Brain Rules by John J. Medina is a multimedia project explaining how the brain works. It includes a book, a feature-length documentary film, and a series of interactive tutorials.
These Science Clips are aimed at children aged 5-11 years. For each of the 36 units, there is an interactive experiment and quiz. Each unit also has an associated set of teacher resources, which can be found by clicking on the appropriate age group link above.
Fun site for teachers, parents, and kids featuring free educational games, coloring pages, interactive e-books, holiday activities, musical postcards, crafts, worksheets, and more!
Discover the history and future of space exploration with these fun interactive learning games. Meet astronauts John Glenn and Mae Jemison and read transcripts from interviews with Buzz Aldrin and Sally Ride. Learn about the top 20 space firsts, see space photographs, create a timeline, and more. Includes teacher's guide, with suggested online and offline cross-curricular activities.
This is an example online resource marked up and with comments using Diigo.
I saw students become active agents in their own learning—because they now had choices about the methods that worked best for them. Kids who’d professed to hate school were now eager to engage in the classroom.
One student wrote in her daily reflection, "[iPads] make me want to come to school every day because I know that Ms. Magiera has a lesson just for me."