Math and Science
 
  
An Educational Weather Web Site 
http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/WEATHER/weather.html 

This weather web site gives teachers a way to integrate weather and all of its aspects into classroom learning. There are teacher lessons plans with names of books and activities all using weather as its subject. This makes multidisciplinary learning fun and interactive. 
 

An Educational Web Site on the Solar System 
http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys 

This web site allows you to view the solar system and all of its parts with various points of view. It allows teachers to show their students the planets from their very own classrooms and integrate them into their teaching. 
 

An Educational Web Site about NASA and Space 
http://www.okstate.edu/aesp/VC.html 

This NASA web site allows teachers to facilitate the use of NASA's educational programs in accordance with their classroom environment. They are allowed to roam NASA and incorporate NASA's lesson plans into their own, as well as teaching their students about space travel and space itself. 
 

A+ Math 
http://aplusmath.com/ 

This web site can be used as a resource for students in math.  It contains several drill and skill type activities, including flashcards and games.  I especially like the link that allows students to check their homework problems.  There are both simple and more advanced problems on this site.  This would be a good site for students to visit during center time. 
 

Access Excellence 
http://www.gene.com 
 
This site is specifically centered for biology teachers.  It includes topics such as teaching about Biology.  There are different headings to choose from such as Activities to Go which include subheadings which allow you to choose concepts such as Earth and Space Science, Physical Science, and Life Science.  Once in these locations you can research and explore further these general areas.  Teachers can get guidance on teaching science under some of the other headings.  The heading Let’s Collaborate includes Mentor Net and Sci Talk which allow you to meet and converse with other teachers over the internet. 
 
EE Link 
http://eelink.net/ 

EELink is a strong presence for Environmental Education (EE) on the Internet. Consistent with the key principles of Environmental Education, EELink provides and organizes Internet resources to support, enhance and extend effective environmental education in grades K-12. The EELink project is responsible for development of this website, conducting training workshops, and promoting interaction and exchange among Environmental Education students, teachers and professionals. I feel that this site is helpful in my professional development in that it provides uptodate information and resources concerning the enviornment.  A topic of great importance not just for educators, but for everyone in general. 
 

The Computer Learning Partner 
http://www.clp.berkeley.edu/CLP.html 

The Computer as Learning Partner (CLP) project is an on-going educational research effort at the School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley dedicated to informing and improving middle school science instruction. Supported by the National Science Foundation and affiliated with the Instructional Technology Program, the project involves a decade-long collaborative partnership of educational and cognitive researchers, natural scientists, middle school teachers, and technology experts. CLP research has created and refined a semester-long thermodynamics, light, and sound curriculum for achieving integrated science understanding that involves the innovative use of computers in the classroom. Our web site describes these efforts and provides a resource for science teachers, policy makers, and educational researchers. 
The information in this site is important for my educational development not only because it deals with current topics relating to computers in the classroom, but it also provides an opportunity to look at what other teachers are doing outside of their classrooms, but still in the educational field. 
 

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) 
http://www.nsta.org/about/abt-nsta.shtml 

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), is the largest organization in the world 
committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. NSTA's current membership of more than 53,000 includes science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in science education. To address subjects of critical interest to science educators, the Association publishes five journals, a newspaper, many books, a new children's magazine called Dragonfly, and many other publications. NSTA conducts national and regional conventions that attract more than 30,000 attendees annually. 
As an elementary eduation major with a concentration in science, I see this site as a great source of information into what other professionals in the field of science education are doing.  It's amazing to see the large number of members and the different ways in which the group provides information.  This includes a large number of publications. 
 

Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation 
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/ 
UMS+state/UMD-Projects/MCTP/WWW/MCTPHomepage.html 

This is a program to prepare special teachers for elementary and middle school science and math classes.  There are links for teacher preparation to integrate computers into the classrooms.  The site also includes a resource library which is helpful for teachers who do not have access to up to date books on computers.  It is a good resource for science and math topics.  There are different essays which constantly change, for example, constructivism and education.  There are mentor teacher workshops to show the way the technology is used. 
 

Volcano World 
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lesson.html 

This is a great site for teachers.  It is actually a site all about Volcanos.  The site gives you lots of information about volcanos and the study of volcanos.  Included in this site is many lesson plans that you can use to teach children all about volcanos.  The lesson plans can explain how you can make and erupt your own in class.  The lesson plans are separated into three categories for each level of school (elementary, middle and high schools.)  It also gives you some great pictures of volcanos.  It has a volcano locator that shows you were they can be found in Hawaii's Volcano National Park.  They also have links to articles about volcanos in various educational journals. 
 

Newton's Apple 
http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton/ 

This site is the least interesting and least helpful of all the sites we have visited so far.  It is a site set up to accompany a PBS series on science for families.  I thought that this web page was unhelpful because the lesson plans are used primarily as a supliment for their series on PBS.  It would be useful however if you were using the video series in your classroom.  The problem is that you would have to order the videos that they have a link to buy on this page but they are expensive like most PBS series are. 
 

Endangered Species Lesson Plans 
http://www.inforamp.net/~jlvitale/inte7.html 
 

This site has incorporated numerous lesson plans dealing with endangered species.  There is something for all age groups, from K-12. Each plan is listed by title and followed by a short summary, so that you may read what the site is about before connecting.  This is a great site for children to learn about wildlife and the species that are struggling to survive.  Pictures of the animals are also included.  There are also many links from this site. 
 

Engaging Science 
http://www.engagingscience.org/mic/mic.htm  

This site was created to help teachers and students learn the web and how to find links. 
 

Science Education Sites 
http://www.davis.K12.ut.us/etc/Science.htm 

This site has a lot of different links pertaining to science.  There are links to thematic web site on Whales (http://curny.edschool.Virginia.edu/go/Whales/), links to resource for science educator in Al Bodzin’s home page                        (http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/a/ambodzin/public/home.htm), and interactive guide to chemistry (http://library.advanced.org/3659/). 
 

Science & Math Initiatives, Teacher Help Service 
www.learner.org/sami 
 
This website maintains a strict concentration on science and math topics, and provides lesson plans in these areas for all grade levels.  One of the most interesting aspects of this website is that  it provides links to over a hundred teacher resource websites. 
 
Academic Net Online 
www.academic.com/ 

This is a wonderful web site for math teachers.  It has math lessons already on it in the Interactive Mathematics Course series.  In general, it is "the information network for those interested in technology-mediated instruction and learning in higher education".  Many teachers could use this to further develop their lesson plans to include lessons on the web. 
 

     
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