Science Career Information

By Pat Viele, Cornell University

Pat Viele at Cornell University put together this list of websites and other resources for students interested in the kinds of careers science can lead to.

• Sloan Career Center with career info on

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Computing

http://www.careercornerstone.org/science/science.htm

• The Fun Works for Careers You Never Knew Existed

This Web site is about careers. Not just the interesting ones other people have, but the ones YOU can have.

http://thefunworks.edc.org/index.php

• Engineering

http://www.engineeringk12.org/students/fun_section/games.htm

• Engineer Girl

http://www.engineergirl.org/nae/cwe/egmain.nsf/?Opendatabase

• “I Want to Be a Paleontologist”

http://www.priweb.org/ed/lol/careers.html

• “Careers in Geosciences”

http://www.earthscienceworld.org/careers/

• Science Careers in Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/USDA/careers/

• “So You Want to Be a Forensic Scientist”

http://aafs.org/default.asp?section_id=resources&page_id=choosing_a_career

• NASA Career Exploration

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/subjects/careers/

• Veterinary Science Careers

http://www.avma.org/careforanimals/animatedjourneys/aboutvets/aboutvetsfl.asp

• Careers in Animal Behavior

http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/help/careers.html

• American Physical Society - “What is a physicist?”

http://www.aps.org/jobs/guidance/student.cfm

• About Physics - Physics is, sadly, not well understood. Few people know what physics is, or what physicists actually do. I have put together this page to answer some of the most common questions about physics.

http://physics.about.com/od/physics101basicinfo/p/Physics.htm

• Contributions of 20^th Century Women to Physics

http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/

• Virginia View

http://www.vaview.org/index.htm

• College Board for physics majors

http://www.collegeboard.com/csearch/majors_careers/profiles/majors/100609.html

• Occupational Outlook

http://stats.bls.gov/oco/home.htm

• Busy Teachers’ K-12 Website/ Careers

http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/career.shtml

• Forensic Scientists: A Career in the Crime Lab - Occupational outlook brochure from 1999 on careers in the field of forensic science, which "resolves legal issues by applying scientific principles to them." Topics include the nature of the work, employment and working conditions, earnings, and training requirements. Opens directly into a PDF file. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/1999/Fall/art01.pdf
http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20260

• The ASPIRE lab - You will find not only fun interactive labs, but well designed and produced curriculum content, created by teachers for teachers. The powerful combination of inquiry-based content, along with interactive, hands-on labs provides a powerful visualization tool for you and your students to use. Best of all, the ASPIRE Lab is free!

http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/

• Careers in Plant Science

http://www.acpfg.com.au/careers/