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The Smithsonian Science Education Center presents: Good Thinking! a new original series and professional development resource for science educators. Join dedicated science teacher Isabella Reyes as she explores the inner workings of her students' minds, identifies common pitfalls in the teaching of complex scientific topics, and learns new techniques for effective classroom practices grounded in the latest education research. "

The deep website, science.gov, would be beneficial in teaching science for older elementary students if you were to have them do some kind of research project. You could create a custom search engine and put this website in it to find information approved by the teacher.

This might be help for science lessons as a resource. Christy Shuman

A consortium of 26 states and other science groups created the Next Generation Science Standards. Many states plan on adopting them in the coming years. The standards are organized into three dimensions: disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and cross cutting concepts.

Providing a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.

This website is a great resource for all things Science. They have lessons and activities for all grades and ages with worksheets and questions for each lesson.

OER for Next Gen Science Standards

This Blendspace is full of useful resources for secondary science teachers.

This website discusses the importance of storytelling when teaching new material to a class. We felt like when most people think of storytelling they only think of teaching in that method to younger kids but it can actually be beneficial to all ages. We thought this website had a lot of good reasons and facts as to why storytelling can be beneficial in the classroom.

This article is a good read because at the bottom it gives tips on how to get people engaged and do what you want them to do!  Highlighted in green is the important tips I took out of this read. 

A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that? When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich started to market his product through stories instead of benefits and bullet points, sign-ups went through the roof. Here he shares the science of why storytelling is so uniquely powerful.

This is a website for students to go and summit science related question and receive answers. There are also videos, links, activities, and images for students to navigate through.

This is a website for students to go and summit science related question and receive answers. There are also videos, links, activities, and images for students to navigate through.

This is a website for students to go and summit science related question and receive answers. There are also videos, links, activities, and images for students to navigate through.

TeachWithMovies.org offers a collection of lesson plans and curriculum materials using movies to inspire, inform and motivate your students. There are subject-specific sections for English, Social Studies, Sciences, and Other Subjects (which include Math, Health, Music, and numerous other subjects). These subject areas are often broken down into sub-categories (for example, Social Sciences is broke down into US History, World History, and Civics).

I would use this to help me with students learning because it is a reliable source.

I like this website because Bill Nye makes science fun for kids!

A great website that shows many different catapults that students could create in their classes, and also discusses the science behind catapults!

Great article about using mobile devices in the classroom

"Gizoms" are hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials and supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in math and science. This can be used for all grades, and is awesome because it is very interactive and can simulate experiments you can't physically carry out in a classroom setting

Finding games for science and math.

ideas for incorporating social studies and science into the classroom

Life Cycle of Mealworm Forest Lake 2nd grade lesson

This website was by far the most interactive. The Khan Academy shows YouTube videos that explain certain areas of: math, science, and English. The course work is dependent on what you need to know. It has everything from basic arithmetic, to differential equations, from basic biology, to organic chemistry. While this is all true, for subjects such as math and chemistry, when there are more than one way to solve a problem, it only shows one way.

This YouTube channel can e used for ideas and inspiration for multimedia in the classroom. The creators of this channel make fun, attention-getting educational videos. Keep in mind that many of these videos are geared towards high schoolers but they can spark some ideas for videos and other grade levels.

This site is a fun way to teach solar system lessons, beginner astronomy, or just to incorporate in an elementary science lesson.