The Lab is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online gateway to science.

ABC Science Online is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online gateway to science.

Here you'll find programs from ABC radio and TV as well as original online material including a daily science news service, in depth features, quizzes, Dr Karl's Great Moments in Science, videos, audio, podcasts, forums, news feeds and much more.

Created in 1997, with a grant from the Australian Government's Science and Technology Awareness Program (STAP), ABC Science Online is dedicated to science generally, and young Australians particularly.

ABC Science Online has been spectacularly successful winning many awards for excellence including the 2003 Prix Italia Prize.

ABC Science Online continues to receive funding through the Science Connections Program, administered by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

Retrieved from: http://www.abc.net.au/science/

Science and Nature: Space

We aim to use the best of the BBC – its content, channels of communication, talent and creative skills – to offer resources and activities designed to meet real needs and complement the formal education process. Through today’s interactive media, such as broadband internet and mobile devices, we can offer people powerful learning experiences in their own time and at their own pace. We also reach out into real communities, working closely with partners already established there.

Our priorities are to:

• promote the learning of school-age children

• Support the needs of teachers

• Provide information and advice for parents to support their children's learning

• inspire teenagers through their interests outside formal learning

• motivate adults to improve their skills

• help people to develop the media literacy skills needed in the modern digital world

• offer opportunities for learning through active participation

Retrieved from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/

Digital Library for Earth System Education

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 educators, students, and scientists to support Earth system education at all levels.

DLESE is operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Computational and Information Systems Laboratory and the NCAR Library on behalf of the education community.

DLESE provides:

• Easy access to quality teaching and learning resources about the Earth as a system for a wide range of learners

• Services to help users effectively create, use and evaluate digital learning resources

• Interfaces and tools to allow student exploration of Earth data

Retrieved from: http://www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC.

Retrieved from: http://science.discovery.com/

Engineering K-12

Here you will find a variety of tools to boost your students’ math and science skills, enliven the classroom with engineering projects, expand your own professional horizons and stay informed.

http://teachers.egfi-k12.org/

Interactive science & engineering

(for 9-11 year olds)

Welcome to the Exploratorium's Digital Library. The different collections in the library include digital media and digitized museum materials related to interactive exhibits and scientific phenomena, including images, educational activities in PDF and html formats, QuickTime movies, streaming media, and audio files. You may search, select and download digital files for individual, noncommercial educational use.

Retrieved from: http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/index.html

FREE SCIENCE COURSES ONLINE

Retrieved from: http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Science/default.asp

Free Science Videos and Lectures

Category: Astronomy

• Carl Sagan Explains the Drake Equation
• Carl Sagan on Planet Venus
• Galileo Galilei Proven Right
• Hinode Spacecraft Captures Total Solar Eclipse
• Mars Science Laboratory
• Our View of the Universe
• Planet Earth is a Tiny, Tiny Object in Space
• Planets and Stars to Scale
• Popcorn Bursting in Slow Motion
• The First Moon Landing in 1969
• The Pale Blue Dot
• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Carl Sagan
  

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HOME SCHOOLING RESOURCES (Mostly Science)

Today I spend my free time running SCIENCE HOBBYIST, a large website for amateur science and science education. You'll also find me hanging out on the PHYS-L physics education forum, holding forth about various ways to explain all things electrical.

Retrieved from: http://amasci.com/home.html

From car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem cells, and thousands of subjects in between, HowStuffWorks has it covered. No topic is too big or too small for our expert editorial staff to unmask ... or for you to understand. In addition to comprehensive articles, our helpful graphics and informative videos walk you through every topic clearly, simply and objectively. Our premise is simple: Demystify the world and do it in a simple, clear-cut way that anyone can understand.

Retrieved from: http://science.howstuffworks.com/

 What is JASON?

Welcome to The JASON Project, your gateway to adventure.
A nonprofit subsidiary of the National Geographic Society, JASON connects young students with great explorers and great events to inspire and motivate them to learn science. Its core curriculum units are designed for 5th – 8th grade classrooms but are flexible enough to be adapted for higher or lower grades.

Lighting the spark of inspiration through sustained connections with "great explorers and great events" in core curriculum is what JASON is all about. Led by host researchers from National Geographic, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), JASON curriculum units put students on meaningful missions to learn core Earth, life and physical science concepts. The result is deeper student engagement, increased motivation and higher achievement.

JASON's science curriculum units are designed to fit within school districts' core curricula for 5th – 10th grades and can be adapted for use at higher or lower levels. Aligned to state and national science standards, they provide at least five to nine weeks of material with suggested lesson plans, extensions, interdisciplinary connections and teacher resources for alignment, assessment and classroom management.

Retrieved from: http://www.jason.org/Public/AboutUS/aboutUS.aspx

K-12 Science Ed. Resources

Today I spend my free time running SCIENCE HOBBYIST, a large website for amateur science and science education. You'll also find me hanging out on the PHYS-L physics education forum, holding forth about various ways to explain all things electrical.

Retrieved from: http://amasci.com/edu.html

NOVA | Teachers | PBS
Find all your free PBS media classroom tools here, including classroom activities, online videos, TV program descriptions, related NOVA resources, and interactives for students.

