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Activities & Resources

Activity 1: Comeback Cans

Amateur Scientist: Vacuum Cleaner Hovercraft

How to Build A Hovercraft

AsapSCIENCE (engaging 1-4 min videos)

Center for Collaborative Action Research

Amazon.com: search for "air-powered puck," "hover air soccer," or "Hover Hockey."

Exploratorium Snackbook: Downhill Race

Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment replicated

PBS Learning Media: Inclined Plane

How Stuff Works: Hybrid cars

HyperPhysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University: Mechanics: Concept maps and explanations

Java Applets on Physics: Select Motion with Constant Acceleration and Newton's Second Law

Museum of Science and Industry ( Chicago): Construction of a Comeback Can

Mystery Mailing Tubes

Nondestructive Testing (NDT) Resource Center: Commercial applications of NDT

PhET Interactive Simulations: Friction (rubbing of irregular molecular surfaces generates heat)

Physics Demonstration: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics (Julien Sprott/University of WI): http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/demobook/intro.htm and http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/wop.htm (see chapter 1, "Motion," 1.2 Comeback Can)

Rube Goldberg Machines: Humor and Unnecessarily Complex Energy Conversion Systems

YouTube: search Rube Goldberg
Wikipedia: Rube Goldberg

Toys in Space II: Video Resource Guide

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics Demonstrations: Paint Can Comeback

University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstration: Cone Rolling Uphill

University of Michigan: Physics Demonstration Catalog: Cone Rolling Uphill

Wake Forest University Physics Demonstration Videos: Mass and Center of Mass

Wikipedia:

Search topics: action research, Galileo (e.g., his work with inclined planes), hybrid vehicles, and Isaac Newton.

Activity 2: The Unnatural Nature and Uncommon Sense of Science

AllPosters.com (search: Science)

AsapSCIENCE

Centre for Science Stories

Contextual Science Teaching: Contextual-Humanistic Approaches

History of Science Society

International Society for the History and Philosophy of Science

International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group

Internet History of Science Sourcebook

Jokes and Science

MacTutor History of Mathematics

MakeBeliefsComix! (Make your own comic strip generator)

Sciencemall-usa

Science Posters Plus

Sources of Science Cartoons (check for copyright and permission to use):

Mark Anderson
Ashleigh Brilliant (Brilliant Thoughts, Pot-Shots, and more)
Nick Downes (see also the books: Big Science and Whatever Happened To 'Eureka'?)
Benita Epstein
CartoonStock
Cartoonist Group: Science
John Chase: Chasetoons Science Humor
Randy Glasbergen, The Better Half (and more)
Sidney Harris at Science Cartoons Plus
Nick D. Kim Nearing Zero
Gary Larson, The Far Side
John McPherson, Close to Home: Physics
- www.physlink.com/Fun/McPherson.cfm
- www.gocomics.com/closetohome
Mark Parisi, Off the Mark
Physlink.com: Physics and Astronomy Fun
Tom Swanson
Bob Thaves: Frank & Earnest

Sources of Science Songs:

Dr. Chordate (various artists)
- http://drchordate.com
- www.cdbaby.com/cd/drchordate
Greg Crowther's Science Song Music
Math and Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) database
- www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE
- http://singaboutscience.org/MASSIVE/findandaddsongs.shtml
Mike Offutt Science CDs (Chemistry Songbag I and II CDs)
- Skylab Song and Element Song
- A Mole Is a Unit
Neuroscience For Kids: Select: Experiment: Brain Songs
Science Song Links
Songs for Teaching: Science Songs
WIRED Science: Top 10 Scientific Music Videos
Science Humor—It's Alive
Story Behind the Science (History of science stories and resources)

Activity 3: Dual-Density Discrepancies

Center for Science in the Public Interest

Conceptual Change Teaching:

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Buoyancy and Fluids

HyperPhysics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University: Fluids

Select "Buoyancy" and "Archimedes Principle"

Java Applets on Physics:

Select "Buoyant Force in Liquids"

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: A Cool Glass of Water: A Mystery (Will an ice cube melt faster in freshwater or salt water? Why or why not?)

New-Skin Products: Liquid Bandage

See also Liquid Bandage Wikipedia page

NSTA Reports, April 2012: Which Is Healthier: Diet Soda or Regular?

PhET Interactive Simulations:

SIMetric.Co.UK: Density tables

Steve Spangler Science Experiments: Density

See "Floating Lemons and Sinking Limes," "Amazing Egg Experiments," and "Seven-Layer Density Column"

University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations: Heat and Fluids

University of Virginia Physics Department: Density HOEs with alcohol, water, salt, and ice plus graphing:

Wake Forest University Physics Department: Physics of Matter videos

Whelmers (e.g., Potato Float and Liquid Rainbow)

Wikipedia:

Search topics: buoyancy, density, estuary, and hydrometer

Activity 4: Inferences, Inquiry, and Insight

American Museum of Natural History: Brain: The Inside Story

Bills.Games.com

Brain Rules: 12 Principles of Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School (Book, DVD, and website by John Medina)

Braingle Teasers, Riddles, Games, Forums, and more

Discovery (Channel) Education: PuzzleMaker

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Patterns

MakeBeliefsComix!

