Dillard Drive Elementary Teacher Links: Science

LEARN NC Science - The Learners' and Educators' Assistance and Resource Network of North Carolina (LEARN NC), sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, provides hundreds of lesson plans contributed by teachers that correlate with the NC Standard Course of Study for grades K-12. You can search for science plans by subject or grade level.

The Alliance to Save Energy - The Alliance to Save Energy, a non-profit organization located in Washington, DC, provides hands-on, multidisciplinary lesson plans for the study of energy conservation at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

StarChild - StarChild is a learning center for young astronomers sponsored by NASA.

Energy Quest - Energy Quest is the energy education website of the California Energy Commission.

Can Teach Science - Iram Khan and James Hörner's CanTeach provides life, physical, and earth/space science lesson plans for grades K-6.

Polymer Science Learning Center - The Polymer Science Learning Center offers step-by-step layouts of simple demonstrations about polymer science, possibly suitable for science fair projects, for four age groups: grades K-4, grades 5-8, grades 9-12, and college age.

Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plans - The Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plans provides a collection of science lesson plans contributed by teachers for grades K-12.

Educational Resources in Science - The British Columbia Community Learning Network provides lesson plans, worksheets, theme pages, and curricular resources for teaching science in grades K-12.

National American Association for Environmental Education - EE Link provides a searchable collection of environmental education sites organized by topic for K-12.

ExplorA-Pond - ExplorA-Pond, sponsored by the Utah Education Network, is an online Internet collaborative project for grades K-6.

Franklin Institute - The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia provides more than 40 science activities for grades K-12. Activities include heartbeat, the earth bowl, ocean in a bottle, clear as crystal, and spinning satellites, and topics in bioscience, earth and physical sciences, oceanography, and space.

Galileo Project: Journey to Jupiter - Galileo Project: Journey to Jupiter provides an assortment of lessons and activities on the space probe for grades 5-12.

The Great Plant Escape - The Great Plant Escape from the University of Illinois Extension is an elementary plant science program for 4th- and 5th-grade students.

Insectclopedia - Insectclopedia provides hundreds of lesson plans on insects for grades K-12.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA offer a wealth of earth and space science lesson plans for students and teachers in grades K-12.

McREL - The Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) in Aurora, CO provides a collection of science lesson plan sites for grades K-12.

Center for Educational Resources Astronomy - A team of master teachers, university faculty, and NASA researchers have created a series of K-12 Web-based astronomy lessons organized by K-4, 5-8, and 9-12 grade levels and aligned to the National Science Education Standards for the CERES Project. The Center for Educational Resources (CERES) is a Montana State University project funded by NASA.

Ocean Planet - The Ocean Planet, a Smithsonian Institution exhibit, contains a collection of lesson plans and other online resources for teaching about marine life in grades K-12.

Sea Education Association - The Sea Education Association (SEA) in Woods Hole, MA provides a collection of more than 27 lesson plans covering marine biology, oceanography, nautical science, and marine ecology. This site is suitable for grades K-12.

Solar Online Activity Resources - Solar Online Activity Resources (SOLAR) from Stanford University's Center for Space Science and Astrophysics includes a collection of multidisciplinary lesson plans based on the sun and solar science for grades 4-12. For more activities, images, interactive tools, and other solar science resources, visit the activities section.