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
- 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.
- 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.
- Marvelous
Machines
An excellent unit on simple machines. Students experiment
with simple machanical devices and explain how they
work. This site provides experiments, material lists,
worksheets designed for students and lesson plans
for hands-on problem solving using manipulatives.
This site is wonderful for teachers who love the scientific
method.
- Plus
2 Physics
This is a general physics site that has a lot
of information on electricity and electric related
topics. It also includes many general physics topics
all the way down to basic measurement. Each topic
is broken down into four categories: study materials,
problem sets, online tests, and board questions. There
is lots of quality information, but most likely would
be best used as a teacher resource for tests and problems
(not very interactive).
- Succeed
in Physical Science
Outstanding!
Wonderful site to find all sorts of information on
the Physcial Science Benchmarks. Have fun finding
what you need on this site. It's easy, give it a try!
Student
Activities/Projects/Interactive Sites
- Amusement
Park Physics
The physics behind coasters, carousels, bumper cars,
and other amusement park rides is explained here.
You can even design your own roller coaster.
- Bridges
to Classroom
This site is an interactive bridge building activity.
Students can read about people involved in the construction
of a bridge. Then they build a bridge, add safety
features and test it with quakes from different faults
and various magnitudes. It provides background
information on earthquakes.
- 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: Physical Science
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.
- Interactive
Physics and Math with Java
Outstanding - This
site has a wealth of interactive physics demonstrations
for middle and high school students. Students can
see a single slit diffraction, circuits, pendulums,
and more. It's a great site.
- Marvelous
Machines
An excellent unit on simple machines. Students experiment
with simple machanical devices and explain how they
work. This site provides experiments, material lists,
worksheets designed for students and lesson plans
for hands-on problem solving using manipulatives.
This site is wonderful for teachers who love the scientific
method.
- 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.
- Mr.
Fizzix Physics
Site has LOTS of physics information, projects, and
interactive simulations covering all areas of integrated
science - physics. Very well done, requires flash,
and fun to use.
- Music
and the Human Ear
Music and the Human Ear has good information, with
links to other sites. Compare characteristics of human
hearing, plus information on the softest sounds we
can hear, the range of frequencies we can hear, subjective
vs. objective loudness, how we located the source
of a sound, and sound distortion.
- Physics
2000
This site has interactive applets and demonstrations
for just about any physics topic.
- 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.
- Physics
Applets
Very good student interactive simulations on a
broad list of physics topics provided. Allows students
to change variables to witness the outcome of the
scenario.
- Physics
Central
Presents tutorials on timely physics topics, biographies
of physicists, explanations of scientific images,
physics news, and a web guide that categorizes, annotates,
and evaluates physics web sites. Appropriate levels
are indicated for each site.
- Science
Sounds: Hands on Activities
This site has information and activities for students
to use sound and waves.
- 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.
- The
Physics Classroom
A very encompassing site of most basic physics
concepts from Newton's laws to waves, sound, and light.
It is well organized and easy to navigate. The concepts
are broken up into categories and there is constant
interactive evaluation. Included are: a multimedia
section, quicktime movies, and a help tutorial.
- The
Physics Department
Outstanding - Interactive
activities and discussion of materials related to
Mechanics and Waves and Light. Some of the interactive
activities may need plup-ins that can be accessed
from the site's download. For high school students.
- Virtual
Physics Laboratory
Includes excerpts from the book Physlet Physics.
Lists numerous applets and multimedia resourses for
use in physics instruction. Explorations include interactive
applications of force and motion, mirrors and lenses
and electricity.
- 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.
- WonderNet-Chemistry
and Color
This site has several activities for students to learn
how color works. Colors on the Moove, Candy Chroma
Topography, and It's a Natural are three activities
available for student. Each activity has list of items
that are needed and step by step instructions with
illustrations to make it easy to follow. There are
dozens of additonal science activities at this web
site.
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.
- Mr.
Fizzix Physics
Site has LOTS of physics information, projects, and
interactive simulations covering all areas of integrated
science - physics. Very well done, requires flash,
and fun to use.
- Physics Web
This is a site where you can learn about all
the newest stuff in physics.
- 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.
Videos/Movies/Animations/Applets
Videos/Movies/Audio Clips
- Albert
Einstein: Image and Impact
Don't quite understand E=mc2? Let Einstein
explain it to you via an audio clip. And check out
his photo albums while you're at it.
- Massachusetts
Institude of Technology (MIT) 8.01 Physics I: Classical
Mechanics, Fall 1999 New
Outstanding!
Features a complete set of 35 videotaped lectures,
problem sets with solutions, exams with solutions,and
links to related resources. Prof. Lewin is well-known
at MIT and beyond for his dynamic and engaging lecture
style (sort of like the "Bill Nye of Physics").
A first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian
Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory.
Also covers: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes,
Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar
Collapse, Supernovae, Astronomical observations from
very high flying balloons and the Quantum World.
- Resource:
The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
This is a site containing 52 videos (30 minutes
long) about physics.
- The
Physics Classroom
A very encompassing site of most basic physics
concepts from Newton's laws to waves, sound, and light.
It is well organized and easy to navigate. The concepts
are broken up into categories and there is constant
interactive evaluation. Included are: a multimedia
section, quicktime movies, and a help tutorial.
