|
|
Science
Elementary
|
|
Afterschool Training
Toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors
and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative,
and academically enriching activities that not only engage
students, but also extend their knowledge in new ways and increase
academic achievement.
*On-line resources |
|
ALTEC: Empower
learners of all types and ages. Find instructional Web-based
technology for students, professional development opportunities,
program support, and online assessment for
educators.
* Web-based |
|
Annenberg Learner:
Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all
available on this site. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all
represented.
* Web-based |
|
Annenberg/CPB Math:
Practice using patterns
* Web-based |
|
|
Birmingham Grid for
Learning: Wide variety of interactive English
activities.
* Web-based |
|
|
BrainPOP creates
animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online
educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP,
BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. Features free lesson plans,
video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic
organizers, & best practices.
* Web-based * Requires subscription and
membership |
|
Cells alive! A
"virtual microscope" type of site including plant/animal cells,
mitosis and meiosis. (Middle, High)
* Web-based |
|
|
Dipity is a site that
allows your students to create and share interactive timelines
about any subject or topic. Dipity timelines implement the latest
in Web 2.0, combining multimedia & social media content with
timestamps, geolocation & real-time updates.
* Web-based * Save on-line * Customized by
user
* Cannot save to computer |
|
|
Discovery Education
has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation.
Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests,
grants, science help and more. There are so many resources for
educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.
* Web-based |
|
|
Edsitement! Check out
this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and
lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social
studies/history and foreign language.
* Web-based |
|
|
Educatus: An
intriguing collection of educational lessons, currently consisting
of 12,000+ images represented in over 1,000 lessons.
* Web-based |
|
|
Eduweb: Students may
think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is
going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students
work through creative learning games and activities, all the while
learning in a fun and engaging environment.
* Web-based |
|
Electric Circuits:
Making circuits work, conductors/insulators, switches and
diagrams
* Web-based |
|
Exploratorium:A n
extensive science education website with many on-line exhibits,
sponsored by the Exploratorium: "the museum of science, art, and
human perception". Features include a learning studio, an
observatory, a science museum, and new articles that are updated
daily.
* Web-based |
|
Explorelearning:
Interactive math and science simulations
* Web-based |
|
Field Trip Earth is
the way to go. Learn about different animals or take a virtual
field trip. This website monitors wildlife preservation projects
all over the world and your class can go too. What's best is that
you never have to leave the classroom! Tip: Check
out the interviews with field researchers. This is real life
research for your young scientists.
* Web-based |
|
Inner Body: Click on
the hot spots for an explanation of systems, organs, muscles, etc.
(Site has popup ads - don't install anything offered!)
* Web-based |
|
Interactivate:
Interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and
mathematics
* Web-based |
|
Jason Project: Are
you looking for a way to connect your students with great explorers
and great events in Science? You do not have to look any further
than The Jason Project! Their free online curriculum is designed
primarily for the middle grades but can be adapted to fit any grade
level.
* Web-based |
|
|
Khanacademy: Over
2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. It
includes complete custom self-paced learning tools; a dynamic
system for getting help; and a custom profile, points, and badges
to measure progress.
* Web-based |
|
|
Lee's Summit:
Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as
Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others. Lesson Plans,
activities and more!
* Web-based |
|
|
Library of Congress
website has over 13 million digitized primary source items.
Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find
something here. Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site
to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.
* Web-based |
|
|
Merlot stands for
Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching.
This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the
field of education, and much more.
* Web-based |
|
Microbial Ecology:
Created and sponsored by the Center for Microbial Ecology at
Michigan State University, this site focuses on the microscopic
world around us. Featured topics include the Microbe Zoo, Microbe
of the Month, the Curious Microbe, Microbes in the News, and
Microbial Ecology Resources.
* Web-based |
|
Micronautic
Adventures: Follow Robby the robot on a interactive
journey into the world of microscopy. This educational website was
developed by Marly Cain and features a 3D Web cam, Mars polar
lander, body science for kids, microscopy for kids, a 3D gallery,
and the opportunity to dissect a spider online.
* Web-based |
|
Microscopy: Virtual
microscope of insects, botany, pond life.
* Web-based |
|
MIT: Don't miss this
resource created by MIT for high schools to have open courseware
materials for Biology, Calculus and Physics. High School teachers
can use these materials to further enhance the education of their
students in the classroom.
* Web-based |
|
Molecular
Expressions: Activities written by educators with input
from scientists, researchers, students, and teachers are provided
here to help you and your students investigate light, optics, and
color. Each activity has a teacher version followed by a separate
student page. However, student pages can be easily adapted for use
by children working with their parents, instead of a teacher. In
fact, students, teachers, and parents are encouraged to work
together to cooperatively explore new ideas, concepts, and ways of
thinking.
* Web-based |
|
NASA has a website
to help your teachers and students find out. Enhance the study of
science and technology by employing the diverse resources available
from NASA. These include video e-Clips, podcasts, NASA television,
live space station video, and blogs.
* Web-based |
|
|
National Geographic
Kids: Encourage your kids to do some writing!
* Web-based |
|
|
National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives: A must with the SMART Board! Interactive,
virtual manipulatives from preK-12.
* Web-based |
|
National Science Digital
Library includes a variety of educational resources to
further STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)
education. Browse the science literacy maps, short science
refreshers, free multimedia downloads, or subject area collections
to find just what you need to enhance student learning!
* Web-based |
|
Optical Research
Associates: Elementary school children will enjoy this
quick look at some optical basics from Optical Research Associates.
The site was written and is maintained by Bruce Irving, and
contains a nice introduction to the principles of optics, light,
and color. Experiments on the website can be coupled to the Optics
Discovery Kit produced by the Optical Society of America.
* Web-based |
|
|
PowerPoint
Collection: Download a premade PowerPoint ready for
classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language
arts.
* Web-based * Download to computer |
|
Professor Garfield:
Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide
21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an
environment where children can safely create, interact, read,
engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative
online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
* Web-based |
|
|
Scholastic: Three
interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects
belonging in certain places (ex. Home)
* Web-based |
|
Simple and Complex
Machines: Lab experiments with wedge and lever, ramp and
pulley, and wheel and axle.
* Web-based |
|
|
Smithsonian: The
Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families,
students and educators. The section for Educators includes a
browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade
level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the
use of the site.
* Download to computer |
|
Solarsystem: An
interactive space site - build or interact with the planets.
* Web-based |
|
|
SOS for Information
Literacy: Learn how to effectively incorporate information
literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for Information Literacy is
a dynamic, collaborative web-based multimedia resource for
educators, K to 16. This site links lesson plans and teaching ideas
for information literacy through a comprehensive quality control
system to ensure that lessons are high caliber. Create an account
and build your own lessons or activities.
* Web-based |
|
Stellarium: Open
source planetarium software to showing a realistic sky in 3D
* Web-based |
|
Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
* Web-based |
|
Switcheroo Zoo:
Great for adaptation discussion as you change head, body and tail
of animals.
* Web-based |
|
|
The National Archives' Digital
Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of
primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary
documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United
States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans
that make historical periods come alive for their students or
choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed
and are featured here.
* Web-based |
|
|
Thinkfinity is the
place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and
interactives that align to both state and national standards. They
have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic
Xpeditions, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Arts Edge and other
leaders in the education field.
* Web-based |
|
|
Topmarks: A variety
of topics - all interactive
* Web-based |
Middle Grades
|
|
Acids, Alkalis, and
Neutralisation: Make a prediction of outcomes using
neutralization strategies and litmus strips to test
reactions.
* Web-based |
|
Afterschool Training
Toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors
and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative,
and academically enriching activities that not only engage
students, but also extend their knowledge in new ways and increase
academic achievement.
*On-line resources |
|
ALTEC: Empower
learners of all types and ages. Find instructional Web-based
technology for students, professional development opportunities,
program support, and online assessment for
educators.
* Web-based |
|
Annenberg Learner:
Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all
available on this site. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all
represented.
* Web-based |
|
Annenberg/CPB Math:
Practice using patterns
* Web-based |
|
|
Birmingham Grid for
Learning: Wide variety of interactive English
activities.
* Web-based |
|
|
BrainPOP creates
animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online
educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP,
BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. Features free lesson plans,
video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic
organizers, & best practices.
* Web-based * Requires subscription and
membership |
|
Cells alive! A
"virtual microscope" type of site including plant/animal cells,
mitosis and meiosis. (Middle, High)
* Web-based |
|
|
Dipity is a site that
allows your students to create and share interactive timelines
about any subject or topic. Dipity timelines implement the latest
in Web 2.0, combining multimedia & social media content with
timestamps, geolocation & real-time updates.
* Web-based * Save on-line * Customized by
user
* Cannot save to computer |
|
|
Discovery Education
has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation.
Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests,
grants, science help and more. There are so many resources for
educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.
