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How Things Fly These lesson plans embrace a spirit of adventure and discovery by having students draw upon their own experiences and sense of movement to understand the basic physics of flight. All lessons and activities have been adapted from classroom-tested materials developed by the education department of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. (12/18/10)

 

Impact Earth! Want to see how a particular projectile from space would affect the Earth? With this tool developed for Purdue University, students can enter the projectile's parameters to calculate what would happen if the object were to actually strike Earth. You can also get details on the projectiles that have caused well-known craters. (12/18/10)

 

Simple Machines Play a game using simple machines—an inclined plane, a lever, wheels and an axle, and a pulley—to help Twitch collect parts needed to repair a robot from the museum's crowded workshop shelves. From the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry (12/18/10)

 

Volcano Explorer  Create a virtual volcano and see the effects of increasing gas pressure and magma viscosity in this volcano simulator from Discovery. You can learn about the effects and impact a volcano has on nearby populations and explore the science behind them. (12/18/10)

 

The Virtual Cell Web Page includes a virtual textbook and a virtual cell tour with accompanying worksheets. The entire site can be downloaded for offline use. Available in English, Russian, French, and Spanish. (12/18/10)

 

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (or Darwin Online) is the largest and most widely consulted edition of the writings of Darwin ever published. More copies of Darwin's works have been downloaded from Darwin Onlinethan have been printed by all publishers of the past 180 years combined. (11/27/10)

 

The Chemical Education Digital Library is a storehouse of tested digital resources for education in the chemical sciences. Teachers and students are encouraged to find, use, contribute, and evaluate ChemEd DL resources in support of teaching and learning. (11/20/10)

 

The Periodic Table of Videos Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. (11/14/10)

 

Explore the Galapagos The Galapagos Islands may be the birthplace of our scientific understanding of evolution. Charles Darwin pointed to them as the "origin of all my views." In this multimedia feature, get a sense of their extraordinary animals and landscapes through panoramic photos, video, and audio. And trace Darwin's journey to see how the islands sparked his thinking about evolution. (11/12/10)

 

Perhaps the most famous of all women scientists, Maria Sklodowska-Curie is notable for her many firsts. She had degrees in mathematics and physics. Winner of two Nobel Prizes, for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911, she performed pioneering studies with radium and polonium and contributed profoundly to the understanding of radioactivity. (11/5/10)

 

Dr. Jeff's Blog on the Universe is for anyone who gets joy from learning and aspires to know. It was originally designed to help teachers of science and math make science an adventure. It's a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education. (10/6/10)

 

Knotebooks is a unique approach to the open educational resource (OER) movement, providing users with the tools to create, collaborate on and share customized, self-guided physics lessons. Whether you are a student, teacher, professional or self-learner (9/4/10)

 

Virtual Roach is a web resource focused on insect anatomy that was developed as a technical reference and an instructional tool. The interface for the system links morphological terms with an extensive image archive, including scientific illustrations, scanning electron micrographs, and photomicrographs. Images are linked in a manner permitting a detailed examination and virtual dissection of the American Cockroach. (8/30/10)

 

Fruitful DNA Extraction Do you think you have very much in common with a kiwi fruit? Believe it or not, a kiwi's genetic material is very similar to your own! See and touch the genetic material that you'll extract from the cells of a kiwi fruit. (7/7/10)

 

CSI: The Experience - Web Adventures Analyze forensic data and test your skills in this online game. This educational experience was carefully designed by experts at Rice University to maximize student learning. (6/7/10)

 

Interactive Excel files for science are available for download from the Interactive Excel Project at Northwestern University's Collaboratory.(5/26/10)

 

pElement is a free interactive reference tool on the periodic table. It contains over 65 information items on each element. Examples of information provided in the program include melting point, boiling point, density, year discovered, and more. (5/7/10)

 

Sun and Planets from the Adler Planetarium offers easily accessible information about the solar system. In addition, the sidebar offers links to similarly accessible info on comets, meteors, asteroids, and moons. (4/20/10)

