Archive for the 'Science' Category
View At is a site that offers panoramic views of major sites and cities from around the world. What a great way for you and your students to explore places that you’re studying or reading about. You can use the site’s Search feature to help you find a specific location.
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360 Cities offers beautiful interactive, high-resolution panoramic views of major sites and cities across the globe. By clicking and dragging the images, you and your students can explore places around the world in a way that you can’t do with a single image. I would recommend reading the 360 Help page for tips on how […]
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Guess the Wordle is a new web site in which new Wordles are posted three times a week. Each Wordle is based on a topic, and the challenge is to figure out what the topic is. Monday’s Wordle is simple, Wednesday’s is a bit more challenging, and Friday’s is even more tricky. Guess the Wordle […]
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Printing Graph Paper is an article that contains links to several websites that allow you to create and print your own graph paper. Many of the sites allow you to cusomize the graph paper to suit your needs.
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Breathing Earth is an interactive website showing a map of the earth. When you hover your mouse over a country, it shows the population, birthrate, deathrate and rate of CO2 emissions of the country. The site also adds up the number of births, deaths, and tonnes of CO2 emissions that have taken place worldwide while […]
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The Yuckiest Site on the Internet focuses on some of the yucky areas of science. Students can learn about gross topics such as cockroaches, worms, ear wax and eye gunk. There is a page of yucky games, activities and experiments, and a Teacher Center with classroom resources and teaching units.
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The Why Files is sponsored by the National Institute for Science Education. The site uses news and current events as springboards to exploring a variety of science topics including space, cellular biology, environment, health and technology. The articles are easy to read, and include photos as well as a touch of humor.
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Science NetLinks is part of Thinkfinity.org, a site supported by the Verizon Foundatin that offers free resources for teachers and students. Science NetLinks is the result of a partnership between the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the WorldCom Foundation. Science NetLinks provides current resources for K-12 science educators including lessons, websites, news, […]
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) operates dozens of Web sites which are useful for classroom teachers. From the NASA home page, teachers and students can connect to NASA for Kids, a web page with many activities, puzzles, games designed for students. There is also a link to the Teachers’ Corner, which has links to […]
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Cells Alive provides information, images and video clips about viruses, immune cells, parasites, bacteria, aquatic organisms and food-borne pathogenic microorganisms. The site provides computer animations of such topics as mitosis and the cell cycle. Quizzes and tests are also provided.
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