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  • Geology Curriculum Module for Grades 6-9
    From the NPS Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument Website.
    http://www.nps.gov/para/forteachers/geoventures.htm

  • Gigantic Lightning-like Jets over Oklahoma
    On Aug. 20th, an amateur astronomer in Oklahoma scanned the sky for meteors using a low-light video camera--but instead of meteors, he recorded a bizarre upside-down form of lightning called "Gigantic Jets."
    http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=23&month=08&year=2007

  • Global Climate Change Research Explorer
    The best overall site for climate change...that links to real-time NOAA imagery and graphs and has outstanding explanations that are clear enough for our students is the Climate Exploratorium site found here: Let it load...then use the tabs for atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, etc.  “this Web site, you can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. You’ll also get a sense of how scientists study natural phenomena—how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.”
    http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/index.html

  • Groundwater Atlas of the United States
    From the USGS, the site describes the location, the extent, and the geologic and the hydrologic characteristics of important aquifers in the Nation.` A groundwater fact sheet and GIS coverages are also available.
    http://capp.water.usgs.gov/gwa/index.html

  • Hilton Pond Center for Peidmont Natural History
    This week at Hilton Pond.
    http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek070808.html

  • How Your Brain Understands What Your Ear Hears shows how audio and visual cues help communication, how loudness is measured, how changes in the "hearing pathway" can affect hearing, and how hearing loss can be prevented.  Animations (under "student activities") include an ear hearing the Gettysburg Address in 5 languages, a graphic display of pitch and volume, and sound being converted into electrical impulses and sent to the brain.  (National Institutes of Health)
    http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1948

  • Hubble's Top Ten Discoveries
    All those interested in astronomy please take note! Fantastic images are offered of the Hubble's greatest discoveries at this National Geographic site. A collection of Hubble Space Telescope images shows distant supernovas, the death explosions of massive stars, and other fantastic images.
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/photogalleries/hubble/

  • Human Genetics Project
    To all Middle School Science Teachers!! The Human Genetics Project is open for registration!  If you are doing a unit on genetics this fall, why not plan to participate in this FREE online collaborative project!
    http://www.ciese.org/curriculum/genproj/index.html

  • Hydroville Curriculum Project
    Increase relevance in your classroom with lessons relating to three real-world scenarios that include a pesticide spill, an indoor air-quality problem and a water quality problem. Check this out!
    http://www.hydroville.org/samples

  • I-STEM
    The Indiana Science, Technology and Math Web site offers resources that may be helpful to you.
    http://www.istemnetwork.org/

  • Labs are Vital
    Learn more about career opportunities in clinical laboratory science at
    http://www.labsciencecareers.com/

  • Links for Everything Biology
    The link below is to one of the most complete collections of Biology sites and activities that I've seen anywhere.
    http://www.lcusd.net/lchs/mewoldsen/Ebiolink.htm

  • Little Shop of Physics I
    Colorado State University's hands-on science outreach program offers a variety of neat activities that include physics experiments for the classroom at
    http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/onlineexperiments.htm

  • McGraw-Hill Education
    McGraw-Hill offers a Multilingual Science Glossary that translates terms from an extensive vocabulary list into 13 different languages including, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Creole, English, Hmong, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu and Vietnamese. There are both middle and high school versions.
    The middle school version is at http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/mlg/mlg.php?site=19
    The high school version is at
    http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/mlg/mlg.php?site=20

  • MedMyst
    Games are important ways to increase interaction, promote reading and engage students in science. Check these out!

    Researchers at the Rice University Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning have developed a series of online games, called Medical Mysteries for middle school students. The games are used to engage students while they learn about infectious disease.
    http://medmyst.rice.edu/

  • MicrobeLibrary.org
    Access a plethora of resources on the topic of microbiology at this site!
    http://www.microbelibrary.org

  • Middle School Portal
    Are you looking for ways to engage your students in the nitrogen, water and carbon cycles of nature? Look no further! Online materials are available at
    http://msteacher.org/epubs/science/science13/background.aspx

  • MIT Launches Web Site for High School Students
    This is truly exciting news.  MIT has finally released its Highlights For High School Open CourseWare (OCW) site. The site is divided into sites for teachers and for students.
    http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm

  • More on DHMO
    More on the dangers of DiHydrogen Monoxide including a song your students can sing.
    http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/3_8.html

  • My Environment, My Health, My Choices is an environmental health curriculum development project sponsored by the University of Rochester's Environmental Health Sciences Center. The project involves teachers from the greater Rochester, New York area (as well as throughout New York State) who create environmental health curriculum units with the support of University of Rochester faculty.
    http://www2.envmed.rochester.edu/envmed/EHSC/outreach/index.html

  • Nanoscience explains what nanoscience is, how it is used, and what it means for society.  Learn how individual atoms and molecules are being manipulated to create tiny machines the size of human cells.  Find out how nanoscience could change the design of many products, from car tires to vaccines to objects yet to be imagined.  (National Science Foundation)
    http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1945

  • NASA Exploring Space Challenges
    Turn your students into hurricane CSI's or lunar explorers with this year's NASA Exploring Space Challenges!  The NASA ESC encourages your students to be creative, apply design skills, conduct scientific research and utilize technology.  Three student Challenges and one teacher Challenge are now open for registration.
    http://esc.nasa.gov

  • NASA - Space Food and Nutrition Educator Guide
    Space Food and Nutrition Educator Guide explores looks at the history of preparing and packaging foods that taste good, provide necessary nutrients, and travel well in space. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
    http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Space_
    Food_and_Nutrition_Educator_Guide.html

  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences - Computing Life
    Computing Life looks at ways physicists, biologists, and artists are harnessing the power of computers to advance our understanding of biology and human health. Learn how computers are used to simulate the spread of flu through a school, the movement of cells in our bodies, and the beating of a heart. Find out how computers help in the search for gene variations that could lead to disease. (National Institutes of Health)
    http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/computinglife/

    Suited for Spacewalking Educator Guide examines the technology behind space suits. Students learn about the environment of space, the history of spacewalking, NASA's current space suit, future space suits, and work that astronauts do during spacewalks. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
    http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/computinglife/

  • National Science Foundation
    Explore research taking place at the new U.S. South Pole Station at this website. The National Science Foundation has multiple short videos that may be used to share this environment and the scientific work that is taking place with your students.
    http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/livingsouthpole/allvideos.jsp

  • New Space Game Coming
    The NASA Learning Technologies (LT) project supports the development of projects that deliver NASA content through innovative applications of technologies to enhance education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Research and development are at the core of the LT mission. LT seeks to enhance formal and informal education in STEM fields with the goal of increasing the number of students in those fields of study and is currently investigating the development of a NASA-based massively multiplayer online educational game (MMO).
    http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmo/

  • NOAA Ocean Explorer on YouTube
    Selected videos from NOAA's Ocean Exploration expeditions are now available on YouTube at
    http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/gallery/gallery.html

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