Science Materials for Educators

Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy studies how teachers use robots in classrooms to teach Computer Science, Science, Technology Engineering, and Mathematics (CS-STEM). Our mission is to use the motivational effects of robotics to excite students about science and technology. The Robotics Academy fulfills it mission by developing research based solution for teachers that foreground CS-STEM and are classroom tested.

Learn Chemistry is an educational resources and teacher support publishing program of the Royal Society for Chemistry.

Learn Chemistry's activities support educators of Primary, Secondary and Higher Education students. We offer resources in various forms including downloadable documents, videos, audio content, interactives and simulations, and ebooks.

BrainPOP is the leading producer of educational animated movies for K-12. The company creates original animated movies to explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible, educational and entertaining for both children and adults. In the K-12 arena, BrainPOP movies demystify Math, English, Science, Health, Technology and Social Studies topics. Through BrainPOPs online subscription, Teachers use movies to enhance traditional classroom learning and Parents are given a safe and informative resource for their children.

An evolution website for teachers teaching and learning about evolution. This site was created by the University of California Museum of Paleontology with support provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams. It is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University for college and high school teachers who are interested in using, assessing, and/or creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.

Getting ready for the Next Generation Science Standards? This e-Lab meets ALL NGSS science practices. Teachers can use project resources to provide opportunities for students to work toward standards from the National Science Education Standards and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

MarcoPolo provides the highest quality standards-based Internet content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States.

The Geographic Data in Education (GEODE) Initiative is dedicated to the improvement of Earth and environmental science education through the use of data visualization and analysis tools to support inquiry-based pedagogy. Through an integrated program of research and development, the GEODE Initiative is advancing our understanding of learning in the Earth and environmental sciences, design of curriculum and educational software, and teacher professional development. Equally important, the GEODE Initiative is creating useful and useable products for students and teachers at levels ranging from middle school through college.

The National Science Foundation's Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program supports the research and development of innovative models for engaging K-12 students in authentic experiences that build their capacity to participate in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communications technology (ICT) workforce of the future. ITEST projects must include students and may include teachers.

The Science House is a learning outreach project of NC State University. Our mission is to work in partnership with K12 teachers to increase the use and impact of hands-on learning technologies in mathematics and science.

Earth and Space Science for K-12. Space. Weather. Earth. Oceans. For Teachers.

SEATREE provides a modular, robust, and user-friendly software framework to facilitate using solid Earth research tools in the classroom and for interdisciplinary, scientific collaboration. Our goals are to provide a fully contained, yet transparent package that lets users operate in an easy, graphically supported "black box" mode, while also allowing to look under the hood. In the long run, we envision SEATREE to contribute to new ways of sharing scientific research, and making (numerical) experiments truly reproducible again.

Mentoring and inquiry using NASA Data for Atmospheric and earth science for Teachers and Amateurs (MY NASA DATA) is a project to enable K-12 teachers and students, as well as citizen scientists, to explore the large volumes of data that NASA collects about the Earth from space. Students use scientific inquiry and math skills as they access and display microsets of the Earth System.

Experiments sharpen students powers of observation, stimulate questions, and help develop new understanding and vocabulary. This website is for teachers of physics, enabling them to share their skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom.

Science project for kids at WonderWhizKids.com helps your kids improve on basics, a grasp on fundamental concepts of science in an interactive and collaborative environment.

Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles. Subjects covered include magnetism, electricty, light and optics, biology, mathematics, computing, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, physics, and chemistry.

SciLinks is an exciting new partnership between progressive U.S. textbook publishers and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the largest organization of science educators in the world. SciLinks is a free serviceall you need is a SciLinks-enabled textbook and a computer connected to the World Wide Web. And SciLinks is easy to usejust log on to the SciLinks site and enter a SciLinks number from the margin of your textbook. You will be offered a smorgasbord of teacher-approved Internet resources tied to that specific point in your book!

Learn about instructional methods that work with entry-level geoscience students. This site is designed for faculty and graduate students teaching undergraduate entry-level geoscience, environmental science, or related courses. Each section describes a teaching method, why/when it is useful, how it can be implemented, and a set of examples spanning the Earth system that can be used in your class.

ComPADRE is a network of collections that provides learning resources and interactive learning environments and positively influences physics and astronomy students and their teachers in both individual and collaborative settings.

MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.