Information for Current Students and Teachers Engineering Graduate Fellows Enhancing Science Education in South Carolina Schools Back

Science Magic? http://www.me.sc.edu/fs/lyons/GK-12/stuff/science%20magic.htm A collection of pressure and sound related tricks gathered from the Internet.

Animated Engines http://www.keveney.com/Engines.html Very cool animated gif's and explanations about how different types of engines work. Some history too.

MTU GK-12 Science Lesson Plans

Weather Map and Fronts. Programs written by GK-12 Fellow Richardson. (You'll need WinZip)

IEEE Virtual Museum http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/ Pre-college electricity.

Terrific Science http://www.terrificscience.org/lessonexchange/index.shtml Lesson and Lab exchange for elementary, middle, high school and college.

MIMS Hub Lesson Plans http://scssi.scetv.org/. The Midlands Improving Math and Science Hub is a consortium of schools and other educational institutions of Lexington and Richland counties in partnership with business and industry.

ASEE K-12 Center http://www.asee.org/k12smet_ed/default.cfm The ASEE Center for Best Practices in K-12 Science and Math Education.

Triboluminescence http://medicine.wustl.edu/~ysp/MSN/experiments/archive/860029125.Ch.html - Mechanical generation of light by tearing apart chemical bonds of Wintergreen Lifesavers.

Okavango http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/okavango/education/ - Teacher activities for students studying food chains.

EduGateway http://www.edugateway.com/classes/index.htm EduGateway offers a series of classes through the San Diego City School's G.A.T.E. Catalog.

WebQuest http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/ A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Bizarre Stuff You Can Make In Your Kitchen http://home.houston.rr.com/molerat/

NASA Kids http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/kids_index.html John says this site is a great one for the K-12 students.

AllExperts http://www.allexperts.com/ Thousands of volunteer experts are here to answer all your questions!

Trick Shot http://www.ce.gatech.edu/research/projects/computer/Trickshot/trickshot.html Play pool and change friction, elasticity, attractive forces, number of balls, pockets, and initial velocities. (Zipped DOS program)

Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/mainpage.html Hands-on science lessons and quick activities for K-12.

Touch Science Concept http://www.utm.edu/departments/ed/cece/SAMK8.shtml Science activities for K-8.

How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Better than Ask Jeeves.

ITEMS http://www.csiu.k12.pa.us/items/ Science and math education links from some Pennsylvanians.

Discovery Channel http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html Education page from Discovery.com.

Lemon Power http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/ funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/energy/lemon.html Make a battery.

Energy Quest http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/ Energy education site.

Teacher Vision http://www.teachervision.com/index.html?nav Lesson planning, teacher tools, etc from the Learning Network.

Oceanographic Lessons http://www.biol.sc.edu/~coral/ From the USC Biology Department.