload, and a movie gallery.

Education World. Education World, created by American Fidelty Educational Services, features a variety of lesson plans for grades K-12. For 104 science lesson plan sites, click here.

EE Link: Environmental Education on the Internet. EE Link, created by the National Consortium for Environmental Education and Training, is appropriate for students in grades K-12. To find links to a wide assortment of lesson plans and classroom resources for environmental education , click on activities. Among its topics are Air Quality and Climate Change , Energy , Toxics and Waste Management , and Animal Tracks Online.

Electric Club: Activities. Electric Club presents 37 experiments/projects on electricity and electronics for students and teachers in grades 5-12. Each of the activities includes a link to connections, challenge, flash fact, and teacher's notes.

Elementary Science Center. Elementary Science Center at Minnetonka Public Schools in Minnesota offers hands-on science lessons by grade level for grades K-5. In addition, the Center provides a list of materials and books needed for a good science program.

Encarta Lesson Collection. The Encarta Lesson Collection provides lesson plans and student activity sheets for a variety of K-12 curriculum areas. For science lesson plans, click here. Each detailed lesson plan, designed by a teacher, includes the complete procedure along with Microsoft software references and related Web sites. The collection is updated regularly.

Endangered Species in Endangered Spaces. Endangered Species in Endangered Spaces from the Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada, contains three units featuring lesson plans for animals in the environment, adaptation of animals, and ecology. The site, for grades 2-7, also includes information and pictures, a glossary of terms, and 14 activity sheets to supplement the lesson plans which may be adapted to any classroom.

Energy & Science Projects. Energy & Science Projects, provided by California Energy Commission's Energy Quest Web site, is a list of science experiments and energy activities for grades K-12. Many of the projects include printable student activity sheets.

EnviroLink. EnviroLink contains an education library featuring an alphabetical list of lesson plans, activities, and teacher resources for environmental education in grades K-12. To browse all the entries in this list, click here. To search the EnviroLink site, click here and type the word "lessons" or a specific environmental term such as "ozone" in the box.

Environmental Education (EE) Gopher Menu. EE Gopher Menu contains a variety of lesson plans and activities from various Internet sources for the study of the environment in grades K-12.

Environmental Lessons. Environmental Lessons is a collection of lesson plans, curriculum and interactive activities about environmental topics for grades K-12. Among the topics are animals, land, waste, plants, air, energy, and water and wetlands.

Episode Guides. Episode Guides for Bill Nye's television shows contain science activitites that include an explanation, "Did You Know That" facts section, and a "Try This" experiment for grades 4-8. Each show features a different topic and the topics are organized in physical, planetary, and life science categories. Just choose a show in a category, and click on the "Go" gear. In addition, there is a search feature where you can find related sites for many of the topics.

ERIC Astronomy Gopher Menu. ERIC Gopher Menu features an online six-week astronomy unit with 30 lesson plans and activities for students in grades 4-6.

ERIC Gopher Search. Gopher Search from Ask ERIC Virtual Library provides a searchable index to lesson plans for K-12. To find a list of science lesson plans, enter a topic such as "chemicals", "planets", or "animals" and then press the return key.

ERIC Science Gopher Menu. ERIC Science Gopher Menu contains more than 100 lesson plans contributed by teachers for grades K-12. Each lesson plan includes an overview, purpose, objectives, activities and resource materials.

Eureka's Science Lesson Plans. Eureka's Science Lesson Plans, for students in grades K-8, are hands-on investigations in chromatography, hydrophobic sand, owl pellets, colorful capsules, and burrning time of candles.

Exploratorium Science Snackbook. Exploratorium Science Snackbook contains over 40 online lessons and activities for grades 4-12, from a book published by the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco. For an index of activities organized by subject, click here. The sample activities, designed by science teachers, include blue sky, charge and carry, Doppler effect, and electroscope.

Explore Our Resources. Explore Our Resources, for the grades K-6, contain a collection of online science lessons and activities contributed by museums in the Science Learning Network (SLN). . Among the topics are acids and bases, science of ballons, physics of water fountains, hurricanes, wind, cow's eye dissection, and light, shadow, and images.

Explorer. Explorer offers a large collection of science lesson plans and activities for K-12. To browse, click on Natural Sciences Curriculum where you will find a variety of plans for the following topics: general science, life science, physical science, earth science, and common themes. You can also search for specific science lesson plans in the Explorer database.

Exploring Planets in the Classroom. Exploring Planets in the Classroom for grades 4-12 contains more than 25 hands-on activities for geology, earth, and planetary sciences. To see the list of all of the activities, click on course activities. Teachers can also access A Teacher's Guide with Activities for Earth and Space Sciences for exploring the moon.

Exploring the Environment (ETE). Exploring the Environment (ETE), funded by NASA, features Internet-based lesson plans for a variety of earth science topics in grades 7-12. To find the lessons, click on modules and activities.

Family Explorer. Family Explorer is a monthly newsletter containing hands-on science and nature activities that can be used as lessons for students in grades K-6. To find sample activities from recent and past issues of Family Explorer, click on Jump to Activities Page. For other sample activities from the 1996 and 1997 issues of Family Explorer, click here.

Fighting Disease: Health At The End Of The Millennium. Fighting Disease: Health At The End Of The Millennium, prepared by the United Nations CyberSchoolBus in recognition of World Health Day, contains six online health units for studying infectious diseases in grades 5-12. The site also includes an interactive health quiz, a disease list, and a glossary.

Florida Aquarium: Hands On. Florida Aquarium provides hands-on lessons from the sea for grades K-12. For background information on the lessons, click here.

Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT). FCIT, located at the University of South Florida, provides a menu of lesson plans in different subject areas for grades 4-12. To find a list of science plans, click here and to find a lesson plans organized by topics, click on units. The site also lets you search for lesson plans by grade level and subject.

Forces, Structure and Architecture. Forces, Structure and Architecture, designed by Coco Moran for fifth and sixth grade students, is a monthly 20 day science unit containing a variety of lesson plans.

Fun with Chemistry: A Guidebook of K-12 Activities from the Institute for Chemical Education. Fun with Chemistry: A Guidebook of K-12 Activities from the Institute for Chemical Education contains a wide variety of hands-on science experiments and activities organized under topics that elementary school teachers can use as demonstrations in their classrooms. Volume 1 includes the following topics: acids and bases, air pressure, carbon dioxide, chemical reaction, color changes, density, foods, and more. Volume 2 includes the following topics: colorful separations, dyeing eggs, polymers, Cartesian divers, observing chemical changes, crystals, and more. In addition, Volume 1 provides information on a list of needed chemicals, where to easily find them, and an useful glossary. You must download the (free) Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print out any of these PDF files.

Galileo. Galileo is an extensive collection of more than 100 science lesson plans for K-12. Topics include ball bounce, potential and kinetic energy discoveries, animals and their habitats, mining a chocolate chip cookie, wind activities and many others.