 

Arty the Part-Time Astronaut  provides activities that can help students to better understand and enjoy the story and facts about space. (4/20/10)

 

Make 16 Million Colors lets you set a random background color and then try to mix red, blue, and green light in a circle in the foreground to match the background. It's an exercise in color perception, and it can also be used in learning the difference between mixing colors of light and mixing pigments. Requires Adobe Shockwave Player. (4/19/10)

 

Viscosity Explorer A Flash interactive in which students must pick a liquid and then drop a ball into each cylinder to discover the liquid's viscosity.  Alter the temperature to see what happens when certain liquids heat up or cool off.  A fantastic inquiry based activity or for use as a virtual 'lab station'. (3/27/10)

 

 BioInvestigators is an online forensic biology game that challenges to solve a series of mysteries using DNA analysis. Each game simulates a real-world case that involves collecting and examining evidence and making conclusions about your findings -all within a 360° virtual lab environment. (3/22/10)

 

The Physics Classroom Tutorial is an online physics tutorial written for high school physics students covering basic physics topics using informative graphics and an easy-to-understand language. The tutorial, when combined with other resources at this site provides a student of physics a great opportunity to learn and to test their understanding. (3/18/10)

 

  Gas Model: Caged molecules do their thing. The atomic theory of matter tells us that a gas is made up of tiny particles called atoms (or molecules, which are combinations of atoms), which are constantly in motion, smashing into each other and the walls of their container, if there is one. Here is a highly visual model of this idea. (3/11/10)

 

Energy Kids provides students with games, riddles, quizzes, and easily accessible information about energy. Energy Kids offers teachers dozens of free downloadable PDF lesson plans are arranged by grade level. Teachers will also find links to other sites containing resources for teaching lessons about energy. (3/2/10)

 

Downhill Racer Two objects with the same shape and the same mass may behave differently when they roll down a hill. How quickly an object accelerates depends partly on how its mass is distributed. A cylinder with a heavy hub accelerates more quickly than a cylinder with a heavy rim.(2/22/10)

 

Sixty Symbols Ever been confused by all the letters and squiggles used by scientists? Hopefully this site will unravel some of those mysteries.Sixty Symbols is a collection of videos about physics and astronomy presented by experts from The University of Nottingham. (2/21/10)

 

NASA eClips™ are short, relevant educational video segments. These videos inspire and engage students K-12, helping them see real world connections. (2/21/10)

 

The Particle Adventure An award-winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators, and particle detectors from Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab. (2/21/10)

 

Storybooks  these free animated electronic storybooks help teach science in a fun and entertaining manner(2/20/10)

 

The mission of the Dolan DNA Learning Center is to prepare students and families to thrive in the gene age. We envision a day when all elementary students are exposed to principles of genetics and disease risk; when all high school students have the opportunity to do hands-on experiments with DNA; and when all families have access to genetic information they need to make informed health care choices. (2/16/10)

 

Interactive Brain Tour from the Alzheimer's Association  Your brain is your most powerful organ, yet weighs only about three pounds. It has a texture similar to firm jelly. (2/1/10)

 

Physics To Go is an online biweekly mini-magazine, and it's also a collection of more than 800 websites that you can search and browse. (1/26/10)

 

freezeray.com This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. (1/26/10)

 

Interactive Periodic Table a game from Glaxo Smith Kline that can help students understand patterns and trends within the periodic table. It can help increase knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of each element. (1/18/10)

 

P Table is an interactive and informative site that lets teachers and students access everything there is to know about every element. You won't find another periodic table that crams so much information into one page.  P table shines when used as a true application, as interactive and dynamic as any standalone software. (1/5/10)

 

World Biomes At this site from National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis you will find the answers to many questions about biomes, as well as a detailed explanation of each type of biome. (12/11/09)

 

