General

• New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Science
• Science Standards
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Click on "Websites" to search for online resources by subject.
• MiddleSchoolScience.com Lots of great lesson plans organized by science subject.
• Science Lesson Plans: Junior High and High School
• Resources for Middle School Science Teachers A collection of web sites maintained by 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science teachers across the country.
• Daily Lesson Plan (The New York Times) Great, hands-on, science lesson plans (all fields) submitted by teachers. Over 24 pages of links to lessons with titles like, "Return of the Living Dead" and "Of Electron Bondage".
• The Science Spot Lessons, links, resources, idea-sharing, careers, trivia and technology.
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Science Topics Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.
• Busy Teachers' WebSite K-12 Mainly geared towards science, the site is organized by subject (archaeology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ecology, geology, etc.) and then several links are presented for each.
• Teaching Science with THE WHY FILES Attempts to "portray the world of science for what it is, an important human endeavor". This online teaching tool takes contemporary science news stories and encorporates them with activities such as hands-on projects and interactive quizzes to help students understand the "why" behind many different science topics.
• K-12 Science Education Resources Great links to discussion groups, lesson plans, and projects.

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Biology

• Biology Lesson Organized under "Neuroscience", "Anatomy and Physiology", "Environmental Sciences and Animal Biology".
• Biology Lesson Plans Lessons available for anatomy, biochemistry, botany, cell biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, zoology.
• Biology Lesson Plans Explosion for Tired Teachers
• Virtual Pig Dissection Choose a system to explore and dissect. Quizzes test knowledge. Your computer needs a Flash plug-in to view the site.
• Cells Alive This site contains everything you ever wanted to know about living cells and organisms. Click on "Table of Contents" to easily navigate articles, the site index, links, and teaching tools.
• The Cell Quizzes, lessons, and interactive resources devoted to educating students about the world of cells.
• Microbe Zoo Click on an environment to see what lives there.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Topics A to Z Provides a listing of disease and health topics found on the CDC web site. Each listing is a link that leads to information on that particular item.

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Chemistry

• The Catalyst (Temporarily Unavailable) A resource for finding relevant information for use in the teaching of secondary-level chemistry.
• Busy Teacher : Chemistry Over 25 links to sites jam-packed with chemistry information for K-12.
• Teachnology: Chemistry Great collection of lesson plans.
• EdHelper.com: Chemistry 131 links to great lesson plans.
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Chemistry Lessons Over 60 lesson plans for all levels.
• Science Education: Chemistry Lesson Plans From Georgia State University, this site offers many links to lessons on all aspects of chemistry.
• The Science Spot: Chemistry Lesson Plan Links Each link leads to websites with many chemistry lessons for all grade levels.
• Smile Program Chemistry Index 200 single-concept lessons for middle school chemistry.
• Chemistry Lesson Plans Explosion for Tired Teachers

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Earth Science

• Academy Curricular Exchange Science Intermediate School (6-8) 60 Earth science lessons.
• Academy Curricular Exchange Science High School (9-12) 23 Earth science lessons.
• EdHelper.com: Earth Science Links to 226 lesson plans for all levels.
• Awesome Library: Earth Sciences Many resources for teaching Earth science.
• Mineral Information Institute: Teachers Activities and lessons. You must have Adobe to view the activities.
• Science Spot: Earth Science Lesson Plans
   
• The NOAA Central Library: WINDandSEA Teachers' and Students' Corner This site provides links to over 100 NOAA educational sites as well as links to many other Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric educational sites.
• The Evolution Wing This site is devoted to the study of evolutionary thought and gives advice on how to teach evolution in the classroom. There are links to the "E-volution Forum for Teachers" and The National Center for Science Education (their purpose is to defend the teaching of evolution in public schools).

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Physical Science/Physics

• EdHelper.com: Physical Science Links to 214 lesson plans for all levels.
• Lesson Plans Library: Physical Science Grades 6-12 Discovery.com's collection of interesting lesson plans and activities.
• American Association of Physics Teachers Teaching resources, hot links and the American Journal of Physics.
• Physics Web Collection of online resources provided by the physics community for the physics community.
• TeAch-nology: Physics 40 physics lesson plans.
• Physical World Lesson Plans (The Learning Network) Scroll down to see secondary-level resources.
• It's a Wild Ride A Roller Coaster Design Project. Two teachers describe and illustrate the implementation of a coaster project in their school.

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