Web Resources for Teaching Research
SCI510 Implementing Science Research in the Secondary Science Curriculum
Portland State University Center for Science Education
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Science Fair Links
Teacher Programs and Resources
Standards
Project Ideas and Student Resources
Research Based Science Education Data Sources
Image Processing Software Sites
Statistics

Science Fair Links

SHOWBOARD Products: display boards, accessories, books, awards. Services: project ideas, inquiry activities, workshops.

Discovery Channel School: Science Fair Central. Complete guide to science fair projects.

Science Fair Primer: A site to help students get started and run a science fair project.

Science Fair Project on the Web: Step by step instructions: A detailed science fair help site. Step by step instruction on observation, question, hypothesis, method, result, conclusion and presentation.

Cyber Fair: Steps to Prepare a Science Fair Project. This site has one-sentence explanations of each part of a science fair, including presenting to judges.

Science Fair Project Guidebook: The state of Sourth Carolina publishes a K-12 science fair guidebook. It can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

The Ultimate Science Fair Resource: Sponsored by the Society for Amateur Scientists, “Helping ordinary people do extraordinary science”.

Mr. McLaren’s Science Fair Survival Page: Tips from Archie R. Cole Junior High school on what makes a good project.

Neuroscience for Kids: Successful Science Fair Projects: Site made by Lynn Bleeker, a former science teacher, science fair organizer, and judge. Gives a thorough and detailed description of the steps to a successful science fair project.

Exploratorium Learning Studio: Science Fairs, Includes resources for students, teachers, and parents. Links to supplies and materials and books and other resources.

Houston Public Library Science Fair Page: Includes the “Big Six Information Solving Approach”

Sci – Journal: A web-site for science reports written by school and college students. Features reports on a wide range of science investigations, practical work and labs. In these reports you can read what other people have done, how they did it, what results they got, and what they think these results mean.

National Student Research Center: The National Student Research Center (NSRC) was founded at Mandeville Middle School in Mandeville, Louisiana, U.S.A.. Mandeville Middle School is recognized by the United States Department of Education as a National School of Excellence. The NSRC believes in the education of scientifically and technologically literate students who possess a repertoire of socially relevant knowledge and critical problem solving skills.

Northwest Science Expo

Youth Exploring Science Youth Exploring Science! brought the Intel International Science and Engineering fair to Portland in 2004.

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge for Middle School Students

IPL: Science Fair Project Resource Guide. A good compendium of links organized by the steps students go through doing a science fair project.

The WWW Virtual Library: Science Fairs This an extensive listing to many interesting sites.
Check out the virtual science fairs at the end of the page.

More science fair links at this page on the NSTA site.

The Mad Scientist Network has a Science Fair page

Science Fairs Homepage: A Canadian web-site from the Eastern Newfoundland Science Fairs Council, designed to aid students in the most difficult aspect of their science fair experience; getting and idea. Includes ideas for elementary grades 1-4, grades 4-6, grades 7-9, and grades 10-12. Experiments in electricity, physics, chemistry, meteorology, biology, engineering, and botany.

EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE PROJECTS: An Intermediate Level Guide

The National Student Research Center has an E-Journal of Student Research and a VERY EXTENSIVE links page to everything about doing science fairs. Great resources for students.

Teacher Programs and Resources

Heroes of Northwest Science - bios and more of students and science professionals.

ACORN NATURALISTS: Science and environmental education supplies for teachers, outdoor educators, parents, and children.

Center for Inquiry Based Learning

JASON: Delivering real adventures in science and measurable gains in achievement!
Experience-based curriculum and professional development for science educators. Using multi-media tools and access to the nation’s leading scientists. Combines genuine scientific expeditions around the world, standards-based curriculum and accredited professional development to help teachers bring the thrill of discovery to the classroom.

The Use of Astronomy in Research Based Science Education

The TRUTH About Science, a unique science curriculum for middle school students that guides students in creating and performing their own science research projects. Through fun, hands-on classroom activities, students learn the basic skills and concepts used by research scientists. They put these new skills and knowledge to use when they design and carry out a research project of their choosing. THIS IS REALLY GOOD CURRICULUM AND IT IS FREE.

Integrated Science is an integrated middle school science curriculum using exciting and dynamic classroom telecasts, hundreds of
hands-on activities, and student books that relate to real life.

Dartmouth Project for Teaching Engineering Problem Solving: The Dartmouth/Thayer approach to engineering problem solving provides teachers with a framework for bringing problems of the "real world" into the classroom. Teachers guide students through an engineering problem-solving cycle and help them maintain high standards for scientific inquiry. Students learn how to solve the less structured problems they will encounter in their future in classrooms and in employment.

Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education - great resources for project-based education. (This page doesn't seem to work with Internet Explorer, Netscape is fine.)

Scientific Inquiry Links page. Don't miss the Scout Report link near the bottom.

NASA Spacelink is a good entry to NASA resources. Try the Educational Services link and then NASA Education Programs link.

Student Watershed Research Project. A stream monitoring project of Saturday Academy. Great teacher training workshops in the summer.

Oregon Science Teachers Association

Washington Science Teachers Association

National Science Teachers Association

National Energy Education Development Project - Lots of curriculum and materials to support energy education.

Modeling Instruction Program at Arizona State. This page serves as a portal to various components of the Modeling Instruction Program. The approach to reform of curriculum design and teaching methodology has been guided by a Modeling Theory of Physics Instruction, the focus of educational research by David Hestenes and collaborators since 1980. Implementation through Modeling Workshops for high school teachers has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation from 1989 to 2000. The documented success of the workshops and the enthusiastic response of the teachers has stimulated institutionalization and expansion of the program through increased involvement of university physics departments

Standards

Oregon PASS college admissions requirements.

