Sites for Science Teachers
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Provides interactive games, online resources for teachers and students, and all sorts of things related to space, stars, planets, etc.
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Videos of amoeba moving about and eating.
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Allows students to apply their knowledge of physics by building a roller coaster - includes a physics glossary and other interactive physics lessons
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An online mystery involving a mission to Mars. Students must solve problems using scientific knowledge and reason
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Students can view a multitude of Java programs that creates a solar system, view the moons and their orbits around their planets, and learn about astronomical distances.
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Kids learn fun things about science from various film monsters. For example, Dracula teaches about light waves and particles, and Frankenstein teaches about electricity and electrical safety.
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Numerous resources and activities dealing with bats for younger students
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Experiments and other science activities
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This site from Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides interactive activities for secondary students and lesson ideas for teachers.
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This site from
University of Arizona offers interactive online resource for biology,
grades 9 -12. The site includes tutorials, problem sets, lesson plans,
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Offers resources defining biotechnology and explaining its uses.
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Offers activities for
learning how leaves change color, how flowers grow, how plants fight disease
& insects, why plants come in so many colors, tips for growing plants, &
facts about fungi. Learn about seeds, composting, endangered plant |
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An interactive site which allows the user to stimulate certain areas of the brain and see how the patient reacts
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Provides good information on engineering in earthquake zones, bridge building, and earthquakes
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All sorts of resources dealing with all sorts of cells
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Activities and resources dealing with chemistry for younger or beginning students
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An interactive periodic table that allows students to click on or search for an element and learn general information (such as name, density, atomic weight, and when discovered), states, energies, oxidation & electrons, appearance & characteristics, reactions, other forms radius, conductivity & abundance
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A site from the Howard Hughes Medical Foundation designed for elementary students - provides easy experiments and interactive science activities
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This great site from National Geographic Kids offers wonderful resources on a wide variety of animals. For each animal, students can see fun facts, watch video of the animal in its natural habitat, hear audio of the animal, and see a map showing where the animal resides.
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A fun interactive activity for elementary students from National Geographic for Kids which allows them to be the zookeeper and create the perfect habitat for a Siberian tiger
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This site from NASA allows students to study comets using the Deep Impact probe which is imbedded in comet Tempel 1.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education
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Online lesson plans mostly for middle and high school in science and math
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Information and graphics on dinosaurs from the natural history museum
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Online access to Albert Einstein's scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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A web site linked to the year-long celebration in Great Britain and Ireland of the achievements of Albert Einstein includes some great physics activities and information
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A site from the National Wildlife Federation which gives information and great photographs on all sorts of plants and animals, discussing their habitat, etc. Also will provide nature guides for your specific area, and offers news articles on nature. Some features are not available unless you subscribe, which is free.
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Students can learn about, see pictures of and watch video clips of endangered animals from around the world.
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Online activities and resources for teachers and elementary/middle school students dealing with energy
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Students can see pictures and video of a number of insects on this site from Iowa State University.
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From Explorelearning, Gizmos are interactive science and math activities almost any topic imaginable - The pull-down menu near the bottom of the page lists topics. This is a subscription site, but they offer a 30-day free trial
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An awesome interactive science site, provides a virtual microscope with photos and video of various cells and organisms, allows you to explore the science of music, Saturn, and Chichen Itza, and also has a number of interactive science activities and some great optical illusions.
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Great resources from the National Air and Space Museum on the solar system and planets.
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Sort of the Guinness Book of World Records for science - also provides lots of good factual information in a user-friendly format for almost any scientific topic
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Virtual frog dissection
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Lots of activities for science for elementary students.
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Students construct
and interpret frequency tables, demonstrate knowledge of simple random
samples, define range, mean and median as they apply to statistics, and
demonstrate knowledge of min/max plots. Teacher Tips included. For high
school students. |
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This site allows students of all grades to take online science quizzes and compare their knowledge to other students from around the world. Students can take quizzes over and over again because new questions are generated each time. Students will be asked to complete a free registration with a nickname, state, and grade.
