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Science News Explores - Society for Science and the Public
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): agriculture (54), animals (275), computers (115), dinosaurs (48), engineering (141), environment (254), news (223), nutrition (135), weather (177)
In the Classroom
Use Science News for Kids as a great reading and reporting assignment. Weaker readers will need a reading buddy for some of the more challenging article. Classes in lower grades will want to read the articles together. A quick check on one article using Juicy Studio's Readability test, reviewed here, provided an approximate grade level of 6.5. Check articles before assigning to elementary students. Students can find an article of interest to read, summarize, and report to the class as part of a Science in My World unit or regular science current events activity. Have students create commercials about their topics. Video and share using a site such as SchoolTube, reviewed here. Students can use these news articles to find additional relevant information on the internet. Students may find these topics to be great independent study topics. Teach reading comprehension using these factual articles on your interactive whiteboard, asking students to highlight key words and generate a "main idea" sentence using them. Articles offer ideal practice for informational reading questions on high-stakes reading tests.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Bubbabrain - Bubbabrain
Grades
K to 12tag(s): psychology (60), sociology (24), time (94)
In the Classroom
Use these activities for review of concepts or terminology with your class on specific topics/subjects. Wish there were a review game for a missing topic? Request a teacher ID, and have groups of students create the questions. Enter the information for the game and students can review by playing their game or one created by another group. Share the student-created games on your interactive whiteboard or projector.These games would be great to both help students review and help them figure out what kind of study methods work best for them.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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National Historic Chemical Landmarks - American Chemical Society
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): 20th century (168), inventors and inventions (88), scientists (72)
In the Classroom
Have students use this site for individual research projects. Share the New Products link to learn more about inventions of the 20th century during an invention unit. Or share the scientific events that occurred during a certain time period in history as your social studies class tries to understand bygone eras. Challenge students to create multi-media projects about specific inventions or inventors. Or have students create their own inventions!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Curious Minds - Forfas
Grades
K to 7tag(s): heart (26), human body (98), pollution (55), structures (15)
In the Classroom
View the movies to gain background information and learn basics. With older students flip your class and have them view the movies at home using MoocNote, reviewed here. With MoocNote you can add questions and quizzes to videos, saving class time for discussions and questions. Share the interactives and video clips on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use related lab activities or research to to reinforce the topics with hands-on experiences.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wonder How To - Wonder How To, Inc.
Grades
6 to 12Membership is free and has many perks. You can comment and/or grade the video clips or even submit your own video. Registration does require some personal information: a username, password, email address, and date of birth. ALL USERS MUST BE OVER 13 YEARS OF AGE! Check with your administrator about allowing the students to register for this site using fictitious names. You may wish to set up a class registration instead of entering accurate data into the registration site. Another option is to create a free Gmail account to use for memberships. If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to make a Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that explains how to set up Gmail subaccounts for any online membership service. Warning: not all videos are suitable for the classroom. Be sure to preview what you wish to share. If you choose to allow your older students to navigate this site on their own (for research or a class project), be sure to set boundaries on which videos they can watch, define consequences for going elsewhere, and WATCH CAREFULLY! Some videos explain "how to" do things that are unsafe or inappropriate for school-age audiences. Wonder How To does include unobtrusive advertisements.
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tag(s): aircraft (25), business (50), money (113), russian (25), sign language (16)
In the Classroom
Use these fabulous "how-to" videos for informative writing projects in speech, science, or even with your gifted students. The site does provide excellent research. You may want to link directly to the specific videos you want students to see to avoid other, less desirable options. Share the "how to" videos on an interactive whiteboard or projector as an anticipatory set for a new lesson. For a final project, have students create and submit their own "how to" video using YouTube or using a tool such as SchoolTube..Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ProProfs Quizmaker - Proprofs QuizSchool
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): quiz (62)
In the Classroom
Use this site to create online quizzes. Create a quiz as a review to share on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students take the quiz independently or in cooperative learning groups. Have students create their own quizzes to use for review or as a final project. Embed your quiz (or provide a link to it) on your class website.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Free Rice - freerice.com
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): multiplication (133), symbols (19), vocabulary (251)
In the Classroom
Reminiscent of The Reader's Digest "Enrich Your Word Power" feature, this is a great little time filler, especially for those students who always seem to be ahead of the rest of the class. They can challenge themselves to better their "level" as gauged by the site. They can challenge each other to see who will give the most grains of rice in any given session. If your class has a vocabulary glossary wiki, this site will provide many new entry ideas! You might even get into a conversation about how much 20 grains of rice really is and where around the world it might do the most good.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Exploring Online: Better Hair Through Chemistry - Exploratorium Magazine
Grades
6 to 10In the Classroom
Although this website doesn't have many "bells and whistles" (it dates back to 1998), the content could be very interesting in a chemistry or other secondary science class. This website takes a "teenage friendly" topic and brings it into the science classroom. There are many higher-level science topics within the text of this website. Invite students to try the experiments and even to use technology to create more up-to-date illustrations of the concepts for a health or science fair display.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science Fair Project Resource Guide - The Internet Public Library
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): experiments (65), scientific method (49)
In the Classroom
As you study the scientific method, use the science fair examples as exercises for students to identify independent and dependent variables for the various projects. Give students the links to "find" experiments and analyze them with a partner or do this analysis as a class, sharing the project ideas on a projector or interactive whiteboard. The whiteboard tools would allow you to consistently color-code and highlight the various steps of the scientific method to support students' learning.Include this site on your class web page for students and parents to access as a reference. Consider directing students and parents to specific links on this site that apply to the science fair they are participating in.