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

Planet Perplex: MX GHR TFA puzzle

Serendipity in Science:

Discovery, Chance & the Scientific Method

Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions

Society for Neuroscience: Brain Facts: A Primer on the Brain and Nervous System

Terry Stickels: Puzzles, Frame Games & Gallery

Wikipedia:

Wordies on the Web:

Activity 5: Pseudoscience in the News

AFU and Urban Legends Archive

Alien Autopsy: Use Google or YouTube.

AsapSCIENCE (engaging 1-4 min videos)

Astrology.com

Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Bad Astronomy

Biology Corner

Blick on Flicks feature of NSTA Reports

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit:

Committee for Scientific Investigations of Claims of the Paranormal (Skeptical Inquirer): (Variety of resources, including Field Guide to Critical Thinking)

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Pseudoscience

DMOZ

Enemies of Reason: Part 1: Astrology

Heavenly Errors

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

James Randi (magician and pseudoscience debunker) Educational Foundation

Junk Science Home Page

Museum of Hoaxes

MythBusters

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the SUNY-Buffalo: Extrasensory Perception: Pseudoscience? A Battle at the Edge of Science

The "Mozart Effect": Psychological Research Methods

Natural History Museum: The Case of the Piltdown Man

NOVA: Secrets of the Psychics

Project Look Sharp Media Literacy: See Media Literacy Handouts, Curriculum Kits, and Research and Assessment

QuackWatch

Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

Science Hobbyist Weird Science

Science Humor—It's Alive

Science News on the Internet:

Scientific American Frontiers Show 802: Beyond Science? (November 1997) (watch/download whole episodes from archives of eight seasons)

Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science

The Scientific Method Made Easy #10 (i.e., Galileo, "10 Commandments of Science" & NOS) [9:54 minute]:

The Skeptic's Dictionary: See pseudoscience and other entries.

The Skeptics Society

Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions

Snopes.com Urban Legends References Pages

TruthorFiction.com

Wikipedia:

Search topics: astrology (versus astronomy), cartoon physics, constructivism (learning theory), hoaxes in science, Karl Popper, Occam's Razor, and pseudoscience.

Activity 6: Scientific Reasoning

Biology Corner: Scientific Method

Constructivism and Learning Theories:

www.ucdoer.ie/index.php/Education_Theory/Constructivism_and_Social_Constructivism_in_the_Classroom
Concept to Classroom
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
Exploratorium
Human Intelligence: New and Emerging Theories of Intelligence
Learning-Theories.com

Discovery (Channel) Education: PuzzleMaker

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Patterns

Institute for Human and Machine Cognition: Concept Mapping Tools

MakeBeliefsComix!

MIT Media Lab's Beyond Black Box (BBB) Project

Mystery (Mailing) Tube:

NASA: A Black Box for People

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: Thinking Inside the Box

Nine Dots Puzzle:

Brainstorming.co.uk

Research Matters—to the Science Teacher

Rubik's Cube:

Wikipedia:

Richard Feynman on Scientific Method [9:58 min. blackboard lecture on the NOS]

University of Virginia Physics Department: Indirect Measurements and Black Box Experiment

Activity 7: Magic Bus of School Science

Benchmarks for science literacy: http://www.aaas.org/program/project2061 (see Publications)

*American Educator: Why don't students like school? Because the mind is not designed for thinking: www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/WILLINGHAM%282%29.pdf

Bill Nye the Science Guy, Nye Labs: www.billnye.com

MythBusters: www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/about-this-show/mythbusters-about.htm

Mealworm Experiments:

www.smithlifescience.com/MLMealworms.htm

http://caspar.bgsu.edu/~courses/Ethology/Labs/Taxis

National science education standards: www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4962

The nature of science . An NSTA Position Paper: www.nsta.org/about/positions/natureofscience.aspx.

*Nature of Science (NOS): Student Assessment Instruments: Draw-A-Scientist Test:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.3730670213/pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1949-8594.1991.tb12078.x/abstract

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draw-a-Scientist_Test

www.jdenuno.com/Resume%20Web/DAST.htm

+ Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Physical Science: http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~elby/EBAPS/home.htm#Items

Nature Of Science Literacy Test: www.phy.ilstu.edu/jpteo/NOSLit.pdf

See also related articles in the Journal of Physics Teacher Education Online by Carl J. Wenning: (a) "A Framework for Teaching the Nature of Science": www.phy.ilstu.edu/jpteo/issues/mar2006.html; and (b) "Assessing Nature-of-Science Literacy as One Component of Scientific Literacy": www.phy.ilstu.edu/jpteo/issues/sum2006.html

Relevance of Science Education (ROSE): www.ils.uio.no/english/rose/about/rose-brief.html

Views on the Nature of Science (VNOS) Questionnaire: http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED472901

Views on Science and Education (VOSE) Questionnaire: www.ied.edu.hk/apfslt/v7_issue2/chensf/index.htm.

View on Science-Technology-Society: www.usask.ca/education/profiles/aikenhead/webpage/index.htm

NOVA: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova.

Scholastic's The Magic School Bus: www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus

Scientific American Frontiers: www.pbs.org/saf .

