Education Resources

• General Science Sites
• Biology Sites
• Chemistry Sites
• Earth Science Sites
• Physics Sites
• Educational Grants and Financial Help Links

General Science Sites

• http://physics.cramster.com Cramster is a global online study community centered on providing understanding to physics, math, chemistry and general sciences questions whether it's related to homework, exam preparation or general learning.
• http://www.teacherspayteachers.com At TeachersPayTeachers.com, teachers can buy or sell original lesson plans at a very low cost (sometimes even for free!). There is great stuff on here in all content areas and grade levels. If you need a specific lesson, you can even put in a request for it and see what results.
• http://education.arm.gov/ This site is from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program, a program funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The ARM program studies the natural phenomena that occur in clouds, and how those cloud conditions affect the sun's incoming and outgoing energy and, in the longer term, our climate. The goal of the Education and Outreach Program is to develop basic science awareness and increase critical thinking skills focusing on environmental science and climate change for K-12 students. In addition, the program supports relationship building between teachers, students, scientists, and communities.
• http://www.uen.org/k12educator/ Very cool interactive on this website in most subject areas! All of the interactive are very educational as well as fun (for example there is a very cool blood typing interactive that allows the student to determine the blood type of a "patient" and then to administer the correct blood type to save the "patient's" life). (Suggested Grade Level: Any)
• http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/ This website is full of things that students can do at home with their parents. For the most part they require little more than what is lying around the house. (Suggested Grade Level: 1-4)
• http://www.funbrain.com/teachers/index.html This website is cool for many reasons. It has a quiz lab where teachers can create online quizzes that will be graded automatically and grades can be tracked and recorded. It also has fun learning games for anything from science, to math to language arts (such as Proton Don in which students learn the elements of the periodic table). The games and such are free, but using the quiz creator and grade book cost a small annual fee. (Suggested Grade Level: 4-12)
• http://www.geocities.com/mrsscienceteacher/ This website is neat. It is one teacher's website where she has several links to other cool websites, demonstrations and activities. (Suggested Grade Level: 7-8)
• http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/indexFT.html Very cool interactive website!!! There are many good educational games and many different helpful hints for teachers (such as lesson plans). Great for most subject areas! (Suggested Grade Level: Any)
• http://www.edheads.org/ This website has very cool interactive educational activities and lesson plans. The activities involve several different areas including (but not limited to) a virtual hip replacement, weather, and simple machines online activities. (Suggested Grade Level: 6-12)
• http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ This website is full of videos that are a wonderful resource and can be aligned with a specific state's standards. The videos are said to "help improve retention and test scores". It also provides a network for teachers to work together and tell others of their experiences and what works best. It does cost some money annually (although there is a Free 30 day trial), but it is usable by the entire school to get whatever videos needed. (Suggested Grade Level: Any)
• http://www.utm.edu/departments/cece/old_site/intro.shtml This website has all sorts of helpful suggestions for teachers in most of the sciences (earth science, physical science, chemistry, biology, etc.) on an assortment of websites. (Suggested Grade Level: k-8)
• http://www.scholastic.com/ This website is very cool for activity ideas and lesson plans concerning any academic subject. It also has teaching strategies and great games and contests for the students. (Suggested Grade Level: pre k-12)
• http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/edustandalpha.htm This cool website has many different specific categories (Carbon Cycle, Water Cycle, Weather and much more) in many different subject areas. Several links to important pages in that specific subject are included along with a description of what it is. (Suggested Grade Level: 7-12)

Biology Sites

• http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/secretsofthesequence/default.asp This website is very cool. It has free videos and lesson plans for biology. The lesson plans include state and national science standards, questions and answers to facilitate discussions, and an activity. (Suggested Grade Level: 9-12)
• http://www.biology.arizona.edu/ This is a very cool website for Biology. It has some very cool tutorials, information on many biological processes, and links to different websites with great videos, activities and much more. (Suggested Grade Level: 9-12)
• http://www.cellsalive.com/quiz.htm This website is very neat in that it has a very focused area. It is all about cells. It has quizzes, pictures and even videos that illustrate the functions of a cell well. (Suggested Grade Level: 9-12)

