Arizona Youth University
-- Extended University offers summer programs for grades 1-12 to include science, math and other specialty
camps for middle and high school students and pre-K classes during the academic year.
Basic Toxicology Lab Stations -- Basic Toxicology Lab Stations contains a
series of simple lab stations or demonstrations on basic toxicology concepts like dose-response,
individual susceptibility, threshold, and how size affects dose.
The Biology Project
-- The Biology Project, an interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The
University of Arizona. The Biology Project is fun, richly illustrated, and tested on 1000s of
students. It has been designed for biology students at the college level, but is useful for
high school students, medical students, physicians, science writers, and all types of interested
people.
Biotechnology
Laboratory for Arizona Science Teachers -- An intensive summer lab course in DNA technology for secondary
school science teachers.
BIOTECH Project -- The
BIOTECH Project provides technical support for Arizona teachers to conduct molecular genetics
(DNA science) experiments with their students.
Chemicals and Human Health
-- This interactive website, developed in collaboration with The Biology Project at the University
of Arizona, covers toxicology, the effects of metals on kidneys, and basic lung anatomy and
function.
Drosphilia
Melanogaster and Mendelian Genetics -- These lessons are designed to teach high school students how
to use the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to apply their knowledge of Mendelian genetics.
Extracting and
Analyzing Our Own DNA -- These activities are designed to introduce high school students to current molecular
biology techniques while building upon their understanding of cytology and genetics.
MEDCAMP -- Free, 3-day
"mini-medical school" for high school students interested in a health career. MEDCAMP includes
tours of the Arizona Health Sciences Center, lectures, lab, shadowing of healthcare professionals,
and mentoring by medical students.
Medstart
-- A six-week summer program for high school juniors interested in health careers, targeting
especially, but not exclusively, minority, rural area and/or economically disadvantaged
students.
Mathematics, Engineering, Science
Achievement Program (MESA) -- Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) is a
college preparation program that strives to increase the number of ethnic minority, low-income,
and first generation college-bound students who are eligible to enter a degree program at a
university.
Microscopy K-12 Educational Resources -- This site covers the history of
microscopy and provides some fun web sites to visit that use microscopy. There are links to
microscopy and/or imaging related materials for teachers, to useful microscopy & biology related
web sites, to some that keep the physics to a manageable level, to web sites for those interested
in microscopy as a hobby, and to some that give advice about purchasing a microscope.
The Science and Mathematics Education
Center (SAMEC) -- Hosted by The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in the College of Science
at the University of Arizona, SAMEC promotes partnerships among the various UA colleges and local
school districts, leading to collective integration of UA science, mathematics, engineering, and
technology research into K-16 education.
Science Connection
-- Science Connectors are primarily undergraduate students who visit classrooms, elementary
through high school, to do hands-on science activities in the Tucson area.
Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz)
-- Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) offers three programs to advance K-12 education in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics. The programs focus on quality and innovation in K-12
education, targeting students and teachers in order to stimulate experiences in math and science,
bringing the excitement of discovery back to the classroom.
Water in Arizona
-- The WATER project is a new, standards-based water education program to use in your 4th-12th
grade classrooms. The goal is to facilitate classroom implementation of hands-on, minds-on water
education programs aligned with state standards.