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Science Topics
Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within science.
Water
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Geography action!: rivers 2001
 ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020497
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created by the National Geographic Society and the Coca-Cola Company, for grades K-12, features an annual conservation and awareness program designed to educate people about our natural, cultural and historic treasures. This year Geography Awareness Week runs from November 11th to the 17th, and features the topic of rivers.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Kids in the creek
Featured in ENC Focus
Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 6 Cost: Free ENC#: 027020
This Internet site provides lesson plans and printable materials for assessing the health of freshwater streams. The materials were developed by the Bonneville Power Administration, a major hydroelectric producer in the Pacific Northwest.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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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.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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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.)
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Florida's springs: protecting natures gems
Featured in ENC Focus ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026592
This Internet site, maintained by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, explores the structure and function of Florida's natural springs as well as the human activities that threaten this vital system. The site offers mini-tutorials on how a spring forms, the types of animals that live in spring ecosystems, and the ways that humans impact the quantity and quality of spring water.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Mars, dead or alive
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 029020
This web site, part of the NOVA ONLINE series, examines NASA's pair of Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) and their mission on the red planet in 2004. Background information about the various formations that make up the Mar's landscape is presented using images of the planet's volcanoes, ice caps, and sand dunes.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Educating young people about water
Featured in ENC Focus
Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020173
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for K through 12 science educators, lists and explains the resources that are available as part of the Educating Young People About Water program. These include guidebooks and videotapes that are intended to assist in implementing a water education program within the school and community environment.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Drinking water kids' stuff
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017789
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, has resources to help students in grade K to 12 learn more about drinking water. It contains sections with games and activities, experiments, and health information.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Bryant Creek watershed atlas
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028474
This web site presents information and educator resources on the biology, geology, and history of the Bryant Creek watershed. This stream is located within the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, and serves as a model for instruction on a variety of watershed issues.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Geology of Mars
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028088
This web site contains images and information covering the major geologic processes on Mars. An introduction provides a global perspective by describing the properties of the planet and some of its major features.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Boil, boil, toil and trouble: the international boiling point project
Featured in ENC Focus ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 015776
This World Wide Web (WWW) site is designed to allow students to participate in an international inquiry to discover which factor (room temperature, elevation, volume of water, or heating device) has the greatest influence on boiling point. The site is developed and managed by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) which is located at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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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.)
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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.)
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Advanced biology
Featured in ENC Focus
Date: 1998 Grade(s): 11 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013462
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Advanced Biology class at Cascade High School, features an archive of student environmental action projects. Cascade High School is situated on the shores of Cascade Reservoir, a highly impacted body of water in central Idaho.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Snow crystals: on the nature of snow crystals, and why they form such a variety of shapes
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018350
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by a professor of physics, contains information about the physics involved in the structure and formation of snowflakes. The author teases apart the question of whether any two snowflakes are alike by considering the issue on a molecular level and the visual level.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Environmental Literacy Council
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1999 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 015619
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Environmental Literacy Council, is intended to help students and teachers study environmental issues by guiding them to the resources available on the Internet. The Environmental Literacy Council is a non profit organization established to bring together scientists, economists, educators, and other experts to inform environmental studies.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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The potential consequences of climate variability and change
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1999 Grade(s): 1 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017679
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 1 to 12 by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, presents classroom activities that are designed to examine the potential impacts of climate variability and change. The Institute's activities are developed to expand public awareness and understanding of global change issues.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Concepts in science through molecular modeling: activities for students and teachers
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 8 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 008397
This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains activities for K to 12 students and teachers that address certain concepts in mathematics and science through molecular modeling. Science concepts covered include the properties of water; the chemistry of carbon; photosynthesis; and molecules of life.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Explorer Team
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004500
This World Wide Web (WWW) site was developed by the Explorer Team, a group of students at Clarke Middle School in Lexington, Massachusetts who have been working on an interdisciplinary interactive Internet project about Spectacle Island. This project, Reclaiming Spectacle Island is part of a larger study called The Big Dig Project, a transportation project to build tunnels through Boston Harbor.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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MathMol home page
Featured in ENC Focus ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002342
This Internet site is meant to provide grade K to 12 students and teachers (along with researchers and the general public) information about the growing field of molecular modeling and related topics. The site is designed to demonstrate the basic connections between mathematics and molecular modeling, to provide working models of hypermedia textbooks and supplementary multimedia activities that make full use of Internet resources, and to provide a forum for discussion relating to molecular modeling among scientists, teachers, and students.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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