Genetic Lesson Plan Ideas. Genetic Lesson Plan Ideas provides a variety of genetic lesson plans gathered from various Internet sources for high school biology teachers.

GHBooks.com. GHBooks.com is the online version of Gryphon House, Inc., a leading publisher of early childhood books. The site provides hundreds of sample activities taken directly from their books for variety of curriculum areas . To find activities that can be used as science lessons in grades preK-3, go to Science and also Science & Math and then click on the title of a book whose activities you want to view.

GLOBE Program. Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is an online international program in English, French, and Spanish. To partcipate K-12 students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data via the Internet. Scientists use this data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education. To find a list of interactive student measurement activities, click on GLOBE I Science Protocols or the new GLOBE II Science Protocols. The activities include atmosphere, biology, global positioning, hydrology, and soil investigations.

Going To A Museum?: A Teacher's Guide. Going To A Museum?: A Teacher's Guide, for teachers in grades prek-12, contains three sections: Museum Field Trip Planning Guide, Sample Lesson Plans written by teachers, and Internet Resources. The science lesson plans provide many classroom activities and practical ideas related to museum field trips.

Goals 2000 Carroll County 1995. Goals 2000 Carroll County 1995, provided by the Center of Excellence for Science and Mathematics Education (CESME) features a booklet of16 lessons and 55 activities for middle grade mathematics and science using spreadsheets, databases, graphing, and probeware. To view the booklet, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary. Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary provides an illustrated fish guide , an unit entitled, Tales of Whales, Turtles, Sharks, and Snails , containing teacher materials and student activities for grades 4-6, and a handbook useful to middle school teachers interested in a marine curriculum.

Green & Growing Presents: From the Ground Up. Green & Growing presents an online version of From the Ground Up, a teacher's guide with five detailed lesson plans on food, agriculture, and sustainable development for grades 5-8. Teachers are encouraged to use the complete teacher's guide and all the accompanying worksheets in their classrooms.

Gulf of Maine Aquarium. Gulf of Maine Aquarium provides over 50 learning that help students in grades 5-12 to understand the principles of remote sensing, imaging science, oceanography, meteorology, and ecology. The topics include space available, all about turtles, on location, Katahdin to the Sea, streams, creatures and places, and design the aquarium.

Hands-on Activities in the Physical Sciences. Hands-on Activities in the Physical Sciences, provided by Rich Bady of Marshall University, contains a large collection of practical demos and experiments for a variety physics topics in grades 4-12.

Harlem Environmental Access Project (HEAP). HEAP provides lesson plans & activities for teaching about recycling and our environment in grades 4-8.

HAZ-ED: Classroom Activities for Understanding Hazardous Waste. HAZ-ED: Classroom Activities for Understanding Hazardous Waste, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), contains a collection of warm-up exercises, classroom activities, and fact flashes to teach students about hazardous waste in grades 6-12. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files.

Helping Your Child Learn Science. Helping Your Child Learn Science, prepared the U.S. Department of Education, provides a list of hands-on activities for parents/teachers and kids, ages 6-12.

High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center (HEASARC). HEASARC provides math/science lesson plans intended for middle to high school students. The site also includes an online dictionary of astrophysics terms, and teachers can request study guides with answers from HEASARC.

Highway to Science Project. Highway to Science Project features hand-on science lesson plans, activities, and experiments for grades 4-7.

Holden's Hands-On Science. Holden's Hands-On Science offers a series of experiments for grades K-5. Janet also provides weekly a science bonus question for which students can email their answers and favorite activities for teaching science. All 47 of the experiments are now available in the Complete Lab Book for a nominal fee via email or snail mail.

Hydrosphere Activities. Hydrosphere Activities, divided by difficulty levels, feature online lessons for grades 5-12 in which students investigate water and oceanography resources.

Hypertext Lesson Plans. Hypertext Lesson Plans by West Virginia Ruralnet teachers are 45 Internet-based lesson plans for a variety of science topics. The plans are organized by elementary, middle, and secondary school levels.

IBM Internet Activities. IBM Internet Activities, updated monthly, features lesson plans/activities that encourage students in grades 4-12 to use the Internet to do research in various subject areas. Science plans for nutrition, health, and fitness can be found at Health and nutrition: teacher materials - grades 5-7 and Taking care of you: teacher materials - grades 5-7. For a list of past activities for science, click on View previous Internet activities where you will find Into the Garden: teacher materials, Dinosaurs: teacher materials, The sky's the limit: teacher materials, In outer space!: teacher materials, Who Turned Out the Lights? , and It's a zoo out there!: teacher materials.

Insects!. Insects, an Internet-based project from the Groveland Elementary School in Minnetonka, Minnesota, provides a detailed lesson plan and student worksheets for studying insects in grades K-5. For information on past projects, click on Students' Project Summary (1995) , Synopsis of the 1995 project , and 1996 Project Summary. In addition, the site includes insect activities year-round and related Web sites where you will find other insect lesson plans in Entomology and activities in Insects Theme Page.

Instructor Magazine. Instructor magazine from Scholastic offers a variety of online lessons with a different theme each month for grades K-6. Click on Integrating the Curriculum where you find science plans and activities for a vision unit about eye color and plans for studying the butterfly life style. For thematic teaching strategies also renewed monthly and organized by grade level, select For Your Grade Level, and for three health lessons, click here.

Jill's Lesson Plans. Jill's Lesson Plans feature a collection of Internet-based lessons and activities contributed by teachers and students for a variety of subject areas in grades 5-8. Among the online science lessons are cloud classifcation, crime lab investigation, earthquake simulation, electrical energy scavenger hunt, and a tour through space.

John Muir Exhibit. John Muir Exhibit, sponsored by the Sierra Club, features the life and legacy of John Muir, the father of modern conservationism. The site contains K-12 lesson plans and activities in a John Muir Day Study Guide and includes background information on John Muir's life and contributions and a biographical timeline of his life.

JPL Learning Link. JPL Learning Link offers a collection of earth and space science lesson plans for grades 5-12. Among the topics are comets, eclipses, impact craters, moon phases, and Venus topography box.

K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook. K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook, a NASA sponsored project produced by Cislunar Aerospace and UC Davis, presents an online package of instructional materials, complete with lesson plans and activities for the study of the principles of aeronautics in grades K-8. The package contains an aeronautics textbook written in English and Spanish at various reading levels, a library of lesson plans with fun experiments and exercises to compliment the study of aeronautics, an archive of thematic cross-curricular lessons, found in curriculum bridges, to supplement the study, and a list useful classroom experiments/activities arranged by topic and difficulty level.

K-12 Weather Curriculum. K-12 Weather Curriculum from the University of Michigan's The Weather Undeground contains online lessons and activities for weather, hurricanes, and smog.

