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Aerospace Lesson Plans

This website provides lessons for all grades that focus on aeronautics and aircraft. These lessons can be used stand-alone or as part of a unit.

Children's Misconceptions about Science

Many students bring preconceived ideas, contrary to accepted scientific knowledge, to their science classes. This website provides an extensive list of common misperceptions regarding science concepts.

Concept Mapping

This website describes how the construction of concept maps helps students pull together information they already know about a science subject and understand new information they have learned.

Connecting Elementary Science and Literacy

This website connects reading about science content with inquiry-based science teaching and learning.

Curriculum Units

This website is a directory of science curriculum units from Lawrence Hall of Science, university of California at Berkeley.

Frank Potter's Science Gems

This website contains resources for teachers and students at all grade levels.

Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide

This website provides links to science museums and other learning centers around the world.

Problem Based Learning

This website describes the Problem based Learning Model.

Nature of Science Lesson Plans

This website provides Nature of Science lesson plans for grades K-12.

SciLinks

SciLinks helps science educators harness the vast resources of the Internet by connecting key textbook subjects to NSTA-approved web pages that enrich student learning both inside and outside the science classroom. By linking to a brief call-out found in the margin, which lists the topic, a code, and a URL (www.scilinks.org), teachers and students can access vetted web pages that provide real-time information and new content on a host of science topics.

Science Netlinks

This website provides a directory of science lesson plans for grades K-12.

Science Process Skills

This website provides an explanation of basic and integrated process skills. 

Tearchersfirst.com

This website provides online lesson plans in science and other content areas.

U.S. Department of Education Science Resources

More than 30 federal agencies formed a working group to make finding federally supported teaching learning resources easier to find in this directory.