Algebra/Chemistry Mixture Problems  
This site shows a lesson plan outline on the topic of solving quantitative chemistry problems using  algebraic methods.  The approach used is non-traditional and involves using marshmallows and raisins.

Dow/NSTA Summer Workshop  
Projects developed by teachers participating in the 1997 and earlier Dow/NSTA Summer Workshop. The site is no longer being updated but the lesson plans are still available.  The first example plan from 1997 was looked at investigating the topic of Esters and perfumes and the site provided ideas for a series of lessons on this. 

Other interesting looking topics from the 1997 pack are To Gel or Not To Gel – preparation of a reusable ice pack; How Degrading! -  Looking at parts per million. 

The series of lesson plans is quite extensive. For teachers of secondary classes.

Chemical Detective seeks to capture students enthusiasm for forensic science and use this as a vehicle to teach facets of chemical, physical and biological science.  Aimed at students in secondary classes with some material being most suitable for Grades 10 through to 12.

Chemystery: An interactive guide to Chemistry         
A virtual Chemistry textbook developed to provide an interactive guide for High school Chemistry students, this was created by a group of students for the 1996 ThinkQuest Internet Contest. CHEMystery enables students to further expand their Chemistry knowledge, and interact with USENET news groups. It is a novel supplement to traditional Chemistry textbooks, since there is also an on-line search facility, and audio accompaniments (WAV format) to supplement many sections.

Chem4kids
Information on matter, atoms, elements, reactions and biochemistry, written for students.

Forensic Science - an easily navigable and highly readable site, this was created to provide the layperson with an easy understanding of what Forensic Science entails.  There are brief but informative explanations of some of the main disciplines within Forensic Science, accompanied by suitably chosen graphics.  These include: firearms and tool mark identification; Forensic Psychiatry and profiling; questioned document examination (for example, forgery, counterfeiting, handwriting analysis); Criminal Law; personal identification (such as, fingerprints, DNA analysis, odontology); Forensic photography and crime scene processing.  There is also information on careers in Law enforcement (USA based), and a suggested reading list with some links to other Forensics sites.  Mainly for use with secondary students. 

Forensic entomology
This site was created in order to assist in the education of crime scene technicians, homicide investigators, coroners, medical examiners, and others involved in the death investigation process.

Mathematics and molecules
This website gives students, teachers, and the general public, information about the rapidly growing fields of molecular modelling and related areas.  There is a segment for K-12 students that relates basic concepts in Mathematics to molecular modelling as well as some online experiments. Experimental versions of two hypermedia textbooks are now on-line.

Model Chemistry Lab Software
Free download of an evaluation version of the software. Includes Acid-Base Titration, Fractional Crystallization, Specific Heat, Gravimetric and Volumetric Analysis  

Periodic table
This is a very useful site for upper secondary students.  You can print off your own periodic table and find out all the information you might ever need to know about each element.  It has pictures as well so you can get an idea of what the element looks like.

SMILE chemistry
A collection of 200 lesson plans.

Southwest Biotechnology and Informatics Centre
The Web site offers a wide variety of K-12 education activities such as iDNAfication, in which participants aim to solve a mystery crime using forensic techniques; PCR Dash, which illustrates a DNA reduplication procedure called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR); and Outbreak!, an interactive Web game that teaches students to use microbiology skills as the screen for pathogens on a budget of $165.

Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry  

This link to the U.S. Geological Survey site shows how chemists and geologists use analytical chemistry to do a range of tasks like determine the age of the Earth; show that an extraterrestrial body collided with the Earth; predict volcanic eruptions; observe atmospheric change over millions of years; document damage by acid rain, pollution of the Earth's surface and much more.  An easy to use site with a lot of information but definitely for senior students as the information is very thorough in content.

Who Dunnit
This site has information on practical information relating to forensic science.  There is also a crime scene where students can search for clues ans solve the crime.

Who Stole the Minister's Malibu
Enter this competition which uses a forensic scenario.  The 2002 competition has now finished, but information on the activities is still there.

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Energy and Change

Ask Eric Physics Lessons            
A list of lesson plans from the Ask Eric site.

Energy quest
This site, from the California Energy Commission, has many energy related activities for both students and teachers.  It includes games, projects, energy lesson plan links and information on different types of energy.

