Archive for the 'Science' Category
Nourish Interactive is a site designed for elementary students to learn about health and nutrition. Nourish Interactive was created by a group of nutrition and health professionals with the goal of helping children make healthy choices. The site contains a wide variety of interactive activities, games and worksheets related to health and nutrition.
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Wordle is a site that creates word clouds from text that is typed or copied and pasted into the text box on the site. I have to admit, the first time I was introduced to Wordle I thought it was a cool website, but I didn’t see much educational application. Since then, I realized that […]
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Active Science is an interactive site that allows students explore a variety of science topics. The site contains a number of modules that offer a range of activities suited for students from age five through high school. Also offered are materials for teachers and parents.
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CNN Student News was recommended to me by Justin Kastory. CNN Student News is geared for students at the middle and high school levels. Students can access the site to get information on the top news stories.
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Teach Genetics and Learn Genetics are two websites created by the Genetic Science Learning Center of the University of Utah. Teach Genetics offers free resources for teaching genetics at all grade levels. Learn Genetics features many interactive visual aids designed to help the user learn the fundamentals of genetics.
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Interesting Ways to Use Audio in Your Classroom is the result of a collaborative effort from teachers with tips and hints for using audio in the classroom. At the time of this posting, there were 22 Interesting Ways…; more ideas are added as teachers come up with them. What I like about this site is […]
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The Illinois State Museum site offers a variety of lesson plans, activities and online exhibits that relate to Illinois’ heritage. Be sure to click on the “Online Exhibits” link to view collections related to Anthropology, Art, Botany, Geology, History and Zoology. Clicking on the “Teachers and Students” link takes you to a page with many […]
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Kitzu is a site that offers digital kits that relate to a variety of topics that teachers and students can download for use in creating PhotoStory and other projects. The digital kits contain images and a summary of the topic. Some kits also include audio files. Teachers are encouraged to include their own kits for […]
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Tap Into the World of Comics is a slide show that offers several good suggestions for using student-created comics in the classroom. In addition to offering teaching strategies it also gives an extensive list of online tools for creating comics. Comics can be great motivators for students. Is there an activity that you’ve used in […]
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SnagFilms is a storehouse of full-length, high quality documentaries on a variety of topics. Browse their topics to find documentaries related to science, social studies, sports, health and more or use their Search function to find videos related to a specific topic.
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