* Web-based |
|
|
Edsitement! Check out
this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and
lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social
studies/history and foreign language.
* Web-based |
|
|
Educatus: An
intriguing collection of educational lessons, currently consisting
of 12,000+ images represented in over 1,000 lessons.
* Web-based |
|
|
Eduweb: Students may
think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is
going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students
work through creative learning games and activities, all the while
learning in a fun and engaging environment.
* Web-based |
|
Electric Circuits:
Making circuits work, conductors/insulators, switches and
diagrams
* Web-based |
|
Exploratorium:A n
extensive science education website with many on-line exhibits,
sponsored by the Exploratorium: "the museum of science, art, and
human perception". Features include a learning studio, an
observatory, a science museum, and new articles that are updated
daily.
* Web-based |
|
Explorelearning:
Interactive math and science simulations
* Web-based |
|
Field Trip Earth is
the way to go. Learn about different animals or take a virtual
field trip. This website monitors wildlife preservation projects
all over the world and your class can go too. What's best is that
you never have to leave the classroom! Tip: Check
out the interviews with field researchers. This is real life
research for your young scientists.
* Web-based |
|
Inner Body: Click on
the hot spots for an explanation of systems, organs, muscles, etc.
(Site has popup ads - don't install anything offered!)
* Web-based |
|
Interactivate:
Interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and
mathematics
* Web-based |
|
Jason Project: Are
you looking for a way to connect your students with great explorers
and great events in Science? You do not have to look any further
than The Jason Project! Their free online curriculum is designed
primarily for the middle grades but can be adapted to fit any grade
level.
* Web-based |
|
Jefferson Lab: An
interactive periodic table of elements.
* Web-based |
|
|
Khanacademy: Over
2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. It
includes complete custom self-paced learning tools; a dynamic
system for getting help; and a custom profile, points, and badges
to measure progress.
* Web-based |
|
|
Lee's Summit:
Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as
Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others. Lesson Plans,
activities and more!
* Web-based |
|
|
Library of Congress
website has over 13 million digitized primary source items.
Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find
something here. Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site
to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.
* Web-based |
|
|
Merlot stands for
Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching.
This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the
field of education, and much more.
* Web-based |
|
Microbial Ecology:
Created and sponsored by the Center for Microbial Ecology at
Michigan State University, this site focuses on the microscopic
world around us. Featured topics include the Microbe Zoo, Microbe
of the Month, the Curious Microbe, Microbes in the News, and
Microbial Ecology Resources.
* Web-based |
|
Micronautic
Adventures: Follow Robby the robot on a interactive
journey into the world of microscopy. This educational website was
developed by Marly Cain and features a 3D Web cam, Mars polar
lander, body science for kids, microscopy for kids, a 3D gallery,
and the opportunity to dissect a spider online.
* Web-based |
|
Microscopy: Virtual
microscope of insects, botany, pond life.
* Web-based |
|
MIT: Don't miss this
resource created by MIT for high schools to have open courseware
materials for Biology, Calculus and Physics. High School teachers
can use these materials to further enhance the education of their
students in the classroom.
* Web-based |
|
Molecular
Expressions: Activities written by educators with input
from scientists, researchers, students, and teachers are provided
here to help you and your students investigate light, optics, and
color. Each activity has a teacher version followed by a separate
student page. However, student pages can be easily adapted for use
by children working with their parents, instead of a teacher. In
fact, students, teachers, and parents are encouraged to work
together to cooperatively explore new ideas, concepts, and ways of
thinking.
* Web-based |
|
NASA has a website
to help your teachers and students find out. Enhance the study of
science and technology by employing the diverse resources available
from NASA. These include video e-Clips, podcasts, NASA television,
live space station video, and blogs.
* Web-based |
|
|
National Geographic
Kids: Encourage your kids to do some writing!
* Web-based |
|
|
National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives: A must with the SMART Board! Interactive,
virtual manipulatives from preK-12.
* Web-based |
|
National Science Digital
Library includes a variety of educational resources to
further STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)
education. Browse the science literacy maps, short science
refreshers, free multimedia downloads, or subject area collections
to find just what you need to enhance student learning!
* Web-based |
|
Optical Research
Associates: Elementary school children will enjoy this
quick look at some optical basics from Optical Research Associates.
The site was written and is maintained by Bruce Irving, and
contains a nice introduction to the principles of optics, light,
and color. Experiments on the website can be coupled to the Optics
Discovery Kit produced by the Optical Society of America.