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. Search topics: change or inattentional blindness, history and philosophy of science

Activity 8: Reading Between the Lines of the Daily Newspaper

American Forest and Paper Association: www.afandpa.org

Bloom's Taxonomy:

http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy

www.krummefamily.org/guides/bloom.html

www.qualityansweringservice.com/resources/answering-questions-using-blooms-taxonomy-learning-domains

Changing Minds: http://changingminds.org/techniques/questioning/questioning.htm

Chris Jordan, Photographic Arts: "Paper Bags" (www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#paper-bags) and "Toothpicks" (www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#toothpicks).

Conservatree: www.conservatree.com/index.shtml

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Atoms, Garbage, and Pollution Solutions: http://dep.disney.go.com

Museum of Science and Industry-Chicago: www.msichicago.org/online-science/activities

National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) Position Statements:

Sustainability in Life Science Teaching and Teaching about Environmental Issues: www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=35

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Position Statements:

Environmental Education: www.nsta.org/about/positions/environmental.aspx

Teaching Science and Technology in the Context of

Societal and Personal Issues: www.nsta.org/about/positions/societalpersonalissues.aspx

P16 Science Education at the Akron Global Polymer Academy: Wait Time: www.agpa.uakron.edu/p16/btp.php?id=wait-time

Paper Industry Association Council: www.paperrecycles.org

*Scholastic Recycling Starts with You!:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/recycling/resources.htm

*Science NetLinks: Paper Making/Recycling (by hand): http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/paper-production/

Water Soluble Paper: Aquasol Paper: www.aquasolpaper.com

Dissolvo Spy paper—Water Soluble Security Paper: www.kleargear.com/1815.html?gclid=CLjQm_aEzqUCFcbc4AodwW3UlA

Wikipedia: Paper, paper recycling, and Tyvek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_recycling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyvek

See also: Cross-cut versus rip saw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosscut_saw

Activity 9: Pondering Puzzling Patterns and a Parable Poem

American Educator, "Ask a Cognitive Scientist" column: www.danielwillingham.com

*How Praise Can Motivate—or Stifle: www.aft.org/ae/winter2005-2006/willingham

*Should Learning Be Its Own Reward?: www.aft.org/ae/winter2007-2008/willingham

*Caution: Praise Can Be Dangerous: www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/PraiseSpring99.pdf

BBC Science and Nature:

Prehistoric Life Skeleton: www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/skeleton_jigsaw

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Patterns: http://dep.disney.go.com

Discovery (Channel) Education: www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/

Elephant and the Blind Men Poem:

http://hinduism.about.com/od/hinduismforkids/a/blindmen.htm

www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/scientific-method

www.noogenesis.com/pineapple/blind_men_elephant.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

Enigma Cipher Machine: www.codesandciphers.org.uk/enigma

*Enigma Cipher computer simulator: www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/

NOVA, PBS Show: Decoding Nazi Secrets: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding

"Science Is Like a Puzzle" activity:

www.norwichcsd.org/Downloads/lab%20-%20science%20is%20like%20a%20puzzle.pdf

www.dannascience.com/science%20is%20like%20a%20puzzle%20lab.doc

www.scienceteacherprogram.org/genscience/Choi04.html

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org. Search: change or inattentional blindness, cryptanalysis or code-breaking, expectancy theory, expectancy value theory, and cognitive biases

Activity 10: Follow That Star

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Magnetism: http://dep.disney.go.com

Geocaching—The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site: www.geocaching.com

The Ultimate Guide to Geocaching: www.tripbuzz.com/geocaching-guide/

Maps, Mapping, GPS, and Geocaching: http://expressfreightfinance.com/resources/maps-mapping-gps-geocaching/

Google Earth: www.google.com/earth

How Stuff Works: Compasses: http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/outdoor-activities/hiking/compass.htm

GPS Receivers: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/travel/gps.htm

International and U.S.A. science curriculum standards, assessments, and comparative results:

Achieve Inc.: www.achieve.org

AAAS Benchmarks: www.project2061.org/publications/bsl/online/index.php?txtRef=&txtURIOld=%2Fpublications%2Fbsl%2Fonline%2Fbolintro.htm

College Board Standards for College Success: Science and Mathematics and Statistics: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/cbscs-science-standards-2009.pdf

Common Core State Standards Initiative: www.corestandards.org

Council of State Science Supervisors' State Science Frameworks: http://cosss.org

Education Commission of the States: www.ecs.org

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE): National Educational Technology Standards: www.iste.org/standards.aspx

International Technology and Engineering Educators Association: Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology: www.iteea.org/TAA/Publications/TAA_Publications.html

National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council: Board on Science Education (Framework for Science Education):

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BOSE/index.htm

www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165

National Science Education Standards (1996): http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4962

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard

Science Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/science/whatmeasure.asp

Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa

See also www.pisa.oecd.org and the October 2009 special issue of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching: Scientific Literacy and Contexts in PISA Science: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122604861/issue

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS): http://nces.ed.gov/timss

Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC): www.ccsso.org/Resources/Programs/Interstate_Teacher_Assessment_Consortium_(InTASC).html

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS): www.nbpts.org

National Commission on Excellence in Education. 1983. A nation at risk: The imperative for education reform: http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/index.html

