Science Education on the WWW

Science Courses On-line

• Univ. of Pennsylvania interdisciplinary course in chemistry, math, and physics.
• University of Indiana Physics Department Socratic Dialog-Inducing Labs
• University of Oregon, Department of Physics, Physics problems solved
• MIT's Electromagnetism II (Including animations)
• Visual Quantum Mechanics (Kansas State University)
• Nasa's Basics of Space Flight
• The Galileo Project (everything you wanted to know about him)
• Carelton University's Physics courses online
• Web Physics
• Berkeley's Interactive Physics Problem Set
• IBM's STM Gallery
• Ray tracing optics tutorial from the Univ. of Florida
• Comprehensive Conceptual Curriculum for Physics
• Nasa sponsored Earth System Science Community Curriculum
• Nasa's Planetary Data System (Images from recent missions)
• The Astronomy Cafe
• Astrophysics at UCSB (operate a remote telescope, take a quiz, view images)
• DOE's Computational Science Education Project
• A primer on how to solve problems (University of Hawaii)
• Boston University's Polymer Research Studies Outreach program
• The Particle Adventure
• Microworlds (Berkeley)
• Lecture Demonstrations from UC Berkeley
• Lecture Demonstrations from UT Austin
• Lecture Demonstrations from North Carolina State University
• The Scale of the universe (75th anniversary of the Great Debate)
• The Physics of Racing Cars
• The Contact Project (can you decode a message from aliens?)
• History of the Microscope

Study resources

• How to study Physics
• How to prepare for an exam

Other Science Education Lists

• Science Education Resources from SciEd
• Project Galileo

Miscellaneous

• Astronomy Images (from UPenn, best seen with netscape)
• Bill Beaty's HomePage A HUGE repository of Physics Demos
• Physics brain-teasers and puzzles with answers
• Frequently Asked Questions about Physics , Mathematics
• Nobel Prizes in Physics
• History of Mathematics Biographies
• Bill Nye The Science Guy
• The Exploratorium in the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
• Early instruments of the Institute of Physics in Naples
• The Franklin Institute (Philadelphia)
• Scientific Antique Collector's Guide
• Lawrence Hall of Science
• On-line Mathematics Dictionary
• How to be a good graduate student (from Indiana)
• Physics Education News

Science Education HomePages

Physics

• Harvard University
• Indiana University
• Kansas State University
• University of Maryland
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• North Carolina State University
• Ohio State University
• University of Toronto
• University of Washington (Seattle)

Chemistry

• University of California, San Diego