Kids as Global Scientists (KBS). KBS is a collaborative project where middle school students exchange and share weather information. The project features an online unit for fall'96 containing classroom hurricane and related language arts lessons and will feature a severe storm unit for spring '97 which you are invited to join.

Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) KAB is a national American education organization with local affiliates, dedicated to preserving the natural beauty and environment and improving waste handling practices. It publishes environmental books for teachers in grades K-12 containing sample lessons, Garbage Pizza and Garbage Salad.. In addition, it offers 30 Ideas for keeping America Beautiful in April and fun activities for kids to handle trash safely.

Kodak: Lesson Plans. Kodak provides a variety of lesson plans, using a camera, in many curriculum areas for grades K-12. For a list of more than 30 science plans, click here.

Lake-Effect Snowfall Lesson. Lake-Effect Snowfall Lesson from the GLOBE project involves a series of online activities where students in grades 5-8 learn how the presence of the Great Lakes affects the weather in surrounding areas.

Learning from the Fossil Record. Learning from the Fossil Record, presented by University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), contains lesson plans, activities, and essays for studying about dinosaurs and fossils in grades K-12. To find a list of plans and activities, click here.

LDAPS. Lego Data Aplplication Prototyping System (LDAPS), a Tufts University project sponsored by NASA, contains aerodynamics activities for grades K-6. Click on sample curriculum to find online instructions for building an elaborative Baals wind tunnel or a simpler wind tunnel. For a list of 26 classroom physics experiments sorted by category, click here.

LeRC K-12 Wind Tunnel Home Page. NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio (LeRC) provides Classroom Aeronautics Activities which feature lesson plans, experiments, and student woksheets for grades K-12. The site also includes related links and information about wind tunnels and how high school students built their own tunnels.

Lesson Plan: The Impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9. Lesson Plan: The Impact of Shoemaker-Levy, provided by Small Planet Communications, is an online astronomy unit for the middle school with student activities, background information for students and teachers, and an answer key.

Lesson Plan-Transistors. Lesson Plan-Transistors by Isadore Snook is a plan for high school students to learn about transistors. For other electronics lesson plans by Professor Snook, click here.

Lesson Plans Using Internet Web Sites. Lesson Plans Using Internet Web Sites feature science lesson plans in ants, planets, volcanoes, and whales for integrating the Internet into the elementary curriculum. The site also offers suggestions for developing your own plans using the Internet.

Lesson Plans in the Sciences. Lesson Plans in the Sciences from Canadisk Online provides a collection of lesson plans divided into subject categories for grades K-12.

Library Lesson Plans Gopher Menu. Library Lesson Plans Gopher Menu, for grades 2-8, is a collection of lessons/activities for science assignments using reference materials in the school library. Another library skills site, the World of Dinosaurs, features six activities for primary grade students to locate information magazines.

Library in the Sky. Library in the Sky, sponsored by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), provides a wealth of lesson plans and resources for grades K-12. The site includes science lesson plans for a variety of topics including astronomy, biology, earth sciences, and general science. The site also offers grade-level, alphabetical lists of science lesson plans and health lesson plans .

Little Shop of Physics. Little Shop of Physics, an outreach program of Colorado State University, provides a collection of online science experiments for students in grades K-12. In addition, there are hands-on physics experiments that use everyday things found around the home.

Live From Antarctica. Live From Antarctica, a Passport to Knowledge project designed for the middle school students and teachers, offers two electronic field trips down to Antarctica, the coldest place on the planet. The first 1994-1995 trip was Live From Antarctica , and the second 1997 trip is Live From Antarctica2. Both sites provide classroom activities and interdisciplinary lesson plans from the Live From Antarctica's Teacher Guide and the Live From Antarctica2 Teacher Home Page. Students can also review field reports with photos and journal entries from the Long-Term Ecological Research project team based at Palmer Station, Antarctica, click on the maps of the polar region under investigation, answer challenge questions, or read an archive of past questions submitted by students all over the U.S. that were answered by the scientists.

Live From Earth and Mars. Live From Earth and Mars, a NASA project of the University of Washington at Seattle , provides a collection of hands-on lesson plans in the atmospheric and space science developed by classroom teachers for grades K-12. To find the lessons, click here.

Live From Mars (LFM). Live From Mars, sponsored by NASA for the middle school, offers a teacher's guide with a list of student activities sheets to study about NASA's Mars missions. Teachers also can scroll to Other Teacher Helpers to find additional lessons about Mars from ralated sites. For teacher/student background information, click here and for a photo gallery, click here. NASA provides an abridged 10-15 minute guided tour of the LFM site.

Los Alamos National Laborator Education Resources (LANL). LANL's Science at Home program and Bret Harte Junior High in Oakland, CA. offer exemplary lesson plans with hands-on investigations for grades 4-8. In LANL's Seltzer Tablet Rocket activity, students learn about the basic principles of propulsion, and in the Junior High's activities, Heavy Ice and Inductive Classification, students explore the properties of density and make sea shell discoveries, respectively.

Louisiana Challenge Educational Resources: Lesson Plans. Louisiana Challenge Educational Resources: Lesson Plans is a collection of Internet-based lesson plans for various curriclum areas in grades K-12 that focus on Louisiana. For science plans organized by school level, click here.

Macro Press: Science. Macro Press, a publisher of science textbooks, offers sample cross-curricular lesson plans for grades K-6. To find the lessons, click here.

Math and Science Hands-On (MASH). MASH, developed by Southern Illinois University and local school districts, is a kit containing hands-on science lesson plans for grades K-9. At the primary level (K-3), the topics include interdisciplinary activities for magnets, the five senses, oceanography, plants, chemistry, and the environment, and at the intermediate level (4-6), the topics include electricity and magnetism, body systems, kitchen-chemistry experiments, and light and color. At the present, there are no online lesson plans for grades 7-9.

Marcella Dawson Home Page. Marcella Dawson Home Page provides a list of Internet-based and hands-on science lessons for the zebra mussel, gastropod research, the comparison of Mars and earth, Newton's Laws of Motion, simple machines, and cells. The lessons are suitable for grades 6-12.

MBG Learning Packages. MBG Learning Packages provide online lesson plans from Missouri Botanical Garden's study units for grades 2-5. The plans include hands-on activities, experiments, and printable handouts. To find sample plans for the environment, click on The Mysterious Neighbor, The Great Cleanup, Water Logged, and Dirty Water Everywhere. To find sample plans for biology of plants, click on Flower Laboratory, Flower Laboratory (Outside), and Hand-Pollinating. In addition, MBGnet offers Making Rain, Osmosis, and Ink which are easy-to-do classroom activities with plants.

McREL: Lesson Plans and Activities. Lesson plans and activities, assembled by Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), contains a collection of lesson plan sites for a variety of subject areas. For the science collection of K-12 plans, click here.

