This site of the American Society for Engineering Education provides free materials for teachers and students that introduce those in grades K-12 to careers in engineering.
Baylor College of Medicine has resources for K-8 and high school biology teachers, including lesson plans, news stories, and classroom activities.
This site, from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction sponsors, offers in-depth information to students of all levels about such brain-related issues as the senses, memory, pleasure and pain, and mental disorders.
The ChemCollective offers teachers and students free virtual lab materials, tutorials, scenarios, and simulations to use in class, along with an opportunity for teachers to share materials with one another. The National Science Digital Library and the National Science Foundation sponsor the site.
This is for teachers and students to be used in a classroom, a service of the Dana Foundation.
This classroom resource for teachers and students, a service of the Dana Foundation, provides information on the immune system and related topics.
Links to different activities.
This Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory site offers interactive features, guides, and lessons for educators teaching about DNA.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center site provides numerous resources on snow, ice, glaciers, and the Arctic and Antarctic. Online map tools, movies, and "then and now" photos of glaciers supplement textual content.
Students and teachers can find lesson plans, guides, and other resources about environmental science.
Planets, comets, suns, and stars! These space-related explanations, activities, and resources are brought to you by the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Explore Learning offers a wide variety of interactive science activities for students and teachers.
Some areas of this site require Shockwave Player plug-in.
The Franklin Institute Online offers a number of interesting online exhibits for students and educators.
Detailed instructions and lesson plans for more than 40 standards-based projects, many based on physics concepts.
Learn about genetics and how they affect our lives and society. The Genetic Science Learning Center provides activities and basic information about genetics, as well as three separate sections for students, teachers, and friends and family.
The Human Genome Project, part of the National Human Genome Research Institute, offers a free, online, multimedia kit for high school students interested in human genetics. The kit explores such topics as the history of genetic discovery, the future of research and medicine, and the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic knowledge.
A fun booklet about the brain and brain research from the Dana Alliance.
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility offers reference materials, puzzles, hands-on activities, worksheets, and games related to physics, mathematics, and chemistry.
Get involved in migration observation! Share field data, enjoy maps, pictures, lesson plans, and activities, and explore the seasonal behavior of an impressive number of species.
Ready for more activities and facts about the brain? Check out the latest booklet from the Dana Alliance.
Visit the Boston Museum of Science's Web site and view its range of fascinating online exhibits.
The Neuroscientist Teacher Partner Program of the Society for Neuroscience partners K-12 teachers with local neuroscientists or graduate students in neuroscience.
With or without the television shows provided, teachers can use this site for mostly biology and science topics.
How loud is too loud? Here, you'll learn about decibels.
Requires Shockwave Player plug-in.
The National Institutes of Health offer science and health-related curriculum supplements and educational resources for all grade levels.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers an impressive variety of weather- and ocean-related lesson plans and games.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers ocean-related lesson plans, online expedition modules, video presentations, and more.
Look into “the fundamentals of matter and force” with interactive, illustrated activities from the Particle Data Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Online physical science simulations and classroom ideas from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Get messy, get airborne, get loud, and get shocked! Try these experiments.
More than 1,000 teaching and learning resources from a variety of federal agencies are sorted by topic and presented here.
NERVE, the Society for Neuroscience’s Neuroscience Education Resources Virtual Encycloportal, provides regularly updated information and teaching tools for use with grades K-12. The searchable portal is organized by subject, grade level, and format.
Activities related to the sun and solar science, geared to students in grades 4-12, are available here.
This United States Geological Survey site houses a variety of lesson plans, maps, brochures, and multimedia resources relating to earth science topics.
Advanced virtual cell animations—from protein transport to photosynthesis—are available at this North Dakota State University site.
Here you can read “Woosley the Brave,” a story produced in association with the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives about a curious, young rat that helps a scientist.