Education Professional Society Resources

The National Association of Biology Teachers empowers educators to provide the best possible biology and life science education for all students. Website lists publications, conferences, awards, curriculum material, and answer.net, an on-line question-and-answer forum.
www.nabt.org

The Association of College and University Biology Educators focuses on undergraduate and graduate biology education.  Members of ACUBE share their ideas, concerns, and course innovations at their annual meetings and by publishing their work in Bioscene, a peer reviewed journal with content freely available at their website.
www.acube.org

The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) is a private non-profit organization dedicated to advancing environmental education in its many forms. This web site provides teacher and parents with a wide range of environmental education resources.
www.ClassroomEarth.org

Project Kaleidoscope is focused primarily on transforming undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. It functions as a networking site for education leadership and a clearinghouse for information ranging from curriculum to learning assessments to education finance to outreach. Good place for administrators to find resources.
http://www.pkal.org/

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Extremely comprehensive, K-16 resources for educators.
www.nsdl.org

The Biosci EdNet (BEN). BEN is a pathway link from the NSDL main website, and is a  collaborative providing access to reviewed resources for college and university educators covering 77 biological science topics from multiple collections.
www.biosciednet.org/portal/

Quality Undergraduate Education Simulations and Tools in Biology (BioQUEST). The BioQUEST Consortium provides educators with tools to help students learn to pose problems, work on solutions, and then engage in the peer-review process of science. Excellent resource for tools to integrate math and bioinformatics into biology teaching
www.bioquest.org

The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. The aim of the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science is to promote the development and dissemination of innovative materials and sound educational practices for case teaching in the sciences. Our website provides access to an award-winning library of case materials and we offer a variety of opportunities, including a five-day summer workshop and two-day fall conference, for science faculty to receive training in the method.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html

Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibilities (SENCER)
Career Initiated in 2001 by the National Science Foundation, SENCER has established and supported an ever-growing community of faculty, students, academic leaders, and others to improve undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education by connecting learning to critical civic questions. Provides models for undergraduate courses (adaptable to high school science curriculum) covering issues such as addiction, obesity, nanotechnology, forensic science, radioactivity, and global warming.
www.sencer.net

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center is an ever-expanding resource for anyone interested in exploring career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, and healthcare. Explore over 140 degree fields and find out about education requirements, average salaries, networking, precollege ideas, and career planning resources. Browse interviews with hundreds of professionals who offer candid insight into their own diverse careers
www.careercornerstone.org

The Meyerhoff Scholarship at the University of Maryland-Baltimore is a 20 year old program that recruits African American students into math, science, and engineering disciplines. Although specifically geared towards African American students, this program exhibits many best practices for student retention and success, including a pre-college summer program and an emphasis on undergraduate research
www.umbc.edu/meyerhoff/

 

Ecology

ECOS Guide to the Ecology of the Northern Rockies. This website is being developed to provide a comprehensive guide to the plants and animals of the Northern Rockies of western Montana with a particular focus on schoolyards and surrounding local natural areas in Ravalli and Missoula Counties.
http://www.bioed.org/nhguide/

ECOS Investigations and Activities. This website has many great examples of inquiry investigations and activities to use your schoolyard to study ecology. Developed in Montana so they work well in our geographic region.
www.bioed.org/ecos/Inquiries/inquiries.aspx

Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology. A peer reviewed publication of ecological educational materials provided by the Ecological Society of America.
www.tiee.ecoed.net

Botany

PlantingScience is a learning and research resource, bringing together students, plant scientists, and teachers from across the nation. Students engage in hands-on plant investigations, working with peers and scientist mentors to build collaborations and to improve their understanding of science
www.plantingscience.org

Microbiology

Microbe Library from the American Society for Microbiology . Provides links to over 2,000 peer-reviewed resources for teaching microbiology. Geared for undergraduate education but many lessons are adaptable for high schools. Includes peer-reviewed articles, curriculum materials, reviews of education material and a free digital image library.
www.MicrobeLibrary.org

Toxicology Tutorials from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Covers basic principles, toxicokinetics and cellular toxicology.
www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/toxtutor.html

Evolution

Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time. Oodles of useful materials, one of the best resources on the web for both evolution and science.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

Avida-ed is a technology-based tool for teaching about evolution and the nature of science using digital organisms. Avida-ED is a computer program developed at Michigan State University for undergraduate biology courses to help students learn about evolution and scientific method by allowing them to design and perform experiments to test hypotheses about evolutionary mechanisms using evolving digital organisms.
http://avida-ed.msu.edu/

Physiology

American Physiology Association has an education website that many people at the meeting had used and found really helpful in teaching anatomy and physiology.
www.the-aps.org/education/index.htm