Contact Information
Department of Physics525 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette, IN
47907-2036
Map and Directions
Telephone:
(765) 494-2970
Fax:
(765) 494-0706
Teacher and Counselor Resources: Grades K-8
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.
TOPScience.org provides you with an award-winnning science magazine and a source of all sorts of hands-on, inquiry learning activities for K-12. Each book of activities covers a concept and a grade range suitable for the variation of abilities in classrooms.
The curriculum developer, Ron Marson, supervised student teaching in West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. That's where he first learned to make do with limited resources, using local materials to teach his classes. This makes hands-on, inquiry activities available for all classrooms, even when budgets don't allow equipment.
SIS is a unique service providing materials about giftedness and gifted education toresidents throughout Indiana. Parents and teachers of gifted children, as well as the children themselves, can find materials that are both useful and interesting. Indiana is the only state in the union to have such a service. SIS will send materials free of charge. The only cost to the user is the return postage for items that have been checked out.
AIMS is an acronym for Activities Integrating Math and Sciences. The mission of AIMS Education Foundation is to enrich the education of students in grades K-9 through hands-on activities that integrate mathematics, science, technology, and other disciplines. AIMS is a /standards-based program / that implements the recommendations put forth in major reform documents such as Benchmarks for Science Literacy.
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception. Explore "Educate" and you'll find Tools for Teaching, including hands-on activitites.
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.
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
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.
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 Franklin Institute - Resources for Science Learning
This link provides resources for teachers of grades 5-8 students:
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