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Mad Sci Network - Mad Sci Network/Third Sector New England
Grades
K to 12tag(s): experiments (65), scientists (72)
In the Classroom
Navigate the human body and label parts on an interactive whiteboard, or find the appropriate experiments for all your science concepts. By searching the question archives, you can find answers to questions at all levels. Be sure to include this link on your class web page year-round to promote curiosity about science. Teachers of gifted students will love this one as a treasury of open-ended science ideas from scientists.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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instacalc - instacalc
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (137), calculators (36), conversions (38), multiplication (133)
In the Classroom
Visit the site and observe how the shared examples work. If you find one you like, you can get the link (try the little disk icon) to go directly to it. If you are feeling more adventurous, try creating one of your own, perhaps for calculating the class average on a test. Your web-savvy students will love this tool for collaborative lab reports or graphs of statistics. For safety's sake do not use any student names or information if you share calcs online.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World of Teaching
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use the small blue buttons to find your subject(s). This site is great for finding/sharing an interactive whiteboard activity or projected lesson. Since the PowerPoint shoes are editable, you may want to customize the shows you find. The grade equivalents are listed in the British system: KS1=ages 5-7; KS2=ages 7-11;KS3= ages 11-14;KS4= ages 14-16, A Level=ages 16-18.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Periodic Table of Comic Books - F. James Holler & John P. Selegue
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): elements (32), latin (23), periodic table (49)
In the Classroom
Get an interactive whiteboard and utilize this excellent website to help your students better comprehend the periodic table. These comics are packed with knowledge and fun to use! You will certainly want to include it on your teacher web page for studens to explore outside of class time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Drinking Water and Ground Water Kids' Stuff - U.S. EPA
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K to 12tag(s): conservation (109), earth (195), earth day (62), water (104), water cycle (25)
In the Classroom
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Teach Engineering Resources for K-12 - University of Colorado Boulder
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K to 12tag(s): amazon (11), architecture (83), bridges (9), cells (78), density (21), engineering (141), environment (254), forces (46), friction (12), heart (26), human body (98), latitude (9), light (57), longitude (8), map skills (69), marine biology (32), mars (25), medicine (53), motion (56), pollution (55), robotics (30), rockets (14), simple machines (21), space (248), STEM (370)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site as a resource for finding STEM lessons and activities for all grade levels. Collaborate with your peers using a bookmarking tool like Papaly, reviewed here, to share all of your resources. Papaly lets you add notes to shared resources, making it easy to discuss and comment on shared items. Instead of having students write journal entries during science or maker lab activities, enhance student learning by using a video response tool like Gravity, reviewed here to have students respond to essential questions and comment on their peers' observations. As a culminating activity for a unit, ask students to create an explainer video that answers essential questions about the unit topic. Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here is an easy-to-use tool for creating animated video explainers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Periodic Table of the Elements - Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): elements (32), periodic table (49)
In the Classroom
This is an excellent reference to include as a link on your teacher web page for students to access in class or at home as they begin to study the elements. Be sure to assign a partner reader for weaker students if you are requiring students to research on their own.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Matter Is The Stuff Around You - Andrew Rader Studios
Grades
3 to 8In the Classroom
Check out the lesson plan that is already designed using this website "Scientific Method Experiment: Factors Affection How Ice Melts".Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Singing Science Records - Ballads for the Age of Science
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): 1950s (33), 1960s (54), animals (275), energy (139), mammals (21), motion (56), plants (143), space (248), water (104), water cycle (25), weather (177)
In the Classroom
Include the links to specific songs for review on your teacher web site or play one of the songs as students enter the room (a sort of audio anticipatory set). You will definitely need to turn up the speakers. Elementary music teachers might want to pick up one of the songs while the students are studying these topics and teach the music and lyrics during music class!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ology - American Museum of Natural History
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2 to 8tag(s): anthropology (9), archeology (26), biodiversity (40), brain (58), climate change (113), earth (195), genetics (82), marine biology (32), microorganisms (9), museums (52), paleontology (28), water (104), zoology (18)
In the Classroom
Motivate your students by using an interactive whiteboard or projector to share these engaging, interactive, and educational resources.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Visionlearning - Visionlearning, Inc
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6 to 12tag(s): acids and bases (7), carbon (15), cells (78), darwin (14), earth (195), energy (139), gravity (52), light (57), matter (51), molecules (42), optics (14), paleontology (28), periodic table (49), photosynthesis (19), planets (123), reading comprehension (146), rock cycle (26), rocks (44), scientific method (49), scientists (72), space (248), water (104), waves (14)
In the Classroom
Include this site to supplement your current grade 6-12 science curriculum. Use the resources to differentiate instruction for gifted students in lower grades or as remediation for struggling students in older grades. Use the student materials for differentiating instruction or as homework. Have students share their learning or understanding of a topic with video explanations using a tool like Gravity. Gravity is a tool for video responses to a question along with comments from peers. Extend technology use in your classroom and take student learning a step further by asking them to create and share their own multimedia presentation along with suggestions for learning about their topic of interest. Use a tool like Sway. Sway is a presentation tool that offers multimedia options including text, video, and images.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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