* Web-based |
|
|
PowerPoint
Collection: Download a premade PowerPoint ready for
classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language
arts.
* Web-based * Download to computer |
|
Professor Garfield:
Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide
21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an
environment where children can safely create, interact, read,
engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative
online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
* Web-based |
|
|
Scholastic: Three
interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects
belonging in certain places (ex. Home)
* Web-based |
|
|
Smithsonian: The
Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families,
students and educators. The section for Educators includes a
browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade
level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the
use of the site.
* Download to computer |
|
Solarsystem: An
interactive space site - build or interact with the planets.
* Web-based |
|
|
SOS for Information
Literacy: Learn how to effectively incorporate information
literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for Information Literacy is
a dynamic, collaborative web-based multimedia resource for
educators, K to 16. This site links lesson plans and teaching ideas
for information literacy through a comprehensive quality control
system to ensure that lessons are high caliber. Create an account
and build your own lessons or activities.
* Web-based |
|
Stellarium: Open
source planetarium software to showing a realistic sky in 3D
* Web-based |
|
Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
* Web-based |
|
|
The National Archives' Digital
Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of
primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary
documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United
States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans
that make historical periods come alive for their students or
choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed
and are featured here.
* Web-based |
|
|
Thinkfinity is the
place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and
interactives that align to both state and national standards. They
have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic
Xpeditions, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Arts Edge and other
leaders in the education field.
* Web-based |
|
|
Topmarks: A variety
of topics - all interactive
* Web-based |
|
Virtual Cell Web
Page: Click "The Virtual Cell Tour" to start.
* Web-based |
Secondary
|
|
Acids, Alkalis, and
Neutralisation: Make a prediction of outcomes using
neutralization strategies and litmus strips to test
reactions.
* Web-based |
|
Afterschool Training
Toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors
and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative,
and academically enriching activities that not only engage
students, but also extend their knowledge in new ways and increase
academic achievement.
*On-line resources |
|
ALTEC: Empower
learners of all types and ages. Find instructional Web-based
technology for students, professional development opportunities,
program support, and online assessment for
educators.
* Web-based |
|
Annenberg Learner:
Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all
available on this site. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all
represented.
* Web-based |
|
Annenberg/CPB Math:
Practice using patterns
* Web-based |
|
|
Birmingham Grid for
Learning: Wide variety of interactive English
activities.
* Web-based |
|
|
BrainPOP creates
animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online
educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP,
BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. Features free lesson plans,
video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic
organizers, & best practices.
* Web-based * Requires subscription and
membership |
|
Cells alive! A
"virtual microscope" type of site including plant/animal cells,
mitosis and meiosis. (Middle, High)
* Web-based |
|
|
Dipity is a site that
allows your students to create and share interactive timelines
about any subject or topic. Dipity timelines implement the latest
in Web 2.0, combining multimedia & social media content with
timestamps, geolocation & real-time updates.
* Web-based * Save on-line * Customized by
user
* Cannot save to computer |
|
|
Discovery Education
has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation.
Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests,
grants, science help and more. There are so many resources for
educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.
* Web-based |
|
|
Edsitement! Check out
this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and
lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social
studies/history and foreign language.
* Web-based |
|
|
Educatus: An
intriguing collection of educational lessons, currently consisting
of 12,000+ images represented in over 1,000 lessons.
* Web-based |
|
|
Eduweb: Students may
think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is
going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students
work through creative learning games and activities, all the while
learning in a fun and engaging environment.
* Web-based |
|
Electric Circuits:
Making circuits work, conductors/insulators, switches and
diagrams
* Web-based |
|
Exploratorium:A n
extensive science education website with many on-line exhibits,
sponsored by the Exploratorium: "the museum of science, art, and
human perception". Features include a learning studio, an
observatory, a science museum, and new articles that are updated
daily.
* Web-based |
|
Explorelearning:
Interactive math and science simulations
* Web-based |
|
Field Trip Earth is
the way to go. Learn about different animals or take a virtual
field trip. This website monitors wildlife preservation projects
all over the world and your class can go too. What's best is that
you never have to leave the classroom! Tip: Check
out the interviews with field researchers. This is real life
research for your young scientists.
* Web-based |
|
Inner Body: Click on
the hot spots for an explanation of systems, organs, muscles, etc.
(Site has popup ads - don't install anything offered!)