McREL's Whelmers. McREL's Whelmers presents monthly five new science flashy demonstrations and lessons for students and teachers in grades K-12. The material is from Steven L. Jacobs' book, Whelmers, Volume 1 which is distributed by Sargent-Welch Scientific Company.

Meeker Junior High School Meeker Junior High School provides a list of Internet-based science lessons contributed by Meeker's Tim Lynch for grades 6-8. In addition, the online lesson page contains many other sites with K-12 lesson plans for science.

Miami Museum of Science. Miami Museum of Science provides online science guides with lesson plans and classroom activities to teach about hurricanes and the pH Factor in acids and bases for grades 3-6.

Microscopes, Cells, DNA and You. Microscopes, Cells, DNA and You, a project by the University of Washington's Department of Molecular Biotechnology for grades 4-6, contains a COURSE CURRICULUM featuring a collection of hands-on biology lesson plans with overheads and handouts. The topics include optics, investigations of cells, independent student projects, and studies of DNA.

MicroWorlds: Exploring the Structure of Materials. MicroWorlds: Exploring the Structure of Materials is an interactive tour of current research in the materials sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source. To take the tour, click on contents where you will find a collection of online lessons for high school students. Among these are "A Tool for Solving the Mysteries of Materials", "The Bright & The Busy", "Exploring the Material World", "Kevlar-The Wonder Material", and "Selenium: A Window on Wetlands".

Mn/DOT Office of Aeronautics Home Page. Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) provides a variety of aviation lesson plans and student worksheets for grades K-8. To find the plans, click here.

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Lesson Plans (MVNWR). MVNWR offers a list of science lesson plans for the elementary school and the secondary school. These plans can be used in any classroom situation.

MODEL ROCKETRY FOR EDUCATORS. MODEL ROCKETRY FOR EDUCATORS is an online unit of study for students and teachers in grades 7-12. The unit consists of lesson plans including student handouts , background information, a glossary of rocketry terms, and links to related sites.

Mount St. Helens. Mount St. Helens Web site contains activities and lessons for grades 4-12 about the famous1980 Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption. Along with the lessons , there is a list of classroom supplements containing word puzzles, worksheets, and resources for students and teachers. In addition, the site includes movies, spectacular pictures, and information about Mount St. Helens.

Mr. D's Home Page. Mr. D's Home Page contains an Educator's Swap Shop with a series of middle school science lessons contributed by teachers. For information and photos of birds, bats, and bees, click on My Big Backyard.

Museum of Science and Industry (MSI): Education Department. Museum of Science and Industry (MSI): Education Department publishes a teacher's guide, AIDS: The War Within , which contains information and classroom activities about HIV and AIDS for high school biology students. MSI provides online of sample material from the guide that may be printed out and used with students.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). NASA/GSFC contains a collection of lessons and materials for teaching about space. For grades K-8, click here and for grades 9-12, here.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Public Information FTP Archive. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Public Information FTP Archive contains a collection of lesson plans contributed by teachers for the study of space science in grades 4-12. The topics include comets, galaxies, light, lunar phases and surface, and using a sextant.

NASA Lewis Teacher Resource Center (TRC). NASA Lewis Teacher Resource Center (TRC), located in Cleveland, Ohio, provides hands-on classroom activities for teaching about aeronautics and rockets in grades 7-12. TRC also includes an index of space terms.

NASA SpaceLink. NASA SpaceLink provides a collection of instructional materials for learning about space in grades K-12. The curriculum materials contain a wealth of classrom activities for teaching about aeronautics and other subject areas. The interdisciplinary materials include lesson plans and activities for a variety of topics, teacher activity guides, activities for looking at earth from space, and video resource guides.

National Science & Technology Week Online (NSTW). National Science & Technology Week Online (NSTW), a yearly feature of the National Science Foundation (NSF), provides interactive, hands-on thematic teaching activities in English and Spanish for students in grades K-12. For 1997, the theme is Webs Wires Waves; for 1996, the theme was Design Connections ; and for 1995, the theme was Explore New Worlds.

Native American Genetics Curriculum. Native American Genetics Curriculum provides lesson plans for high school biology that reflect the concerns of the Native American population. The plans also include a student manual with printable worksheets.

Natural History of Genes. Natural History of Genes provides teachers in grades 7-12 with a genetic science activities and hands-on experiments that bring disease genetics, conservation genetics, forensics, and DNA into the real world for students. For teaching activities, click here, for student projects, click here, and for other related classroom activities (scroll down the page), click here.

Nebraska Earth Science Educaton Network (NESEN). NESEN provides a large collection of earth science lesson plans and activities for grades K-12 created primarily by teachers attending the 1996-2000 NESEN Summer Workshops. The subject areas include astronomy, geology, mapping, and weather/meteorolgy.

Neuroscience for Kids. Neuroscience for Kids, for elementary and secondary school students and teachers, contains an assortment of interactive experiments and activities, a list of ready-to-print brain worksheets, online explorations, and related Internet resources to learn more about the nervous system. In addition, the site offers information from books and articles.

New South Polar Times (NSPT). The New South Polar Times (NSPT), an online newsletter written by the staff of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole, Antarctica, provides students and teachers in grades 6-12 around the world with information on Antarctica, the scientific research taking place there, and fun facts about life at the station. NSPT includes lesson plans and activities to teach about the South Pole. For an index of NSPT past issues, click here.

New York Earth Generation: Educator's Guide. New York Earth Generation, sponsored by Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation in Syracuse, N.Y., provides an Educator's Guide with 12 middle and high school, multidisciplinary units for studying the environment. Some of the units included are Honoring Our Special Places, Put A Sock In It, Investigating Rain, Watt's Up?, and Garbology.

NJ NIE Project: Curriculum Resources. NJ NIE Project: Curriculum Resources, for grades 1-12, is a collection of Internet-based lesson plans in which students participate in scientific explorations on a variety of topics ranging from the aurora borealis to earthquakes.

New ERIC Science Gopher Menu. New ERIC Science Gopher Menu contains over 25 lesson plans contributed by teachers for grades K-12. Each lesson plan includes an overview, purpose, objectives, activities and resource materials.

New Lesson Plans-October 1996. AskERIC library contains a collection of new interdisciplinary lesson plans for grades K-12. The lesson plans for science include frogs, nutrition, ocean animals, and air pressure (What Crushed the Can?).

New Lesson Plans-November and December 1996. AskERIC library contains a collection of new interdisciplinary lesson plans for K-12. The lesson plans for science include air and its characteristics, attracting balloons, bouncing eggs, fit for life, moods with the weather, planning a healthy menu, predicting the weather, rocket to success, and weather detective.

