General Science and STEM Gateways and Resources

AccessScience: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online
http://www.accessscience.com
This online encyclopedia provides access to the content of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. The content includes encyclopedic reference materi... Full description

Acronym Finder
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/stasa/search.html
This online directory, developed from "Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations" (Wiley InterScience), lets users look up the meanings of acronyms and other short terms used in scientific works. The directory ... Full description

Advanced Placement Digital Library
http://apdl.rice.edu/
The Advanced Placement Digital Library (APDL) is a collection of resources in biology, chemistry, physics, and English language and literature that are linked to the Advanced Placement (AP) content outlines in these subjects publi... Full description

Alice Hagar Curriculum Resource Center: STEM Page
http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/departments/curriculum/stem/index.html
The Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) web site of the Alice Hagar Curriculum Resources Center provides resources to PK-12 teachers, pre-service teachers, librarians, and others interested in STEM education. Materials i... Full description

American Museum of Natural History: Resources for Learning
http://amnh.org/education/resources/index.php
This collection of resources, published by the American Museum of Natural History, is intended for educators, parents, students, or anyone who is interested in teaching and learning about science. The resources include activities,... Full description

American Museum of Natural History: Science Bulletins
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/?src=h_h
These online bulletins, produced by the American Museum of Natural History, present the latest information about the natural world: developments in astronomy and astrophysics, Earth science, biology, ecology, and the environment, ... Full description

Ask-A-Scientist
http://www.msc.cornell.edu/education/ask/
This ask-an-expert feature addresses questions on a variety of science topics. Its sponsor, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR), calls on researchers and scientists across disciplines and across New York State to resp... Full description

AskNSDL
http://ask.nsdl.org/
This archive of questions and corresponding answers was collected between 2003 and 2006 by the National Science Digital Library reference desk service "AskNSDL," and was mediated by librarian Blythe Bennett of the Information Inst... Full description

Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
This digital library provides access to thousands of reviewed online resources for education in a variety of topics, including mathematics, technology, and science. The collection is searchable by keyword or term and is organized ... Full description

Bedford, Freeman, and Worth: High School Textbooks and Companion Sites
http://www.bfwpub.com/highschool/
Gateway page to Bedford, Freeman, and Worth's high-school textbooks (in mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts) and the textbooks' companion web sites. Full description

Boneyard Science: Investigating Forensics
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/k12forensics/
In this NSDL Expert Voices blogosphere feature, a team of scientists and teachers talk about forensics--why it is interesting and what students want to know as they explore the field. The posting includes links to several online r... Full description

BrainCake
http://www.braincake.org/
BrainCake.org is an online sisterhood of girls ages 11 – 17 featuring programs, scholarships, virtual mentoring, girl blogs, homework help, research and resources in a framework that integrates pop culture, science, and learning... Full description

Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education: K-12 Education Curriculum
http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html
The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) offers a wide variety of quantitative, inquiry-based science and mathematics curricula that use real-time data; engage students in projects using pooled data f... Full description

Center for the Study of Science and Religion (CSSR)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr/
Columbia University's Center for the Study of Science and Religion (CSSR) is a forum for the examination of issues at the boundary of these two complementary ways of comprehending the world and our place in it. The Center, which i... Full description

Chaos and Fractals
http://www.science-house.org/student/bw/chaos/index.html
Activities and projects that address the science and mathematics of chaos, fractals, and how they operate in our world. The activities were developed for and used in an afterschool program for high-school students, sponsored by Th... Full description

Collective Knowledge Resource Portal
http://collectiveknowledge.ucsc.edu/cwis/
The Collective Knowledge Project was developed to investigate how computer technologies can enhance student conceptual understanding and problem-solving abilities. The project website features links to a modest number of learning ... Full description

Connexions
http://cnx.org/
Connexions is an online environment for developing, sharing, and publishing educational content. Mostly college level, these materials consist of free, open-licensed modules in fields such as science and technology, mathematics an... Full description

Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships
http://csip.cornell.edu/
The Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships (CSIP) fellowship program builds partnerships between Cornell University graduate students and secondary school teachers with the goals of enhancing inquiry-based learning and updating scie... Full description

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home
DOAJ aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of all open-access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality-control system, worldwide and in all languages. Topic areas include: technology and engineering, physics ... Full description

Discover
http://www.discover.com/
This online version of Discover, a popular science magazine covering such topics as health and medicine, the mind and brain, technology, space, human origins, the living world, environments, physics, and mathematics, includes news... Full description

