For children:

K.I.D.S. - Kids Interested in Discovering Science. Georgia Tech’s K.I.D.S. Club is a program designed to enhance and encourage curiosity and enthusiasm for science, mathematics, engineering and technology.   Students in grades 2-5 are invited to join our student-centered, hands-on discovery sessions on Saturday mornings from 9 am to 12 noon.  During each meeting, students will rotate and experience three different hour long activities. The 2008-2009 registration is full.

KIDS.GOV This is the official kid’s portal for the US Government

Science News for Kids is a web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14. Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials. The Science News for Kids Web site, funded by grants from several corporations and foundations, enhances the usefulness of Science News in the middle-school classroom and offers recreational reading and activities for students interested in science.

Figure This. Math challenges for families

NASA Science. Come and explore your world and beyond through NASA's eyes. Experience an inspiring view of science with games, activities, movies, and even resources to help you with your homework.

Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta.

 

For teachers:

Understanding Science, How science really works. The mission of Understanding Science is to provide a fun, accessible, and free resource that accurately communicates what science is and how it really works.
February Newsletter Summary

* The structure of DNA: Cooperation and competition - This extended case study tells the story of James Watson, Frances Crick, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins, as they and their colleagues investigate the structure of DNA.  Unlike the myth of the lone scientist, this story demonstrates that science works not solely through the brilliance and good fortune of a single individual, but through a diverse community.

* Natural matters - This brief side trip explains why science can study natural explanations and phenomena, but not supernatural ones.

* Illuminating relativity: Experimenting with the stars - This side trip explains the role of natural experiments in science using the example of an early test of general relativity: the apparent positions of stars during the 1919 solar eclipse.

* Science and religion: Reconcilable differences - This brief side trip explores the relationship between science and religion.

* Modern science: What's changing? - Science is not a static enterprise, but evolves along with society.  This extended side trip examines just a few examples of how modern scientific practices have been transformed by increasing knowledge, changing societal concerns, and advances in communication and technology.

G.I.F.T.  Georgia Intern- Fellowships for Teachers. This program is a paid 4-7 week summer internship for science, mathematics and technology teachers.

The Robert Noyce Scholarship Program is funded by the National Science Foundation to help increase the number of K-12 teachers with strong science and mathematics content knowledge who teach in high-need school districts.

 

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