Useful Websites
Chapter 5. Science in the School Curriculum
High School Hub
http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm
The High School Hub is a noncommercial portal to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It features learning activities, an ongoing teen poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, science, social studies, world languages, arts, health, music, and technology.
EDC K-12 Science Curriculum Center
http://www2.edc.org/cse/work/k12dissem/materials.asp
The curriculum center is a library of the featured K-12 science curricula. Each curriculum at the site is linked to a brief description; a longer, more substantial profile of the curriculum; and publication information. From this site you will come in contact with dozens of K – 12 science curricula and be directed to the curriculum website.
National Science Education Standards
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/
You can access the Standards at this site and read them online.
Middle School Resources
http://ericeece.org/midlink.html
This page lists Internet sites that focus on (or have some section that focuses on) middle level education or the development of adolescents
BSCS Science and Technology:
http://www.bscs.org/curriculumdevelopment/middle/comprehensive/scitech/
This is a multi-level, thematic middle school program integrating life, earth-space and physical sciences in the context of themes and issues that have meaning for science students.
Investigating Earth Systems:
http://www.agiweb.org/ies/
IES is a standards-based, Earth science curriculum for the middle grades developed by the American Geological Institute.