Discovery Education: Lesson Plans Library
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
This collection of lesson plans, written by teachers, is intended to accompany television programs produced by the Discovery Channel. The lessons are intended for K-12 students and are organized by subject and grade level. Each le... Full description

Dover Publications: Science and Mathematics
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-science-and-mathematics.html
Dover Publications is a publisher of low-priced books, offering both classic and contemporary texts. This web site provides access to information on their selection of books and other printed media on science and mathematics. The ... Full description

Dow Education
http://www.doweducation.com/
This collection of resources from the Dow Chemical Company, developed in partnership with educational organizations around the world, is intended to improve students' understanding of math, science, and technology. The student's p... Full description

Dragonfly
http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/
This online magazine from Miami University of Oxford, Ohio features articles and activities that place childrens' first-person scientific investigations alongside those of adult researchers. Topics include butterflies, space, time... Full description

DSpace at MIT
http://dspace.mit.edu/
DSpace at MIT is MIT's online institutional repository. It contains MIT research in digital form, including preprints, technical reports, working papers, MIT theses, conference papers, images, and more. MIT schools, departments, a... Full description

Earth Institute
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sections/view/9
The mission of the Earth Institute at Columbia University is to help the world achieve sustainability by expanding understanding of the Earth as one integrated system. Through research, education, and the practical application of ... Full description

Easy-Science-Fair-Projects.net
http://easy-science-fair-projects.net/science-fair-projects-blog.html
This collection of science fair project ideas and instructions created by an experienced teacher focuses on the needs of younger students. Projects are illustrated with photographs, the instructions are written for children, and a... Full description

eCalc: Online Calculator
http://www.ecalc.com/
eCalc is an online calculator that includes both basic and scientific modes. The scientific mode calculator features advanced functions such as unit conversion, constants, equation solving, decimal-to-fraction, base conversion, an... Full description

Education at the NBTC (Nanobiotechnology Center)
http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/education/index.htm
The Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) at Cornell University offers educational materials for instruction in nanoscience, the extension of existing sciences into the realms of the extremely small. For K-12 teachers, there is a lendin... Full description

Education World Site Reviews: Science
http://www.education-world.com/awards/past/topics/science.shtml
This is an archive of reviews of online resources for the teaching of science. The reviews are organized by topic: general science, chemistry, Earth science, life science, physics, space science, and zoology. Each review includes ... Full description

Education World: Sites to See Archive
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/sites.shtml
This portal provides access to an extensive selection of educational web sites, reviewed by the staff at Education World and covering a wide variety of subject areas, including science, mathematics, and technology. The resources a... Full description

Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/
This online reference service and database lets educators access lesson plans, online resources, and an archive of responses to questions submitted to AskERIC, a now-discontinued service from the U.S. Department of Education. The ... Full description

eiNET: Science
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Science.html
eiNET is a searchable and browseable internet directory. This section of the site enables the user to browse Science web sites. From this page users can also search all of eiNET by keyword, found in a site's title, URL, descriptio... Full description

Electronic Field Trips
http://www.bsu.edu/eft/home/00front.htm
Electronic Field Trips (EFTs) are interactive educational experiences that make available to students the content of museums, parks, and research and learning centers throughout the United States. Each "trip" features 5- to 10-min... Full description

Elementary Science Core Curriculum, Grades K-4
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/elecoresci.pdf
This guide is intended to assist teachers and supervisors for grades K-4 as they prepare curricula, daily instruction, and assessment for elementary-level content and skills of Standards 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7 of the New York State Lea... Full description

Environment News Service
http://www.ens-newswire.com/
The Environment News Service is a daily international wire service covering issues and events that affect the environment. Topics include legislation, politics, conferences, lawsuits, international agreements, demonstrations, scie... Full description

ESTEME Website Gallery
http://www.esteme.org/gallery/index.html
This gallery of websites, compiled for Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (ESTEME) Week, features award-winning sites that cover a wide variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathem... Full description

EurekAlert! Multimedia Gallery
http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/
EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The service's multimedia gallery is a collection of news items on general science, medicine, and technology ... Full description

Exploratorium Afterschool Activities
http://www.exploratorium.edu/afterschool/activities/
This collection of hands-on activities was created during professional development workshops for afterschool program leaders and educators using a combination of materials and online resources from the National Science Digital Lib... Full description

Exploratorium: Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception
http://www.exploratorium.com/index.html
The Exploratorium is a museum dedicated to general science, art, human perception, and promoting the role of museums as informal education centers. The museum's online version features thousands of web pages, including online exhi... Full description

