More helpful resources from other web sites for teachers.

• TryEngineering.org
  http://www.tryengineering.org
  TryEngineering offers teachers resources for students all about engineering. Here you'll find lesson plans for students of all ages that are aligned to standards, descriptions of degree fields, lists of national programs, projects, and summer ideas.

• Science at school with Xplora
  http://www.xplora.org
  Xplora (www.xplora.org) is the European gateway to science education, run by European Schoolnet. It is aimed at teachers, pupils, scientists, science communicators and science educators. The website offers news, information, tools, web experiments, database and collaborative projects, science resources and more. The Xplora gateway is created as part of PENCIL, a Science and Society project funded by the European Commission's DG Research. You can join the Xplora Community for free, just registering at: http://www.xplora.org/ww/en/pub/xplora/community/register.cfm and you can also subscribe to the Xplora online newsletter at: http://www.xplora.org/ww/en/pub/xplora/news/newsletter.htm Xplora is open to contributions from teachers, museums, EU projects and others working in science education. To find out how you could contribute, please contact laura.massoli@eun.org

• ASEE Engineering K12 Center
  http://www.engineeringk12.org/
  This site seeks to identify and gather in one place the most effective engineering education resources available to the K-12 community. From comprehensive data on outreach programs to profiles of “cool” engineers to hundreds of links and readings related to engineering education, the ASEE EngineeringK12 Center offers immediately useful, easily accessible materials specifically tailored to students’ and educators’ interests. The ASEE EngineeringK12 Center hopes to serve as a resource hub for stakeholders in engineering education.

• E-Learning For Kids
  http://www.e-learningforkids.org
  

• csta.acm.org
  http://csta.acm.org/
  IBM and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) have developed three new resources for teachers, designed to help high school students develop interest and skills in the burgeoning fields of computer science and information technology. The resources are free and include two learning modules for the classroom and one professional development tool for teachers. Teachers simply register at the IBM Academic Initiatives web site at www.ibm.com/university and with just a few clicks, can download and access a series of lesson plans and guidebooks to promote learning on Object Oriented Programming, Web Design and Project-based Learning.