This page provides links to lesson plans and resources for all grade levels and all science areas typically taught in K-12 schools. Click on a topic from the list below. If you need lesson plans for health or nutrition, click here. If you need science homework help, click here.

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Large Collections of Lesson Plans for Multiple Science Subjects
Science Lesson Plans from The Educator's Reference Desk
Formerly AskEric, this is a great source for science lesson plans organized by subject

Science Netlinks
A comprehensive guide to science, technology, and mathematics web sites and a growing library of Internet-based learning. Click here to see their large selection of lesson plans.

Academy Curricular Exchange
Click on this line for the main menu, or click below for the grade level in which you are interested.
K-5 Over (130 lesson plans)
Middle Grades (About 60 lesson plans)
High School (About 20 lesson plans)

ProTeacher Science and Technology
An excellent source with many lesson plans unique to this site.

Access Excellence
Lesson plans, activities, and online mysteries. Click Fellows Collection or Activities to Go to access their large collection of lesson plans.

Smithsonian Education: Science and Technology
Many high-quality lesson plans.

Reach Out! Michigan Hands-On Science
Many science lesson plans and quick activities.

Saskatchewan Education - Science
Curriculum guides for all grade levels complete with model units. The site is now in pdf format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat to view the lesson plans.

Franklin Institute Science Lesson Plans
Elementary science lesson ideas; most are constructivist.

Energy and Science Lesson Plans
From Energy Quest California.

K-2 Science Lesson Plans
Tactile lesson plans integrating science and literacy.

Science Lesson Plans
A long list organized by grade lecel.

Teacher First Science Lesson Plans
Excellent source for science lesson plans for all levels and in a variety of areas.

Ethics and Values in Pre-College Science Instruction
Teacher resources including many lesson plans incorporating ethical and values issues.

NASA Quest
Free online tools and resources. See also Atmospheric Science Trading Cards and Lesson Plans, Eclipse in a Different Light, and Imagine the Universe! for more lesson plans from NASA.

Discovery Channel School
Wonderful lesson plans for social studies, science, and literature. There are more than 50 lesson plans on animals alone! Search by subject or use the menu on the left side of the page.

Newton's Apple Science Teacher's Guides
Lesson ideas from PBS Family Science Show.

Exploratorium
Different online features every few months.

Rubrics for Science
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Assessment Rubrics
Information and examples of various types of rubrics, including ones for student web projects, cooperative learning activities, labs, group participation, multimedia presentations, oral presentations, portfolio exhibits, and research papers.

Rubrics and Scoring Criteria
Developed for teachers in Ontario, Canada, this page provides information about developing rubrics as well as links to a large number of sites with examples of rubrics for many purposes.

Rubrician.com
"The official website for links to rubrics, "this page offers links to many science rubrics.

Elementary Science Rubrics
Two rubrics in either Word or Web format.

Assessment of Experiments and Science Projects Using a Generic Rubric
A rubric for experiments using the scientific method. See also Science Festival Rubric, a rubric for student self-evaluation of science projects.

Science Investigation Rubric
Adaptable for grades K-4 or 5-12. See also Holistic Rubric for Science Experiments, an example of a rubric using a 1 through 5 scale, as well as  Technological Design Rubric.  

Scientific Report Rubric
See also Scientific Data base/Conclusion Rubric.

Lab Report Rubric
For a biology lab. See also Biology Lab Report Rubric, AP Biology – Animal Behavior Lab Rubric, and Biology Laboratory Microscope Drawing Rubric

Data, Graphs, and Theory Rubric
A rubric for a physics lab on elasticity.

Year-End Project Rubrics
Several rubrics for scoring the various aspects of an extensive science project involving experimental research.

Earth Science Rubric
For 6th-grade research projects. 

General Science Lab Rubric
From a biology class.

Physics Experiment Evaluation Rubric
See also Physics I Laboratory Grading Rubric

Chemistry Standards-Based Rubric: Atomic Structure and Bonding
See also Chem Lab Evaluation Rubric and Environmental Chemistry Rubrics.

Scientific Method/Nature of Science
Scientific Method - A Way to Solve a Problem
A lesson plan for grade 4 exploring the scientific method. See also The Scientific Method for a fact sheet providing thorough information.   

How Many Drops of Water on a Penny?
A lesson plan in which students use the scientific method for science inquiry. See also Introduction to Scientific Methods for another version of this lesson.

The Scientific Method in Undersea Archaeology
A high school lesson plan from National Geographic.

Rusting and the Scientific Method
A lesson plan for grades 8-9 in which students identify and utilize elements of scientific inquiry to solve problems.

Consumer Testing in the Classroom
A lesson idea for teaching the scientific method.

Steps of the Scientific Method
A one-page printable poster in pdf format. See also Steps in the Scientific Method for a flow chart.

Science Role Plays
Middle-grade activities in which students role play processes in science.

How Many Fish are in that Pond?
A high school lesson plan in which students use sampling, estimation, and statistical analysis

Nature of Science
Information and a grade lesson plans from  from the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Nature of Science
Information and teaching ideas from The Butterfly Project.

Science vs. Non-Science
A mini-lesson exploring six criteria of science. It compares emerging science, non-science, and pseudoscience, with definitions and examples. The activity engages students in analyzing a collection of paragraphs to decide which category each fits into.

Nature of Science
Several lesson plans intended for a high school biology course.

Astronomy Lesson Plans and Resources
Kid's Astronomy.com
A terrific site with real-time maps of the night sky, an astronomy dictionary and astronomy news, plus wonderful information on the solar system, space exploration, and deep space. Click on Teachers Corner for printable worksheets or send your students to Fun with Astronomy.  

Astronomy Lesson Plans from The Educator's Reference Desk
Many elementary-grade lesson plans

Space and Astronomy Lesson Plans
Links to collections of space and astronomy lesson plans.

Selected Topics in Astronomy and Space Studies
Thirteen middle grade and high school units from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

Teacher's Guide: The Lunar Prospector
From NASA. Click on lesson plans in the left menu for three unit plans..

Educator's Guide to Moon Phases
Good, concise information from Views of the Solar System. See their collection of lesson plans and activities.

Savage Sun
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery Education. See also The Energy of the Sun.

NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA approved lesson plans.

Finding Out about the Stars and Planets
A web-based activity on the solar system for grades K-4. See also Incredible, Edible Solar System, Earth and the Solar System and  Best of the Solar System for other lesson plans. 

Discovery of the Solar System
A lesson plan from NASA in which students learn about the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, the ideas behind it and the explanations which it displaced.

The Nine/Eight Planets
A multimedia tour of the solar system!

Space.com
Pick a planet, travel there, and become a space reporter. A good source for Internet-based extension activities.

Destination Mars
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from the Discovery Channel School.

Mission to Mars
Ideas for teaching about Mars from Education World.

Mars Landing Site
A lesson plan for grades 5-9. See Athena Mars Exploration Rover for other similar lesson plans.

Live From Earth and Mars: Educational Modules
Lesson plans, mostly on Mars but a few on weather, for a variety of grade levels.

Surviving and Thriving on Mars
Join the Millennium Project and help create a living environment from the ground up!

The Impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9
A unit on the comet that smashed into the planet Jupiter.

The Educator's Guide to the NEAR Project
Information and lesson plans form the NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Project.

SETI Life in the Universe Curriculum
Sample lesson plans on the possible existence of extraterrestrial life. 

Satellite Lesson Plans
Seven lesson plans from Boston University.

Exploring Meteorite Mysteries
A teacher's guide with 19 lesson plans. The materials are in pdf format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat to access them. See Make a Crater for a meteor-related simulation activity from NASA and Exloring Meteorite Mysteries  - Slide Set to find slides for use in a presentation

Space Adventure
For another astronomy webquest, see Star Broker.

Windows to the Universe
A graphics-intensive space science website with tons of information and a teacher/student workbook.

NASA Quest Education Page
Information from the space agency. 

Welcome to the Planets
Great source for pictures of and information about the planets.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Astronomy Site

Challenger Center for Space Education
More space stuff



Biology Lesson Plans (Includes Genetics, Cells, and Evolution)
Click here for sites providing biology homework help.

Biology Lessons for Practicing and Prospective Teachers
This excellent site from SDSU offers elementary lesson plans and teacher's guides for teaching about Molecules and Cells as well as population biology.

Biology Lesson Plans
About 20 lessons for a variety of grade levels from The Educator's Reference Desk (formerly Ask ERIC).

SMILE Biology Index
A collection of nearly 200 lesson plans organized by topic!

The Biology Corner
Many lesson plans, worksheets, WebQuests, and quizzes.

Online Biology Book
Just what the title suggests!

Snapshots of Medicine and Science
"A web site for high school students, teachers, and the public, bringing news, features, insight and discussions from the dynamic world of biomedical research."

Access Excellence Biology and Life Sciences Activity Exchange
Archive of favorite activities submitted by high school biology teachers .

Biology Lessons
A large collection of lesson plans for all grade levels from Reach Out Michigan.  

Jello Cells
A junior high science activity in which students construct models of cells.

How Cells Duplicate
A 2-week unit for 7th grade.

Screen Your Genes
A lesson plan for grades 7-12 designed to introduce students to the concepts of meiosis, independent assortment, fertilization and genetic variation.

