Here is some information to help you use IA and NSDL and links to interesting online resources and tools from NSDL and its partners.
Acronyms
IA: Instructional Architect
NSDL: National Science Digital Library
Workshop URLs
IA Pre-Survey
National Science Digital Library
Instructional Architect
New York State Learning Standards (main page)
Math, Science & Technology Standards (main page)
IA / NSDL Help Sheets
Instructional Architect -- Overview
NSDL Help Overview: help for many areas of NSDL
NSDL Search Help
IA Online Resources (URLs are for More Info pages)
Electrical Engineering
Chemistry for Middle School
Chemistry
World of Enzymes
Chemical Family Album
Newton's First Law of Motion
Group 1 - DDT
NSDL Online Resources
NSDL K12 Resources of Interest
NSDL / NSTA Web Seminars
The Chem Collective
HTML
Increasingly, we get questions in workshops about using html to change the look and feel of IA projects. While this is not the focus of the workshops, you can certainly use html in IA projects. Below are links to some tutorials plus a list of basic html tags. Experiment! Save often!
HTML Tutorial
This is the top level page to an html tutorial. The navigation bar to the left has plenty of details. Look especially at the formatting tags. (Thanks W3Schools.)