Fermilab K-12 Programs
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/education/k-12_programs.html
This portal provides access to educational programs and materials on physics and prarie ecology for K-12 teachers and students. These include lesson plans and activities, research projects for students, and student-produced multim... Full description

Flinn Scientific
http://www.flinnsci.com/
Flinn Scientific is a commercial provider of laboratory supplies and equipment. Their products include materials for chemistry, biology, physical sciences, and Earth science. There are also safety supplies and equipment, informati... Full description

Florida Environments Online
http://palmm.fcla.edu/feol/
Florida Environments Online contains both digital full text materials and research bibliographies about the ecology and environment of Florida. Digitized materials include more than 200 seminal texts on species and ecosystems sele... Full description

Frank Potter's Science Gems
http://sciencegems.com/
Science Gems is a collection of thousands of links to online science resources for students, teachers, and the general public. Resources include websites, interactive features, applets, multimedia resources, problem sets, online b... Full description

Franklin Institute Resources for Science Learning
http://www.fi.edu/learn/index.php
This web site provides information from the Franklin Institute for students, educators, and the general public. Site materials include news articles, information on exhibits, event announcements, and links to educational resources... Full description

Gateway to 21st Century Skills
http://www.thegateway.org/
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills, or GEM (from the organization's former name, Gateway to Educational Materials) provides teachers with quality resource and tools from federal, state, university, nonprofit and commercial interne... Full description

Global Challenge
http://www.globalchallengeaward.org/
In the Global Challenge, teams of US high school students collaborate with international counterparts from October to May to address global climate change and compete for prizes and scholarship awards. Students strengthen skills i... Full description

HighWire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
This repository provides access to online versions of peer-reviewed science articles from journals and other scholarly content on medical and general-science topics. The articles are full text and free of charge; the collection ca... Full description

How to Make a Kaleidoscope
http://www.optics.arizona.edu/academics/KaleidoscopeHowtoMakeAKaleidoscope.htm
In this activity, students construct a kaleidoscope. A materials list, instructions, and photos showing how the assembly is performed are provided. Full description

ibiblio: Public's Library and Digital Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/
ibiblio is an online library and digital archive which serves as a conservancy of freely available information. It features dozens of resource collections organized by topic: geography, biography, and history; natural sciences and... Full description

Indiana Expeditions
http://www.indianaexpeditions.org/
The Indiana Expeditions series with award-winning science teacher Rick Crosslin has a new lineup of fascinating ways to bring the fun of science home to kids and adults alike. See how the grossest insects are cool, what ties music... Full description

Informalscience.org
http://www.informalscience.org/
This community web site supports the field of informal science education by providing resources to build knowledge, share outcomes, and improve practice. These include a searchable database of peer-reviewed papers on informal lear... Full description

Intermediate Level Science Core Curriculum, Grades 5-8
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/intersci.pdf
This guide is intended to assist teachers and supervisors for grades 5-8 as they prepare curriculum, instruction, and assessment for intermediate-level content and skills of the New York State Learning Standards for Mathematics, S... Full description

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
This public-service organization and learning/teaching environment features online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials, multimedia presentations, and other types of publications. The collections are arranged by subje... Full description

Introduction to the Scientific Method
http://teacher.pas.rochester.edu/phy_labs/appendixe/appendixe.html
This resource considers the scientific method in four steps: observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena; formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form... Full description

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/
This online service, created by a network of UK universities and partners, provides access to carefully chosen web-based education and research resources for the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics, a... Full description

Intute: Virtual Training Suite
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/
The Virtual Training Suite is a set of online tutorials, arranged by subject (engineering and technology, arts and humanities, social sciences, and health and life sciences), intended to help students, educators, and researchers i... Full description

Intute: Virtual Training Suite
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
The Intute: Virtual Training Suite is a set of online tutorials, in over 65 subject areas, designed to help students, educators, and researchers improve their internet search and research skills. The tutorials are written and upda... Full description

It's About Time
http://www.science-house.org/student/bw/time/index.html
Experiments and projects that address the science and mathematics of time and how it is measured using both physical and chemical clocks. The activities were developed for and used in an after-school program for high-school studen... Full description

Journal Of Science And Arts
http://josa.ro/en/
The Journal Of Science And Arts is a Romanian journal, published twice per year, that features peer-reviewed articles on mathematics, informatics, chemistry, physics, art, and music. The journal's webpage includes downloadable ver... Full description

Journal of the Royal Society Interface
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/111337/
This Royal Society publication features articles on cross-disciplinary research, mainly at the interface between the physical and life sciences. The online version offers free access to review articles from the moment of online pu... Full description

