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NOAA recently released a collection of more than 7,000 historical U.S. shoreline topographic images for viewing in Google Earth. NOAA's Historical Shoreline Survey Viewer could be used to show students how coastlines have changed over time. 

In SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge!, students play the role of mayor, doing the challenging work of addressing environmental impact while balancing the employment needs and the happiness of the city's citizens. Designed in partnership with the assessment experts from ETS and Pearson, Pollution Challenge! will not only teach students about the factors affecting the environment in a modern city, but the game will also provide formative assessment information about students' ability to problem-solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and read informational texts and diagrams. Lesson plans and teacher and student dashboards - along with student data reporting - complete the SimCityEDU experience, delivering personalized learning to every student. Built with today's classrooms in mind, Pollution Challenge! supports a wide range of implementations from middle school science classrooms to after school programs and technology clubs.

Name: Vernier Video Physics What is it? A 2012 CODiE Awards Finalist for 'Best Educational Use of a Mobile Device,' Video Physics brings physics video analysis to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Users can take a video of an object in motion, mark its position frame by frame, and set up the scale using a known distance. Video Physics then draws trajectory, position, and velocity graphs for the object. Share video, graphs and data via the Camera Roll, eMail, and iTunes. Perform on-the-go analysis of interesting motions. Measure the velocity of a child's swing, a roller-coaster, or a car. Or, take a video of a basketball free throw shot. Video Physics will display the path of the ball and provide graphs of Y vs X as well as the X and Y position and velocity as a function of time. Best for: Students and physics instructors. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Searchable resources for chemistry! Really well done and easy to use.

"Wolfram|Alpha now supports Lewis structures-diagrams that show both the bonded and unbonded electrons in a molecule. But as any good teacher will tell you, even more important than finding the answer is the procedure used to get that answer. Thus, Wolfram|Alpha is expanding its Step-by-step interface into the realm of chemical bonding (with even more Step-by-step functionality coming soon)."

After two years, the final Next Generation Science Standards arrived in April, and along with a focus on rigor and real-world application, the standards include a focus on engineering-and education leaders are ensuring that their teachers have the resources to teach the subject. Resources: Amazing Alex app- grades 4-8- Rube Goldberg contraptions Coaster Crafter- grades 3-12 physics concepts taught through games building a roller coaster Design Squad Nation- grades 3-8- compete to solve engineering problems World of Goo app- grades 4-12- build structures with unique materials. Geometry, physics, engineering

The Quest Learning and Assessment System uses an extensive knowledge bank of over 60,000 questions and answers covering Math, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Physical Science and Physics.

Hey I was just on hippocampus today and they have redesigned the website to include Khan Academy and Phets. The layout is also much more user-friendly. It is a really great resource for students. It has videos, simulations, lectures, and interactive problem solving for a variety of subjects.

Hi Science Teachers, Check out this AP Science teacher who records his lectures in Youtube for his students in what we consider a "Flipped classroom"