Watson's Science Education Page

To be organized someday!!!

Education Technology

• Electronic Representation of Math/Scientific Expressions
• WebEQ, putting math on the web
• Microsoft in Higher Education
• Improving University Teaching, an international conference
• CAPA: A Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach
• New Chalk
• The Faculty Connection
• Distance Education Resources
• UD Teaching with Technology
• National Teaching and Learning Forum, The Newsletter for Educators by Educators
• Getting America's Students Ready for the 21st Century: Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge
• CAUSE/EFFECT
  -- Teaming Up to Develop a Faculty Institute on Teaching, Learning, and Technology, reporting on UD effort
• The Status of Technology in the Education System: A Literature Review
• Helping Teachers Find the On-Ramp to the Information Highway: Meeting the Challenges of Implementation and Training
• No Significant Difference?
• SyllabusWeb: incorporating technology into instruction
  -- Top 20 Education Sites
• Learning on the Web '96
• IAT: Institute for Academic Technology at UNC
  -- Infobits
• Wall St. Journal's Technology and Education Report

Science Ed Stuff

• Materials World Modules
• SODA constructor -- try it!
• The Gateway to Educational Materials
• Science Service historical image collection
• LEOT Laser/electro-optics technology curriculum
• Newtonian Mechanics and Measurements
• How Stuff Works
• Length, evolution from measurement standard to a fundamental constant, from the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at NIST
• Amusement Park Physics from Learner Online
• Noted Figures in Physics, Engineering and Astronomy
• Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion (Italy)
• The Physics Alliances Newsletter
• Science A Go Go
• Connecting Research in Physics Education with Teacher Education
• Ohio State Physics Education Research Group
• Web Physics Project
• Cockpit Physics
• Physics Resource Packets Project -- using Maple V to solve physics problems
• Project Galileo, gateway to innovative sciencing teaching techniques (Eric Mazur)
• Physical Sciences Resource Center of the AAPT
• Fermi Problems
• The Education Imperative, from Preparing for the 21st Century from the National Science Academy
• The Science Corner
• Physics Humor
• Donald Simanek's homepage
• Lucent Technologies
  - Hall of Ideas
  - Microscapes
  - Timeline of Innovation
• Exploration Network
  -- All the Science News That's Fit to Click
• Beyond Discovery, The Path from Research to Human Benefit
  -- The Global Positioning System
  -- Human Gene Testing
  -- Ozone Depletion
• Science Learning Network
  -- Electron Microscope Image Gallery
• Particle Adventure
• Science Made Stupid
• Project Kaleidoscope
• Discovery Channel Online
  -- Discovery Channel School
• Electronic Journal of Science Education
• MASTER Tools
  -- developed by The Shodor Education Foundation
• Scope, Sequence, & Coordination Project
  -- from The Global Schoolhouse
• Science in the Headlines
  -- from National Academy of Science
• World-in-Motion AVI Data Base
  -- public domain AVI movies
• How Things Work: question submission form
  -- Louis Bloomfield, Univ. Virginia
• How Things Work
  -- from International Access Online
• Modeling Workshop Project (Hestenes at ASU)
  -- includes Force Concept Inventory
• Teacher's Guide to the U.S. Dept. of Education
• LifeLong Universe
• CPEP: Contemporary Physics Education Project
• ENC: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
  -- The Digital Dozen
• New Scientist magazine (UK)
  -- Science & Technology this week
• CyberScience -- Science on the Web from CSIRO (Australia)
• Newton's Apple lesson on Electricity:
  -- from AskERIC Virtual Library
• Pulse of the Planet: radio series examining current innovations in science and technology
• Nova Online from PBS
• TIPTOP: The Internet Pilot to Physics (Sweden)
• SciTech
• Super Science Site -- encouraging experiments by students
• The Why Files -- Science Behind the News
• What's New in the World of Science
• Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science
• Dr. Bob's Interesting Science Stuff
• Knowledge Revolution
• American Scientist
• Multi-Media Classrooms: Classrooms without Walls
• Invention and Design
• Turning Students into Inventors
• What is Temperature?
• Richard Feynman on the Net
• Physicists on the Money
• WebPhysics: U.S. Air Force Academy
• fun@learning.physics
• Everyday Science
• Bad Science
• ScienceNotes
• Electrostatic Forces by Spectrum Sprayers
• The Armchair Scientist, (Italy)
• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• UNC Wilminton's Science and Math Education Center
• U. Oregon Physics Web Classes
• The Media History Project
• Jim Thomas's Accessible Science
• NSTA: National Science Teachers Association
• Magnavox's Electronics Reference
  • The Video Handbook
• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (1945) Idea of hypertext
• Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
• National Magnet Lab
  • Microscopy Primer
  • ChipShots: Micrographs of microprocessors
• Family Explorer
  • Water World?
  • A Simple Electroscope
  • Family FAXing
• Optics for Kids
• Exploring your Future in Math and Science
• Brookhaven National Lab Public Affairs
• Lederman Education Center
• Estes Educator page
• Cool Science Site of the Day
• Beverly Lynd's tutorial on rainbows
• U. Washington's Virtual Science Fair
• Microsoft Focus on K-12
• Interactive Physics at Berkeley
• CELLS alive!
• Free Physics Instructional Softward from Rick Tarara
• RSE: Resource for Science Education Program at NCSA
• SEP: Science Education Programs, (UC Irvine)
• U. Texas Physics Lecture Demos, including diagrams
• U. Cal. Berkeley Physics Lecture Demos, including diagrams
• PBList: Problem Based Learning in Health Sciences
• CREST: Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
  • On-line Renewable Energy Educational Module
• Cool Science Sites
• ION Science: news and trends in science and nature
• MSU PHYSNET
• Bill Beatty's Science Hobbyist
• Cal Tech's PhotoNet
• Beakman and Jax: You Can
• Bill Nye: The Science Guy
• Joe Redish, U. Md. MUPPET
• Materials World Modules (Northwestern Univ.)
• U. Washington SciEd: Science Education Resources; PhysicsEd