Mitosis/Meiosis Flip Book
A high school lesson plan. See also Mitosis and Meiosis for activities, labs, and links as well as How Cells Divide: Mitsis and Meiosis for a slide show from NOVA's "18 Ways to Make a Baby."

Phases of Meiosis
A worksheet complete with diagrams from the Biology Corner.

Cell Division and Mitosis
A lesson plan for high school biology. Click here for an onion cell drawing (to be labeled).

Mitosis
A 10th-grade lesson plan. See also Mitosis for a grades 6-8 lesson plan.

Genetics Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans and resources from Human Genome Networking project.

Genetics Lesson Plans
Six lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk.

Genetics Lesson Plans
Another set of lesson plans, this one from Teach-Nology.

Genetics Resources
Tutorials, links, and even a glossary.

Breaking the Code
A thematic unit for grades 4-6 introducing the topics of DNA and the genetic code.

Building a Model DNA
A lesson  plan for grades 6-8.

Beans to Genes: Genetic Probability
A secondary lesson plan.

Let's Juggle Genes
An online activity.

Human Genetics WebQuest

Genetics Education Center
Genetics lesson plans, resources, and links.

The Genome: Controversy for All Times
A secondary unit examining the ethical and moral issues surrounding research into mapping the human genome.

How Do We Inherit Our Biological Characteristics?
A 10th-grade project investigating the problem of inherited human disorders. It requires Internet access and is aligned with National Science Education Standards

Whose Life Is It?
A high school lesson plan that uses a fictional story to examine some of the ethical and values issues related to human cloning. See Genetic Research: Decisions to be Made for a similar lesson plan using a news story.

Evolution
A large collection of lesson plans, activities, and labs. Most seem to be high school level. See also Biology Links: Evolution.  

Evolution Lessons
A collection of high school lesson plans from Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes.

The Evolution of Plants
Information and sample lesson plans from a high school unit.

Hominid Evolution
Another unit for high school biology or advanced biology.

Human Evolution
A high school lesson plan integrating the study of human evolution and history.

Evolution
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 in which students learn about Darwin, his theory of evolution, and some of the controversies related to it.

Darwin's Evolution
A high school lesson plan in which students learn about Charles Darwin. See also Darwin Day and Evolution Wing: Theory and History.  

Origin of the Species vs. Zoological Philosophy
A middle or junior high school lesson plan in which students debate the theories of Darwin and Lamarck.

Scopes Trial Activity
A lesson plan in which students learn about the Scopes Trial and how it impacts academic freedom today. Scroll down the page to access the Evolution/Creation Pre and Post-Essay Activity . For other lesson plans on this topic, see Beyond the Scope (an Internet-based lesson plan for grades 9-12 on this famous trial) and Whose 'Truth' Is Out There? (a lesson plan for grades 6-12 which examines the historic significance of the Scopes trial and its application to the "evolution versus creation" debate in education today). For background information, see The Antievolution Crusade of the 1920s, Clash of Cultures: The Scopes Trial, Tennessee vs. John Scopes: The Monkey Trial, and The 'Intelligent Design' Debate.

Online Lessons for Students: Learning Evolution
Seven lesson plans providing " multimedia pathways to help students understand evolution and the nature of science ."

Evolution WebQuest
From The Biology Corner.

Tree of Life
Information about phylogeny and biodiversity. "The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other."

Resources and Lesson Plans on Plants ( Including Lessons on Farms)
For botany/plant resources, including pictures, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and directories, click here.

Photosynthesis , Trees, and the Greenhouse Effect
An 8th-grade lesson plan from Natiobnal Geographic. Click here for an excellent resource on photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis and Transpiration
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.

We Need Trees and Their Oxygen Cycle
A 5th-grade lesson plan from Penn. State University.

Botany Lesson Plans
More than 15 lesson plans, mostly for the elementary level, from The Educator's Reference Desk. Click here for a Dictionary of Botanical Words.

Plant Systems
A primary-grade lesson plan from the above site. Also, see the GardenWeb Glossary of Botanical Terms.  

Identifying Parts of a Flower
An elementary-grade lesson plan. See also Friendly Flowers for a K-2 lesson.

Designing a Native Plants Garden
A K-2 Lesson plan. See also Grass and Wildflower Lesson Plan, Celebrating Wildflowers, Wildflowers: Science through Art, Go Wild! Start a Native Wildflower Garden for ideas about starting a wildflower garden at your school. For information on wildflowers, go to The Wildflower Center and Wildflowers.

Gems from the Garden - Digging Up Activities for All Ages
Many for gardening-related activities from Education World.    

Garden Lesson Plans
Several lesson plans from The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. See also What's in a Garden? and Sharing the Joy of a Garden for lesson plans for grades 3-5.

How Does Our Garden Grow?
A primary-grade lesson plan from Evergreen.

The Great Plant Escape
An interdisciplinary program for students in grades 4-5 designed to introduce them to plant science and increase their understanding of how foods grow. available in either Spanish or English.

Let It Grow: An Inquiry-Based Organic Gardening Research Project
An excellent lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Read Write Think.

Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination
Three lesson plans for grades 3-8 from the Smithsonian Institute.  

AppleQuest
An elaborate WebQuest for grades 5+ about growing apples!

Apples & More
From the University of Illinois Extension, this website offers suggestions for accessible and stimulating activities for a series of lessons about apples. The unit encompasses many areas of the curriculum: math, scince, writing, literature, art and social studies. See also Education Location for teaching ideas from the Wisconsin Apple Growers Association and NY Apple Country Teacher Kit for K-6 lesson plans and other teaching resources in pdf format.

Johny Appleseed Day Research Activity
An elementary-grade lesson plan.. See also Johnny Appleseed, a K-5 lesson plan in which students learn the legend of Johnny Appleseed and the history behind it; How Did Johnny Appleseed Help the Pioneers Move West? a kindergarten lesson plan using Aliki's The Story of Johnny Appleseed;  a 1st-grade lesson plan using the book by this title; and Apples, a primary-grade thematic unit.

Farms and Agriculture Lesson Plans
Farm Unit
A kindergarten unit.

Farm
Links to worksheets, unit, lesson plans, and other resources from ProTeacher.com.

From a Seed to  Loaf: The Story of Growing Grain
A primary-grade unit.

From Seed to Plant
A primary-grade lesson plan.

A Day on the Farm
A 1st-grade lesson plan in which students learn about farming and then plant been seeds.

From Maize to Milk: A Barnyard Full of Activities
Several activities from Education World.

Growing Corn
An elementary grade lesson plan from Michigan.gov. See also Corn -  An Amazing Plant.

Agriculture Lesson Plans
Twelve lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk.

Agriculture and Environment Lesson Plans
A large number of lesson plans.

California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom
A huge archive of lesson plans for a variety of grade levels.

Fruits and Vegetables
A lesson plan for grades 5-8 designed to help students differentiate between plants with seeds and seedless plants and that produce commonly called vegetables are really fruits.

Weather and Agriculture
A high school lesson plan from National Geographic in which students research, discuss, and write reports on the relationship between climate and agriculture.

For lesson plans and units on farm animals, click here.  

Pumpkin Themes
Links to many lesson plans and units on pumpkins. See also Pump up the Curriculum with Pumpkins. Go to Fall Holiday Lesson Plans for Halloween ideas.

Hot Seeds
An inquiry-based lesson for grades 5-12 complete with assessment rubrics.

Trees/Forests/Rain Forests - Click on a topic: trees/tree rings, leaves, rain forests
Trees/Tree Rings
It's All in the Rings
A lesson plan for grades 7-12. See also Tree Rings as Records of the Past for a lesson plan  adaptable to grades 1-8 and The Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages for an excellent resource.

Tree Planting Lesson Plan
See also Planting Trees, Tree Planting for Climate Change, and Tree Seedling Planting.

Sustainable Forestry
A Teacher Resource Center with lesson plans for a variety of grade levels and forestry-related topics from Penn. State University. See also their From the Woods Series for even more lesson plans.

Lesson Plans for Forest-Minded Teachers
Many lesson plans in pdf format for a variety of grade levels from the Idaho Forest Products Commision.

We Need Trees and Their Oxygen Cycle
A 5th-grade lesson plan from the above site.

My Life as a Tree
A lesson plan for grades K-4 designed to introduce students to the parts of a tree and how they function.

Learning from the Forest
Many lesson plans about trees and forests for all grade levels. Since the lessons are in pdf format, you will need Adobe Acrobat to read them.

Great Northern Forest
A curriculum guide with a great many lesson plans in pdf format.

Talk about Trees
Seven lesson plans about California forests.

Uses of Trees
A kindergarten lesson plan in which students identify three or four ways trees are used.

Trees, Trees, Trees!!!!
A literature-based lesson plan for grades 2-5.   

Deciduous and Coniferous Trees
A lesson plan for grades 3-5. See also Trees for links to many resources.

If a Tree Falls in the Forest
A lesson plan fopr grades 3-5 from National Geographic.

Tree Measurement
An lesson plan for grades 4-6 in which students measure the trunk, crown, and height of trees using vertical and horizontal measurement.

Trees and Forests: A WebQuest for 6th-Grade Science
See also The Tree WebQuest.

Biomes: Forests and Seeds
A middle-grade lesson plan from DiscoverySchool.com in which students learn how seasonal changes affect life in a temperate forest.

Deforestation
A unit from The Educator's Reference Desk.

Local Trees and Their Function
A 10th-grade lesson plan in which students learn about deciduous trees and the various types of leaves and arrangements associated with them.

Leaves
How are Leaves Alike and Different?
A lesson plan that can be adapted to various grade levels. See also Trees, a resource with information about tree shapes, tree seeds, and how trees protect their space.

Comparing Leaves
Another lesson plan that can be used with a variety grade levels.

Fall Leaves
A kindergarten lesson plan in which  students count fall leaves.

Fall Leaves Fall
An interdisciplinary  lesson plan for grades K-3.

Observing Leaves
A primary-grade lesson plan in which students use magnifying lenses to observe the differences among leaves. See also Observe a Leaf for a similar 1st-grade lesson plan.

Colors in the Leaves
A lesson plan for grades 1-4.

Add Color -- and Learning  --  to Your Fall Lesson Plans!
Many ideas to celebrate fall and its colors from Education World. See also Photosynthesis: Don't "Leaf" Out Fall's Most Valuable Lesson for more ideas rom Education World.   

The Miracle of Fall
Information on fall color. Click on education for teaching activities related to the seasons and fall foliage. 

Rain Forest
Rain Bird Rain Forest Curriculum
Curriculum materials and activities for all grade levels.

Amazon Rain Forest Unit
A cross-disciplinary, primary-grade unit. Also, see Rain Forest Animals, a teacher's guide from Newton's Apple. 

Rainforest
An elementary-grade lesson plan from A to Z Teacher Stuff.

The Layers of the Rain Forest
An elementary lesson plan. See Virtual Rainforest Trip or the Virtual Rainforest for an online tour.

Rainforests
An Internet-based middle-grade or high school lesson plan from The Discovery Channel School.  

Help Save The Rainforest!
Internet-based middle grade activities.

Biome: Rainforest
A lesson plan for grades 7-12.

Rainforest WebQuest
See also Rainforest Vacations? for another WebQuest.     

Rainforest Teaching Theme
Links to lesson plans and worksheets from Teach-Nology.



Environment - Click on a topic: Environment/Ecology, Prairies, Wetlands, Pollution, Waste/Recycling

Environment/Ecology
Environmental Education Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans on the environment, rain forests, acid rain, etc.

Exploring the Environment
Great modules and activities for high school environmental science.

Environmental Quality in the 21st Century
Eleven units from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

6 Billion Human Beings
I'm not sure where to put this page, but if we really want to care for and "save the earth," finding a solution to the world population explosion is essential. This site offers a place to start learning about our ever-growing world population and the problems associated with it.

Environmental Education Link (EE Link)
Links to information, projects, and organizations.

Land and People: Finding a Balance
A teaching guide from the USGS Learning Web with activities that engage high school students in studying ecosystems resource issues.

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Environment - Earth Day
This site contains links to thematic units, lesson plans, and resources.

Earth Day
Lesson plans and units from the Donns.

The Earth and Me: Forever Friends
A kindergarten unit.

Our Environment
A 2nd-grade lesson plan from The Educator's Reference Desk. See also Studying the ABC's of the Environment for a similar 3rd-grade lesson plan.

Spinning the EcoWeb
A lesson plan for grades 3-12.

Project WILD
An activity based, K-12 environmental education program from the Council for Environmental Education. Click on "Project WILD Activity Guides" for information on the K-12 or Aquatic programs.

Schoolyard Pitfall Trap Experiment
A project-based approach to schoolyard habitat development for students in grades 4-12.

Ecology Lesson Plans
More than 20 lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk. See also Ecology Lesson Plans from Teach-Nology.

Defining Ecology
An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan for grades 3-6. See also Living Things in Their Environment for a lesson planfor grades 8-11.

Introducing Ecology Concepts with Star Wars
A lesson plan for grades 5-10.

The Grand Canyon
A middle-grade lesson plan from The Discovery Channel School that explores how the damming of a river can have both positive and negative effects on the ecology of an area.

Habitat Hunt
Elementary or middle-grade activities for teaching about wildlife habitat and ecology. See Lesson Plans and Activities for more ecology lesson plans and activities.

Prairies
Land Issues Lesson Plans
Five elementary lesson plans about prairies. For an excellent resource, see 42Explore - Prairies.  

Prairies
A 1st or 2nd-grade lesson plan using Peter Murray's book by this title.

The Incredible Prairie Picture Show
A lesson plan for grades K-2 from National Geographic's Xpeditions.

Our Grasslands
A lesson plan for 2nd grade in pdf format. For background information, see Biomes - Grasslands and Savannah.  

The American Prairie
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from The Discovery Channel School.

Smallville's Prairie Problem
A multidisciplinary, hands-on project for grades 9-10. See also the elementary (grades 4-5) and middle level (grades 6-8) versions of this activity.

Prairie Ecosystems
A 4th-grade lesson plan in pdf format. See also Exploring Prairie Resources & Webliography for links to many resources.

Wetlands
The Fragile Fringe
A guide for teaching about coastal Wetlands from the USGS.  

Water Educational Training Science Project (WET)
Eleven lesson plans in pdf format, many of which involve wetlands including a elementary-grade lesson titled, Exploring Life in a Wetland Habitat.

Wetland Lessons
Lesson plans and links from the University of Texas.

Postcards from the Wetlands
A technology and Internet-based  elementary lesson plan.

The Woods and Pond
A lesson plan for grades 1-2 from The Educator's Reference Desk.

Marsh Market
A lesson plan for grades 2-8 in which students construct a "living" wetland food web, then create their own web by tracing components of their lunches.

Create a Wetlands Scene
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from National Geographic.

Wonderful Wetlands
A 4th-grade lesson plan. See also Wetlands Theme Page.

Conservation Lesson Plans from Ducks Unlimited
Teacher's guides on wetlands ecosystems for elementary, middle, and high school grades.

Wetland in a Pan
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Penn. State University. See Identifying Wetlands for a high school lesson plan from Penn. State.

Mississippi River Wetlands
A lesson plan fro grades 6-12 for Education World.

Biome: Wetlands
A lesson plan for grades 7-12 from The Educator's Reference Desk. See also Wetlands for another lesson plan for grade 7-12.

Florida Wetlands Unit
An 8th-grade unit integrating science and social studies.

Pollution/Waste
Causes of Pollution
A lesson plan for grades K-3.

Air Pollution: What Can You Do?
A 3rd-grade lesson plan.

Rotten Truth About Garbage
Ever wonder what happens to your trash? Click here and find out. A great site for teaching about solid waste and recycling.

Trash a Pizza!
A  lesson plan for grades K-6 in which students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components.

Waste Management
A four-lesson unit.

Let's Talk Trash
A lesson plan for grades 5-6 providing an introduction to solid waste management.   

Landfills: A Solid Waste Management Plan
Several activities for grades 6-8.

Air Pollution
A lesson plan for grades 4-6 from The Educator's Reference Desk.  See Water Pollution, Oil Pollution, and
Everybody Needs a Clean Environment for other lesson plans from this source.

Marine Pollution
Links to lesson plans on acid rain, marine, pollution/debris oil spills, and water quality.

Water Pollution
A lesson plan for grades 1-6. See also EnviroScape Water Pollution Lesson Plan. For other lesson plans on water and water quality, click here.  

Pollution Solutions
A lesson plan for grades 7-12 dealing with water pollution in state parks.

Recycling
More Lessons for Teaching About Trash and Recycling
Many lesson plans from Education World. See also Five Lessons Teach Students to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

What Will Decompose?
A lesson plan for grades 2-3 requiring students to think critically.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Theme Page
Links to lesson plans and units on recycling.

Pollution and Recycling
A primary-grade lesson plan.

Recycle
A lesson plan for grades 1-5 from The Educator's Reference Desk. See also Recycling.

Recycling Paper
A lesson plan for grades 3-8 from the above source. See also Recycled Paper.

Recycling
A middle-grade or junior high school lesson plan in which students examine ethical and environmental issues related to recycling .

Ecology of the Dump
Three lesson plans.

Microbe Zoo
Discover the many worlds of microbes.

What's in Your Trash Bag?
Recycling ideas and resources for your class. See also Teaching Resources - Waste and Recycling for lesson plans from from the EPA.

Water/Oceans - Click on a Topic: Water Science/Table/Cycle, Water Quality/Pollution, Lakes/Watershed, Rivers, Oceans
Water Science/Water Table/Water Cycle
Water Science for Schools
Activities, pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center from the USGS.

Water Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans
Links to several interesting lesson plans and resources from Geology.com.

Land or Water
A 3rd or 4th-grade lesson plan in which students  participate in a "globe-tossing" activity to determine if land or water covers more area of the Earth's surface .

Water Magic
A primary-grade lesson plan on the water cycle.

Water Table
A lesson plan for grades 3-8.

The Water Cycle
A lesson plan for grades 4-6. See also The Water Cycle for a 2nd to 4th-grade lesson plan.

Around the Water Cycle
A reader's theater activity for the elementary grades.

Water Quality
Water Quality Resources
Links to lesson plans, fact sheets, and other resources. See also Water Quality Theme Page.

H2O University
Lesson plans, experiments, and activities.

Supplying Our Water Needs
An interdisciplinary high school project requiring Internet access.

Contaminated Drinking Water
An elementary lesson plan.