Galileo Science Project  
Describes the life and work of Galileo and the Science of his time. A fascinating site for those interested in the historical development of Science. Mainly for secondary students

Launceston College online resources
Jason Dicker, Launceston College, has established an excellent website with lots of useful listings for teachers and students. It is well worth a look. Jason would appreciate feedback.  

Origin Energy Efficiency Tips
This site has an energy calculator and tips for saving energy.

Physics.org
A site from the Institute of Physics with a great deal of information.  Of particular interest is the interactive Physics Life section where you explore a cartoon streets and get information about he physics behind how things work.  Other options include a constants and equations page and the facility to ask questions.

SMILE physics 
A collection of 200 lesson plans.

Weird Research, Anomalous Physics  
(Bill Beaty's Home Pages) An exciting and informative collection of articles and links for weird research and anomalous Physics is found here. There are many articles on antigravity, neondymium (rare earth magnets), tesla coils, and ball lightning and related topics. Detailed plans (with diagrams) of construction projects on these, and similar topics such as unnatural hologram, electrostatics projects, and Science museum devices, are also available. The author provides some great motivational ideas for teaching topics such as electrostatics, gravitation, and magnetism. Includes Science versus Science Fiction and  alternative energy resources.

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Life and Living

Actionbioscience
Short essays on issues relating to biology/the environment.

Biology4kids
Information on cells, microbes, plants, vertebrates and invertebrates, complete with lots of photos.

Cloud Forests
A visually impressive website which would be a good resource for Environmental Science students or students looking at issues to do with rainforests and their conservation.  Most suitable for middle to upper secondary classes.

Dragon fly  
For primary & secondary students, this site explores Webs of Life, Animal Communication, Ice and Snow, Skeletons (including a virtual dinosaur dig), Flight and Trees. It is being added to frequently. 

EELink Endangered Species
This site links to material on endangered species of the US.  It contains links to extensive amounts of information on all aspects of this topic and many links to information for other areas of the world including Australia and New Zealand. One link contains information on the world’s rarest mammals and includes the northern hairy nosed wombat. The whole site is  well set out with lots of direction clearly evident as to what is available and the site was easy to navigate – well worth a look for any high school student.

Environment Australia's Education site
Environment Australia’s home page with links to green facts, schools activities and kits, and tips with lots of ideas for activities.  There is also teacher’s section. It may be a little hard to find what you want but it would be worth a look for general environmental information.

Environmental data bases for schools
This database aims to provide Secondary School pupils with objective information on the co-existence of Engineering and the Environment. It covers such topics as acid rain, global warming, and alternative energy

Franklin Institute  
Undersea and Oversee: the past, present, and future of our oceans
Understand the oceans by taking an on-line voyage. Respect the undersea world and accept the challenge to oversee the ocean’s future. In the Year of the Ocean this site is well worth a visit.

Ms Hartman's anatomy & physiology class
A site with many links which was created for a sophomore class to learn about the human systems.

Oceans alive
An Australian site with information on whales and whale spotting, different marine habitats and the oceans in general.

SMILE biology
A collection of 200 lesson plans

Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
This award-winning interactive program is part of the "Whole Frog" project. You can interactively dissect a (digitised) frog named Fluffy, make movies, and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game. The interactive Web pages are available in a number of languages.  Links to other FrogWatch sites. 

Web Resource for Genetics, Bioethics, and Biotechnology
This site provides a large number of connections which give information on genetics and biotechnology.  Most material is aimed at Grade 9 and above but there are ideas for introducing genetics and biotechnology material to younger children on one or two links.

Your genes, your choice
An online book detailing 7 scenarios/ethical dilemmas involving genetic engineering.  Contains lots of background genetics information.

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Earth and Beyond

Aboriginal Astronomy - Questacon
Australia's indigenous peoples have a rich heritage of astronomical observation and story telling.  This website at Questacon contains stories from Questacon's book 'The Emu in the Sky', a collection of Aboriginal astronomy stories from all around Australia.

Cascades Volcano Observatory
This Web site has real time data, photo archives, and more than enough information on the active volcano range. A stopping point for students and teachers looking for volcano data. 

Earth & moon viewer
View the earth from different points in space.  See day and night and the view from above certain cities, or form particular satellites.

Frankin's Forecast
This Franklin Institute site links to a host of weather related activities and information.

