Links of interests for Science teachers and students.
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Information on the Next Generation Science Standards.
http://www.nextgenscience.org
The Thinkfinity Portal Learn about and access high-quality, standards-based lesson plans, student activities, reviewed Web sites and other resources for a variety of content areas. For science specifically, click on Science NetLinks on the right hand side of the page.
http://www.thinkfinity.org/
National Science Education Standards (ONLINE)
Benchmarks for Science Literacy (ONLINE)
Science NetLinks is part of the Thinkfinity Network. Thinkfinity partners the AAAS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, the National Council on Economic Education, the National Geographic Society, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Science NetLinks' role is to provide a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, including lesson plans and reviewed Internet resources.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com
The Why Files Science Behind the Headlines (excellent student-friendly scientific feature articles)
http://whyfiles.org/
Science at NASA A current online magazine of scientific research, events, and information for students and teachers
http://science.nasa.gov/
Powers of Ten View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS) is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks.
http://pals.sri.com/
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
Science Buddies is a non-profit organization empowering students from all walks of life to help themselves and each other develop a love of science and an understanding of the scientific method.
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/