Chemistry Sites

• http://misterguch.brinkster.net/chemfiestanew.html This website has very useful things for chemistry teachers. It has tutorials and practice problems as well as free labs, books and lots of other stuff. The author (Ian Guch) of the website is also the author of several chemistry books including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chemistry. (Suggested Grade Level: 9-12)
• http://www.marketplaceforthemind.state.pa.us/m4m/lib/m4m/documents/labs/Ozone_Lesson.pdf An ozone detection lab is included at this website. It is very cool because it has a way to make the strips (Schoenbein paper) that detect the ozone and also has a color chart so that the concentration of ozone in parts per billion can be roughly determined. This is a very fun looking experiment. (Suggested Grade Level: 6-12)

Earth Science Sites

• http://www.sciencecourseware.org/eecindex.php This website is very cool for earth science. It has tutorials for earthquakes, global warming, carbon dating, and rivers. Most of the tutorials include tools for instructors to assess students, as well. (Suggested Grade Level: 7-10)
• http://www.amnh.org/rose/hope/creatinghope/ This is another great website for earth science. It answers some questions involving rocks and how they can tell us a lot about the earth now and billions of years ago. (Suggested Grade Level: 7-10)
• http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~braile/indexlinks/educ.htm This website is full of Earth Science Education Activities. It has all sorts of good earth science lessons and demonstrations. (Suggested Grade Level: 5-12)
• http://sd5.k12.mt.us/glaciereft/atour.htm This is a very cool website with a virtual field trip of Glacier National Park. It also has lesson plans that are appropriate for teaching before the field trip in a variety of areas, like weather and botany. Very cool! (Suggested Grade Level: Any)
• http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/ This website has virtual field trips and links to many other pages with very cool virtual tours of which many have related activities and lesson plans. (Suggested Grade Level: Any)
• http://products.classroom.com/cybertrips/home.asp Very cool website with virtual tours of Mt. Everest, Washington, D.C., Kenya, Egypt and Paris! There are also helpful tips for teachers for incorporating it into the classroom. (Suggested Grade Level: Any)
• http://avc.comm.nsdlib.org/Education/lesson_plan_sandbox.shtml A website with many meteorological lessons, fun activities and educational supplements. (Suggested Grade Level: 4-10)
• http://www.k5geosource.org/index.html This website has great activities, assessments, articles and online resources. (Suggested Grade Level: k-5)
• http://www.beloit.edu/~SEPM/activity-age.html This website is another earth science website with a lot of different links to activities, lessons and websites. These are on any of the earth science topics. (Suggested Grade Level: Any)
• http://twister.ou.edu/MM2007/Chapter4.1.ppt This website must be copied into your address box and it will open a PowerPoint presentation. This slide show is on the convective dynamics of thunderstorms. (Suggested Grade Level: 10-12 or higher)

Physics Sites

• http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/ This very cool website is great for teaching students how electric circuits work. There are fun activities and then quizzes to follow each informative section that it presents. At the very end if the student has performed well on the quizzes, a certificate can be printed saying that the student completed the very fun tutorial. (Suggested Grade Level: 3-6)

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Educational Grants and Financial Help Links

• Donors Choose Donors Choose is a non-profit program that allows teachers to submit a project proposal for materials and student activities/experiences that help the students to learn. The proposal is submitted and donors come to the website and can choose the proposal on the site that they want to donate to (all or partial amounts). Teachers in any subject area can submit a proposal.
• Toshiba America Foundation This foundation is helping to improve the quality of education in math science in schools. These grants can be for activities and programs that improve teaching and learning of math and science in all grade levels.
• Toyota Tapestry This program allows for innovation as well as educational grant application. In order to qualify for the grant, the teacher must have an innovative way to use whatever it is that they are applying for the grant for. In other words, the more creative the proposal is the better.
• EDS Technology Grants This program is another grant program. In order to obtain an application for the grant, however, the teacher must contact a current EDS grant sponsor. They do not provide grants to home schools or after school programs.
• American Federation of Teachers This website has tips for writing grants and also has several other ideas for finding a place to apply for grants and other things such as loan forgiveness programs for teachers.
• IloveSchools.com This program works with teachers adding some things to their wish list and donors offering to donate those things to their classrooms.
• Adopt-a-Classroom Once a donor adopts the classroom the teacher has a $500 credit to buy supplies from affiliated vendors.
• Best Buy Community Relations Best Buy has a community relations program that provides Best Buy Teach Awards for schools to purchase technology, supports innovative programs that use technology to make learning fun for kids, and mobilizes their tech savvy employees as volunteers throughout the country. There are many opportunities for educators, students, and communities to get involved.