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math games, interactives, printables, and teacher guides - math now but plans to add science and social studies, elementary and maybe middle school. mostly free

This is an interactive website that is very useful for science classes.

In this paper, we investigate the use of Facebook as an academic tool by lecturers in Information Systems and Computer Science departments in Southern Africa. Students' methods of engagement are very different than it was many years ago and the way students communicate and interact have changed because of new technologies. We found that very few lecturers are exploring the use of one such new technology, namely Facebook, to enhance their teaching.

"Crickets are small programmable devices that can make things spin, light up, and play music. You can plug lights, motors, and sensors into a Cricket, then write computer programs to tell them how to react and behave. With Crickets, you can create musical sculptures, interactive jewelry, dancing creatures, and other artistic inventions -- and learn important math, science, and engineering ideas in the process. Crickets are based on more than a decade of NSF-funded educational research. Lifelong Kindergarten researchers collaborated with the LEGO company to create the first "programmable bricks," squeezing computational power into LEGO bricks. This research led to the LEGO MindStorms robotics kits, now used by millions of people around the world. While LEGO MindStorms is designed especially for making robots, Crickets are designed especially for making artistic creations. Crickets were refined in collaboration with the Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) museum network, and are now sold as a product through the Playful Invention Company (PICO)."

Great of flash resources and games for English, maths science and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Math and science simulations.

A game which is about geological processes on land formation. Choose the correct process and timescale to get from one type of land to the other. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

A periodic table of podcasts from Royal Society of Chemistry covering most elements. You can download or listen online. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Make learning the Periodic Table more enjoyable by playing this 'find the element' chemistry game. Choose the level of difficulty. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

A clicking 'Guess Who' game where you have to select the correct creatures for the characteristic. ictmagic.wikispaces.com/science

online physical science simulations and other activities.

"Integrate this STEM MMOG as supplemental curriculum into math and science classrooms and lessons."

click on stars, planets, constellations, etc and go star gazing

A superb real time flash planetarium. View the stars from any position on Earth. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Simple article, but very nice examples of podcasting routines that would add value to classroom instruction.  Podcasting takes some time to develop but offer students opportunities to listen to materials multiple times, when they want/need to hear it again. 

Lots of online Science activities here. You have to register to get access to them but it is free.

A game where you build machines to harness energy by dragging the right parts together. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Fun collection of math and science lessons and videos. Aimed for younger students, but might be a fun review for others as well.

Buffet Busters - an education program that includes a teachers' guide, along with four animated outbreak scenarios that blends problem solving and scientific analysis in a fun interactive way.