Learn about Meteorology  
This general link to the bureau of meteorology site has animated models, quizzes, games and a variety of non computer based tasks.

Mars Pathfinder Mission  
A range of information about this mission. For primary & secondary students.  Ask questions of the Mars Pathfinder team.

NASA Kids
This site contains news, activities, stories, quizzes, information, and games about space and space travel.

NASA lunar prospector
This is an excellent site with many possible uses for senior primary and secondary students. It gives quality information about what is happening with the data collected by the lunar prospector and has a variety of links to other information about the moon. 

NASA Quest  
NASA Quest is a rich resource for educators, kids and space enthusiasts who are interested in meeting and learning about NASA people and the national space program. Have possibilities for most age groups. 

NASA Spacelink          
An aeronautics and space resource for education - one of the range maintained by NASA. Has a hot topics link which can give you interesting and up to date information. The Cool Picks site also looked good – one segment the Imagine Mars link - contained ideas for a cross curricula unit.

NSSDC's Planetary Image Archives
All the images presented on NSSDC's (National Space Science Data Center - US) Image Catalog are in the public domain.  Images are sorted by planet and there is a fact sheet about each planet.  There is also a mission index and a search utility.

Our Place in Space
This category relates mainly to astronomy and contains links to resources about space and space exploration.

OzSkywatch - Educator's Page
The material provided is intended to be useful for educators Australia-wide, but uses the Victorian Science Curriculum and Standards Famework II (2000) document as a guide.  Adjust the words where necessary to suit your state or territory's syllabi.  It lists Learning Activities & Opportunities in 2002, provides an entry point to the OzSkywatch.com email lists, upcoming conferences and public events, and online educational resources.

Project atmosphere
Students from the USA, Canada and Australia conduct weather activities and share their work. Students can demonstrate leadership, be involved in group work and take part in international projects on-line.  

The Daily Planet
An educational site on weather, this offers teachers and students online guides to: Meteorology, remote sensing, student projects and classroom activities. Student projects and classroom activities provide everything for teachers to use these lessons interactively with the Internet. A weather visualiser gives students the opportunity to customise their own maps and images of the USA, with helper sections to give details and information to provide you with the background necessary to correctly interpret these images. Weather World 2010 is an information resource on weather features, and includes details of some world weather patterns, economic impact, and predictability of weather.

The nine planets
The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.

View from satellite
Allows you to view the Earth as currently seen from a number of satellites. 

Visible Earth      
View images of the earth on this NASA site.

Weather science hotlist
The Franklin Institute’s links to weather information.

Web weather for kids
Four weather practical activities for students to try, complete with teacher tips.

Whoosh - Space for Kids - ABC
Part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Space Gateway, this website contains a gallery of space pictures that children can contribute to, online space videos, fact sheets about each of the planets, interactive shockwave games and puzzles, an interview with Andy Thomas, and a constellation game to assist children in identifying groups of stars.

Zoom Dinosaurs (Enchanted Learning)
Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension.

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Working scientifically (including ideas for student investigations)

Access Excellence mysteries
A series of interactive mysteries where students progressively collect information to solve a science based mystery.  Needs good literacy for students to use independently.

Cyber Fair         
Suggests the steps involved in completing a science project.  Also has some sample projects.  Designed for grades 3-6.

Exposing the true colours of Tasmanian eucalypts
A research investigation by Ling San Lau.  This project has won state and national awards in various science competitions.

Science fair central
Hints for completing US style science fair projects (research investigations).

Science fairs homepage
Links to many ideas for science and technology research projects.

The National Centre for Student Research          
Visit the E-Journal of Student Research to see reports on some of the research that students have carried out.

The Science Club      
A selection of science demonstrations that could be used as science fair projects, plus science fair ideas. Links to general information as well.

Twin groves hands on science fair
An American school site with lots of suggestions for completing a science fair project/research investigation.  Includes information on choosing a topic (with lists of ideas), scientific method, charts and graphs, referencing and more

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Edible/Inedible Experiments Archive  
A variety of activities, edible and inedible, to help make links with science concepts. Age ranges for the activities are suggested and seem to be in the primary area with a number for the K to 3 area.  Explanations of the science are included.  Many of these activities are available elsewhere but the presentation is a little different.

