Washington Earth Science Initiative

Curricular Resources (includes links to things like GEMS, AIMS, etc)

Earth Science educational links:

Plate Tectonics Links

Earthquakes - Links to lots of earthquake sites on the web

Volcano Links All the volcano sites you'd ever want to meet (lots of K-12 stuff here)

Earth Science curriculum development. All sorts of great information on earth science education curriculum at the elementary and high school level. Some great ready-made activities too!

Finding Your Way with Map and Compass A great description of topographic maps, map scales, and the use of a compass in locating oneself.

What Do Maps Show Some great excercises designed to help upper elementary and junior high school students understand and use maps.

Physics Links

Astronomy Links (mostly NASA related)

Chemistry Links

Biology Links

Meteorology Links

Ask-A-Scientist Links:

Ask-A-Scientist This is a fabulous link to every single "ask-a........." scientist type E-mail connection in the world. Almost every subject!. No questions are too dumb!!!

Ask-A-Geologist web page
Direct email link is: Ask-A-Geologist

Ask Dr. Universe A question site at Washington State University. Postings to answers of previous questions. For example, "do frogs sleep?"

Ask-A-Scientist (personalized version) Here is a list of individual scientists, divided by subject, that you can write to with your questions.

Current Events

Science Daily provides links to the latest science research news, headlines, articles on scientific discoveries, and archives of stories.

Nationwide participatory teacher/classroom projects

The JASON Project Students and teachers chat with scientists, share their ideas, discuss scientific questions related to JASON Project expeditions, and collaborate with one another on curriculum investigations using the internet. This year, JASON X goes to the rainforests.

GLOBE project An international research project involving K-12 schools around the world.

National and Local Standards

National Science Education Standards The online version of the National Science Education Standards as developed by the National Research Council.

Project 2061 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Includes information about the Benchmarks for Science Literacy through clickable links.

Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements in Science You can peruse the standards by clicking on "Science", then scrolling down. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you can download the EALRs to MS Word or PDF format.

Bellingham Public Schools You can check out their curriculum pages, teacher resources, etc.

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