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Mathematics and Science Resources

Here are some collections of online math and science resources that you can use with your students. Resources are alphabetized within each category.

Mathematics Resources

  • All Choked Up by Smoking Statistics?
    In this lesson , students use the article "More College Students Are Smoking, Study Says" as a springboard for discussion on the reasons why people smoke cigarettes and investigate different methods of graphing statistics by using the data provided in the article. Students also create graphs from a table provided by the American Lung Association regarding smoking habits among high school seniors from 1976 to 1997 as a way to demonstrate understanding of how to present statistics graphically in a variety of ways. The lesson is suitable for high school statistics classes.
  • Decimals, Whole Numbers, and Exponents
    Excellent site, with lots of examples of these basic mathematical concepts.
  • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Science and Math Education's Resource Finder has a searchable online database of lessons and curricula. This is a good place to search for math resources for secondary schools. For example, see Using Technology and Real World Connections to Teach Secondary Mathematics Concepts.
  • ExploreLearning
    Teachers can use this website with its growing collection of highly interactive multimedia activities ("gizmos") to enhance lectures or as the basis for effective lab sessions. You'll need a recent browser and Shockwave. The Correlations page shows the alignment of the "gizmos" to state and national standards and textbooks.
  • Illuminations: Illuminating the NCTM Standards
    The NCTM Web site has some good online activities for math students, called "I-maths". For example:
  • Interactive Mathematics Online: ThinkQuest Library
    Describes and illustrates mathematical concepts in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, using simple terminology. The site is temporarily closed while it moves to a new server, but it will reopen early in 2002, so stay tuned.
  • KidsBank
    Learn all about banking at KidsBank (TM). Your children can explore some of the fundamentals of banking and learn a little more about how savings, interest, checking, and other banking services work.
  • Mathematics Archives
    This site contains significant collections of materials which can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level.
  • Math and Fun Games
    Great graphics and music, as well as fun games. Note: All "Fun Stuff" material needs a browser that supports Java; some of these activities use Flash.
  • Math and Science Resources
    A short list of very good links to math and science resources, gathered by Ted Nellen.
  • Math Databases
    An excellent list of links to databases to use in math classes, compiled from Swarthmore's Math Forum.
  • The Math Forum
    This is a searchable database of varied mathematics resources and lessons. It was originally located at Swarthmore University and has recently moved to Drexel University.
  • MegaMath!
    A project of the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop curriculum materials that bring several unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms. Lesson topics include infinity & knot theory. There is an accessible Menu option that avoids the slow-loading image map of topics.
  • Moneyopolis
    Moneyopolis is an advanced technology Web site designed to assist in the teaching of sixth through eighth grade math skills. The math skills are based on standards and aobjectives published by the NCTM and the standards of learning as defined in several states.
  • Project SkyMath: Making Mathematical Connections
    This Web Page is designed for middle school mathematics teachers. It contains all of the information needed for teachers to use the 16 classroom activities of SkyMath, including the module itself.
  • SCORE Mathematics Lessons
    The California State Department of Education has created four Schools of California Online Resources in Education (SCORE) websites that link Internet resources and lesson plans (called Activities) to California State Content and Thinking Skills Standards and the NCTM standards. Lessons for K-7 and 8-12 are separated and are organized by their main strands with links to specific standards.
  • WebMath
    WebMath used to be part of DiscoverySchool.com. Webmath contains a sophisticated computer math "engine" that can recognize and help you solve particular problems as they are entered. Webmath is not a database of questions and answers, nor is it an online testing site.
  • Word Problems for Kids
    This Canadian Web Site contains word problems for students and teachers. The problems are classified into grade levels from Grade 5 to Grade 12. It's an excellent site to use as students make the transition from arithmetical computation into solving word problems.

