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Web Resources for K-12 Teachers
Resources for Teaching and Professional Development
Need a quick lesson plan or supplemental material for a gifted student? Looking to update your own understanding of a science issue as you do curriculum development? Continuing Education offers free web resources to K-12 educators providing professional development, student enrichment, and classroom activities.
 Base Camp Earth
These “virtual explorations” record in documentary format the thoughts and
findings of students and teachers as they explore emerging
("headline")
science. Base Camp Earth is designed to be engaging for the
science enthusiasts in the classroom and inviting to bright
students who might find traditional science stuffy or boring.
 Center for Educational Resources (CERES)
This extensive library provides on-line and
interactive K-12 science education materials for
teaching astronomy. Closely aligned with the NRC
National Science Education Standards, these web-based
lessons make maximum use of exciting on-line NASA resources, data,
and images.
 MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) Education and Public Outreach Site
This website offers a wealth of resources, including a webcam, e-news,
and animations, and educational materials about the planet Mercury and
the MESSENGER spacecraft on its way to explore it.
 Strange Dead Bird: Science Mystery
This interactive mystery is designed to enhance standards-based science
learning for students in grades 5-8.
It uses a mystery format and narrative structure to attract all students into
solving science questions, even those who are not typically
engaged by science.
 Winter Olympics: Sport and Science
Three mini-courses designed for teachers—Sports Nutrition, Physics
and Biomechanics, and Physiology and Psychology—capture the enormous
appeal of the Winter Olympic Games as it creates several teachable moments
for showing how science illuminates human activity.
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