C Captive Breeding: lesson grades 9-12 Cancer - Race to Find the Cure: This activity simulates the extraction, identification, and separation of chemicals in or on plants using chromatography. Students work in groups representing different pharmaceutical companies racing to find the miracle cure for cancer. Caves: teacher guide from National Park Service Caves: world database Chemicals and human health: curriculum, lesson plans and activities. Grades 6-12 Chemistry: lessons Chemistry - The Joy of Toys: lessons/activities/historical information grades 4-6 Citizen Scientists - BudBurst: Join us in collecting important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers in your area through Project BudBurst. Climate/NASA: lessons grades 5-8 Coastline (America's) Photographs Cooking Science: activities
D Dino Poop: article Disease clusters: Cluster Busters is a unique science curriculum in which students research disease clusters that might be induced by environmental toxicants. Diversity: Activity Diversity: Experiment
E Earthforce in the Core: article Earth & Space Science lessons from Arizona State University Earth Science: lessons Earth Science World Image Bank The Earth Science World Image Bank is a resource made available to the geoscience community and general public for the purposes of enhancing Earth education, and serving the community of science that the American Geological Institute supports. This digital archive was released to the public in June 2003, after nearly a year of work acquiring, scanning, and indexing images. Photographers who have submitted images to the Earth Science World Image Bank acknowledge that the photos displayed here are acceptable for use in non-commercial venues. Some images are available at a high-resolution free of charge for non-commercial purposes, as well. Click on the high-resolution link below each image if you are interested in this possible usage. Commercial usage rights vary depending on the photographer's wishes. If you would like more information regarding a particular image for use in a commercial (for profit) manner contact photo@agiweb.org for specific details. Earth Shadow Earthquakes: booklet from USGS Earthquakes: kids site from USGS Earthquakes: LiveScience Earthquake Rumble: Sounds of a quake Ecosystems: lesson grades K-2 Ecosystems, Biomes, and Habitats Environmental Health: variety of middle school lessons by Thinkport.org Evolution: Podcast series from the University of Arizona
G Gardening, Science Of: interactive General science lessons from Arizona State University Google Earth: The idea is simple. It’s a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to any place on the planet that you want to explore. Satellite images and local facts zoom into view. Tap into Google search to show local points of interest and facts. Ground Water Study Guide: grades 6-9 Gypsy Moth: Lesson
H Hurricane Basics This booklet offers teachers many resources and information about hurricanes including how they form and grow. It also includes the cycle of Atlantic storm names for the years 2005 through 2010 and a tracking chart for the Atlantic/Caribbean Sea site. Hurricane Visualizations
N NOAA Research This site is a joint effort of the NOAA Research and the College of Education at the University of South Alabama (USA). The goal of the site is to provide middle school science students and teachers with research and investigation experiences using on-line resources. NUTRITION DETECTIVES® "Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices": FREE CURRICULUM. Nutrition Detectives is an exciting nutrition education program for elementary school children that is "Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices." They learn how to read food labels, detect marketing deceptions while simultaneously learning to identify and subsequently choose healthy foods. The program has been taught in schools throughout the country and data are currently being collected in Independence Missouri. The program is novel, creative, engaging, and efficient, imparting crucial information in minimal time.
T Who Needs Trees: lesson grades 4-8 Tornado Paths: University of Michigan AOSS department is offering a new website for exploring tornado paths. You will need Google Earth. Tracks: activity
U Underwater Laboratory: lesson plans that have links to Aquarius science projects and the physics of underwater diving. The lesson plans were developed for all grade levels and address topics in the Life Sciences, Physical Science, Earth Science, Biology, and Chemistry.
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Earth Science Week Toolkit Earth Science Week is October 12-18 and Earth Science Week Toolkits will be released starting this month. The Toolkit includes a ‘Journey to Center of Earth 3D’ Educator Guide, posters, activity calendar, 3D postcard, Earth Observations CD from NASA, field notebook, and much more.