Suzie Shaeffer's List: Resources - science

Coursera has added a “teacher professional development” category to its collection of online and videotaped courses, allowing busy educators to participate according to their own schedule. The courses—developed by Coursera in partnership with seven schools of education, plus educational institutions and museums—help K–12 teachers and other individuals worldwide develop understanding of a wide range of education topics, including the Common Core State Standards and blended learning.

About STEM Camp
As part of our commitment to STEM education for all students, Discovery Education STEM Camp is a dynamic series of standards-aligned curricula available at no cost to schools, districts, non-profit organizations, and parents for use as part of summer camps, after-school STEM programs or wherever support is needed.

STEM Camp combines hands-on labs, engineering challenges, digital investigations, and more - all designed to immerse kids in the grand challenges of science set forth by the National Academy of Engineering.

Free education resources for Teaching.
Standards-aligned and customizable.

mostly mat & science; e-books, customizable

Circus physics

Great resource at the upper levels. Includes tutorials, collections of pictures, animations, movies, and much more. $50 per year registration fee for a teacher to monitor student progress through the tutorials. Still worth using without the fee.

SMILE is an online collection of math and science activities available to anyone, free of charge. We are also a community of educators who contribute, use, and comment on activities at howtosmile.org.

SMILE stands for Science and Math Informal Learning Educators; we are a pathway (an audience-specific branch) of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL.org).

SMILE's learning activities, tools, and services are available to all but are designed especially for those who teach school-aged children in non-classroom settings (like museums, zoos, aquaria, and afterschool or outdoor education programs). SMILE is dedicated to bringing the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) activities developed by informal science organizations around the country to the wider informal educator community, while encouraging that community to both use and contribute to SMILE's growing collection.

"The Google Science Fair challenges students aged 13-18 to carry out a scientific investigation into a real-world problem or issue that interests them." There’s a whole raft of resources to support you in the classroom and help spark your students’ interest. You can even host your own mini science fair!