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Utah Science

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Utah School District Science Webpages

 

Alpine School District Secondary Science Website

Jordan District Secondary Science Website

Jordan School District Elementary Science Website

Salt Lake School District Science Website

 

Utah Informal Science Education Organizations

These organizations are located in Utah. Contact these organizations if you are interested in class field trips or outreach programs. The websites are also great resources for information.

Allen and Alice Stokes Nature Center (Logan Canyon)

Clark Planetarium (Salt Lake City)

College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum (Price)

Discovery Gateway (Salt Lake City)

Hogle Zoo (Salt Lake City)

The Living Planet Aquarium (Salt Lake City)

North American Museum of Ancient Life (Lehi)

Ogden Nature Center (Ogden)

Ogden's Dinosaur Park (Ogden)

Red Butte Gardens and Arboretum (Salt Lake City)

Thanksgiving Point (Lehi)

Timpanogos Cave National Monument (American Fork)

Tracy Aviary ( Salt Lake City)

Utah Botanical Center (Kaysville)

Utah Museum of Natural History (Salt Lake City)

Utah Science Center (Salt Lake City)

Utah Society for Environmental Education (USEE)

 

Science Education Organizations

Utah Science Teachers Association (USTA)

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

National Middle Level Science Teachers' Association (NMLSTA)

Science Education Research Committee (SERC)

Science Education Coordination Committee (SSECC)

American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT)

National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA)

 

Professional Science Organizations

American Astronomical Society (AAS)

American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)

American Chemical Society (ACS)

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Geological Society of America (GSA)

 

State of Utah Organizations

US Geological Society (USGS)

USGS Utah Webpage

Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)

Department of Natural Resources (DNR)

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (Utah DWR)

Utah Division of Water Resources

Utah Geological Survey (UGS)

 

Out of State Museums

These organizations have websites that are great resources for information.

Exploratorium (San Francisco, California)

Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach, California)

Monterey Bay Aquarium (Monterey, California)

Smithsonian (Washington DC)

 

Other National Science Related Organizations

These organizations have websites that are great resources for information.

National Academy of Science (NAS)

National Institutes of Health Office of Science Education (NIH)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

NOAA Education (Primarily for Teachers)

NOAA Education (Primarily for Students)

 

 

Web Resources

Encyclopedia Smithsonian

 

Podcasts/Webcasts for Science

Aquarium of the Air California's Monterey Bay Aquarium share fascinating stories about sea otters, sharks and other sealife.

Exploratorium's Small Talk Nanotechnology with leading scientists, thinkers, artists, writers, and visionaries, and look at quirky nanoscience stories in the news.

Exploratorium Webcasts Exploratorium Webcasts are live video or audio broadcasts over the Internet of live events at California's Exploratorium.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute 60 minute long lectures about various biology topics.

HubbleCast Features news and images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA JPL Podcasts Podcasts from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

Nature Podcasts Listen to Nature's weekly science show

Science AAS Podcasts Science's podcast takes you on a tour of some interesting stories in the journal and on its sister sites.

Scientific American 60 Second Science Quick reports and commentaries on the world of science-- it'll just take a minute.

Scientific American Science Talk Steve Mirsky explores the latest developments in science and technology through interviews with leading scientists and journalists.

Science Friday Science Friday, as heard on NPR, is a weekly discussion of the latest news in science, technology, health, and the environment hosted by Ira Flatow.

Utah Science Center's Science in Society Science in Society is a public dialog series, held six times per year, on a wide range of topics in science, technology, and medicine.

 

 

 

 

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