Water Theme
Links to many lesson plans from edHelper.com. See also Oceans Theme.   

Marine Pollution
Links to lesson plans on acid rain, marine pollution/debris, oil spills, and water quality. See also Endangered Oceans Activities.

Marine Debris on the Chesapeake Bay
An intermediategrade lesson plan.

Water Quality For Freshwater Organisms
A lesson plan for grades 8-12. See also SGS Real-Time Water Data for streamflow, water quality, groundwater, and precipitation for all 50 states.

What is in the Water?
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 in which students compare bottled water to that found in a pond habitat.

Operation Water Pollution
Several lesson plans from the Safe Drinking Water Foundation.

Watershed/Lakes
The Watershed Game
An interactive watershed planning game for grades 4-8 from the U of M. You will have to type in your name, but there is no charge or membership requirement.

Watershed Lesson Plan
A lesson plan in pdf format on the Lake Superior Watershed.  If you are doing an integrated unit on Lake Superior, take a look at Fish of the Great Lakes, Minnesota's Historic Shipwrecks, Lights of Lake Superior, and the Great Lakes Information Network.  

Water on the Web
This program from UMD looks really interesting. It is an interactive curriculum designed for advanced high school and college students that uses real lake data to explore basic science concepts through directed study and inquiry. Click on Curricula to access the water science units.

Can We Keep the Lake Clean?
A primary-grade lesson plan from National Geographic's Expeditions.

Freshwater Habitats
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery School.com.

Summer Home
A lesson plan in which students examine ethical and values issues as they examine the environmental impact of building a summer home on a small lake.

Water Basins and Watersheds
A lesson plan for grades 8-12.

Great Lakes for Kids
Lesson plans for grades 4-8. For more information on the Great Lakes, go to The Great Lakes Information Network.  

Paddle to the Sea
An activity from the Gulf of Maine Aquarium using the book Paddle to the Sea by Holling Clancy Holling. Among other things, this activity examines the effect of the Great Lakes on local weather patterns and compares water surface areas of the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Maine.

Rivers
Running Water/Rivers - Life Cycle
A lesson plan in which students learn the parts of a river system and study the cycles involved in gradational activity: life cycle of a river.

Rivers - Lesson Plan for Use Offline
A lesson plan on the importance of the water cycle in the formation of rivers. Click here for a related lesson plan on the sections of a river.

Rivers - Lifelines of the Land
A middle school lesson plan from National Geographic. See also Navigating the Niger for another middle school lesson plan from National Geographic.

USGS Real-Time Water Data
Streamflow, water quality, groundwater, and precipitation for all 50 states.

A River Runs through It
A  project designed for intermediate grade students. Access to a river or stream is necessary. Students will also need access to the Internet and data collection software.

Mississippi River
A lesson plan for grades 2 to 4 on the importance of the Mississippi River. For background information about the Mississippi River, the Mississippi Headwaters Board.  

Wildlife Along the Mississippi River
A lesson plan for grades K-5 from Education World. See also Mississippi River Scavenger Hunt.

Mississippi River
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from the Discovery Channel School. 

Hudson River Lesson Plans
Elementary-grade lesson plans for a variety of subjects.

Friends of the Chicago River
Many lesson plans from ChicagoRiver.org including What Is a River? (grades K-2).

Paddle Down the River
A lesson plan using the book Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling.

Rivers of Destiny
A lesson plan for grades 5-8 examining the Mississippi, Amazon, and Mekong Rivers.

The Nature of Great Rivers
The first of three lesson plans for grades 6-8 from Science NetLinks. The other two lesson plans can be accessed from the above page.

River Drama
A middle-grade lesson plan to help students become familiar with the vocabulary terms found near or on rivers. Go to The Red River and You Teachers Institute for many more lesson plans.

A Watershed Is . . .
A 6thp-grade lesson plans from the above source.

Oceans/Marine
Neptune's Web: Teacher's Realm
Oceanography lesson plans in a variety of disciplines for all grade levels plus ocean trivia, an encyclopedia of oceanography, and more. 

UCLA - SSWIMS Lesson Plans
A huge, alphabetical  list.

The Bridge Ocean Sciences Lesson Collections
Links to collections of lessons dealing with oceans. See also Oceans Theme Page.  

SEA K-12 Lesson Plans
Lesson plans on marine biology, oceanography, nautical science, and marine ecology.

Ocean Explorer Deep East Lesson Plans
Downloadable lesson plans for grades 5-12.

Under the Deep Blue Sea
A high-quality K-2 lesson plan exploring oceans and ocean life  See also Ocean Planet: Fact Sheets.  

Why is the Sea Salty?
A lesson plan for grades 1-3.

NASA Oceanography
Studying oceans from space. Scroll down the page learning resources.  

Contrasts in Blue: Life on the Caribbean Coral Reef and the Rocky Coast of Maine
Three high-quality lesson plans for grades 3-8 from the Smithsonian Institute.  

Operation Reef Rescue
A coral reef WebQuest. See also Coral Reef WebQuest.

Oceans All Over
An elementary lesson plan from Sea World in which students learn the locations and names of the world's oceans. See also Oceans Trailhead for a virtual oceans field trip! 

The Ocean View WebQuest

Treasures @ Sea
Exploring the ocean through literature!

Marine Animals/Fish
Whales Thematic Web Unit
Lesson plans and resources for this on-line unit. Click Table of Contents to find the lesson plans.

Types of Whales
A 1st-grade unit. See also Right Whales and People for another primary-grade lesson plan.

In the Company of Whales
A lesson plan for grades 6-8. For more information on whales, go to The Whale Information Network.  

Whale Facts WebQuest
For grades 4-6.

Whales Unit
A Teacher's Guide with lesson plans for grades 4-8 from Sea World.  

WhaleNet - Teacher Resources
More nformation for teaching about whales. For marine-life photos, take a look at Whale and Dolphin Watch.  

Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses
A Teacher's Guide for grades 4-8. See also the K-3 Teacher's Guide.

Endangered Ocean Life Nonfiction Skills Unit
For grades 3-5.

Shark!
A teacher's guide for grades 4-8. See also the K-3 Teacher's Guide.

Operation Rescue
A coral reef WebQuest. See also Coral Reef WebQuest.

Contrasts in Blue: Life on the Caribbean Coral Reef and the Rocky Coast of Maine
Three lesson plans for grades 3-8 from the Smithsonian Institute.  

Coral Cam Lesson Plans
Fifteen lesson plans on topics related to coral reefs. Most are adaptable to a variety of grade levels.

Seashell Discovery: A lesson in Inductive Classification
A lesson plan for grades 4-8. 

Stop the Zebra Mussel
A data analysis activity for grades 8-12.

Biomes: Freshwater and Seawater
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from DiscoverySchool.com. See also Acquatic Habitats for another middle-grade lesson plan from Discovery School.com.

All About Fish
A 1st-grade lesson plan.

Fun with Fish
An outdoor education lesson plan in which students learn about fish and fishing.

Fishes of Minnesota
This interactive, online quiz is a fun way to learn about fish species.

How Many Fish Are in that Pond?
A high school lesson plan in which students learn about sampling and statistical methods used in estimating wildlife populations.

Salmon Homing Instincts
A lesson plan for grades 3-9 from The Educator's Reference Desk. See also Something Fishy: The Lifecycle of a Salmon.

Pacific Salmon
A primary-grade lesson plan from National Geographic's Expeditions.

Creative Writing: I am a Fish
A lesson plan integrating science and creative writing.

Design a Fish
An activity from the Gulf of Maine Aquarium which requires students to design a fish adapted for a coral reef and another for cold marine environments.

Something Fishy
A lesson plan for grades 4 through 12 examines ocean environments and organism's methods of adapting to survive. For an incredible amount of information on fish, go to Fishbase.

Perch Dissection
A lesson plan in which students dissect a perch, determine its sex, and collect statistical data on perch length.

Fishing Around for the Facts
A high school WebQuest,See also Fish in Your Back Yard for an additional WebQuest.

Identifiying Feshwater Fish Species in South Dakota
A lesson plan for grades 9-12. See also Getting to Know Some of Pennsylvania's Fishes.

Fish in the Web of Life
A lesson plan for grades 5-8 designed to help students understand the diversity, codependence and intricate balance of aquatic ecosystems.

Your Own freshwater Aquarium in the Classroom
A lesson plan for grades 3 and up. 

Fish Information Service (FINS)
An elaborate site providing information for aquarists.

Animals: Mammals (Lesson plans for fish/marine animals are listed above. Scroll past mammals for lesson plans on farm animals,   reptiles/amphibians, birds, dinosaurs, or insects/spiders. For information and resources on zoos and/or specific animals, go to the Zoos and Animals Page, or try Vertebrate Animals Hotlist, or Desk Reference: Zoology.  

Animals
About 40 lesson plans, mostly on mammals and birds.

The Teacher's Guide: Mammals
Lesson plans for many species listed alphabetically.

Rain Forest Animals
A teacher's guide from Newton's Apple.  

Oh Deer!
An intermediate-grade lesson plan on the interdependence between animals and their environment. 

A Change for the Better
Resources and lesson plans on animals, particularly Australian mammals.

Teacher Connections-the Wild Ones
Many animal lesson plans..

