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A 21st-century education revolves around the Internet for everything from collaboration, tools, lessons, and even earning degrees online. If you are looking for ways to integrate online learning into your science class, then take a look at these cool online tools that are just perfect for both teachers and students.

A collection of resources for Australian science educators which tie scientific concepts to current issues in the media.

Free Topic Selection Wizard, science fair project ideas, step by step how to do a science fair project, Ask an Expert discussion board, and science fair tips for success.

This is an AWESOME resource for STEM, science, and elementary teachers. Lots of lesson plans, project ideas, etc.

This paper focuses on storytelling as a research tool for social sciences, especially for cultural anthropology. After a short review of the main methodological tools traditionally used in ethnography, with particular regard to observation and interview, we focus on collecting and crafting stories (ethnotelling) as suitable tools for conveying the relational nature of fieldwork. Drawing on the works of Orr, Chipchase, Marradi and Adwan/Bar-on, we show how stories – collected, mediated or made up – are valuable tools for representing experiences and identities. As a result, we suggest a different approach to user-experience design, based on the creation of "thick" environments enabling a whole range of possibilities, where users can imagine or live their own user-generated experiences.

article discussing whether math models can replace other tools for understanding the world.

I dissagree. Maybe for someone who can cope with the massive scale Google works with but for the average student bah humbug. As far as the students I see the scientific method still needs to be taught as they need a lot of help learning how to gather reliable information from the web. As far as google is concerned the students simplistic, unevaluated searches are as valuable as someone who actually understands what they are looking for or maybe more valuable because more students are doing almost thoughtless searches. The real need is a good course, hopefully online, to teach students how to do a reasoned search. agoogleaday is a start.

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The investigations and visualizations on this site were designed to accompany Earth Science, a high school textbook authored by Spaulding and Namowitz and published by McDougal Littell. The Web site was developed by TERC, a non-profit educational research and development firm in collaboration with McDougal Littell. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation.

Settle the argument of who's is truly bigger with this planet size comparison tool. View a image of each planet as it's real ratio. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Quantum Victoria will deliver an online professional development module that will equip teachers with the skills and tools necessary for teaching in 21st century learning environments. This embedded professional development opportunity will focus primarily on project-based learning (PBL) and the effective integration of ICT in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. ... [more]

Sites that support Science 2 SOL...good for students to use in Lab, classroom, or as teacher instructional tool- whole group (From Roxanne Richardson)

"This study suggests textbook publishers can improve student understanding of key concepts by revisiting the design of these life cycle diagrams. Furthermore, our findings suggest there may be value in studying the design elements in other life science diagrams to see if we can make them more effective teaching tools."

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Powerful Instructional Tools for Instructors and Students Delivers an automatic grading solution for math and science courses. Reinforces student learning through practice and instant feedback. Offers instructors a wide selection of textbooks and advanced teaching tools.

Free website takes students through each step of the writing process to write a research report. 

Tool that supports students in writing lab and class reports. This tool is geared toward middle school and high school students.

Learn about the science behind current events.  News stories that have ties to science are explained in an easy to read format.

From site: "Developed for teachers and students, we find the best science interactives & resources in the world. Framed by the National Science Education Standards, we are a research & review web site."

A clever tool where users make and name their own temperature scale and compare it to Celsius. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Help your students understand day/night, moon phases and seasons with this great tool. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science