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This experiment by
NASA and Stanford is using a space probe to to test two unverified
predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity (1916): that
the presence of a mass in space, such |
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An interactive site from National Geographic which allows students to virtually tour the Great Barrier Reef - also offers a scavenger hunt activity to go with the tour
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Celebrates great inventors and their inventions.
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Information on…how stuff works
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Interactive anatomy site with animations and labels
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Interesting information on genes
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Awesome interactive activities for human anatomy. Interactive games for muscles, organs, nervous system, and skeletal system, plus a senses challenge.
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Teacher designed math & science games including who wants to be a millionaire, hangman, concentration, and crossword puzzles - also includes flashcards
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Stories of inventors and online interactive games to promote divergent thinking necessary to be an inventor
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A website from the American Museum of Natural History which teaches elementary students about germs, diseases, and how they are spread through interactive scenarios
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A site devoted to...infrared astronomy - explains it, gives its history, and shows how its used
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This site provides links to great online science resources.
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From the television program Zoom this site provides resources and hands-on and virtual experiments using kitchen items (for elementary and middle school students)
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This website from UC Berkeley provides online activities, resources, and experiments for students of all ages
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Resources, experiments, and numerous links for science students of all ages - even includes an "ask a scientist" option
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helps students understand the vector nature of fields, the ubiquity of fields in the environment, & the 3-dimensionality of fields. Activities include mapping the magnetic field of a room, making a magnetometer, & studying plasma
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Online information about diseases and disorders
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Virtual tour of the human body
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Everything you'd want to know about minerals
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This website offers a number of different science interactive activities for early elementary students.
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Hypertext biology references
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Online resources about sea life and conservation with great webcams
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The Boston Museum of Science offers virtual tours, numerous print resources, and archived lectures and speeches
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Online games, resources, and activities dealing with space for elementary students
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National Geographic Homework Help
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Information and games on numerous science and geography topics
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This site provides links to web-based resources for all levels and areas of science.
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Virtual frog dissection with videos, text, and activities
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Allows younger students to explore the brain
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Information and graphics on the ten planets
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Interactive lessons on the pH factor.
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Online activities, tutorials, and resources for high school physics.
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Interactive periodic table
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Public Outreach,
Education, Teaching and Reaching Youth is a site from NASA offering numerous
resources and links on space science |
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Popular Science magazine online including the current issue and archives.
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Units of study for science with hands-on authentic activities
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Science experiments for all levels including experiments on floatation, capillary action, chemical reactions - includes activities like building a hovercraft or a volcano
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Activities for all grade levels on numerous topics in science and engineering
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Good encyclopedic-type entries on science topics
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Links to numerous resources and activities for inquiry-based science learning.
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This site from
CoolMath provides entertaining information about the solar system for
students in grades 2-5. Students can take a star tour, see how gravity and
inertia work, and play a fun lunar landing game. |
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Offers teacher resources and student activities including hands-on and virtual experiments on optics
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A number of resources dealing with the human brain from Nova
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Articles, videos, and images of space.
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Lots of fun interactive activities, resources, and information on how science relates to sports
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Astronomy for younger students
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Online footage of volcanoes, eruptions, virtual tours of volcanoes, and other resources dealing with...volanoes.
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Provides link to resources and interactive activities dealing with robotics, genetics, and other topics
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This site from the Field Museum offer information and interactive lessons on habitats
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An interactive tutorial for balancing chemical equations
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Virtual dissections, labs, and field trips
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Shows the anatomy of a pig with links for each of its organs
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This site from National Geographic provides a 3D virtual tour of our solar system, allowing planet flybys and up close examination (requires downloadable software and a PC to do the 3D version)
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Over 18,000 digitized images of the human body allow students to see pictures and animations of any system, organ, etc.
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Everything you'd ever want to know about volcanoes
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Information and graphics on geology
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Reference for astronomy
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Sponsored by the United Nations, this website linked to the year-long celebration of physics provides activities and lesson plans on all sorts of topics linked to physics
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Links checked 6/16/06 |
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