* Web-based |
|
Interactivate:
Interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and
mathematics
* Web-based |
|
Jason Project: Are
you looking for a way to connect your students with great explorers
and great events in Science? You do not have to look any further
than The Jason Project! Their free online curriculum is designed
primarily for the middle grades but can be adapted to fit any grade
level.
* Web-based |
|
Jefferson Lab: An
interactive periodic table of elements.
* Web-based |
|
|
Khanacademy: Over
2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. It
includes complete custom self-paced learning tools; a dynamic
system for getting help; and a custom profile, points, and badges
to measure progress.
* Web-based |
|
|
Lee's Summit:
Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as
Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others. Lesson Plans,
activities and more!
* Web-based |
|
|
Library of Congress
website has over 13 million digitized primary source items.
Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find
something here. Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site
to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.
* Web-based |
|
|
Merlot stands for
Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching.
This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the
field of education, and much more.
* Web-based |
|
Microbial Ecology:
Created and sponsored by the Center for Microbial Ecology at
Michigan State University, this site focuses on the microscopic
world around us. Featured topics include the Microbe Zoo, Microbe
of the Month, the Curious Microbe, Microbes in the News, and
Microbial Ecology Resources.
* Web-based |
|
Micronautic
Adventures: Follow Robby the robot on a interactive
journey into the world of microscopy. This educational website was
developed by Marly Cain and features a 3D Web cam, Mars polar
lander, body science for kids, microscopy for kids, a 3D gallery,
and the opportunity to dissect a spider online.
* Web-based |
|
Microscopy: Virtual
microscope of insects, botany, pond life.
* Web-based |
 |
Microworlds: Science
Education for grades 9-12, and fun for all. The site is an
interactive tour of current research in the materials sciences at
Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, and is sponsored by the
University of California at Berkeley.
* Web-based |
|
MIT: Don't miss this
resource created by MIT for high schools to have open courseware
materials for Biology, Calculus and Physics. High School teachers
can use these materials to further enhance the education of their
students in the classroom.
* Web-based |
|
Molecular
Expressions: Activities written by educators with input
from scientists, researchers, students, and teachers are provided
here to help you and your students investigate light, optics, and
color. Each activity has a teacher version followed by a separate
student page. However, student pages can be easily adapted for use
by children working with their parents, instead of a teacher. In
fact, students, teachers, and parents are encouraged to work
together to cooperatively explore new ideas, concepts, and ways of
thinking.
* Web-based |
|
NASA has a website
to help your teachers and students find out. Enhance the study of
science and technology by employing the diverse resources available
from NASA. These include video e-Clips, podcasts, NASA television,
live space station video, and blogs.
* Web-based |
|
|
National Geographic
Kids: Encourage your kids to do some writing!
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National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives: A must with the SMART Board! Interactive,
virtual manipulatives from preK-12.
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National Science Digital
Library includes a variety of educational resources to
further STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)
education. Browse the science literacy maps, short science
refreshers, free multimedia downloads, or subject area collections
to find just what you need to enhance student learning!
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Optical Research
Associates: Elementary school children will enjoy this
quick look at some optical basics from Optical Research Associates.
The site was written and is maintained by Bruce Irving, and
contains a nice introduction to the principles of optics, light,
and color. Experiments on the website can be coupled to the Optics
Discovery Kit produced by the Optical Society of America.
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PowerPoint
Collection: Download a premade PowerPoint ready for
classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language
arts.
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Professor Garfield:
Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide
21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an
environment where children can safely create, interact, read,
engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative
online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
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Scholastic: Three
interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects
belonging in certain places (ex. Home)
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Smithsonian: The
Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families,
students and educators. The section for Educators includes a
browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade
level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the
use of the site.
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Solarsystem: An
interactive space site - build or interact with the planets.
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SOS for Information
Literacy: Learn how to effectively incorporate information
literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for Information Literacy is
a dynamic, collaborative web-based multimedia resource for
educators, K to 16. This site links lesson plans and teaching ideas
for information literacy through a comprehensive quality control
system to ensure that lessons are high caliber. Create an account
and build your own lessons or activities.
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Stellarium: Open
source planetarium software to showing a realistic sky in 3D
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Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
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The National Archives' Digital
Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of
primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary
documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United
States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans
that make historical periods come alive for their students or
choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed
and are featured here.
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Thinkfinity is the
place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and
interactives that align to both state and national standards. They
have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic
Xpeditions, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Arts Edge and other
leaders in the education field.
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Topmarks: A variety
of topics - all interactive
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Virtual Cell Web
Page: Click "The Virtual Cell Tour" to start.
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