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is a list of online resources designed to
assist and inspire high school teachers as
they plan their mathematics and science class
lessons. Please send suggestions for additional
math and science teaching resources to
emurray@mit.edu.
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Teaching Resources fom MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication
of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is
open and available to the world and is a permanent
MIT activity.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm
Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare
materials that are most useful for high school
students and teachers. The program’s
goal for teachers is to make it easy for them
to find resources they can use to inspire
their students.
http://Scratch.mit.edu
Scratch is a new programming language created
at MIT that makes it easy to create your own
interactive stories, animations, games, music,
and art -- and share your creations on the
web. Scratch is designed to help young people
(ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning
skills. As they create and share Scratch projects,
young people learn important mathematical
and computational ideas, while also learning
to think creatively, reason systematically,
and work collaboratively.
http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/Video/video-fall-99.html
MIT Professor Gil Strang's Linear Algebra
Class Lecture Videos
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFall1999/VideoLectures/
MIT Professor Walter Lewin’s Physics
Class Lecture Videos
http://olw.mit.edu/
The mission of MIT OpenLabWare is to provide
online materials that enhance understanding
of the research process, excite students about
research at MIT and promote MIT as a creative
thinking institution.
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Resources for Teaching in Mathematics
http://www.learner.org/resources/series210.html
Mathematics Illuminated is a video
course for high school teachers and college
level instruction; 13 half-hour video programs,
online text, course guide, and Web site; graduate
credit available.
http://mathforum.org/
The Math Forum, developed by the Drexel University
School of Education, is a leading online resource
for improving math learning, teaching, and
communication since. It is run by teachers,
mathematicians, researchers, students, and
parents using the power of the Web to learn
math and improve math education.
http://mmp.maths.org/
The Millennium Mathematics Project (MMP) is
a maths education initiative for ages 5 to
19 and the general public, based at the University
of Cambridge in England and active nationally
and internationally. The program aims to support
maths education and promote the development
of mathematical skills and understanding,
particularly through enrichment activities
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/about/
MathWorld is an extensive mathematical resource,
provided as a free service to the world's
mathematics and Internet communities as part
of a commitment to education and educational
outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/guide/
Shodor is a nonprofit organization serving
students and educators by providing materials
and instruction relating to computational
science (scientific, interactive computing).
Shodor Interactivate is a set of free, online
courseware for exploration in science and
mathematics. It is comprised of activities,
lessons, and discussions.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/
These pages have been provided by Professor
David Eppstein of the Computer Science Department
at the University of California in Irvine.
They contain usenet clippings, web pointers,
lecture notes, research excerpts, papers,
abstracts, programs, problems, and other content
related to discrete and computational geometry.
Professor Eppstein writes that “while
some of it is quite serious, I hope much of
it is also entertaining”.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/geom.html
This is a second site provided by Professor
Eppstein. It collects various areas in which
ideas from discrete and computational geometry
(meaning mainly low-dimensional Euclidean
geometry) meet some real world applications.
It contains brief descriptions of those applications
and the geometric questions arising from them,
as well as pointers to web pages on the applications
themselves and on their geometric connections.
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/
This site is for teachers, parents and students
who seek engaging mathematics. Many of the
topics are accompanied by Java illustrations.
There are more than 900 Java applets. The
applets can be licensed by teachers for inclusion
in their own pages.
http://archives.math.utk.edu/k12.html#topics
This site, sponsored by the Math Archives,
presents specific areas of mathematics for
use by teachers and students.
http://www.graphcalc.com/
This site provides a free calculator program
for P.C.’s.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/index.html
This site has biographies of over 1300 mathematicians,
plus other articles on the history of mathematics.
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Resources for Teaching in Science
http://phet.colorado.edu/index.php
PhET Interactive Simulations is an ongoing
effort to provide an extensive suite of simulations
to improve the way that physics, chemistry,
biology, earth science and math are taught
and learned. The simulations are interactive
tools that enable students to make connections
between real life phenomena and the underlying
science that explains such phenomena.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Teachers’ Domain is an online library
of more than 1,000 free media resources from
the best in public television. These classroom
resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline,
Design Squad, American Experience, and other
public broadcasting and content partners are
easy to use and correlate to state and national
standards. Teachers’ Domain strives
to strengthen teacher knowledge by providing
innovative teaching methods that incorporate
technology in the classroom and inspire students
to learn.
http://www.cac.cornell.edu/Education/SAGE.aspx
This site is Cornell University’s award-winning
K-12 Science & Arts Gateway for Education
(SAGE). Developed by the Cornell Center for
Advanced Computing, this gateway provides
educators and students with links to lesson
planning and learning resources in science,
mathematics, and the arts.
http://tolweb.org/tree/
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative
effort of biologists
and nature enthusiasts from around the world.
