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Lesson Planning Tools

A Blank lesson plan format

Team-building and Group activities

Wilderdom.com: http://wilderdom.com/games/InitiativeGames.html

Pedagogy--Full-text books

National Science Education Standards

How People Learn: Mind, Brain, Experience and School: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309070368/html/

How Students Learn: Science In the Classroom: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309089506/html/

Biology Lessons/Resources

Traits of living things lessons: http://www.nclark.net/LifeStudy

Columbia University Science Teaching: Photosynthesis lesson http://www.scienceteacherprogram.org/biology/Perez03.html

Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers: http://cibt.bio.cornell.edu  Email: cibt@cornell.edu

Online Resources: http://biomedsci.cornell.edu/outreach

BioEdOnline: From Baylor Univ. school of medicine.  Downloadable powerpoint slides on many topics http://www.bioedonline.org/

 Bio Powerpoints http://sun.menloschool.org/~cfat/powerpoint/biology/index.html

http://www.cneccc.edu.hk/subjects/bio/biopowerpoint.htm

Evolution and the Nature of Science Institute: Activities on nature of science, evolution, and genetics from the Indiana U. http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/home.html

All Sciences Lessons/Resources

Prentice Hall Science Explorer Transparencies: http://www.phschool.com/science/ca_sci_exp_transparencies/index.html

Free stuff for science teachers from Science Inquirer: http://scienceinquirer.wikispaces.com/freestuff

NSTA List of Free Sites for teachers 2007: http://science.nsta.org/enewsletter/2007-06/news_stories_middle.htm

World of Teaching: Huge library of premade powerpoints.  All sciences as well as other subjects.  (From Australia?  Thanks, Gareth!) http://www.worldofteaching.com/index.html

National Science Digital Library Middle School Teachers Portal

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) Lots of stuff, peer reviewed.  http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Discrepant Event demos: Demonstrations that make you say "hmmmm" http://www.scienceinquiry.com/demo-main.htm

Other Columbia resources: http://www.scienceteacherprogram.org

HUGE Compendium of science teaching links: annotated list of links in many disciplines.  Mostly HS level. http://members.tripod.com/exworthy/science.htm

This is part of a larger Sourcebook for Science Teachers: http://www.csun.edu/~vceed002/index.html

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html

Backgrounds for Powerpoint slides (many different themes): http://www.techsmith.com/community/downloads/pptemplates.asp

Marco Polo site: Internet content in all subject areas.  Science specific links are in the Science Net Links section.: http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx

General Teaching Resource Links: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/teachertools.htm#top

Physics Lessons/Resources

Teaching about pressure and vacuums: This include a good history of the ideas and lessons.  http://www1.umn.edu/ships/modules/sucking1.htm

Hewitt-based Conceptual physics power points: http://www.drake.edu/artsci/physics/physci1hp.html

The Catalyst: a well-kept list of MANY chemistry education sites. There are lesson plans, demos and other stuff for teachers http://www.thecatalyst.org/m05demos.html

Powerpoint templates, Game generators etc.

Teaching tools: puzzlemaker, lesson planner, etc. http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html

Templates for science games like jeopardy, bingo etc. are available at this versatile site for teachers of chem, bio, physics and geosciences. http://www.csun.edu/~vceed002/ref/games/ . 

Critical Thinking/Interdisciplinary

Case study learning center: This site is put up by the U of Buffalo to help teachers use real-world case studies to teach all different branches of science. http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html

More Science Case Study Links: http://www.bioquest.org/lifelines/caselinks.html

Fermi Questions: Good for practicing estimation and reasoning skills. http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/interdisc/sheila3.html

Science/Ethics/Religion

AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion: http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/

Architecture

Architecture Activities: http://www.norfolk-county.com/aerc/teacheractivities.html

Interesting site of other teachers

Mr. Chad Devoe's classroom blog, Groton, NY: http://grotonsciencegeek.blogspot.com/

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