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Earth Science Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12
tag(s): earth (184), rock cycle (12), weather (160)
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This collection includes resources for all grades. Each review includes several classroom use ideas. These are excellent tools to use to study for the big test! Save (or bookmark) this list for students to use to review. Explore the activities suggested.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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STEM Resource Finder - The Concord Consortium
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K to 12tag(s): animals (295), cells (83), dna (43), earthquakes (45), engineering (127), equations (118), genetics (81), measurement (123), plants (147), pollution (52), problem solving (228), space (216), stars (70), STEM (287), temperature (35), weather (160)
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Be sure to bookmark this site as a resource for many interactives and activities for teaching STEM topics. Place students in cooperative groups to complete activities or share ideas from this site for science fair projects. Ask students to share their research and projects and extend their learning using a tool like bulb, reviewed here. bulb offers a variety of options for building a personalized webpage without knowledge of coding.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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3D Apollo 11 Command Module - Smithsonian Museum
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4 to 12tag(s): explorers (65), moon (72), space (216), STEM (287), virtual field trips (119)
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Bookmark this site on classroom computers for students to explore during your space unit or when studying modern explorers. Introduce the site on your interactive whiteboard to demonstrate the different features before having students explore on their own. Use Wakelet, reviewed here to curate and share additional web resources about space exploration as a class, or have students create their own Wakelet sharing resources found through individual research. As a culminating project for more advanced technology users, have students create an interactive timeline using Timelinely, reviewed here, or choose from other timeline creation tools located here to tell the story of space exploration and man's mission to the moon.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Women with Altitude - NetFlights
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6 to 12tag(s): aviation (40), biographies (93), flight (34), pioneers (9), women (146)
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Share this timeline when studying pioneers in different fields or include in Women's History Month lessons. Each entry provides a short introduction to the featured woman. Challenge students to use the entry as a starting point to research the aviator more fully. Have students save their resources using a bookmarking tool like Papaly, reviewed here, and include a link to their resources with the final project. Papaly allows you to collaborate and add notes to bookmarks making this a useful tool for use with group projects. Replace paper and pen timelines by asking students to create their own timelines exploring the life of a famous pioneer using Turbo Timeline Generator, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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National Geographic Education - National Geographic
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K to 12tag(s): animal homes (57), biodiversity (36), climate (82), climate change (94), democracy (23), energy (131), habitats (90), map skills (59), native americans (108), oceans (147), planets (111), preK (269), space (216), stars (70), women (146)
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Bookmark and include the National Geographic site with your resources for planning social studies and science lessons. Share resources from the site on your interactive whiteboard then include a link on classroom computers for students to explore independently. There are many interesting articles and activities for students. Have them choose one; then, replace paper and pen by having them use an online notetaking tool like Webnote, reviewed here, to take notes or write questions as they research information online. Replace paper pen by asking students to write blogs sharing information learned using a site like edublog, reviewed here. edublog offers tools for creating class and individual blogs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Challenger Center - Challenger Center
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3 to 12tag(s): careers (140), experiments (53), explorers (65), gravity (42), moon (72), solar system (108), space (216), stars (70), STEM (287)
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Add the Challenger Center to your resources for teaching about outer space. As you begin your unit, create a Padlet, reviewed here, to organize and share information learned. Have students make flashcards and quizzes to review information learned using a site like Flashcard Stash, reviewed here. As a culminating project, have students create explainer videos of any concept using Clipchamp, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Amazing Space - Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach
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3 to 12tag(s): gravity (42), measurement (123), solar system (108), space (216), stars (70), statistics (120), STEM (287), telescopes (10)
In the Classroom
Be sure to bookmark this site if you teach space science for the many available resources shared with educators. Share the various resources on your whiteboard or with a projector then let students explore on classroom computers or their own device. Include a link to this site on your class website for students to access from home. Use an online portfolio site like Seesaw, reviewed here, for younger students, or about.me, reviewed here, for older students to collect artifacts and share their thoughts throughout your space unit. Extend student learning and ask them to use an augmented reality application like Metaverse Studio, reviewed here, to create an augmented reality display of different portions of our solar system.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Universe and Space - Science Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): space (216)