Newspaper-In-Education (NIE) Online. Newspaper-In-Education (NIE) Online, sponsored by the Detroit News, contains a collection of lesson plans using the daily newspaper in the classroom for grades 6-12. The site features links to daily lesson plans and an index of weekly plans presenting a variety of science topics and problems.

Newton's Apple. Newton's Apple, for grades 4-8, features a collection of over 100 science lessons from the 9th-14th seasons of its award-winning PBS television series. To browse all the lessons in an index, click on Teacher's Guides. The lessons cover a wide variety of science topics and can be used independently of the TV program.

NSTA's Scope, Sequence & Coordination Project. NSTA's Scope, Sequence & Coordination Project contain more than 100 science micro-units for biology, chemistry, earth/space, and physics in grades 9-12. To find the micro-units organized by topics, click on explore , and to find a list of individual micro-units, click on browse. You can also search for specific micro-units.

Nye Labs Online. Nye Labs Online is the Internet home of Bill Nye, known as the science guy. Bill Nye provides a series of hands-on activities and experiments that can be used as science lessons in grades 4-8. To find these online activities, click on a random Demo of the Day. For a new activity, use the Back button and click again on Demo of the Day.

Ocean News. Ocean News is a marine science magazine for grades K-12 published by the Bamfield Marine Station in Canada. It provides an online version with a list of sample (selected) activities from issues 2-5 about marine life.

Ocean Planet. Ocean Planet, for grades K-12, is Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit. To find a collection of lesson plans and other online resources associated with the exhibit and for teaching about marine life, click on educational materials.

ONLINE EDUCATOR. ONLINE EDUCATOR is a monthly magazine for K-12 providing Internet-based lesson plans in a variety of subject areas. To find the lesson plans, you can search the archive by grade level or subject, or browse the catalog, or check out the 1996 net lessons. To find a "Dancing Bunnies" lesson to teach about electricity, click on Science, and to find a " Solar Cooking Archive" lesson to teach about ecology and recycling, Science/Social Studies.

Online from Jupiter 97: Featured Activities. Online from Jupiter 97 provides a list of lesson plans and interactive activities to help students learn more about Jupiter in grades 5-12. Among the topics are new images of new worlds, designing a spacecraft, finding Jupiter in the night sky, life on Europa, the end of the probe (ProbeSquash), and a mnemonics game.

Online Guides: Instructional Resources and Curriculum. Online Guides, provided by the University of Illinios WW2010 world weather server for grades 6-12, contains a collection of instructional resources and curriculum for meteorology with teaching materials from fronts to forecasting and optics to El Niño., projects and activities with classroom lessons for a wide variety of meteorological topics, plus accompanying teacher guides, and remote sensing with information about satellite technology and the fundamentals of radar meteorology. In addition, the site includes archives with descriptions of memorable weather events.

Ounce of Prevention. An Ounce of Prevention, developed by NSTA and Dow, provide 15 curricular activities for the study of waste prevention and management in grades 6-8. Students learn that it is better not to create something (source reduction) than to have to deal with its disposal later.

Paso Partners. Paso Partners, funded by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), provides a variety of science units in English and Spanish for grades K-3. Each unit includes seven cross-curricular lesson plans, and the topics range from the five senses to simple machines.

Physical Science Activity Manual. Physical Science Activity Manual, provided by the Center for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education (CESME) at UTM, features 34 hands-on science activities that can serve as lessons for grades 8-10. Topics include the learning cycle, density, physical and chemical properties, mixtures, Newton's three Laws, and air pressure.

Physics Classroom. The Physics Classroom is an online illustrated, clearly-written textbook featuring a comprehensive collection of lessons for the study of motion in physics. The lessons, contributed by teachers at Glenbrook South High School in Illinois, include one-dimensional kinematics, Newton's Laws, vectors, momentum and its conservation, and work, energy, and power. To accompany the lessons are student physics projects with detailed descriptions and criteria for scoring the project. The site also provides interactive practice for graphing and vector addition, and offers the physics question of the week.

Physics Demonstrations. Physics Demonstrations by Julien C. Sprott is an online sourcebook that can be used to enhance the teaching of high school physics. It contains a variety of dramatic demos in the following topics: motion, heat, sound, electricity, magnetism, and light. In addition, Professor Sprott has included a bibliography for science experiment books and a list of scientific supply houses.

Prentice Hall: Rainforest. Prentice Hall: Rainforest provides a wealth of interdisciplinary resources for bringing the rainforest theme into middle school classrooms. Click on site map where you'll find rainforest projects and activities for various subject areas.

Project Center. Project Center from Houghton Mifflin, updated weekly, features a variety of curricular activities from the Kidsphere and Classroom Connect mailing lists involving the Internet . To find science projects, click here. You can also post your own projects at projects@hmco.com.

Project Physics. Project Physics contains a list of original projects created by by Kyle Acres for high school physics students and teachers. Each project includes an overview, student handouts, and teacher resources.

PROJECT WET LESSON PLANS. PROJECT WET LESSON PLANS, developed by teachers, is an interdisciplinary K-12 activity and curriculum guide for environmental education focusing on water quality.

Questacon. Questacon, located in Canberra, Australia is the world's leading hands-on science and technology museum for kids in grades K-6. For hands-on activities, incredible illusions, and online puzzles, click on Hands-on Zone. For interactive dinosaur activities that you can print, click on Kidspace.

Rainforest Lesson Plans and Activities. Rainforest lesson plans and activities, maintained by Marshall Middle School in Olympia,Washington, feature a variety of classroom lessons on the rainforest for the middle school.

Raptor Center: Highway to the Tropics. The Raptor Center: Highway to the Tropics, an educational/research project at the University of Minnesota, contains a collection of 15 multi-disciplinary lesson plans for grades 4-8 which center around learning about ospreys and studying migratory birds. In addition, the site offers an assortment of fun activities with answers that teachers can print out to use with their students.

Reaching for the Red Planet. Reaching for the Red Planet is an online eight week multi-purpose curriculum developed by Mary Urquhart for students in grades 4-6 that focuses on planning a Mars colony. Students learn general facts about the planets, learn about the Earth's environment, choose a purpose for a colony on Mars, and plan and design a colony on Mars. For a topical outline that includes teacher guides, student assignments, experiments, and recommended Web sites , click here.

Reily's Water Activities. Reily's Water Activities features a list of lessons with experiments about the physical properties of water for grades 4-6.

Rockets: Physical Science Teacher's Guide with Activities. Rockets: Physical Science Teacher's Guide with Activities is an online version of a complete teacher unit which includes student activities on rockets. The unit, for grades 5-12, contains background information, objectives, lists of materials needed, pictures, and additional rocket project.

Rugters Technology Modules for Secondary Science Education. Rugters Technology Modules for Secondary Science Education, developed collaboratively by teams of secondary school teachers with university and industry scientists, are nine self-contained instructional packages that can be used with traditional biology, chemistry, and physics high school courses. Each module includes background material and a variety of projects, experiments, and demos.

