Science Resources

Stoodle is an online whiteboard service supported in part by the CK-12 Foundation. Through Stoodle you can quickly create a collaborative whiteboard space. On your whiteboard you can type, draw, and upload images. You can connect Stoodle to your computer's microphone and talk your collaborators while drawing, typing, or sharing images.

Wonderville is a great website for kids developed by the Science Alberta Foundation. On Wonderville students can find games, videos, comics, and hands-on activities for learning about science and technology. The gallery of activities, games, videos, and comics is divided into three categories; fun science, awesome tech, and cool jobs.

"The idea behind MentorMob is to let anyone create easy to access and view "Playlists" of web content (as an improvement on the inefficiency of scrolling search engine results and trying to identify which results are truly informative)"

"While in the midst of preparing a conference paper on the the use of digital media to enhance project-based learning, I come across some very helpful resources which I believe every teacher keen on using PBLas a teaching strategy should have. If 21st century learning focuses students abilities in incoporating the 4Cs ( Critical thinking, Collaboration, Creativity and Communication), project based learning is the operational methodology to achieve all of these skills at once. "

"Teachers can put together lessons that can be shared with pupils beyond the confines of the classroom in a variety of ways, but the real power of Glogster comes from getting your students to do the work, from allowing them to create their unique piece of work and from the peer assessing potential that can be exploited afterwards, once a class project has been completed."

Popplet is a fun and intuitive web application that allows you and your students to create galleries, mind maps and diagrams quickly an incredibly easily. I mean it. Ridiculously easily. Pictures can easily be searched and added directly from Flickr and Facebook. The same applies to YouTube videos. Popplets can then be shared on social networks or via email, exported as .jpg or .pdf files and embedded into websites. You can even invite others to collaborate on your popplets, enabling teacher-pupil collaboration or pair- and group-work.

"Simple. Fast. There is no setup. Just write and hit save."