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These links will take you to lessons we've curated or created.
The Google Slides and PowerPoints can be used along with the lessons or on their own. Once downloaded, they are editable so you can customize them.
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TimeTree is a public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. Data from thousands of published studies are assembled into a searchable tree of life scaled to time. Three search modes are possible: Node Time, Timeline, and TimeTree.
TimePanels showing events in geological time and astronomical history are provided for comparison with timelines and timetrees. Results can be exported in different formats for additional analyses and publication.
This interactive module allows students and educators to build models that explain how the Earth system works. It can be used to show how Earth is affected by human activities and natural phenomena. Understanding Global Change is designed to focus on connections between broad interdisciplinary topics rather than a specific content area. As such, it strongly supports the system thinking and connections.
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Be sure to look at the right panel on the Educator Guide for downloadable resources!
This interactive journaling tool allows students and educators to document, annotate, and reflect upon their own and others' scientific research process. The flexible design allows the user to map out a unique path through the process of scientific inquiry to document research and/or the behaviors and scientific practices relevant to any instructional resource.
Each step through the process of science can be annotated with text, photos, and files of any type. The program exports a PowerPoint file that can be used for assessment or presentations.
AACT strives to provide teachers of chemistry with the best teaching resources. Most of the Classroom Resource Library is made up of content from great teachers who created and shared their own work. Currently there are over 900 classroom resources available in the library for K-12 teachers of chemistry to use in their classrooms.
The CDC provides interactive learning opportunities for students and creatively gives a deeper look in the world of science. Learn about microbiology, infectious diseases or become a food detective and learn about different types of bacteria.
The GasLab project was designed to help students visualize and explore the physical behavior of an ideal gas and relate the idealized microscopic molecular rules to the measurable observable quantities that emerge. This set of models simulates the behavior of gas molecules in a closed container under various conditions.
Whether you educate Georgia’s children at a school, an early care center, or at your home, we have resources to help plant the seeds for lifelong learning and healthy eating. You’re never to young to begin healthy habits, which is why we’ve created a library of lessons and activities to engage and inspire children from ages 3 to 18.
Georgia Virtual Learning is your headquarters for online education from the Georgia Department of Education. Currently, you can find links to Georgia Virtual School, the online learning opportunity for 9-12 students, and Georgia Credit Recovery, the teacher-less online location for students who need to recover credit from an unsuccessful course.
For educators, OpenTopography provides curriculum modules that include lesson outlines, sample datasets, and student activities to integrate topographic data into the classroom.
Project Hero is a project-based learning tool and framework that connects young heroes to information about threatened species & ecosystems guiding them on a Quest to uncover and implement solutions to help locally.
Real World Science is part of an effort by The National WWII Museum, and funded by the Northrop Grumman Foundation, to use the war that changed the world to teach how society turns to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) when it faces big problems. Teachers from across the country, and students from diverse backgrounds, will learn how to connect science, history, and literacy to ensure that the next generation is ready to meet the challenges it will face in the future.
SECOORA is dedicated to promoting knowledge of coastal ocean observing through accessible resources and student opportunities. Whether a teacher, student, or interested individual we have something for you.
Short virtual lectures for high school and public audiences are your chance to learn about research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory!
With some of our in-person activities limited, we have created an opportunity to learn that is informative and fits into any schedule. These free virtual events will be 30 minutes with time for your questions.
Bring the real world into the classroom by taking students on a journey to places outside their city, country, even planet. These behind-the-scenes videos transport students to places where innovation meets creativity and shows there is no one path toward success in a STEM career. Explore the latest engineering, technology, and manufacturing at Boeing with these Virtual Field Trips.
NASA is exploring our solar system and beyond, uncovering worlds, stars and cosmic mysteries near and far with our powerful fleet of space and ground-based missions.
Explore our facilities. View our laboratories. Enter our operations control centers.
We invite you to tour NASA virtually from the comfort of your home or convenience of your mobile device.
AACT strives to provide teachers of chemistry with the best teaching resources. Most of the Classroom Resource Library is made up of content from great teachers who created and shared their own work. Currently there are over 900 classroom resources available in the library for K-12 teachers of chemistry to use in their classrooms. A large collection of multimedia resources, including animations, simulations and videos are also available for use.
Get clues, analyze data, solve the scenario, and save lives! In this fun app, you get to be the Disease Detective.
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Bottom left of the game click "Learn" next to the books icon, then select "Teacher Resources" for curriculum and sample lesson plans. To get back to the game, click "Close" in the top right of the black bar.
DNALC animations feature stunning visualizations of cellular and molecular processes. Journey inside a cell as you follow proteins in Cell Signals. Zoom along a three-dimensional rendering of 650,000 nucleotides of human chromosome in Chromosome 11 Flyover. Processes like DNA translation, transcription, replication, and more are explained in interactive animations.
Create simple computer programs to control the actions of many colorful frogs that hop around a lily pond.
NetLogo lets students open simulations and “play” with them, exploring their behavior under various conditions. It is also an authoring environment which enables students, teachers and curriculum developers to create their own models. NetLogo is simple enough for students and teachers, yet advanced enough to serve as a powerful tool for researchers in many fields.
NOVA Labs is a free digital platform that engages teens and lifelong learners in games and interactives that foster authentic scientific exploration … NOVA Labs participants can conduct investigations by visualizing, analyzing, and sharing the same data that scientists use.
Each Lab is unique, and focuses on a different area of active research. But all of them illustrate key concepts with engaging and informative videos and guide participants as they answer scientific questions or design solutions to current problems.
PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. These tests include student interviews and observation of simulation use in classrooms.
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Use this samples to study minerals. In some cases, there are two examples of the mineral. To use, click on the image of the mineral, zoom in and out, move around the 3D model to get a good sense of the mineral and its typical distinguishing characteristics.
UL Xplorlabs is an educational platform designed to encourage students to “solve through science.” It is especially focused on engaging middle-school students during a time in their educational lives when interest in science is shown to decrease dramatically. This free STEM-focused experience provides interactive videos, instructional experiences, hands-on classroom activities and creative classroom challenges.
These are Padlets curated by Donna Barrett Georgia Science Teacher Association's 2021 President
The CIRES/NOAA Science-at-Home webinar series is intended to connect middle and high school students that are now in the virtual/remote learning landscape with scientists. Each webinar features a 10-15 minute presentation by a scientists about how they got into science, what they do as a scientist, and what it is that they research, followed by 10-15 minutes of live Q&A.
To help you continue learning and exploring, we would like to share some favorite topics that rangers usually cover during programs. Come explore!
Enhance your students' experience with films, resources, and teaching tools designed to engage students beyond traditional scientific concepts