PhET Interactive Simulations: Magnets and compass: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/magnet-and-compass

University of Virginia Physics Department: Compass Hands-On Explorations (HOEs): http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/MagnetFrm.htm

Wake Forest University: Magnetism Videos: 3D Compass and other demonstrations: www.wfu.edu/physics/demolabs/demos/avimov/bychptr/chptr8_eandm.htm

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: compass, geocaching, geomagnetic reversal, global positioning system, and Hans Christian Oersted

Activity 11: "Horsing Around"

Chicken Soup and Mousetrap parable: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=14050

*Horse and Rider Puzzle: http://goodreasonblog.com/2006/03/horse-and-rider-puzzle/

SmartKit Puzzle Playground: www.smart-kit.com/s846/horse-riding-puzzle

International and U.S.A. Science Curriculum Standards: See listing in Activity #10.

Riding a Dead Horse: An Educational Policy and Practices Parody: A to Z Home's Cool:

www.allowe.com/laughs/book/When%20Riding%20A%20Dead%20Horse.htm

www.dbrmfg.co.nz/Next%20Step%20Dead%20Horse%20Strategies.htm

Business Performance Improvement Consultancy: www.bpic.co.uk/articles/deadhorse.htm

Thought You Should Know News: www.tysknews.com/LiteStuff/riding_a_dead_horse.htm

Root Cause Analysis as a Problem-Solving Technique: www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/rca/rootcauseppt.pdf

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOVeO5_0qD0&feature=related (Titanic sinking)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_cause_analysis

The Aims of Education: www.ditext.com/whitehead/aims.html

Activity 12: Magical Signs of Science

About Chemistry

Acid-Base Indicators, their pH ranges, and respective colors: http://chemistry.about.com/od/acidsbases/a/Acid-Base-Indicators.htm

Chemistry Experiments and Demonstrations You Can Do at Home: http://chemistry.about.com/od/homeexperiments

Biology Corner: Scientific Method: Select: Carbon Dioxide Production: www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/scientific-method

Cell Biology Animations: www.johnkyrk.com

Chem Guide: Indicators: www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/acidbaseeqia/indicators.html

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Chemical Reactions: http://dep.disney.go.com

Cabbage juice indicator:

http://chemistry.about.com/od/acidsbase1/a/red-cabbage-ph-indicator.htm

www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/red-cabbage-chemistry/

www.coolscience.org/CoolScience/Teachers/Activities/CabbageJuice.htm

Fun Science Gallery: Experiments with Acids and Bases: www.funsci.com/fun3_en/acids/acids.htm

General Chemistry Online: Indicators and their color changes/pH ranges: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/acidbase/indicators.shtml

Goldenrod Paper as an Acid-Base Indicator

Daryl's Science: www.darylscience.com/Demos/Goldenrod.html

Science Hobbyist: http://amasci.com/amateur/gold.html

Steve Spangler Science: www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/goldenrod-paper-message

International and USA Science Curriculum Standards: See listing in Activity #10.

PhET Interactive Simulations: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/ph-scale

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/acid-base-solutions

Purdue University: Voice-activated chemical reaction: www.chem.purdue.edu/bcce/Voice_Activated_Reaction.pdf

Steve Spangler Science: Do you Have Acid Breath?: www.stevespangler.com/experiments

University of Virginia Physics Dept: Soda Science, Flower Indicators, and Acid-Base Tea Party:

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/SodaScienceFrm.htm

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/FlowerIndicatorsFrm.htm

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/AcidBaseFrm.htm

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: acid rain, ammonia, Fritz Haber, Haber process, and pH indicators

Activity 13: Verifying Vexing Volumes

AAAS Benchmarks: www.project2061.org/publications/bsl/online/index.php?txtRef=&txtURIOld=%2Fpublications%2Fbsl%2Fonline%2Fbolintro.htm

+ American Educator, Ask A Cognitive Scientist column, "Is It True That Some People Just Can't Do Math?" (www.danielwillingham.com, Winter 2009-2010): https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/willingham.pdf

Archimedes: Biographical Information: See websites in Activity #14, Internet Connections.

+ Common Core State Standards: Mathematics: www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/mathematics-glossary

International and USA Science Curriculum Standards: See websites in Activity #10, Internet Connections.

Java Applets on Mathematics: www.walter-fendt.de/m14e

Select: Circumference of a Circle

MacTutor History of Mathematics: Pythagoras of Samos: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Pythagoras.html

Optical Illusions (sample sites):

www.michaelbach.de/ot

www.illusions.org

www.planetperplex.com/en/category/optical-illusions

PBS/NOVA: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova and www.shoppbs.org/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3953968

University of Toronto , Department of Physics: Physics Flash Animations: Miscellaneous: Area of a Circle as a Limit: www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash

Wikipedia: Pythagoras of Samos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras

Activity 14: Archimedes, the Syracuse (Sicily) Scientist

See also the Internet Connections related to density in Activity #3.

Benchmarks for science literacy: www.project2061.org/publications/bsl/online/index.php?txtRef=&txtURIOld=%2Fpublications%2Fbsl%2Fonline%2Fbolintro.htm.

