www.sciencenetlinks.com

Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial

http://www.scienceteacherstuff.com/rubrics.html
The strength of this site is the many and varied links for rubrics, science resources, and teaching science that are provided.

Astronomy website: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040112.html

Biology and Life Science

Biology
www.BioEdOnline.org
Introducing a dynamic new online educational resource for life science educators. BioEd online utilizes state-of-the-art technology to give you instant access to reliable, cutting-edge information and educational tools for biology and related subjects. Their goal is to provide useful, current, and high-quality information and materials that build upon and enhance the skills and knowledge of science educators. BioEd Online offers the following:

Streaming Video Presentations – View timely presentations given by scientists and science educators on biology topics, classroom management, science standards, and other issues in education.

Slide Sets – Customize exciting and relevant lesson plans and activities from hundreds of searchable slides developed by their Editorial Board and contributors. The slide sets are updated regularly.

Nature Science Update – BioEd provides a continuous science news feed directly from Nature, one of the most respected science journals in the world.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute: BioInteractive

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/

This international award-winning site allows you to be the scientist, providing fully interactive biomedical laboratory simulations, including bacterial identification, cardiology, and neurophysiology labs.

Chemistry Education
http://chemistry.org/

http://www.iwla.org/

http://chem.lapeer.org/

This award-winning Web site is for grade 9-12 science teachers to share ideas in the areas of biology, chemistry, physics, and life sciences, including advanced placement.

Chemistry.org

http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html

This American Chemical Society site provides information for professionals, educators, and students at all levels with access to publications, chemistry news, jobs, lesson plans, a "Molecule of the Week" feature, and an interactive periodic table. Check out the "Educators & Students" tab, with its K-12 sections, including "WonderNet" for elementary kids.

Constructivism Teaching
http://www.cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Ullrich/webquest/
mkuindex.html

Earthspace Science
http://www.sciencecourseware.com/VirtualEarthquake

Constellations and Their Stars

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/

This site explains what constellations are, lists stars and constellations alphabetically, by month, and by catalog number. It also includes interactive star charts, a bibliography of star myths from various cultures, and a brief explanation of the myths behind the names of constellations.

http://www.sciencecourseware.com/

This California State University site contains Web-based labs that can enhance learning and teaching of environmental sciences in high school and college. The Virtual Earthquake, River, Dating (geologic time), and Global Warming labs are interactive so "students learn by 'doing' and not just clicking and viewing."

Much of the information in the above section came from our nationally recognized Sci-Math World site [http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/sci/]. More interactive Web sites on anatomy/biology, animals/insects, botany/
nutrition, environment, genetics, marine sciences, and physical sciences can be found at our web site.

Still, although this and many other free, quality Web sites can provide a great deal of information on teaching, learning, and researching science, many other important resources, such as professional magazines and scholarly journals on science and teaching, are not freely available on the Web. These resources can be accessed only through commercial vendors' fee-based subscription databases. Sometimes, however, if you review and explore these vendor sites, you can also find some free full-text or abstract databases there.

Environmental Science
www.bridgingthewatershed.org/
http://www.enature.com
http://www.cbf.org
http://www.mda.state.md.us/enviro/enviro1.htm

http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/

This online encyclopedia provides authoritative conservation information on 55,000+ plants, animals, and ecological communities" in the U.S. and Canada, with in-depth coverage for rare and endangered species.

Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Sciences

http://www.sciencecourseware.com/

This California State University site contains Web-based labs that can enhance learning and teaching of environmental sciences in high school and college. The Virtual Earthquake, River, Dating (geologic time), and Global Warming labs are interactive so "students learn by 'doing' and not just clicking and viewing."

Much of the information in the above section came from our nationally recognized Sci-Math World site [http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/sci/]. More interactive Web sites on anatomy/biology, animals/insects, botany/
nutrition, environment, genetics, marine sciences, and physical sciences can be found at our web site.

Still, although this and many other free, quality Web sites can provide a great deal of information on teaching, learning, and researching science, many other important resources, such as professional magazines and scholarly journals on science and teaching, are not freely available on the Web. These resources can be accessed only through commercial vendors' fee-based subscription databases. Sometimes, however, if you review and explore these vendor sites, you can also find some free full-text or abstract databases there.