Wildlife Lesson Plans
Site contains six elementary and two middle-grade pre-field trip lesson plans.

Wildlife Management Activity Guide for Science Teachers
More than 20 wildlife management high school lesson plans. 

Bats: Thematic Resource
Projects and resources for a variety of subject areas.

Five Bears Lesson: What Do Bears Eat and How Do They Walk?
A kindergarten lesson plan. See also Bears/Hibernation for a Pre-K activity.

Polar Bears
A literature-based 1st-grade lesson plan.  See also Why Polar Bears Are White.

What Bear Goes Where?
A lesson plan in which students construct posters of three different bear habitats. See Bears for many similar activities.

Bears - - Animal Lesson Plan
A high school lesson plan from The Discovery Channel School.

Bison: Their Influence on World Cultures
Interesting site on Bison and the Plains Indians complete with lesson plans.

Big Cats
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.

Dogs
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 in which students learn about characteristics of dogs and dog breeds. See also Breeds of Dogs and Dogs at Work.

The Human Role in Dog Evolution
A high school lesson plan from National Geographic's Xpeditions. See also From Wolf to Woof.    

Endangered Species Theme Page
Links to lesson plans and resources.

ABC of Endangered Species
A lesson plan for grades K-6 from Education World. See also Illustrating Endangered Species.

People and Endangered Species
A lesson plan for grades 3-5. See also Postcards from the Edge: Endangered Species.

Schoolyard Habitats
Activity guides from the National Wildlife Federation. Check out their Home Page.

Animal Categorization
A lesson plan for grades 1-3.    

Animal Classification
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from the Discovery School.  

Animal Reproduction
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from The Educator's Reference Desk.

Animal Round Game
A 5th-grade lesson plan in which students play a game to help them understand animal characteristics.

Farm Animals
Farm Animal Sounds: Pen Pals
A kindergarten lesson plan emphasizing animal sounds, listening, and movement.

On the Farm or in the Zoo?
An elementary lesson plan in which students categorize animals into two groups, farm animals and zoo animals.

Animal Babies on the Farm
A kindergarten or primary-grade lesson plan in which children learn the names of farm animals and match them to their offspring's names.

Names of Farm Animals and Sounds They Make
A K-2 lesson plan.  

From Farm to Table
A 3-week 2nd-grade unit.

Farm Animal Immigrants
A 5th-grade lesson plan in which students will identify a rare or endangered farm animal, locate its country of origin on a world map, and determine why it was an imported.

Farm Animals/Farm Life.
Many resources, activities, and lesson plans.

Pigs    
A mini-unit for grades 1-2.

Cows and Chickens Problem
A primary-grade lesson involving problem solving.

The Story of Milk
A lesson plan for elementary or middle school.

Reptiles and Amphibians
Reviled and Revered
Reptiles and amphibians from the Smithsonian Institution. Scroll down the page for 5 lesson plans and resources.  Take a look at the TIGR Reptile Data Base for information about snakes and other reptiles.

Reptiles Alive
Lesson plans, crafts, and more.

Reptile Adaptation
A K-5 lesson plan from Discovery Education.

All About Reptiles
An elementary lesson plan.

Herp Care Collection
Advice for keeping a reptile in your home or classroom.

Characteristics of Snakes and Turtles
A lesson plan for grades 1-4.

Painted Turtle
Activities and ideas from Wolf Ridge.

Are All Turtles Alike?
A lesson plan fro grades 4-6.

Quick Color Wonder Turtle
An activity from Crayola.

Can Research Save the Leatherback Turtle?
A middle school lesson plan from National Geographic. See also Lesson Plans for Sea Turtles, Sea Turtles Underwater, and Turtle Hurdles.

A Thousand Friends of Frogs
A good source of basic frog information. Click here for their teachers page.

Frogs: A Thematic Unit Plan
A 2nd-grade unit. See also Jumping into Frogs and Toads.

Frog and Toad: A Lost Button
An interdisciplinary 2nd-grade lesson plan. It uses the popular children's book, Frog and Toad are Friends.

Frog Alert! Frog Alert!
A K-2 lesson plan from National Geographic.

Survival of the Mutant Toad
A lesson plan for grades 3-6 in which students learn about camouflage and how it is essential for certain animals' survival.

The Metamorphosis of Frogs
A lesson plan for grades 3-4. Click here for an excellent resource on amphibians.

Frogs: fact and Folklore
A middle school lesson plan from Discovery Education.

Our Friend the Frog
A WebQuest for grades 2-4.. See also Frogs and Toads WebQuest.

How Far Can a Frog Jump?
A 4th-grade lesson plan introducing the metric system by simulating a jumping frog contest like that described in Mark Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." It may provide an interesting way to integrate science, math, and literature.

The Frog Squad: Atrazine and Frog Populations
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 in which students learn about frogs' developmental changes as they relate to chemical contamination of water.

Case of the Disappearing Frogs
An intermediate-grade lesson plan on the lifecycle of frogs. This is one lesson plan from the Oregon Coast Aquarium's page titled Adventures Online, which has other lesson plans and online activities related to the declining amphibians mystery. For more information about declining amphibian populations, see Worldwide Amphibian Declines.

Virtual Frog Dissection
A 7th-grade lesson plan. See also Frog Dissection.

Birds ( For sites with information, photos, sound recordings, and field guides, click here)
Raptor Center
Great site from the Minnesota Raptor Center. See their many Lesson Plans for Teachers.

Birds by Inquiry
A kindergarten lesson plan from Learn NC.

Virtual Birding
Twelve excellent bird-related lesson plans for grades 3-6. For a good source for bird information and pictures, click here.  

Birds through the Seasons
A 2nd-grade unit from Core Knowledge.

Birds WebQuest
See also Have You Heard that Bird?

Earth's Heavenly Treasures: Hummingbirds
A lesson plan for grades 2-4.

Watch the Birdie
A 6-week unit for grades 5-6 in which students develop language arts skills while studying North American birds.

Migratory Bird Project
A lesson plan for grades 4-7. See also  Wetlands/Migration.

Birds
A high school lesson plan from DiscoverySchool.com. See also Creatures of the Skies for a middle school lesson plan from this same source.

Birding Basics
A lesson plan for grade 4 from the Wisconsin DNR. See also Avian Adaptations and Wisconsin Birds for other lesson plans from this source.

No Water Off A Duck's Back
A lesson plan designed to help students understand the impact of an oil spill on a wetland and its winged inhabitant

Make Way for the Ducklings
A lesson plan for grades 1-3 for this classic book by Robert McCloskey.

Mr. Popper's Penguins
A lesson plan on the concept of credit using this book by Richard and Florence Atwater. See also Demonstrating Comprehension through Journal Writing for another lesson plan using this book.

Tacky the Penguin
This primary-grade lesson plan titled "What Makes Us Different?" uses Helen Lester's Tacky the Penguin to explore individual differences.

Penguins Around the World
Three elementary lesson plans. See also A to Z Themes - Winter for penguin books as well as many ideas for thematic units on winter and winter-related topics and Icebergs and Penguins for a middle-grade lesson plan.

Dinosaurs (Scroll down past the lessons for links to sites with dinosaur information, pictures, and a dinosaur dictionary)

Mini-Unit Topic: Dinosaurs
An integrative unit for grades K-1.  See also Dinotopia, the official Jim Gurney Dinotopia site. Use the pull-down menu on the right to access the Teacher's Resource Page. For many other dinosaur links, click here.  

Discovering Dinosaurs
A K-5 lesson plan from the DiscoverySchool.com.

Dinosaur WebQuest
For grade two. See also Digging for Dinosaurs.    

Prehistoric Creatures and Fossils
Lesson plans from the EMuseum. Scroll past the fossils lessons to get to dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs: Meat-Asaurus or Vegie-Asaurus?
An activity for grades 3-5 using The Magic School Bus: The Busasaurus.

Dino Park USA!
Activities for middle-grade students that involve learning about dinosaurs, designing "Dino Park USA," and drawing a billboard for the park.

Geology & Paleontology Activities
From the National Park Service. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for lesson plans in pdf format.

Dinosaur Detective
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.

Dinosauria On-line
Check out the omnipedia and picture gallery.

Dinosaurs
A good source for basic dinosaur information.

Zoom Dinosaurs
An on-line book with fact sheets, printouts, lists of dinosaurs, a dino dictionary, and more.

Dinosaur Illustrations
Excellent site for locating illustrations of many species of dinosaurs.

Insects (general/lesson collections/lifecycle/characteristics, bees, butterflies, insect information and pictures)

Entomology on the World Wide Web
Links to a large number of lesson plans and resources for teaching and learning about insects.

Insectlopedia Lesson Plans
A huge collection of insect lesson plans.

What's Bugging You?
Ideas for lesson plans and activities from Education World.

Using Live Insects in Elementary Classrooms
An entire K-3 curriculum with 20 lesson plans from The University of Arizona Center for Insect Science.  

Insect Models
An Internet-based K-2 lesson plan.

Crickets in the Classroom Page
A unit involving the use of crickets to teach skills of observation and measurement. The page also provides information on crickets and sources for obtaining them. See also Insects: Observing a Cricket for a K-3 lesson plan.

Insect Study
An introductory lesson plan suitable for grades K-4. See also Insect Study for Grades 5-8.

Insect Mania
An elaborate 2nd-grade unit from Core Knowledge. See also Investigating Insects for another 2nd-grade unit.

