Upper+School+Science

=**GENERAL SCIENCE**=

[|http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/games_activities/index.cfm] This award-winning EcoKids web site is an interactive environmental web site for children, their families, and educators in Canada and around the world. It offers topical information about the environment through interactive, fun, educational games and activities.
 * EcoKids**

[|www.explorelearning.com] This site features 450 interactive simulations for math and science. –Fee required.
 * Experience Math and Science with Gizmos (3-12)**

www.exploratorium.edu This site was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. This site now contains over 15,000 Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics.
 * Exploratorium**

[] http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html [] How to Teach with Google Earth  http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/teaching_methods/google_earth/how.html [] [|http://www.gearthhacks.com] This site works in tandem with Google Earth. Overlay files can be downloaded and used with Google Earth.
 * Google Earth**
 * Google Earth for Educators**
 * Google Earth Lessons**
 * Explore with Google Earth**
 * GEarthHacks**

http://sketchup.google.com Create, modify, and share 3-d models!
 * Google SketchUp**

[] This site has an amazing collection of Science Experiments, Games and Projects
 * Kinetic City (3-8)**

[] The MyExperiment Virtual Research Environment enables you and your students to share digital items associated with your research — in particular it enables you to share and execute scientific workflows. You can also use myexperiment.org to find publicly shared workflows
 * MyExperiment (6-12)**

[] This site from England is the first resource of its kind designed specifically for the students and teachers of Math and Science. It leverages the expertise of top teachers in their fields for the development of its content.
 * Skoool**

[] The Thinkfinity partnership provides free, Internet-based content across academic disciplines. Science NetLinks' role is to provide a wealth of standards-aligned resources for K-12 science educators, including lesson plans, interactive and reviewed Internet resources. Site features include Interactive Lessons, Resources, Benchmarks and Science Updates.
 * Science NetLinks (K-12)**

www.slsc.org
 * St. Louis Science Center Web Site (K-12)**

[] Yucky teaching units (for grades 3-8 and K-2) correlate with the science topics that students love on the Yucky Site. They are designed to align with your curriculum's scope and sequence and with national standards.
 * The Yuckiest Site on the Internet. (K-8)**

[] The Interactive Library is about "real interactivity"! The database contains hundreds of activities that make use of sophisticated java, vrml and shockwave programs. Teachers can create their own activity sheet to go with the programs. Students can use these programs to supplement their classroom activities, or use one of the more advanced applets as a starting point for their science project.
 * The Interactive Library Applets for Math, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry & Earth Science (6-12)**

=**ANATOMY**=

[] An Online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology. Visually Learn About the Human Body Using Our Interactive "Flash" Animations
 * Get Body Smart (8-12)**

[] Welcome to inner exploration of Human Anatomy. Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links.
 * Inner Learning Online (9-12)**

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 * Inside the Brain - An Interactive Tour (6-12)**

www.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html This site was developed by the Franklin Institute of Science Museum. It is an interactive museum exhibit devoted to the heart. Included are statistics, resource materials, enrichment activities and a brief glossary.
 * The Heart: An Online Exploration. (4/5-12)**

[]) This site is designed to help students learn more about the nervous system. It also includes links with information on the brain, spinal cord, the neuron, the senses, and other related topics.
 * Neuroscience for Kids (K-8**

[] This site, from the UK, has numerous interactive sites and pages related to the human body and mind.
 * Science & Nature’s Mind & Body (6-12)**

[] This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in schools. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity.
 * FreezeRay (4-12)**

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 * Human Body Lesson Plans from Discovery.com**

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 * Nervous System - Anatomy & Physiology from Get Body Smart (need Flash Player)**

[] This site contains a collection of interactive presentations on the functions of the brain, the digestive system, the heart, and the skeleton of the human body.
 * Virtual Body (K-12)**

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 * Virtual Brain Tour (6-12)**

[] This site has activities related to Biology and Health
 * Virtual Dissections, Labs and Field Trips (9-12)**

