CSULB Library Links for Science Education

California State Science Standards, Framework & Other Documents

California Dept. of Education

Los Angeles County Office of Education

National Science Education Standards

Project2061: Benchmarks for Science Literacy

California Science Teachers Association

National Science Teachers Association

Teaching about Evolution & the Nature of Science, from National Academy Press

Kagan Cooperative Learning

Access Excellence

The Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco

Looking for internet sites with real data for your long term research project? Here are a few starting points:

• CDC Public Health Data
• National Center for Health Statistics - Inludes ability to tabulate data by State and form your own data charts/tables
• International Data Base - The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
• NIH Molecular Biology Sequence Databases
• Demographic and social statistics from the U. N.
• U.N. statistics on things like global poverty, hunger, and education
• An index leading to web pages with statistical information
  (some of the links lead to the kind of raw data you can analyze for the long term research assignment)
• National Climatic Data Center
• Real Time Weather Data
• L.A. Weather Data
• Tidal Data Links
• Earthquake Data
• Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Data Center
• World Bank Health Data by Country
• Cancer Mortality Data

Other useful science teaching related links:

links from Lehigh University's Science Ed. program

Other Sites