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Physics for future Presidents
UC Berkeley Professor Richard Muller's introductory class to higher-level physics concepts presents them without the difficult math accompanying. See the webcasts for great demonstrations that go along with the lectures.
Human Evolution: The fossil evidence in 3D
Welcome to the UCSB online 3D gallery of modern primate relatives and fossil ancestors of humans. This gallery contains five modern primate crania, and five fossil crania. The crania can be rotated 360 degrees. Each cranium is accompanied by a short description of its relevance to human evolution, and a site map.
Cosmic Evolution - From Big Bang to Humankind
The Wright Center for Science Education’s Web site “is dedicated to the creation and sharing of novel instructional techniques and interdisciplinary resources for pre-college teachers.” It is a good resource for teachers,
providing a graphical timeline, in-depth text explanations, a glossary,
movies, and teacher and student activities.
Ask A Biologist - Arizona State University
Ask A Biologist began in 1997 in the School of Life Sciences. The site continues to be developed, and maintained by a dedicated group of volunteers. It is designed as an educational resource for students preK-12, and their teachers and parents. Ask a Biologist is visited by over 2,000 people every day. This is a SafeSurf site.
DNA Interactive: Discovering the DNA Structure and beyond
15 lesson plans for use in your classroom. Plans include objectives, national education standards, student worksheets, and more!
Chemistry Education Resources - Chemical Heritage Foundation
Incorporate the history of the chemistry and the molecular sciences into the classroom with these online resources from CHF.
Science Education at Jefferson Lab
Jefferson Lab's long-term commitment to science education continues to focus on increasing the number of teachers with a substantial background in math and science, strengthening the motivation and preparation of all students, especially minorities and females, and addressing the serious under representation of minorities and females in science, math, engineering and technology careers.
The Quantum Exchange
Welcome to the Quantum Exchange, a collection of information and resources for teachers of quantum physics. The resources in this collection are supplements to standard quantum textbooks and include student activities, background information, and applications. New users may create an account to personalize their use of the Quantum Exchange. This will allow them to suggest resources, add comments, and organize resources.
World Heritage Centre
The World Heritage List includes 890 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.
These include 689 cultural [Cultural site] , 176 natural [Natural site] and 25 mixed [Mixed site] properties in 148 States Parties. As of April 2009, 186 States Parties have ratified the World Heritage Convention.
ComPADRE.org - Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education
The ComPADRE Digital Library is a network of free online resource collections supporting faculty, students, and teachers in Physics and Astronomy Education.
Each of our collections contain materials designed for a specific community. Browse below to find a collection right for you.
Facing the Future | Download Free Sustainability and Global Issues Curriculum
In a world where the lives of our neighbors next door are inextricably linked to those of our neighbors abroad, students need to understand the linkages between local and global issues, and how they can personally help to build positive local and global communities.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Earth, a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.
ReefBase :: Global Database
The ReefBase Global Database provides country-level data and information, organized in the following categories: Resources, Threats, Status, Management
USDA PLANTS - Natural Resources Conservation Service
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life is an unprecedented global partnership between the scientific community and the general public. Our goal is to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world’s organisms. Anybody can register as an EOL member and add text, images, videos, comments or tags to EOL pages. Expert curators ensure quality of the core collection by authenticating materials submitted by diverse projects and individual contributors. Together we can make EOL the best, most comprehensive source for biodiversity information.
The Paleobiology Database
The Paleobiology Database is an international scientific organization run by paleontological researchers from many institutions.\n\nWe are bringing together taxonomic and distributional information about the entire fossil record of plants and animals.\n\nOur goal is to educate the public, summarize the literature for professionals, and foster statistical analyses of mass extinctions and other aspects of biodiversity.
Marine Biology
Check out tidal information, view links, and have access to bibliographies on various marine biology subjects through this site from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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