Archimedes:

www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html

www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html

www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lpt/archimedes.htm

www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-archimede

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Archimedes.html

Contextual Science Teaching: http://sci-ed.org

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Buoyancy: http://dep.disney.go.com

*History of Science Society: http://hssonline.org

HyperPhysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University: Mechanics: Fluids: Buoyancy and Archimedes Principle: Explanation and Concept Maps: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

Illinois State University Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations: Select Mechanics—Hydrostatics: http://learning.physics.iastate.edu/DemoRoom/Index.htm#

International Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: www.hopos.org

*Int'l History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group ( SHiPS Resource Center): http://ihpst.net/

Internet History of Science Sourcebook: www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html

Java Applets on Physics: www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/index.html

Select: lever principle, Newton's second law, and buoyant force in liquids

National science education standards: www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4962

Museum of Science and Industry-Chicago: See How to Build a Lever: www.msichicago.org/online-science/activities

PBS/NOVA: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova and www.shoppbs.org/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3953968

University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations: Heat and Fluids: http://faraday.physics.uiowa.edu

University of Michigan: Physics Demonstration Catalog: Archimedes Principle: https://sharepoint.umich.edu/lsa/physics/demolab/SitePages/Home.aspx

University of Virginia Physics Department: Levers, Compound Machines and Mechanical Advantage:

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/compoundmachineFrm.htm

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/LeversFrm.htm

Wake Forest University: Newton's Laws Videos: 14 hook balance: www.wfu.edu/physics/demolabs/demos/avimov/bychptr/chptr2_newton.htm

WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: Archimedes and the history and philosophy of science

Activity 15: Measurements and Molecules Matter

3-D Molecular Designs: www.3dmoleculardesigns.com/Education-Products/Water-Kit.htm

About.com: Chemistry: Burning Money Demonstration: http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/ss/burnmoney.htm

Alcohol + Water: A more complicated perspective on the nonadditivity of volume: www.als.lbl.gov/als/science/sci_archive/70methanolmix.html

America 's Lab Report: Investigations in High School Science: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309096715&page=R1

Cell Biology Animations: www.johnkyrk.com

Center for Collaborative Action Research: http://cadres.pepperdine.edu/ccar

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Atoms and Measurement: http://dep.disney.go.com

National Academy of Sciences: National Research Council: Board on Science Education (Framework for Science Education):

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165 and www.nextgenscience.org/framework-k%E2%80%9312-science-education

National Science Education Standards (1996): www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4962

Official M.C. Escher website: www.mcescher.com.

Steve Spangler Science: Vanishing Styrofoam: www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/vanishing-styrofoam

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: action research, ethanol, ethanol fuel, and lesson study

Activity 16: Bottle Band Basics

Arbor Scientific's Cool Stuff Newsletter: www.arborsci.com/cool

Bottle Boys: Michael Jackson Billie Jean Remix on Bottles! (wind instrument; 1:53):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmSX8eX34Hs

Bottle Boys – Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid cover on Beer Bottles; 1:40):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=771injTWvvc

Chrome Music Lab: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Sound and Science of Music: http://dep.disney.go.com

Franklin Institute: Ben Franklin: Musician: www.fi.edu/history-franklin

Glass Armonica: Ben Franklin and the modern music of William Zeitler: www.glassarmonica.com

Sounds of a Glass Armonica (Ben Franklin invention explained; 2:17):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEKlRUvk9zc

Classical Music on Glass Harp by Robert Tiso:

Glass harp-Toccata and fugue in D minor-Bach-BWV 565 (7:20):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRj-T4l-e8

Für Elise on glass harp (singing wine glasses; 3:40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47TGXJoVhQ8

Moonlight Sonata on glass harp (5:59):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiGNnWldhn8

How Stuff Works: Wine Glass "Singing": http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/food-facts/question603.htm

HyperPhysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University: Sound and Hearing: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

Learning and Teaching Scotland: Sound Animations: www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/s/sound/amplitude.asp?strReferringChannel=educationscotland&strReferringPageID=tcm:4-615801-64

*MacTutor History of Mathematics: Pythagoras of Samos:

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/index0.html

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html

PhET Interactive Simulations: Sound: See sound waves and adjust frequency, volume, and location: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics

Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: www.physicsclassroom.com/class/sound

Sources of Science Songs:

Dr. Chordate (various artists): http://drchordate.com/ and http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/drchordate

Greg Crowther's Science Song Music: http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs

*Math and Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) database: www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE and http://singaboutscience.org/MASSIVE/findandaddsongs.shtml

Mike Offutt Science CDs: www.flinnsci.com/store/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=16138 (Chemistry Songbag I and II CDs)

www.youtube.com/user/MikeOffutt123/videos (Skylab Song and Element Song)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY0LepL9QxE (A Mole Is a Unit)

Rollerblade Bottle Tune Guy - Michel Lauzière (percussion instrument; 0:40):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePjkCySBCs

Science Song Links: www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/links.html

Skating Bottle music (1:04): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgDuUnmzdpA

Songs for Teaching: Science Songs: www.songsforteaching.com/sciencesongs.htm

WIRED Science: Top 10 Scientific Music Videos: www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/sciencemusic

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw

www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html

University of Iowa Physics & Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations: Acoustics: http://faraday.physics.uiowa.edu

