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Useful Links National and interstate Science Teachers Associations 4 Visit other STAs from our STA links page Universities POST GRADUATE COURSES IN BIODIVERSITY Flinders University offers post-graduate courses in Biodiversity. Learn more about the science of ecology, and about Australia's amazing wildlife. http://www.scieng.flinders.edu.au/courses/biodiversity/postgrad/ Science Education Centres ABC Science Education Comalco This Web site gives a view to students, teachers, and the general public with information about the rapidly growing fields of Aluminium Production and related areas; K - 12 students with basic concepts, and supplementary multimedia activities that makes full use of Internet resources. Cyber science CSIRO presents experiments, puzzles, magazines and downloadable media. An excellent site. Exploratorium, USA Forensic Science An easily navigable and highly readable site, this was created to provide the layperson with an easy understanding of what Forensic Science entails. There are brief but informative explanations of some of the main disciplines within Forensic Science, accompanied by suitably chosen graphics. These include: firearms and toolmark identification; Forensic Psychiatry and profiling; questioned document examination (for example, forgery, counterfeiting, handwriting analysis); Criminal Law; personal identification (such as, fingerprints, DNA analysis, odontology); Forensic photography and crime scene processing. There is also information on careers in Law enforcement (USA based), and a suggested reading list with some links to other Forensics sites. Franklin Institute Undersea and Oversee: the past, present, and future of our oceans Understand the oceans by taking an on-line voyage. Respect the undersea world and accept the challenge to oversee the ocean’s future. In the Year of the Ocean this site is well worth a visit. Global Schoolhouse International Year of the Ocean An excellent site for helping with science activities relating to any aspect of the study of the oceans. NASA lunar prospector This is an excellent site with many possible uses for senior primary and secondary students. Highly recommended. Periodic table This is a very useful site for senior secondary students Planet Ark Focused on the environment, the main menu includes World Environment News, free environmental software, specific Australian data on the environment and recycling. These are updated regularly. Questacon Voted in the top 100 sites in February, 1996, this site contains a wide range of hands-on Science activities for students from Kindergarten to Stage 4, eg from simple colouring or dot to dot dinosaur activities, to detailed instruction on making a comet. The activities vary in difficulty and in topic area. They would have wide application in primary Science programs. Apart from the Science activities, it is possible to take a virtual tour of Questacon or click on What’s New to find out the latest Science exhibitions. The most outstanding features of this site are the colourful and creative screen design, and well-designed navigation features, both of which add to its appeal and ease of use. Quest! NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative Scicentral This is a massive site, being a gateway to some 50 000 other sites. It is kept up to date by professional scientists whose mission it is to identify and centralize the most valuable science resources on-line. Very highly recommended. The Franklin Institute Science Museum, USA The Franklin Institute Science Museum View from satellite (Upper primary & lower secondary) Allows you to view the Earth as currently seen from a number of satellites. Of topical interest to all students CREST (primary & secondary students) CREativity in Science and Technology (CREST) students undertake science and technology research projects which involve three elements: Creativity Perserverance and Application These projects are offerred at different levels and provide challenges for all abilities and at both primary and secondary school. Links are made with industry and community workers and students gain a new understanding of the role of science and engineering in the community. Teachers are supported in providing this valuable educational experience. More than 5000 students achieve CREST Awards each year - are your students involved? Cyber sleuths (Upper primary & secondary students) Focuses on a project from Kilvington Baptist Girls' Grammar School, this project is a collaborative project with schools around Australia that wish to explore problems in Forensic Science. Dragon fly (Primary & secondary students) Explores Webs of Life, Animal Communication, Ice and Snow, Skeletons (including a virtual dinosaur dig), Flight and Trees. This site is being added to frequently. Well worth considering. Encarta lesson collection (Teachers) A wide range of lesson plans for students of all grades. Well worth viewing and contributing to this site. Kathy Schrock's guide for educators (Teachers) Contains a wide range of Science sites, including teaching materials. Sites include General Science, Biological Science and Animal sites, Chemical Science, Earth, Geography and Oceanography sites, Environmental Science sites, Physics and Optics, Space and Astronomy sites. NOVA Science in the news (Primary & secondary students) This is the web site of the Australian Academy of Science. Contains excellent, up-to-date Science information. Provided at this easily navigated site are background material and teaching resources on current issues in: Biology; Chemistry; Environment; Geology; Health; and Physics. Information is presented in a very readable form. The teaching resources include excellent and appropriate practical activities, and a comprehensive glossary for each topic. Current topic areas include: cloning; sun and skin; solar energy; ozone depletion; and the human genome project. Each topic contains appropriate links to other related sites on the Internet. Time is required to explore these for curriculum relevance. Teachers may subscribe to a mailing list to be informed when new topics are posted. Science by Email (Primary, secondary students and teachers) An excellent site that is updated every week on Friday. It is a free online service for members of CSIRO's Double Helix Science Club, ideal for teachers and anyone interested in science. Science by Email includes: A weekly email newsletter featuring science news and activities. Web Chats Online Contest Science/Nature for kids (Primary & secondary students) A comprehensive site with Interest Areas, Related Sites (such as Dinos for Kids and Kid’s Writing). Well worth having students explore this site. The why files (All students) Funded by the US National Institute of Science Education, this site deals with the Science behind the news. An excellent site, highly recommended. The California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse Gives access to the Californian Technology in the Curriculum (TIC) Evaluations Database. Each database reviews software available to Science and Mathematics teachers. Texas Education Network (TENET) (Teachers) (Click on Resource Centre, then Curriculum Resources) Interesting site giving considerable information on the effective educational use of the Internet. Chemistry sites (Secondary students) The following are worth considering : Algebra/Chemistry Mixture Problems Curtin University Chemistry