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American Institute of Physics Online
Exhibits and other online resources for history of physics and allied fields.
Animal Diversity Web
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan
Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER)
AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundat
ARKive
with the help of the world’s best filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists, ARKive is creating the ultimate multimedia guide to the world's endangered animals, plants and fungi.
AutoDesk Sustainability Workshop
Access free materials for educators that can be included within a broad range of courses, from K-12 through graduate studies.
Caveman Chemistry
Caveman Chemistry is an experiential exploration of chemical technology from the campfires of the stone age to the plastic soft-drink bottle. An experiential exploration? Not only will you learn about these technologies, you will learn to recreate them. I
Cells Alive!
CELLS alive! represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research.
Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE)
NSF's Informal Science Education program supports innovation in "anywhere, anytime, lifelong learning," through investments in research, development, infrastructure, and capacity-building for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learni
Center for History of Physics
AIP's Center for History of Physics works to preserve and make known the historical record of modern physics and allied sciences. Through documentation, archival collections and educational initiatives, the Center ensures that the heritage of modern physi
Classroom Earth
Classroom Earth, a program of The National Environmental Education Foundation, defines environmental education as the process, activities and experiences—across disciplines—that lead students to have a greater understanding of how the earth’s resources an
Climate Classroom
Based on the Environmental Education Guidelines for Excellence of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), the Climate Classroom ensures: students understand the science of global climate change steps can be taken in da
Cogito
For students passionate about math and science, Cogito provides a place "for learning about amazing scientists your own age, what they're doing and how they managed to do it, "as well as news and features on topics ranging from global warming to bioethic
Cosmic Evolution
This Web site, version 5, derives from an earlier textbook, Universe: An Evolutionary Approach to Astronomy by Eric Chaisson, originally published in 1988 by Prentice Hall and now revised, updated, expanded, and rewritten for this presentation in cyberspa
Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
DLESE is the Digital Library for Earth System Education, a free resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth system. DLESE's development was funded by the National Science Foundation and continues to be built by a distributed community of
Dynamic Periodic Table
An interactive, comprehensive periodic table.
Earth Engine
Google Earth Engine brings together the world's satellite imagery — trillions of scientific measurements dating back almost 40 years — and makes it available online with tools for scientists, independent researchers, and nations to mine this massive wareh
Earth Science Animations
Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction
Earth Science Literary Initiative
Defining a set of essential ideas that a literate American should know about the geosciences is a critical national need in an information-rich age characterized by a rapidly changing planet and numerous resource challenges.
Earth Science World Image Bank
The Earth Science World Image Bank is a service provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI). This Image Bank is designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.
Earth Trends
EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
eCybermission
eCYBERMISSION is a free, web-based science, technology, engineering and math competition for students in grades six through nine.
Edison: The Think, Try, Learn Experimenter's Journal
By treating everything you do as an experiment, you'll tap your natural curiosity and love of learning to welcome change, master uncertainty and live with more confidence and resilience. The TTL method applies to all of life - business, careers, problems,
Encyclopedia of the Earth
The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The EoE is a free, expert-reviewed collection of content contributed by scholars, professionals, educators, practiti
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Art to Zoology - a huge compendium of learning resources.
Energy.Data.gov
where data and insight are combined to facilitate public discussion and awareness of our Nation’s energy activities. Whether you are interested in alternative fuels, managing buildings to be more energy efficient, or trying to manage energy in your own ho
Engineering Pathway
We invite you to Learn, Connect, and Create with high-quality teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology for use by K-12 and university educators and studen
Engineering, Go For It (eGFI)
eGFI is for everyone! From the interactive website to the colorful and inspiring print and digital magazine, there is something for everyone--students, K-12 teachers and informal educators, parents and guardians, and anyone else with an interest in engine
EPA Climate Change
EPA's website provides information on climate change for communities, individuals, businesses, states, localities and governments.
Eric Weisstein's World of Science
Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the inte
First Science
FirstScience.com is a leading online popular science magazine featuring articles on important breakthroughs, the latest science news, video clips, blogs, poems, facts, games and a whole lot more science-related content.
