North Carolina Science Teachers Association

NCDPI Science Units
Lesson plans, labs and hands-on activities for (almost) every goal for every grade level. Written and evaluated by teachers.

Keepers in the Classroom
Bring a NC Zookeeper to your classroom to present a fascinating program that meets the Standard Course of Study objectives and we pay all the cost! If you want to implement a classroom environmental project- ie: rain barrels, bird feeding station, compost site, recycling program, etc - we will pay up to $500.00 to support your efforts if you have a Keeper program.

MIT High School Open CourseWare
Resources for AP and all science courses (biology, chemistry and physics), mini-courses, hands on learning (labs and competitions) and introductory MIT courses, all online!

Science Objects
is a new site that provides web-based science learning activities for teachers. Science Objects provide all teachers of science open access to valuable resources at no cost. Activities include simulations, questions, and students' common misconceptions -- with practical ideas for addressing them. The activities are specifically designed to help teachers understand a prescribed set of ideas based on the science literacy goals in the Standards. Each focuses on a key content idea such as Newton's First Law or Mendel's Principles of Heredity.

Exploratorium’s Institute for Inquiry
A first in inquiry science teaching, unique for its content, this site offers guides for professional development workshops, a library of recommended resources, and tools that help educators reap the benefits of the Institute for Inquiry's decades of experience with inquiry-based education. In keeping with the quality of the Exploratorium’s five-time Webby-award winning Website, the downloadable curricula is supported by interactive online full-color previews of each workshop.

Curious Cat Blog
A science, engineering and education blog that includes a section for students and another for teachers.

Consumers Guide to Afterschool Science Resources
The Consumers Guide to Afterschool Science Resources contains reviews of high quality, hands-on science content for afterschool programs. A panel of afterschool and science content experts carefully reviewed resources identified by afterschool practitioners as most promising. Reviewed materials in this free, online guide include semester and year long curricula, activity kits, instructor guides consisting of many related activities, and Web sites that offer content appropriate for afterschool programs. Users are able to search and sort entries by title, subject, grade level, audience, and cost. A brief description of each resource is accompanied by two expert reviewers' detailed commentary.

Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope
Great images and applications in biology, chemistry and physics.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/index.html

e-Mission: Operation Montserrat
challenges students to use their math and science skills to assist the people of Montserrat as they face the impending threat of a volcanic eruption and an approaching hurricane. The mission meets all national standards for middle school students in the areas of math and science. All curricular and mission materials may be viewed at our teacher website:
www.clcemissions.org/opm/teacher/main.html

Scope, Sequence, and Coordination
A Framework for High School Science Education based on the National Science Education Standards. The web site contains 105 microunits on all subjects.
http://dev.nsta.org/ssc/

Concord.org Five Lessons
offers activities and software for exploring key math and science concepts. A grapher without numeric values introduces calculus concepts in early grades. Students create
populations that reproduce according to Mendelian genetics. They design molecules and watch molecules self-assemble. When keys on their calculator are disabled, students must develop work-around solutions. (ED)
http://www.concord.org/publications/newsletter/2005-fall/five.html

NSF Current
features cutting-edge science and engineering research and education.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/newsletter/dec_05/index.jsp

Curriculum Pathways®, from SAS inSchool
Curriculum Pathways is a resource partner, assisting educators in meeting academic goals through the use of technology. Curriculum resources clarify content in the core disciplines for grades 8-12. It provides resources for use by earth science, physical science, biology, chemistry, and physics teachers. Key features include an innovative integration of technology and curriculum, research-validated instructional techniques, acknowledged best practices, and learner-centered activities with measurable outcomes. These interactive materials target higher-order thinking skills by focusing on doing, seeing and listening, giving students new insights in ways that conventional methods cannot. To learn more about our science resources, go to www.sasinschool.com/products/pathways/pages/disciplines.shtml#Science.
To find out more about Curriculum Pathways and its availability in your school, go to www.sasinschool.com/ncwiseowl.

www.sciencentral.com
features the latest science news videos and in-depth articles

Science Buddies
Science Buddies is a non-profit organization that provides free online resources for science education. The website helps K-12 students do better science fair projects. The Topic Selection Wizard offers a large online library of project ideas and Starter Kits. Science Buddies also offers Ask an Expert, an online forum in which students can ask questions about their projects and get answers from scientists and engineers who volunteer as e-mentors. Science Buddies also maintains a set of teacher resources for science fair planning and a science fair project help guide.

Smithsonian: Spotlight on Science
Since 2003, the Smithsonian Institute has provided this topical online weekly newsletter to those persons interested in learning about the latest scientific discoveries and endeavors that have originated from any one of its various institutions. Some of the more recent pieces include information about the recent success story of the Florida panther, supernovae, and the river channels on the planet Mars.

