Access Excellence is a national educational program sponsored by the biotechnology industry pioneer, Genentech, Inc., that puts high school biology teachers in touch with their colleagues, scientists and critical sources of new scientific information through an online network. It's a virtual beehive of activity!
Contains information about research on the ACT architecture for cognition.
These projects educate and support the key groups of adults that have a hand in changing the way math and science are taught, including teachers, teacher educators, administrators, policymakers and parents.
Alabama's Supercomputing Project to Inspire Research in Education. Started as a response to the need to increase the involvement of high school students in the fields of mathematics and science.
Material used by Doug Ingram in Astronomy courses taught at the University of Washington. Readings, homeworks, labs, exams, syllabi, study guides, etc. are linked either as LaTeX and Postscript, or as plain ASCII.
WWWVL links to the biosciences with a searchable index.
Video clips of living cells and computer animation, flattened for cross-platform use. Features living microbes and white blood cells. Requires a QuickTime player to view animated clips of various spectacular cellular events.
Whose mission is "To promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability".
The ideas of chaos have been very fruitful in such diverse disciplines as biology, economics, chemistry, engineering, fluid mechanics, physics, just to name a few.
The Web version of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
An on-going educational research effort at UC Berkeley dedicated to informing and improving middle school science instruction. Includes curriculum information and software.
CPEP materials (charts, software, text) present the current understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy, incorporating the major research findings of recent years. Available for download (at three different resolutions) is a chart describing the world of particles such as quarks, gluons, and neutrinos and about the fundamental forces.
California State University's server which consolidates existing WWW Biological Science teaching and research resources and creates and distributes original multimedia resources for the teaching of biology.
The global educational TV network operator has a web server.
A list of Web sites providing information and resources regarding distance education.
Links to other distance learning resources.
A list of educational resources including both online interactives and online exhibits The Franklin Institute Science Museum.
The information source for K-12 math and science teachers, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
Describes the process of structural restoration of concrete by epoxy injection.
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally [USA] funded, nationwide information network designed to provide you with ready access to education literature.
Exploration in Education (ExInEd) is a NASA-supported program of the Special Studies Office (SSO) of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Macintosh, Windows, and DOS software available for downloading include Electronic PictureBooks [Mac only], Tutorials, and Reports.
The home page of the San Francisco Exploratorium. Contains information on science education resources, interactive exhibits, and access to an ongoing bioethics discussion group.
A program developed with goal to encourage underrepresented groups (especially girls and minority students) to enter careers that use mathematics. Family Math is, of course, family-based.
This Web site is for educators with an interest in human genetics.
This page contains pointers to public museums with a strong emphasis on interactive science education.
Makes astrophysics research tools available to teachers, students, and the museum-going public.
Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science.
Publications for Parents - Electronic versions of popular pamphlets and brochures designed to address parents' concerns about their children's education. Apart from the title on Science, you will at this site also find titles on Math, Reading, History, Getting ready for school, Improving in test taking, Writing well, Using the library, and Geography.
An annotated list of links to science history pages. Make sure you don't miss Niels Bohr's discussion with Albert Einstein on "Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics".
A page by a group of parents concerned with math the curriculum in the schools of Palo Alto, CA.
An annotated list of links attempting to, and also quite successful at, embrace a very wide scope.
A tutorial by SMHI, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The sky is changing all the time. By studying the clouds you can get an idea of the condition of the atmosphere. Look at the pictures and learn a little about the clouds and some simple forecasting rules.
The Human Genome Initiative is a worldwide research effort with the goal of analyzing the structure of human DNA and determining the location of the estimated 100,000 human genes.
This link should be informative for people working in the area of multimedia.
The Interactive Frog Dissection was designed for use in high school biology classrooms. Its hypermedia pages cover all stages of frog dissection from initial preparations to the examination of its internal organs.
Very extensive list to all areas of science, collected by Tom O'Haver for the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation.
IUBio Archive is an archive of biology data and software. The archive includes items to browse, search and fetch molecular data, software, biology news and documents, as well as links to remote information sources in biology and elsewhere. Also contains a chemistry section.
Mathematica's notebook feature enables science students to actively learn calculus and differential equations with guided discovery and exploration.
Overview of the education program of the Lawrence Livermore National [USA] Laboratories.