Resource Page the Periodic Table on the WWW Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry Science fairs You may wish to try some of the following sites : The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank E-Database of Student Research: Science Science-World-Launcher the eduzone Science tips Experimental Science Projects: An Introductory Level Guide Steps to Prepare a Science Fair Project Practical Hints for Science Fair Projects Idea Generation: Ways to find a science fair project idea Educator Guides and Activities Newton's Apple Australian Institute of Petroleum AIP/APPEA’s education site provides a wealth of facts, figures and interesting information about petroleum and natural gas, and their products. Excellent student/teacher fact sheets, curriculum kits, and resource books covering a wide range of interesting topics, are available free of charge. Different kits have been developed for different curriculum stages. Apart from obvious background information, there are: topics on environmental issues; and a safety kit for Primary students relating to the use and storage of fuels. The information contained in them is highly readable, smartly presented, and drawn from respected scientific sources. The resources can be viewed on-line or ordered as class sets. Views of the solar system One of two Australian mirror sites, this offers a comprehensive coverage of the Solar System and associated areas, with the ability to branch out to more sophisticated levels of information. Topics include: the planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids and meteorites, history, Sun, planet and satellite data, glossary, and people. Relevant information of each topic is easily retrieved, and additional resources on each topic are given. A large selection of space related links are also provided. The Lab This is an excellent site. ABC Science Online was created in 1997 under the three-year grant from the Department of Industry, Science and Tourism. The Lab’s brief is to provide a dynamic and innovative Internet service dedicated to Science generally, and particularly to popularising Science among young Australians. It mirrors the NASA site. Great design, high curriculum relevance, originality, and quality content go a long way to meeting the brief. Amongst many other options: The slab has news and special guests; Dr Karl gives us the fascinating world of Karl Kruszelnicki; CorreX files debunks pseudo-Science; CO2 lab is a global warming game; -273 gives a subject based selection of excellent Science sites which may be worth exploring for curriculum application; Robyn Williams directs us to The Science Show, Ockham’s razor, and Specials. Curriculum-specific materials will be provided on LabNotes, to be launched later in 1997. The Daily Planet A superb educational site on weather, this offers teachers and students online guides to: Meteorology, remote sensing, student projects and classroom activities. Student projects and classroom activities provide everything for teachers to use these lessons interactively with the Internet. A weather visualiser gives students the opportunity to customise their own maps and images of the USA, with helper sections to give details and information to provide you with the background necessary to correctly interpret these images. Weather World 2010 is an information resource on weather features, and includes details of some world weather patterns, economic impact, and predictability of weather. Eurekalert! A superb site, this allows access to current research in Science, Medicine and Engineering. The visitor enters this news server through a Table of Contents which contains links to numerous world-wide Web sites. Time is required to explore. The news releases for the previous fortnight can be searched by topic or organisation. The archive index contains the full history of news releases. Annotated bibliographies of research articles are accessed via these links, but to gain full access to most documents the reader must subscribe to the particular journal. A FA’s link provides interesting information on Health, Media and Technology. Cable television networks broadcast a television segment on the Discovery Channel, which is available through Foxtel network in Australia. Nobel Prize Internet Archive Here is an outstanding site for information about Nobel Prize winners. The screen is divided into three parts: interactive icons; a quick search facility; and a display window. Visitors can search under the conventional headings: Physics; Peace; Physiology and Medicine; Literature; Economics; and Chemistry. A scroll further down reveals other categories, such as women recipients, and Ig Nobel Prize winners, awarded to individuals with sometimes humorous and often dubious or obscure research. The database is accessed through an alphabetical index or through the quick search option. The results are presented in table form with hyperlinks to more information about the specific recipient. Within each Bibliography there are links to journals, other print resources, and specific Internet sites. Weird Research, Anomalous Physics (Bill Beaty's Home Pages) An exciting and informative collection of articles and links for weird research and anomalous Physics is found here. There are many articles on antigravity, neondymium (rare earth magnets), tesla coils, and ball lightning and related topics. Detailed plans (with diagrams) of construction projects on these, and similar topics such as unnatural hologram, electrostatics projects, and Science museum devices, are also available. The author provides some great motivational ideas for teaching topics such as electrostatics, gravitation, and magnetism. It is wonderful for topics devoted to Science versus Science Fiction, or alternative energy resources. Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective This Web site gives an account on the contributions of Renaissance mathematicians to the development of Science and Art; is based on a videotape of the same name. This site looks in particular at the work of Galileo and describes with drawings, films, and animations his work with inclined planes and accelerated motion. Mathematics and molecules This Web site gives a view to students, teachers, and the general public with information about the rapidly growing fields of molecular modelling and related areas; K - 12 students with basic concepts in Mathematics and their connection to molecular modelling; a working model of a hypemedia textbook and supplementary multimedia activities that makes full use of Internet resources. American Museum of Natural History A number of online scientific exploration are available at this Museums Web site. Cascades Volcano Observatory This Web site tells about the real time data, photo archives; and more than enough information on the active volcano range. Also this site is a great stopping point for students and teachers looking for volcano data. Environmental data bases for schools This database aims to provide Secondary School pupils with objective information on the co-existence of Engineering and the Environment. It covers such topics as acid rain, global warming, and alternative energy. Classroom activities This is a list of classroom activities that are available via the Internet Aussie School House This site is not specifically devoted to science learning but includes projects, community activities, events, joint ventures and research. - back to top of page -