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PBS LearningMedia is a FREE digital media content library offering educators access to thousands of resources designed to inspire teaching and enhance classroom learning. Educators can easily search, save, and share resources with colleagues and students by creating a user account. Register now to get started!

Teachers TryScience is a web site for teachers. This site provides free and engaging lessons, along with teaching strategies and resources, which are designed to spark students' interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). What's more, the site features collaboration tools to enable teachers to discuss and share effective instructional practices."

Amazing Alex: Physics App from the Creators of Angry Birds 09/20/2012 by SAM in EDUCATIONAL APPS with 0 COMMENTS If you've been using Angry Birds to teach physics and carefully showing kids how important the trajectory launch path is, then this educational app is for you! Rovio Entertainment have released a new Physics app 'Amazing Alex ', to get you more addicted than ever. The educational app is a new physics-based puzzle game. The game centers around whiz kid Alex and his incredible creations, inviting fans to step into Alex's world of creative chain reactions: solving puzzles, designing their own levels, and sharing their creativity with the world.

garrys mod beting used for science lessons. I want to have a closer look at this game that was introduced to me by a student. It looks very promising.

"Monday evening saw my first attempt to moderate a twitter chat as I took the reigns of the #asechat hashtag for an hour. For those that don't know, #asechat is the official hashtag for the Association for Science Education and everyone with an interest in science teaching is invited to take part in the chat. The topic for Monday's chat was Interactive resources in Science. Here are some of the many links that were shared during the hour, in no particular order:"

You don't have to be a genius to understand the work of the Nobel Laureates. These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire you while you're having FUN!

There are 8 short videos that use circus performers to teach physics concepts.

Martin Burrett 27 Feb 12 03:58:10 This is a superb game which teaches about food webs in a competitive battle game. Who will succumb to selection pressures and who will survive? http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Might be useful for the younger ones...not sure if you cover this in ks3.

This electric circuit builder program is something that you can use with all ages. It is a great resource for teaching about electricity.

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"This is the classic version of Chembalancer that teaches you how to balance equations for the first time"

Everyone likes instructions, right? Just think up a city name and declare yourself Mayor. Check out what other great leaders have built and rate them. If you're a school teacher, you can to register so your students' cities can be registered to and searched for by your school name. What is ElectroCity? ElectroCity is an online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It's great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand. NB: New Zealand is nuclear-free, so nuclear power plants cannot be built in our country. However, this game is intended to provide players with a base knowledge of energy generation, so nuclear power is included. Find out more.

"Schools Global Footprint is a teaching resource that helps you to explore and to reduce the environmental effect your school has on the planet. The global footprint calculator is a great tool for helping you reduce your schools' ecological footprint by taking action on six topic areas including: energy, transport, food, waste, water and buildings."

"This has some interesting things about science it is not aimed at particular topics that we teach but is good for interest for younger students"

you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and all of it is free! Science Netlinks provides a wide variety of science lesson plans and other materials that teachers can use with their students in class.

"The Physics Classroom Tutorial A set of instructional pages written in an easy-to-understand language and complemented by graphics and Check Your Understanding sections. An ideal starting location for those grasping for understanding or searching for answers. Multimedia Physics Studios A large collection of GIF animations and QuickTime movies designed to demonstrate physics principles in a visual manner. Each animation is accompanied by explanations and links to further information. Shockwave Physics Studios A collection of pages which feature interactive Shockwave files that simulate a physical situation. Users can manipulate a variable and observe the outcome of the change on the physical situation." In addition it contains practice and review resources and teacher tools including a photo gallery, labs and curriculum sheets

Science lab safety video with puppets and singing...6th grade maybe? Wouldn't it be fun to have them do their own?

links to free web resources for all subjects

sixty symbols-videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy.