Career Information

Sites that describe specific math and science careers and the professionals in them, or programs to support students interested in exploring such professions.

1. Girls go tech: a Girl Scout initiative
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027978
   This Internet site, created by the Girl Scouts of America, encourages girls to excel in math, science, and technology. Through three age-level rooms, girls ages 5-8, 9-11, and 12-17 discover how math, science, and technology relate to common objects found in their own bedrooms.
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2. Changing the face of medicine: celebrating America's women physicians
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028717
   This Internet site, maintained by The National Library of Medicine, explores how women have influenced and enhanced the practice of medicine. This online exhibition celebrates some of America's extraordinary women physicians and hopes to inspire a new generation of medical pioneers.
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3. The black inventor online museum
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028919
   This Internet site explores the achievements of 50 African Americans. The site intends to promote awareness of contributions by African Americans and instill a greater sense of pride, understanding, and enthusiasm on behalf of students and teachers.
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4. Invention at play: Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026129
   This Internet site is the online version of a traveling exhibit that explores the interrelationship between invention and play. Developed by the Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the site offers information in three main sections: Inventor's Stories, Does Play Matter?, and Invention Playhouse.
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5. Career voyages
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 028715
   This Internet site, maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor, provides a collection of resources that explore different types of careers.
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6. Aspire
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018954
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 6 to 12 by the University of Utah's Department of Physics, contains web based, interactive lessons that allow students to explore physics topics. The interactive labs consist of general physics and astrophysics labs.
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7. Nobel e-Museum
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 021183
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site features lectures, interviews, and articles by Nobel Laureates, along with educational activities related to their achievements. Additionally, there is background information about the Nobel Prize and, its founder Alfred Nobel.
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8. Scientists in action!
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 4 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029548
   This Internet site introduces students to various careers in science. The articles begin by describing an aspect of nature, and then explaining how the roles of different scientists work together to solve problems, predict natural disasters, and explore the unknown.
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9. GirlsTech: girls, science, and technology : evaluating electronic resources for girls
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): Pre-K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020858
   This Internet site, developed through a collaborative project of Rutgers University and the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., offers a framework for teachers, parents, and youth group leaders to evaluate electronic resources for girls and young women to encourage and increase their involvement in science and technology. Information on the site is organized into three sections: a description of why girls tend not to pursue studies in science and technology, a proposed solution to this problem, and a method used to evaluate resources including sample site ratings.
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10. Engineer girl!
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 3 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 020233
    This Internet site, developed by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), is part of the Celebration of Women in Engineering Project aimed at promoting gender equity and diversity in the workforce. Information on this site is intended to bring national attention to the opportunities that women and girls have in the engineering field.
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11. Native Access to Engineering Programme
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 023972
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by the Native Access to Engineering Program (NAEP) at Concordia University in Quebec, offers ways to encourage Aboriginal students in elementary and secondary schools to pursue math and science. The site provides teachers with downloadable curricula and professional development opportunities.
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12. Profile of a scientist
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 10 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018615
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains the materials needed for a nine week interdisciplinary activity in which students in grades 10 to 12 explore the roles of inventors and scientists in society. The goal of the activity is to dispel negative student perceptions about scientists and encourage them to see that it is a field that is accessible to them if they are interested.
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13. 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.
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14. Ohio math works
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 7 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 018101
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, part of the Ohio Math Works (OMW), is designed to help teachers prepare students for today's job market by giving them a reason to study the mathematics they will need in the world beyond school. The OMW project, targeted for students in grades 7, 8, and 9, offers teachers a kit of materials for teaching real world lessons related to the Ohio 9th grade proficiency test learning outcomes.
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15. Discover engineering.org
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026088
    This Internet site provides students with activities and career information about engineering. The site was developed as part of National Engineers Week to promote the various professions and highlight the many engineering accomplishments that affect everyday life.
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16. Applications of Working And Learning (AWAL) database
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 013489
    This Internet site, part of a national project in British Columbia, aims to help educators connect the curriculum they teach in the classroom with how that curriculum is used in the workplace. Among other things, this database helps users find workplace applications of nine essential workplace skills as defined by Canada's Human Resources Development.
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17. Women of NASA
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 8 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011378
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site was developed to encourage more young women to pursue careers in math, science, and technology. The Women of NASA interactive project showcases outstanding women who are enjoying successful careers in math, science, and technology.
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18. USDA for kids
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 015905
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), contains links to help students learn about topics such as nutrition, agriculture, and statistics. In addition to the USDA maintained sites, students can find links with information about 4 H, Smokey the Bear, and insects.
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19. Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS), Inc.
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014523
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site focuses on providing guidance to students, grades 9 to 12, who are interested in engineering. The site offers information about activities, events, programs, and materials that aim to connect high school students with engineers and demonstrate what engineers do.
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20. PlaneMath
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 4 - 7 Cost: Free ENC#: 002245
    This Internet site contains tutorial mathematics lessons, group activities, links to other sites, and information for teachers and parents of physically disabled students in grades 4 to 7. The mission of the project is to motivate students with physical disabilities to pursue aeronautics related careers through accessible math education materials on the Internet.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)