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Science Resources

  • Adolescent Sleep (Grades 9-12)
    Developed by Science NetLinks (www.sciencenetlinks.com), the purpose of this lesson is to encourage students to discuss, summarize, and express alternative positions regarding a study on adolescent sleep.
  • Awesome Library
    Lesson plans for K-12 science from anatomy and archaeology to technology and weather.
  • Best Environmental Directories
    This is a MEGA-source of links to resources on environmental science gathered from all over the world.
  • Biology Bookmarks
    Links to useful sites with photos for grades 6-12 biology, compiled by Ruth MacKinnon. Some links (e.g., worm dissection) are broken, but other work (e.g., earthworm review).
  • Biology Curriculum
    This page contains links to various activities that support the biology curriculum in New Zealand. They can be customized to support U.S. standards as well.
  • Cells Alive
    The Cells Alive site offers all kinds of interesting pictures and information about cells, including ongoing slides of cells currently being grown in a culture (such as cancer cells). The site includes a user-friendly search engine to navigate through the various parts of the site. There are sections with labeled diagrams of various types of cells, sections with still shots and video clips,as well as general information sections. Information from the site can be translated directly into a number of languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Italian.
  • Chem Finder
    Everything you want to know about chemistry and chemicals can be found using this search engine. Individual access to ChemFinder.com is provided as a free of charge service to the scientific community. Organizations, however, must subscribe to this service.
  • Cruciferous Crusaders
    by the National Leafy Greens Council. These Leafy Greens Lesson Plans encourage students to understand the nutritional benefits and the cancer-fighting elements of leafy greens.
  • Dole's "5 a day" Home page
    Dole Food Company's nutrition Web site - visit the Nutrition Center and the "5 a day" program of good eating habits.
  • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Science and Math Education's Resource Finder has a searchable online database of lessons and curricula. This is a good place to search for hard-to-find science and technology resources for secondary schools. Be sure to check the "Free Stuff" section.
  • Element Games - Jefferson Laboratory's collection of online games to help your chemistry students learn the elements.
    • Element Flash Cards Students provide the chemical name, symbol, or atomic number of an element from the perodic table of elements.
    • Element Math Game Students calculate the number of protons, neutrons, electrons, or nucleons an atom contains based on information from the periodic table.
    • Element Hangman Students use a clue to discover the name of a randomly picked element. There are currently 745 clues in the game's database, spanning 118 elements.
    • Element Crossword Puzzles Students use clues to solve one of four crossword puzzles.
    • Element Concentration "Cards" containing an element's atomic number, chemical name, and symbol are displayed on the screen. Then the cards are flipped face down. The name of one of the elements is displayed, and students must locate the corresponding card.
    • Element Matching Game Students match an element's chemical symbol with a name from a pull down list. There are four levels of difficulty to choose from.
  • EPA Global Warming
    This Web site, sponsored by the EPA, features materials teachers can use in presentations and classroom activities on climate change science. A kids' site includes animations of global warming and earth processes (for grades 5-9). An example of an animation found on the kids' site can be found at The Carbon Cycle, which requires the Flash multimedia player (free download). A calculator lets students estimate their household's greenhouse gas emissions and explore ways to reduce emissions. A database for educators offers nearly 100 lesson plans, videos, books, toolkits, and other fun material on climate change.
  • Exploratorium: Science Explorer
    There are lots of wonderful ideas for simple science experiments for children, such as spinning blimps, making a sun clock, reflecting rainbows, and many, many more. Children can carry out activities using resources available at home or in the classroom. Some of the activities present the scientific concepts underlying the experiment, probe the students to experiment further, and ask guiding questions about the results.
  • How Things Work
    This resource for students explaining why and how things work is a compilation of a physics professor's frequently asked questions.
  • Jason Project
    The JASON Project offers students and teachers in grades 4 through 9 a comprehensive, multimedia approach to enhance teaching and learning in science, technology, math, geography, and associated disciplines. The project delivers its educational content through a print curriculum, videos, fully interactive Internet programming, and live satellite "telepresence" broadcasts.
  • Interactive Frog Dissection
    This classic Net Frog simulation is a popular replacement for biology students who do not wish to engage in traditional dissections.
  • Kinetic City
    Welcome to Kinetic City: Mission to Vearth, the after-school, standards-based science program in which students complete activities in conjunction with a dynamic Web site. The Kinetic City Super Crew needs your kids' help to save their virtual world of Vearth from the science-distorting computer virus, Deep Delete. The more the students play, the mroe standards-based science content they learn. This resource requires Macromedia Flash, which can be downloaded from the Web site.
  • Living Things
    A collaborative, interactive site developed by the Franklin Institute. Use the Keyword Index and Teacher Tips to help you find your way through this large and varied site.
  • Mars Rover Sites and other Planetary Sites
    Courtesy of Bonnie Bracey, who edits the Technology Applications for Learning Portal:
  • MEDtropolis' Virtual Body
    This dramatic site requires a java-enabled browser, but it's worth a look if your computer can support it. Virtual tours of the brain, heart, skeleton, and digestive tract will be particiularly relevant fo ryour and your students. There are well-labaeled diagrams and impressive animations. The site also contains many informative articles on health, written by health experts.
  • The Mozart Effect (Grades 9-12)
    Developed by Science NetLinks (www.criticalthinking.org), the purpose of this lesson is to develop an understanding of why skepticism is important in science by looking at actual scientific studies regarding the effect of playing Mozart's music to infants.
  • NASA Home Page
