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"Poplocks are a very clever system for making movable papercraft fastenings with die-cutting and folding. The Paper Pose-Ables site has a bunch of downloadable papercraft toys you can print out and make, as well as pre-cut/scored kits you can buy, for making fabulous poseable robots and other cool figures. .. the Poplocks system really makes for a great, semi-rigid joint for the toys."

"Want to observe the Friday 10 May 2013 Solar Eclipse safely but don't have access to a specialist solar filter for your telescope or binoculars? I have prepared a solar eclipse pinhole viewer which you can freely download and use to indirectly observe the eclipse.  I have included on the viewer information on start, mid and end times for the eclipse for the following cities: Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Cairns, Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin and Townsville."

"We can all get a little puzzled with time. Sometimes we have no idea where it goes, whereas there are other times when it goes by so fast. Yet one this is for sure…it is going at the same pace, no matter what, and the relationship between time and the cosmos is complex. Understanding the relationship, Cosmic Watch is a unique iPad app that provides an advanced, 3D astronomical time device for the digital age."

"Visualize in real-time the frequencies that you can hear around you and even those you cannot. The SpectrumView analyser provides a high quality real-time spectrogram and spectrum analyser display with configurable sample rate and frequency resolution for the iPhone and iPad.  You can use this application to measure the highest tones you can sing, to find the source of an annoying sound, for calibrating musical instruments or generally for all sorts of acoustic analysis. "

Ed Walsh, Science Advisor for Cornwall Learning, has taken eight of the case studies from the book and turned them into lessons aimed at GCSE level students. The lessons are designed to engage and excite students and encourage them to think for themselves. Pupils in secondary schools are in many cases very capable of understanding the 'Bad Science' approach and making good use of it themselves. Their grasp of scientific concepts and their enquiring minds mean that Bad Science is good for school science.

"The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been going on for over half a century. It has mostly drawn a blank. But once in a while there is a flurry of excitement. Here are some of the highlights."

This interactive infographic from the National Academies Press highlights essential practices for K-12 science classrooms from A Framework for K-12 Science Education with references to the contents of the full report.

Welcome to LIVESTRONG at School™! Created by Scholastic and the LIVESTRONG Foundation, the LIVESTRONG at School program uses national standards-based lessons to teach your students about the realities of cancer. While it is a difficult subject to talk about with kids, the LIVESTRONG Foundation believes that it is important for students to understand what cancer is and how it can be treated. In addition, this program informs your students about ways that they can make a difference and help those with cancer. The lessons and printable worksheets below make it easy for you to share this valuable information with your class.

MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It's a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything inbetween:

Scroll down past the scrolling headline b/c it is about a pregnancy test and I don't want that coming up whole class. Clearly might be helpful to get rid of that problem. There is a link for what to look for when evaluating claims.

Examines what Google Earth is, provides resources for learning how to use Google Earth, discusses Google Earth's relevance/utility in the classroom, points to wasy to get started, and introduces Keyhole Markup Language (KML), a standard format for storing and distributing geographic data.

"This video created for high school biology students aims to illustrate the packaging of genetic material in the cell. Created for Sapling Learning in 2011. saplinglearning.com"

"It is 4 posters for your class. The first is a Cows Moo Softly poster which I use as a reminder for variables which change, stay the same and are measured/observed when we are conducting fair tests."

"This very popular Information and Communications Technology conference runs annually. The conference program caters for upper level primary and secondary teachers. The conference showcases the most recent information and communications technology used in the science classroom. New teaching and learning ideas and software demonstrations combine with hands-on interactive sessions to give you new ideas, strategies and methods ready for use with your students."

"For many young people who aspire to be scientists, the great bugbear is mathematics. Without advanced math, how can you do serious work in the sciences? Well, I have a professional secret to share: Many of the most successful scientists in the world today are mathematically no more than semiliterate."

This is an aggregation site for science news and articles. Find fascinating research and stories to intrigue your class and explore the boundaries of human knowledge yourself. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

A site for the science curious

Vocabulary or terminology building is a difficult task for many students. A variety of teaching techniques and strategies are needed to help them develop a true understanding related to concepts.

"The Tweets from today's meet tell a wonderful story. So many thanks are due to Simon (@aus-teach) for all his preparation as host of an amazing event and to Scienceworks for opening their doors to us. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and just as many new ones."

Blog post of links to several good periodic tables. Useful for chemistry students and for middle school students doing research on elements. Some interactive. Some with videos.

Oceans are a great place for learning. It might be learning about tides or about erosion, it might be learning about ecosystems or coral reefs. It might be learning about the animals of the ocean big and small. Here are a number of apps for when your students are studying about the ocean.