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Science Resources Listed by Fields...

General Science Resources

• Project SEARCH brings schools and other organizations in Urbana and Champaign together with science departments of UIUC to enhance children's understanding of the meaning and excitement of science.
• Illinois State Board of Education now has a web site that includes Learning Standards.
• Science Network News Ask any science question and learn!
• Chicago Academy of Sciences Where Learning Happens!
• The Classroom of the Future Maintained by NASA!
• ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Math and Environmental Education: extensive gopher menu of resources.
• Explorer Database of Mathematics and Natural Science Lesson Plans and Activities: for organizing and delivering educational resources: instructional software, lab activities, and lesson plans. Currently for K-12
• Great Canadian Scientists: Short biographies and notations.
• The Mad Scientist Network will answer your science questions.
• Math and Science Education Resources: Varied list of documents, gophers, networks, and bullietin boards.
• National Science Education Standards
• National Science Foundation: News of interest, information on education, programs, research, grants. and media
• National Science Teachers Association, the largest organization in the world committed to the improvement of science education at all levels; Listing includes: publications, projects, programs, and on-line links.
• NCSA's Resource for Science Education Program brings visiting educators to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to interact with staff and scientists.
• The Hub at TERC: a networked resource for mathematics and science education whose goal is to transform the technological potential of recent developments in telecommunications into services.
• The SCIENCE HOBBYIST page. A must see for science educators; amatuer science, physics demonstrations, a homeschooling page and more. Great resource!
• sciencelines at Fermilab. A publication for and by science educators
• A Science Information Infrastructure at Berkeley: Enabling Access to Earth and Space Science Data through the Nation's Science Museums.
• K-16 Science Education from UCI: Identifies and communicates science & mathematics resources available on Internet/World Wide Web for standard and open-ended curricula.

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  Astronomy

• Astro-2: Learn more about space, astronomy, rocket science, planned shuttle missions, and take a quiz!
• Astronomy Picture of the Day Features a different picture every day, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer!
• Harvard-Smitsonian Center for Astrophysics (Harvard College and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatuory): Histories, projects, and links covering Astrophysics
• Hubble Space Telescope Education materials including Exploration in Education (picture books, reports, and tutorials); Lots of HST pictures and animations -recent and archived.
• May 10, 1994 Solar Eclipse images and map.
• Sky & Telescope Home Page Weekly news and astronomy events: comets, Mir visibility.
• NASA Educational programs, information sources by subject, and Hot topics.
• NASA Education page includes: NASA Spacelink community outreach program and a collection of internet sources and affiliated organizations.
• Remote Radio Astronomy at University of Indianapolis will make remote astrononomy observations for high school and college classes via the internet.

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  Atmospheric Science

• CLIMVIS Interactive Visual Data Center Graph and Download Data from the World's Weather Data Archive.
• Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project Students, teachers, researchers, and scientists working together to improve education in middle and high schools.
• The Daily Planet from the UIUC Department of Atmospheric Sciences Provides resources and expertise to support project-based inquiry in geoscience education.

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  Biological Science

• Interactive Frog Dissection Frog dissection and tutorial without the mess!
• Visible Human Java Applet!

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  Physical Science

• The Physics Classroom an online tutorial of basic physics concepts traditionally covered in a high school physics class

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  Earth Science

• The U.S. Geological Survey Earth-science research and information.
• The Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN): Goal to improve the quality of watersheds and rivers, lists: web sites, gophers, and directories. On-line conferences.

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  Space Exploration

• Astro-2 NASA MSFC mission operations laboratory information.
• Harvard-Smitsonian Center for Astrophysics Pursues studies of the basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the universe.
• NASA NASA home page. Offers a variety of information concerning NASA.
• NASA Education page A collection of Internet sources at NASA and affiliated organizations of interest to the educational community.
• NASA Langley Research Center's K-12 Program
• Space Environment Laboratory Provides information on the Sun and the environment between the Sun and Earth.

 

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Last Revised: 7/12/96