C13 Science All-Stars

Physical science page for teachers, including activities, handouts, resources, lessons, etc.

What is a soil crust and why do I care? This is amazing stuff for use in the classroom for an example of an ecosystem that thrives in the middle of a vapid area. Interesting for ecosystems.

Great site from a former Science Teacher. So many resources here to use can be modified for different grade levels.

Another great resource for to look to for different websites for lesson plans and subjects to teach in science.

Earth Science Teachers Resources! This is the place to go- along woth PLT.org, for earth sciences.

"Running on Renewables" is a lesson plan that affords students the opportunity to utilize software developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) called HOMER to find out what costs and benefits are associated with converting or combining sustainable technology to their school's power production portfolio. Their mission will be to best utilize a "Clean Energy Grant" to assist the school in the purchase of renewable energy sources such as wind turbines and photovoltaic arrays (solar panels).

Middle school science lesson plans on Bio, Physics, Earth Sciences, and Chemistry. Good resource for ideas to get started.

Explains how plants make food, why their leaves change color in the fall, and how plants prepare for winter. Includes a word scramble and three projects to do with an adult. Developed by Science Made Simple, Inc., publisher of educational materials.

Chem4Kids.com! The web site that teaches the basics of chemistry to everyone! This site, aimed at grades 4 to 10, introduces visitors to the basics of chemistry. Chemistry topics available on this site include matter, elements, and atoms, in addition to math and reactions.

This site, by Associate Professor Fred Senese of the Frostburg State University (Maryland) Chemistry Department, provides numerous online resources for understanding general chemistry. A library of over 800 common compounds, tutorials, and FAQ's, are included as well as a glossary and researchable database of more than 400 links to general chemistry web references.

Teach Tech Science! Though not a life or physical science comp is here to stay. This great resource for those techie kids in your class that you need keep up with!

NSTA- Great resource for all things to do with teaching science. Got a question? Start here.

Great ideas and resources for the classroom including lessons, activities, and projects to get your students INVOLVED in science.

This site is organized into two levels for younger and for older students. Select "Solar System" or "Universe" for images and information on planets, the sun, the moon, asteroids, meteroids, comets, galaxies, stars, black holes, quasars and more.

Great resources for kids and possible use of resources for investigations of science.

Another great resource for teachers, has activity packs and just different ideas for teachers to do. Also has differenc science content resources.

Web site designed just for kids to learn about weather, from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Learn what makes weather wet and wild, do cool activities, and become hot at forecasting the weather on Web Weather for Kids!.

European science teaching site. Gives perspective of what other people in the world are learning a universal language.

More great lesson plans, that are divided up by grades. What a wealth of ideas.