Science Topics

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

Environment

1. Biodiversity 911 on the web
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029856
   This Internet site, maintained by the World Wildlife Fund, features information and activities that introduce students to biodiversity. Based on the Biodiversity 911 traveling exhibit, the site offers students a variety of topics to discover what biodiversity is and why it is important.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
2. Offshore windfarms in the United States?
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 10 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 028076
   This Internet site, designed for grade 10 and higher, features an interactive activity for students to explore alternative sources of energy. The site challenges students to use their critical thinking skills and the Internet to investigate the benefits and concerns of developing offshore wind power in the United States.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
3. The electronic naturalist
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 029145
   This Internet site features environmental education units for grades K-8. Units cover insects, amphibians, birds, and mammals, as well as plants and environmental issues.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
4. National Wildlife Federation
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 008654
   This Internet site serves as the homepage of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), a conservation group dedicated to the protection and conservation of the environment, wildlife, and other natural resources. In addition to general information about the organization, the site contains sections on Conservation, Education, and Take Action, as well as a section just for Kids and Teens.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
5. Leveraging learning
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 2 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 021013
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for grades 2-8, offers 12 science curriculum units that integrate hands-on investigations with online inquiries. The site includes activities for reading, writing, and communicating about the science content featured, and it also provides embedded assessments.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
6. Animal information database
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002381
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site for K-12 students and teachers features information about marine and terrestrial animals. The site aims to increase awareness of the interrelationships of humans and the marine environment, to build students' basic competencies in science and other disciplines, and to provide an educational resource for the entire community.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
7. RoadKill: collision in the wildlife corridors
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 4 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014540
   This World Wide Web(WWW) site is designed to have students monitor and report the number and type of animals that have been killed by motor vehicles along with information about the environmental conditions which may have contributed to the animal's death. The RoadKill Monitoring Project is applicable to students of all abilities and across many disciplines.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
8. 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.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
9. 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.)
   
   
10. SunWise School Program
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 020191
    This World Wide Web site (WWW), maintained by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), presents information for educators, caregivers, and kids as well as the media, about the national education program objective to raise sun safety awareness among students in grades K through 8. The program is designed to increase student understanding of stratospheric ultraviolet (UV) radiation, ozone depletion, and health risks from overexposure to the sun through active engagement in the learning process.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
11. Community science action guides
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026646
    This Internet site consists of curriculum supplements that support student investigations of local science issues in the U.S. and the U.K.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
12. Woodland network: an interactive environment project for both primary and secondary schools
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 1 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 023970
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers three interactive environmental projects for students in grades 1-12 that link individuals around the world in the collection and sharing of data from woodlands research, while raising public awareness of environmental issues. The site provides students with instructions on how to conduct woodland research, facilitates the sharing of data by allowing students to submit their results to a database, and provides access to information about woodland areas around the world.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
13. 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.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
14. 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.)
    
    
15. 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.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
16. Science and health: resources from the New York Times and Learning Network
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020177
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 3 to 12 by the New York Times Learning Network, offers lesson plan units that use recent New York Times articles as springboards for engaging students. Written in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, each lesson plan and the article it references can be printed out for classroom use.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
17. 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.)
    
    
18. The Evergreen Project adventures
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 017466
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by ASK JEEVES FOR KIDS, contains ecosystem learning experiences and materials for upper elementary and middle school teachers and students. The site is divided into separate sections for teachers and students.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
19. Planet Earth: a suite of interactive learning activities on ecology
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 5 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 012554
    This Internet site, developed for grades 5 to 9, presents a series of web based ecology activities. The first activity, The Earth's Treasures is an enhanced fill in the blank quiz that presents students with brief paragraphs about environmental issues.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
20. Conflict Yellowstone wolves
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016315
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site was developed as part of the PLANET EARTH suite of online activities by the Poway Unified School District and The Museum of Television and Radio. It is a highly structured and complete classroom activity designed to teach students about complex ecological issues using online tools and collaborative inquiry.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)