Resources+Science

= Science Resources =

This award-winning EcoKids web site is an interactive environmental web site for children, their families, and educators in Canada and around the world. It offers topical information about the environment through interactive, fun, educational games and activities. [] The Thinkfinity partnership provides free, Internet-based content across academic disciplines. Science NetLinks' role is to provide a wealth of standards-aligned resources for K-12 science educators, including lesson plans, interactive and reviewed Internet resources. Site features include Interactive Lessons, Resources, Benchmarks and Science Updates. [|http://sciencenetlinks.com]

Yucky teaching units (for grades 3-8 and K-2) correlate with the science topics that students love on the Yucky Site. They are designed to align with your curriculum's scope and sequence and with national standards. [|http://yucky.kids.discovery.com]

This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in schools. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. []



This site is by the Space Telescope Science Institute an is responsible for the scientific operation of the Hubble Space Telescope. This site provides a variety of interactive Web based space lessons and related activities. __ [|http://amazing-space.stsci.edu] __



DataStreme Junction is the place where information is found or can be located that promotes the use of current environmental data across the K-12 curriculum. This is portal type of site, with numerous related links. www.ametsoc.org/dstreme/junction



Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. www.stellarium.org

This site is designed for students interested in astronomy. Links include Teacher’s Corner, Fun With Astronomy, Deep Space, The Solar System, Space Exploration, the Universe and more related links.

Succeeding with Science is a a great resource for games, videos, and other activities for teaching and learning science. Succeeding With Science is organized by age. Within each age range there is a selection of games and activities for students to use on his or her own. You'll find that quite a few of the activities are suitable for use on touchscreen computers and interactive whiteboards. http://www.succeedingwithscience.com/



Celestia is a free space exploration simulation program. Celestia is a free download that works on Mac, PC, and Linux systems. The advantage of [|Celestia] over other satellite imagery programs is that in addition to seeing the Earth's surface, students can zoom in on moons, stars, and planets. The user controls what they see. Operating the program is easy enough to be used by students as young as six or seven. The user guides for [|Celestia] are very thorough and available in four languages. There is a companion website to Celestia called the [|Celestia Motherlode] that features add-ons to Celestia and educational activities that teachers can use in their classrooms.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html

[|Hey LHS Kids] is a science activities website for kids developed by the [|Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley]. Hey LHS Kids features some good activities for elementary school students. One of the activities on the site that I think would be fun for elementary use is [|Measure Yourself]. [|Measure Yourself] asks students to measure the size of their ears, feet, and overall height in centimeters. Students then plug those numbers into [|Measure Yourself] and are shown a list of animals that have similar dimensions. http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/kidsite/

The Periodic Table of Comic Books is a project of the chemistry department at the [|University of Kentucky]. The idea is that for every element in the Periodic Table of Elements there is a comic book reference. Clicking on an element in the periodic table displayed on the homepage will take visitors to a list and images of comic book references to that particular element. After looking at the comic book reference if visitors want more information about a particular element they can find it by using the provided link to [|Web Elements.] http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.html



Shape It Up is one of many good educational games and activities on [|Kinetic City]. [|Shape It Up] is an activity that would be good for use in an elementary school Earth Science lesson. The activity presents students with "before" and "after" images of a piece of Earth. Students then have to select the force nature and the span of time it took to create the "after" picture. If students choose incorrectly, [|Shape It Up] will tell the student and they can choose again. http://www.kineticcity.com/mindgames/warper/