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Students practice breaking down steps within the scientific method as they attempt to escape a dark room. Inquiry-based and game-like scenario. This is a very short activity, great for introduction.

This is a LibGuide developed by Napa Valley College that explains a number of key information literacy concepts that apply specifically to the sciences, including the scientific information cycle, peer review, how to find and read scientific articles, and the research process.

Cardiff University in Wales uses Tweprints, a combination of Twitter and scientific papers to allow searching peer-reviewed information.

This is very close to the book, Timelines in History. Timelines in History is not available as an eBook yet, but this one has time lines that show cultural, political, religious, and scientific happenings on a timeline, like the book does.

Notes and information on the Scientific Revolution

A brief article with three tips on how to integrate technology for ELL students

A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System: one star, eight planets, and more This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system. Each page has our text and NASA's images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.

An educational game centered on scientific understanding and processes and leads them to a better understanding of hand washing. The game takes students through science processes as recommended through national science standards.

This SlideShare explains networks and nodes,their patterns and relationships, and how they relate to Connectivism and the Connectivism learning model.

This is an interesting approach to explaining connectivism. I like that it's in a SlideShare format, and gives a different viewpoint of how the connections happen within different groups. I did find myself a little lost, and wouldn't be able to explain it using this diagram, however I can appreciate it's uniqueness.

I very much appreciated this slideshow for its explanation of a network. "Every entity is composted of addition entities." Downes 2007. This quote sums up this process beautifully. Also, the image regarding updating student's concepts regularly makes a lot of sense. If I were to try and explain all of this content in several months without update and review, it would most certainly lack important dynamic quality.

Explore forensic science, environmental science, body systems, diseases, drugs, scientific method, and science careers through virtual clinical trials, CSI scenarios, etc.

Mathematica is a computational software program used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical and computing fields. It was conceived by Stephen Wolfram and is developed by Wolfram Research of Champaign, Illinois. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica

Track current scientific evidence, discoveries, and ideas and share with classmates.