    NASA's educational website - click on "for kids," "for students," or "for educators." LI> Nearsightedness (Grades 6-8)
    This lesson, developed by Science NetLinks (www.sciencenetlinks.com), asks students to carefully evaluate the evidence used in an actual scientific study. Its purpose is to develop an understanding of why scientific investigations may yield varying results.
  • Neuroscience for Kids
    Neuroscience for Kids has been created for all students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system.
  • Ocean Explorer
    Teachers and students can dive deeper into our world's oceans with this site from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "Ocean Explorer" enables teachers and students to follow along with current government expeditions, learn about oceanographic exploration technologies, and become acquainted with many of the awe-inspiring life forms living beneath the waves.
  • One Sky, Many Voices
    The mission of the One Sky, Many Voices project is to create innovative, inquiry-based, K-12 science curricula that utilize current technologies such as CD-ROMs and the WWW for interactive study.
  • Particle Adventure
    The Particle Adventure introduces the theory of fundamental particles and forces, called the Standard Model. It explores the experimental evidence and the reasons physicists want to go beyond this theory. In addition, it provides information on particle decay and a brief history section. The site was revised in September 2000 to make navigation easier. The revised look-and-feel and navigation requires cookies, Javascript, and Macromedia Flash. Information is presented in several languages.
  • Periodic Table of the Elements
    This site, created by Los Alamos National Laboratories, provides chemical information including uses, sources, and the history of the elements.
  • Rivers of Life
    This is an interactive, online project dealing with water and watersheds, developed by the Center for Global Environmental Education.
  • Science Education Gateway
    Excellent links to award winning science sites. Check out their "Lesson List" under the "Educators" section.
  • Science Fair Project Guide
    This is a collection of Web sites, online resources, and project ideas for science fairs from the Internet Public Library.
  • Science NetLinks
    Science NetLinks strives to be a comprehensive "homepage" for K-12 science educators. Search their library of reviewed websites and lessons by selecting a science Benchmark topic. effect.
  • Science Net
    Toronto Public Library's Science Net features science resources, searchable by "A to Z" or "by subject", in both English and French.
  • The Science Spot
    Like the Science NetLinks, this is a good place to find lesson plans, ideas, downloadable worksheets, interesting facts, background information for teachers, and lots more.
  • SCORE Science Website
    The California State Department of Education has created four Schools of California Online Resources in Education (SCORE) websites that link Internet resources and lesson plans (called Activities) to California State Content and Thinking Skills Standards for each grade level by unit. This is their science website.
  • Space Science Curriculum Standards Quilt
    Sponsored by NASA, this interactive and easy to use Web site provides age-appropriate activities and lesson plans for teaching about the solar system in K-12 classrooms. Each lesson meets National Science Education standards. To use the site, simply choose an appropriate grade level, then choose from any of the illuminated squares on the interactive patchwork quilt. Once you choose a square, each lesson that pertains to the given topic will appear in a box under the quilt. You can then read summaries of these lesons or view them in their entirety by double clicking on the highlighted link.
  • Stardust Spacecraft
    Find out how it collected some cometary dust and plans to bring it back to earth.
  • Stormy Weather
    Learn to use the Internet and software tools while doing atmosphere investigations for the high school, Earth/Space Science Classroom. All activities, especially the Weather Hunt, Storm Sampler and The Perfect Storm, are designed for use by cooperative groups and culminate in a final shared presentation. The Weather Hotlist and the Weather Scrapbook are easily adapted for use by individual students.
  • Technology resources
    This is a directory of Technology related websites.
  • Tree of Life
    A collaborative Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
  • TryScience
    TryScience.org is our gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through online and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide.
  • The Virtual Nuclear Tourist
    This site is created and maintained by Joseph Gonyeau, a senior nuclear consultant. Written for novices, it offers a wealth of information about nuclear power plants with frequently asked questions, pictures, diagrams, comparisons to other types of energy, and links to other databases with statistics about energy.
  • The Visible Human Project Gallery
    This page contains a small sample of images from the Visible Human Project. Some files are quite large.
  • Water Science for Schools
    The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Science for Schools web site offers information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where students can give opinions and test their water knowledge.
  • West Nile Virus
    The latest "Real-time" science event on the YES I Can! science site is a resource package of background information for the teacher student reading selections, and classroom activities designed to increase knowledge and awareness among students in grades K-6 about the West Nile Virus and ways to minimize the risk of infection.
  • Web-Integrated Science Environment (WISE)
    This is a set of capstone, inquiry-based projects for science classrooms developed by Berkeley. Check out "How far does light go?" You can review a video of students using this unit at Learning From Each Other
  • WonderNet
    This is the American Chemical Society's page for elementary school science experiments. Safety disclaimer: The activities described in WonderNet are for elementary school children under the direct supervision of adults.
  • YES I Can! Science
    YES I Can! Science is a freely accessible K-12 database of Science resources for teachers. The database includes glossaries, problems, assessment rubrics, performance indicators, fact sheets, and more, all linked to specific outcomes of the Pan-Canadian Science Curriculum.
  • Yosemite's Interactive Classroom
    Suggested by Jackie Dobrovolny at CU-Denver, this site was designed for grades 4 through 6. It has a teacher resources section that provides for how to use the site as part of a classroom experience. It includes a lesson on geology.
  • Zoobooks
    This is a child-friendly Web site with educational games and information about animals.

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