Exploratorium activities            
Over 30 activities, suitable to do at home, from the Exploratorium’s Science Explorer books.

Double Helix Science Experiments      
Activities from previous issues of Double Helix magazine.

Home experiments from Professor Shakhashiri
About 12 experiments from professor Shakhashiri’s lectures

Newton's apple
A list of science try-its (practical activities) from the US television show.

Nye labs.com
Includes some home demos suitable for use with students – physical, planetary and life sciences.

Reach out! Michigan
Visit the Hands-on science sections for long lists of both science lessons and quick activities.

Reeko's mad scientist lab
A varied collection of practical activities.  If you venture into the ‘What you’re still here?’ section you will finda ctivities grouped by topic.

Santa Barbara Science           
A collection of ideas on a number of exciting topics.  

Sofweb family science activities
Has many activities which use simple materials and which students could complete at home.  Activities grouped  to suit early, middle and later.

The Lab Part of the Schools online Science site developed by Sheffield Hallam University

The Mechanical Toys Page            
Mechanical toys that you can make yourself.  

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Online Activities & learning objects

Classroom activities
This is a list of classroom activities that are available via the Internet, both Australian (mainly Western Australia) and international.  Includes activities for other subject areas as well as science.

The GLOBE Program  
GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. For Students, GLOBE provides the opportunity to learn by:

• Taking scientifically valid measurements in the fields of atmosphere, hydrology, soils, and land cover/phenology - depending upon their local curricula
• Reporting their data through the Internet to the student data archive
• Creating maps and graphs on the free interactive Web site to analyse data sets
• Collaborating with scientists and other GLOBE students around the world

Discover Online Modules objects developed for Tasmanian teachers and students.

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Lesson Banks and Science Teaching Resources

Community Learning Network  
An alphabetic list of links to information on numerous topics  

Ask eric homepage  
A collection of over 3000 resources, including Internet sites, educational organizations, and electronic discussion groups.  

Access excellence activities collections
Includes sections on activities and events that have shaped science, high school biology classroom activities, mystery spot series and a searchable activities-to-go where you can choose the topic and grade level.

Aussie School House
This site is not specifically devoted to science learning but includes projects, community activities, events, joint ventures and research.

Case studies in science
The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Case Collection.  Real life scenarios which can be used in science teaching.  These are very much upper secondary/university materials, but teachers will find many interesting ideas and information to incorporate into lessons.

Cody's science education zone
A collection of teaching ideas for assorted topics.

Curriculum Links for Science Teachers
This site provides annotated resources for biology. chemistry, weather and astronomy, and wildlife and environment. Teaching resources target a variety of learning styles. A mega-site with a wealth of helpful resources

Edhelper.com
This site contains hundreds of lesson plans, webquests and worksheets for science and other subject areas.

Education World
A good number of links to hands on science lesson plans for all age groups.  Material seems to be relevant and appropriate.  This is part of a much larger website with lesson plans for all learning areas, professional development material and reference material.

Eisenhower National Clearing House for Mathematics and Science
An excellent link site for Maths and Science teachers; this contains lessons, activities, and tales of classroom success. Users can also find: Journal articles, professional development sites and standards documents to put theory behind the action. The site includes valuable Mathematics and Science Internet links for educators, and World Wide Web sites to either supplement existing curricula, or integrate the Internet into classroom practice.

Encarta lesson collection
For Teachers, a wide range of lesson plans for students of all grades. Well worth viewing and contributing to this site.  

Eurekalert!
This site allows access to current research in Science, Medicine and Engineering. The visitor enters this news server through a Table of Contents which contains links to numerous world-wide Web sites. The news releases for the previous fortnight can be searched by topic or organisation. The archive index contains the full history of news releases. Annotated bibliographies of research articles are accessed via these links, but to gain full access to most documents the reader must subscribe to the particular journal.  

Global Schoolhouse
A site for teacher to share ideas and focus on collaborative learning approaches.  The section on creating your own newspaper looked interesting. This is a general site and contains applications to other areas besides Science.  

Kapili.com
Information on a number of science topics.  Includes the biology physics and chem4kids sites, which are written for students.

Leveraging learning
About a dozen units of work  on various topics. Range from grades 2 to 8.

McREL science lesson plans
Links to lesson plans and activities for a variety of topics and ability levels.

Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Here is an outstanding site for information about Nobel Prize winners.
The screen is divided into three parts: interactive icons; a quick search facility; and a display window. Visitors can search under the conventional headings: Physics; Peace; Physiology and Medicine; Literature; Economics; and Chemistry. A scroll further down reveals other categories, such as women recipients, and Nobel Prize winners, awarded to individuals with sometimes humorous and often dubious or obscure research. The database is accessed through an alphabetical index or through the quick search option. The results are presented in table form with hyperlinks to more information about the specific recipient. Within each Bibliography there are links to journals, other print resources, and specific Internet sites.

Schools Online Science Homepage        
Includes a library of links to science information and practical activities.  

Scicentral
This is a massive site, being a gateway to some 50 000 other sites. It is kept up to date by professional scientists whose mission it is to identify and centralize the most valuable science resources on-line.  

Science Hobbyist
A huge number of  interesting and different links to all sort of science websites including some with information about famous scientists and others such as the NASA and Volcano world site.  

Science netlinks
A collection of science lesson plans for K-12.

SMILE
A collection of over 800 lesson plans for biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Teachers.net Lesson Bank    
A site where teachers share teaching ideas and lesson plans.  

Universe science
From the University of Sydney, Curriculum resources for each of the 5 science syllabuses. Resources (content and pedagogy) are provided for topics within each syllabus. Resources include: links to appropriate web sites; identified software; classroom activities; and examples of application within the teaching and learning processes.  

Web 101
A collection of webquest type lesson plans organised by topic.

The Webquest Page
Numerous webquests are available on this site.  They are sorted by subject area and grade level.

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Science for schools (for students and teachers)

ARS Science 4 Kids
This site is from the Agricultural Research Service and is aimed at students aged 8 to 13. It introduces various projects of ARS scientists through a collection of stories. These stories are short, illustrated and written with young readers in mind. The site is linked to the ARS magazine and has a search engine.  

Cool Science for Curious Kids
Students can explore animal classifications, dust particles in the air, the stages of the life of a butterfly and which plants to use in a garden salad. There are questions and activities for the curious.  

Cyber science
CSIRO presents experiments, puzzles, magazines and downloadable media.  

Classroom Antarctica  The huge education website prepared by the Australian Antarctic Division.

Double Helix Science Club  The homepage of CSIRO’s Double Helix Club.

Goscience
A Victorian education department site with cool answers to the questions kids want to ask.  Topical and interesting information including topics such as skating and surfing.  Recommended for Grade 8 and above but could be useful for upper primary  

Labsalive
An interesting site for students interested in incorporating global perspectives into science.  

Madsci Network
An excellent site with a variety of activities, a random knowledge generator, a library of more links and an Ask a Scientist site.  

Science Careers

Interview with Scientists   Interviews with scientists compiled by the Australian Academy of Science.  

Careers for women in science A Street-wise comic to encourage young women to consider a science career  

Stories of inspirational Australian Scientists

Women in Science
A Thinkquest entry.  This site includes the International Registry for Women in Science, Electronic Field Trips, a Mentoring Area, online Interviews, Biographies and more.

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Science Curriculum ideas

Australian Curriculum Studies Association
This site provides forums for the exchange of information on curriculum development and is a great source of materials and resources. Of particular interest is the National Middle Schooling Project.  

New South Wales Board of Studies  
This site has syllabus information for New South Wales.  It includes HSC exam papers.  

Project 2061 is the long-term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science working to reform K-12 science, mathematics and technology education nationwide. The Benchmarks online section details of what students from Kindergarten to grade 12 should know.  

Sakatchewan science curriculum guide
Middle years science curriculum.  Includes teaching activities and ideas.

Sofweb science in schools  
SOFWeb has become one of the richest and most heavily used educational reference web sites in the world. It not only carries information produced specially for Victorian schools, but also points to the best resources in other states and countries.

TASSAB  
The Tasmanian Secondary Assessment Board provides curriculum, standards, assessment and certification for all upper and senior secondary students in Tasmania.

Texas Education Network (TENET) (Teachers)
(Click on Resource Centre, then Curriculum Resources)
Interesting site giving considerable information on the effective educational use of the Internet  

Victoria sample science program  
This website contains a lot of useful information. It has early years, middle years and later years units. It provides information on Scope and Sequence, Learning outcomes, Teaching and Learning, Assessment, Resources

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Equipment & instructions, including laboratory information & procedures (some sites include practical activities and teaching ideas)

Alternatives to the use of animals in school
The Humane Society International has up to date alternatives to animal use in teaching. The materials are available for loan and the only cost to you is return postage.  

