Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Science Made Simple
This website houses kids science projects and experiments, science fair projects and science articles.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Technology Timeline
This interactive timeline from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site features influential technological innovations from 1750 to 1990.
Other
American Society of Landscape Architects: Green Roof
An interactive experience showcases environmental and economic benefits of a green roof. Take a virtual tour of a real green roof and learn about a career in landscape architecture. Downloadable workbook is available for students, while...
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.
Other
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.
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...
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.
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...
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Hompage
ChemCenter, available from the American Chemical Society, provides chemistry news, reference sources and other public services.
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.
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...
Other
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.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Technology at Work
In this classroom activity, students research the importance of technologies which contributed to societal advancements throughout history.
Other
History of Science Society
Home page for a group dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in their historical context.
National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)
Ingenious: Science and Technology Images
This collection of images from Ingenious combines the collections of several museums - Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, the National Railway Museum, the Science & Society Picture Library and...
PBS
Pbs: Tesla, Master of Lighting
Inventor Nikola Tesla is the subject of this extensive PBS site. In addition to information on Tesla's life and work, the site offers insight into the ways in which society and invention affect each other.
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.
BBC
Bbc News: The Road to Riches: The 2nd Industrial Revolution
A brief look at some of the inventions and technologies associated with the second industrial revolution, which came into existence thanks to the new discoveries made by chemists and physicists. Offers a look at how these advancements...
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...
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Science in Ancient Rome
From the development of concrete to state of the art military technology, students will be fascinated by the achievements of ancient Rome when they read history for kids on science in ancient Rome.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. The program uses the record of history to reveal the way art, technology, and ideas have shaped us. Episode topics...