Standards & Certification
- National Science Education Standards
- Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Science
- Developing Educational Standards Annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks, national and state.
- e-Portfolio Framework Domains
- Certification Requirements for 50 States
- Wisconsin Educator Development and Licensure Standards The Wisconsin Standards outline characteristics of good educators by identifying the components and defining the qualities of best professional practice.
Lesson Plans & Activities
The Educational Materials Center Text Collection on the first floor of the University Library includes serveral books of activities and lessons for science education. Some examples:
- Activities for Integrating Science and Mathematics EMC TEXT Q181 .E33
- Janice VanCleave’s Great Science Project Ideas from Real Kids EMC TEXT Q182.3 .V354
- Physical Science EMC TEXT QC23.2 .P58
- Actionbioscience.org Lesson plans
- Cody's Science Education Zone
- Science Lesson Plans Columbia Education Center
- Discover School.com Lesson plans
- Educator's Reference Desk Science lesson plans
- Microsoft Lesson Plan Collection
- LessonPlansPage.com (Science)
- Lesson Plans Central (Science)
- NASA Fantastic site that has lesson plans and articles for teachers about NASA.
- National Geographic Xpeditions Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards-- and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.
- Science NetLinks Lesson plan index
- SMILE Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement.
- Thinkfinity The BEST source of standards based lesson plans on the web.
- Resources for K-12 Earth Science Educators Geological Society of America (GSA) offers lessons plans and additional resources covering virtually all topics in geology for K-12 students.
Curriculum Guides
The Educational Materials Center on the Library's first floor includes a Curriculum Guide Collection of sample curricula from school districts, state departments of instruction, federal agencies and commercial publishers.
For Science Education topics, browse the file cabinet drawers that start with the call number Q.
Some indexes provide access to full text curriculum guides:
- EbscoHost: ERIC

- Kraus Curriculum Development Library

- Kraus Flash Demo An instructional flash demo for using Kraus Curriculum Development Library.
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