Browse Collections
Listed below, in alphabetical order, are all of the collections that participate in NSDL by sharing information about their individual resources.
To browse a list of collections focusing on a particular subject area, or subject area and audience, or new collections, choose from the navigation menu to the left.
Collections in bold are NSDL Pathways or their contributing collections.
Access Excellence @ The National Health Museum: The Site for Health and Bioscience Teachers and Learners
http://www.accessexcellence.org/index.html
This site contains bioscience classroom activities; teaching and learning strategies; health and bioscience news; a biotech section; a student resource section with science and math links and a visual library with graphics of life processes; the e-journal Biology Education Online; discussion boards;... Full Description
ACM Women in Computing
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/view.jhtml?&id=AD0699F5-F85D-4E74-8F49-50...
The mission of ACM's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) is to engage in activities and projects that aim to improve working and learning environments for women in computing. This includes promoting activities that result in more equal representation of women in computer science, such as mentori... Full Description
Advances in Engineering Education: A Journal of Engineering Education Applications
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=F2ADF80...
The mission of the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Engineering Education (AEE), which participates in the NEEDS Pathway, is to disseminate proven innovations in engineering education practice, especially those best presented through the creative use of multimedia. The journal includes descriptions... Full Description
Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
http://alsos.wlu.edu/
The Alsos Digital Library is an annotated bibliography describing over 2,000 books, articles, films, CDs, and web sites that together offer a broad, balanced perspective on current and historical nuclear issues. The references trace the development of nuclear science, the Manhattan Project, the Cold... Full Description
American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is one of the world's preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions. The Museum advances its mission to explore and interpret human cultures and the natural world through a wide-reaching program of scientific research, education... Full Description
AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository
http://amser.org/
AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for those in community and technical colleges, but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Libra... Full Description
Analytical Sciences Digital Library (ASDL)
http://www.asdlib.org/
The ASDL collects, catalogs, annotates, and links peer-reviewed web-based educational resources and information pertinent to innovations in curricular development in the analytical sciences, and supporting technical resources. JASDL, the online journal of the ASDL, publishes peer-reviewed online art... Full Description
Animal Diversity Web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology hosted by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. It provides descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in som... Full Description
Atmospheric Visualization Collection (AVC)
http://education.arm.gov/nsdl/education.shtml
The intent of the Atmospheric Visualization Collection (AVC) is to enhance physical science education and research through visualization of atmospheric data. This collection includes an archive of atmospheric data images and educational material based on these images. By utilizing collaborative digi... Full Description
Atomic Archive
http://www.atomicarchive.com/
This site explores the science, history, and consequences of the invention of the atomic bomb. It offers information about the events and decisions that led to the development of the bomb and the events and decisions that followed, from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to today's post-Cold War era. For users ... Full Description
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/
This collection provides resources that help elementary educators teach hands-on science, integrate literacy and science and incorporate polar science topics into their existing curriculums. Full Description
Biological Sciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/biological-sciences/
The Biological Sciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the biological and life sciences, including agriculture, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, natural history, marine biology, zoology, and others. ... Full Description
BiosciEdNet (BEN): Digital Library Portal for Teaching and Learning in the Biological Sciences
http://www.biosciednet.org/portal/
BiosciEdNet(BEN) is a catalyst for individual undergraduate biology educators to improve their teaching through resources, collaboration, and network building. However, it is also a catalyst for participating biology research-based and education-based organizations to build collaborations in terms o... Full Description
Bridge-NOAA Collection
http://www2.vims.edu/bridge/noaa/
The Bridge-NOAA Collection is a selection of exemplary resources from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that have been reviewed by educators and found to be well-suited for educational purposes. The collection also emphasizes professional-development opportunities for teache... Full Description
Bridge: Sea Grant Ocean Sciences Resources Center
http://www.vims.edu/bridge/
The Bridge Ocean Sciences Resource Center provides access to ocean sciences education materials, with particular emphasis on K-12 audiences and instructional materials. The Bridge Collection also includes links to information about professional-development opportunities for teachers. There is a stro... Full Description
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=436A848...
The aim of BPC, a NEEDS Pathway participant, is to enable educators at all levels and in both formal and informal settings to easily identify, select, and use educational resources shown by research to be effective for increasing the participation of members of underrepresented groups in information... Full Description
Center for Sustainable Engineering (CSE)
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=80E8F78...
The Center for Sustainable Engineering, a participant in the NEEDS Pathway, is developing and implementing activities to enhance education in sustainable engineering at colleges and universities around the world. Sustainable engineering is engineering for human development that meets the needs of th... Full Description
Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE)
http://www.cosee.net/
The Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) site provides access to ocean sciences education materials from all 10 regional centers, with particular emphasis on K-12 audiences and instructional materials. The COSEE collection also includes links to information about professional-deve... Full Description
ChemCases: General Chemistry Case Studies
http://www.chemcases.com/
ChemCases.com offers curriculum supplements appropriate for teaching the second semester of an undergraduate general chemistry course. The supplements are twelve case studies of the chemistry of products often encountered by the general public, such as sports drinks, refrigerants, automotive fuels, ... Full Description
Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL)
http://www.chemeddl.org/
ChemEd DL aims to provide exemplary digital resources, tools, and online services to aid in teaching and learning chemistry. This means ChemEd DL offers access to multiple collections and services from the the Journal of Chemical Education, the American Chemical Society Education Division and the Ch... Full Description
Chemistry Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/chemistry/
The Chemistry Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of chemistry-related web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources pertaining to many areas of the discipline—-general chemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and others—-and intended for a wide range... Full Description
Choosing and Using DLESE
http://www.dlese.org/library/query.do?q=&s=0&ky=00v&ky=06&ky=01e&ky=01f&ky=...
Choosing and Using DLESE highlights resources from DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) that have some pedagogical content knowledge associated with them. This knowledge may include formal and informal reviews, annotations, educational standards (national, state, and local), comments, ... Full Description
COMET Program Collection
http://www.meted.ucar.edu/
The COMET Program Collection and its MetEd (Meteorology Education and Training) web site provide education and training resources to benefit the operational forecaster community, university atmospheric scientists and students, and anyone interested in learning more about meteorology and weather fore... Full Description
Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES)
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/view.jhtml?id=C304B67F-BF43-43BB-A8AA-417...
The Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) is an engineering and sustainability assessment organization, as well as international project, with an empahsis on reducting the environmental impacts associated with human activity in order to reduce the effects of catastrophi... Full Description
ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education
http://www.compadre.org/
ComPADRE is a set of communities of teachers and students in physics and astronomy and web-based collections of resources to support their needs. The communities supported by ComPADRE are groups that can benefit from the sharing of materials, information, and experiences in a web environment. Exampl... Full Description
Computer Science and Information Technology Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/computer-science/
The Computer Science and Information Technology Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and resources in many areas including algorithms and data structures, operating systems and programming languages, software engineering, artificial intelligence, information scie... Full Description
Connected Curriculum Project (CCP)
http://www.math.duke.edu/education/ccp/
The Connected Curriculum Project (CCP) has modules for use in courses from precalculus to linear algebra, differential equations, and engineering mathematics. The project emphasizes mathematical subject areas within biology, chemistry, economics, environmental science, epidemiology and physics. Clas... Full Description
Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE)
http://www.causeweb.org/
CAUSE is a national organization with the mission of supporting and advancing undergraduate statistics education in four target areas: 1) resources, 2) professional development, 3) outreach, and 4) research. The overarching goals in each area are: 1) Collect, review, develop, and disseminate resourc... Full Description
CSERD: Computational Science Education Reference Desk
http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/
The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) features resources to help students learn about computational science and to help teachers incorporate it into the classroom. Computational science involves the appropriate use of a computational architecture or computing environment (a comp... Full Description
Curricular Resource Library (cURL): Earth and Environmental Sciences
http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/projects/curl/simulation.html