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/jstor/
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is an archive of scholarly journals that provides access to thousands of articles dating back as far as 1665. The materials include journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as sele... Full description

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Science, Computing, and Technology
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/sci-tech/scigs.html
This clearinghouse page provides access to carefully selected, categorized, briefly annotated science, computing, and technology web sites for enhancing the K-12 curriculum. The links are arranged by topic (Earth, geology, and oce... Full description

KIDSNET
http://www.kidsnet.org/
KIDSNET provides educational resources and information designed to accompany children's television, radio, audio, video, and multimedia. The monthly media guide describes programs for children, families, and educators referenced b... Full description

LabWrite: Improving Lab Reports
http://labwrite.ncsu.edu/
LabWrite is a tool for instructing students in organizing and preparing proper lab reports. The tool is organized into four sections: PreLab, where students answer a series of questions to prepare an introduction; InLab, a laborat... Full description

Librarians' Internet Index: Science
http://search.lii.org/index.jsp?more=SubTopic13
The Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly funded online resource that provides a searchable, browseable index of web sites organized by topic. The science subtopics page features links to web sites organized into dozens o... Full description

LoLa Exchange: Learning Objects, Learning Activities
http://www.lolaexchange.org/
The Learning Objects, Learning Activities (LoLa) Exchange is a repository at Wesleyan University intended to facilitate the sharing of high-quality learning objects (digital or web-based entities used for learning, education, or t... Full description

Martindale's "Reference Desk"
http://www.martindalecenter.com/
This online reference provides links to reference materials on a variety of science topics, including astronomy, biosciences, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, and many others. The links are organized by topics (education, ente... Full description

Math and Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE)
http://www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE
Math and Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) is a searchable and browseable online database of over 2500 songs relating to math and science. The songs pertain to a variety of topics and are appropriate for a wi... Full description

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
http://www.merlot.org/
MERLOT, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching,is a resource for higher education centered around a collection of peer-reviewed online learning materials cataloged by registered members. The collectio... Full description

MIT Theses
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582
This collection of theses from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is posted in DSpace, a digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes data. Although the collection does not in... Full description

mondofacto
http://www.mondofacto.com/index.html
Formerly the Online Medical Dictionary, the mondofacto dictionary covers terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, plant biology, technology and zoology, and includes acronyms, conventional usages, eponyms... Full description

Moving Image Collections
http://mic.loc.gov/
The Moving Image Collections (MIC) library allows users to discover, locate, and (in some cases) view moving images from repositories around the world. The library can be searched by collection (moving images collected and managed... Full description

Museum of Science, Boston: Virtual Exhibits
http://www.mos.org/events_activities/virtual_exhibits
This collection of online exhibits introduces users to a variety of science topics, including the history, methods, and fundamental ideas behind the science of astronomy; how ice-core samples taken in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet ... Full description

NASA Science Glossary
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/glossary
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National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html
The web site of the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science includes descriptions of this teaching method, discussions of its uses and advantages in science pedagogy, information on assessing case-based instruction, and... Full description

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis: Kids Do Ecology
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/
The Kids Do Ecology website provides an introduction to ecology for younger students. Topics include the scientific method, world biomes, marine mammals, endangered species, and careers in ecology. The Teachers' page provides link... Full description

National Geographic Little Kids
http://littlekids.nationalgeographic.com/littlekids/
This website and its accompanying magazine are designed to introduce preschool children to nature and science. Online materials include a set of games in which kids solve puzzles about animals, interactive features that teach abou... Full description

National Institute of Standards and Technology: Online Scientific Databases
http://www.nist.gov/srd/online.htm
This page provides access to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) collection of scientific standards databases. The databases, organized alphabetically, include data on spectral analysis, atomic weights and is... Full description

National Institute of Standards and Technology: Virtual Museum
http://museum.nist.gov/
This online museum exhibits artifacts relating to the historical development of measurement standards and product testing in many fields of science and technology. The museum's website includes a featured exhibit and an archive of... Full description

National Library of Australia Collections: Pictures
http://www.nla.gov.au/pict/index.html
The online pictorial collection of the National Library of Australia features thousands of images, including paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs related to Australia and its people. The collection is searchable by keyword... Full description

National Science Foundation: Publications
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/
This archive provides access to thousands of current and older National Science Foundation (NSF) publications. These include Directories of Projects, Forms, General Information, News Releases, Newsletters/Journals, Policies and Pr... Full description