PBS Science Teachers Resources by grade range and topic

Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/

NOVA follows scientists as they seek signs of life on Mars.

The program:

• reviews early missions to Mars.

• follows the trials and triumphs of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as they land on and navigate the Red Planet.

• shows how scientists used tools on each rover to explore and determine the chemical makeup of the planet's surface.

• notes that while some scientists think that water once flowed on Mars and may have sustained life, other scientists maintain that the planet's environmental conditions would not have supported life.

• features scientists who investigate whether microbes can survive in salty Arctic springs on Earth.

• reports on the Phoenix Mars Lander's efforts to find signs of liquid water in the northern polar region of Mars.

• shows how the team troubleshoots the lander's equipment difficulties.

• reveals how the lander found evidence of water on the Red Planet.

• notes that one test showed signs of the chemical percholate in the Martian soil and reports that researchers have identified organisms on Earth that thrive on percholate.

• describes plans for the next mission in 2010—the Mars Science Laboratory—that will search for organics on Mars.

Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/

NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel.

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/

Welcome to the Education Network, an online service from National Geographic Society's Education & Children's Programs department.

Since 1987, educators have trusted National Geographic’s quality educational programs and services. EdNet is your one-stop shop for education news, professional development opportunities, resources, discussion, and much more.

As an EdNet member, you'll receive:

• Special Subscription Rate: Get National Geographic magazine for only $1 a month! Join EdNet and subscribe now
  
  Online Communities: Share ideas with a vibrant group of dedicated educators and find hot-topic resources, workshops, events, and much more.
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• Professional Development: Keep current with national and local teacher training, teacher-leadership programs, field studies, workshops, and so on.
   

• Education Update E-Newsletter: Receive our monthly education e-newsletter, packed full of educational features, news, and the latest online offerings from National Geographic.

Retrieved from: http://www.ngsednet.org/resources/index.cfm

Science and Space

Retrieved from: http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/

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National Science Teachers Association Free Resource Search Engine

The Learning Center is NSTA's e-professional development portal to help you address your classroom needs and busy schedule. You can gain access to more than 3,100 different resources that cater to your preference for learning. Over 870 resources, such as journal articles, science objects and web seminars are available for free. A suite of practical tools such as My Library, My Transcript, and My Professional Development Plan and Portfolio tool help you organize, personalize, and document your growth over time. If desired, you may review an archived Web Seminar overview of the NSTA Learning Center, or download the "How to Guide" PDF (2.7 MB).

Retrieved from: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/search.aspx?action=browse&price=Free

NOVA is the highest rated science series on television and the most watched documentary series on public television. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over.

Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels. Starting with a partnership of NSDL-funded projects, NSDL is emerging as a center of innovation in digital libraries as applied to education, and a community center for groups focused on digital-library-enabled science education.

Retrieved from: http://www.nsdl.org

Open Directory Project dmoz Experiments

The ODP is a Web directory, not a search engine. Although we offer a search query, the purpose of the ODP is to list and categorize web sites. We do not rank, promote or optimize sites for search engines. The ODP is simply a data provider. ODP data users, such as AOL, Netscape and Google, install their own search functionality on their site. The ODP has no influence or knowledge on how these search engines process search queries

Retrieved from: http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Educational_Resources/Experiments/

Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection. Formerly known as PhotoShare, a recipient of the ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award, Pics4Learning is a partnership between Orange County Public Schools Technology Development Unit of Orlando, Florida, and Tech4Learning, Inc. Click http://www.pics4learning.com for more information or to view images.

Retrieved from: http://www.pics4learning.com

Helping primary and secondary science teachers to teach inspirational science in the classroom is one of the key aims of Planet Science. There’s no substitute for natural talent of course, but we want to do all we can to assist that teacher-talent by providing resources, ideas and downloadable materials that can all be put to use in creating enjoyable and memorable lessons.

Retrieved from: http://www.planet-science.com/sciteach/start.html

ONLINE SCIENCE MUSEUMS

Retrieved from: http://amasci.com/museum.htm

Free Video Clips for Kids

http://videoclips.mrdonn.org/science.html

Science Video on the Web

The Vega Science Trust has created a broadcast platform for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) communities, so enabling them to communicate on all aspects of their fields of expertise using exciting Internet opportunities.

Retrieved from: http://www.vega.org.uk/info/links/webvideo.php

Retrieved from http://www.space.com/

Features: On everything from the future of robots to mine rehabilitation.

Retrieved from: http://www.abc.net.au/science/space/default.htm

Amazing Space, an astronomy and space science education program, uses Hubble Space Telescope's scientific findings to create free, online materials designed for K–14 students and educators. For more information, visit http://amazing-space.stsci.edu

Retrieved from: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu

Free Presentations in PowerPoint format

http://science.pppst.com/earthandspace.html

Science

Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards.

Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using “My Folders” and “My Groups” to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students.

Retrieved from: http://www.teachersdomain.org/collection/k12/sci/

Science StudyStacks

Find flashcards to study or add your own flashcards.

Study flashcards or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman, scrambled word, or bug chase.

Study flashcards anytime and anywhere by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.

TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate websites for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible, allowing the user to easily stay on track. It is a searchable database of teacher-designed internet-rich lessons. Visit http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp for more information.

Retrieved from: http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp