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All Things Science - All Things Science
Grades
6 to 12
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tag(s): animals (202), cells (75), climate (87), climate change (43), genetics (78), human body (69), medicine (41), scientific method (40), scientists (40), solar energy (25), solar system (97), space (154), video (114), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Save this site to use as a resource throughout the year with any science topic. Embed videos onto your classroom website for viewing at home or independently during class. (Embedding avoids displaying other areas of the site.) Have students create online posters after they learn about the topic individually or together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here) or PicLits (reviewed here. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create similar videos about science topics being discussed in class. Share the videos on a site such as TeacherTube reviewed here or on All Things Science, if permitted by school policies.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Forecast - Dark Sky Company
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): weather (160)
In the Classroom
Use Forecast as an interesting addition to any history lesson. Choose the location and date that you are studying to find what the actual weather was at that time. Dates go back as far as 1945. Have students debate the impact of weather on historical events. What was the temperature in Dallas on the day JFK was assassinated? The possibilities are endless! Have students compare temperatures from different years during your weather unit, then create an online graph using Amblegraph (reviewed here). Have students research climate change questions using actual data from this site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Discover! Simulations - Houghton Mifflin Science
Grades
K to 6tag(s): animals (202), earth (197), ecosystems (69), energy (150), environment (267), forces (19), life cycles (18), matter (39), motion (37), oceans (112), space (154), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Use this resource to reinforce concepts learned in class or as an introduction to a unit of study. Find topics relevant to your grade level and topics being taught in science. Provide vocabulary words for students to identify, define, and learn through the Interactive. Pose questions that extend learning to prior or new situations and concepts. Use the concepts in the Interactives to develop research projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Awesome Stories - AwesomeStories
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): art history (38), artists (47), biographies (32), black history (41), civil rights (77), civil war (114), cross cultural understanding (63), disasters (30), earthquakes (37), easter (18), inventors and inventions (94), korea (14), lincoln (75), mars (37), movies (49), natural disasters (13), presidents (89), primary sources (63), resources (92), south africa (6), vocabulary (291), weather (160), womens suffrage (10)
In the Classroom
Use this rich site to support your social studies, history, science, language arts classroom and many others! There is a lot here to explore and many diverse topics. Use the Visual Vocabulary Builder to introduce your students to new vocabulary in a different way. Middle and high schoolers could use the movies to teach about character development and themes. The site includes several lesson plans that help you teach with current movies. Have your students use the site to find historical images to use in presentations. (Be sure to check the licensing on any image you use and cite it properly.) Project the video clips using an interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce students to a unit of study. Challenge small groups of students to explore one of the topics presented at this site and share their "story" with the rest of the class. Have students create an annotated image including text boxes and related links using a tool such as Thinglink, reviewed here. Many texts on this site are also useful examples of informational texts for practice of Common Core standards.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cyberchase - PBS KIDS
Grades
3 to 7tag(s): data (119), engineering (69), fractions (173), money (156), problem solving (152), sports (65), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Introduce math concepts in a unique way, using Cyberchase adventures on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Use this site at your centers/stations to practice, use, and apply math and science skills. Put a link on your class website for students to use for review, reinforcement, and enrichment.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SciStarter - Science for Citizens LLC
Grades
5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animals (202), archeology (21), birds (41), ecology (124), environment (267), geology (64), insects (52), medicine (41), oceans (112), science fairs (13), scientific method (40), sound (84), space (154), transportation (30), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Find a great project for your students to participate in, entering data and looking at the results. Search by activity or topic to find a project geared towards your students age range, curriculum, and ability to complete. Have students make a multimedia presentation about one of the "projects" using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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E is for Explore! - Erin Bittman
Grades
K to 6tag(s): addition (182), alphabet (78), angles (63), branches of government (28), charts and graphs (161), density (17), dinosaurs (38), division (114), electricity (66), erosion (10), fractions (173), geology (64), geometric shapes (74), inferencing (3), literacy (77), logic (185), minerals (14), money (156), multiplication (161), place value (43), reading comprehension (69), rocks (37), senses (18), subtraction (147), transformations (11), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for great hands-on activities across the curriculum. Use the activities throughout the school year. Allow students to explore areas of the site to find activities to perform on their own. For example, click on the fractions tag and allow students to view the list of activities to choose their own exploration. When finished, challenge students to create a talking avatar using a photo or other image (legally permitted to be reproduced). The avatars can be used to explain the activity and its outcome. Use a site such as Blabberize (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sky Diary - Chris Kidler
Grades
2 to 7This site includes advertising.
tag(s): careers (93), hurricanes (30), tornadoes (10), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Share information from the site on your interactive whiteboard during weather, career, or storm preparedness units. Challenge students to create a talking avatar using a photo or other image (legally permitted to be reproduced). The avatars can be used to explain the development of hurricanes or tornadoes, or severe weather safety instructions. Use a site such as Blabberize (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wolfram Demonstrations Project - Wolfram Mathematica
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (182), animals (202), architecture (51), computers (28), division (114), fractions (173), geometric shapes (74), gravity (39), logic (185), maps (197), money (156), multiples (26), multiplication (161), plants (88), psychology (40), statistics (90), subtraction (147), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Explain how to use the Demonstrations on your interactive whiteboard (or projector). Allow students to explore on their own classroom computers. (Remember to download the CDF player onto each computer or request it in advance from your tech department.) Challenge students to create a talking avatar using a photo or other image (legally permitted for reproduction). Use avatars to explain activities performed using a Demonstration. Use a site such as Blabberize (reviewed here). The beauty of the demonstrations is that it allows students to manipulate and "play" to view the impact of changes made, allowing many opportunities for classroom discussion. Ask students to predict the impact of changes using the manipulate command; then discuss the actual impact as it occurs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Seymour Simon: Award Winning Children's Author - Seymour Simon
Grades
2 to 8tag(s): animals (202), brain (53), butterflies (12), earth (197), earthquakes (37), environment (267), human body (69), hurricanes (30), insects (52), light (37), oceans (112), planets (97), plants (88), solar system (97), spiders (10), stars (55), sun (57), tornadoes (10), volcanoes (48), weather (160), whales (15)
In the Classroom
Enroll on the site using your email address. Access and use teacher guides along with Seymour Simon books during Guided or Independent Reading. View videos on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) to learn more about the author and watch ebooks. Share Seymour Simon's bio with students when using his books as part of a non-fiction unit -- perfect for Common Core informational texts! Challenge students to create a talking avatar using a photo or other image (legally permitted to be reproduced). The avatars can be used to explain or review any of Seymour Simon's books or articles from the Science blog. Use a site such as Blabberize (reviewed here) to create the avatars. Create a link to the site on classroom computers for students to explore items such as the Science Dictionary or read and discuss items from the Science News.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Water Table - ees.as.uky.edu
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): water (101), water cycle (26), watersheds (11), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Use as an introductory activity to determine patterns about the water cycle and the water table. As students click through the screen, record the changes in water availability to report back to the class. After working their way through this activity, have students use local weather data and river levels from the past year (try Weather.com) to find the different points in your local water cycle.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dr. Carlson's Science Theater - Dr. Carlson Science Theater
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): electricity (66), light (37), matter (39), motion (37), newton (17), optics (13), scientific method (40), waves (19), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Use as a reinforcement or enrichment tool, depending on the students' needs. Embed or link to relevant videos on your website, blog, or wiki for students to view (and review) outside of the classroom. Share the videos on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) and use as an anticipatory guide for science concepts presented -- or even as a review. Use as a creative example of a presentation in a subject area content. Challenge students to create their own videos about a specific science topic. Share the videos on a site such as TeacherTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wind Map - Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg
Grades
K to 12tag(s): atmosphere (15), energy (150), maps (197), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Watch the various wind patterns across the US. Ask students what they notice about the patterns and what could be causing them. Use this as an introduction into a weather unit or as part of the study of wind energy and alternative power. If students could map the wind around their house or community, how would they draw it? Be sure to share this site during March, when talking about the "lion" and "lamb" metaphor and the changing weather! Be sure to check it out during hurricane season, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dib Dab Doo and Dilly too... A smarter safer way to search the Internet - Dibdabdoo.com
Grades