National Science Foundation: Special Reports
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/index.jsp
This collection of interactive features provides in-depth looks at a variety of research projects and science news stories connected with the National Science Foundation (NSF). These features, which are longer than NSF's standard ... Full description

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
http://www.nsta.org/
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) is an organization committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning. NSTA's membership includes science teachers, science supervisors, administrator... Full description

National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse
http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/
The National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse, which is funded in part by the National Science Foundation, is a database of scientific research papers written by undergraduate students. Submission of a paper requires sponsorsh... Full description

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
http://www.nhm.org/
The web site of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, which conserves, interprets, and holds in trust collections of objects from nature and human history for the purpose of advancing knowledge and enabling people to a... Full description

Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html
Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, eleg... Full description

NatureNews
http://www.nature.com/news/index.html
NatureNews is the science news website of the journal Nature. The site provides a daily summary of news about research and discoveries in life, physical and applied sciences, and clinical medicine. Materials include a daily top st... Full description

New Scientist Magazine
http://www.newscientist.com/
This is the online version of the magazine "New Scientist", which provides articles, special reports, interviews, videos, opinion columns, and other features on a variety of science topics. The magazine's homepage provides links t... Full description

New York Times Daily Lesson Plan Archive: Science
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/science.html
Archive of the New York Times' daily lesson plans, developed in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education, on general science topics. The lesson plans, intended for use with middle-school or high-school students, inclu... Full description

Nikon Small World Gallery
http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/gallery.php
This image gallery features competition-winning photomicrographs of scientific phenomena taken by use of the light microscope. The gallery is organized by year; each year's winning photos and honorable mentions are arranged in a s... Full description

NOVA Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Web site of the PBS television program NOVA. Site materials include synopses of recent and upcoming episodes, slide shows, and interactive features from recent broadcasts. There is a page especially for teachers and an extensive a... Full description

NSTA Press
http://www.nsta.org/publications/press/
This site provides access to books, journals, and other media published by the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association). Materials include information on new releases, title descriptions, bibliographic information, and purchas... Full description

NSTA Science Store
http://www.nsta.org/store/
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Science Store is an online store where shoppers can search, browse, and purchase a variety of science education materials. The store's inventory includes text materials (books, e-bo... Full description

NSTA SciGuides
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/sciguides.aspx
SciGuides are web-based teaching resources published by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and reviewed by master educators and content experts. Each guide consists of approximately 100 standards-aligned online resou... Full description

Numerical Methods for the STEM Undergraduate
http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/
This site features materials for a course in numerical methods for undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). These items include textbook notes, slide presentations, videos, simulations, a... Full description

Nyelabs.com
http://nyelabs.com/
Nyelabs.com is the web site of Bill Nye, the Science Guy. The site includes many science-related resources, including "Home Demos" (hands-on activities that students can try at home or in the classroom), "Questions of the Week" (a... Full description

Odyssey: Adventures in Science
http://www.odysseymagazine.com/
Odyssey is a science magazine for students in grades 5 through 10. The online version features news articles and journal articles on general science topics, an ask-an-expert feature, a mystery photo feature, and information on con... Full description

OLogy
http://ology.amnh.org/?src=h_nc
OLogy is a science web site for kids ages 7 through 12, created by the American Museum of Natural History. It is based on the premise that "everyone wants to know something," and is designed as a place for kids to explore, ask que... Full description

Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
This online index includes thousands of books in English that are available at no charge, free of copyright restrictions, and considered "significant," as judged by the fact that they are listed in the online catalog of a major li... Full description

Open Directory Project: Science
http://dmoz.org/Science/
The Open Directory Project is a volunteer-edited directory of the Web. This section of the site enables the user to browse the Directory's Science pages. The links are organized alphabetically by type (academic departments, chat r... Full description

Open Directory Project: Science Resources for Kids and Teens
http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/Science/
This collection of links provides access to a variety of online science resources for students at all levels. The resources are organized by type (class web pages, experiments, news articles, and others) and by subject (animals, c... Full description

Open Educational Resources Commons: Science and Technology
http://oercommons.org/browse/general_subject/science-and-technology
Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons is an open network of course materials and other educational resources, for all levels, that are freely available online for the use of educators, students, and self-learners. Materials inc... Full description

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: Online Activities
http://www.omsi.info/explore/online.cfm
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) website features online versions of some of the museum's exhibits. These interactive features, games, demonstrations, and activities cover such topics as aging, health impacts of no... Full description

OSTI Science Conference Proceedings Portal
http://www.osti.gov/scienceconferences/advanced.html
This science conferences portal, sponsored by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the US Department of Energy (DOE), provides access to conference papers and proceedings hosted and/or published by organiza... Full description