On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages,
the project provides information about biodiversity,
the characteristics of different groups of
organisms, and their evolutionary history
(phylogeny).
http://teachspacescience.org/cgi-bin/ssrtop.plex
The Science Mission Directorate Space Science
Education Resource Directory is a convenient
way to find NASA space science products for
use in classrooms, science museums, planetariums,
and other settings. The resources are organized
by grade level.
http://wise.berkeley.edu/
Created by educators at the University of
Berkely in California, WISE (Web-based Inquiry
Science Environment) free curriculum projects
are designed to complement a teacher’s
current science curriculum, and provide an
exciting and engaging experience for students
in grades 5-12. A web browser is all students
need to take notes, discuss theories, and
organize their arguments… they can even
work from home! The WISE Teacher Area lets
teachers explore new projects and grade students’
work on the Web.
http://www.fi.edu/learn/hotlists/index.php
Franklin Institute Educational Hotlists link
to online resources that science educators
and enthusiasts may find useful. The resources
have been screened to ensure they stimulate
creative science and learning.
http://www.sciencegems.com/
Frank Potter’s Science Gems are for
students, parents, teachers, scientists, engineers
and mathematicians and provide more than 14,000
Science Resources sorted by Category, Subcategory,
and Grade Level.
http://www.kidsnet.org/sfkc/
Developed by the National Public Radio's show,
Science Friday, this resource is
designed for a younger audience, grades 6-8,
and relates the resources to educational benchmarks
for that age group. However, many of the resources
may be applicable to older students.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/
The website of the National Public Radio show,
Science Friday - Making Science User Friendly.
This is a fantastic resource, particularly
for contemporary developments in science.
http://www.compadre.org/
The ComPADRE Digital Library is a network
of free online resource collections
supporting faculty, students, and teachers
in Physics and Astronomy Education.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/science.html
This site provides lesson plans that are related
to New York Times stories. A new lesson plan
is posted each week.
http://sciencestandardslessons.org/index.php
This Bank of Standards Based Lessons is designed
to help PreK - 12 educators increase student
learning specifically in science. It has the
capability of preparing students to demonstrate
their knowledge and skills both on standardized
testing and in daily learning.
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Resources for Teaching in Engineering
http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/pages/mechindex.htm
This site has a large number of animations
of mechanical engineering mechanisms.
http://teachengineering.org/
The TeachEngineering digital library provides
teacher-tested, standards-based engineering
content for K-12 teachers to use in science
and math classrooms.
http://www.asme.org/Education/PreCollege/EngineeringResources/Great_Achievements.cfm/index.htm
This website of the top 10 Great Achievements
of 20th Century Mechanical Engineering provides
teachers with on-line lesson plans and activities
for classroom use, links to feature articles
in Mechanical Engineering magazine and ordering
information for the free companion videotape.
http://www.tryengineering.org/lesson.php
TryEngineering offers a variety of lesson
plans that align with education standards
to allow teachers and students to apply engineering
principles in the classroom.
http://www.free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=43&res_feature_request=1
This site provides Science and Engineering
teaching and learning resources from federal
agencies.
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Resources for Teaching in Mathematics, Science
and the Arts
http://www.hippocampus.org/
Hippocampus, developed by the Monterey Institute
of Technology and Education, offers free multimedia
lessons and course materials to help with
high school instruction, homework and studies.
http://oyc.yale.edu/
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access
to a selection of introductory courses taught
by distinguished teachers and scholars at
Yale University. The aim of the project is
to expand access to educational materials
for all who wish to learn.
http://cnx.org/
Connexions is an environment created by Rice
University in Houston, Texas for collaboratively
developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing
scholarly content on the Web. The Connexions
content contains educational materials for
everyone — from children to college
students to professionals — organized
in small modules that are easily connected
into larger collections or courses.
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable
collection of peer reviewed and selected higher
education, online learning materials, catalogued
by registered members and a set of faculty
development support services. MERLOT's vision
is to be a premiere online community where
faculty, staff, and students from around the
world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
The OpenLearn website gives free access to
U.K.’s Open University course materials.
Here you will find hundreds of free study
units, each with a discussion forum. Teachers
and other professionals working in education
around the world are using these open resources
to keep their knowledge up to date, benefit
from the latest educational thinking, gain
new knowledge or find teaching materials they
can use in their courses.
http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page
WikiEducator, sponsored by the Commonwealth
of Learning, aims to build a thriving and
sustainable global community dedicated to
the design, development and delivery of free
content for learning in realization of a free
version of the education curriculum by 2015.Online
Resources for Teacher Education,
Development and Information-Sharing
http://www.edutopia.org/
The film director, George Lucas, created this
site to be “a place where kids and parents,
teachers and administrators, policy makers
and the people they serve, all are empowered
to change education for the better. A place
where children become lifelong learners and
develop the technical, cultural, and interpersonal
skills to succeed in the twenty-first century.
A place of inspiration, aspiration, and an
urgent belief that improving education improves
the world we live in.”
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