K-12 Teaching Resources

This guide provides selected teaching resources for K-12 curriculum.

Websites

10 Interactive Science Education Websites for Grades K-12

A list of websites that have been previewed and meet the criteria of interactive and inquiry-based.

Access Excellence: Science Education Resources

Provides biology, life science, and health educators in high schools with a place to access the most current bioscience articles and research as well as a place online to initiate conversations with colleagues and scientists.

American Biology Teacher
Practitioner oriented journal with tips, techniques & lessons for use in the biology classroom.

Exploring Planets in the Classroom: Hands-On Science Activities
More than 25 hands-on science activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring Earth, the planets, geology, and space sciences. Developed and/or tested by the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium.

EEK! - Environmental Education for Kids
An interactive electronic online magazine for kids in grades 4-8.

P hysics resources for K-12

Educational resources from the American Physical Society.

Paleontology Portal
Resources for K-12 teachers and students.

ProTeacher! Science Experiments and Lesson Plans for Grades K-5
A growing list of science experiments and classroom activities for elementary school teachers.

Science Activities
Practitioner oriented journal with experiments and activities in all phases of science, teacher tested explorations and projects keyed for age level and degree of difficulty; news notes, computer news, book reviews and new products for the classroom teacher.

Science NetLinks: Resources for Teaching Science
Lessons, tools, resources, and benchmarks. Reviewed websites to support standards-based teaching and learning. Links to the American Association for the Advancement of Science website.

Science-Teachers.com
A teaching resource providing lesson plans, worksheets, and activities for upper elementary and middle school science teachers.

teAchnology - the Online Teacher Resource
Lesson plans covering an array of sciences for grades K-12.

Teachers TryScience
A science education resource for children, parents, and educators. Ideas for experiments, field trips, and adventures.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center
Site for teachers. Information on environmental concepts, environmental curriculum, resources and activities, workshops and conferences.

USGS Education;
U.S. Geological Survey resources serving primary and secondary education. Repositories, Reports, publications, and maps.

Virtual Middle School Library - Directory of Lesson Plan Websites for Teachers of Science
Numerous links to web resources for teaching middle school sciences.

"Weather Dude"
A weather education site especially for students, parents, kids, and teachers from national TV meteorologist Nick Walker.