Biology

• BioChemNet
• The Biology Place

Chemistry

• The Chemistry Place

Astronomy/Space

Engineering

• The Technology Interface, the electronic journal for Engineering Technology
• What is Engineering?, an introductory course in engineering problem solving, from Johns Hopkins
• SUCCEED
• PBL: Problem Based Learning and Engineering
• ECE100 Introduction to Engineering Design

Astronomy/Space

• Amazing Space, from the Space Telescope Science Institute
• Welcome to the Universe
• Space Educators' Handbook
• Views of the Solar System
• Nine Planets: Multimedia tour of the Solar System
• LiftOff: Marshall Space Flight Center
• Quest: NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative
• NASA Shuttle Web Archives
• Meteor Showers

Large Classes

• Teaching Large Classes

Museums

• The Tech Musuem of Innovation
• Carnegie Science Center
• Internet Museum of Holography
• George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film
• Exploratorium
• Franklin Institute Science Museum
• Lawrence Hall of Science, U.Cal.Berkeley
• Science Museum of London
• The Smithsonian
• Smithsonian Air and Space
• U. Washington links to Museums

Technology Stuff

• Test & Measurement Educator's Corner
• Internet Webseum of Holography
• Mister Transistor
• Evolutions, Society and Technology Evolving Through Time -- from GTE
• Technology Review:
  Amy Bruckman's Finding One's Own in Cyberspace
• The Atlantic Monthly's The Technological Revolution:
  -- Martin Greenberg's The Computers of Tomorrow
  -- Vannevar Bush's As We May Think
• National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Questioning Technology by Frank Beacham
• Technlogy Review: MIT's magazine of technology and policy
• Teaching with Technlogy
• Polymer/Liquid Crystal Tutorial; Case Western Reserve
• British Telecommunications: Technology Explained (UK)
• Intel: Technology Literacy for the Nation and its Citizens
• TechExpo on-line exposition for high technology
• EPO: European Patent Office
• ADS: Astrophysics Data System, Space Instrumentation Database
• SiliconBase: A History of Silicon Valley

Scientific Teaching Products

• Arbor Scientific
• Fisher Scientific
• Sargent-Welch: VWR Scientific
• SciTech

Sci. and Tech. Course Syllabi

• Everyday Physics
• Physical Science, by Charles Johnson, Kent State
• Consumer Electronics Design Education Project
• The Structure of Matter, USC MDA125
• How Things Work, UVa -- The Student Page
• Order of Magnitude Physics, Cal Tech Ph103c
• Intro. to Mechanics,Purdue PHYS152
• Science, Technology, and Contemporary Society, Stanford STS101
• Science and High Technology in Silicon Valley, Stanford STS222

Critical Thinking

• Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for WWW Resources
• The Critical Thinking Community at Sonoma State Univ.
• Mission: Critical, a virtual lab for critical thinking

Other Interesting Stuff

• Texas Tech SPS: lots of physics links
• Delaware Education Network
• Geek Site of the Day
• The Economist's Accidental Superhighway
• NAS Reinventing Schools
• Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital
• MIT Press: City of Bits
• Miami-Dade Polce Dept. Crime Lab