CURRICULUM RESOURCES WEBSITES

 

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/newtons/index.html

Newton's Apple Educator's Resources - teaching/learning strategies and resources for teachers, parents and children.

http://www.nasa.gov

NASA information - information about NASA and its' involvement with shuttle flights and astronauts .

http://www.madscience.org/

Madscience - teaching/learning strategies, resources for teachers, parents and children.

http://www.merlot.org/Home.po

Curriculum ideas

WEBQUEST
 

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec596/about_webquests.html

Read this for the "background information" on Webquests - maybe the first thing to read to gather a basic understanding of where you are going when designing a Webquest.

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html

Explanations of Webquests and procedures for developing, both short and long term projects

http://sesd.sk.ca/teacherresource/webquest/webquest.htm

 The WebQuests page from a school district in Saskatchewan

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/materials.htm

WebQuest Training Materials

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/all.htm

WebQuest Design Patterns at    

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designsteps/index.html

WebQuest Design Map

http://www.iste.org/netst/netst.pdf

Information on WebQuest

 http://www.stao.org

SCIENCE TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO

http://www.stao.org/hotlinks.htm   (Links to science resource sites)

A good collection of resource and curricular information for Ontario schools

http://www.enc.org

EISENHOWER NATIONAL CLEARING HOUSE

ENC searches the Net for new and fascinating resources for math and science--check here monthly for great links. Previous months will be archived.

http://unite.ukans.edu

EXPLORER SCIENCE

The Explorer is a network data base system for contributing, organizing and delivering educational resources. These resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans ...) are currently for K-12 mathematics and science education..

http://www.sln.org/

THE SCIENCE LEARNING NETWORK

The Science Learning Network (SLN) is an online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education. The project incorporates inquiry-based teaching approaches, telecomputing, collaboration among geographically dispersed teachers and classrooms, and Internet/World Wide Web content resources.  

http://www.nsta.org/resources

NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION (NSTA)

A collection of science sites recommended by the NSTA.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm/sci.html

An excellent jump page to Canadian science centres and museums, and many others all over the world. The other great thing here is that a number of the science centre sites have created their own jump pages

http://whyfiles.org

THE WHY FILES: SCIENCE BEHIND THE NEWS  

The Why Files, a project of the National Institute for Science Education, is an electronic exploration of the science behind the news

http://www.nap.edu/books/0309064767/html/

This online book titled "Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning" (2000) discusses inquiry as it refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and in which students grasp science knowledge and the methods by which that knowledge is produced. This book explains and illustrates how inquiry helps students learn science content, master how to do science, and understand the nature of science.

http://www.brainpop.com

Good online activities, including video clips of interesting science concepts and phenomen

http://www.csiro.au/scientriffic

Effective teaching/learning strategies and resources for teachers, parents and children. This website is based in Australia.

Virtual Field Trips

http://www.field-guides.com/trips.htm 

Interactive/Real Time Computing

http://whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/Stop_Bm02/

Live Action of different Critters

http://animal.discovery.com/cams/cams.html

Marine Life Movies

http://whale.wheelock.edu/movies/

How Stuff Works

www.howstuffworks.com

 

Computer Software:         (These are programs that I have found useful in the Junior Division)

Eyewitness * 

·        Space and Universe

·        Earth Quest

·        Human Body

Digital Field Trips *

·        To the Wetlands

·        To the Rainforest

HyperStudio *

         Science Sleuths

·        Part 1

·        Part 2

Science Court

·        Electric Current

·        Gravity

·        Soil

·        Sound

·        Water Cycle

·        Work and Simple Machines

Thinking Like a Scientist

Gidgets and Gadgets