Exemplars
http://www.exemplars.com/materials/science/index.html

Exemplars provide examples of performance tasks and rubrics for science, mathematics, reading/writing/research, and professional development. Spanish translations of the mathematics tasks will be available soon. Exemplars materials are linked to national standards and include performance tasks and their context, a subject specific rubric, benchmark papers at four levels of performance, interdisciplinary links, and suggestions and timelines on how to implement the tasks. The bulk of these materials are available for purchase from Exemplars, but there are some free examples that can be downloaded.

Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/PALS/rubrics

Presently this site is devoted to performance assessment for language students (PALS). Both analytic and holistic rubrics are available for speaking, writing, interactive, presentational speaking, and Spanish for fluent speakers. Suggestions for scoring student work and converting the raw scores to percentage grades are included. This site is very worthwhile for teachers seeking examples of rubrics for language arts that could be modified for science.

Family Education Network
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4521.html

This site contains a five - part series on how one teacher plans, revises, and implements rubrics in a variety of subjects. The site also includes lesson plans by topic, suggestions on how to assess student work, teacher tools, and many other worthwhile features.

NSTA Dissection Guidelines
http://www.nsta.org/159&psid=2

Online Research Models
About: http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/aboutmodels.html

Elementary Level: http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/elem.html#science

Middle School Level: http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/middle.html#science

High School Level: http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/highcore.html#science

Information Literacy Process Model - Teacher Tips and Tools to Enhance Use of the Online Research Model: http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/index.html

Rona’s Ultimate Teachers Tools
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/utt/rubricsgeneral.htm

This excellent site contains links to many examples of rubrics in a wide range of content areas.
Xerox Corporation – Science Rubrics

Sackville High School
http://www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca

Many links to science rubrics (K-12) are included among the contents of this web site.

Science Education Organizations
http://www.nsta.org
http://www.nsf.gov

Science Fairs
http://www.sciserv.org

http://www.nab.usace.army.mil/publications/speak.htm
The Speaker's Bureau for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, has a number of volunteers who are qualified and willing to help schools with science fair judging and with career day presentations. Please see the link below for further information.

Science Search Engines
http://www.sldirectory.com/searchf/searchinfo.html

State Agencies - Maryland
http://www.dnr.state.md.us
http://www.mdk12.org

Virtual Disection
Frog Dissection Kit (Berkeley Lab)
Cow's Eye Dissection (Exploratorium / Science Learning Network)
Visible Human (National Library of Medicine)
A Guided Tour of the Visible Human (MadLabs)
Frog Guts (Flash needed)

Write on Rhode Island
http://www.ri.net/WORI/.

As the title suggests this site is devoted to showcasing the writings of Rhode Island students. Rhode Island standards and various writing rubrics are found among the links. There are a number of helpful links for promoting writing, editing, and publishing of student work.

http://bubl.ac.uk

Geared for high school and above, BUBL provides access to many resources, including full-text articles and mailing lists. The BUBL Link category contains Subject Menus where you can choose "Science" and find topic links under Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Plants, and Animals.

Educator's Reference Desk

http://www.eduref.org/

This site contains extensive materials collected on the award-winning AskERIC site during the past decade. It provides free access to ERIC—the world's largest database of information on education research and practice—including free, full-text expert digest reports. Excellent for every K-12 subject, we recommend the "Teaching" link, and "Science" and "Health" subcategories under the "Subject" link, which provide evaluated, annotated links to lesson plans, archived responses, Web sites, online communities, and organizations concerning science and health.

ENC Online: Science Topics Web Links

http://www.enc.org/weblinks/science/

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education has collected effective curriculum resource sites and created high-quality professional development materials to improve K-12 math and science teaching and learning. This is great for students, parents, and educators. Check out the "Student/
Classroom" and "Reference Sources" sections, too.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/

This superb public service science education site contains free full-text "encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics ... assembled over more than a decade by Internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the Internet community."

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

For high school and above, this provides access to MEDLINE, including links to full-text articles and related resources. Explore PubMed Central, an e-archive of free, full-text articles from life sciences journals, as well as Bookshelf, "a growing collection of [full-text] biomedical books that can be searched directly."

SciCentral

http://www.scicentral.com/

For high school and above, this is a "gateway to the best scientific research news sources," providing selective access to area-specific research news in the Biosciences, Health Sciences, Physics/Chemistry, Earth & Space, and Engineering fields, as well as links to "locate prime research tools and resources."