NSF Special Reports
presents web-based reports on language & linguistics, Einstein & physics, weather patterns, the chemistry of water, the 2004 tsunami, arctic climate research, Admiral Byrd's historic flight to the South Pole (1929), cyberinfrastructure, fossils, earthquake engineering simulation, ecology of infectious diseases, robotics, visualization of research results & scientific phenomena, the world's first electronic nervous system, teacher institutes, & Nobel prize winners. (NSF)

Ology
invites kids to explore archaeology, astronomy, biodiversity, Earth, Einstein, genetics, marine biology, paleontology, & other "ologies." Topics include the Incas, the ancient city of Petra, gravity, Mars, the Milky Way, tree of life, saving species, tectonic plates, rocks, deep sea vents, matter & energy, space & time, a genetic journey, a nature & nurture walk, quest for the perfect tomato, imagine it's 2020, worlds within the sea, ocean creatures, & fighting dinosaurs. (SI)

Learningscience.org
We feature high-quality, FREE, web interactives from all over the world. No matter what area of science you are interested in you will find engaging interactives for your students. Most of these interactives require the free plug-ins Flash, Shockwave, or Java.

Kenan Fellow Resources
This is a link to a categorized list of sites created by North Carolina teachers. Each site contains curricula materials developed by a teacher through collaboration with a mentor from universities such as NC State, Duke, and Chapel Hill. These curricula were based on the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for middle and high school students, but are available for anyone to use.

ElementList.com
Element is a new website dedicated to providing free, publicly available resources for scientific research.

NCDPI's Distance Learning Program's Middle School Science Series
This series of videos can now be viewed online. Go to http://www.ncpublicschools.org/distancelearning/classroom/ and select Middle School Science Series. The UserName is "caldecott" and PassWord "NC Wise Owl" Topics include Earth Science, Astronomy, Earth in Action, Planet Earth, Rocks and Minerals, Weather and Climate, Life Science, Ecology and more. Teachers may download to a CD and retain in their multimedia collection for life-of-CD. Or they may record off-air over UNC-TV station and retain in their video collection for life-of-tape.

SmithsonianEducation.org
The Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum organization, has launched an exciting new Website for educators, families, and students.

TryScience, an Interactive Web Center
TryScience.org is a gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide. TryScience and over 400 science centers worldwide invite you and your students to investigate and discover.

EnViSci Network
TERC, a member of the Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education, has unveiled the pre-publication version of its new web-based, content rich Leveraging Learning science curriculum units. Designed for students in grades 2-8, these units integrate hands-on and online classroom activities and assessments. They also support mastery of standards-based science content and process. The Leveraging Learning site also provides a teacher's guide for each unit.

Federal Web Sites Offer Resources for Teachers and Students
The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) web site makes it easy for teachers to find instructional offerings from more than 40 federal agencies. Among the resources most recently added to FREE are several science sites, including curriculum modules on the human genome project, a tour of the Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source facility, and a National Aeronautics and Space Administration program designed to show middle school students the connections between math, science and technology concepts.

The New Century School House (NCSH) project
provides a canvas upon which you can explore and suggest the future of education. The New Century School House is THREE virtual buildings (Elementary, Middle, & High Schools), each gutted of all relics of industrial age education. Each contains empty rooms ready to be adopted by you and repurposed for 21st century teaching and learning.

How Stuff Works Express - FREE!
HowStuffWorks Express,a print and online magazine launched to rave reviews during the 1999-2000 school year, is now available free to middle grades science, math, and technology teachers and their students. HowStuffWorks Express is designed for grades 5-8 and features attention-grabbing topics such as How CDs Work¡¨ and How Submarines Work." It has also been successfully incorporated into introductory-level high school science classes. Science and math principles are presented in a format that students love, and the magazine's articles are accompanied by rich graphics and striking photography. All instructional materials are created by experienced writers and curriculum experts in cooperation with nationally certified teachers of science, math, and language arts. Click on the link or go to http://www.howstuffworks.com/teacher-info.htm to check out the magazine and sign up to receive your free double-classroom set (60 copies per month, including two Teacher Guides). Made possible by the generous support of corporate sponsors, the HowStuffWorks Free to Schools Program debuted at the NSTA convention in March to an enthusiastic response. All HowStuffWorks Express print and online resources are provided free to middle school teachers and students. For more information, please contact Tanya Martin, Educational Services, at (919) 345-8129 or Mark Mine, Editor in Chief, at (919) 674-2090.

Landmarks for Schools
NC's own David Warlick provides resources and great webtools such as Slate. Educators interested in using the internet in the classroom must visit this site.

Shodor Educational Foundation
a non-profit science and math education foundation that holds technology-based science camps and workshops for students of all ages and teachers (middle school, high school and college) in North Carolina