BBC
Bbc: Science & Nature: Prehistoric Life: Latest News
Offers a collection of links to news items related to prehistoric studies. A good resource for keeping up-to-date on scientists' discoveries about our Earth's past.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
In this Spanish-language entry, grasp a concrete understanding of a complicated man whose discoveries impacted society more than any other scientist. This site chronicles the life and accomplishments of Albert Einstein. It also studies...
Michigan Reach Out
Michigan Reach Out: Creating a Salad Dressing
This site is provided for by Michigan Reach Out! Teach the scientific method with salad dressing! Students understand the scientific process and how it helps scientists by making salad dressing.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Processes on Complex Networks
Building on their understanding of graphs, students are introduced to random processes on networks. They walk through an illustrative example to see how a random process can be used to represent the spread of an infectious disease, such...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota: Thorstein Veblen Farmstead
The Thorstein Veblen Farmstead consists of the home and farm buildings where Thorstein B. Veblen (1857-1929) grew up. As an economist, social scientist, and critic of American culture, he was the product of an austere agrarian...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Chemist
The BLS offers an overview of the career of a chemist. The website provides a general description of what being a chemist is like and includes information on the type of education and experience a chemist needs.
Curated OER
Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Elizabeth Switzer (1900 1971)
Mary Elizabeth Switzer (1900-1971) was Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and co-winner of the Lasker Award in 1960 with Paul Wilson Brand (1914-2003), a...
Crayola
Crayola: Birth of Bits and Bytes (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan incorporates many subjects! Students create a flow chart after studying the "Evolution," of computers. Also provides adaptations and references to use. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with Crayola.com....
University of Virginia
U of Virginia: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study were never told that they had syphilis. Instead, the doctors and scientists said they had "bad blood." Find out what took place during this study, and the social and political consequences...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nova: The Cannabis Question: Collection
The NOVA documentary, The Cannabis Question, explores the story of cannabis from the criminalization that has disproportionately harmed communities of color to the latest medical understanding of the plant. What risks does cannabis pose...
Atomic Archive
Atomicarchive.com: The Manhattan Project
A collection of primary source documents on the Manhatten project and the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan in 1945. Content includes letters to and from J. Robert Oppenheimer, written deals and agreements, internal memorandums,...
Read Works
Read Works: Excerpt From "Meet the Ologist Laurel Kendall"
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks reading from the American Museum of Natural Anthropology's website called OLogy provides an interview with the cultural anthropologist named Laurel Kendall. A question sheet is available...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Read the full text of the romantic comedy "The Unspeakable Perk" by Samuel Hopkins Adams about a socially inept scientist who falls in love with a weathly society girl.
Other
Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Ng)
Nezavisimaya Gazeta is one of leading national magazines covering important issues of social, political and cultural life in Russia and abroad. Its authors include leading journalists, political scientists, historians, and art critics....
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Charles Henry Turner
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Charles Henry Turner, an American behavioral scientist and early pioneer in the field of insect behavior. He is best known for his work showing that social insects can modify their...