SchoolNet Ocean Site. SchoolNet Ocean Site provides a myriad of online resources for students to learn about marine life and the ocean. The resource collection includes lesson plans,teacher materials, and thematic units for grades 4-12.

Science Activities Manual: K-8 (SAM). SAM, based on the Tennessee Science Curriculum Framework, provides a hands-on science curriculum for grades K-8. For K-3 sample lessons, click on kindergarten science, first grade science, second grade science, and third grade science. To view an individual lesson plan, click on the blue button within a small box.

Science And Math Initiatives (SAMI). SAMI, funded by the Annenberg Foundation, is a project of the Boulder Valley School District of Colorado featuring a large catalog of math and science lesson plans and online projects for K-12.

Science Education Plans (SEP). SEP, provided by the University of California at Irvine, features a collection of more than 2,000 science lesson plans and activities for grades K-12. To find these plans, click on Frank Potter's Science Gems. Among the topics are physical science (part I), earth science, and life science. Many lessons include links to related sites.

ScienceGrasp 1997. ScienceGrasp 1997, sponsored by Pharmacia and Upjohn Foundation, is a collection of hands-on science lesson plans and activities contributed by elementary school teachers participating in the 1996-97 summer workshops held at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. The 1996 ScienceGrasp Lessons include the following three units: Chemistry: No More Mystery!; Show Your Colors; and Design Your Dream House, while the 1997 ScienceGrasp Lessons contain the following 12 units: Bodyworks; The Secret's Out...Chemistry is Fun!; Germs -- Those Nasty Pests!; Growth in a Garden; The Great Greenhouse; May the Force (of Friction) Be With You; Journey to the Sea; Simply Science; Windmills; The Power of Air; Game Variables; and FutureQuest.

Science Information Infrastructure (SII). Science Information Infrastructure (SII) is a collaborative project linking science museums, research centers, and teachers to produce earth and space science curricula for K-12 students and teachers using NASA remote sensing data. To browse the SEG-way complete list of lessons and activities by title, click here.

Science Lessons by Subject. Science Lessons by Subject, collected by the Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition, features lessons/experiments in astronomy , biology, chemistry, earth science, and physical science for grades K-12. The lessons are also sorted by age groups.

Science Lesson Plans Menu. Science Lesson Plans Menu contains a collection of lesson plans for a variety of topics in grades K-6.

Science Try Its from Newton's Apple. Science Try Its from Newton's Apple, for kids in grades 4-8, features a collection of science experiments from six seasons of its award-winning PBS television series. There are Science Try Its from SEASON 9, SEASON 10, SEASON 11, SEASON 12, SEASON 13, and SEASON 14.

Science Teachers Lounge. Science Teachers Lounge provides resources for secondary science teachers including dramatic classroom demos , hands-on activitity with simple things, and experiments for the chemistry lab.

Science Tracks. Science Tracks contains categories of online hands-on science activities that can be expanded into projects for students in grades 4-8. The categories include the life sciences, the physical sciences, computer science and communications, environmental science, and engineering.

Science Online: Science Resource Toolkits. Science Online: Science Resource Toolkits, provided by the U.C. Berkeley Center for EUV Astrophysics Education Program, feature ready-made classroom activities, grab bags of images, interactive tools, descriptions, and other resources to help students and teachers in grades 6-12 build their own Internet-based classroom activities. The topics include weather, earth, light, cycles, solar system, and space science.

SCORE Science. Schools of California Online Resource for Educators (SCORE) Mathematics home page is intended to reflect the California Science Framework for the K-12 curriculum. SCORE Science, a Humboldt County Office of Education project, provides students and teachers with Curriculum Resources including a collection of lesson plans, online student projects, and activities developed by SCORE.

SeaWiFS Project. SeaWiFS, provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, contains a Living Ocean Teacher's Guide with online activities for high school students to study ocean color from space. The topics include life in the ocean, the ocean isn't just blue, phytoplankton, the earth, and carbon.

Sea World's Teacher's Guides. Sea World's Teacher's Guides, for grades K-12, feature sample, cross-curricular lesson plans from their education publications on marine life and the ocean environment.

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The SETI Institute offers sample lessons from its Life in the Universe Curriculum Project to supplement the science curricula for elementary and middle school students.

Shuttle Team Online. Shuttle Team Online provide online collaborative activities and 30 lesson plans for grades K-12. The collection of plans include lessons for the study of microgravity and rocketry.

Silver Burdett Ginn School. Silver Burdett Ginn School (SBG) provides lesson plans for a variety of curriculum areas in grades K-6. The teacher activity center contains primary grade (K-2) science lessons for Counting Seeds, I Wonder What the Weather Will Be?, and Capturing Colors. The center also includes intermediate grade (3-6) science lessons for earth science, the human body, life science, and physical science. Each lesson plan includes a printable worksheet and related Web links.

S.J. Sharkie's Think Tank. S.J. Sharkie's Think Tank, developed by the NHL's San Jose Sharks, contains a collection of lesson plans for various curriculum areas in grades 4-6. For science plans, click here and for health lessons, click here. All lessons are downloadable in Adobe Acrobat format for printing. Teachers may order free Answer Books directly from the Sharks organization for delivery to schools.

Smithsonian Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE). Smithsonian OESE provides, for grades 6-12, online lesson plans from its quarterly magazine, Art to Zoointegrating science and other curriculum areas. To find these plans, click on recent issues of Art to Zoo. For more lesson plans from back issues, click here. There are also six interdisciplinary marine science lesson plans from the Smithsonian Ocean Planet exhibition. For more than 500 educational materials from the museum collection, click on Teachers Resources.

Solid Waste Classroom Activities. Solid Waste Classroom Activities from the Cornell Waste Management Institute feature cross-curricular lesson plans for grades K-12.

SouthEast Michigan Council of Governments. SouthEast Michigan Council of Governments provide activities for students in grades K-5 to learn about air quality, ozone, and smog.

Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC): Southern Atmospheric Education Resource (AER). SERCC publishes an online quarterly bulletin, Southern AER, featuring interactive weather activities and related sites for teachers and students in grades 5-9.

Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C Education (SIR-CED). SIR-CED is the latest generation of imaging radars produced by JPL for NASA. It features a TEACHER'S RESOURCE GUIDE and LESSON GUIDE that include computer activities and seatwork activities for middle school and high school students and teachers.

Spice Islands Voyage. Spice Islands Voyage, sponsored by CurricuIum Web, is an online distance learning adventure that offers lessons in Science among other curricular areas. Click on Teacher Stuff to find a Guide for Teachers for suggested activities and Surfing for Teachers, a lesson module designed to help teachers learn to easily "Surf the Net".