Galaxy Zoo
Galaxy Zoo: Hubble uses gorgeous imagery of hundreds of thousands of galaxies drawn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope archive. To understand how these galaxies, and our own, formed we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at
Geocaching in Education
Geocaching is a cross-curricular activity that educators, leaders and facilitators are incorporating into their programs with great success. Geocaching combines outdoor play with team-building, problem-solving and other valuable educational outcomes.
Geography Animations
Animations in geography, particularly in physical geography, can help you to understand the complex processes that take place at or close to the surface of the earth. The animated diagrams and maps speed up time, giving you the opportunity to see and unde
Geologic Time
An interactive geologic timeline from the Smithsonian
Global Education Outreach for Science Engineering and Technology (GEOSET)
The Global Educational Outreach (GEO) initiative uses new technology to provide outstanding Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) teaching material.
Google Earth Lessons
GELessons.com - A Free Public Resource - Providing Teachers with the tools needed to enhance their instruction using Google Earth®, the free program that brings the world to the classroom! A Website By and For Teachers.
Grey Matters
Grey Matters is an educational series that seeks to enhance public awareness of recent developments in brain research.
Interactive Geologic Time Scale
International Technology and Engineering Educators Association's STEM±Center for Teaching and Learning™
The International Technology and Engineering Educators Association's STEM±Center for Teaching and Learning™ has developed the only standards-based national model for Grades K-12 that delivers technological literacy. The model, Engineering byDesign™ is bui
Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS)
JETS is a national non-profit education organization dedicated to promoting engineering and helping students discover their potential for the profession.
Learn Genetics
The Genetic Science Learning Center is a science and health education program located in the midst of the bioscience research being carried out at the University of Utah. Our mission is making science easy for everyone to understand.
Learning Science.org
learningscience.org is an organization dedicated to sharing the newer and emerging "learning tools" of science education. Tools such as real-time data collection, simulations, inquiry based lessons, interactive web lessons, remote instrumentation, micro-
Materials Technology Education
Materials Technology@TMS is the on-line technical community environment developed by and for materials scientists and engineers. Here, materials professionals can network, share knowledge, and utilize resources in technology-specific communities through d
Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH)
The Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH) is a publicly accessible, online tool for researchers that offers centralized access to metadata ‐ standardized contextual information ‐ about thousands of government-held datasets related to health,
Nanoscale Informal Science Network (NISE Network)
The NISE Net is a national community of researchers and informal science educators dedicated to fostering public awareness, engagement, and understanding of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology.
NASA Do-it-Yourself-Podcasts
NASA's Do-It-Yourself Podcast activity sets the stage for students to host a show that features astronauts doing experiments on the International Space Station or NASA experts explaining scientific concepts. NASA provides a set of audio and video clips al
NASA Education
NASA will continue the Agency’s tradition of investing in the Nation’s education programs and supporting the country’s educators who play a key role in preparing, inspiring, exciting, encouraging, and nurturing the young minds of today who will be the wor
National Academies Press
The National Academies Press is proud to be one of the only online bookstores that provides anyone in the connected world with free page-by-page access to all of our books. As of June 1st 2011, PDFs of reports that were previously for sale on the National
National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a not-for-profit, membership organization providing information and resources for schools, parents and concerned citizens working to keep evolution in public school science education.
National Geographic Education Network
An online service from National Geographic Society's Education & Children's Programs department.
National Institutes of Health Office of Science Education
Free resources for science teachers.
National Wildlife Federation Wildlife University
Wildlife University is a fun and interactive way to explore nature and learn at the same time.
NOAA Educational Resources
Education resources are distributed across many websites and program offices at NOAA and on NOAA partner websites. This portal is designed to assist educators in accessing these materials from one centralized interface.
NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab Channel
NOAA satellites are observing the Earth 24 hours a day to provide data that support the weather forecasts and warnings that Americans benefit from every day. This visualization provides a basic overview of that process - how data and information flows fro
NOAAs National Ocean Service
The National Ocean Service (NOS) translates science, tools, and services into action, to address threats to coastal areas such as climate change, population growth, port congestion, and contaminants in the environment, all working towards healthy coasts a
One Zoom Tree of Life Explorer
This website allows you to explore the tree of life in a completely new way: it's like a map, everything is on one page, all you have to do is zoom in and out. OneZoom also provides free, open source, data visulation tools for science and education, curre
Origins
Origins explores the origins of matter, the universe, earth, and even life itself
PhET - Interactive Physics Simulations
PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. We believe that our research-based approach- incorporating findings from prior research and our own testing- enables students to make connections between real-life
Physics to Go
Physics To Go is an online monthly mini-magazine and a collection of more than 900 websites with physics images, activites, and info.
