QUICK FIND  Alternate Assessment ChildFind Clearinghouse Districts ePDC FDLRS Florida Education Channel Florida Legislature Florida School Leaders FloridaLearns Academy Gateway Migrant Education Press Room Risk Management Safe and Drug-Free Schools SEDNET US House of Rep US Senate       Home | Calendar | Showcase | FEC | ePDC | Hot Topics | Resources | Contact Us | Site Map  Subject Area Pages Science Professional Articles: Framework for Conceptual Change by Esther L. Zirbel http://aer.noao.edu/AERArticle.php?issue=5§ion=2&article=6 Learning, Concept Formation, and Conceptual Change by Esther L. Zirbel http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/~zirbel/ScienceEd/Learning-and-Concept-Formation.pdf Teaching to Promote Deep Understanding and Instigate Conceptual Change by Esther L. Zirbel http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/~zirbel/ScienceEd/Teaching-for-Conceptual-Change.pdf Conceptual Change by Joan Davis http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/ConceptualChange.htm NASA Websites: NASA Astrobiology Institute http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/ TERC Astrobiology http://astrobio.terc.edu/index.html NASA Astrobiology http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/ NASA's Center for Distance Learning http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/9-12/features/F_Distance_Learning_9-12.html Kennedy Space Center Educational Resource Center http://education.ksc.nasa.gov/erc/materials.htm NASA's Imagine The Universe http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html Hubble site: great pictures http://hubblesite.org/ For Kids Only-Earth Science Enterprise http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/ NASA Kids Club http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html NASA CORE: Educational Distribution Center for Multimedia Materials http://education.nasa.gov/edprograms/core/home/index.html NASA Space Science Educational Resource Center http://teachspacescience.org/cgi-bin/ssrtop.plex NASA-StarChild A Learning Place for Young Astronomers http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html NASA - Return to Flight http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/rtf/thingsWork.htm NASA - Quest http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ NASA - Astro-Venture: Search for and design a habitable planet http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/astrobiology/astroventure/avhome.html Other Science Related Websites: Science: Optimizing Academic Returns (SOAR) http://www.paec-soar.org/ Science Collaboration: immersion inquiry innovation (Sc:iii) http://www.paec-sc-iii.org/ Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids http://www.scitoys.com/ Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception http://www.exploratorium.edu/ The Educator's Reference Desk http://www.eduref.org/index.shtml The Geological Society of America Free Teacher Resources http://www.geosociety.org/educate/resources.htm Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Hands on Astronomy Activities for Kids http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/the_book/index.html Cell Lesson: K-8 http://www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/classes/lab7/index.html Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Biology http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/ Project Dragonfly http://www.projectdragonfly.org/index.php Astrobiology magazine http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php Astrobiology.com http://www.astrobiology.com Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) http://www.seti.org The Astrobiology Index http://www.lyon.edu/projects/marsbugs/ Astrobiology 101: Exploring the Living Universe http://www.astrobiology.com/adastra/astrobiology.101.html Article about Fossil Evidence on Mars http://www.astrobiology.com/adastra/its.dead.jim.html Article about The Search for Extremophiles on Earth and Beyond http://www.astrobiology.com/adastra/extremophiles.html Article-Earth is a Planet, Too http://www.astrobiology.com/adastra/earth.is.a.planet.html Article-Life from the Stars http://www.astrobiology.com/adastra/ex.astra.html Student's Guide to Astrobiology http://www.astrobiology.com/student.html Science Lesson Plans Educators National Science Standards and Lesson Bank http://www.sciencestandardslessons.org/ Discovery Channel Lesson Plans http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/ Science NetLinks Lesson Plans http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/matrix.cfm Awesome Library - Science http://www.awesomelibrary.org/scienceg.html The Dynamic Earth - Smithsonian Museum of Natural History - Multimedia http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/main_frames.html StarDate Online: Beyond the Solar System: links, free downloads, & other resources http://stardate.org/resources/btss/request.html Free Software NASA'S Glenn Research Center a series of interactive computer programs for students http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/freesoftware_page.htm World Wind: lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ Free Posters Sun-Earth Day package includes posters, spectrograph to make, extra credit space math problems http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/promotional/kit.php Mars/Earth Comparison Poster http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/ Content for this page was collected by Mona Ramirez, PAEC Consultant.