Science Topics

Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within science.

Environment

1. 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.)
   
   
2. 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.)
   
   
3. MadSci network
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 008646
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a collective cranium of scientists from around the world, fielding questions from many people in many places. Students and teachers are invited to submit questions by filling out an online form or by emailing them.
   (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. Garbage: how can my community reduce waste?
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012166
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is an online exhibit that explores the effects of garbage on the environment and suggests some actions that visitors can take to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste in their own communities. The site contains a series of articles that discuss landfills and solid wastes, hazardous wastes, and sewage.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
6. 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.)
   
   
7. American field guide: inspiration to explore
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 025369
   This website provides 1,400 narrated video clips of outdoor programming content from nearly 30 Public Broadcasting Stations. Clips may be searched by keyword, or accessed on the homepage under eight topics, including Animals, Human History, and Public Policy.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
8. NESEA Northeast Sustainable Energy Association K-12 education
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 021181
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created by The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), features educational resources, workshops, conferences, and environmentally friendly transportation links for teachers of grades K-12 to promote the understanding, development, and adoption of energy conservation and non-polluting, renewable energy transportation technologies. A navigational sidebar is provided for users to access information.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
9. The Why files: science behind the news
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 008655
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, a project of the National Institute for Science Education (NISE), is an electronic exploration of the science behind the news. Twice monthly, a new feature on the science (and math, engineering, and technology) of everyday life is presented.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
10. EnviroMapper storefront
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 024771
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), features an interactive mapping tool for users to map areas of environmental pollution and regulation throughout the country. Maps can be drawn at the county, city, or national level, as well as with landmarks, so that environmental information is presented within the context of surrounding communities.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
11. 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.)
    
    
12. WWF, the conservation organization
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011989
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is the homepage of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world's largest independent conservation organization. The WWF was established to conserve nature and ecological processes by preserving genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity; ensuring the sustainable use of renewable natural resources; and promoting actions to reduce pollution and the wasteful exploitation and consumption of energy.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
13. 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.)
    
    
14. 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.)
    
    
15. Natural Inquirer
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020184
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 5 and up by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is the homepage of a science education resource journal designed to promote critical thinking, scientific inquiry, and investigation while helping students learn about our natural resources and the environment.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
16. 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.)
    
    
17. 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.)
    
    
18. 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.)
    
    
19. The World Bank Group: welcome student and teachers!
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 020857
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by the World Bank Group, an international development organization devoted to creating a world free of poverty, is designed to provide tools and resources to assist secondary students and teachers in critically thinking about social, economic, and environmental issues of sustainable development. Online references are available for students studying different countries and regions around the world, along with statistical indicators of social, economic, and environmental conditions and other specific data sets that reveal information about such subjects as gender equity, health and energy.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
20. 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.)