K to 7tag(s): alphabet (78), animals (202), animation (43), clip art (8), colors (58), comics and cartoons (64), cooking (26), crafts (29), creative writing (102), cross cultural understanding (63), cultures (75), dance (22), dinosaurs (38), disabilities (15), diseases (52), drawing (61), fitness (40), flags (19), folktales (59), geometric shapes (74), grammar (197), homework (42), insects (52), journalism (22), measurement (122), museums (31), mysteries (20), numbers (161), nutrition (117), oceans (112), operations (86), origami (13), painting (58), photography (114), poetry (195), psychology (40), rainforests (10), religions (38), search engines (53), seasons (24), sign language (9), social networking (77), spelling (144), sports (65), trivia (12), vocabulary (291), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Help students learn about narrowing and refining research by demonstrating this site on a projector or interactive whiteboard. As you start a project, take the time to SHOW how to use this tool to save time and find appropriate resources. Allow students to explore this site on their own finding relevant information from the various topics. If time permits, have students research a specific topic and create a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mother Nature Network: Earth Matters - MNN Holdings, LLC
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animals (202), climate change (43), earth (197), earth day (104), energy (150), environment (267), natural resources (31), nuclear energy (19), politics (71), solar energy (25), space (154), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Click on each topic for more information. For example, Choosing Energy shows latest news related to energy alone. Use the spectacular images as writing prompts or to encourage discussions. Find incredible photographic lists to use as a writing prompt and for further research. Research more information under the Learn more section. Use the information for research, understanding issues involved with the environment, for questioning the natural world, and to encourage action. Reading specialists can find informational reading passages to use for practice with reading comprehension. Clear out clutter on the page with the article using the Readability tool, reviewed here. Then share the article on interactive whiteboard for students to use the pens to annotate main idea, etc. In science class, have students read an article of choice and create a public service announcement type assignment. Consider using Tildee, reviewed here. With Tildee students can use text, screen shots, and video to develop their public service announcement. Be sure to provide a link of this site on your website or a classroom computer for easy access.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TeachersFirst's Resources for Groundhog Day - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 6In the Classroom
Share this link on your class web page for use both in and out of class. Have students do a science journal about the groundhog or write a blog post as the groundhog! A word of warning: since Punxsutawney Phil is the focus of attention at a very specific time on a specific day, you may have trouble accessing these sites on the big morning. You may want to visit these sites with your class a day or two ahead!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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JASON Science - Home - The JASON Project
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): ecology (124), energy (150), geology (64), video (114), weather (160)
In the Classroom
With the array of information, lesson plans, and modules for learning this website can be used in so many different ways! If you are searching for a video clip that is relevant to your current topic, perform a search of their digital library. Looking for an entire lesson plan or a single assignment? Click on the Teacher Tools bar to quickly find something suitable. Share the video clip on your interactive whiteboard. If several topics relate to your current subject matter, challenge cooperative learning groups to investigate different portions of this site. (This would only work with older/more independent students.) Then have student create projects to share with the class and "teach" about their topic. Have students create online posters on paper or do it together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CWSU National Map - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S. Gov.)
Grades
2 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (161), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Use this site as an introduction to study of graphs, meteorology, and information application. Aspiring meteorologists will find plenty of new vocabulary to learn here. To show what they have learned from this site, challenge students to create an online graphic to share using Tabblo reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twig - Twig World Ltd.
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): atoms (42), body systems (43), dna (62), human body (69), recycling (45), snow (19), sound (84), video (114), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Use these videos to answer questions students generally have. Use as an introductory activity to a unit. Share the videos on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Students can create conventional or multimedia reports about information learned to share with the class. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Place this link on a class web page or class computer for easy access.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science for Kids - Science Kids
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K to 6tag(s): animal homes (20), animals (202), dinosaurs (38), geology (64), light (37), natural disasters (13), planets (97), plants (88), recycling (45), sound (84), water (101), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Use the quizzes on the site as a pre-assessment when beginning a new unit. Share images and videos included on the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector to supplement classroom learning. Use the ideas from projects or experiments as resources for Science fairs. Assign experiments for students to demonstrate in class. Video the experiment presentations and share them with parents using a site such as SchoolTube reviewed here. Create a link on classroom computers for students to try the activities on the site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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