• Jonathan Dale's Elementary Class Website (the ISTA webmaster).  This is my classroom website I use for parents and students during the school year.  I set it up for my 5th grade classes when I taught from 2008-2010 at Carberry Intermediate in Emmett, Idaho.  There's a link on how I teach and grade science in the classroom under "Academic Subjects".  Under the "Videos" link, you can see some of the science videos I have.  I have everything from recycling newspaper, to creating volcanoes, to erosion/deposition, to teaching students about matter and molecules in what I titled "Eating the Inivisible".

  • Idaho Council of Teachers of Mathematics.  Although we are two separate associations, we do collaborate quite a bit - math and science are two peas in a pod, they always have been. 

  • National Science Teachers Association.  60,000 member strong, there is a lot more involved than this litte Idaho Assocation site.  A lot of great information can be found there.

  • i-STEM Education (Idaho- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).  i-STEM was developed as an answer to a problem.  The problem is the future.  We don't have enough qualified applicants to 21st century jobs where employers are demanding highly skilled people that can use science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the workforce.  When are you ever going to use math?  As soon as you graduate high school, you better be skilled at it or you might be looking at unemployment!  You use these together in the classroom to solve problems, create, innovate and lead. Students become problem-solvers; students become innovators with skills and knowledge to pursue independent investigation and develop solutions; students become critical thinkers; students become collaborators.

  • The Idaho STEM Pipeline.  There are excellent ongoing programs in Idaho designed to prepare and encourage students to pursue STEM fields in college and many other additional resources available to students, teachers, and the community. In an effort to better integrate various efforts and establish web-based access to multiple programs, the “Idaho STEM Pipeline” was created to serve as a user-friendly web portal that provides information on various Idaho programs to students, parents, teachers, and Idaho communities. 

  • inquiryinaction.org.  Science inquiry is the answer in science teaching.  Discovery of information promotes student scientific thinking.  This free site comes from the American Chemical Society: Education Division.  Here you can find real lesson plans for the classroom in science inquiry!