BOM weather kits
This site has instructions for kits that the bureau has available for loan to Tasmanian Schools  

Chemical Safety
Information about health hazards, precautions, safe handling.

Intel QX3 computer microscope
Colleen Harper SEO of Computing has developed some software for the Intel Microscope, this website contains useful information and ideas

Van de Graaff Electrostatic generator Page
Includes hints and demonstration ideas, debugging, build your own, explanation of how it works.  

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Science centres/museums

Questacon
Voted in the top 100 sites in February 1996, this site contains a wide range of hands-on Science activities for students at all levels. Apart from these activities, it is possible to take a virtual tour of Questacon or click on What’s New to find out the latest Science exhibitions.

Exploratorium, USA
The Museum of Science Art and Human Perception.  An interesting link to a site on sport science, which would be useful to get high school kids interested.  Includes a section on skateboard science that was informative.

The Franklin Institute Science Museum
Lots of online exhibits to look at including one on Ben Franklin himself which had a lot of information, as well as some links to ideas for activities which were a little different. The information seemed suitable for upper primary as well as secondary students.

Ontario Science Centre
Have you ever wanted to know if you can make a chimp chuckle?  There is information on this unusual topic and more in the SciZone which is accessible through this site. There are also games, suggested experiments and more.

American Museum of Natural History
A number of online scientific exploration are available at this Museums Web site.

Tasmanian Science Education Centres 
A link through the Tasmania discover website to the various resource centres in Tasmania.  Included is the Forest Education centre, Marine Discovery centre, the Minerals Council, the Hydro Hands on Energy Discovery Centre and CSIROSEC.

Miami Museum of Science  
Has a number of useful activities in the Education,/online educational resources section.

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Useful science pages

ABC Science
The same as above

Australian Institute of Petroleum        
The homepage of the AIP, this site contains fact sheets and educational resources which can be ordered.  

Bureau of Meteorology Australia
This is the Bureau of Meteorology Australia site.

CSIRO marine research
CSIRO Marine Research is helping Australians understand its oceans by conducting research in the sustainable use of Australia's marine resources, the ocean's role in climate, and the effective conservation of the marine ecosystem integrity.

Environment Australia
A very useful site for any material on the Environment and the resources available through environment Australia.  

Planet Ark
Focused on the environment, the main menu includes World Environment News, free environmental software, specific Australian data on the environment and recycling. These are updated regularly. 

Protecting Heritage Places
Detailed processes to enable students to look at conserving areas of natural heritage value.

Scitech Resources  
Links to key US government sites

UN atlas of the oceans
The Atlas is an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability.

Science Images/videoclips

BioMedia associates
Biology photo essays.

Brainpop          
A collection of cartoon videoclips on science topics.

NASA's Visible earth
A searchable database of images, visualisations and animations of the earth.

NOAA photolibrary
A collection of Antarctic images.

Picture Australia
Images of Australiana.

Powers of ten
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude

Science image online
These are from the CSIRO image library, which specialises in science and nature.  The images on this site are copyright. They are available for media stories about CSIRO, private and educational use at no charge

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Science Education Organisations

ASTA    Australian Science Teachers Association

Science Competitions/Awards

BHP Billiton Science Awards
Information about the awards available to Australian students and teachers.

Eureka prizes
The awards are administered by the Australian Museum, and have sections open to students as well as scientists.  The schools prizes are valued at around $11 000, and involve students carrying out some research and publishing it as a website.

Rio Tinto Australian science olympiads
Aimed at Australia’s top students, there are biology, chemistry and physics Olympiads.

Thinkquest       
Visit one of the Thinkquest libraries to view websites which have been set up by students as part of the Thinkquest competition.  Many sites are of a high standard and have resources and information which would be useful to teachers.

Tasmanian Science Talent Search
The TSTS is open to all age groups from K-12.  It is organised by STAT, the Science Teachers Association of Tasmania.  Sections include: posters, creative writing, working models, computer presentations, photographic essays, science games, technology challenge and research investigations.

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