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This is an extraordinary website. It is beautifully constructed and contains tons of science related programs and information. In addition there are teacher resources available. The website boasts 3,500+ lesson plans and activities (this includes lesson plans for more than just science, however). The lesson plans are put together by PBS and thus are more trustworthy than others that might be found throughout the Internet. This is a must visit site! NB: This site seems to coordinate with the television programs offered on PBS. If you have the chance you might want to try to show them to your students - I think they'll like them.

From the folks at PBS, here is another education television show: Newton's Apple. The teacher guides are arranged by topic. (i.e. "Acid Rain") Each topic includes questions for discussion as well as activities that you can do with your kids. You'll never be without a lesson after looking at this website!

Like the PBS website, this site contains lesson plans for all kinds of disciplines. Its science section, however, is very useful. It has some great links included in the lessons plans and also a search engine to help you find what you are looking for. All of the information is controlled by the Discovery Channel. This gives you more confidence in the accuracy of the information your find here. This site looks like an excellent resource!

This is a companion to the Weather Channel's Cable in the Classroom series. This may not be all that helpful without the cable part, but it does provide lots of information about the weather and you may be able to use some of the ideas on this website.

This website serves as a portal for a variety of other education websites. Nevertheless, the people at AOL have compiled a formidable list of lesson plans culled from across the Internet. You can search lesson plans, browse by subject, even review curriculum frameworks (i.e. for MCAS) throughout the country. This is a good catchall site and not a bad place to start if you are stuck.

This website contains a lot of science lesson plans. They are broken down by topic and then by grade level and include all kinds of lessons that you might want to do with your kids. They also seem to include lots of the important-to-know-but-hard-to-think-of-fun-demonstrations-for topics, such as phase changes.

This website is indeed "Super Simple", but simple can be good. As of this writing it contains six interesting lessons (Catch a Rainbow, Cornstarch Suspension, Eggs with Soft Shells, How Do Seeds Grow?, How Does Mold Grow?, Knotted Bones), three science facts (Autumn Leaves, Planets, The Water Cycle), and two science tricks (Abraca Chicken: Chemical Reactions, Magic Toothpick: Surface Tension of Water). If any of these interest you, check it out!

This website has lots of great biology lessons for practicing teachers. If you are looking for a biology lesson, be sure to check this one out!

This website is designed for teachers in training. It provides lots of neat biology-type activities that elementary school teachers can do with their students. You can download the lesson plans in Microsoft Word format for Macintosh and PCs.

This website includes lots of lesson plans for science. The lessons are sorted first by grade level and then by subject. The actual lesson plans are maintained on other sites so it is possible that they may become unavailable. Also, this means that LessonPlanz.com does not have the same say over the content of these lesson plans as other websites might. Nevertheless, this is a good resource if you are looking for a lesson.

This site is a portal for other lesson plans. It is not as well organized as the AOL one, but it provides a lot of different websites you can visit. It has six different "levels"; these are really six different ways to access different pieces of information on the website. As a visitor, I found it difficult to navigate, but if you need lessons this place has lots.

This website provides lots of neat science lessons. There are three options. You can do an express search to find lessons sorted by grade. (All the lessons at this site are related to science.) You can look at their featured resource for information about a particular topic. At writing, it was about nuclear power. Also there is a real-time science section where they include information about present day events in science. There's also an archive of past real-time science events.

This is just a long list of lesson plans that teachers have submitted to this website. Presumably, these are actual lesson plans used in actual schools. You might be able to find some useful lessons here.

This website was built to improve the quality of science education in South Carolina. Nevertheless, we are happy to reap the benefits. You can find lesson plans here as well as pictures of the South Carolina schools. Be warned! Only some of the links to lesson plans here actually work.

This is from the people who brought you the "Super Simple Science" website. You can search here for lesson plans in a variety of different ways. There are not a ton of science related ones but they are sorted by grade level and they seem to be pretty interesting.  

This is a really neat web page. It contains all kinds of interesting and exciting science projects that "Bill B.", an electrical engineer, designed, performed, and documented. This website is bound to help you come up with a good lesson idea. At the very least you'll have fun going through all the cool stuff he did.

This website constantly implores you to help support it. If you can stand the guilt, however, this website is worth the visit. It includes science activities that you can do with your students as well as information about any one of a variety of topics. This topical information is this web page's greatest strength. Although it may not provide you specific lesson ideas, it is a great resource to bone up on your dinosaur knowledge (pardon the pun).

This website is basically a search engine for science related topics. If you navigate through the long list of topics, it will provide you with websites related to the topic of your choice. These websites are more relevant than those that will pop out of Google, but this website doesn't have the same kind of organized structure as some of the other lesson plan websites. On the plus side, most of the places it links seem to having fairly good information.

This is a neat website that has a lot of information for volunteers looking to teach their students about neuroscience. Although there don't seem to be many lesson plans on this website, perhaps that's a good thing. (Please let's not have anyone try brain surgery on one of his or her students!) Further, this website appears to be maintained by a professor at the University of Washington. This makes the information a little more trust-worthy.

This website contains lots of information geared to kids. It tries to answer questions like "Why is the sky blue"? It also has a section about science projects that kids can do. This may be more helpful when you are looking for lessons to do.

This website contains a guided tour of human anatomy. It's helpful for volunteers who need information to teach their lessons. Little of the content, however, is geared toward actually teaching lessons.

I don't care what you say. I still want to be an astronaut. This website has lots of neat information and pictures about some of NASA's current projects. All of it is geared toward kids. It also has a great links section.

You ever wonder about fossil feces? How about dams? How about the color of the sky? Get answers to all these questions and more at this fun website. A neat section is the cool science image.

There's lots of information here about all kinds of natural things. This would be a good website to find information for an ecology unit.

There's lots of information here about water science. It is geared toward schools and teachers rather than students. If you are doing a water science unit this might be helpful; otherwise, the content is probably too narrow for your purposes.