University of New South Wales , Physics Department: Music Acoustics: www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music

University of Toronto , Department of Physics: Physics Flash Animations: Sound: www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash

University of Virginia Physics Department: Mathematics of Music (a CBL) and Sound Activity Stations:

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/MusicMathFrm.htm

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/SoundStationsFrm.htm

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/WavePitchFrm.htm

Whales Songs and Human Noise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_song

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0619_020619_TVwhale.html

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: glass harmonica, musical acoustics, Pythagoras of Samos, and the North Wind and the Sun

Activity 17: Metric Measurements, Magnitudes, and Mathematics

Aims of Education: www.ditext.com/whitehead/aims.html

American Society for Microbiology: Classroom Activities: Is It Clean or Just Unseen? Dirty Water and the Naked Eye: www.asm.org/images/Education/K-12/2010%20clean%20or%20unseen.pdf

Arbor Scientific's Cool Stuff Newsletter: See Measurement: Molecular Monolayers: www.arborsci.com/cool

Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Steps: http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Boeke/frames.html

Cubic Meter Model Instructions: http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/docs/Metric_Cube. pdf

Geological Society of America: Geological Time Scale: www.geosociety.org/science/timescale

Google Earth: www.google.com/earth

How Stuff Works: Nanotechnology: http://science.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology.htm

*HyperPhysics: Electromagnetic Spectrum: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ems1.html

Institute for Human and Machine Cognition: http://cmap.ihmc.us

Java Applets on Mathematics: Unit Conversion, Pythagorean Theorem I and II, and the Circumference and Area of the Circle: www.walter-fendt.de/m14e

The Known Universe: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100120.html

m 3 Model: www.phys.unt.edu/~klittler/demo_room/mech_demos/1a10_75.html

Mars Metric Mishap Conversion Calamity: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/orbiter

www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02

Metric Conversions: www.metric-conversions.org/volume/cubic-meters-conversion.htm

Microcosm, CERN's Interactive Science Centre: See: e-Microcosm: Powers of Ten: http://collection.europarchive.org/cern/20080520140649/http://outreach.web.cern.ch/outreach/en/exhibitions/microcosm-en.html

NanoScale Science Education Research Group at North Carolina State University: www.ncsu.edu/project/scienceEd

The NanoTechnology Group, Consortium for Global Education: www.tntg.org/documents/home.html

+ National Metric Week (contains 10/10/1X):

www.mathgoodies.com/articles/Metric_Week.html

www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/metric/metric-week.cfm

www.us-metric.org/

National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network: Size and (relative) Scale Curriculum Unit: www.nnin.org/education-training/k-12-teachers/nanotechnology-curriculum-materials

NSF's National Nanotechnology Initiative: www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/nano/education/kids.jsp

PhET Interactive Simulations: Estimation (game) for length, surface area, and volume: phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/estimation

*ppb and Ozone Model activity: https://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/docs/Metric_Cube.pdf

+ Powers of Ten:

http://www.eamesoffice.com/the-work/powers-of-ten/

http://blog.powersof10.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

Secret Worlds, the Universe Within: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10

SEPUP's Investigating Wastewater: Solutions and Pollution module:

http://lab-aids.com/kits-and-modules/details/Investigating-Wastewater-Solutions-Pollution-developed-by-sepup

+ University at Albany College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering: www.sunycnse.com/NanoforKids/K12Links.aspx

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Web Geological Time Machine: www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

+ University of Texas-Austin, Center for Nano- and Molecular Science: http://tmi.utexas.edu/resources/what-is-nanoscience/

U.S. Census Bureau:

U.S. and World Population Clocks: www.census.gov/population/international/

International Data Base: www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb

U.S. Treasury Department, National Public Debt Report: www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/pd.htm

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: concept map, Cosmic Voyage (1996 IMAX film; depicts 42 orders of magnitude; similar to Powers of Ten), cubic meter, density of universe is less than 1 atom/m3, metric system, nanotechnology, orders of magnitude (length), parts-per notation, and Powers of Ten film

Activity 18: Medical Metaphor Mixer

All the Virology on the WWW: www.virology.net

*Altoona List of Medical Analogies: www.altoonafp.org/analogies.htm

American Society for Microbiology: www.asm.org.

Bacteria: More than Pathogens: www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/wassenaar.html

Blick on Flicks feature of NSTA Reports: www.nsta.org/publications/blickonflicks.aspx

Cells Alive: How big is a … ?: www.cellsalive.com/howbig.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Infectious Disease Information Index: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases

*Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers: Classroom Resources: Everyday Biology: HIV Testing and HIV Cocktail downloadable lab simulations: https://blogs.cornell.edu/cibt/labs-activities/labs/hiv-transmission/

Discovery Health: How AIDS Works: http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/aids.htm

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Germs: http://dep.disney.go.com

Educational Innovations: Glo Germ Classroom Kit and related products: http://www.teachersource.com/product/glo-germ

Fankhauser's Cheese Page (and yogurt): http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/Cheese.html

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Center for Problem-Based Learning: https://www.imsa.edu/academics/department/science

+ Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth: www.microbeworld.org/podcasts/intimate-strangers-unseen-life-on-earth