The cURL Earth and Environmental Sciences collection provides access to educational materials emphasizing the origin, evolution, and current state of the Earth. The collection is targeted toward undergraduate students and offers access to information about solid-earth geological processes, surficial... Full Description
Demos With Positive Impact
http://mathdemos.gcsu.edu/mathdemos/
Demos With Positive Impact emphasizes connecting mathematics instructors with effective teaching tools. The collection features short materials that can be used in a classroom presentation. The demos use a range of technology from animated gifs to java applets. Materials on the site are submitted by... Full Description
Digital Library of Indigenous Science Resources (DLISR )
http://www.dlisr.org/index.html
The Digital Library for Indigenous Science Resources (DLISR) is a collection of online text, video, audio, and image files concerning Indigenous science--both knowledge about the natural world and ways of teaching and learning about it. All DLISR resources are authored and/or produced by Indigenous ... Full Description
Digital Water Education Library (DWEL)
http://www.csmate.colostate.edu/dwel/
The DWEL collection offers K-12 and informal-education digital resources of high quality that are related to the science, policy, and economics of water. The collection is designed to facilitate learning about all aspects of water in the Earth system. The DWEL collection supports science-education s... Full Description
DLESE Collections
http://www.dlese.org/dds/histogram.do?group=subject
DLESE Collections showcase the different collections within the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). DLESE collections can be quickly and easily browsed by subject topic, grade level, resource type, or educational standard. Full Description
DLESE News and Opportunities
http://www.dlese.org/news_opportunities/index.jsp
DLESE News and Opportunities makes time-sensitive news, events and opportunities (workshops, conferences, grant funding, job announcements, calls for participation, learning opportunities, and scholarship information) available to the geoscience and Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)... Full Description
DLESE: Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/
DLESE's mission is to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth System, by developing, managing, and providing access to high-quality educational resources and supporting services through a community-based, distributed digital library. Intended users incl... Full Description
DragonflyTV
http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/index.html
DragonflyTV is an Emmy Award winning PBS Kids science show, featuring ordinary kids conducting extraordinary inquiry-based investigations in real-world contexts. DragonflyTV features: investigations; scientist profiles; hands-on science activities; and Flash-based games. These resources are designed... Full Description
Earth Exploration Toolbook: Step-by-Step Guides for Investigating Earth System Data
http://serc.carleton.edu/eet
The Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) is a collection of step-by-step examples, called chapters, of the use of Earth system science resources in an educational context for the educational community. The resources include datasets, analysis tools, visualization tools, and other educational products. E... Full Description
Earth System Science Informal Education Network (ESSIEN)
http://www.dlese.org/dds/histogram.do?group=subject&key=ien
The Earth System Science Informal Education Network (ESSIEN) is dedicated to improving Earth system literacy through increased communication and collaboration among providers of informal Earth system education. The collection is designed for museum professionals (educators, exhibits designers, devel... Full Description
Earthquake Education Environment (E3)
http://sceccore.usc.edu/e3/index.php
The Earthquake Education Environment (E3) supports high-quality K-12 and undergraduate education by providing up-to-date earthquake information, authoritative technical sources, and educational resources for the classroom. Full Description
Education Place: Houghton Mifflin Science
http://www.eduplace.com/science/hmsc/index.html
Education Place presents Houghton Mifflin's K-6 science textbook support resources, organized by grade level. Each of the seven modules offers broad coverage of concepts in physical science, Earth science, and life science through a series of topic units. Each unit includes engaging activities such ... Full Description
Educational Benchmarks Collection
http://strandmaps.nsdl.org/AAAS-Collection/index.jsp
The Educational Benchmarks Collection provides interactive access to the educational standards developed by Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The benchmarks--often referred to as learning goals--describe what students should know or be able to do by the ... Full Description
Educational Multimedia Visualization Center (EMVC)
http://piru.alexandria.ucsb.edu/collections/atwater/emvc/index.htm
The Educational Multimedia Visualization Center (EMVC) collection uses multimedia technology to bring geology education alive through audio-visual animations. The collection emphasizes plate tectonics but includes all aspects of Earth science. The goal is to make tacit geological knowledge explicit.... Full Description
Electronic Environmental Resources Library (eERL)
http://www.eerl.org/
The Environmental Education Resources Library (eERL) provides a comprehensive library of online environmental and sustainability resources for educators, students, practitioners, and the public. eERL provides resources pertaining to environmental technology which includes these occupational categori... Full Description
Engineering and Business for Sustainability (EBS)
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/view.jhtml?id=422110CA-BD65-445A-ABD2-75C...
The Engineering and Business for Sustainability (EBS) Collection captures curricular modules, lectures and other educational resources associated with its Certificate Program of the same tile. EBS is an initiative to train undergraduate and graduate students to understand the complexity and urgency ... Full Description
Engineering and Technology Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/engineering-technology/
The Engineering and Technology Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and resources in many areas of engineering and technology, including mechanical, civil, chemical, electrical, industrial, environmental, and nuclear engineering; biotechnology and nanotechnology;... Full Description
Environmental Science Activities for the 21st Century
http://esa21.kennesaw.edu/activities/activities.htm
The Environmental Science Activities for the 21st Century collection provides multi-week activity modules around major topics in environmental science. The modules are designed to supplement environmental science courses with existing laboratory components or provide course activities for traditiona... Full Description
Exploratorium Digital Library: Learning Resources Collection
http://nsdl.exploratorium.edu/nsdl/
The Exploratorium Digital Library provides access to high-quality teaching resources and learning activities that reflect the museum's foundation of playful exhibit-based inquiry in science, art, and human perception. The Learning Resources Collection includes teaching tips and related resources. Th... Full Description
ExploreLearning: Interactive Math and Science Simulations
http://www.explorelearning.com/
ExploreLearning offers a catalog of hundreds of modular, interactive science simulations for grades 3-12 and math simulations for grades 6-12, intended to make difficult science and math topics easier to teach and learn. These interactives, called Gizmos, are designed as supplemental curriculum mate... Full Description
Exploring Earth Investigations
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/investigation....
Exploring Earth Investigations are Internet-based activities that use animations, interactive graphics, and unique imagery to help students gather information about a particular Earth science theme, issue, or concept. Exploring Earth Investigations were created by Houghton-Mifflin/McDougal-Littell i... Full Description
Fun Works . . . for Careers You Never Knew Existed
http://www.thefunworks.org/
The Fun Works, from Education Development Center, Inc., is a digital library of career exploration resources for youth ages 11-15. The Fun Works provides "real world" experiences and uses young people's current interests and passions, such as music and sports, to help them explore exciting future ca... Full Description
Gender and Science Digital Library (GSDL)
http://eecgsdl.edc.org/index.php
The GSDL offers resources and services to help educators promote and implement gender-equitable science education for both male and female students in formal and informal settings and assist in increasing female involvement in the sciences. In addition, it provides resources to researchers and other... Full Description
General Science and STEM Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/general-science/
The General Science and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources. The collection includes portals and sites offering material on three or more scientific disciplines or the enti... Full Description
Geosciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/geosciences/
The Geosciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the geosciences, including atmospheric sciences, environmental sciences, geology, geophysics, hydrology, oceanography, physical geography, soil science, and oth... Full Description
GLOBE Teacher's Guide
http://archive.globe.gov/tctg/globetg.jsp
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) collection is an environmental science collection supporting an authentic scientifically rigorous program of Earth observations and measurements taken by students in partnership with scientists. Currently, the collection is comp... Full Description
Harvard-Smithsonian Digital Video Library
http://hsdvl.org/
This extensive collection of digital video materials supporting K-12 STEM education reform has been developed by the Science Media Group, part of the Science Education Department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The collection features clinical interviews with students exploring h... Full Description
Health Sciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/health-sciences/
The Health Sciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the health sciences, including aging, biostatistics, body systems and senses, consumer health, diseases, environmental health, epidemiology, human sexuality... Full Description
