For Students

Websites to help students in their literature research:

• PubMed is a great tool for finding research articles on a variety of subjects!  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/  
• Use Google Scholar to help find primary literature on all scientific topics.  http://scholar.google.com/
• SciVerse will help you find lots of full-text articles in the biology fields: http://www.hub.sciverse.com
• PLoS is an open-access journal that publishes papers in the fields of biology, medicine, computational biology, genetics and pathogenesis: http://www.plos.org/publications/journals/
• Find additional open-access (free and open to the public) journals here: http://www.doaj.org/
• Looking for articles on biomedical research?  http://www.biomedcentral.com/

General science programs or websites devoted to middle and high school scientists:

• Do you need help with graphing your data in excel?  Check out these tutorials: http://calcscience.uwe.ac.uk/w2/am/ExcelTut.htm#Graph
• For a site rich in videos in which students talk to other students about doing science fair projects, see The Archimedes Initiative: http://www.archimedesinitiative.com/themes.html
• http://www.sciencenews.org
• http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/
• http://www.sciencedaily.com/
• http://www.khanacademy.org/
• http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
• https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/
• Science Club for Girls
• For those interested in electricity: http://aaenvironment.com/Electricity.htm and http://www.delmarfans.com/electricity-lighting-resources/
• For excellently researched science fair project ideas, check this site out: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/

High school science research programs:

• http://www.bumc.bu.edu/citylab/
• http://www.mfdp.med.harvard.edu/k12/programs/index.html#high
• http://www.bu.edu/summer/high-school-programs/research-internship/
• http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/highschool.shtml
• http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/summer
• http://nano.berkeley.edu/educational/sharp.html
• http://www.baylor.edu/summerscience/

For Teachers

We have compiled a list of websites that may be helpful when developing or implementing inquiry based education into your curriculum.

• http://www.nsta.org/
• http://www.massscifair.com/curious-minds/courses/default.aspx
• http://www.bostonscience.org/
• http://www.nsta.org/highschool/
• http://www.bumc.bu.edu/citylab/
• Incorporating JEI in the class
• JEI Scavenger Hunt….can your students find the important parts of a science paper?

 

For JEI Staff

• http://emerginginvestigators.org/resources/jei-staff-resources