SOME EDUCATIONAL LINKS


  • Science Netlinks - Providing a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.
  • This is a great site for teachers and students developed by the University of California Museum of Paleontology. The site is about evolution and the nature of science and is divided into “learning” and “teaching” segments. The navigation is very good and in my investigation, all the links worked. The nature of science content is concise, but covers all topics in easy language. It addresses misconceptions including what science is not. There are numerous lesson plans for grades K-12 and clear, simple content. The site development was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. It was copyrighted 2006 and allows you to contact the developers by email.

    This site is an online text titles Science for All Americans (copyright 1990) from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Project 2061, a well respected science-education working group. The Nature of Science chapter in this text has very thorough content, but I found the writing to be rather challenging, especially in a text meant “…for All Americans”. The layout is simple, unadorned text with the full chapter on a single page. There are “back to the top” buttons with no internal links or hyperlinks. At the top of the page there are links to the Table of Contents and to the Project 2061 home page. The full online text includes chapters on the nature of mathematics and the nature of technology, historical perspectives, effective learning and teaching, and reforming education.

    This site is primarily about teaching evolution, with a nature of science component. It is an online text by the National Academy of Sciences, published by National Academy Press, copyright 1998. It reads like a book, with a chapter about evolution and the nature of science. Topics on the nature of science are illustrated with historical scientific events and discoveries. There is one lesson plan on teaching the nature of science and several on evolution and natural selection. There is a list of credits with names and educational institutions of the working group that developed the site, as well as a link to nas.org.

    This site is a collection of lesson plans for biology teachers from the Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes offering topics including the Nature of Science, the Origin of Life, Evolution, and Genetics and DNA. It is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and developed and maintained by a panel of science educators. The navigation is good, the lesson plans all include links to documents or further materials you might need. They are quite complete with suggestions for introducing topics as well as expanding them. There is opportunity for feedback to rate the site, report problems or ask for help.