Subjects: Science

How to Use the Scientific Method
How to Teach Science

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Free online AP Courses
Teaching Company courses

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Astronomy
Biology
Botany
Chemistry
Creation Science
Earth Science
Ecology
Evolution
General
Geology
Health
Human Body
Marine Biology
Meteorology
Ornithology
Paleontology
Physics
Technology
Zoology

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Annenberg Foundation "video on demand"

Online via Video on Demand

You can view Annenberg Media programs of your choice online with a broadband connection whenever you see [the video on demand] icon. There is no charge for this service.

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Simply select a program and go to the individual program description listing and click on the icon. To hear the sound and view video, you should have Windows Media Player, DSL, a cable modem, or a LAN connection to a T1 line or greater, and have Javascript enabled. For more information, please visit our broadband FAQ.
 

 

 

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Free online AP Courses

AP Courses:
Monterey Institute for Technology & Education AP Courses
Advanced Placement Calculus AB
Advanced Placement Calculus BC
Environmental Science
Advanced Placement Physics B
Advanced Placement Physics C
 

Teaching Company courses

The Teaching Company offers many college-level science courses in the lecture-format, and an easily-understood high school chemistry course.  The courses are not inexpensive, but many libraries stock them.   If they are not in your local collection, try requesting them through an inter-library loan.  Co-operative buying and sharing of the courses is another option if you have homeschooling friends, just be sure to have an agreement in place before sending off the orders, as to who ultimately owns the materials.

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Astronomy

• Cassini-Huygens:  Operations Present Position
• Cosmic Evolution -- From Big Bang to Humankind
• Big Bang glow hints at funnel-shaped Universe
  Picard topology:  "If they are, then our Universe is curved like a Pringle, shaped like a horn, and named after a Star Trek character. You could not make it up."
• Satellite Prediction Service
• Saturn Observation Campaign
   

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Biology

• Biology Coloring Book
• The Incredible Journey from Hen to Home
• MicrobeWorld
• NASA's Fundamental Space Biology Outreach Program
• NewScientist.com:  Disgust is good for you
• Ornithology (also words, how math works, thumbprints)
• PLoS Biology is the premier open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science
• Virtual Frog Dissection
  
   

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Botany

• Botany Coloring Book
• Inosculation or, Trees Holding Hands
• National Biological Information Infrastructure
  
   

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Chemistry

• Chemistry Video Course
• (could also fall under Critical Thinking)
  DMHO threats to humans, and an article about the website

Creation Science  note: I am completely unqualified to evaluate the content of creation science materials.  You'll have to do a web search and use your best judgment.

• Recommended on an e-list:   Apologia Educational Ministries
   

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Earth Science

• Earth Science:  GLOBE Program counting contrails for Earth Day
  In honor of Earth Day, the GLOBE Program invites you to join in a scientific experiment on April 22, 2004, to count contrails in your piece of the sky. Teachers, students, and anyone interested in helping to develop a better understanding of the Earth are welcome to participate.

• Earth Day Activity Book from NASA (PDF file)

• Rock information

• Seismic waves propagating during an earthquake.

• US Geological Survey:  Photo glossary of volcano terms
   

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Ecology

• Urban Program Resource Network

• Recycle those books!

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Evolution

• Teaching Science:  The president is wrong on Intelligent Design (an article from The National Review - Online)
• From Cal State:  Honors 305: Honors Seminar on Evolution and Creation Spring 2004
• From Big Bang to Humankind
   

 

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General

• General Science and Math Books Grade level sorting Preschool through Adult by Emporia State University in Kansas

• Science and Math links also from Emporia State University

• Science and math information from Daphne the Guinea Pig in Utah

• Double Leonid Meteor Shower
• Grass stalks fit bill for earliest toothpicks
• Flash presentation of images from the Hubble telescope
• Powers of Ten
• The Influence of Junk Science and the Role of Science Education
  newsletter:   New Scientist
• US Crackdown on bioterror is backfiring
• Voyager says goodbye to solar system

 

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Geology

• Fundy Geologic Museum, Nova Scotia
  "Become part of Project Prosauropod and watch as researchers uncover the 200 million year old skeleton of a prosauropod dinosaur. Check in every week to see what discoveries have been made, as well as new animations and photographs of this important specimen."
• Teaching Geologic History
   

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Health

• Abstinence.edu.com
  Abstinence-Only-Until Marriage Programs
  ACLU on Reproductive Rights
  Five Years of Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Education: Assessing the Impact
  Medical Institute for Sexual Health
  Our Whole Lives (Unitarian Universalist sexuality education curricula)
• Can We Get Too Clean?
• Come to the Doctor, Harry, by Mary Chalmers (for young children)
• DoD to Launch Anti-flu Health Campaign
  Winkenwerder said the messages are very simple but important. He mentioned the oft-repeated preventive practices of washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze. If you get sick, he noted, "then stay away from other people. In fact, if you really feel bad, don't come into work. Don't spread an illness."
• Food Safety
• Food Safety Music
• GloGerm Handwashing Worksheets
• Home Food Safety Checklist
   

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Human Body

• Blood and Guts, A Working Guide to Your Own Insides

• Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body

 

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Marine Biology

• Smithsonian Ocean Planet Exhibition

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Meteorology

• Illiniweather.com from the University of Illinois

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Ornithology

• Birdcams from Cornell University
• Ornithology  (also words, how math works, thumbprints)
• Streaming Eagle Cam

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Paleontology

• The Big Beast Book

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Physics

• Amusement Park Physics
• Blowing torroidal (doughnut shaped) bubbles
• Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics . . . my own 'favorite' was in Golden Eye (?) where the motorcycle rider catches up with the airplane in the air.
• The Mechanical Universe And Beyond:  This 52-episode series from CalTech is available for free download. "This series helps teachers demystify physics by showing students what it looks like. Field trips to hot-air balloon events, symphony concerts, bicycle shops, and other locales make complex concepts more accessible."
• Tom Noddy's Bubble Magic
• University of Colorado:  Physics 2000

    Optics

• How Black Lights Work

 

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Technology

• Manufacturing
  An excellent site from Stanford University featuring free online video with narration and video controls.  This site would probably work best with a DSL or cable-modem connection because of the time required to load the audio and video information.  I now know all about the manufacture of glass bottles.  Fascinating, and quite an improvement over those wobbly-audio movies I saw in school.
• The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
   

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Zoology

• Zoology Coloring Book
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  
   

 

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