Mayo Clinic: Germs: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/infectious-diseases/in-depth/germs/art-20045289

Hand-washing: Do's and don'ts: www.mayoclinic.com/health/hand-washing/HQ00407

Infectious diseases: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/infectious-diseases/basics/definition/con-20033534

Microbe World: www.microbeworld.org

Microbiology K–12 Curriculum Outline: www.science-projects.com/classexpts.htm#connections

+ Modeling the Spread of Infectious Disease

www.seplessons.org/node/226

www.all-science-fair-projects.com/project953_110.html

https://www.koshland-science-museum.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-files/ID_Disease_Spread_Activity_FINAL.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-3Li7iMqMM (1:04 min simulation)

National Association of Biology Teachers Position Statements: www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=35

The Role of Biology Education in Addressing HIV and AIDS

The Use of Human Body Fluids and Tissue Products in Biology Teaching

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs

Abracadabra: Magic Johnson and Anti-HIV Treatments

The Case of a Tropical Disease and Its Treatment (Chagas): Science, Society & Economics

A Case Study Involving Influenza and the Influenza Vaccine

The Mystery of the Blue Death (cholera): A Case Study in Epidemiology and the History of Science

National Geographic Society: Guns, Germs and Steel: http://shop.nationalgeographic.com

National Science Teachers Association Position Statement: The Teaching of Sexuality and Human Reproduction: www.nsta.org/about/positions/

PBS Evolution, Show #4 The Evolutionary Arms Race: www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/about/show04.html

+ River City: http://muve.gse.harvard.edu/rivercityproject/

Science Buddies: Making yogurt from whole milk: www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/MicroBio_p010.shtml

Serendip: Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron. Search for Human Physiology (Sexual Health and Reproduction) and Evolution and Diversity (Some Similarities Between the Spread of an Infectious Disease and Population Growth)

Steve Spangler Science: Cover Your Mouth; Germ Science (lotion glows under UV light): www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/glo-germ-and-giantmicrobes

U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, Medline Plus: Infectious Diseases: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infectiousdiseases.html

Whyville (site of WhyPox and WhyFlu virtual epidemics): www.whyville.net/smmk/nice

WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: AIDS, bioremediation, decomposition, fermentation (food), germ theory, HIV, infectious disease, influenza pandemic, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and probiotics

World Health Organization: HIV/AIDS: www.who.int/hiv/en

Activity 19: Cookie Mining

AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: http://atlas.aaas.org/index.php?part=2

Chris Jordan, Photographic Arts: "Oil Barrels" (www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#oil-barrels) and "Cans Seurat" (http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#cans-seurat)

*Cookie Mining and Economics: Simulations and Games:

www.earthsciweek.org/forteachers/cookiemining_cont.html

www.coaleducation.org/lessons/primary/summary/economic.htm

Cupcake Core Sampling: www.coaleducation.org/lessons/wim/4.htm

Environmental Defense Fund: www.edf.org

*Environmental Literacy Council: www.enviroliteracy.org/

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Center for Problem-Based Learning: www.cotf.edu/ete/teacher/teacherout.html

National Association of Biology Teachers Position Statements: www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=35

Sustainability in Life Science Teaching

Teaching About Environmental Issues

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: Watch Your Step: Understanding the Impact of Your Personal Consumption on the Environment: http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/footprint/footprint.html

National Science Teachers Association Position Statements on:

Environmental Education: www.nsta.org/about/positions/environmental.aspx

*Teaching Science and Technology in the Context of Societal and Personal Issues: www.nsta.org/about/positions/societalpersonalissues.aspx

*Population Action International: Search: http://pai.org/climatemap/

Population Connection: www.populationeducation.org

Population Statistics and Resources: http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata

Union of Concerned Scientists: Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions: www.ucsusa.org

USGS Mineral Resources Program: http://minerals.usgs.gov

WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: hydraulic fracking, life cycle assessment, mining, and offshore drilling.

World Population: A Guide to the WWW (links): http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/populate.html

World Resources Institute: www.wri.org/publication

World Resources Simulation Center: http://wrsc.org

Activity 20: Making Sense by Spending Dollars

AAAS Project 2061: Communicating and Learning About Global Climate Change: An Abbreviated Guide for Teaching Climate Change: www.project2061.org/publications/order.htm#TeachingGuides

About.com: Saving Energy: What Are Compact Fluorescent Bulbs and How Do They Save Energy: http://saveenergy.about.com/od/efficientlighting/a/CFL.htm?iam=sherlock_abc

An Inconvenient Truth: http://www.takepart.com/an-inconvenient-truth/film

Carbon Footprint Ltd.: www.carbonfootprint.com/index.html

Chris Jordan, Photographic Arts: " Light Bulbs" (www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#light-bulbs)

Conservation International: Climate Change: www.conservation.org/what/pages/climate.aspx

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Electrical Current: http://dep.disney.go.com

*Energy Star: Compact Fluorescent Bulbs: https://www.energystar.gov/products/lighting_fans/light_bulbs/learn_about_cfls

Environmental Defense Fund:

*Fight Global Warming: www.edf.org/fight-global-warming

Make the Switch, Take the Pledge Campaign: www.edf.org/news/environmental-defense-launches-million-light-bulb-campaign

Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect (various sources): www.climatechange.net

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1998/es202/l13.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect

www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/global-warming-faq.htmll

www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq/global-warming.php

How Stuff Works: How much coal is required to run a 100-watt light bulb for a year? http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/question481.htm

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Center for Problem-Based Learning: www.cotf.edu/ete/teacher/teacherout.html

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Standby power: http://standby.lbl.gov

National Association of Biology Teachers Position Statements: www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=35

Sustainability in Life Science Teaching

Teaching About Environmental Issues

Activity 21: A Terrible Test That Teaches

Alternative Strategies for Science Teaching and Assessment: http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/support/strategy.html

*American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education Examinations Institute:

http://uwm.edu/acs-exams/

+ American Educator, Summer 2007, Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach?”: www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Crit_Thinking.pdf

American Educator, Ask A Cognitive Scientist column: www.danielwillingham.com

"Why Students Think They Understand—When They Don't": www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/winter0304/willingham.cfm

Annenberg/CPB Media: Interactive Workshops: Assessment in Math and Science: What's the Point? www.learner.org/workshops/assessment

Bioliteracy: http://bioliteracy.colorado.edu

Bloom's Taxonomy: http://www.krummefamily.org/guides/bloom.html

Bloom's Taxonomy Revised: http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy

Buros Center for Testing: Instructional Resources: Standards for teacher competence in educational assessment of students: http://buros.org/

Constructivist Learning Environment Survey (CLES): http://surveylearning.moodle.com/cles

Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS):

Assessment Tools for Professional Development: www.csss-science.org/tools.shtml

State and Territory Science Assessments Information: (Excel download): www.csss-science.org/assess.shtml

Educational Testing Service: www.ets.org

Ericae.net Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation: http://ericae.net

Fair Test. National Center for Fair and Open Testing: www.fairtest.org

Foundation for Critical Thinking: www.criticalthinking.org

*MOSART: Misconception Oriented Standards-based Assessment Resource for Teachers: www.cfa.harvard.edu/smgphp/mosart/aboutmosart_2.html

Multiple Choice Tests: Composition, Assembly and Analysis: www.sfsu.edu/~testing/MCTEST/mainframe.html

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): "The Nation's Report Card":

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/science

National Association for Research in Science Teaching: Research Matters to the Science Teacher: www.narst.org/publications/research.cfm

National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST): www.cse.ucla.edu

National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996): see Chapter 5, "Assessment": www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=4962

National Science Teachers Association Position Statement: Assessment: www.nsta.org/about/positions/assessment.aspx

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) at the U.S. Department of Education: http://www2.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml

Nature of Science (NOS) Assessments web links: See Internet Connections for Activity #7

NCLB and Humorous Parodies:

*The Football Version:

www.hoagiesgifted.org/nclb_sports.htm

*No Cow Left Behind: http://drsticks.com/No_Cow_Left_Behind.html

*No Dentist Left Behind: www.trelease-on-reading.com/no-dentist.html

Track and Field Parable for NCLB: http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1954698&tstart=105

Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS): http://pals.sri.com

Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): http://www.oecd.org/pisa and http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa. See also the October 2009 special issue of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching 46 (8): Scientific Literacy and Contexts in PISA Science: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tea.v46:8/issuetoc.

*Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP): http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/AZTEC/RTOP/RTOP_full/about_RTOP.html

Scientific Work Experience Programs for Teachers (SWEPT): www.scienceteacherprogram.org/SWEPTStudy/instruments.html

+ Table of Specifications: Insuring Accountability in Teacher Made Tests: http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ774063

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS): http://nces.ed.gov/timss

TIMSS and PIRLS International Study Center, Boston College: http://timss.bc.edu

WestEd Partnership for the Assessment of Standards-based Science: www.wested.org/service/pass-science-assessment-partnership-for-the-assessment-of-standards-based-science

WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search: Benjamin Bloom, concept inventory (links to downloadable, diagnostic, research-validated inventories in physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, and statistics), NAEP, PISA, scientific misconceptions, and TIMSS.

Activity 22: Diagnostic Assessment

See sites listed in Activity 21 and the following:

*American Society of Plant Biologists: Principles of Plant Biology: www.aspb.org/education-outreach/k12-roots-and-shoots/

+ Cosmos: Original series by Carl Sagan: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBA8DC67D52968201; and 2014 series by Neil Degrasse Tyson http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395695/

Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Flowers and Plants: http://dep.disney.go.com

Flat Earth Society: http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/FlatHome.htm

In Search of the Edge: An Inquiry Into the Shape of the Earth: www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/search.html

National Science Foundation (NSF), SRS Survey of Public Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Science and Technology: www.nsf.gov/statistics/showsrvy.cfm?srvy_CatID=6&srvy_Seri=17 and http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/surveys.cfm (all surveys)

Physics Education Research Group, University of Maryland: Attitude Surveys (links): www.physics.umd.edu/perg/tools/attsur.htm

Physics Education Research Group, University of Colorado: Colorado Learning About Science Survey: Physics, Chemistry and Biology versions: www.colorado.edu/sei/class

Relevance Of Science Education (ROSE): International look at affective factors in learning: www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/research/projects/rose