The General Science Sites found here
are Internet sites that do not meet specific science
benchmarks. The links are organized in the following
categories: (click on the selected category to view
that section): (1) Teaching Units / Lesson
Plans; (2) Student Activities / Projects
/ Interactive Sites; (3) Information
/ Facts / Data / Reports; (4) Videos
/ Movies / Animations/Applets; (5) Photographs
/ Slides / Diagrams / Graphics; (6) Periodicals
/ Journals / Newspapers; (7) Searches
/ Explorations / Investigations
Teaching Units/Lesson
Plans
- Chem
Com Teacher's Resource Center
Outstanding!
ChemCom® takes a different approach to the learning
of chemistry. Each of the eight units revolves around
a societal question. This question creates a need
to know chemistry to find a solution. The context
of each question is a community: local, workplace,
national, or global. The chemistry presented to the
students builds upon the same vocabulary, thinking
skills, problem solving and lab techniques as most
traditional introductory chemistry courses.
- Demonstration
List by topic
A great list of High School demonstrations for use
in the physical science classroom. These could be
set up as teacher demonstrations or students could
do the demonstrations.
Student
Activities/Projects/Interactive Sites
.
- Chem
Com Teacher's Resource Center
Outstanding!
ChemCom® takes a different approach to the learning
of chemistry. Each of the eight units revolves around
a societal question. This question creates a need
to know chemistry to find a solution. The context
of each question is a community: local, workplace,
national,or global. The chemistry presented to the
students builds upon the same vocabulary, thinking
skills, problem solving and lab techniques as most
traditional introductory chemistry courses.
- Creative
Chemistry
Outstanding!
This site is very student friendly. It offers many
games and activities for the students. In addition,
there is a tremendous amount of resource material
available for the teacher.
- Demonstration
List by topic
A great list of High School demonstrations for use
in the physical science classroom. These could be
set up as teacher demonstrations or students could
do the demonstrations.
- Frank
Potter's Science Gems: Chemistry
Provides a long list of web sites that can be
used for physical science instruction. Subcatagories
within this listing include mechanics, energy, momentum,
and waves, as well as a large number of chemistry
applications. Appropriate grade level is indicated
for each site.
- Jefferson
Labs Science Education Games and Puzzles
Outstanding!
Eight games and puzzle links all pertaining to the
Periodic Table. Include: Element Flash Cards, Element
Math Game, Element Balancing Game, Element Hangman,
Element Crossword Puzzles, Element Word Scramble,
Element Concentration, and Element Matching Game.
All of these internet based games require a JavaScript
enabled browser.
- Miami
Museum of Science - The PH Factor
This site has a wealth of worthwhile student activities
to learn about PH. Excite, explain, explore, expand,
extend, exchange and examine are the button categories.
Each category links to different activities for the
classroom. There are dozens of additonal science activities
at this web site.
- Physical
Science Activity Manual
This site contains many labs and activities useful
in a physical science classroom. Standards and benchmarks
in measuring, conservation of mass, energy conversions,
force and motion, light and sound and more are included.
Easy to follow student and teacher instructions, diagrams
to show set-up of materials, and charts already set
up. Could be used as demonstrations, but probably
more effective as a group/partner lab.
- Quantitative
Chemistry Practice Problems New
This page provides many example problems for the quantitative
areas of chemistry. Students must press the "New
Problem" button, solve the problem, and then
can get the problem immediately corrected to see if
they've done it correctly.
- Science/Element/Math/Word
Games
This site includes 14 easily played games to help
learn about the periodic table, elements, general
science and math. Appropriate for Middle School or
High School.
- Strange
Matter
This site focuses on "Materials Science".
It has some great interactive activities:
(1) Experience the structure of materials in Zoom.
(atomic structure), (2) Encounter the properties of
various materials in Materials Smackdown, (3) Enjoy
processing materials to create something new in The
Transformer. (physical & chemical change) and,
(4) Explore the performance of various materials in
The Change the World Challenge.
- Water Science
for Schools (USGS)
Outstanding:
This site has many links to information and activities
for students and teachers. There is a index to chose
actiivities with quizzes and information sheets.
-
Webquest
Analysis of Plant-Based Drugs New
This webquest-type activity offers an opportunity
to use writing or debate skills to investigate chemicals
produced by plants, or phytochemicals. Information
and references for taxol, camptothecin and azadirachtin
are provided.
Information/Facts/Data/Reports
- Applied
Science - Our Technological World
This site contains a wealth of lessons and activities
for physical science from K-6. It is well organized
and is very detailed in background information and
procedure.
- Chemical
Elements.com
A unique example of how something old can become new
again online. This periodic table of elements provides
an ease of access and depth of data textbooks cannot
match.
- Chemistry
Links
Many good chemistry site links. Very good ones
include history and graphics and visualization.
- Saving
Energy (Energy Conservation)
This chapter talks about how energy can be saved.
Methods used tells why we should conserve energy.
This site is elementary in nature.
- Structure
of the Atom
This site explains the particles found in the atom,
their charges and mass. There is also an explanation
of what makes each element unique. The explanations
are short and to the point. Atomic theories and orbitals
are also discussed.
- Water Science
for Schools (USGS)
Outstanding: This site has
many links to information and activities for students
and teachers. There is a index to chose actiivities
with quizzes and information sheets.
- WWW
Chemistry Guide - Chemistry Resources Worldwide
A comprehensive collection of annotated links (256)
for chemists and researchers involved in organic,
biochemical, computational, medicinal and/or other
chemistry research.
