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This interdisciplinary lesson plan (civics, health, and science are covered) helps students pick apart myths about science that arise on the campaign trail. Obviously, it's time-sensitive, but it's important for kids to know that what candidates say is not always, well, the truth, particularly when it comes to science.

Kids Science News Network: Short science videos and lessons to explain science, technology, engineering, Math,and NASA concepts. Newsbreaks are animated for K-2 and 3-5 has real kids in short news break type videos answering questions kids ask.

This is the online site of the Exploratorium museum. On this site you will find links to great, indepth science websites, engaging activities, webcasts, videos, and other wonderful science tools.

This would be a great website to use for research and learning during Black History Month for students to see all of the famous contributions made through science.

science lesson for fourth grade where students will learn about vertebrates and record them in their science journal. They will then divide up into groups and produce a Hyperstudio presentation about the vertebrate. Great technology lesson integration.

Includes information and videos on many science and nature topics including space, dinosaurs, etc. Great to use in the classroom for my space unit where students were studying the solar system.

Site with Science fair project ideas and supporting resources. Students can narrow down possible projects based on their interests. Experiments are labeled according to difficulty.

Students play with a simulator/game that teaches them the concepts of motion, forces, electricity, magnetism, and light. This site was designed by the Science Museum of London.

BrainPop provides animated movies and follow-up quizzes/activities related to hundreds of curriculum topics in Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art, Music, Health, and Technology. The movies are correlated to the Georgia Performance Standards, so you can select a standard (objective) and search for movies that are related to a specific standard.

Combination activity with science and math with many different applicatoins.

Students around the world study a local water habitat. They collect data, a suggested list is provided, and share their findings with others. The idea is to promote understanding of the various impacts on water habitats and to take action to improve and sustain quality habitats based on scientific understandings. This project includes mentoring from a university environmental scientist.

If you have an issue or questionrelated to anything involved agriculture, agribusiness, or family and consumer sciences within the state of Georgia, then it's good to turn to the Cooperative Extension Service, based at UGA. My dad was an Extension Agent and they can provide valuable information and hands-on experience to a classroom setting. In fact, that's what they are there for, going out in the field and passing along the research of the university!

This is the CIA's Word Factbook, filled with lots and lots of data on every country in the world. It's very helpful for Geography, Political Science, and History classes. We looked at it in class, so I figured I would bookmark it!

This ISTE designed and inspired site offers help with K-12 professional development and school reform. The bookcase on the left side conatins a lot of good information, including curriculum and student stuff links that lead to resources in math, languages arts, the sciences, soical studies, and more.

A lot of PBS' excellent Frontline programs are available for viewing via Quicktime or Windows Media here. These are some great documentaries that apply to a lot of the Social Sciences.

Georgia State Parks have a site that lists all of the Performance Standards that can be met by visiting one of their parks. You can even view the Historic Sites or State Parks by subject. There are also educational guides here for each state park.

Although a few years old, this article, entitled "When Technology Integration Goes to Math Class," addresses some still very relevant issues and positive outcomes from the integration of technology into the mainstream math classroom. The article touches on the reasons why teachers have been more hesitant to move to the constructivist approaches now readily seen in language arts, social studies, and in some cases science classrooms. The article features the author's first attempt at this type of teaching in math: a telecollaborative project entitled "Statisitics: A Curiosity Factor."

Visit this site for lots of ideas about how to use these programs with your students. Inspiration is a program that makes it possible for students to plan their pre-writing as well as monitor their progress in Writer's Workshop. This is a great site for creating flow charts, as well.

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This site provides teachers many teaching points on Georgia's five main habitats as well as the plants and animals that live within each one. While the Habitats Research page is a preporatory page for the in-school "field trips" the company provides, it is still an excellent resource for science instruction (regardless of whether you order the program or not).

This site helps teachers and students get the most out of the National Park Service, particularly in the planning of Field Trips. It could work with multiple subject matters.