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered
http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com/
In 2005, the world commemorated the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This web site was created to provide an easy-to-use collection of resources to help students, educators, and the general public better understand that milestone of human history. It brings together... Full Description
History of Science and Technology Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/history-science-technology/
The History of Science and Technology Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources devoted to many eras of the history of science and the history of technology. Here may be found materials for educators and learners (early childhood throu... Full Description
iLumina Digital Library
http://www.ilumina-dlib.org/
iLumina contains materials in the following disciplines: chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. Over half of the materials are supplementary teaching materials like plant images or computer science articles. There are primary teaching materials like demonstrations, animation... Full Description
The Instructional Architect
http://ia.usu.edu/
The Instructional Architect (IA) is a digital library service developed to support the instructional use of National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and other web resources. Teachers are able to search, select, sequence, annotate and reuse online educational resources to create online instructional p... Full Description
Integration of Nanotechnology into Civil Engineering
http://rgeoghegan.1free.ws/
This educational project develops new course modules on nanotechnology applications in civil engineering and integrates them into existing mainstream civil engineering undergraduate courses. Though course modules are particularly developed for construction materials, most of them are self-contained ... Full Description
Interactive Matrix Algebra Modules
http://www.math.utep.edu:8080/jsp/
Interactive Matrix Algebra Modules is designed to help students gain a solid understanding of several linear algebra topics through visualization and experimentation. Full Description
International Journal of Engineering Education
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=4ACDBEF...
This journal, a NEEDS Pathway participant, serves as an international interdisciplinary forum of reference for engineering education. It aims to achieve a balance between papers on developments in educational methods technology, case studies, laboratory applications, new theoretical approaches, educ... Full Description
Internet Scout Project
http://scout.wisc.edu/
The Internet Scout Report provides evaluation and annotation of high-quality online resources, particularly those that will be of value to the education community. Each resource is selected, researched, and annotated by a team of professional librarians and subject-matter experts, who evaluate sites... Full Description
MatDL: Materials Digital Library Pathway
http://matdl.org/
The Materials Digital Library Pathway (MatDL) is building an information infrastructure to support materials science (MS) education and research--and interactions between the two--as well as to disseminate resources generated by government-funded MS collaborations. The long-term target community of ... Full Description
Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/
The Math Forum is the comprehensive resource for math education on the Internet. Some features include a K-12 math expert service (Ask Dr. Math), an extensive database of math sites and math tools, online resources for teaching and learning math, a discussion forum, information on professional devel... Full Description
Math Images
http://mathforum.org/mathimages/
This Math Images project is a collection of images related to mathematics, together with discussions of the math behind the images. Users are encouraged to contribute information, new pages, questions, to share ideas and interact. The math images are meant to inspire a greater interest in mathematic... Full Description
MathDL: Loci
http://www.mathdl.org/mathDL/23/
Loci is the publication of the Mathematical Association of America and part of the Mathematical Sciences Digital Library. It features peer-reviewed articles and learning materials focused on teaching and learning undergraduate mathematics, including articles, mathlets, modules, reviews, and a develo... Full Description
MathDL: MAA Writing Awards
http://www.mathdl.org/mathDL/22/
