The website for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) features pages dedicated to educators and to students. Use NASA's Education Materials Finder to locate resources for use in your classroom.\n\n
Solve six different "mysteries" about how plants grow. Learn about a plant's life cycle and structure, soil nutrients, and flowers. Includes a teachers' guide. Sponsored by the University of Illinois Extension, for 4th and 5th grade students.
Site designed for younger students. Gives short factual information on the process of hearing sounds in topical sections such as "Direction Detection," "Frequencies," and "Loudness." A short quiz is included at the bottom of the page. Source: Ron Kurtus
How Everything Works - Part of a website that provides answers to everyday questions about physics, science, and how things in the world around us work. Search by keyword or browse by topic in the sidebar to learn the physics of everyday life. From the University of Virginia.
Describes the origin of major rock types and how rocks can provide clues to the Earth's history. Includes suggestions for starting a rock collection, identifying specimens, and housing such a collection. From the USGS.
To help free up more resources for education while strengthening academic learning, the Alliance's Green Schools Program engages students in creating energy-saving activities in their schools, using hands-on, real-world projects. Green Schools encourages students to apply the lessons of energy-efficiency message in their homes and communities.
Visit the United States Environmental Protection Agency's website for information on creating and maintaining environmentally safe schools, lessons and activities for all grade levels that support environmental safety and protection, application information for environmental education grants and student fellowships, and much more
How to Identify Minerals, Create a Collection, Grow Your Own Crystals and Mineral FAQs--basic questions and answers about minerals, from the San Diego Natural History Museum.
An online book by Stephen R. Brantley, published by the USGS. Contents include: Introduction, volcanoes and the theory of plate tectonics, recent eruptions from U. S. volcanoes, Hawaiian volcanoes, Cascade volcanoes, Alaskan volcanoes, restless calderas, active volcanoes: windows into the past, a glossary and further reading.
Clicking on "Catch the Wave" and following "next" links will lead you through an interactive lesson on light that includes information on the electromagnetic spectrum, waves, and the relationship between light and temperature. Source: Space Telescope Science Institute with the help of teachers.
Ecomagination is GE's commitment to imagine and build innovative solutions that solve today's environmental challenges and benefit customers and society at large. It is both a business strategy to drive growth at GE and a promise to contribute positively to the environment in the process.
Web site designed just for kids to learn about weather, from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Learn what makes weather wet and wild, do cool activities, and become hot at forecasting the weather on Web Weather for Kids!.
"Running on Renewables" is a lesson plan that affords students the opportunity to utilize software developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) called HOMER to find out what costs and benefits are associated with converting or combining sustainable technology to their school's power production portfolio. Their mission will be to best utilize a "Clean Energy Grant" to assist the school in the purchase of renewable energy sources such as wind turbines and photovoltaic arrays (solar panels).
Explains how plants make food, why their leaves change color in the fall, and how plants prepare for winter. Includes a word scramble and three projects to do with an adult. Developed by Science Made Simple, Inc., publisher of educational materials.
Chem4Kids.com! The web site that teaches the basics of chemistry to everyone! This site, aimed at grades 4 to 10, introduces visitors to the basics of chemistry. Chemistry topics available on this site include matter, elements, and atoms, in addition to math and reactions.
This site, by Associate Professor Fred Senese of the Frostburg State University (Maryland) Chemistry Department, provides numerous online resources for understanding general chemistry. A library of over 800 common compounds, tutorials, and FAQ's, are included as well as a glossary and researchable database of more than 400 links to general chemistry web references.
This site is organized into two levels for younger and for older students. Select "Solar System" or "Universe" for images and information on planets, the sun, the moon, asteroids, meteroids, comets, galaxies, stars, black holes, quasars and more.
World's largest and most advanced online repository of math and science simulations for grades 3-12. Research-proven, inquiry-based learning tools for teachers and students. Web-based for anytime, anywhere learning.