ODE Science page

ODE Teaching and Learning to Standards: Science. Excellent, practical resource for how to teach to the science standards.

ODE CAM page

Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs) for Science

National Science Education Standards

Project Ideas and Student Resources

Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering. Summer internships for HS students in laboratory and other work settings. Most work on science or engineering research. A very high quality program. Students get a stipend.

Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (AWSEM) is a science and math advocacy program for girls in the fourth through twelfth grades. AWSEM sponsors clubs in schools around the area. The mission of the AWSEM Project is to create and support regional networks of science and technology professionals, educators, parents and community organizations dedicated to the enrichment of opportunities in science, engineering and mathematics for young women.

STAS – PEI Science and Technology Awareness Site: STAS, the Prince Edward Island Science and Technology Awareness Site, for students and teachers to learn, teach, and discover. Includes “Ask an Expert”, curriculum, and resources.

How Stuff Works

National Science Digital Library Ask an expert site: Send your question to our 300+ scientific and technical professionals from research, industry, government, and academia.

SCIENCE RESOURCES ON THE WEB from the Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair page

Internet Search Tools & Techniques tutorial from the Okanogan University College Library

The Scientific World offers free searches of some 20,000 scientific journals using keywords, author name or publication title for issues as far back as at least 1992. Once you locate and article, ther is a fee for ordering and email or hard copy. These fees can be substantial.

EPA Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools page has information on how improve your school's indoor air quality. There is a resource kit and technical hotline. It looks like an interesting resource for projects.

QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group. This site is dedicated to using simple video cameras (of the kind you buy for your computer) in astrophotography. Looks to be quite active. Probably there are many geeks here interested in helping interested studens with projects.

National Digital Science Library. A huge site at the NSF.

Research Based Science Education Data Sources

PSU Horizons Project - Portland Metro Area air quality and meteorological data. This site is very interactive. Current conditions and automatic graphing of data are available. Check the Quick Jump pull down menu on the left.

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer. Every day's stratospheric ozone data.

Streamnet: StreamNet is a cooperative venture of the Pacific Northwest's fish and wildlife agencies and tribes and is administered by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. Provides data and data services in support of the region's Fish and Wildlife Program and other efforts to manage and restore the region's aquatic resources.

Washington Nature Mapping. Collect data on animals, plants, streams and enter into database on website. Protocols on the website. Trainings are offered occasionally.

Microscopy & Imaging Resources on the WWW from the University of Arizona's Center for Toxicology.

Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Image Collection

NASA Planetary Data System MAP-A-PLANET

Galileo Home Page
Galileo - Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer

NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Scientific Visualization Studio has many links to imaging projects.

Image Processing Software Sites

Center for Image Processing in Education Connections to free software and to image processing and GIS curriculum.

Image Processing Web Resources from our own Rosa Hemphill. Very extensive and excellent.

Image Analysis in Math and Science Education: the Next Revolution by Scott Coletti is a very extensive list of links to free software and data. Very good.

Mike Gallager has a page with GIS tutorials, and an introduction to image processing.

Geography Network Explorer is run by ESRI, the maker of ArcView GIS software. It is a gateway to data.

Map Machine @NationalGeographic.com Explore maps online, including the surface of Mars.

Statistical & Data Analysis Resources

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics - This looks like the most comprehensive and useable site. (Some parts require a Java enabled browser. There is Quicktime multimedia, also.) There is a very complete textbook (HyperStat Online) with supporting materials. There are simulations of statistics concepts, and examples of real data with analyses and interpretation. Has a great collection of links to other resources on learning statistics. HINT: do not use the Analysis Lab link on this page. You can get to it via Analysis Lab links within HyperStat Online.

Statistics Resources from Dr. Tom Owen - includes sites on how to select the right statistical analysis for a project.

Introduction to Experimental Design and Data Analysis - John C. Pezzullo, PhD. Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Biostatistics, Georgetown University. This is a course on statistics for scientists. There are some notes and links to other resources online.
This site makes use of this:
The Whole Art of Deduction: Research Skills for New Scientists - Rodger Marion, PhD. Great explanations of developing a research question and statistics that go with it.

StatSoft Electronic Textbook - this is very concise, but covers beginning to advanced topics. The elementary topics section covers just about every concept HS students are likely to encounter.

Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics - extensive collection free, high quality, interactive, web-based resources for students and teachers of probability and statistics. Likes to be openned in Firefox.

Java Applets for Visualization of Statistical Concepts

Statistical Java - An Interactive Environment for Teaching Statistics

Free Statistical Software - a very large collection of programs.

Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics - an online basic text. Fairly dry, but some students will be able to educate themselves here. It covers all the content of introductory undergraduate statistics. It does a good job of introducing basic vocabulary (useful for talking to judges) and basic concepts.

Introduction to Research course - takes it from the beginning from research design through statistics. Worth a careful look.

Betty C. Jung's Statistics site - a huge site with a lot of focus on public health and epidemiology.

The Web Center for Social Research Methods - Lots of resources for Behavior & Social Science. Quality seems to be mixed.

Statistics in Plain English - Looks pretty good.

Gallup Poll Topics

Agricultural Statistics

Stat 100 Computer Programs

Princeton University Data Library

National Security Agency-K12 Learning Units - teacher created units, including some on statistics and other math topics.

Galaxy Hunter: A Cosmic Photo Safari - Watch out for the booby traps of bias, the vagueness of variability, and the shiftiness of sample size as we travel on a photo safari through the Hubble Deep Fields (HDFs).

The Statistics Teacher Network is a teacher newsletter published three times a year by the American Statistical Association - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability for Grades K-12.

AP Statistics Course home page at AP Central - check the Teaching Resource Materials section. May require registration.

Last updated: Dec. 7, 2006