The goal of the Mathematics Archives is to provide organized Internet access to a wide variety of mathematical resources. Primary emphasis is on teaching materials, but it also has a strong collection of educational software. Other items found are laboratory notebooks, problem sets to lecture notes and reports on innovative methods, as well as an extensive collection of links to other sites of interest to mathematicians.
This project at Imperial College, formerly known as the Transitional Mathematics Project, was established to respond to the problems experienced by new undergraduates in Science and Engineering courses who lacked the mathematical knowledge, skills and confidence they needed to tackle the first-year courses. The project was designed around Mathematica to enable students to use a general, powerful piece of mathematical software.
The National [USA] Council of Teachers of Mathematics has identified a number of features that the grades 5-8 curriculum should include in order to help motivate students to stay interested. These include to favor conceptual learning over rote operations, to emphasize practical uses of mathematics, to encourage discussions and group learning, and to encourage exploratory, open-ended learning. The goal of the METIP project is to use digital image processing to help meet these objectives. In particular, they have developed a series of applications designed to allow students to manipulate digitized images of their choice.
Some reports related to math teaching are linked in this page.
Describes the properties and fields of application for the plastic methyl methacrylate (MMA).
The home page of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council [USA].
A nationwide [USA], free program for teachers, students, and the general public. It is designed to increase awareness and understanding of scientific research and technological development and their place in the world in which we live.
The National [USA] Science Teachers Association (NSTA), founded in 1944 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is the largest organization in the world committed to the improvement of science education at all levels -- preschool through college.
An international activity in which real-life activities are simulated via telecommunications for educational purposes. Schools, educators, and others may join or even initiate simulations for purposes of education.
PharmInfoNet is a high-volume pharmaceutical information resource on the Internet World Wide Web, serving as a recognized entry point to access high-quality independent assessments of therapeutics and advances in new drug development. Regulatory and clinical users access diverse information through PharmInfoNet, including full text articles from clinical publications, economic data, symposium information from scientific meetings, and can benefit from links to other relevant drug information and pharmaceutical sites. Those interested in drug development can find leads to new investigational agents and can monitor advances in drug research.
Directory of pharmaceutical information resources on the web.
This primer by the U.S. Department of Energy covers the basics of molecular genetics ranging from the structure of DNA and genes to techniques and strategies of mapping and sequencing the human genome. Also includes discussions of the impact of the Human Genome Project plus a glossary.
The spacecraft Galileo now orbits Jupiter. New data are continuously added at this link. This site has had up to 1/4 million accesses in a single day and sometimes returns "Document contains no data". It will eventually respond, so try repeatedly or hack on this mirror instead.
If you want to see the future of education, don't watch children in the average classroom. Watch children play a video game. You'll see them engaged, excited, interacting, and learning - even if its only about how to get to the next level of the game. Schools now have an opportunity to apply the information technologies that are so effective outside the classroom for educational purposes. But to make the most of these technologies, we have to rethink education from the ground up. That's what these pages will try to teach you.
Work with other teachers and RMC staff in a reflective, comfortable and sociable atmosphere to expand your understanding of the mathematics curriculum as it is articulated across grade levels. At least that is what they promise.
Science Seminars are monthly opportunities for updates on current biotechnology research topics. The seminars are designed by teams of Genentech and other scientists to provide you with current science research information and an opportunity to interact with the teaching team and other participants interested in the topic.
The Smithsonian museums, galleries and research centers in Washington, D.C. are known for its role in preserving, maintaining, and cataloging historical linkages. Their aim is to create a "Smithsonian Without Walls", bringing their resources home to Americans [I guess other nationalities are also welcome?] and offering a perennial field trip for students. There's a mirror in California, in case the main link is inaccessible.
This page carries information about the title UK programme, whose aim is "to make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology". This central repository contains extracts from newsletters and information releases such a conference proceedings and web workshops.
This is the Yahoo
of physics. Tens of thousands of links to
physics related web resources. Also a number of bulletin board for conferences,
jobs, new books, and soon a comprehensive software database. The Visible Human Project creates complete anatomically detailed, three dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The representations are created from CAT, MRI and cryosection images taken at one millimeter intervals from cadavers.
Aimed at generating interest in physics among people of all ages and backgrounds. The heart of the program is a fast-paced presentation of physics demonstrations carefully chosen to be entertaining as well as educational.
Contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.
Link list to sources of pharmacy information.
The goal of this page is to cover the subjects of interest for people working in/with educational technologies.