GSTA Affiliates

Note: If your local science teachers' organization is interested in becoming affiliated with GSTA, please contact your district representative in order to find out more details on this process. 

PCSTA

Paulding County Science Teachers Association Homepage

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The Education America Network (www.educationamerica.net[1])effectively supports schools and education professionals throughout
the United States. We help schools by providing them access to highly qualified applicants like your organization's members. Our service is ABSOLUTELY FREE for job seekers. Your Association's members can simply just visit www.educationamerica.net and start searching and applying for jobs that are currently available on our network. Your members can also register with us at NO COST and access the following services:
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“Teachers: Win $$$ for your class!” Participate in the 2006-2007 CAPCO Science Class Challenge and win $250 to $5,000 for your school and a pizza party for your class! For grades 4-9, the competition is meant to encourage students and teachers to learn about the Earth's protective upper ozone layer, CFCs, and the environment by using provided activities or their own creative methods. The contest is open to teachers with classes in grades 4-9. Teachers must be employed by a public or private school, or be a home school educator. Deadline: May 14, 2007.For more information and contest rules visit: http://nocfcs.org/scc/home.htm

National Weather Service Simulation: "HotSeat" Warning Simulator
Part I – Mission Connection: Product Description – HotSeat is a web-based warning simulation tool. It uses archived WSR-88D data from actual events along with severe weather reports and damage survey photographs in a displaced real-time (DRT) mode to approximate the feel of issuing severe weather warnings in the National Weather Service. Upon completion of each event, the participant receives a score indicating his/her success in the simulation. Purpose - HotSeat is designed as an education and outreach tool for all ages, but with special emphasis on students in grades 4 through college. The simulations are intended to give participants an appreciation of the meteorology of severe weather events and the decision-making process that goes into NWS warnings. Link to: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/HotSeat/

NASA's new Kids' Club Web site features animated, colorful, entertaining and educational activities for children in kindergarten through fourth grade. Interactive games on the site teach children about exploring space, building and launching rockets, keeping airplanes on schedule and how
a comet travels through the solar system. The site is located on the web at: www.nasa.gov/kidsclub

News for Teachers: Make Use of the FREE Web Site
The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) web site http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html makes it easy to find teaching resources on federal government Web sites. The site was developed with the cooperation of more than 35 federal agencies and is updated each week with new materials and highlights. FREE offers quick access to more than 1,500 resources in the arts, sciences, history and other subjects from the Library of Congress, National Archives, Smithsonian, NASA, the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies

This website is for both biology and chemistry teachers at the high school level. Pharmacology Modules:
This fully animated, colorful website for high school teachers and students offers six modules that teach basic biology and chemistry concepts using pharmacology themes. With titles such as, “Acids, Bases, and Cocaine Addicts” and “Military Pharmacology: It Takes Nerves” teachers and students will find themselves caught up in the science of pharmacology! This site is a wonderful teaching tool and resource for biology, chemistry, and forensics classes.
www.thepepproject.net

Announcing the launching of The National Association of High School Teachers of Forensic Science. This organization was created to provide a conduit for teachers from all over the country to share ideas. Membership to this organization includes access to a one stop website for all your needs as a teacher of forensic science. Easily discuss labs, questions, curriculum, content, or anything else pertinent to the teaching of forensic science in high school. This site contains a devoted bulletin board, a panel of experts both from the field of forensic science and teachers of Forensic Science, web links, digital goods and more. This is a Non-Profit Organization. The annual dues are $25. http://www.hstofs.org

National Science Center in Augusta provides excellent field trips, learning opportunities for teachers, etc. Please link to: www.NationalScienceCenter.org

Malcolm Melcher is a retired high school chemistry teacher who has composed nearly 7,000 test questions over the years. He wants to share (answers included) with other teachers. This is a non-profit venture. It is a 100% free service:
Bank of Chemistry Questions and Problems: http://www.boshf.org/chembank

Estuary Live Website: www.estuarylive.org

SECOSEE Marine Educators Link: www.scseagrant.org/se-cosee/

CEISMC: Georgia Institute of Technology's website for K-12 teacher support. http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/

The CEISMC Gazette: A newsletter putting cutting-edge Georgia Tech research into the context of the K-12 classroom: http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/gazette/

University of Georgia: The site is organized by grade level and by subject matter. Within
each area, organization is based on QCCs. Within each QCC are activities, inquiry-based demonstrations and experiments, and news articles related to that QCC. http://www.uga.edu/discover/educators/

Thanks for these additional links submitted by Bob Williams:

http://www.uga.edu/aquarium
http://www.wilderness-southeast.org/sci/
http://www.wilderness-southeast.org/
http://www.graysreef.nos.noaa.gov/
http://www.scseagrant.org/se-cosee/
http://www.vims.edu/bridge/
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us
http://www.nabt.org/
http://www.ericse.org/sciindex.html

These links are from Steve Rich (Your District V NSTA Rep.)

www.monarchwatch.org

www.learner.org/jnorth

www.eeingeorgia.org

www.gwf.org

www.nwf.org

www.nobelprize.org

www.nsf.gov

www.enc.org

www.paemst.org

Georgia Mineral Society: www.gamineral.org

USGS Lesson Plans & Student Activities: www.usgs.gov/education/

Evolution websites: http://evolution.berkeley.edu

GCISE: http://www.georgiascience.org/links-education.htm

A new curriculum designed by the U.S. Geological Survey introduces high school students to ecotoxicology and guides them through the steps involved in interpreting scientific data and drawing conclusions about the effects of pollution on wildlife. The curriculum contains five lesson plans developed for high school biology or environmental science classes and is available for free download at: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/contaminants-online.

Science NetLinks for Educators through AAAS: http://www.sciencenetlinks.org

These links are being provided by Joe Molyson from Houston County High School:

Excellent link page to all government science-related web sites, many with science education focus. http://www.science.gov/

National Science Data Library – thousands of science-related links in this master repository.
http://www.nsdl.org/

Joe maintains two ikeepbookmarks.com accounts, one each for Astronomy and Environmental Science:
http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/ and Account AST-jmolyson for Astronomy related links;
Account ENV-jmolyson for Environmental Science related links.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANT EVENT IMAGERY, NOAA, this site has hundreds of selected satellite images capturing some of the
more important weather and environmental events over the last 30 years. In addition to pictures of hurricanes,
tornadoes, and other severe storms, there is a satellite imagery of the recent Indonesian tsunami.
http://www5.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/hsei/hsei.pl?directive=welcome

Tsunami Super Course:
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec18091/index.htm

Animations and movies – Faults:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072402466/student_view0/chapter15/animations_and_movies.html

Movies and animations of geologic processes:
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/faculty/RWA/movies/MovieFrame.html

Mass Wasting animations:
http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi/links.asp?mc=Other%20Resource%20Links&cad=Earth%20Science%20Animations&to =276&tod=Mass%20Wasting%20Animations

Web site about the water cycle. It is very comprehensive with a wonderful diagram of the water cycle. The URL is http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html

The site is part of the existing Water Science for Schools Web site
(http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/index.html).
Submitted by Howard Perlman USGS.

Check out this link for over 500 lesson plans to share with your teachers:
http://devacaf.caes.uga.edu/main/mainExperiments.cfm

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