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  • Wild Earth TV "hosts ten other live nature cams. You can watch live video of eagles, whooping cranes, and animals of the woods with your students. There’s even a hosted safari channel, with live cams mounted on a jeep that drives by all sorts of African animals, with narration by the driver. It really is amazing to watch these animals in their natural habitat! " from Ann Carnevale's blog
  • Interactive Science Websites and stories good for IWB
  • Animated Storybooks to teach science that cover a wide variety of topics.
  • Science at NASA provides articles about recent science events and current issue, each article includes a streaming audio version that requires a free RealPlayer plugin.  See the Earth Science section for news and links related to biomes, geological change, climate issues and more. 
  • Student Interactives for Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6.
  • KScience    Science flash animation videos that you can download and use on a wide variety of topics, including the categories biology, chemistry, physics, and general (with things like rocks, body parts, cells, electricity, photosynthesis, atom, light/sound, forces)
  • Periodic Table of Videos... it's actually about the elements of the Periodic Table
  • Scientific Method Resources include links to a poem, some powerpoints, an interactive game, online quiz, rap
  • Wildlife FilmMaker is a great way to let kids create animal videos. The video, sounds, music and captions can be created and dropped into a timeline like photostory or moviemaker.  This could be a good way to start kids creating videos.
  • Scientific American's 60 Second podcasts could be an educational, interesting, and entertaining way to start a science class. You never know when a student's curiousity might be piqued. Offering students quick lessons from a variety of science topics increases the chances that they may hear something that they want to explore further.There are four series of podcasts created by Scientific American; 60 Second Science, 60 Second Psych, 60 Second Earth, and a longer set of podcasts called Science Talk.
  • Science doesn't happen in textbooks! This selection of websites give you a look at what's going on in the world of science right now, and how it's changing our world.  LEARN NC has compiled this list of some of the best science news links found in our Best of the Web section. Whether you are looking for space related news or headlines on the latest in the science world, these sites will bring you the latest stories.
  • Planet Science, produced by the NESTA, provides students from pre-K through middle school with online games and activities for learning about science. Planet Science also offers teachers lesson plans that include the use of online and offline resources. Parents looking for activities to get their children excited about learning science should the parents section of Planet SciencePlanet Science has something for most science students and teachers. The activities, games, and lesson plans are appropriate for use in grades K-8.
  • The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits is a fun, interactive website where individuals or groups of students can learn about circuits.  There are 5 sections to the Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits.  Section 1 teaches students about what makes circuits work, section 2 teaches about conductors and insulators, section 3 teaches about switches, section 4 teaches about changing circuits, and section 5 teaches about circuit diagrams.  Each section includes a teaching portion, an activity, and a quiz.  If students answer all of the questions in the quiz correctly, they get a special bonus activity after they have completed each section.  The “Blobz” characters explain each section with pictures, animations, and text.
  • Exploratorium has an absolutely fantastic collection online activities for science students and science teachers. The online activities page of Exploratorium has learning activities for life science and physical science topics. From activities about sports science like fastball reaction time to activities about mutant fruit flies and activities about Antarctic ice, there is something to engage just about every science student.  The bulk of the online activities can be accessed by students in the fourth grade or older. If you're not in a one-to-one computing environment the hands-on activities page provides some great directions for fun off-line learning activities. Some of the virtual tours could be used on a Smart Board/ White Board.
  • Scifun.org, written by a University of Wisconsin chemistry professor, features twenty-five fun and safe science experiments that can be performed with household items. The experiments introduce students to basic chemistry concepts through fun, hands-on activity. The experiments on Science is Fun are probably most appropriate for use with students in the fourth through ninth grade. In addition to providing detailed directions for conducting each experiment, Science is Fun provides an explanation of the chemistry at work in each experiment. Complementing the experiments are easy-to-understand explanations of many chemicals and elements on the periodic table. 

  • Science Buddies is a great resource for science teachers and students. For teachers there are free lesson plans as well as a free poster about scientific method. For students there many ideas for science fair projects as well as tips for creating a great looking science fair presentation. If you or your students are having trouble deciding what type of science fair project to undertake, there is a topic selection wizard that will help you narrow down your list of choices. Science Buddies covers materials for elementary school, middle school, and high school. The topic selection wizard could prove to be a valuable resource for students struggling to choose a topic.

  • Dozens of More Resources from Free Technology for Teachers

  • The Why Files bring science to life virtually.  Students can make rainbows, control a tornado, play with lightning, and build a snowflake.  The Why Files begin each interactive with a brief “why” of how the weather occurrence works, students can read all about the occurrence and even get a link where they can learn more.  The fun starts when the students enter the interactive where they can control the weather.The Why Files are amazing interactives that will help your students to better understand the science behind weather.  This is a great site to use with an interactive whiteboard, invite students to take turns interacting with the weather. 

  • Forces of Nature is a feature of National Geographic's website. There are four sections to the Forces of Nature. The sections focus on tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes. There are six parts to each section. In the last part of each section students can create their own natural disaster using the knowledge they've gained from the previous five parts about how a natural disaster is formed. The Forces of Nature also offers photo galleries and interactive maps about tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

  • The Hobby Shop is an amazing interactive site where students can learn about science.  Students can learn about a compound microscope, dissecting microscope, catapults, chemistry, and rockets.  Each section of the hobby shop is completely interactive and has students discovering learning through virtual experimentation.  Students can look through microscopes, each step of the way they are taught how to do things like prepare petri dishes, and clean up properly afterward.  Students are led through each step of an experiment just as they would do it in an actual lab.  There is an interactive periodic table of elements that students can use to learn about different elements.  Students can create their own rocket in the rocket lab choosing the body, nose cone, and fins of a rocket and then test it out.  Students can also test out catapults with water balloons.

  • Explorelearning  is a website from a company out of Charlottesville, VA. Their resources are great for use on SmartBoard or ActivBoard. The focus is on math and science and exploring concepts using what they call Gizmos. You can search by grade level, topic, and state correlations by clicking on Browse Gizmos at the top of the page under the Explorelearning logo. You can subscribe for a free 30-day trial or use the gizmo for free for 5 minutes. Every Gizmo in the library can be used for up to 5 minutes each per day. Just be sure you are ready to use that gizmo from the moment you load the page in your web browser so you get the biggest bang for your buck. Teacher guides are only available via subscription, but you can access students exploration guides and vocabulary guides via word and PDF documents. Just click on the lesson materials button at the top of the gizmo.

  • Kinetic City is a website produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and The National Science Foundation. It's a collection of science games covering many different science concepts (adaptation, the human body, the diversity of life, models, the universe, processes that sharpe the Earth and much more) . The best way to assess whether this is something you want to use is to get yourself a username, login, and play. Game scores are shown and compared with players from all over the world. This is another great resource for interactive whiteboards or for use in centers.

  • Surfing Scientist - These resources are designed to make primary science teaching fun for everyone, including the teacher! They are easy to download and free to copy for use in the classroom. No special equipment or skills are required for any of the lesson plans or demonstrations. New stuff is added regularly.

  • K-5 Technology Integration Resources from Rockingham County that include links/ideas for science, social studies, math, and English

  • Math and Science Interactive Library

 

 

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