This website gives valuable information about every school and district in the state. Information ranges from teacher salaries, ethnicity breakdowns, and PSAE scores. This is a good source for future teachers to decide where they would like to work someday, and current teachers to see trends in their school and district.
This website contains the Illinois State Standards for Science. It should be helpful as a reference point for seeing if the lesson plans you create comply with some of these standards.
This is a site from the University of Illinois that shows various chemistry demonstrations that are performed in the general chemistry lectures. It also shows how to set up these demonstrations.
This is a site run by the UIUC Department of Physics and their outreach program The Physics Van. Although this is focused more towards the elementary level, it is still a good source for Q and A about physics topics.
This web page is from the UIUC Physics Van and it is a place where people can ask questions about things in their everyday life and get answers from people who are knowledgeable in related scientific fields.