=**ASTRONOMY & SPACE**=

[] This site is by the Space Telescope Science Institute an is responsible for the scientific operation of the Hubble Space Telescope. This site provides a variety of interactive Web based space lessons and related activities.
 * Amazing Space. (6-12)**

[|www.ametsoc.org/dstreme/junction] DataStreme Junction is the place where information is found or can be located that promotes the use of current environmental data across the K-12 curriculum. This is portal type of site, with numerous related links.
 * American Meteorological Society - DataStreme Junction. (K-12)**

[] Celestia is a real-time 3D space simulation featuring a database of over 100000 stars, nearly a hundred solar system, objects, and a complete catalog You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of the over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft.
 * Celestia**

[|http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/cosmic_zoom/index.htm?ASPIRE_Session=...] Cosmic Zoom is an idea based on the book entitled Powers of Ten by Morrison and Morrison. This visual representation is to help give you an idea of the size and scale of the universe. Each image is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one that comes before it or after it.
 * Cosmic Zoom. (5-12)**

[] This site from the Space Telescope Science Institute, allows users to study and view the once-unimaginable celestial phenomena now made visible using Hubble’s cutting-edge technology. HubbleSite is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach.
 * HubbleSite (4/5-12)**

www.marsquestonline.org This site is the result of a collaboration among SSI, NASA’s Jet propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and TERC. They have developed 34 highly visual, interactive experiences that highlight the most interesting planetary features. This site has two main areas, the Tour and the Investigations. Activities in both areas have specific challenges, natural ending points, and clear measure of success
 * Mars Quest Online (3-8)**

www.stellarium.org 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.
 * Stellarium (4-12)**

[|http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem/ax/high.html] This site was created by National Geographic and is an interactive solar system site. An excellent tool for your students to use as they study our solar system.
 * Virtual Solar System. (4/5-12)**

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 * Virtual Space Tours from Space.com**

www.kidsastronomy.com This site is designed for students interested in astronomy. Links include Teacher’s Corner, Fun With Astronomy, Deep Space, The Solar System, Space Exploration, the Universe and more related links.
 * KidsAstronomy. (K-8)**

[] This site offers a variety of hands-on earth and space science activities and projects for elementary school children.
 * Space Place (1-6)**

=**BIOLOGY**=

This site contains basic biology information and is not just biology for kids, it's for everyone. It has information on cell structure, cell function, scientific studies, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and other life science topics.
 * Biology 4 Kids. (3-8)  www.biology4kids.com**

www.biology.arizona.edu An online interactive resource for learning biology. There are numerous interactive modules.
 * The Biology Project. (9-12)**

[] This site has a number few simple simulations (written in Java) that can be used when teaching principles of population genetics and population ecology in various courses.
 * Biology Simulations**

www.biointeractive.org This site is from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Links include a cardiology lab, other virtual labs, related animation clips, a click learn section, a related virtual museum, cool science for kids and related teacher resources.
 * BioInteractive Lab. (9-12)**

www.cellsalive.com This site is an excellent interactive web site for educators dealing with all aspects of cells.
 * Cells Alive. (4/5-12)**

[] This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in schools. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity.
 * FreezeRay (4-12)**

[] The Interactive Library is about "real interactivity"! The database contains hundreds of activities that make use of sophisticated java, vrml and shockwave programs. Teachers can create their own activity sheet to go with the programs. Students can use these programs to supplement their classroom activities, or use one of the more advanced applets as a starting point for their science project.
 * The Interactive Library Applets for Math, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry & Earth Science**

madsci.org/~lynn/VH This site allows students to view the human body. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female bodies has been completed.
 * The Visible Human Project. (9-12)**

www.worldofteaching.com This site contains a variety of PowerPoint teaching presentations in Biology, Chemistry, Math, English, History, Physics, Geography and Spanish.
 * World of Teaching. (K-12)**