Ant Wars!
A middle-grade social insects laboratory exercise.

Life in a Pine Cone
Another middle-grade activity.

The Insect World
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from DiscoverySchool.com.   

What is It?
Identify a mystery bug and send your answer by email to the University of Kentucky Entomology for Kids.

Insect Anatomy
A discovery-based lesson plan for grades 6-9.

Insects of the World
A WebQuest complete with an evaluation rubric. See also An Insect's Perspective.

Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination
Three lesson plans for grades 3-8 from the Smithsonian Institute.

Africanized Honey Bees
Sets of lesson plans about bees for all grade levels.

Honey Bees and Pollination
A lesson plan for grades 4-6.

Solitary and Social Bees
Another lesson plan for grades 4-6.

Bees
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from DiscoverySchool.com.

Bee Unit Study
Information and activities for a primary-grade unit.

The Buzz About Bees
A WebQuest on honey bees.

Butterfly Website: Butterflies in Education
Scroll down the page to see how schools are incorporating butterflies into the curriculum. Click on photo gallery to see some awesome pictures.

Butterfly Unit: The Life Cycles of Butterflies
A K-2 Unit.

Monarch Butterflies
Eight days of primary-grade activities. See also Monarch Quest.

Butterfly Cycle
A 2nd-grade art lesson plan that uses Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies
An interdisciplinary unit for grades 1-2.

Life Cycle of Butterflies
A literacy-based lesson plan in which students use the Internet, read a story, and write an informative essay while learning about similarities and differences between butterflies and moths.

Love Those Lepidopterans!
A 2nd-grade WebQuest on butterflies and moths. See also Butterfly WebQuest.

A Butterfly's Home
A lesson plan for grades K-2 on creating a butterfly garden.

Symmetry in Butterflies
Kindergarten and PreK activities from the MN Science Museum.

Yuckiest Site on the Internet
Bugs, worms, even roaches!

Insectlopedia
Another terrific source for insect information.

Entemology on the WWW
Didn't find what you were looking for at the above two sites? This site has links to over 6000 entomological sites!

Orkin Insect Safari
Pest library, games and coloring, as well as lesson plans.

Bug Bios
An extensive website with great pictures, educational resources, and information on the important role insects play in human culture.

Iowa State University Entomology Image Gallery
More great insect pictures!

Spiders (For links to excellent sites for spider pictures and information, click here)
Entertaining Insects and Spunky Spiders
A 3rd-grade lesson plan focusing on the differences between insects and spiders.

Now We Know Spiders
A lesson plan from a unit on spiders using the book Anansi the Spider by G. McDermott. Click here to see the entire unit.

Spider Webs
A 2nd-grade lesson plan. See also Spider Body Parts.

Under the Spell of . . . Spiders
A lesson plan fro grades 3-8 from Smithsonian Education.

Spiders, Spiders Everywhere
A WebQuest. See Spider WebQuest.

Arachnids
Links to several lessons and units from ProTeacher.

Physiology/Anatomy/Senses (For links to physiology/anatomy resource sites with information and pictures, click here
The Five Senses
A lesson plan using My Five Senses by Aliki.

Senses
a 1st-grade unit.

My Five Senses
A WebQuest for grades K-2. See also Five Senses WebQuest (kindergarten).

Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World
Great resource for information on the senses. See also Come to Your Senses.  

Virtual Cow Eye’s Dissection
Almost as good as the real thing! It could be used as a high school level pre-lab or an alternative to an actual dissection.

Hearing
Twelve lesson plans for grades K-8. Also, see the Virtual Tour of the Ear.  

Understanding Sound
A lesson plan for grades 4-5.

The Science of Sound
A second-grade unit. Click on Teacher's Notes for the lesson plans.

Good Senses
A middle school lesson plan from The Discovery Channel School. See also Sight and Sound.

Sound: Ideas for Interdisciplinary Lessons
Ideas for integrating science and music from the Virtual Museum of Musical Instruments. See also How to Build  Your Own Musical Instrument.

Inner Learning Online
Human anatomy online. The site also includes materials for learning about automobiles!

Cells Alive!
See images of cells

Visible Human Body
A guided tour!

Body Systems
An elementary-grade lesson plan from Discovery Education.

Bone Transformations
An activity for grades 3-4 integrating art and science.

Building a Baby
Lesson plans from the The Discovery Channel School.

Body Systems Unit
An 8th-grade unit. 

The Human Body Systems
An upper-elementary unit.

Human Physiology - Systems of the Body
A middle-grade unit that teaches about body systems through movement activities.

Anatomy and Physiology WebQuest
See also Body Systems WebQuest.

The Human Skeleton
A constructivist lesson plan for grades 4-6.

Give Me a Break
An elementary-grade lesson plan in which students develop a survey and collect data on broken bones.

The Musculoskeletal System
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery Education.

The Heart: An On-Line Exploration
Heart and circulatory system, complete with sound effects. See also Muscles in Motion.

How Does Your Heart Rate?
A lesson plan for grades 2-4 in which students measure and record their heart rates.

Here's to Your Healthy Heart
A middle-grade lesson plan from Discovery Education.

The Heart
A high school lesson plan.

An Insight Into the Hormones of Life
A middle-grade unit on hormones.

Watch The Brain Learn
A lesson plan for grades K-3.

Brain Power
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 in which students learn about the human brain and memory functions. See also Brain Watching for a high school lesson plan.

Neuroscience for Kids
Incredible on-line information about the human nervous system. Go to Brain Awareness Week Lessons for several lesson plans on the brain and nervous system, including one titled, Anatomy of the Brain.

Earth Science/Geology
Earth Science Lesson Plans
About 10 lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk. See also Geology Lesson Plans.

Glacier National Park Electronic Field Trip
Field trip with audio and accompanying lesson plans.

Lesson Plans on Rocks and Minerals
Several lesson plans from Rocks and Minerals 4U. See also Rocks and Minerals from the Franklin Institute for a mineral gallery and information about rocks and minerals.

Rocks and Minerals
A 4th-grade unit.

Fossils and Rocks
A 4th-grade lesson plan.

Rocks
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from the Discovery School. Click here for a 4th-grade lesson plan on rocks.

Minerals, Crystals, and Gems
Three lesson plans for grades 3-8 from the Smithsonian.

Mineral Identification Lab
A lesson plan for grades 6-12.

Visualizing Earth Lesson Plans
Great site for many geology and earth science lesson plans (plate tectonics, earth quakes, etc.).

Sandwich Squash: How the Himalayas Were Formed
A lesson plan in which students create and record a model of mountain formation as well  as identify major mountain building formations around the world. See Tectonic Plate Motion, an excellent resource.

Exploring Caves
An interdisciplinary set of materials from the USGS on caves for grades K-3. 

Virtual Geology Field Trips

The World's Biomes
This is a really good site with information about and pictures of the world's five basic biomes: aquatic, deserts, forests, grass lands, and tundra.

Discovery of the Earth's Biomes
A lesson plan for grades 4-6 from The Educator's Reference Desk. See also Biomes: Characteristic Plant and Animal Life.

Biome: Mountains
Another lesson plan for grades 7-12 from the Educator's reference Desk. See also Biome: Deserts, Biome: Rainforests, and Biome: Wetlands.   

Biome WebQuest
See also The World Biomes Webquest.

Glacier Climbing
A lesson plan from Newton's Apple.

Deserts
A 6th-grade unit with nine lesson plans. See also  Biome: Deserts.

Structure of the Earth
A grade 4 unit with 6 lesson plans.

Volcano World
Volcanos on-line! See their links to Volcano Lesson Plans.

Volcanoes!
Teacher's Guide and 6 lesson plans for grades 4-8.

Volcano WebQuest
See also Volcanoes!

Fossils
Learning From the Fossil Record
A large collection of lesson plans.

Fossils
A lesson plan for grades 1-2. See also Fossils with Play-Dough for a grades 3-5 lesson plan.

A History of the Earth: Digging Up the Past
A grade 4 unit.

Fossils and Rocks
A 4th-grade lesson plan.

Fossils and Migration Patterns in Early Hominids
A lesson plan for grades 7-12.

Studying Fossils
A lesson plan for grades 7-12.

Who's on First? A Relative Dating Activity
A secondary unit involving a sequencing activity using fossil pictures printed on "rock layer" cards.

Fossils
An 3rd-grade WebQuest. See also Fossil Hunter WebQuest.    

Weather
The Weather Channel
Forecasts, radar, information on climate, etc. See also The Weather Channel Storm Encyclopedia.  

Meteorology  
About 30 lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk.

Weather Eye
Weather lesson plans for elementary and secondary levels.

Interdisciplinary Connections for Air and Weather
Weather lesson ideas and information for virtually any subject. See also Instructional Materials in Weather and Climate.

Charting the Weather
An elementary lesson plan in which students gather data from temperature and water gauges set up on the playground to learn about weather patterns. See also Charting the Weather for a lesson plan requiring students to use the Internet to research weather conditions in the United States and abroad.

Collecting Weather Data
A 7th-grade lesson plan. See also Predicting the Weather.

Wonders of Weather Performance Task
An interdisciplinary 5th-grade lesson plan correlated to the national standards. It includes a scoring guide and results of students' work.

