Science Topics

Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Chemistry

1. Operation RubyThroat: the hummingbird project
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 4 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016772
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, part of a research initiative of the Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History in York, South Carolina, uses the Ruby Throated Hummingbird as a focal point for a interdisciplinary Internet project. The site, designed primarily for K to 12 teachers and their students in Central America and North America, contains the directions and resources for visitors to register and participate in the project.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
2. Forensics in the classroom
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027436
   This Internet site provides five stand-alone curriculum units for middle and high school students that explore basic chemistry concepts within the context of forensic investigation. The site is the result of a partnership between Court TV, a popular television network that focuses on crime scene investigations, and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
3. Glenn Learning Technologies Project: aeronautics related activities, experiments, and lesson plans
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 003890
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for grades 7 through 12, provides hands-on learning on rockets. Included are background information about the history of rocketry and the application of Isaac Newton's Three laws of Motion in practical rocketry; and a series of physical science activities demonstrating the basic science of rocketry.
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4. PathFinder science
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026972
   This Internet site is a portal to all the research projects from the PathFinder Science Collaborative Research program. The program is founded on the national standards and benchmarks that call for students to better understand the process of science by actually doing science.
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5. Field map: a multidisciplinary exploration of nature
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029511
   This Internet site contains guides for five projects that engage students in biology, chemistry, physics, geology, and meteorology. While completing these projects, students gather data on the type of rocks, species of trees, and direction of the prevailing winds in their area.
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6. TeachingPlastics.org
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 026941
   This Internet site, from the American Plastics Council, provides background information and printable, inquiry-based lesson plans for students in grades K-8 to better understand plastic. The lessons are divided into two curriculum programs, Hands on Plastics for grades 5-8, and a junior version of this program for grades K-4, each satisfying National Science Education Standards and designed in conjunction with National Middle Level Science Teachers Association.
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7. CHF chemistry webquests
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 030166
   This Internet site, maintained by the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), features a collection of six chemistry WebQuests for use in high school or freshman level college courses. A WebQuest is a research activity in which most of the resources used by the students are web-based.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
8. Water science for schools
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 4 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017464
   This web site, developed by the US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (USGS), is intended as an educational resource for students and teachers. It provides detailed information on many aspects of water and its many uses in human society.
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9. Reeko's mad scientist lab
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 025809
   This Internet site provides simple chemistry and physics experiments for students to perform with adults. The site features Reeko, the Mad Scientist, as the narrator who encourages student learning through his comical writing and interesting experiments.
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10. Flinn Scientific
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014317
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for high school science teachers by Flinn Scientific, offers resources for the chemistry and biology laboratory. From the homepage, visitors have access to chemistry demonstrations and biology activities, frequently asked questions, and guidelines for laboratory design and safety.
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11. The pH factor
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002004
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for K to 12 teachers by the Miami Museum of Science, contains background information, lesson plans, and activities about pH. The WWW site is designed around the Seven E's, a constructivist approach to learning where students build new learning based on their prior experiences.
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12. The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science case collection
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 019214
    This Internet site, maintained by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, offers a collection of case studies for use in undergraduate science classrooms. Designed to humanize science and to illustrate scientific methodology and values, the cases also develop students' skills in group learning, speaking, and critical thinking.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
13. Cosmic evolution: from big bang to humankind
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026872
    This Internet site offers background information and resources to help students understand the origins of matter and life in our universe, known as cosmic evolution. Based on a course taught at Harvard University, questions from how the universe began to how humans evolved are addressed, using an interdisciplinary approach between life, Earth, space, and physical sciences.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
14. Water on the Web
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 10 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016975
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is designed for high school and first year college students to learn basic science through hands-on science activities in the lab and in the field with technologies accessible on the site. It is maintained by a team of advisory board and staff members, college and high school teachers, and curriculum designers.
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15. Newton's Apple
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 008489
    This Internet site, designed for grades 6-9, offers educational resources for students to explore science in the world around them. The site is based on the television show, Newton's Apple, which airs on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
16. Who dunnit?
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 6 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 019798
    This Internet site features a mystery for students to solve using forensic science, the study of objects that relate to a crime. Students first complete four skill building forensic assignments and then try to solve the Case of the Barefoot Burglar based on the crime scene report.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
17. The sciences explorer
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011149
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created for grades 9 to 12 by three high school students as part of ThinkQuest's First Annual Web Site Creation Contest, offers a variety of Internet resources for biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics. The biology page contains an virtual cell where visitors may view three dimensional representations of the organelles, an essay on cloning, and information of the different fields within biology.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
18. The global water sampling project
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016655
    This project, developed and managed by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE), provides a format for students around the globe to collaborate in fresh water testing . Because of the nature of the tests in the project, it is targeted for students in grades 6 to 12 but is open to students of all ages.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
19. Scientific American Frontiers
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012692
    This Internet site, maintained by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), is the companion web site to SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS, a series of science specials hosted by Alan Alda. Each hour-long episode introduces a variety of science stories based on a single theme.
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20. Project LABS
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017204
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for teachers of grades K to 12, contains lesson plans and hands-on activities produced by Project Learning About Basic Science (LABS), which is a cooperative program for science teachers sponsored by the Rohm and Haas Company. Since 1988, Project LABS has helped to teach the principles of basic science to elementary, middle and high school students.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)