Miscellaneous Educational Links

• Annenberg/CPB Learner.org See especially the video A Private Universe about why even the brightest students don't truly grasp basic science concepts?
• A.Word.A.Day.
• Blogs:
  • MovableType publishing platform (commercial).
  • Schoolblogs.
  • tBLOG (free).
• Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Creation Education, a collection of examples to encourage student interest in creationism, while in reality providing outstanding examples of how to do bad science (no controls, no precise testable hypothesis, incomplete collection of data, etc).
• Diagnoser software (identify conceptual scientific misunderstandings)
• Discovery Channel Online
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.
• Fluid Dynamics online textbooks.
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (electronic searchable version)
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
• How Stuff Works.
• How Things Work (Bloomfield's site).
• IEEE Virtual Museum.
• Innovate, journal of online education.
• International Baccalaureate Organization.
• Iron Science Teacher, Science Exploratorium competition for science teachers to create the neatest science demos, modelled after the Iron Chef TV series.
• IWasWondering.org, web site about women's adventures in science, for middle school children.
• KhanAcademy, free videos on many topics including math and physics.
• The Last Word: Questions and Answers on Everyday Science (New Scientist).
• Latin phrases.
• Macrogalleria (polymers)
• Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home---But Probably Shouldn't, -- website associated with book of this title by Theodore Gray (who also invented the notebook interface for Mathematica).
• Merlot, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.
• Middle School Physical Science Research Center.
• Mr. Wizard Studios.
• National Center for Biotechnology Information.
• National Institute for Women it Trades, Technology, and Science.
• NOVA, science programming on air and online.
• NPR Science Friday
• RateMyProfessors.com
• RateMyTeachers.com
• Resources for Involving Scientists in Education.
• Science Curriculum, Inc., publisher of some highly regarded middle and high school science texts.
• Science Hobbyist
• Sequim science, online suggestions for scientific experiments for those educating themselves at home.
• Snowflakes:
  • Snow Crystals.
  • Snowflake photographs (Wilson Bentley).
• Society for Amateur Scientists.
• Songs
  • Artichoke, band with many songs about scientists and science.
  • PhysicsSongs.org
  • Science-groove.org.
  • Science songs collection of Greg Crowther.
  • Singing Science Records, collection by Jef Poskanzer.
• Standardized academic scoring system (SASS).
• The Why Files
• VPython, 3d programming language for lectures, demos.