- Animations/Applets/Simulations
- Applets
and Shockwave Animations for use in the Physics Syllabus
This site has applets in the following catagories:
The World Communicates, Space, Geophysics, Electrical
Energy in the Home, Motors and Generators, Medical
Physics, Moving About, From Ideas to Implementation,
Astrophysics, The Cosmic Engine, From Quanta to Quarks,
Physics Tools (Applets),Miscellaneous physics applets,
The Age of Silicon
- Applets
in Physics and Algebra
These are some educational java applets to help visualize
various concepts in algebra and physics.
- Applets
of Simulations on Physics
This site has simulations that are a lot of fun for
students to use and learn.
- Applet
Thumbnails from Science Trek
This site has hundreds of applets in physics for High
School teachers.
- Explore
Science
How do waves form? What's up with gravity? Animated
demos explain the scientific concepts behind our world
(shockwave plug-in required)
- Flash
Animations for Physics
There are 90 animations listed below. Some are simple;
others are more complex. This is an excellent site
for high school teachers to use in Physics.
- General
Physics Java Applets
This site is growing every week with new applets in
physics. The menu drops down to include waves, dynamic,
electricity, optics, oscillations, etc.
- Interactive
Animations On Sound and Light
This site has animations demonstrating how light waves
travel through different materials and animations
demonstrating how sound waves travel through different
materials and how sound is measured.
- Java
Applets Physics New
This contains a very complete and very large list
of Java physics applets.
- Java
Applets for Physics Education
This site has a number of applets made for physics
and physical science education, generally appropriate
for middle school and above.
- 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.
- Multimedia
Physics Studios
Outstanding:
The Multimedia Physics Studios consists of a collection
of GIF animations and accompanying explanations of
major physics concepts. The animations cover common
physics principles discussed in a first-year high
school physics course. The animation and discussion
have been written specifically for high school physics
students.
- NYNU
Virtual Physics
This site contains a wide variety of simulations and
related theory/vocabulary in nearly all areas of physical
science : mechanics, waves, thermodynamics, etc.
Some of the topics are at advanced levels.
- Online
Educational Resources for Physics Teachers
Outstanding:
This is an outstanding site of applets that are in
a database that is teacher friendly. Additional resources
are also provided for the physics teacher.
- 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
Applets NewThis site
is produced by the University of Oregon and contains
a list of physics applets organized by topic.
- 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.
- Physics
2000
This site has interactive applets
and demonstrations for just about any physics topic.
- Ripple
Tank Simulation
This has a ripple tank applet so you can set up your
computer with an overhead and not worry about the
messy ripple tank. It has both 2-d and 3-d simulations
with a variety of wave sources and frequencies so
you can explore all the different patterns and interference
patterns.
- Science
Animations Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links
New
This site is site filled with animations.
Teachers can select from a vast amount of various
animations within each category. This is an excellent
teacher resource, along with being extremely informative
for the students.
- Simulations-Java
Applets
This site is from Pearson Prentice Hall and has many
great applets for teachers and students to use for
learning in physics.
- The
Applet Collection
Outstanding:
These applets enable you to study simple physical
systems in a playful way. They are idealizations of
realistic scenarios, which follow the proper equations
that also govern the real experimental systems.
- The
Educational Encyclopedia New
The most complete site for applets and animations.
- 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.
- Top
Five Physics Applet Sites New
This site contains a list of websites that have physics
related applets.
- Virtual
Physics Laboratory
Includes excerpts from the book Physlet Physics.
Lists numerous applets and multimedia resourses for
use in physics instruction. Explorations include interactive
applications of force and motion, mirrors and lenses
and electricity.
- Virtual
Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars
No one's selling travel packages to black holes just
yet, but you can almost book in advance with these
scientifically accurate computer animations.
- Wonder
Whiz Kids Physical Science Applets New
On this site, you will find a list of physical science
applets.
Photographs/Slides/Diagrams/Graphics
- 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
- AIP Physics
News
Once a week the American Institute of Physics sums
up the latest advances in Physics, from cosmology
to nanotubes.
- 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.
- Physics
Central
Here is another good search engine that has
a plethora of resources and interactive sites. It
also contains a history section and a "best of
the best" category.
- Physics Today
Your daily physics news source and research source.
- Physics
Web
Selected articles from Physics World are published
in full on physicsweb.org every month, along with
summaries of other articles.
- 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
- Frank
Potter's Science Gems: Physical Science
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.
- Marvelous
Machines
An excellent unit on simple machines. Students experiment
with simple machanical devices and explain how they
work. This site provides experiments, material lists,
worksheets designed for students and lesson plans
for hands-on problem solving using manipulatives.
This site is wonderful for teachers who love the scientific
method.
- Mr.
Fizzix Physics
Site has LOTS of physics information, projects, and
interactive simulations covering all areas of integrated
science - physics. Very well done, requires flash,
and fun to use.
- Physical
Science Hotlist
Categorizes physical science sites that explore
chemistry and physics topics, information on scientists,
and applications of physical concepts.
- Physics
Central
Presents tutorials on timely physics topics, biographies
of physicists, explanations of scientific images,
physics news, and a web guide that categorizes, annotates,
and evaluates physics web sites. Appropriate levels
are indicated for each site.
- 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.
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