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The National Science Digital L ibrary is the nation's online libdrary for education and research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It provides free math lessons and activities aligned with the Math Common Core Standards, as well as STEM-related blogs and other free teacher resources and lesson plan ideas. Targeted for K-12 teachers, higher-education professionals, and librarians, NSDL also provides science literay maps and ITunes multimedia files.

This site has links to Animals, The Arts, literature and Language, Sciences, Mathematics & computer, Social Sciences, History and Biography, Social Sciences, Reference Desk,. This site is sponsored by the Association for Library Services to Children

Lots of great sites in one place.

This is a virtual world devoted to science, technology and free educational games online.

Check out this site with lots of science games.

Science Games for elementary students.

This YouTube channel features fun science experiments for families. Families nationwide can take advantage of the information presented on this dedicated YouTube channel, featuring simple, fun science experiments that parents can conduct at home with their children__such as making colors explode in a puddle of milk, creating sidewalk chalk, and making a cloud.

This link has a collection of Science Apps all are Free.

This is a listing of 8 excellent science game sites for students.

Terminix has launched an educational website with insect lessons. The website is built around the character Harry, a praying mantis who guides visitors through resources for teachers and students. The educator center provides teachers with curriculum guides and lesson plans, created by entomologists at Audubon Insectarium and Terminix, that correlate with National Science Teacher Association standards.

Looks interesting. Has teacher resources for using the site. Correlated with the National Science Teacher Association Standards.

This site has a variety of science and math related topics for students to click on and learn about.

There are numerous videos that are history related. This site would have some materials that would possibly work to introduce science topics as well. There are a number of timeline.tv links about disease, plague, medicine of medieval times, etc. Very interesting material. Covers various periods of England's history and the American West.

This website provides numerous games, interactives, and printables to help enhance and practice elementary in not only maths but also science and language arts.

This is a collection of free math resources, lesson plans, interactives and printables. Each slide links out to a resource. Someof the resources also align with science and language arts content.

The National Academy of the Sciences has launched this new website that gives an overview of the U.S. energy system. It covers 4 main topics: energy uses, sources of energy, the cost of energy (in terms of the environment, national security, and sustainability), and energy efficiency. The site has easy to navigate content and links to source material, and it includes n energy quiz, a glossary, and a source library. The site's producers are also developing curriculum-based materials for high school and middle school classrooms. Two special features--Our Energy System and Understasnding Efficiency--are designed to actively engage visitors and enhance their understanding of energy, including what it is, h ow we use it, and ways to conserve it.

The dynamazing Science Lab is full of fun experiments and activities. Fun for K-6

Cool site! a free collection of educational videos for students ages 3-18. There are more then 11,000 videos on such subjects as math, science, and history. Students, parents and teachers have designated pages and the site offers a guide for contributors. Featured videos originate from national Geographic, YouTube, and google Videos, among others, and have been endorsed by educators from universities such as Harsvard, Standford, and Brigham Young University.

Looks like a cool site with over 11,000 videos. Free

This site lists a colelction of mainly science and health-related virtual field trips and online labs.

Take your children on a efieldtrip or check out this site to learn more about virtual fieldtrips. Free

Free worksheets on a variety of topic for language arts (reading and writing, grammar, spelling phonics, handwriting) as well as math, science and social studies. There are also brain teasers and teacher helper tools such as award certificates, teaching tips, etc. In addition, there are holiday worksheets. This site would be great for differentiated activities. In a quick preview I saw they had worksheets that were of the same topic areas but they has easy and harder options available. This would be another good site to share with parents.

Cool site for K-6 teachers. Lots of free resources.

Shape It Up is one of many good educational games and activities on Kinetic City. Shape It Up is an activity that would be good for use in an elementary school Earth Science lesson. The activity presents students with "before" and "after" images of a piece of Earth. Students then have to select the force nature and the span of time it took to create the "after" picture. If students choose incorrectly, Shape It Up will tell the student and they can choose again.

Shedd Aquarium in Chicago has a great collection of interactive learning activities. The activities are categorized according to grade level and vary in format. Some of the interactive activities are like video games (Squish the Fish for 1st graders) while others are more like virtual scavenger hunts (Conservation Investigation). The games and virtual scavenger hunts could easily take students an hour or longer to complete and the students would learn something new throughout the activity. In addition to the interactive activities, Shedd Aquarium provides a host of great Marine Science lesson plans for grades K-12.

The National Center for Education Statistics hosts a collection of games and tools for students. Dare to Compare is a quiz section of Kids' Zone where students can test their knowledge of civics, economics, history, geography, mathematics, and science. After taking each quiz the students are shown the correct answers. Dare to Compare also allows students to see the national and international average rate of correct answers.