STELLAR: Space Life Sciences on the World Wide Web. Science Training for Enhancing Leadership and Learning through Accomplishments in Research (STELLAR), sponsored by the NASA Ames Research Center, features classroom activities developed by teachers for the study of space life sciences in grades K-12. The activity categories include astronaut training, bone, cardiovascular, hydroponics, microgravity, planetary geology, visual perception, and other topics. For an example of teaching about physiological changes associated with space flight in a classroom setting, click on Westmont High School.

STEM~Net Primary Home Page. STEM~Net Primary Home Page provides a thematic unit on bears developed pre-service teachers from Memorial University in Newfoundland. It features a variety of cross-curricular lesson plans for students in the primary grades.

STEM~Net Science Gopher Menu. STEM~Net Gopher Menu contains cross-curricular science lesson plans for the primary grades. Topics include animal coverings, butterflies, senses and the solar system.

Steve Mardsen's Chemistry Home Page. Steve Mardsen's Chemistry Home Page contains online resources and class notes including lab experiments for AP high school students and teachers. In the Lecture HallLecture Hall, you'll find experiments and class activities for a variety of topics including the physical behavior of gases, gas stoichiometry, chemical behavior of common gases, molecular spectroscopy, the preparation of an ester, and polarized light and the rates of chemical reactions. In addition, Steve has compiled a list of WWW Chemistry Links.

Strengthening Connections Gopher Menu. Strengthening Connections is a gopher menu containing science units with numerous lesson plans for animals, dinosaurs and fossils, electricity and magnetism, oceanography, simple machines, and other topics. All the units are suitable for students in grades K-9.

Summer Research Program for NYC Secondary School Science Teachers Home Page. Summer Research Program for NYC Secondary School Science Teachers Home Page contains laboratory research lesson plans developed by the participating teachers.

Sunrise . . . Sunset. Sunrise . . . Sunset, provided by the Los Angeles Educational Exchange, is a collection of interactive, interdisciplinary earth science/astronomy units designed by teachers for other teachers. There are units available for the K-3, 4-7 and 8-12 grade levels in online and print versions. There are also English and Spanish glossaries to accompany the units.

Teacher-Developed Earth and Space Science Lessons and Classroom Activities. Teacher-Developed Earth and Space Science Lessons and Classroom Activities from U.C. Berkeley is a collection of science lesson plans for grades 4-12.

Take Off. Take Off, an aeronautics project of the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications (MCET) funded by NASA, contains a collection of classroom activities and experiments with suggested level for grades K-12. Among the topics are properties of air, what makes an air plane fly, weather in aviation, navigation and flight planning, and history and literature.

Teacher's Edition Online. Teacher's Edition Online, sponsored by Gradekeeper, is designed by teachers for teachers, and provides lesson plans and activities in science, health, and other subject areas for K-12. You can find lesson plans for science here and for health here. You can also find in an alphabetical list of lesson plans science and health lessons organized by subject . In addition, you can request a free e-mail newsletter featuring lesson plans and tips.

Teachers Helping Teachers. Teachers Helping Teachers, updated weekly, is a forum where teachers can share lesson plans/activities in science and other subject areas. The site also offers practical suggestions for CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.

Teacher/Pathfinder: An Educational Village. Teacher/Pathfinder: An Educational Village provides a vast array of educational resources including lesson plans for grades K-12. To find lesson plans for science and health organized by topic, click on science and click on health.

Teacher Preparation Academy. Teacher Preparation Academy of the College of Education and Applied Professional Studies at Chattanooga's University of Tennessee, provides a collection of lesson plans using Microsoft software for grades K-12. These Microsoft lesson plans , developed by students in Dr. McAllister's secondary education classes, include online science lessons with related Web links for endangered species, ocean animals, dinosaurs, the nine planets, human body, and other topics.

Teacher Talk Forum. Teacher Talk Forum, sponsored by the Center for Adolescent Studies at the Indiana University School of Education, provides a collection of electronic lesson plans for Science and Health.

TEAMS Distance Learning. Telecommunication Education Advance for Mathematics & Science (TEAMS) distance learning, maintainted by the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE), features a variety of lessons, online classroom projects, and resources for K-12. To find lesson plans for science, click here, a science classroom project, click here, and science resources categorized by subject, click here.

Technology 'Nformation for Teachers (T'NT) Lesson Plans Gopher Menu. T'NT Gopher Menu contains a collection of over 200 lesson plans for a variety of topics, designed by teachers from the College of Education at the University of South Florida. Among the topics for science in grades K-12 are weather indicators, solar system basics and the solar system, lunar lessons, and zoos: real and imaginary. You can also browse a List All T'NT Lesson Plans.

Technology 'Nformation for Teachers (T'NT) Lesson Plans Gopher Search Menus. T'NT provides a gopher search for Lesson Plans by Grade Level where you'll find a collection of science lesson plans by selecting a grade level, entering the word "science", and pressing the return key. In addition, T'NT offers a gopher search for Lesson Plans by Subject and a gopher search for All Lesson Plans.

Thinking Fountain. Thinking Fountain, provided by the Science Museum of Minnesota, is an interactive mural featuring a collection of science activities that can be used as lessons in grades K-6. To find an an alphabetical list of these activities, click on A to Z. The individual activities (cards) also are arranged by thematic topics, called card clusters. A student, using the template, can make a card to be included on the mural by sending a science activity or idea .

Tim Allen's Education/Chemistry Homepage. Tim Allen's Education/Chemistry Homepage, for AP classes, contains a lab page with online experiments, demonstration page featuring Tim's favorite demos, and a fun interactive chemistry quiz.

Timber Wolf Guide. Timber Wolf Guide, prepared by the Science Museum of Minnesota, is best used in conjunction with a field trip to a zoo or natural wolf habitat. It includes clearly defined concepts and objectives, pre- and post-visit tests, a vocabulary list, a bibliography, classroom activities, and activities to do at the zoo.

Tornado Alley Chronicles. Tornado Alley Chronicles is a K-12 outreach program provided by the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) at the University of Oklahoma. This interactive site, updated monthly, contains exciting photos, explanations, online weather resources, and hands-on classroom activities. To find a list of the activities featured in a Teacher's Guide, click on Rain or Shine.

TRMS Teacher Developed Lessons & Curriculum Resources. Taylor Road Middlle School (TRMS) in Fulton County, Georgia provides a collection of Internet-based lessons and curriculum resources for a variety of subject areas. For online science lessons, click here.

Turning the Tide on Trash. Turning the Tide on Trash, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), features a learning guide for grades 6-12 with three units of study on marine debris. Each unit includes student activities, objectives, a vocabulary list, materials needed, learning skills, and an estimated time to complete each unit. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files.

UCSD InternNet Lesson Plans. UCSD InternNet Lesson Plans from the University of California at San Diego offer a wide variety of science lessons and experiments covering biology, earth science, physical science and chemistry, and physics for use in grades 7-12.

