What is a soil crust and why do I care? This is amazing stuff for use in the classroom for an example of an ecosystem that thrives in the middle of a vapid area. Interesting for ecosystems.
"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.
Teach Tech Science! Though not a life or physical science comp is here to stay. This great resource for those techie kids in your class that you need keep up with!
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.
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!.