Science Topics

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

Matter

1. NatureShift!: linking learning to life
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028270
   This web site, produced by the North Dakota Science Center, contains hands-on, problem-based activities, which are aligned with the NSES and National Social Studies Standards. The site helps children learn about concepts within science and technology, as well as about North Dakota history and geography.
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2. Strange matter: discover the secrets of everyday stuff
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 027854
   This Internet site, developed for grades 5-8, features a collection of virtual activities for students to explore materials science. From the homepage, students can choose among four activities to discover the science behind everyday materials.
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3. Conceptual physics SURF
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012952
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for high school physics students, contains supplementary simulations and Internet resources that accompany the CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS curriculum. CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS is a physics program that uses simple language and cartoon like sketches to make physics more accessible to students.
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4. Chemistry lessons
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 1 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017471
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 1 to 12 by the Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition, contains chemistry lessons and activities. The Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition provides a clearinghouse of lessons that can be done at home or in a classroom.
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5. The home page of Peggy E. Schweiger
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 015483
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed as a resource for high school physics teachers and students, contains electronic versions of all of the organizational and content handouts that Peggy E. Schweiger would give her students.
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6. PlanetDiary
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011879
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for middle school and high school science students by Scott Foresman Addison Wesley (SFAW) publishers, contains Internet lessons and articles that correlate with SFAW textbooks. Every week, this site presents geological, astronomical, meteorological, biological, and environmental news from around the globe.
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7. Hands-On Technology Program
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 011636
   This Internet site, designed for students in grades K to 8, consists of activities in the areas of science and math. The science activities are further split into several units such as sound, dinosaurs, and recycling, each of which provides experiments related to a particular subject.
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8. Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience (IPPEX)
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010902
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 8 and up as part of the Internet Plasma Physics Experience (IPPEX) by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), provides interactive modules on electricity, magnetism, energy, and fusion. The site was created to provide general information about the field of fusion research and to engage student through online projects such as IPPEX.
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9. Bad science
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1995 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004086
   This purpose of this Internet resource, developed for secondary school students and their teachers, is to sensitize teachers and students to examples of scientific concepts that are commonly mistaught in schools, universities, and offered in popular articles and even textbooks. The home page explains what is meant by bad science and provides pointers to specialized pages on bad science within various disciplines, such as Bad Meteorology, Bad Chemistry, and Bad Physics.
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10. Physical science activities manual
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002468
    This Internet site contains 34 hands-on physical science-based activities that were developed in 1995 by a group of Tennessee teachers. These activities can be downloaded in MS Word, Wordperfect, or pdf format.
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11. Science Court hands-on activities
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 017990
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 8, is an online version of the same titled CD-ROM series, SCIENCE COURT, that uses animated courtroom drama, hands-on science activities, and humor to teach students fundamental science concepts and model scientific practice. Each program in the series involves students in an animated courtroom drama that focuses on a basic science concept such as the water cycle, gravity, and sound.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)