=**CHEMISTRY**=

www.chembuddy.com Every chemist occasionally has to do some simple calculations, like concentration conversion, finding pH, or solving a complicated stoichiometric problem. When these problems are easy, they are waste of time. When they are harder, quite often they get too difficult to solve on paper - that is especially true in case of pH calculations involving several dissociation equilibria. This is when software can save you time and frustration.
 * Chem Buddy (9-12)**

www.chem4kids.com CHEM4KIDS.COM also has KAPILI.COM. Kapili now has tutorials, an extensive library, experiments, over fifty activities, and downloads like flash cards and workbooks.
 * Chem4Kids. (4-8)**

[] This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in schools. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity.
 * FreezeRay (4-12)**

[] The Interactive Library is about "real interactivity"! The database contains hundreds of activities that make use of sophisticated java, vrml and shockwave programs. Teachers can create their own activity sheet to go with the programs. Students can use these programs to supplement their classroom activities, or use one of the more advanced applets as a starting point for their science project.
 * The Interactive Library Applets for Math, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry & Earth Science**

[] This site covers a number of elements from oxygen to the Metal Men (Gold, Tin, Mercury, Lead and Platinum) to molybdenum. A search engine lets you quickly mine the periodic table of comics.
 * Periodic Table of Comic Books (5-12)**

www.ph-meter.info This site can be used as a device for potentiometer pH measurements.
 * ph Meter**

[] This site has provides teachers with links to chemistry simulations, organized by which McREL standard (and in some cases, national science education standard) to which they correspond. You can view the site either through Simulations Aligned to the Standards or you can view the complete list of simulations in our Catalog of Simulations
 * Web-based High School Chemistry Simulations**

www.worldofteaching.com This site contains a variety of PowerPoint teaching presentations in Biology, Chemistry, Math, English, History, Physics, Geography and Spanish.
 * World of Teaching (K-12)**

=**EARTH SCIENCE**=

www.earthcamforkids.com This portal type site allows student to search for and view various web cams all over the earth.
 * Earth Cams for Kids**

[] The Interactive Library is about "real interactivity"! The database contains hundreds of activities that make use of sophisticated java, vrml and shockwave programs. Teachers can create their own activity sheet to go with the programs. Students can use these programs to supplement their classroom activities, or use one of the more advanced applets as a starting point for their science project.
 * The Interactive Library Applets for Math, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry & Earth Science**

www.learner.org/jnorth Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events. Find migration maps, pictures, standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context.
 * Journey North - A Global Study of Wildlife and Seasonal Migration (6-12)**

[] This site provides a rich array of documents, including images, movies, animations, and data that explore the earth and space sciences.
 * Windows to the Universe (K-12)**

[|http://highered.mcgrawhill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::800::600...] This site from McGraw Hill helps illustrate the concept of seasons by providing users with a series of tools to manipulate and observe this cycle. Students can change the Earth's inclination, the speed in which it travels, and how seasons would both feel and appear if our inclination was set to that of other planets.
 * Seasons Interactive. (4-8) INTERACTIVE**

=**PHYSICS**=

[] This is an interactive, highly visual, and non-technical way for students of all ages to learn about the laws of physics in action.
 * Fear of Physics (K-12)**

[] This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in schools. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity.
 * FreezeRay (4-12)**

[] The Interactive Library is about "real interactivity"! The database contains hundreds of activities that make use of sophisticated java, vrml and shockwave programs. Teachers can create their own activity sheet to go with the programs. Students Use these programs to supplement your classroom activities, or use one of the more advanced applets as a starting point for your science project.
 * The Interactive Library Applets for Math, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry & Earth Science**

[] This site, created Eric Neumann, contains a number of interactive physics simulations. Also included are the math components of the simulations.
 * My Physics Lab**

www.colorado.edu/physics/phet This site from the University of Colorado has fun, interactive simulation of physical phenomena that make bridges to the real world. A collection of 40 Java applications for introductory physics is available.
 * PhET (Physics Education Technology) (9-12)**

www.worldofteaching.com This site contains a variety of PowerPoint teaching presentations in Biology, Chemistry, Math, English, History, Physics, Geography and Spanish.
 * World of Teaching (K-12)**

=General Listings and Older Posts=

Shmoop has launched the test prep guide for AP Biology. Students can learn about the “colorful building blocks of life” through interesting pop culture references, such as Legos. Shmoop organizes biology subjects from botany to molecular genetics into an easy-to-navigate structure.
 * Shmoop AP Biology**
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3-D Tours of the Solar System

Time Warner sponsors this [|searchable database of activities and resources] found in your community that promotes the learning of science, technology, engineering, and math in response to President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" campaign. It's simple to search by locale or topic to find extracurricular activities to stimulate the minds of young scientists, engineers and mathematicians.

