Access Excellence, a resource of the National Health Museum, is a national educational program that provides health, biology, and life science teachers with new scientific information. It has an Activities Exchange segment for all science teachers to share successful teaching strategies for the benefit of students. It has a Partner’s Collection with a mystery spot dealing with scientific mysteries to be studied in classrooms; and a Classic Collection that has papers and activities dealing with people who have changed the face of scientific knowledge. The site has other collections, as well.

The primary goal of AAPT is “dissemination of knowledge of physics, particularly by way of teaching.” AAPT conducts meetings, hosts and supports workshops, conferences, and symposia to promote professional development and knowledge sharing. Its web site includes links to teaching resources in physics.

Contains segments on the subject of health and the environment for students, teachers, and scientists. The teacher segment has classroom activities and curricula, reference materials, and professional development information.

The Jefferson Lab, located in Newport News, Virginia, conducts basic research of the atom’s nucleus at the quark level. Its Science Education site has a segment on teacher resources, which contains information about teacher programs, workshops, reference materials, and distance learning. It has sites of hands-on-activities at the Jefferson Lab for students in 6th to 8th grade classes. A site also contains worksheets, puzzles, and games.

This site provides information from earth science/geoscience education listservs in the United States for K-12 educators. The Listserv is a network that allows people with a common interest to communicate with others in the organization through e-mail. The listservs are organized by national scope, regional focus, and content areas.

This center provides a wide variety of educational materials reflecting NASA research in such subjects as life science, physical science, astronomy, energy, earth resources, the environment, mathematics, geography, and careers in aerospace. These materials include video programs, 35mm slides, curriculum materials/lesson plans, and NASA publications. The site contains information for teachers of K-12 educators and students.

The NSTA promotes science education. Its web site provides journal articles, lesson plans, seminars in which teachers can interact with experts from the NSTA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Food and Drug Administration, National Science Foundation, and National Science Digital Library community. Online subjects of the web site include earth and space science, physical science, and life science.

This resource of the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy contains an “Ask a Scientist” segment, which provides opportunities for K-12 students and teachers to ask a question. The site notes: “We have a means to have questions answered that are not going to be easily found on the web or within common references.” Some of the questions can be answered in the site’s archives. Other questions will be answered by volunteer scientists.

Presents hundreds of annotated lessons, simulations, and resources for teaching topics in the physical sciences. The topics include astronomy, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, fluid mechanics, general physics, modern physics, optics, oscillations and waves, quantum physics, and thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

Designed to provide internet-content information for the benefit of K-12 science educators. This site contains lesson plans, web resources, benchmarks for science literacy, and science updates. The latter contains 60-second radio programs dealing with current scientific research, and comments to questions phoned into the Science Update hotline.

This is a site of the U.S. Geological Survey—the nation’s largest water, earth, biological science, and civilian mapping agent. It has lesson plans and activities, paper models, and educational materials for K-12 teachers and students. Some subjects include the changing world, working with maps, earth hazards, volcanoes, and earthquake effect.

“The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides scientific information on natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and issues that affect our quality of life.” The web site’s educational resources segment contains USGS educational resources for primary grades K-6 and 7-12. These resources deal with biology, geography, geology, and water. Other information for educators describes using lessons and analyses of geographic information systems and spatial analysis; and global positioning systems. A search database of over 69,000 USGS maps, books, and other publications is included.

Contains information for teachers interested in teaching about energy production and use. The site provides answers to questions asked by teachers about the subject. The site also contains a bibliography of the subject. A teachers’ guide segment classifies curricular objectives, and each objective includes a description and links to resources that serve that objective.

A site displaying exhibits showing how the use of electricity and magnetism revolutionized the way we work, play, learn, and communicate. Exhibits include “Socket to Me: How Electricity Came to Be” and “Thomas Edison: A Lifetime of Invention.”

The mission of the NSRC, which was established by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine), is to improve the learning and teaching of science for all K-12 students in the United States and throughout the world. The web site professional development segment offers courses for teachers of science. The NSRC researches, develops, and publishes inquiry-related science education curricula that can be used by school districts to conduct core institutional programs.

This site contains biology teacher resources from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). It features video and/or audio presentations, slide sets, teacher resources, biology news, courses, discussions, hot topics, and K-5 programs. Teacher resources include ready-to-go lessons, instructional materials, institutions and organizations, educational standards, from the labs of BCM, TV healthline at BCM, the body explained, and K-5 segments.

“A resource site for biology and science teachers. The Lesson Plans section contains classroom activities, labs, and worksheets.” The Webquest section deals with inquiry-based projects that use the internet. Internet lessons are small activities that require students to use internet resources. Self-scoring quizzes are also on this web site.

Provides lessons for middle school classes (Grades 7-8) for learning about the relationship between chemicals in the environment and human health. Topics include the science of toxicology, dose-response relationships, individual susceptibility, and environmental hazards. This site is a National Institutes of Health supplement. It contains a teacher’s guide with lesson plans and implementation support.

EELS provides K-12 consulting for teacher professional development and education programs. It conducts teacher professional development workshops in topics that include scientific inquiry, ecology education, environmental science, and environmental education. It assists teachers in curriculum development in such science subjects. It offers science education programs on natural history, ecology, environment, and conservation.

EE-Link is a site of the NAAEE, an association concerned with using teaching to educate people about environmental needs. EE-Link is a resource designed to assist students, teachers, and professionals who support environmental education. Its teacher resources segment contains information about teacher education (where university programs in environmental education are listed); classroom resources (listing resources on many subjects, including air and climate, endangered species, energy and transportation, forestry and agriculture, marine, soils, solid waste, and wildlife); and catalogs of EE-Link materials (lesson plans, audiovisual resources and EE-Link software programs). EE-Link has several other segments, including professional resources, organizations, K-12 students, and higher education programs.

Environmental Literacy Council, a nonprofit organization, seeks to help students develop environmental literacy. This site provides easily accessed information in the following subject areas: air and climate, land, water, ecosystems, energy, food, and environment and society.

This segment of the NPS web site is entitled “Learn NOS.” It contains resources for teachers, students, and others interested in the national parks. The “for teachers” segment includes the following subjects: parks in your curriculum, resources (e.g., teacher workshops, audio-visual services, links to online resources, and teaching with historic places); workshops for teachers; field trip planning; and share your ideas.

Offers background information about environmental protection matters on many topics, lesson plans, and activities for the classroom and outside of the classroom. It also furnishes information on workshops, conferences, and other matters pertaining to the subject of environmental protection.

Check out the Wild Animal Chronicles for your students. These audio and video files are available for playback on your classroom computer. Perfect for grades 3-8.

Free podcasts on 60-second science lessons. Discusses current issues in science in both an interesting and thought-provoking manner.