Illinois Science Education - Class of 2012

This seems like a great place for resources. Numerous video links, and ideas for review games etc are all found on here.

This is an awesome resource for biology teachers worksheets and blogs and others for multiple levels

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 is a great game for middle school students where they act out an endangered species for their classmates to guess.

I thought this was pretty neat. Its a website that contains a bunch of lesson plans in science across a bunch of different grade levels. Grade levels go from K through 12 and the topics are wide-ranging

I hesitate to put this up here since this is technically about college students but I feel that there are a lot of similarities about what they say in the video that is relevant to the lives of college students is also highly relevant to the lives of high school students.

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 website contains publications made through the NABT on new and innovative lesson plans. It would be useful to teachers wishing to educate on biology to help them in coming up with a lesson plan onhow to teach a particular topic.

This is a website that contains a bunch of info about how to deal with situations that commonly arise for new teachers. It is broad in its content and answers and contains lots of tips and new ideas.

This video deals with multicultural diversity in the classroom and common issues with solutions. It's not a very enthusiastic video but it does a good job explaining what diversity is and how it plays a role in classrooms.

This online magazine has many articles related to new science findings that can be very interesting for science teachers, students, and their parents. It helps us stay informed on new scientific innovations.

This website has a bunch of cool physics games that will help engage the students in science. They will learn and have fun when playing these games.

This resource I found through Google search helps students understand different physics phenomena. These simulations show the students the physics behind various topics such as forces and motion.

This is another site full of good physics simulations which could be used to help students explore different topics in physics. These simulations may explore topics which are too complicated for students to directly explore in classroom experiments, or topics which are typically confusing for students.

This page provides simulations that can help students to more fully explore and further deepen their understanding of various physics topics.

This resource is also used in the classroom I am in. It has an everyday news video about what is going on in the world that would interest middle school aged students. I am also quite interested in the videos when they are shown in class.

This is a resource used in the classroom I observe. It has fun science videos that teach kids concepts. There is also a quiz after each video.

This is an amazing discussion of how the structure of contemporary schools is killing creative and critical thinking in our children.

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Published at MIT, this is a good source for general technology news. Covers a wide range of topics.