Archive for the 'Science' Category

Sugar Stacks

Sugar Stacks is a site designed to help us understand how much sugar is contained in the foods we eat.  Sugar Stacks uses regular sugar cubes as a visual aid to showing the amount of sugar as listed on the product labels.


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VocabGrabber

VocabGrabber is part of the Visual Thesaurus website.  VocabGrabber creates a word cloud of vocabulary words from any text you copy and paste into their text box.  Each of the words becomes a link that, when clicked on, displays the definition of the word in both written and web format.


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bubbabrain

bubbabrain is a site that offers a variety of interactive activities for all grade levels.  The activities are easy to use and are organized by grade level, then by subject.  Teachers can create their own games, but they need to register.  Students can play the games created by their teacher by entering the teacher’s ID.


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Wordsmyth – The Premier Educational Dictionary

Wordsmyth is an online dictionary designed for use by students of all levels.  Wordsmyth offers three levels of dictionary:  Beginner’s, Children’s and Advanced.  Wordsmyth provides definitions, audio pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, similar words and image.


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The Free Online Dictionary

The Free Online Dictionary is an online dictionary and thesaurus.  In addition, you can search for and look up the meanings of popular idioms.  You can also search for the meaning of frequently-used acronyms.


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Great Ways to Teach Any Day’s Times

Great Ways to Teach Any Day’s Times is a post on the New York Times’ Learning Network blog.  I’ve mentioned The Learning Network blog before in this blog.  It’s one of my favorite educational blogs.  I just discovered that they have a number of interactive graphic organizers (e.g. Venn Diagram, KWL Chart, Cause and Effect […]


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GetBodySmart

GetBodySmart is an interactive site created by a college anatomy and physiology professor to help teachers, students, healthcare professionals and others learn about the human body.  In addition to an animated views of the different body systems, the site offers tutorials and quizzes.  The site is under construction, but still contains many valuable resources.


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My Learning

My Learning is a site created for teachers and students managed through Leeds Museums and Galleries.  I found some interesting interactive activities by clicking on the “Interactives” link on the home page.  The activities are user-friendly and can be used with a variety of grade levels.  Most of the interactive resources are related to language […]


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Learn Chemistry

Learn Chemistry is a site developed by the Royal Academy of Chemistry to help students learn about chemistry.  The site contains a variety of interactive activities, organized by topic, media type and age.  Most of the activities I looked at were for middle or high school students.


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Build a Body

Build a Body is an interactive site designed to promote science education.  On this site, the user chooses a body system, then build that system by dragging and dropping the various organs in their proper location.  Clicking on the image of an organ on the right side of the page produces a description of the […]


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