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If you are teaching about the universe and space, be sure to bookmark (or save) this collection. There are resources here for all grades, plus many extra tools on the tagged list. Share sites on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Provide the link on your class website for students to access both in and out of class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Protection Agency
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7 to 12tag(s): chemicals (41), environment (246), pollution (52), recycling (45), water (101)
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Bookmark this site to include with units on the environment and current events. Ask students to search for local environmental issues and concerns using search tools on the site. Encourage students to use a tool like Diigo, reviewed here, to keep track and highlight the important information they find. Upon completion of research, have students create infographics using a tool like Canva, reviewed here, to share the facts they find. Canva is easy to use and provides many templates for creating infographics. Ask students to create a podcast featuring information on the environment along with suggestions on how to solve environmental concerns. Podcast Generator, reviewed here, is a free tool for publishing audio and video podcasts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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kidcyber - Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas
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K to 6tag(s): aircraft (16), animals (295), australia (29), dictionaries (48), earth (184), inventors and inventions (80), nutrition (137), planets (111), space (216), sports (81), stars (70)
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Include this resource with other content when teaching science concepts. Include a link to specific sections of the site for use as non-fiction reading content. Instead of having students draw a poster to share information about animals or plants, enhance learning by asking them to annotate an image using Google Drawings, reviewed here. Google Drawings allows you to annotate an image with links to videos, text, websites, and more. Not familiar with Google Drawings? Watch an archived OK2Ask session to learn how to use OK2Ask Google Drawings, here. Extend your students' knowledge by setting up a Global Virtual Classroom, reviewed here with a classroom in a different part of the world to compare and contrast your environments.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Smithsonian X 3D - Smithsonian Institution
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6 to 12tag(s): coral (11), dinosaurs (42), electricity (62), fossils (40), jamestown (6), lincoln (66), magnetism (37), museums (51), presidents (135), space (216), STEM (287), virtual field trips (119)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of these many resources to take a virtual visit with your class to the Smithsonian Museum. View artifacts and tours together on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector then allow students to explore on their own. After viewing a tour, ask students to research a topic further. Instead of a written report have students create an online quiz for fellow students using a quiz tool like Knowt, reviewed here. Use a video response tool like Gravity, reviewed here for student collaboration and sharing of research. Extend learning by asking students to create their own virtual field trip using Google Earth, reviewed here. Have students add articles, images, and videos to locations featured on their virtual trip.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science4Fun - Abdul Wahab Malik
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K to 5This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animals (295), density (18), earth (184), electricity (62), energy (131), forces (37), friction (9), gravity (42), heat (16), magnetism (37), mass (20), motion (50), periodic table (46), planets (111), plants (147), preK (269), temperature (35)
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Bookmark Science4Fun as a resource for interesting, classroom-friendly science experiments. Share a link to experiments on your class web page for families to complete at home. Consider taking photos of the different stages of an experiment your students are doing in class. Use Google Slides, reviewed here, to display them on your webpage for students and families to view at any time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math in Real Life - TEDed
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6 to 12tag(s): estimation (33), geometric shapes (135), money (114), movies (54), pi (29), place value (34), puzzles (144), riddles (16), shakespeare (99), simple machines (17), space (216), symmetry (27), video (264)
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Math in Real Life isn't just for math class! Find videos from this series for use in all subject areas. Use the questions, additional resources, and discussion available for each video. Create your own lesson using the "Customize This Lesson" link. Use this option to personalize video lessons for your classroom. Have students dig deeper into any of the content of videos, then extend their learning by challenging them to make a mashup using ytCropper, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SciJinks: Its All About Weather! - NOAA/NASA
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3 to 12tag(s): atmosphere (22), careers (140), hurricanes (32), oceans (147), science fairs (20), scientific method (48), scientists (63), seasons (37), space (216), weather (160)
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Although geared toward middle school students and educators, anyone who teaches weather will want to take the time to explore this site for student and teacher resources. From the top right menu find the Educators section for activities, science fair ideas, and content aligned to standards. Share a link to games and activities on classroom computers and your class website. Upon completing activities, have students create an online or printed comic about an element of weather, climate, meteorology, or any aspect of Earth science. Use a tool such as Printable Comic Strip Templates, reviewed here, for a nontech rough and final draft. If you're new to using technology with your students, or teach younger students enhance their learning and augment techology use with ToonyTool, reviewed here, for their final drafts. To to enhance learning and modify tech use in your class for more experienced, older students try Make Beliefs Comix, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ready Jet Go! - PBS Kids