Videos/Movies/Animations/Applets
Videos/Movies/Audio Clips
- Chemistry
Graphics & Visualizations
This site has a large number of links to chemistry
graphics and visualizations which can be used as a
resource for teachers.
- Reactions
in Chemistry
A video workshop for high school teachers; 8 one-hour
video programs.
- The
World of Chemistry
A video instructional series for college and high
school classrooms and adult learners.
Animations/Applets/Simulations
- Chemistry
Animations And PowerPoints
A high school teacher has developed a list of Powerpoints
on a variety of topics in chemistry. Some of the presentations
are excellent that he has collected for classroom
use as tutorials or lecture.
- Chemistry-Based
This site has numerous animations in chemistry.
- Essential
Chemistry, 2/e
This site has Flash animations from McGraw-Hill by
Raymond Chang © 2000. The site has the following
topic by chapters: Rutherford's Experiment, Limiting
Reagent, Molecular View, Properties of Gases, Line
Spectra, Atomic Radii, Hybridization, 1 - Vapor Pressure,
2 - Sphere Packing - Simple Cubic Packing, 3 - Sphere
Packing - Body Centered Cubic Packing, 4 - Sphere
Packing - Cubic Close Packing, 1 - Activation Energy,
2 - Orientation of Collison, Le Chatelier's Principle,
Acid Ionization, Buffers, Galvanic Cell, Radioactive
Decay.
- MathMol
Home Page
This site has many links to the field of molecular
modeling such as: A Library of 3-D Molecular Structures,
Water Module, Using water to investigate density,
mass and volume, and Hypertext textbooks. Plug-in
may be required to view some of the graphics, such
as 3-D (VRML). Software is also available on this
site.
- Mike's
Animated Molecules
This is a good site for understanding the molecular
geometry of molecules. Each molecule has a description
that includes bond angles, general formula, shape
name, steric number, number of lone pairs, hybridization,
polar/nonpolar, and an animation of the molecule.
- PhET
Simulations
Outstanding:
This site includes the following simulations that
have been researched and tested: Motion, Work, Energy
& Power, Sound & Waves, Heat & Thermo,
Electricity, Magnets & Circuits, Light & Radiation,
Quantum Phenomena, Chemistry, Math Tools, plus many
more that are added every year
- Physical
Chemistry Animation Index
Most of these animations are either Javascripts or
Shockwave animations. This is an index of links to
physical chemistry.
- Physics
Animations / Simulations
The following are topics at this site:Applets Java
applets in math and physics; Molecular Model for an
Ideal Gas: Watch the molecules of an ideal gas hold
up a piston by collisions. You can set the pressure,
number of molecules and velocity of the molecules;
Multimedia Physics Studio: Huge set of animations
using animated gifs and shockwave, by Tom Henderson
of Glenbrook South High School; Newtonian Mountain:
A fun Java applet which lets you choose the speed
at which a cannon ball is fired from the top of a
mountain. With a high enough speed you can see it
go into orbit; NTNU Virtual Physics Laboratory: Java
applets covering many areas of physics (mechanics,
dynamics, waves, thermodynamics...); Physics 3220
Quantum Animations: These animations are *.ma files
which run under either Mathematica or Mathread. The
latter is freeware, and links are given to download
it; Wave Optics: Play with wavelength, slit spacing,
and distance to the screen in a double slit interference
Java applet.
- The
Interactive Library
Outstanding:
This site has applets for all the science disciplines
and they are all excellent. Mathematics is also part
of the database.
Photographs/Slides/Diagrams/Graphics
- Chemistry
Links
Many good chemistry site links. Very good ones include
history and graphics and visualization.
- Tryscience
This site offers a variety of experiments and advice
to teachers and parents in the area of physical science,
with outlines and graphics.
Periodicals/Journals/Newspapers
- Exploratorium:
ExploraNet
This is a great site for investigations. There are
detailed instructions for activities and plenty of
background information on a variety of science topics.
Begin by clicking on "Explore" at the top.
- National
Laboratories
This site reports on serious science work at the Department
of Energy Labs. Research results from Argonne, Brookhaven,
Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia is found
posted here. Information includes radiation and robotics
at Sandia to superconductors and skeletal scans at
Oak Ridge.
- Physical
Sciences Resource Center
This is an excellent search engine for selected physical
science topics and websites. It allows you to narrow
your search to subject, grade level (through college),
and resource type.
Searches/Explorations/Investigations
- Chem
Com Teacher's Resource Center
Outstanding!
ChemCom® takes a different approach to the learning
of chemistry. Each of the eight units revolves around
a societal question. This question creates a need
to know chemistry to find a solution. The context
of each question is a community: local, workplace,
national,or global. The chemistry presented to the
students builds upon the same vocabulary, thinking
skills, problem solving and lab techniques as most
traditional introductory chemistry courses.
- PSI Gate - Physical
Science Information Gateway
This is a very comprehensive search engine
of the physical sciences broken up into search subjects.
This site has a lot of information about all physical
sciences. It is geared for someone who is a professional
scientist, no lightweights!
- Tryscience
This site offers a variety of experiments and advice
to teachers and parents in the area of physical science,
with outlines and graphics.
-
Webquest
Analysis of Plant-Based Drugs New
This webquest-type activity offers an opportunity
to use writing or debate skills to investigate chemicals
produced by plants, or phytochemicals. Information
and references for taxol, camptothecin and azadirachtin
are provided.
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