Teaching+Resources

[|42 eXplore] Teaching ideas and related web sites for a variety of science topics.

[|Education World- Science] Teachers lesson plans, worksheets, & activities for science. K-8

[|Learner.org] Professional development and teaching resources that stretch across the curriculum. Videos marked VoD may be watched online. This site is by the Annenberg foundation. Offers many great resources for students and the teacher!!

[|LearningScience.org] This website will introduce you to links to new online technologies for teaching science, links to science sites which are related to the science learning standards, and cool learning tools for math.

Middle School Science This is a website devoted to middle school science teachers. It contains lesson plans and activities that focus on earth science, life science, chemistry, & physics.

[|The National Science Digital Library] Links to science resources for teaching.

[|NSTA: Outstanding Science Trade Books for Grades K-12] Great resource for incorporating literacy in science!

[|The National Science Teachers Association] - NSTA Homepage

[|FREEBIES for Science Teachers]- Compiled by the NSTA

[|NOVA Online for Teachers] Lesson Plans for using the PBS television show NOVA in the classroom. Several NOVA episodes, as well as other PBS videos, can be streamed straight from the site. Bring NOVA to your classroom!!

[|PBS Science & Technology] Lesson plans and web links from PBS.

[|Science Fair Central] Help with science fair projects, and a guide to running a science fair. From Discovery School

[|Science NetLinks] Lesson plans and web resources of K-12 science teachers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Science Spot Tons of middle school science resources for teachers, parents, and students! There are many valuable activities, lab ideas, Power Points, and lesson plans in many different areas of science.

[|Thinking Routines] "Visible Thinking makes extensive use of learning routines that are thinking rich. These routines are simple structures, for example a set of questions or a short sequence of steps, that can be used across various grade levels and content. What makes them routines, versus merely strategies, is that they get used over and over again in the classroom so that they become part of the fabric of classroom' culture. The routines become the ways in which students go about the process of learning. "