Weather Forecasting
A lesson plan for grades 2-6. See also Weather Forecasting for a middle-grade lesson.

Weather
A 3rd-grade unit with 10 lessons.

What is Wind?
Three elementary lesson plans on wind. See also The Wind Blows.

Why the Sky is Blue
A demonstration for students of all ages designed to show how the atmosphere affects sunlight to create the sky colors we see.

Weather/Clouds
An elementary lesson plan.

Clouds
A lesson plan for grades 4-6. See also Cloud Types and Clouds, Clouds, Clouds!

Humidity, Condensation, and Clouds
A lab activity on clouds.

Stormy Weather
 A lesson plan for grades 6-8 exploring the causes of lightning. See also Lightning! Classroom Activity,  Watch the Sky for Lightning and  Lightning Safety.

Rainbow
A kindergarten lesson plan in which students learn the colors of the rainbow.

Spring Is Here
A K-4 lesson plan from Scholastic using Mary Packard's book.

Global Warming
A unit for grades 7-12 in which students study global climate changes, discuss and debate the current arguments for and against global warming and the Greenhouse Effect, investigate the possibility of global warming and the Greenhouse Effect, and present their findings in the form of research reports.

Acid Rain Lesson Plan
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from the National Park Service.

Sun and Solar Science
A collection of multi-disciplinary activities.

El Nino Effect Using the Internet
A lesson plan for grade 4.

El Nino and La Nina Resource Center

The Tornado Project Online
Great site for accessing information about tornados.

Tornado!
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 From The Discovery Channel School. See also Tracking Tornadoes and Tornadoes.

Online Guide to Meteorology
A a collection of web-based instructional modules appropriate for high school students.

Disasters (Click here for links to resource sites with information on disasters and catastrophes)    
Natural Disasters
A 4th or 5th-grade unit.   

Hurricane!
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from DiscoverySchool.com See also Understanding Hurricanes and Hurricanes Theme Page.

Surfing for Earthquakes and Volcanoes
A brief unit for grades 6-8.

Landslides
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.

Avalanche!
A lesson plan for grade 6-8.

The Impact of Natural Disasters Around the World
A Internet-based middle-grade lesson plan. See also Natural Disasters Theme Page.

A Study of Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
An Internet-based junior high school lesson plan. For other  lesson plans, see Earthquakes: Learn from the Past, Prepare for the Future and The Three Little Pigs in Earthquake Land.

A Model of Three Faults
An activity from the USGS.

Earthquakes: causes and effects
A 6th-grade lesson plan from Learn NC.

Monster Waves
A lesson plan in which students build a tabletop village and use it to visualize the relative height and affects of tsunamis. See also Ocean Tsunami or Fjord Tsunami? and Tsunami Lesson Plans for grade 9-12.

Natural Catastrophic Phenomena
A teacher's guide.

Physical Science ( Including Collections of Physical Science Lessons, Atoms/Molecules, States of Matter, Gravity, Force and Motion, Light, Magnets, Electricity, and Heat)

Collections of Physical Science Lessons
Physical Science Activities
An extensive alphabetical list of middle-grade physical science activities from the Physics Education at the University of Virginia.

Physical Science
Lesson plans on a variety of physical science topics from The Educator's Reference Desk.

DiscoverySchool.com Physical Science Lesson Plans
More than 60 lesson plans organized by grade level.

ProTeacher Physical Science
Elementary-grade lesson plans.

Girls RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering)
High interest activities for middle grade physical sciences.

Atoms and Molecules
Molecules and Temperature
A lesson plan for the primary grades.

Diffusion of Molecules
A lesson plan for grades 3-4 on molecular movement.

Edible Atom
A lesson plan for grades 4-6 in which students to choose an element from the periodic table and design the atom complete with protons, neutrons, and electrons. See also Atomic Structure and Subatomic Particles for an excellent elementary-level resource.

Making Models: The Atom
An activity-based lesson plan for grades 4-6. For an excellent introduction to atoms, see All About Atoms.  

Building Blocks of Matter
A middle-grade lesson plan.

Building Molecules from Atoms
A teacher's guide and lessons using constructivism designed for the elementary and middle grades. Go to the site map to view the whole curriculum.

The Reason for the Atom and the Design of the Periodic Table of Elements
A 9th-grades lesson plan. See also Periodic Table Bingo and Periodic Table Adventure.

Atomic Theory
An Internet-based lesson plan. See also Atomic Models and Spectra.

Matter/States of Matter
Is Air Something?
A 3rd-grade unit. See also Gases Lighter and Heavier than Air.

States of Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
A K-3 lesson plan.

States of Matter
A 3rd-grade lesson plan. Click here for a nice resource on states of matter. See also States of Matter Lesson Plans.

States of Matter
Another elementary lesson plan. See also The Three States of Matter.

Density and Will It Sink or Float
A 4th-grade lesson plan.

Density Lesson Plan
A Internet-based lesson plan introducing the concept of density. See also Comparing Densities of Different Liquids.

Gravity
Gravitational Force
An Internet-based lesson plan.

Gravity Gets You Down
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.

What Goes Up
A 5th/6th-grade lesson plan in which students observe the principles of gravity and extend their understanding of the concept.

It's Gravity
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 to develop students’ understanding of gravity and its critical role as the main mover of the universe.

Newton's Theory of Universal Gravitation
A high school lesson plan.

Force and Motion
Motion
A 1st-grade unit from Saskatchewan Learning.

Motion
A 1st-grade lesson plan integrating science and language arts.

Newton's Third Law Of Motion
A lesson plan for grades 4-6.

Force and Motion
A 7th-grade core unit from Saskatchewan Learning.

Forces and Motion
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from the DiscoverySchool.com.

Motion in a Circle
A high school lesson plan on Newtonian mechanics and space flight.

Projectile Motion
A high school lesson plan..

Forces
A 9th-grade lesson plan. See also Force and Motion Theme Page.

Light
Shadows and Light
Many lesson plans from A to Z Teacher Stuff.

Light
A lesson plan for grades K-4 introducing concepts related to light.

Light - Reflection - Illusion
An elementary lesson plan on the law of reflection. See also Reflections Of for another elementary-grade lesson plan.

I "Light" What I See
A 3rd-grade unit. See also Seeing Is (Sometimes) Believing.

Reflections with Mirrors
A high school lesson plan. See also Plane Mirror Images.

The Color of Light
A lesson plan for grades 4-6.    

How Far Does Light Go?
A middle-grade or high school debate project which engages students in an examination of the scientific properties of light by engaging them with relevant evidence from the Web.

Making Light of Science
A middle-grade lesson plan from Science NetLinks. See also The Lighter Side of Color and All Those Seeing Color Say Eye for other middle school lessons.

Magnets
Making a Magnet
A 2nd-grade lesson plan. See also What Magnets Attract for another 2nd-grade lesson plan.

Magnets: Fields of  Force
A 2nd-grade unit.

Amazing Magnets!
Another 2nd-grade unit. This one uses experiments which explore magnetic force and compass use.

Magnets
One more 2nd-grade unit!

May the Force Be With You
Still another 2nd-grade unit on magnets and magnetism.

Magnetic Pick-ups
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Science NetLinks. See also Magnets 2: How Strong Is Your Magnet?

The Magical World of Magnetism
Activities and a lesson plan for grade 5.

Magnetism
A lesson plan for high school students from Discovery School.com.

Magnetic Fields and Bermuda Triangles
An activity for grades 8-12. See also the first two sites under electricity.

Electricity
Electricity and Magentism
Links to many lesson plans and resources.

Introduction to Electricity
A primary-grade lesson plan from the Educator's Reference Desk.

Electric and Magnetic Fields
A high school lesson plan.

Current Electricity - AC/DC
An intermediate-grade lesson plan from the Educator's Reference Desk.

Introduction to Elementary Circuits
An elementary lesson plan on basic circuits.  See also Making an Electrical Circuit for a 4th-grade lesson plan.

Brown Bag Science
A discovery-based elementary lesson plan on electrical circuits.

Using Electricity
A ninth-grade unit.

Static Electricity
A lesson plan for grades 4. Click here for an excellent resource on static electricity.

Electricity, Static, and Current
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 featuring a demonstration and group activities. See also Learning About Static Electricity for another lesson plan.

Understand the Science of Electricity
A lesson plan fro grades 5/6 focusing on electrical safety.   

Teaching Some Basic Concepts of Electricity
A middle school unit complete with handouts.

Heat
Matter and Heat
A lesson plan for grades 1-3.

Heating and Cooling
A 3rd-grade unit.

Centigrade and Fahrenheit: What's the Difference?
A multi-level, cooperative learning lesson plan for fifth-grade science/math.

Heat
A 5th-grade core unit from Saskatchewan Learning.

Passing The Heat Along
A lesson plan on heat conduction for grades 5-6.

Thermometers
An 8th-grade lesson plan.

Energy
Alliance to Save Energy
Many downloadable activity-based energy lesson plans.

How Much Energy Do You Use?
A lesson plan for grades 3-6 from the above source.

Energy Sources
Another intermediate-grade  lesson plan from the above source on the various forms of energy.

Energy Quest
Energy education site sponsored by the state of California.

Forms of Energy
A grade 4 Core Unit from Saskatchewan Education. Click here to access the entire Elementary Science Curriculum Guide.

Energy for You
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Science NetLinks.