Oxford University Press: Oxford Journals
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/
Oxford Journals features online versions of hundreds of academic and research journals published by the Oxford University Press, some in partnership with learned societies around the world. The collections are organized by subject... Full description

PBS Online NewsHour Extra: Science and Technology Resources for Teachers and Educators
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/science/
Gateway to lesson plans, NewsHour Extra stories written for students, and NewsHour's In-Depth Coverage packages: news stories with related interactives and lesson plans on such topics as stem-cell research, earthquakes and hurrica... Full description

PBS Online NewsHour: Science and Technology Archive
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/science/
Archive of science and technology news coverage (1996 to present) from the PBS program NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Stories on emerging research, space and other explorations, as well as the scientists behind the discoveries. Stories... Full description

PBS Science and Nature
http://www.pbs.org/science/
Information on programs and related content for Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television shows on science and nature, including "Nature," "Nova," "I, Cringely," and "Scientific American Frontiers." The site's home page feature... Full description

PBS Teachers
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
The PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) Teachers web site provides access to thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, videos, and interactive games and simulations for all levels of instruction, Pre-K to 12. These resources a... Full description

PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
http://www.pnas.org/
This is the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a multidisciplinary publication that covers the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences. The web site provides access to the cont... Full description

Point
http://stc-mditr.org/thepoint/
Interactive, standards-based modules introduce secondary school students to the science behind modern information technology. Students explore topics online, manipulating simulation tools as they learn the science behind the mater... Full description

Powerhouse Museum of Sydney, Australia
http://www.phm.gov.au/home.asp
The Powerhouse Museum features exhibits that cover history, science, technology, design, industry, decorative arts, music, transportation, and space exploration. The museum's web site provides information on current and upcoming e... Full description

Professional Resources in Science and Mathematics (PRISM)
http://prism.montclair.edu/prism/index.html
Professional Resources in Science and Mathematics (PRISM) is a program that helps school districts improve science and mathematics teaching. PRISM staff work with district administrators to design professional-development programs... Full description

Project ARISE
http://www.sciencewithmrnoon.com/arise.htm
Project ARISE (American Renaissance in Science Education) is an initiative to restructure the high-school science curriculum by changing the order in which courses are traditionally taught--placing physics first, followed by chemi... Full description

Royal Society
http://royalsociety.org/
The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the UK and the Commonwealth dedicated to promoting excellence in science. Full description

San Diego Natural History Museum
http://www.sdnhm.org/
The San Diego Natural History Museum website promotes understanding of the evolution and biodiversity of southern California and the peninsula of Baja California. Site materials include information on current and past museum exhib... Full description

Schools of California On-line Resources for Education
http://scorescience.humboldt.k12.ca.us/
Schools of California On-line Resources for Education (SCORE) provides a library of online resources for education that are aligned to California State educational standards. The library is searchable by grade level, subject, and ... Full description

Sci-Tech Library Newsletter
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/nsflibnews/
This newsletter for science and technology librarians was produced from 1999 through 2007. It provides articles about newly available online science-and-technology resources and tools; opinion features; links to e-books, documents... Full description

SciCentr
http://www.scicentr.org/
This online science museum hosted by Cornell University features web-based exhibits and virtual worlds in a multi-user game environment. The programs offer educational science content and simulations that encourage teachers and K-... Full description

SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online
http://www.scielo.org
The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals online, especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularl... Full description

Science Alert
http://scialert.net/index.php
Science Alert publishes articles on a range of science topics from a large selection of journals that follow open access policy. Topics include agricultural and biological sciences, physical sciences, chemistry, Earth and environm... Full description

Science and Society Picture Library of Great Britain: Natural World
http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/subcategories.asp?cat=NATURAL+WORLD
The Science and Society Picture Library features extensive image collections from British museums, including the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, and related col... Full description

Science and Society Picture Library of Great Britain: Science and Technology
http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/subcategories.asp?cat=SCIENCE%20%7C%20TECHNOLOGY
This library features images depicting the origins and development of major scientific and technological advances collected from a variety of sources in Great Britain, including the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum, the... Full description

Science Bag Videos
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/sciencebag/videos/
The Science Bag program was begun in 1973 by faculty members at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The group believed strongly that science should be more accessible to the general public. Since its inception, 150,000 people... Full description

Science Friday Kids' Connection
http://www.sciencefriday.com/kids/
This is a collection of educational resources keyed to National Public Radio's "Science Friday," a weekly science, technology, and environmental news program. The collection, intended for middle-school students, can be browsed by ... Full description

