Teacher Resources: Science

"If you're looking for some of the most engaging and informative STEM resources out there, look no further. The following list has over 40 of them for you to explore and try out with your curious students."

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"Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere."

A collection of experiments that demonstrate biological concepts and processes.

Search this site for resources for the teaching of Science. It specifically supports Science Teachers and Laboratory Assistants.

Founded in 1995, Science Daily has been delivering breaking sciences news from over 20 years and draws more than 6 million monthly visitors, among them students, educators, and amateur aficionados from around the world. The special section, Evolution News, narrows the focus of the periodical's wide coverage to topics related to evolution, such as genetics, sexual selection, and biological diversity. Recent articles have examined a study about how dogs read human emotions, the common ancestor that predated both humans and neanderthals, and the random mutation that likely spurred the development of multicellular organisms, and many more. Readers will also find engaging videos, such as the profile of a lab that is studying how crickets jump in order to develop a better robot.

This is a Teacher site produced by the Smithsonian introducing Evolution and contains videos, text, interactives and student resources.

Play with the Climate Time Machine. See back into the past and ahead to a possible future.
How much Arctic sea ice has melted just since satellites started observing around 30 years ago?
What parts of the world will be under water as sea level rises, inch by inch, foot by foot?
How much has the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide increased in the air just in the last few years?
How much has temperature risen around the world in just a little over 100 years?

This site presents numerous short videos on the following topics.

"BioEd Online, is an online educational resource for educators, students, and parents. 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. Our goal is to provide useful, accurate, and current information and materials that build upon and enhance the skills and knowledge of science educators."

This slew of intercultural resources from AFS-USA (formerly the American Field Service) offers lesson plans in Cultural Studies, Global Awareness, Human Rights, STEM Education, Social Activism, and Intercultural Learning. Each lesson plan is well-defined and easily implemented, with an overview, objectives, time for the lesson, materials, and a description of the activity. For example, under Cultural Studies, the lesson on Generalizations and Stereotypes takes approximately 45 minutes. Upon completion, students should be able to define the notion of culture, recognize stereotypes, and distinguish aspects of different cultures, among other objectives. Other lesson plans include Exploring Islamic Traditions, Microfinance, and a lesson on the "iceberg" analogy of how hidden dimensions of culture manifest.

Download this Graphic Novel which contains: 64 pages of the beautifully illustrated WWI story, combined with links to 44 pages of easy-to-read historically and scientifically accurate explanations.

"Access to historical maps, artwork, fossils, and documents may be a welcome addition to your teaching of historical guided inquiry, visual thinking skills, or animal adaptation. With a range of sources at hand, students can use creative thinking skills to construct knowledge via observation, organisation and annotation of resource collections."

This site has a collection of science games, including a vast role-playing game to teach sustainability, environmentalism and general science, and a citizen science project to match wildlife in images to help real scientists.

"You want to help your students to learn more math and science. So do we. That’s why we’ve spent over 20 years using technology to bring science and math ideas alive.

The best part about it? Hundreds of our resources are free, research-based, and available for you to use today. As a non-profit organization, we’re committed to quality science and math. And we’re focused on showing the world how technology can lead to better learning."

With archival material from the earliest Edison films to footage of present day debates, discussions, and events, the Library of Congress YouTube channel can serve educators of history, literature, music, and other subjects. The channel opens with a featured video, which, at the time of this writing, includes an excellent 33-minute film highlighting the Rosa Parks Collection at the LOC. Readers interested in specific thematic topics, will find that the Playlists here are plentiful. For instance, the Webcasts from the Library of Congress II category features 463 videos including discussions with Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and a new look at romance fiction in the digital age. Other categories include Topics in Science, Law and the Library, Music and the Brain, Hidden Treasures at the Library of Congress, and many others.

Investigate ways teachers across the world are using Minecraft to teach programing, Maths, Science, Art, Languages and History