The National Science Foundation makes possible a number of opportunities for undergraduates to join research projects each summer. This allows students to experience first-hand how basic research is carried out, and to contribute consequentially. The principal support by NSF of such activities is through the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program. REU "Sites" are established in all fields of science, mathematics, and engineering. Each Site consists of a group of ten or so undergraduates, who work in the research programs of the host institution. Students are in general accepted from throughout the country. Each student is assigned to a specific research project, where he/she works closely with the faculty, post-docs, and graduate students. In addition, seminars, lunch meetings, and social functions are organized to facilitate interaction between the undergraduates. Students are granted stipends, and in some cases assistance with housing and travel.
Authors Randall McCutcheon & Pamela Espeland present twenty-five trivia questions, enhanced by quotations, cartoons, and other supporting material, intended to develop effective research methods in libraries.
The book demystifies the research process and provides tools students need to shape their research into substantive, well-written products that communicate with readers. Combining research with compelling writing is challenging for upper elementary and middle school students, but when done well, reports embody the passion that every student brings to the subject she or he loves.
The purpose of the High School Summer Science Research Program (HSSSRP), an annual program established in 1991, is to give superior high school students hands-on research experience by working on research projects with Baylor University science professors in many disciplines. The fellowship program occurs during the University's first session of summer school and is open to students between their junior and senior year of high school.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) offers summer research experiences to individuals at different levels of their academic development. During a typical summer, more than 30 high school students participate in programs designed to give them an opportunity to learn and become active participants in cancer research. This program has been offered at RPCI every year since 1953, to provide high ability high school juniors with the opportunity to develop the skills, habits and attitudes needed to conduct scientific research, and to assist in career planning. It is also intended to interest participants in pursuing future careers in scientific research, specifically, cancer research.
Formerly known as Ask Jeeves for Kids, is a search-engine for kids focused on learning and "edu-tainment." This service combines human editorial judgment, age-appropriate feature content and filtering technology to enable kids to find information on the Web.
This website allows you to ask any question of the experts who should know. Just find the subject you are interested in, choose an expert from the list, and pose your question. This site is great for both young people and parents. The subject headings range from education to parenting to science to cars to fashion...on and on.
This site is designed to help you and your child search for useful ideas and tips for your experiments. Here, you will find literally hundreds of experiments of every kind in every discipline of science from chemistry, biology, physics to even human psychology. We're confident that our powerful color-coded search tool will help quicken your research tremendously. Also, experience shows that many people find it helpful to learn from what others already know. This site strongly suggests that instead of copying these experiments blindly, you try to understand the principles demonstrated and then take those principles and apply them to your own experiment in a different and more creative way.
This website is a directory of Internet resources that have been scrutinized and approved by the Evaluation and Development Institute. The Institute prides itself on including only sites that have met their criteria of: only child-safe links; useful for teachers, students ("kids" or "teens"), parents, or librarians; "Real Stuff" (actual documents, projects, pictures, and discussion groups); current, loads quickly; small percentage of "dead" links; and is the best version available.
This website offers lots of current events, maps and ideas on how to help other people as well as some educational games and puzzles.
"Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research."
"InfoTrac College Edition, an Online Research and Learning Center, offers over 15 million articles from over 5000 scholarly and popular periodicals. Articles cover a broad spectrum of disciplines and topics- ideal for every type of researcher. Professors and students can gain access to the online database 24/7 on any computer with internet access. The newest feature to InfoTrac College Edition is InfoWrite, a writing tool that assists students through difficult areas of research writing."
Internet Public Library has put together a useful resource for those trying to participate in or run a science fair. Science Fair Project guidelines include: Getting Started; Choosing a Topic; Completing the Project; Displaying Your Project.
This website contains links to how-to articles on a plethora of subjects. Knowledge Hound is the Web's biggest directory of free how-to's. We also offer original content in our 'KH How2s' section, as well as in our newsletter. Learn how to do it today!
This website links to many other dictionary web sites, including specialized ones such as medical and scientific dictionaries. When you enter a word, you get a list of many dictionary definitions to choose from.
"ResearchBuzz is designed to cover the world of Internet research. To that end this site provides almost daily updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information, Web directories -- whatever. If in doubt, the final question is, "Would a reference librarian find it useful?" If the answer's yes, in it goes!"
This website is an online version of the popular news magazine for kids. It has news stories covering some limited current events condensed for younger kids as well as some fun stories about entertainment news, and some silly fun as well.
This website is a interesting place to learn the time all over the world. It can help with travel plans. It can also just be fun. So go ahead, learn what time it is anywhere from Blantyre to Zulu.
This website has numerous links to government websites on a variety of subjects for kids of all ages. Subject areas include animals, agriculture, arts & recreation, transportation, business & money, crime & justice, foreign affairs, environment, education and more.
Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create an accurate and comprehensive free-content encyclopedia. With more than 200,000 articles in English, this site represents a thorough and continuously updated resource. Articles range from historical subjects to current events with highlighted items reflecting the latest news from around the world.
This article provides an introduction to the key aspects of the research paper genre. True research papers are more than a loose collection of anecdotal memories or a patchwork of data pulled from several books. But while new to most first-year college students, a research paper can be incredibly exciting, rewarding, and even comforting to write because it finally allows you to really get into a subject you care about with both hands while having added security--a proverbial squad car of "back up" to support you while you explore those dark alleyways of future knowledge.
Planet Gap Year is for students that are in that limbo of High School graduation and the start of their University career. Looking for something fun over the summer or do you want to travel for a year before you head to University or are you thinking of just working? Planet Gap Years got you covered.
Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.