Kathy Gorski's List: general science education

With literacy maps and benchmarks tied to the materials via a quick scroll and mouse click, NSDL is becoming indispensable for the science educator. This link is to the whole house!

Free online digital library of media resources (video, interactive, audio, images) for classroom and teacher professional development. Many are OER (open educational resources). If you haven’t been there lately, be sure to check out the upgrades to this PBS site resources are tied to specific state standards in most cases, and most materials are fair use and/or copyright free.
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The NSTA Learning Center has resources free to all in addition to those accessible only to NSTA members.

It contains archives of the IPY Symposia and related symposia from the various meetings. Web seminar materials are archived here as well.

Not an obvious resource page for most teachers, but there is a wealth of information here, not just for IPY! Educators should look for the "Classroom Resources" item on the right sidebar and that page will let them refine their search. The news items are also great for informing students on latest and breaking research in many areas.

"As debates about energy grow more intense, Americans need dependable, objective, and authoritative energy information. The National Academies, advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine, provide the facts about energy—a complex issue that affects us as individuals and as a nation."