Planet Connect
Planet Connect, a component of Classroom Earth, is an online social network where high school students can learn about current environmental issues, funding opportunities, green colleges and environmental careers. Students can also share and exchange idea
Polar Discovery
Polar Discovery brings you the stories of science on ice. The polar regions are experiencing unprecedented environmental changes that are having significant impacts on global climate, ecosystems, and society. Using the latest engineering advancements, sci
PRISMS
PRISMS is a collection of reviewed phenomena and representations for middle school. Our goal is to help increase the amount of content aligned and pedagogically useful resources available in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) for middle school te
Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction (RESGI)
This website contains links which are organized alphabetically around the sequence of topics typically taught in an introductory earth science or physical geography class
RoboEducators Robotics Curriculum
This is an organized collection material that is related to Science, Engineering and Technology. It is intended to be used in 9th grade science classes, robotics classes and robotics clubs. This material could be used as resource to augment a textbook o
Science and Math Informal Learning Educators
SMILE is a national partnership among science and technology centers, museums, community-based organizations, and out-of-school educators. We are dedicated to making science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) exciting and engaging for all learners.
Science for Citizens
ScienceForCitizens.net will bring together the millions of citizen scientists in the world; the thousands of potential projects offered by researchers, organizations, and companies; and the resources, products, and services that enable citizens to pursue
Science for Citizens
ScienceForCitizens.net will bring together the millions of citizen scientists in the world; the thousands of potential projects offered by researchers, organizations, and companies; and the resources, products, and services that enable citizens to pursue
Science Hack
ScienceHack is a vertical search engine for science videos. Search for science experiments, science projects, science movies and science news.
Science News for Kids
Science News for Kids (SNK) is an award-winning online publication dedicated to children 9-14, their parents, and their teachers. It was launched in 2003 by the nonprofit organization Society for Science & the Public (SSP) as a youth edition and compa
Scirus
is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 410 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server materia
SciStarter
This is the place to find out about, take part in, and contribute to science through recreational activities and research projects. If you're a scientist or a representative of a citizen science organization or community group: This is the place to tell e
Scitable
Scitable is a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.
Society for Amateur Scientists
We help ordinary people do extraordinary research.
Society of Women Engineers Internet Activities Center
In the Internet Activities Center you will find a series of Lesson Plans with hands-on and interactive computer activities designed for young women grades 5-8 and above. The materials meet the National Science Standards while introducing basic engineering
Space Engine
SpaceEngine - is a free space simulation software that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, starting from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions un
Teach Engineering
The TeachEngineering digital library provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 cl
The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD)
The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) is a Pathways portal of the National Science Digital Library and funded by the National Science Foundation. CSERD aims to help students learn about computational science and to help faculty and te
The Earth Portal
The Earth Portal is a comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable informati
The Experiment Driven Life
About Think, Try, Learn Think, Try, Learn is based on the simple idea that we can apply the methods of science to being happier, more engaged, and feeling more alive.
The National Health Museum
The National Health Museum's mission is to educate and motivate Americans to live healthier lives. Its goals include helping the nation remain at the forefront of life science discovery and care by inspiring the next generation of health professionals and
The Why Files
The science behind the news.
Time Tree
TimeTree is a public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. A search utility allows exploration of the thousands of divergence times among organisms in the published literature
Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups
Try Engineering
This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers, and we hope it will help young people understand better what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be made part of their future.
Understanding Evolution
Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary
USDA Plants Database
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
Water Footprint Network
The mission of the Water Footprint Network is to promote the transition towards sustainable, fair and efficient use of fresh water resources worldwide .
Windows to the Universe
The Windows to the Universe website is a richly interlinked ecosystem for learning about the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public, students, and teachers.
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Conceived by Mathematica creator and scientist Stephen Wolfram as a way to bring computational exploration to the widest possible audience, the Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in
World Wide Science
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the worl
World Wide Telescope
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the world’s best ground- and space-based telescopes for the exploration of the unive
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