Science House at North Carolina State University
http://www.science-house.org/
The Science House, the mathematics and science learning outreach project of North Carolina State University, works in partnership with K-12 teachers to increase the use and impact of hands-on, inquiry-based learning in science and... Full description

Science in School
http://www.scienceinschool.org/
This European journal is intended to promote science teaching by encouraging communication among science teachers across Europe and between scientists, science teachers, and other stakeholders in European science education. It fea... Full description

Science Naturally!: Teaching the Science of Everyday Life
http://sciencenaturally.com/
Science Naturally! creates educational resources and products intended to simplify concepts of basic science for younger students, parents, and educators. These products include books, available for purchase, with teacher guides, ... Full description

Science Netlinks
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/index.cfm
Science NetLinks provides standards-based lesson plans, intended for all grade levels (K-12) and relevant to a wide variety of science topics, that incorporate reviewed internet resources. These lessons, organized by grade level a... Full description

Science Project Encyclopedia
http://www.cpet.ufl.edu/sciproj/
This site is designed to help students choose and prepare a science fair research project. Topics include an overview of science projects, controlled experiments, the scientific method, and reasons for planning and conducting a pr... Full description

Science Related Museums
http://www.museumstuff.com/museums/science.php
This page of the museums guide MuseumStuff.com provides information on and links to the web sites of a variety of science museums. The list is organized by topic: astronomy, anthropology, geology, health, mineralogy, oceanography,... Full description

Science Text Central
http://www.sciencetextcentral.org/
This web site, developed by the Environmental Literacy Council, offers reviews of science textbooks by science and educational organizations and by teachers. The site also features a page where users can submit their own reviews, ... Full description

Science.gov: USA.gov for Science
http://science.gov/
This database provides access to thousands of web-based resources from United States Government science agencies, including research and development materials. The database is searchable by keyword and browseable by topic, includi... Full description

Science: News
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/
This online news digest features daily news from ScienceNOW and weekly news articles and features from Science magazine. The site provides free access to daily news articles less than four weeks old; accessing other news content r... Full description

Science@NASA: Headline News
http://science.nasa.gov/default.htm
This site features news articles and features that highlight research from NASA's current space missions. The home page provides links to current headline stories and recent stories on space science, astronomy, living in space, Ea... Full description

ScienceDirect
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/
For users at institutions with a license, this digital library provides access to full text and bibliographic information for online books and book series, reference works, and thousands of journals in the life sciences, physical ... Full description

ScienceWeek
http://scienceweek.com/
ScienceWeek is an online digest of research in the sciences, designed to provide researchers, policy makers, teachers, students, and science writers with access to scientific fields outside their own specialties. The home page fea... Full description

Scientific American Digital
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewBrowseList
Scientific American Digital is a digital archive of every issue of Scientific American, the premier science magazine, from 1993 to the present. Tables of contents, abstracts ("Previews"), and Search available to all users at no ch... Full description

Scientific American: Issue Archive
http://www.sciam.com/issues_directory.cfm
This archive provides access to abstracts and some article content of the Scientific American magazine. The magazine includes articles in science and technology and daily science and technology news, past and present. Full description

Seed Magazine
http://www.seedmagazine.com/
Seed is an online (and print) magazine dedicated to increasing the scientific awareness and knowledge of the general public. The site is updated six days a week and features news articles, original-content articles on a variety of... Full description

Seed Magazine Podcasts
http://www.seedmagazine.com/podcasts/
This collection of podcasts on general science topics is intended to increase public interest and understanding of science. The web site features links to the latest podcasts; older podcasts are searchable by keyword or term and a... Full description

Sites for Teachers
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Sites for Teachers is a list of links to educational web sites willing to display a link to Sites for Teachers; this enables such sites to be ranked by popularity, defined as how many times a visitor to the educational site follow... Full description

Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/
This is the home page of the Smithsonian Institution. The main web site provides access to online exhibits, education resources, library catalogs and archives, and publications. There are also links to each of the Institution's ma... Full description

Sound Science: OMSI Podcast
http://www.omsi.edu/podcast/
Sound Science is a weekly podcast--a radio show you download on the internet--from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). During every podcast, OMSI answers questions about science, technology, and math that can be sent... Full description

Southwest Network for Zero Waste
http://www.zerowastenetwork.org/
This website provides tools and resources to help users identify money saving options to reduce pollution by decreasing their waste streams. Materials include suggestions for best management practices for reducing waste, a tool fo... Full description