The Scale of the Universe
by Cary Huang A graphic illustration of the size of a person in scale with other things in the universe - large and small - from space to microbes. It's amazing and a bit mind-bending. @http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white

40 Awesome STEM based PBL Resources The sites included are considered to be great resources that provide ideas or blueprints for an entire PBL project. Included in most plans are project titles, content addressed, 21st century skills, driving questions, products, procedures, and evaluation. The resources in this collection tend to focus on the entire PBL process.

Top 10 Science Resources for Teachers and Students

Explania is one of my favorite resources for animated explanations of topics in technology and science. Some of their offerings are videos and some of their offerings are interactive animations. One of their interactive animations that could be quite useful for biology teachers and health teachers is The Human Heart. The Human Heart animation allows visitors to learn about the parts and functions of the human heart by clicking on different parts of the heart to find short explanations of that part's function. Your students can access the interactive animation on the Explania website or you can embed the animation into your blog or website. //From freetech4teachers.com//

===Math Rap - Don't Let Pi Make Ya Cry ===

Rhyme 'N Learn produces clean rap songs about math and science. They've just released a new song, "Don't Let Pi Make Ya Cry." In this new song students are introduced to the function of Pi. You can watch the video below. And if you really like the song, you can buy it along with other Rhyme 'N Learn productions on iTunes and CD Baby. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.

==Complete Missions on NASA's Station Spacewalk Game == NASA's website is full of great resources for teachers and students. Here is another good example of that. NASA's Station Spacewalk Game is designed for middle school students to learn about the purposes and functions of the International Space Station. In the game students go on Extravehicular Activities modeled after real EVAs performed by astronauts. Station Spacewalk can be played online or downloaded for free as a Windows game or as a Mac game.

NASA offers a short set of questionsthat students should be able to answer after attempting the EVAs in Station Spacewalk. The question set isn't terribly deep or complex so you will probably want to expand the questions to match your curriculum. //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//
 * Applications for Education **

==Ocean Tracks - Track and View Marine Animals in 3D == Source: Free Technology for Teachers - Richard Byrne

Ocean Tracks is an Australian website on which students can view the tracks of marine animals in an online 3D environment. The "tracks" part of Ocean Tracks shows you where in the world tagged animals are swimming or have swum. Ocean Tracks uses the Unity browser plug-in to provide animations of the underwater views of tracked animals. You can see what bluefin tuna, swordfish, sharks, and many other fish see in 3D. Watch the promo video below to learn more about Ocean Tracks.

Ocean Tracks could be a great resource to use in marine biology lessons to show student how far some marine animals travel. Students will also enjoy seeing what those animals see. Those underwater views could be helpful in demonstrating to students why animals like sharks use their sense of smell to find prey.
 * Applications for Education **

If you do decide to use Ocean Tracks in your classroom, bear in mind that it is quite bandwidth intensive. (Elementary teachers - hang in there...we are getting the bandwidth fix in Elementary! Mark this for future use!) //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//

=What is Biomimicry? What is AskNature?= Biomimicry (from //bios//, meaning life, and //mimesis//, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf. The core idea is that Nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with: energy, food production, climate control, non-toxic chemistry, transportation, packaging, and a whole lot more. @http://biomimicry.net/ AskNature is a free, open source project, built by the community and for the community. Our goal is to connect innovative minds with life's best ideas, and in the process, inspire technologies that create conditions conducive to life. To accomplish this, we're doing something that has never been done—organizing the world's biological literature by function. @http://www.asknature.org media type="custom" key="16231024"