Favorite Math and Science Internet
Resources
Aloyce Hudson
Geometry Sites
Geometry
Online
- Intended Audience: High School Geometry
Teachers and Students
- Site Description: Contains a variety of
interactive Web-based lessons and activities that Cynthia Lanius
used with her geometry class at Milby High in Houston. Be sure to
check out this site!
Fractals
and Scales
- Intended Audience: Math students grades
10-12
- Site Description: This tutorial by David G.
Green of Charles Sturt University is an excellent introduction to
fractals. Also contains further reading and on-line
resources.
Geometry
- Intended Audience: Geometry
Students
- Site Description: This site includes lessons
on angles and lines, constructions, measurement formulas,
conditionals, sample problems, stereograms, and even a glossary. I
highly recommend this one!
Pre-Algebra /Algebra
Sites
Ask
Dr. Math
- Intended Audience: Math students grades
K-12
- Site Description: College students and their
professors helping students with their math questions. Based at
Swarthmore College by their students, staff, and faculty. Students
are encouraged to send in their math questions.
Matrices
- Intended Audience: Algebra Students grades
7-10
- Site
Description: In this
interactive matrices lesson, you'll learn what matrices are, how
to display and work with data in matrices. Great
lesson!
Permutations
and Combinations
- Intended Audience:Math Students grades
9-12
- Site Description: Interactive information
about subsets, permutations, combinations, pentominoes, Fibonacci
Sequences and more from the Amazing Mathematical Object Factory
formerly known as (ECOS). Includes a list of relevant sites to
discrete mathematics education K-12. Great site!
Exactly
How Is Math Used In Technology?
- Intended Audience: Middle School and High
School Math Students
- Site Description: An interactive table of
examples that link basic mathematical principals to everyday
technology and occupations. A neat site to make math lessons
relevant!
PBS
Mathline: Online Interaction
- Intended Audience: Math Teachers and Students
grades 9-12
- Site Description: PBS Mathline provides a
collection of interactive lesson plans from their television math
projects focusing on Algebra. Good stuff!
Solving
Linear Regression Problems Using the TI 83 Graphing
Calculator
- Intended Audience: Math/Science Teachers and
Students grades 9-12
- Site Description: This excellent lesson plan
by David G. Hyatt of Oak Creek, Wisconsin gives a set of real-life
data values for students to graph, as well as calculate, then
graph the line of regression.
Apply
Lesson Ideas: Applications of Mathematics 9 and 10
- Intended Audience: Math Teachers and Students
grades 9-10
- Site Description: The Apply Learning Network
provides a collection of 16 high school math lessons that connect
classroom learning with real life workplace applications.
Excellent lessons. Don't miss this one!
Science Sites
Virtual
Autopsy
- Intended Audience: Science, Earth Science,
Biology classes grades 7-12
- Site
Description: This
stunning National Geographic site offers a "virtual autopsy" of a
teenage girl sacrificed and preserved five centuries ago to the
Inca gods on a mountaintop in Peru. A "virtual climb" on an Andes
expedition is included. The site also links to Ice treasures of
the Inca, a chronicle of the mummy's discovery. This one is
excellent!
The
Hidden Killers
- Intended Audience: Science/ Biology classes
grades 9-12
- Site
Description: This
ThinkQuest site is all about deadly viruses. Created by students,
the content covers virus basics and human defenses, virus
profiles, and the military uses of viruses. Even includes
educational games and a glossary. Superior!
An
Introduction to Cancer: A Primer for High School
Students
- Intended Audience: Science Students grades
9-12
- Site Description: An interactive lesson on
cancer. Includes symptoms, treatment and side effects, usage
statistics, and a "virtual classroom." Excellent
lesson!
Surviving
Aids
- Intended Audience:Science/Biology/ Math
Teachers and Students grades 11-12
- Site Description: This Nova on Line
interactive site on Aids includes fighting back, HIV in action,
searching for a vaccine, aids in perspective, virus fighters,
world maps, FAQs, help, resources, and a teacher's guide. Mentions
sexual contact. Great site for older students!
An
Interactive Guide to Massachusetts Snakes
- Intended Audience: Science/ Biology Students
grades 6-12
- Site Description : This
interactive snake database includes snake history, mythology, and
more. Great images and text of 14 different snakes. Kids will love
this one!
Those
Powerful Hormones
- Intended Audience: Biology Teachers and
Students grades 9-10
- Site Description: This lesson plan by Ann
Nelson is designed to introduce high school students to the
Endocrine System of the human body. Good lesson.
Acid
Rain: A Student's First Sourcebook
- Intended Audience:Earth Science classes grades
6-10
- Site Description: This site from The
Environmental Protection Agency introduces acid rain, its acidity,
effects, what can be done, 9 experiments, activities, tips and
internet resources. Excellent site!
Pictures
of Space
- Intended Audience:Science Teachers and
Students K-12
- Site Description:This site, from NASA,
includes some of the best images of Sun, stars, galaxies, ect.,
most from missions. Enjoy!
Volcanoes
of the World
- Intended Audience: Science/ Earth Science
Teachers and Students grades 4-12
- Site Description: This interactive site
includes information on what's erupting now, volcanoes from other
world's, volcano observatories and even includes volcano movie
clips. Great images! Check out this site!
Amazing
Picture Machine
- Intended Audience:Math and Science Teachers
and Students K-12
- Site Description: This searchable index of
internet graphics, from the North Central Regional Technology in
Education Consortium, will help you find images for your lessons.
Supports a wide variety of topics from historical photos to
science diagrams, includes lesson ideas and search tips.
Excellent!
How Stuff
Works
- Intended Audience: Middle School and High
School Science/ Biology Students
- Site Description:This site is a great place
for students to learn about how things work around them. This site
encourages students to explore electronics, your body, engines and
motors, food, technology, things in the news, etc. Don't miss this
one!
Nye
Labs Online
- Intended Audience: Science Teachers and
Students
- Site Description: This site has a quirky,
inventive approach to science. Includes demos that can be done at
home, information about the TV show, and much more.
Clearinghouses
Cornell
Math and Science Gateway
- Intended Audience:Educators and Students
grades 9-12
- Site Description: This gateway is maintained
by the Cornell Department of Education and provides links to
resources in math and science from astronomy, biology, math,
physics, agriculture, chemistry, earth and environmental science,
health and medicine, and meteorology. Excellent site!
Frank
Potter's Science Gems- Mathematics
- Intended Audience: Mathematics Teachers
K-12
- Site Description : This great clearinghouse
has extensive math lessons on topics including measurement,
functions, discrete math, geometry, logic, pre-algebra, algebra,
trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus, probability and statistics,
math for K-6 and more. I highly recommend this site!
Explorer Home
Page
- Intended Audience: Math and Science Teachers
and Students grades K-12
- Site Description: This site is a collection of
educational resources (instructional software, lab activities,
lesson plans, student created materials...) for math and science
education. Great site!
I Hope You've Enjoyed Visiting My
Math and Science Internet Resources