MAA Writing Awards is part of the site Mathematical Sciences Digital Library. Writing Awards provides access to pdf files of the articles that have won MAA journal writing awards over the years together with short biographical sketches of the authors. Full Description
Mathematics Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/mathematics/
The Mathematics Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of mathematics-related web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the discipline, including algebra, applied math, arithmetic, calculus, functions, geometry, measurement, number sense, probability and stati... Full Description
Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE)
http://mel.org/mer/
Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE) provides thousands of quality educational web sites and resources for K-12 educators, including professional development, practical information, and curriculum-related resources in specific disciplines. The sites and resources are tied to Michigan's cur... Full Description
Microbial Life Educational Resources
http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/
MLER aims to provide a contemporary and expanding collection of resources of expert information about the ecology, diversity and evolution of micro-organisms for students, K-12 teachers, university faculty, as well as for the general public. These resources are built around themes: microbial life in... Full Description
Middle School Portal: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2)
http://msteacher2.org/
The Middle School Portal: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2) identifies digital resources that support reform-based middle school math and science teaching and learning. Its Mathematics Pathway and Science Pathway present standards-based publications that take an in-depth look at teachable concepts in... Full Description
MY NASA DATA: Mentoring and Inquiry using NASA Data on Atmospheric and Earth Science for Teachers and Amateurs
http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/
The MY NASA DATA collection showcases NASA Earth science data through lesson plans, data microsets, computer tools, data information pages and a science glossary. Resources are geared towards K-12 educators, students and citizen scientists. Resources generally cover clouds, aerosols, the radiation b... Full Description
NASA Earth and Space Science Education Collection
http://www.dlese.org/dds/histogram.do?group=subject&key=edmall
The collection provides teachers and students with a wide variety of curriculum enhancement materials geared for Earth science classroom use. Full Description
NASA Earth Science Reviewed Collection
http://www.dlese.org/dds/histogram.do?group=subject&key=eserev
The NASA Earth Science Reviewed Collection provides educators and students with a direct line of access to quality products reviewed through the NASA product review. The resources have been rigorously reviewed by an independent peer review of teachers, curriculum and design specialists, teacher trai... Full Description
National Academies Press
http://www.nap.edu/
National Academies Press. The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of the National Academies Press, was created with the goal of making books on science, technology, and health more widely available to professionals and the public. The new imprint responds to rising public interest in science issues. As t... Full Description
National Curve Bank
http://curvebank.calstatela.edu/home/home.htm
The National Curve Bank displays representations of two- and three-dimensional curves. Geometrical, algebraic, and historical aspects of curves are included. Educators and students have access to animations, interactions, java applets, Mathematica code, and more. Users may submit curves. Materials a... Full Description
National Science Foundation (NSF) Special Reports
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/
The National Science Foundation (NSF) special reports feature scientific work being done by NSF funding. Topics include weather, evolution, mathematics, visualization, technology, polar, infectious disease, robotics, wild animals, earthquake engineering, cyberinfrastructure, tsunami, arctic and clim... Full Description
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Learning Center
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/
The NSTA Learning Center offers print and online resources for science teachers, including a wealth of journal articles, books, book chapters, and electronic professional development resources, such as SciGuides, SciPacks, and Web Seminars. Designed for both schools and individual teachers, the NSTA... Full Description
NEEDS: National Engineering Education System - Engineering Pathway
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=7A93330...
