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Department of Physics525 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette, IN
47907-2036
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Teacher and Counselor Resources Grades 9-12
Division of Educational Programs (DEP)
This site is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. It is the Division of Educational Programs (DEP), Argonne National Laboratory's link with the educational community. On this site you will find information about the various programs offered at DEP. Whether you are a graduate student, undergraduate, K-12 student, or faculty member, DEP has a program that will engage you in a scientific learning experience. Of particular interest is the Ask a Scientist Archieves found through the NEWTON link.
Science Friday is hosted by National Public Radio (NPR). Each week different topics are featured. Besides your ability to Listen Live if you have mp#, RealAudio, Quicktime, or Windows Media installed on your computer, there are links for teachers and a Science Friday Kids' Connection. Don't miss the SciFri book selections.
Physics Today November 2003: Article: The Business of Academic Physics
A physics education is a solid foundation for a diverse range of careers, but students do not know it. It is time they found out, and physics alumnae and alumni can help.
Everyday Science: Real Life Activities
- Engages students with the thrill of firsthand discovery using simple hands-on activities
- Features over 300 activities covering physics, biology, and astronomy, including Smoking is Brainless, Roll Uphill, and Float a Razor Blade
- Includes chapter highlights, questions, and answers
How Stuff works is a broad website covering not only science stuff, but computers, health, and more. When you link on to science, you will be provided with an array of options in all the fields of science. There's also a science library.
The Private Eye is a program about the drama and wonder of looking closely at the world, thinking by analogy, changing scale and theorizing. Designed to develop higher order thinking skills, creativity and scientific literacy - across subjects, it's based on a simple set of "tools" that produce "gifted results". Hands-on, investigative, The Private Eye - using everyday objects, a jeweler's loupe, and simple questions - accelerates science, writing, art, math, social studies and more. It builds communication, problem solving, and concentration skills. For K-16 through life, all levels, The Private Eye develops "the interdisciplinary mind".
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC)
ENC Online is a K-12 math and science teacher center. Here you will find web links, curriculum resources, educational topics, and professional development.
Operation Physics is a curriculum of 13 physics units that was developed in 1988 for the purpose of educating teachers of grades 4-8 who are teaching physical science. Information provided in this web site were developed to teach teachers in northern Ohio since 1990. While many of the activities are relevant to teachers who participated in the workshops, some might be useful to other teachers.
This website contains over 415 lessons that link science and math to the arts. In addition, other links to articles and events are available.
Visit Dr. Carlson’s Science Theatre where you’ll get video podcasts of cool science demonstrations. Join Dr. Matt Carlson as he risks life, limb, and dignity to bring you the finest science videos on Earth.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a proposed ground-based 8.4-meter, 10 square-degree-field telescope that will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky, night after night. In a relentless campaign of 15 second exposures, LSST will cover the available sky every three nights, opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects. The superb images from the LSST will also be used to trace billions of remote galaxies and measure the distortions in their shapes produced by lumps of Dark Matter, providing multiple tests of the mysterious Dark Energy.