Computer Science Department, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY 42101

   Computational Science is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of sciences, computer science, and mathematics. Much scientific investigation now involves computing as well as theory and experiment. The field combines simulations, visualization, mathematical modeling, programming, data structures, and database. Computational Science often includes the application of computer models to solve real-world problems. It represents the intersection of various scientific disciplines with computer science.
   Many resources are available on-line for educators who wish to develop computational science models and for those who wish to use them in studying other disciplines with their students.
   I have attempted to provide a survey of available resources here. Description of the resources and their sponsors are based on the description you will find at the URL.
   If you would like to add your own models or share other resources, please contact me at sylvia.pulliam@wku.edu.

Shodor Home page   ---> The Shodor Foundation is a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the advancement of science and math education, specifically through the use of modeling and simulation technologies. Included on this site are instructional resources and software ready to be used in the classroom. Some of the links which follow can also be found at this URL.

Project Interactivate   ---> The goals of Project Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of java-based courseware for middle school mathematics explorations. "Interactivated" lessons, discussions, and activities enable the teacher to extend hands-on activities and to teach new content areas with professional competence and confidence, incorporating technology in appropriate ways. There are pages for the students to use, which describe the activity, as well as pages for the teacher, which explain how to apply the lesson. Interactivate is a project sponsored by Shodor.

Computational Science Education Reference Desk    ---> CSERD maintains a catalog of resources to provide examples for students or to aid in creating your own examples.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics   ---> SIAM has an activity group for Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), which maintians links to schools offering programs in Computational Science.

National Center for Supercomputing Applications   ---> NCSA is a sponsor of computational science research and education. NCSA also sponsors web pages for specific disciplines. Specific applications are provided for these disciplines.

EdGrid   ---> EdGrid is sponsored by National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). It is a program designed to move K-12 teachers into 21st Century science with 21st Century technology. EdGrid is both the technology infrastructure and the name of an NCSA consortium. It has developed partnerships with schools to provide online technologies for training, learning and collaboration.

Biology WorkBench    ---> Biology Workbench is a bioinformatics resource which provides a suite of interactive tools which draw on biology databases and allows users to compare performances.

ChemViz    ---> ChemViz is a set of online chemistry visualization tools to designed to help make quantium chemistry accessible to students and to prepare students in using computational research as a way of doing 21st century science.

Illuminations by NCTM    ---> The National Council for the Teachers of Mathematics provides internet resources to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students. Resources at the site provide "math-lets" to illustrate these principles and standards. Of special interest are the iMath investigations. NCTA also provides resources for specific grade levels, K - 12.

National Computational Science Institute   ---> The National Computational Science Institute (NCSI) will introduce the hands-on use of computational science, numerical models, and data visualization tools across the curriculum, at over 18 sites across the country. NCSI builds on the experience of Shodor Computaional Science Institutes (SCSI).