On-Line Resources

• Apple Learning Interchange
  "The online resource for teaching, learning, research, and collaboration.  This is the place for educators interested in professional development, creating and sharing curriculum resources, and building a worldwide community of people committed to finding even better ways to teach with technology."

• Armadillo’s K-12 Resources
  "This directory of K-12 WWW Educational Resources has been developed for teachers and students of the K-12 community.  It is to intended to be a list where teachers can quickly access resource materials for direct use in their lesson plans or as additional resources for students to explore."

• BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium
  "This project actively supports an extended network of educators interested in the reform of undergraduate biology.  Collaborative efforts with other educational groups, links to the BioQUEST staff, current activities, resources such as the BioQUEST Library, and other projects of interest are found here."

• BSCS
  "BSCS is a nonprofit corporation that endeavors to improve all students’ understanding of science and technology by developing exemplary curricular materials, supporting their widespread and effective use, providing professional development, and conducting research and evaluation studies."

• CI&A Publications
  New York State Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology.

• Copyright for Educators

• The Curry School of Education
  Includes links to their projects such as the Interactive Frog Dissection, Museums:  A Teachers’ Guide, Whales!  A Thematic Unit, etc.

• The Educator’s Reference Desk
  "The Educator’s Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community.  From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on.  2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses."

• Evolution Teaching Resources
  From the Evolutionary Biology homepage at Rutgers University.

• GEM
  "The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites."

• Lightspan
  "Lightspan.com is a FREE education portal for educators, parents, and students, providing resources, research tools, and grade-specific activities."

• MarcoPolo
  "MarcoPolo is a partnership between MCI WorldCom and seven renowned educational organizations.  These partnerships were created to produce six discipline-specific educational web sites.  The web sites are geared primarily toward K-12 teachers, although some of the sites’ resources are also appropriate for college-level work and for family activities."

• Molecular Expressions
  "Welcome to the Molecular Expressions website featuring our acclaimed photo galleries that explore the fascinating world of optical microscopy.  We are going where no microscope has gone before by offering one of the Web’s largest collections of color photographs taken through an optical microscope (commonly referred to as ’photo-micro-graphs’).  Visit our Photo Gallery for an introductory selection of images covering just about everything from beer and ice cream to integrated circuits and ceramic superconductors.  These photographs are available for licensing to commercial, private, and non-profit institutions. . . .  Soar through space starting at 10 million light years away from the Milky Way down through to a single proton in Florida in decreasing powers of ten (orders of magnitude). Explore the use of exponential notation to understand and compare the size of things in our world and the universe."

• Mr. Biology’s Biology Web Site
  Class notes, labs, and other curricula.

• National-Academies.org | Evolution Resources
  "This Web page is designed to provide easy access to books, position statements, and additional resources on evolution education and research."

• NEWTON/ANL
  "The NEWTON BBS, operated by the Division of Educational Programs (DEP) of Argonne National Laboratory . . . to provide K-12 science, math and computer teachers (and their students) a place to practice telecommunications, to retrieve useful information in a wide variety of subjects, to contact research scientists from all over the world and to open communications between classroom teachers."

• NYSERNet
  "NYSERNet advances network technologies and applications that enable collaboration and promote technology transfer for research and education, expanding these to government, industry, and the broader community."

• Passport to Knowledge
  "PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE is a series of interactive learning adventures connecting essential Life, Earth, Space and Physical science concepts with exciting real world phenomena.  P2K uses a powerful, integrated suite of video programs, hands-on activities and online resources to deliver . . . Real Science, Real Scientists, Real Locations, Real Learning."

• Teaching & Learning
  from the College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota.

• TeachWave
  "TeachWave was created to link job seeking teachers and administrators with K-12 schools in need of qualified professionals."

• TERC
  "Founded in 1965, TERC is a not-for-profit education research and development organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  TERC’s mission is to improve mathematics, science, and technology teaching and learning."

• U.S. Department of Education

• U.S. EPA Environmental Education Center

• World Lecture Hall
  "World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language."