A digital library and learning community for engineering education, NEEDS catalogs courseware and other instructional software developed nationally and internationally to provide a resource where both instructors and learners can search, access, and download educational materials over the World Wide... Full Description
New York State Earth Science Instructional Collection
http://stevekluge.com/geoscience/projects/nysic/
The New York State Earth Science Instructional Collection (NYSESIC) is a thematic collection focusing on instructional materials that support teaching and learning in relation to the New York Earth Science Regents exam. The topics covered by the collection include solid Earth forms and processes, at... Full Description
NOAA Environmental Visualization Program
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/
The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Environmental Visualization Program provides enhanced-resolution imagery and animations of atmospheric and natural-hazards phenomena captured daily by satellite and other remote-sensing technologies. The range of phenomena includes storm eve... Full Description
NSDL Expert Voices
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/
Expert Voices uses weblog technology to support collaborative conversations among STEM content experts, scientists, educators, and students from key NSDL audience groups: K-12 teachers, higher-education faculty, librarians, and library builders. Moderated conversations are designed to tie NSDL resou... Full Description
NSDL Web Seminars
http://nsdl.org/resources_for/k12_teachers/?pager=professional_development
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) collaborated with NSTA focusing on a variety of science topics and targeting K-12 grade level educators. The seminars included information and resources for educators available on the NSDL website. Presenters are well-respected, veteran educators from NSDL... Full Description
On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/
The Cutting Edge collection is a set of thematic strands on pedagogical and content topics of interest to geoscience education, broadly construed. Current strands cover teaching biocomplexity, early-career faculty development, petrology, and designing effective courses in the geosciences. The collec... Full Description
Online Psychology Laboratory (OPL)
http://opl.apa.org/
The Online Psychology Laboratory (OPL) consists of (1) highly interactive, web-deliverable psychology experiments and demonstrations, (2) a cumulative data archive from which students can retrieve datasets for analysis, and (3) user-controlled data extraction and analysis tools designed for the dive... Full Description
Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) - Museum of the Earth
http://www.priweb.org/
The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) is a natural history museum located in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1932, PRI has outstanding programs in research, collections, publications, and public outreach. The Institution cares for a collection of 2-3 million specimens (one of the 10 largests i... Full Description
Physics Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/physics/
The Physics Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of physics-related web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the discipline, including electromagnetism, classical mechanics, optics, oscillations and waves, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and other areas.... Full Description
Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary
http://plantandsoil.unl.edu/
The Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary is a collection of interactive animations, eLessons, video clips and quizzes. They cover topics in plant genetics, biotechnology, soil science, weed science and target audiences from high school to undergraduate and graduate students. They are also used in life l... Full Description
Pr2ove-It
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=3183266...
PR2OVE-IT (Peer Reviewed Research Offering Validation of Effective and Innovative Teaching) is a dynamic and evolving digital clearinghouse that summarizes the available research on educational interventions designed to enhance student learning, retention, and professional success in postsecondary e... Full Description
PRISMS: Phenomena and Representations for the Instruction of Science in Middle School
http://prisms.mmsa.org/
PRISMS provides annotated reviews describing a resource's phenomenon or representation content alignment and quality of instructional support. The focus is on resources useful to science instruction in middle school. Resources are evaluated for how well they support learning goals in Science for All... Full Description
Rapid Prototyping Instructional Delivery Support
http://rpids.csc.tntech.edu/
Rapid Prototyping is an additive manufacturing technology. This site helps new and existing users of Rapid Prototyping develop a better understanding of the technology. Materials include: guidance in the development of distance learning materials, technology transfer approaches, marketing materials,... Full Description
Reciprocal Net: A Distributed Crystallography Network for Researchers, Students, and the General Public
http://www.reciprocalnet.org/
Reciprocal Net is a digital collection of molecular structures in crystallography and chemistry. Innovative visualizing tools provide a valuable glimpse into structural details of substances. For each molecular structure, the chemical formula and an explanation is given. The website also has other r... Full Description
Resources for Educational Benchmarks
http://strandmaps.nsdl.org/
The Resources for Educational Benchmarks connects learning resources to the NSDL Science Literacy Maps. The Science Literacy Maps illustrate connections between science concepts and show how they build upon one another across grade levels. Science Literacy Maps are intended to serve as a browsing in... Full Description
Science of Winter
http://nsdl.org/browse/?brand_identifier=NSDL-COLLECTION-000-003-112-002&su...