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K to 6tag(s): gravity (42), moon (72), planets (111), preK (269), solar system (108), space (216), stars (70), sun (71), temperature (35)
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Use this site as a learning station or center. Be sure to include a link on your class web page for use at home. If you're beginning to integrate technology in your class or have younger students, augment techology use by creating a word cloud of the important terms students learn from this site using a tool such as Word Clouds For Kids, reviewed here. Alternatively, these students could use an online poster creator such as Printing Press, reviewed here, to present information learned about space. Teachers more advance with integrating technology can tranform tech use with an online poster creator such as Canva, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AeroSpaceGuide - Vic Stathopoulos
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6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): explorers (65), solar system (108), space (216), STEM (287)
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Use AeroSpaceGuide as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Allow students time to explore as a starting point for further research into space-related topics. Enhance learning and modify classroom technology use by having students create an infographic sharing their space research using Visme , reviewed here. Upon completion of your space unit transform classroom technology use by having students make a multimedia presentation featuring information learned using slides, reviewed here, or Lucidpress, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Exploratorium - Exploratorium
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4 to 12tag(s): atmosphere (22), colors (63), earth (184), electricity (62), energy (131), geology (61), light (53), magnetism (37), matter (46), motion (50), oceans (147), optical illusions (10), optics (12), sound (72), space (216), STEM (287), temperature (35), time (91), water (101)
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Take advantage of the many resources found on Exploratorium to supplement science lessons. Resources include animations, songs, activities, and more. Share this site with students to use as inspiration for science fair projects. After using resources from the site, enhance learning by having students make a multimedia presentation including information learned, using Sway, reviewed here. Sway creates unique multimedia projects using text, images, and media. Change the look of your Sway using the Mood and Remix tools to change the color palette, layout, and fonts. Alternatively, choose one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reactions - American Chemical Society
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6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): chemicals (41), diseases (67), nutrition (137), seasons (37), space (216)
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Share a video with students once a week to help all of you learn about the chemistry in our everyday lives. Flip your classroom and use a video as homework. Have students take notes on the material and write down questions they still have and topics that confuse them. They can do this with pen and paper or online. If you want the assignment online, explain to students they need to open a new tab in their browser window and take notes with a tool such as Webnote, reviewed here; tell students to be sure to save the URL to share their notes and questions with you and their peers. Or, use a tool like playposit (formerly eduCanon), reviewed here, for students to pause videos and ask or answer questions right on the video. These activities can help uncover student misconceptions. Show the video to the class, and then discuss the concept at length.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science in the Classroom - Science in the Classroom
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9 to 12tag(s): animals (295), cells (83), diseases (67), drugs and alcohol (28), genetics (81), human body (93), medicine (56), plants (147), STEM (287)
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Science in the Classroom is a must-add to any high school classroom. View articles together on your interactive whiteboard as you add highlighted annotations to focus on the content. Alternatively, print a copy of the article and have students add highlights to compare to the site's highlighted portions. Be sure to help weaker readers and ESL/ELL students by sharing the vocabulary words before reading, either on a handout or by projecting on an interactive whiteboard or screen and highlighting them in the text as you come to them. Flip learning by having students read an article before coming to class, ask them to prepare questions they have for when they return to class. Have students create a simple infographic sharing their findings using Venngage, reviewed here. Use an online flashcard maker, like Flashcard Stash, reviewed here, to review important vocabulary or content from any article.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Brains On! - Minnesota Public Radio/Southern California Public Radio
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K to 8tag(s): animals (295), earth (184), plants (147), podcasts (103), space (216), tides (6), volcanoes (54), waves (15), weather (160)
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Use Brains On! for your students to listen to in classroom centers. Use for curious students to explore subjects you do not always teach, such as biology, chemistry, or even all about hair! Watch together on your interactive whiteboard (don't forget to share the extras!). Use the podcasts as a model when studying other subjects, giving students structure and ideas for making their own podcasts. Have cooperative learning groups create podcasts demonstrating their understanding of any concepts. Use a site such as podOmatic, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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