Science in Focus: Energy  Change happens when energy is transferred or converted. In this session, examine conversion between potential and kinetic energy. Through examples, see how events that involve a small amount of energy can trigger much larger events.(12/8/09)

 

Visual Elements aims to produce a new and vibrant visual assessment of the startling diversity of material that constitutes the world in which we live, not simply by rendering images of the respective elements but also by investigating the manner in which they affect our daily lives in largely unseen and often unexpected ways. (12/8/09)

 

Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage has fourteen segments chronicling Charles Darwin's voyage from start to finish. Through the tour viewers will see sketches from the journey, hear readings from Darwin's journals, and learn about the journey as a whole. (11/11/09)

 

Jmol  Free cross-platform java based app lets students create diagrams of atoms, molecules, crystals, and more. The site includes a handbook and tutorials for helping you learn how to use the software. (10/28/09)

 

Science NetLinks  standards-based lesson plans that incorporate reviewed Internet resources, and can be selected according to specific benchmarks and grade ranges. Each lesson is tied to at least one learning goal and uses research-based instructional strategies that support student learning. The lessons are written for the teacher, but include student-ready materials. (10/22/09)

 

DNAinteractive  Download 15 lesson plans for use in your classroom. Plans include objectives, national education standards, student worksheets, and more! (10/15/09)

 

PHYSICS4KIDS.COM  If you are looking for basic physics information, visit this site. It's not just physics for kids, it's for everyone. Find information on motion, heat and thermodynamics, electricity & magnetism, light, and modern physics topics.(10/6/09)

 

SEISMIC SLINKY  Slinky makes a handy model of earthquake waves. See for yourself which waves may send you rocking and rolling, and which ones may bounce you out of your chair. (9/28/09)

 

Periodic Table Tetris  the classic game with a new twist, use keyoard arrow keys to guide the falling "elements" into the correct location in the periodic table. (9/18/09)

 

ABPI Resources for Schools  website provides curriculum related resources for use by teachers and their pupils.  The resources have been developed by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and many link topics studied in school to their application in industry and in research. (9/3/09)

 

Chemistry Comes Alive! a collection of sixteen chemistry videos published by the Journal of Chemical Education Software. (9/2/09)

 

The Scientific Method  Science as we know it today began with scholars like Rene Descartes and Kevin Bacon (no Francis Bacon...sorry).  This YouTube video from WhatYouOughttoKnow.com is a fresh, entertaing look at science and the scientific method. (8/25/09)

 

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. (8/24/09)

 

The Gee! in Genome Online Games  Make a clone, give a baby curly hair, mutate your name, perform DNA tests or build a protein. Try out the online games! (8/22/09)

 

Biology4kids.com It's not just biology for kids, it's for everyone. We have information on cell structure, cell function, scientific studies, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and other life science topics. (8/13/09)

 

Amino Acids Shooter from Interactive Concepts in Biochemistry. Use your spaceship to destroy the correct molecular structures for the indicated amino acids. (8/12/09)

 

How to Use a Microscope is an interactive activty that describes the function of each part of a microscope and gives step-by-step instruction on how to properly examine a specimen. It can also be used to review the proper use and care of a microscope. There are two exercises to test knowledge of the microscope. (8/12/09)

 

The Molecular Workbench  is an open-source software package that supports student learning through experimentation and collaboration across a broad range of STEM fields and grades. It is a learning environment that allows middle school, high school, and college students to explore the physical origins of phenomena such as gas laws, fluid mechanics, properties of materials, states of matter, phase change, and much more. (8/12/09)

 

60-Second Science is a series of brief audio reports and commentaries on the world of science from Scientific American. A new episode is posted every weekday. You can subscibe to these podcasts via RSS or iTunes. (8/1/09)

 

The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits is an interactive website where kids can learn about circuits.  There are 5 sections to the Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits covering what makes circuits work, conductors and insulators, switches, changing circuits, and circuit diagrams.  Each section includes a teaching portion, an activity, and a quiz. (8/1/09)

 

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