Surfing the Net with Kids: Science Topics
http://www.surfnetkids.com/directory/Science/
This clearinghouse page provides links to hundreds of online science resources for children. It is arranged by topic: animals, experiments, space, the human body, Earth sciences, and "other science." Materials include activities a... Full description

Teaching Company: Science and Mathematics Courses
http://www.teach12.com/store/courses.asp?t=&sl=&s=910&sbj=Science%20and%20Mathematics&fMod...
The Teaching Company offers courses on DVD, audio CD and other formats, taught by selected faculty from leading colleges and universities and crafted particularly for the lifelong learner. Their science and mathematics gateway pro... Full description

Teaching Company: Science and Mathematics Courses
http://www.teach12.com/teach12.aspx
The Teaching Company provides access to a range of online courses in the fields of math and science, in particular algebra, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry. Students must pay for the courses. The courses tend to be lectu... Full description

Techbridge
http://www.techbridgegirls.org/
Techbridge is a multifaceted program designed to encourage girls in middle school to high school to consider careers in technology, science, and engineering. The web site offers free resources and tips for families, teachers, and ... Full description

TheScientificWorld Journal
http://www.thescientificworld.com/
This online journal features high-quality, peer-reviewed original research and review articles on the biomedical, life, and environmental sciences. It is organized as a series of overlapping domains, each similar to a conventional... Full description

Tom Snyder Productions: Educational Software
http://www.tomsnyder.com/
Educational software products for K-12 students in the areas of science and math. Some titles have Spanish language versions available. Professional development modules for educators are also available. Full description

Tool Factory, Inc. K-13+ Educational Software in Science and Math
http://www.toolfactory.com/
Tool Factory provides access to educational software in all areas of science and math including health, life science, physical science, earth science, weather and astronomy. Full description

TryScience
http://tryscience.org/
TryScience is an education resource that allows students to experience contemporary science and technology. It features interactive adventure experiences, hands-on experiments on science topics that can be performed online or off,... Full description

Understandings of Consequence: Teacher Resource Website
http://pzweb.harvard.edu/ucp/
This project aims to help students learn difficult science concepts by encouraging them to think as scientists do about cause and effect. Research shows that students have difficulty with certain kinds of causal understandings: me... Full description

UNESCO Open Training Platform: Environment
http://opentraining.unesco-ci.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Categories/Environment;d=1
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) sponsors a collection of online resources for training in environmental topics. These resources are organized by topic (agriculture, energy, human healt... Full description

W. H. Freeman: College Textbooks and Companion Sites
http://www.whfreeman.com/
Gateway page to W. H. Freeman's college textbooks and their companion web sites. Sites include Mechanism Animations, Living Graphs, 3D Structure Tutorials, Technique Animations, More 3D Stuctures, Sample Chapters, Online Quizzing,... Full description

Walrus: Graph Visualization Tool
http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/walrus/
Walrus is a software tool for interactively visualizing large directed graphs in three-dimensional space. It uses 3D hyperbolic geometry to display graphs under a fisheye-like distortion. The amount of magnification and the level ... Full description

WebExhibits
http://webexhibits.org/
This interactive, web-based "museum" features exhibits on the causes of color; color vision and art; the historical use of pigments; the history of calendars, and other topics. There is also an archive of previous exhibits on the ... Full description

What Does It Mean to Do Science?
http://www.science-house.org/learn/whatis.html
Complete instructions for two simple activities using guided dialogue to demonstrate how inquiry and observation are used in science. The exercises--the "Disappearing Test Tube" and "What Is It?" (a.k.a. the "White Box Activity")-... Full description

Whyville
http://www.whyville.net/smmk/nice
This interactive web site, aimed at students aged 11-14, is a virtual island where users earn money, build and decorate homes, and design their faces while learning science, math, business, and writing skills. Users earn money by ... Full description

Wiley InterScience
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home
This gateway page provides access to thousands of journals, books, reference works, and other articles of scholarly and scientific research. There are also databases, laboratory manuals and the Cochrane Library, a collection of da... Full description

WISE: Web-based Inquiry Science Environment
http://wise.berkeley.edu/
The Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE) is an online science learning environment that lets students examine real-world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Its interactive modules cover topics in middle... Full description

WorldWideScience.org
http://worldwidescience.org/
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway, accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases, including databa... Full description

Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA)
http://www.zora.uzh.ch/
The Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA) provides access to research and scholarly publications by the institutes and faculties of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The emphasis is on peer-reviewed publications, includin... Full description