Web Resources for Teachers

2007-2008 NASA Engineering Design Challenge: Lunar Plant Growth Chamber
http://www.nasa.gov/education/plantchallenge

Sixth Grade Science
http://www.middleschoolscience.com/life.htm

NOVA
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers

Teachers Helping Teachers
www.pacificnet.net/~mandel

Scholastic
teacher.scholastic.com/index.htm

Discovery School.com
school.discovery.com

NASA for Kids
www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html

Arkansas Geology
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Places/volcanic_past_arkansas.html

Spiders
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/spiders/

Human Accelerator
http://education.jlab.org/beamsactivity/6thgrade/humanaccelerator/overview.html http://education.jlab.org/beamsactivity/6thgrade/humanaccelerator/index.html

Exploring Magnetism
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/lessons/exploring_magnetism/Exploring_Magnetism/index.html

Third from the Sun
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/lessons/third_from_sun/index.htm

Virtual Earthquake
http://www.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualEarthquake/

Links to Science Lesson Plans

* PBS sci. lesson plans
* NPR "Science Friday" kids
* Reach Out Michigan lesson plans, and quick activities
* Lesson & Lab Exchange, "Terrific Science"
* Core Knowledge" conference (PDF lesson plans archive)
* Discovery Channel materials
* Microsoft Encarta: Science Lessons
* Lesson Plans Page: Science
* Teachers helping teachers
* TEACHNET Science Lesson Ideas
* AskERIC: Lesson Plans Archive
* Science Activities Manual K-8
* Volcanoworld Lessons Page
* Science Classroom Activities, Franklin Institute
* K-3 Rainforest Curriculum from Cal-Poly
* U. Kans. EXPLORER Curriculum
* KODAK Inc. Science/photography lessons

History

Kids Zone, Colonial Williamsburg
www.history.org/kids/parentsAndTeachers

Wayback, U.S. History for Kids
pbskids.org/wayback

NASA History for Kids
history.nasa.gov/kids.html

Art

Art Kids Rule
accessarts.org/ArtKids/ArtTeacher

Theater

Folger Shakespeare Library
www.folger.edu/index_sa.cfm?specaudid=2