A free resource created by the Natural History Museum of Utah, ResearchQuest leverages the museum's incredible research and collections with 3D and game technologies to support the development of the critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills found throughout your core curriculum. Their research investigations are fully planned, standards-aligned (NGSS and CCSS-ELA), engaging and web-based -- guided by you, their teachers, and using online tools including 3D models and short videos with museum scientists, students work collaboratively to help answer important questions about archaeology, ecosystems, dinosaurs, and more.

Tap into over 140 years of USGS research in the natural sciences with lesson plans, activities, maps, podcasts, lectures, videos, animations, and more. Select from the SCIENCE TOPICS on the left-hand navigation bar or the titles BELOW the images under Educational Topics, which will guide you to lessons & activities.

Resources for educators and students, browsable by grade level, content type, and subject. 

Search NG's extensive collections by topic keywords, subjects, grade level, and content type. 

This portal is designed to help you access educational resources from NOAA and partner sites from one location. Materials are organized by themes aligned with common teaching topics. Along with oceans and coasts, weather, and more, instructors can find lesson plans in this collection that contain NOAA data and real-time weather information.

Lessons and activities that inspire, cultivate, and develop exceptional STEM talent through a continuum of opportunities to enrich the current and future Department of Defense workforce to tackle evolving defense technological challenges.

Resource guide developed and written by Jim Kessler, Patti Galvan, and Adam M. Boyd at the American Chemical Society. Lesson plans and multimedia materials aligned with NGSS and CCSS standards.

Patti worked as an elementary school teacher with a keen interest in science education before coming to ACS. Jim was a high school science teacher and has been developing resources for K–8 teachers for 20 years. Adam's areas of expertise include chemistry, writing, and the web.

The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Searchable by grade level, resource type, and subject.

Organized by topic, many useful sites for science teachers. Maintained by a retired school librarian.

Includes a curriculum corner, question bank, lab area, and a NGSS-devoted page, this valuable resource serves K-12, including distance learning.

Free K-12 standards-aligned activities, hands-on lessons, and more for teaching science, engineering, and math. Search by standards, units, lessons, or activities.

A FREE resource to boost reading comprehension across content areas. Track assignments and student progress. Sign in with Clever, and you can import students straight from Google Classroom. Search by: 

Content Type Reading Passages, eBooks, StepReads (differentiation), Article-A-DayTM Sets, Boost Articles, Challenge Articles, Collections for ELLs, Paired Texts

Activity Type Full Question Set, Express Question Set, Open-Ended Question Set, Inferring Question Set, Monitoring Question Set,Text Structure Question Set, Article-A-Day Vocabulary

Grade Level, Topic (Science too!), Text Type (Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry), and Lexile Level

• Access more than 5000 high-quality texts

• Use built-in alignments, levels and differentiation

• Automate grading and view assessment data

• Support core curricula with Book Studies

• Build student background knowledge

• Achieve reading stamina with Article-A-Day

• Integrate through Clever Library and Google Classroom