Science Lesson Plans

Science Lesson Plans on WWW
This is a good site for: Weather Units •Basic Clouds •Natural Science •ENC: Science/Math •SD Lesson Plans •ElemScience Magazine •IonScience Magazine •SAMI-Lesson Plans •Mini-Lessons •Explorer •Science of Rainbows.

Earth Science Lesson Plans
Space Planets, the Earth, and Weather Seasons are the three topics covered at this site.

Physics Lesson Plans USCD
Optics, gravity, pressure, inertia, centri force, and vibrations are areas of interest.

Biology Lesson Plans USCD
Cells, physiology, plants, and miscellaneous biology ideas are at this USCD lesson plan site.

Science Websites Organized by subjects

Newton's Apple Science Lesson Plans
Newton's Apple is an award-winning national science program for kids and adults produced by KTCA-TV in the Twin Cities and sponsored by 3M. Pick a lesson from the teachers' guides developed for seasons 9 through 13. They are designed to accompany the television show and are also a rich stand-alone resource.

Galileo Science Lesson Plans
Galileo is a collection of scores of science lesson plans for k-12 science teachers for classroom use. This is a huge site with a good index identifying the grade level.

Natural Science Lesson Plan (Adobe Acrobat format)
The Explorer Natural Science is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans ...) for K-12 science education. Browse through the science education curricula (they plan to expand to other curricula) or conduct searches that focus on specific interests. Many resources are available in the Adobe Acrobat format that is readable by Macintosh, Windows and other OSs. The Explorer is being developed jointly by the Great Lakes Collaborative and the University of Kansas UNITE group to involve educators and students in creating and using multimedia resources for active learning and "on time" delivery. Note: Adobe Acrobat is free and easily downloaded.

Wildlife Migration Lesson Plans
Track Wildlife Migration and Spring's Journey North at this Gopher lesson plan site. Journey North, an Internet-based learning adventure will engage your students in a global study of wildlife migration.

Wolf Study Lesson Plans
This is a gopher based lesson plan site. The Science Museum of Minnesota provides good resources for the study of timber wolves. If you want anything about wolves, this is probably the best site you will find.

Hall of Science (all sciences, many links)
Texas Educational Network (TENET) has a monster collection of science lesson plans from archeology to zoology. This is a definite bookmark for the science teacher. There is so much here, your warranty on your computer would run out before you finish exploring this site!

Whelmers Science Activities
Whelmers are a tool to be used by a classroom teacher to engage students; to draw their attention from the incredibly busy and hurried lifestyle we all experience. According to the author, Whelmers should not be a substitute for a comprehensive science program, but an integral part of one.

New Lesson Science Lesson Plans
The is the ERIC gopher collection of science lesson plans.

Astronomy Lesson Plans
This is a six week curriculum unit for intermediate elementary students.

Technology 'Nformation for Teachers (T'NT) Lesson Plans
The T'NT lesson plan database currently contains over 200 lesson plans. Each lesson plan was written by a teacher to integrate technology into the curriculum through educational software, videodiscs, telecommunications, or CD-ROM. "Units of Lesson Plans" contains directories of lesson plans that form a curriculum unit or theme.

Environmental Education Lesson Plans
Lesson plans and activities come from various information providers and may be more or less complete and adaptable. They have tried to indicate grade or age level where possible. Nine directories take you to everything.

Environmental Education Resources
The Office of Public Instruction-Washington State maintains a good gopher site of environmental educational resources.

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge K-12 Science Lesson Plans
This is a gopher lesson plan site which is divided into elementary and secondary level lesson plans. Examples of lessons at this site are: biodiversity game, marsh dilema, the pond web, and wetland birds and their habitat.

Meteorology Lesson Plans
El Nino, tornado, weather forecasting, The NOAA Weather Page, Galileo Project, and live access to climate data are examples found at this site.

This page was last updated on: March 19, 2001

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