Unmixed Messages: Strategies for Equitable Science Education. Unmixed Messages: Strategies for Equitable Science Education, developed by Canada's Association for the Promotion and Advancement of Science Education (APASE), contains more than a dozen gender-equitable hands-on lesson plans for the elementary school. Included in the plans are activities for chemistry with everyday materials, music exploring principles of sound, and science skills needed in deductive reasoning.

Unmixed Messages: Strategies for Equitable Science Education. Unmixed Messages: Strategies for Equitable Science Education, developed by Canada's Association for the Promotion and Advancement of Science Education (APASE), contains more than a dozen gender-equitable hands-on lesson plans for the elementary school. Included in the plans are activities for chemistry with everyday materials, music exploring principles of sound, and science skills needed in deductive reasoning.

Using Science and the Internet as Everyday Classroom Tools.Using Science and the Internet as Everyday Classroom Tools, developed by the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, contains an online textbook, Eye on the Sky, Feet on the Ground, with seven chapters that provide a wide variety of hands-on astronomy activities for grades K-6. The site also includes a collection of classroom investigations for the study of astronomy.

U.S. Geolological Survey Learning Web. U.S. Geolological Survey Learning Web provides a collection of lessons and activities for teaching about earth science and volcanoes in grades K-12. Teaching in The Learning Web , divided into four parts, contains interdisciplinary classroom lesson plans with teacher's guides for Global change and working with maps, while the earth science part includes pictures and activities about earthquakes with a three faults page, and the What's New part provides paper activities for making model glaciers and volcanoes.

Utah Science Home Page. Utah Science Home Page, maintained by the Utah State Office of Education (USOE), contains a Science Course Directory with a collection of lesson plans and experiments organized by grade level. To find science lesson plans for grades K-6, click on Take Pride in Utah; to find science activities for grade 7, click on experiments; to find science activities for grade 8, click on ; to find earth science activities for grade 9, click on lesson plans and click on experiments; to find biology activities for grades 9-12, click on experiments; and to find chemistry activities for grades 9-12, click on experiments.

UtahLink. UtahLink, sponsored by the Utah State Office of Education (USOE), provides teacher-developed, elementary school science lesson plans organized by grade level. To find the K-5 plans with classroom activities for each topic, click on Teacher Resource Book (TRB) To view the complete list of TRB science lesson activities, click on Curriculum Database, select science in the pop-up menu, and click on Request Documents from curriculum units.

Vanishing Species. Vanishing Species is a curriculum about Texas' endangered species featuring thematic units of study for grades 5-8. Each unit contains extended lessons with a variety of classroom activities. The Unifying Web of Life is the concluding unit.

Views of the Solar System.Views of the Solar System has been created as an educational tour of the solar system for grades 4-12. The Table of Contents has links to all of the site's various pages including Lesson Plans and Activities. Views of the Solar System contains over 220 Web pages of information and over 950 pictures and animations of the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system.

Virtual Science Fair. Virtual Science Fair contains an assortment of grade-level experiments and inventions created by students at the Park Maitland Elementary School in Maitland, Florida. Elementary school teachers can use these projects as inquiry-oriented science lessons in which students try to answer such questions as "What Is a Plant's Favorite Color?", "Does Salt Melt Ice Faster?", and "Will Carbon Dioxide Put a Candle Out?". Many of the projects include related Web links.

Volcano World. Volcano World contains a wealth of online resources about volcanoes for grades 4-12. It includes a search engine where you can find lessons and information To find classroom lesson plans and activities, click on Learning about Volcanoes. For background information, click on Ask a Volcanologist which features categories of answers to the most common asked questions about volcanoes. The site also includes a VolcanoWorld Searcher where you can find lessons and other items.

WeatherEye. WeatherEye, created by TV meteorologists Scott Hall and Roger Evans, features lesson plans and online resources for the study of weather in grades 2-12. To find the plans, click here.

Weather Unit. Weather Unit, for the grades 2-4, is a collection of thematic lesson plans and activities which integrates the study of weather into all curricular areas. To find 14 science lessons for weather, click on Science.

Weather Here and There. Weather Here and There is an interactive weather unit incorporating hands-on, collaborative problem solving lessons and activities for students in grades 4-6.

Whale Songs. Whale Songs contains interactive, interdisciplinary lesson plans about whales and their marine habitat for grades 5-8. Students can click on an island or a day to listen to whale sounds and search for cetaceans in the Azores Islands aboard the ship, Song of the Whale.

Whales: A Thematic Web Unit. Whales: A Thematic Web Unit is an integrated curriculum unit for use in grades 4-8. Table of contents contains cooperative lesson plans, teacher resources, interactive student activities and projects with links to related sites.

Where Land & Water Meet. Where Land & Water Meet is an unit with 12 lesson plans for the study of a changing aquatic environment.

Wildlife Discovery Program. Wildlife Discovery Program for students in grades 3-6 is a partnership between the Houston Zoo and the Houston Independent School District. To find lessons for teaching about endangered animals, click on activity sheetswhich you can use with any zoo. The site also includes an online quiz about wild animals, bilingual glossary of zoo terms, and a list of frequently asked questions, FAQ, and facts about wildlife.

Wind: Our Fierce Friend. Wind: Our Fierce Friend, created by the Franklin Institute Museum of Science, is an interactive collaborative unit that investigates wind energy. The site contains lessons and activities for grades 4-6 and includes student contributions from online schools.

Wizard's World. Wizard's World contains illustrative lessons & units and other online science resources for the study of the astronomy and earth science in grades 3-8.

World in Motion. World in Motion, created by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), provides five fun-filled science units that will help you teach/learn about how people, objects, and everyday things move around in our world. Each unit contains a series of simple hands-on experiments that clarify the scientific principles. The site is suitable for grades 4-8.

Year-Long Project (YLP). Year-Long Project (YLP) is a collaborative project between University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and local elementary school teachers. YLP for fall of 1994 contains 11 cross-curricular science mini-units developed by student teachers, and YLP for 1995-1996 contains 8 cross-curricular science mini-units contributed by assistant teachers.

You Can. You can provides a collection of hands-on activities from Jok R. Church's television show Beakman's World that can be used as science lessons in grades K-8. Click on 50 Terrific ?'s where you will find 39 questions and answers with accompanying science activities. Questions include: How does a lever make you stronger? Why do I hear weird sounds at night? How does yeast make bread rise? and What is thunder made out of?.

Yuckiest Site on the Internet. Yuckiest Site on the Internet, provided by New Jersey Online and the Liberty Science Center, features classroom activities and information about worms and cockroaches for kids in grades K-6. To find a variety of teaching resources, click on Good Stuff, Fact File, and Ask Betty in Cockroach World, and Worms as Recyclers, Body Parts, and Art Gallery in Worm World. Both places include multimedia activities for the students.