Science of Winter is a collection of activities, lessons, interactives, images, or other content illustrating or demonstrating scientific aspects of winter weather, conditions, processes, or phenomena, appropriate for middle school, informal education, and general audiences. Full Description
Scientific Visualization Studio
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Scientific Visualization Studio collection contains visualizations produced from satellite data or from computer simulations of geophysical phenomena using such satellite data. The visualizations show physical phenomena that occur on Earth, ot... Full Description
Simplified Image Management and Processing Learning Environment for Science (SIMPLE Science)
http://www.simplescience.org/
The Simplified Image Management and Processing Learning Environment for Science (SIMPLE Science) collection aims to create resources for middle school that emphasize image processing and analysis techniques while at the same time meet educational standards. The collection features tutorials that gui... Full Description
Social Sciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/social-sciences/
The Social Sciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources devoted to the interplay of science and the social realm, as well as social-science materials that draw heavily upon or are closely related to the life sciences, physical sc... Full Description
Space Sciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/space-sciences/
The Space Sciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas pertinent to the study of space including astrochemistry, astrophysics, cosmology, the solar system, extrasolar planets, amateur astronomy, information about ob... Full Description
Starting Point: Teaching Entry Level Geoscience
http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/
The Starting Point collection consists of resources found within the Starting Point website to support teaching entry-level undergraduate geoscience of all types. The collection includes modules on instructional methods that make up the Starting Point site. Examples demonstrate ways of using these m... Full Description
STEM Education and Educational Technology Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/stem-education/
The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Education and Educational Technology Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources devoted to educational theory and practice, particularly ideas and practices in the teaching of... Full Description
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html
The Teach the Earth collection from the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) contains a broad range of resources supporting effective geoscience education. The collection spans middle school through graduate level with a special emphasis on undergraduate education. It includes thematic foci such... Full Description
TeachEngineering: Resources for K-12
http://www.teachengineering.com/
The TeachEngineering digital library provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms. Mapped to educational content stand... Full Description
Teachers' Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Teachers Domain is a multimedia library for K-12 science educators, developed by WGBH through funding from the National Science Foundation as part of its National Science Digital Library initiative. The site offers a wealth of classroom-ready instructional resources, as well as online professional d... Full Description
Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=E5AEC01...
Bi-weekly posting of news articles and a place for discussion on teaching and learning in engineering education. Topics include career information, teaching and learning, research, and a graduate and postdocs. The site also contains links to articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education on-line Ca... Full Description
Trinity Remembered. The Trinity Test: Historic Documents, Photos, and Videos
http://www.trinityremembered.com/
60 years ago, the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert. Trinityremembered.com, brings together a large collection of information about the turning point of human history. It contains eyewitness accounts, photographs, video and maps Full Description
TRUST Academy Online
http://tao.truststc.org
The TRUST Academy Online Portal provides learning resources contributed by the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology, an NSF Science and Technology Center. TAO Project Profiles share the stories of individual TRUST projects and provide access to related resources. TAO Courseware Profiles... Full Description
VaNTH-ERC for Bioengineering Educational Technologies
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=5DE1D8C...
VaNTH-ERC, an Engineering Research Center formed by a consortium of Vanderbilt and Northwestern universities, the University of Texas-Austin, and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, focuses on the design, development, and dissemination of bioengineering and biomedical engineering courseware.... Full Description
Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics
http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/
The goal of the Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics is to provide free, high quality, interactive, web-based resources for students and teachers of probability and statistics. Basically, our project consists of an integrated set of components that includes expository text, applets, da... Full Description
Visionlearning
http://visionlearning.com/
Visionlearning is an innovative educational resource designed for students, teachers, parents or anyone interested in learning science. Visionlearning provides peer-reviewed teaching modules in chemistry, biology, earth science and other disciplines within a fully customizable online classroom manag... Full Description
Wolfram Research
http://www.wolfram.com/
The Wolfram Research collection includes access to the comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedias of MathWorld and the Wolfram Functions Site. Also included are links to the Online Integrator for solving integrals and the Demonstrations Project. The functions site details the interrelat... Full Description