Energy in Our Lives
A middle-grade model unit developed by Saskatchewan Education. Click here for the entire Middle Grade Science Curriculum Guide

Be "Sun"-sible About Heating Water
An elementary lesson plan on solar heating.

We've Got Power
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 in which students learn about different methods of power production.

Energy
A high school lesson plan in which students learn about the concept of energy, energy conservation, the units of energy, and the special nature of heat as the "soft currency" of the energy world. Click here for supplementary material for this lesson.

Solar Lesson Plan
An Internet-based secondary lesson plan on solar energy, global warming, and measuring solar radiation.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Teacher's Lesson Plans
Instructional units and classroom activities on nuclear energy.

Energy And The City Person
An 8th-grade unit.

Energy: The U.S. In Crisis?
A high school lesson plan from Science NetLinks.

An Investigation of Energy
A WebQuest for grades 4-6. See also EnergyQuest: A WebQuest for Grades 6 and Up.    
 
Simple Machines
Simple Machines
Links to many lesson plans, units, and resources.

Simple Machines
A series of experiments for grades 3-5.

Simple Machines
A 3rd-grade core unit.

System 1: Simple Machines
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Science NetLinks. See also Systems 2: Up, Up, and Away!

Simple Machines
A lesson plan for grades 3-4.

Machines and Work
A 5th-grade core unit.

The Official Rube Goldberg Website
Information, biography, gallery, and machine contest. See also Simple Machines Learning Site.

It's So Simple!
Lesson plan introducing simple machines.

Roto-Copter
Build one out of paper with your elementary class.

Gadget Anatomy
This site allows students to analyze a tool to see what simple machines are a part of it. Click on Sketching Gadget Anatomy for a related classroom activity.

Physics ( For an online physics dictionary, click here)
Physics.org
A searchable data base of physics resources!

Physics Lesson Plans
A large collection of lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk.

Physics and Astronomy Lesson plans
A long list organized by topic from Rutgers University. See also Links to Physics and Astronomy Lesson Plans.

Practical Physics Lessons
Another long list of high school physics lesson plans.

The Science Spot: Physics Lesson Plans
A few lesson plans complete with worksheets.

Instructional Materials in Physics
A collection of "Theme Pages" which focus on specific topics within physics.

Web Physics
A network of resources for introductory physics teaching.

The Physics Classroom
High school physics lessons and resources. See also The Physics Classroom.

Physics Lesson Plan Menu
Lesson plans developed at the Columbia University Summer Research Program for Science Teachers.

GirlTECH Lesson Plans
Interesting physics/science lesson plans, most of which use constructivism .

NetScience Physics
High school physics lesson plans organized by topic.

Teachers First Physics
High school physics resources. 

SMILE Program Physics Index
A long list of lessons divided into the following categories: Matter, Mechanics, Fluids, Electricity & Magnetism, Waves, Sound and Optics, and Miscellaneous.

Physics: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
A high school lesson plan.

AP Physics
From Pearson Prentice Hall. See also Atomic Physics.

Frisbee Physics
Background information and activities for understanding the physics of frisbees.

Amusement Park Physics
Information and an online activity exploring the physics of amusement park rides! See also Roller Coaster Project Page and Roller Coaster Physics WebQuest.

Aviation/Aeronautics (Scroll  past the lesson plans for sites with aviation information, pictures, and history)
Mn DOT Aviation Education
Aviation education classroom presentations and curricula.

The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
An excellent site with many resources and lesson plans.

How Things Fly: Activities for Teaching Flight
Three lesson plans from the Smithsonian Institute.

Propeller Experiments Four and Five
Two experiments from NASA.

The History of Flight and Some Mathematical Application
A high school unit primarily designed for math, but parts of it also seem appropriate for science.

Rockets
A teacher's guide and 12 activities from NASA. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to access the activities.

Ellen Ochoa
A unit for grades 4-5 on this first Hispanic woman ever to be accepted into the NASA space shuttle program.

Roto-Copter
Build one out of paper with your elementary class.

Paper Airplanes and More
Everything you wanted to know about paper airplanes.

Build the Best Paper Airplane in the World
You be the judge, but that's what the site is called!

Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics
An excellent site with information on how airplanes fly, why wings change shape on takeoff and landing, and propulsion systems.

See How It Flies
A complete and understandable online aeronautics text!

How Airplanes Work
An excellent, well illustrated article from How Stuff Works. It not only answers the basic question of how airplanes fly, but also describes the function of wings and the other parts of an airplane.

How Does a Jet Engine Work?
The basics on jet propulsion from NASA's Ultra Efficeint Engine Technologyn Kid's Site. See their lesson plans.

Looking for Wright Brothers Lessons?
Five lessons for teaching about the Wright brothers from Education World.

Stories of the Wright's Flights
A lesson plan from Smithsonian Education. See also Wright Brothers National Memorial: Site of First Controlled Flight.

Values and Attitudes  
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 in which students learn that the Wright brothers were only able progress when they ignored accepted beliefs about flight and began to test the theories for themselves. See also Wright Brothers Project 2 .  

History of Flight Timeline
A lesson plan for grades 3-6. See also AIAA Students and Educators.

National Air and Space Museum
From the Smithsonian Institution.

Aviation Museums
An alphabetical list of links to aviation museums.

Airliners.net
Photos of over 50,000 aircraft!

Chemistry (For sites providing chemistry homework help, click here)
Chemistry Lesson Plans
About 15 lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk.

SMILE Program Chemistry Lesson Plans
Nearly 200 lesson plans!

Chemistry Lesson Plans
Another long list.

The Science Spot Chemistry Lesson Plans   
Still more.

Chemistry in the Kitchen
An elementary-grade lesson plan.

Chemical Changes
A middle-grade lesson plan in which students compare different types of chemical changes.  

Periodicity (The Periodic Table).
A high school lesson plan. See also The Periodic Table Adventure and Periodic Table Bingo.

The Reason for the Atom and the Design of the Periodic Table of Elements
A 9th-grades lesson plan.

Supernova Chemistry Lesson Plan
A high school lesson plan in which students observe visible spectra of known elements and identify an unknown element or combination of elements by visible spectra.

Acids and Bases
A high school lesson plan. See also Determining Acids and Bases.

Chemistry WebQuest: Atomic Theory Time-Travel Mission
See also Nuclear Chemistry WebQuest.

Household Chemistry
A teacher's guide to help you use common items found at home in chemistry experiments.

Bubbles
I'm not sure if all this stuff is chemistry-related, but this site offers everything you need to teach and learn about bubbles.

Science History
Science History Lesson Plans
Two lesson plans for the elementary and middle grades from The Educator's Reference Desk.

History of Science: Astronauts
A lesson plan complete with a worksheet.

Isaac Newton
A high school lesson plan on Newton and his contributions to science.

The Scientific Revolution
A lesson plan designed to introduce students to important participants in the European scientific revolution.

Evolution
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 in which learn about Darwin, his theory of evolution, and some of the controversies related to it.

Darwin's Evolution
A high school lesson plan in which students learn about Charles Darwin. See also Darwin Day and Evolution Wing: Theory and History.  

Origin of the Species vs. Zoological Philosophy
A middle or junior high school lesson plan in which students debate the theories of Darwin and Lamarck.

Scopes Trial Activity
A lesson plan in which students learn about the Scopes Trial and how it impacts academic freedom today. Scroll down the page to access the Evolution/Creation Pre and Post-Essay Activity . For other lesson plans on this topic, see Beyond the Scope (an Internet-based lesson plan for grades 9-12 on this famous trial) and Whose 'Truth' Is Out There? (a lesson plan for grades 6-12 which examines the historic significance of the Scopes trial and its application to the "evolution versus creation" debate in education today). For background information, see The Antievolution Crusade of the 1920s, Clash of Cultures: The Scopes Trial, Tennessee vs. John Scopes: The Monkey Trial, and The 'Intelligent Design' Debate.

The Manhattan Project
A high school lesson plan about the the process and ethics involved in the creation of the atomic bombs that ended WWII. See also The Manhattan Project for another high school lesson plan.

Scientists WebQuest
see also Women in Science.

African Americans in Science
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Science NetLinks.

Science History WebQuest
Students research one of ten significant discoveries in the history of science and technology.

Science History 101 Quiz
A difficult quiz (at least for me!) complete with answers.

History of Physics
Links to many sites related to physics history.

Chemistry Teaching Resources: The History of Chemistry

History of Chemistry, History of Science, and Scientific Biographies
Many links to sites of interest including some pertaining to women in science.

History of Biology Web Pages

History of Biology
Links to biographies of famous biologists.

Inventors/Inventions/Science Projects
Inventors and Inventions Theme Page
Information and lesson plans.

Inventions 1: Edison and the Light
A K-2 lesson plan from Science NetLinks. See also Inventions 2: The Impact.

Inventors and Innovators
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Science NetLinks.

Inventors of the Industrial Revolution
Lesson ideas from Teachers First.

Young Inventors
Resources and links.

The Ultimate Science Fair Resource
See also Your Science Fair Project Resource Guide.  

All Science Fair Projects
Hundreds of science fair projects.

Science Fair Idea Exchange
An archive of ideas. See also Science Fair Idea Exchange: Biology, Chemistry, Physics.   

Science Fairs
Links to more sites with ideas for and information about science projects.