Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Science Made Simple
This website houses kids science projects and experiments, science fair projects and science articles.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Domestic Technology
Has technology helped to shape our society? This is not necessarily a connection that comes to mind when we think about inventions and scientific advances. Learn about the history of domestic technology and its effects on the evolution...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Micro Worlds Project: Advanced Light Source
A discussion of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) facility and its use in material analysis and medicine.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Basic and Applied Science
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Science can be "basic" or "applied." The goal of basic science is to understand how things work. Basic science is the source of most scientific theories. Applied...
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Society of Chemical Industry
Formed in 1881 and based in London, the SCI became a place for science and business to blend. Topics such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals, environmental science, and biotechnology are discussed among members in over seventy countries....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Technology Timeline
This interactive timeline from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site features influential technological innovations from 1750 to 1990.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Makers: Collection
The Maker Party, an initiative in which people around the world meet up, learn to make things, and share what they've made online. This collection is designed to support the Maker Party by providing a one-stop shop of STEM and digital...
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Charles H. Townes, ph.d.
Biography of Charles Townes who is credited for discovering microwave and laser technology from which came digital storage transforming our world.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
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American Mathematical Society: Mathematical Moments
Use this resource to promote an awareness of mathematics as it occurs in nature, science, technology and human culture. This series of articles and podcasts can be used as teaching resources.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Negative Impacts of Science
Discusses the negative impact science has had on the environment, on health, and through dependence on technology.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Scientific Progress
An article which attempts to explain how science has influenced society. Traces the history of scientific progress and how this has influenced societal behavior.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Pulse: Striding Into the Future: Clinical Trials
An interdisciplinary unit teaching the topic of scientific research performed on human subjects for a skin cancer study. The physics principles behind imaging techniques, the biological implications of UV radiation on the skin, the...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Drugs, Politics, and Culture
From mind-altering drugs for pleasure to the push for pharmaceutical drugs, while examining this course of history and its effects on the world, take advantage of these resources. Includes PDFs (require Adobe Reader).
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: There Is No Cure for Polio
This collection uses primary sources to explore the polio epidemic and vaccine.
PBS
Art21: Mel Chin
This artist enjoys infusing art into unlikely places and uses current culture, such as technology, to bring about awareness of global issues.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Japanese Politics and Society
Presenting an overview of the history of Japan explore the optional enhancements provided by MIT.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Japanese Politics and Society
Presenting an overview of the history of Japan explore the optional enhancements provided by MIT.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Places on the Planet: Latitude and Longitude
Students learn how citizen scientists involved in the Geological Society of America's EarthCaching project use GPS technology and latitude and longitude coordinates to find special places on the Earth.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: One Eye, 3 D
Article describes an experiment for viewing images in 3D without the aid of special technology or glasses. Includes a vocabulary list.
Stanford University
Stanford: Bioengineering Boot Camp Draws Young and 'Fearless' Talent
Learn about the cutting edge inventions being brought about by teens at Stanford University's bioengineering boot camp for high school students.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Technology at Work
In this classroom activity, students research the importance of technologies which contributed to societal advancements throughout history.
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Hompage
ChemCenter, available from the American Chemical Society, provides chemistry news, reference sources and other public services.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Concussion: More Than 'Getting Your Bell Rung'
This article explains the science of concussions, including the damage they can do to the brain and symptoms of concussion. The article also describes the technology that scientists are using to detect concussion and how helmets are now...