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National Geographic site covering forces of nature - volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.

Tracking Hurricanes E-sheet. Site includes questions for thinking and discussion, as well as, interactives and visuals.

Interactive from National Geographic - students create their own tornadoes based on appropriate conditions for a tornado. Also includes case study activities.

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.

Engineering Interact is a site for elementary school students designed by the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Engineering Interact offers five games designed to teach students physics concepts. The games address concepts related to light, sound, motion, electricity, and space travel. Each of the five games presents students with a scenario in which they have to "help" someone solve a problem. The games require students to learn and analyze the information presented to them.

42 explore is a web project that provides resources and teaching materials on different subject areas and disciplines.

This site provides teaching tips, lesson plans, activities, academic articles, web resources and many more items.

Curiosity in the Classroom Discovery Education and Intel have teamed up to create this site. This is a program designed to guide teachers and students on a journey through life's biggest questions.

This site introduces civil engineering to students. If a teacher or parent clicks on the little green truck to the right of the screen it will take you to a page with information and resources on the site.

CK12 standards aligned and customizable materials teachers and students can create accounts.

This library of over 1,000,000 free ebook titles has been provided by the Open Content Alliance (OCA).

Apps organized by content area.

Ipod Touch & iPad Resources

VocabGenii is a free online vocabulary building game. Each round is only 90 seconds, and you can play anytime, anywhere you have Internet access.

This was addicting. There are a variety of vocab games you can play. I like the one where you are given a type of speech and a definition and you have to unscramble the words from those two clues. You have to create an account for this one. When you want to log off at the top of the play screen you will see a door icon and that is how you log out.

This free site has a variety of online tours that cover a variety of biology anataomy, human health related topics.

Study Ladder is filled with free activities created by educators. The activities are categorized by content areas. Within the categories items are broken down by topic or grade level. It's a free resource, thousands of activities are available.

Study Ladder is filled with free activities created by educators. The activities are categorized by content areas. Within the categories items are broken down by topic or grade level. It's a free resource, thousands of activities are available.

This PBS site has a Galileo biography, an exploration of Galileo's telescope, and other interesting articles as well as fun interactive activities for grades 6-12. These games feature animated experiments including Galileo's ingenious experiment on gravity demonstrating that all objects fall at the same rate. Teacher's can find an archive of over 120 companion Web sites to past Nova TV programs by interest, program title, or year of broadcast. There is a searchable teacher's section with classroom activities, TV program descriptions, related NOVA resources, and explorations for students. The video is not free but the interactive experiments on this site are very nice. They are animated and the kids predict what will happen before you activate the animations.

This link goes to a variety of interactive web sites for a variety of content areas.

France in the Year 2000 (XXI century) - a series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the year 2000. There are at least 87 cards known that were authored by various French artists, the first series being produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. Interesting what people in the 19th and 20th century thought the 21st century would be like.

Link to ISS station.