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From Richard Byrne at FreeTech4Teachers.com: "Science 360 is an educational video site hosted by the National Science Foundation. Visitors to Science 360 can search for videos according to topic. Science 360"

Science website containing hands-on activities. From Borax Crystal Ornaments to Observing Microorganisms in a School, this site offers a wide variety of science activities!

Middle School Science!

This online journal publishes science studies from experimental science by conducted high school students. via Best content in Sites_for_education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/sites_for_education

This site organizes digital resources to support Middle and High School level courses.  Resources are browsable by Subject, topic, course, or textbook correlation.  Subjects include Arithmetic, Algebra & Geometry, Calculus & Advanced Math, Statistics & Probability, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, Economics, History & Government, Psychology, and Religion.   Content providers include Khan Academy, PhEt interactive science simulations, National Repository for Online Courses, and NOAA.

This is a curated collection of digital resources for middle and high school classes in a variety of subjects, but especially math and science. In many cases, the resources are aligned to course textbooks from major publishers.

Digital Explorer is an organization that helps students learn about science and geography through the study of expeditions around the world. Digital Explorer publishes educational materials that are connected to expeditions. via Feedly Digital Explorer - Follow Expeditions and Learn About Science via Free Technology for Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

"If you teach math or science, you will likely find yourself asking your students to take out their rulers, compasses, protractors, thermometers, altimeters, and other measuring devices. Being able to see with a ruler and a protractor how a triangle with two equal sides really does have two equal angles can be powerful. Glenda Stewart-Smith of Surrey School District #36 in Canada put together this collection of iPhone and iPad apps that offer all of these measuring abilities and more."

"Thingdom is a fun and challenging game through which students can learn about genetics. The game, produced by the London Science Museum, asks players to select a "thing" then try to find a make for that "thing" based on various traits." Gamify genetics for your science class.

This is a "dump" for cool science-related videos. There are many good videos here that would be helpful in science class. Be careful, though, because some of these videos may not be appropriate for the classroom.

This article outlines different ways journaling can be useful in elementary science classes.

Why not use Haiku for students to keep their journals? Discussions or Wikiprojects in Haiku could be used for this. In fact, the Bridge Building teams at Tupelo Middle School are using Wikiprojects to keep their journals, collect their data, and compose their portfolios for competition.

Good point. Wiki/discussion boards are great for students to converse back and forth and work collaboratively in groups, but there are a few advantages to the old fashioned type journal as well. Drawings as well as charts and graphs for science are sometimes more beneficial to student learning and expression when done on paper and pencil. Ultimately, you would want to have both. It is also important to note that with the software we have available on the Macs, you could use the Photo Booth to capture drawings and graph and upload them to Haiku/Wiki or wherever you were sharing/storing them electronically.

A fun blog entry that might make a good close reading for science. Underlines the connection between science theory and falsifiable evidence. A Beautiful Notion: That Caterpillars Killed Off The Dinosaurs via The latest articles from Radiolab Blogland http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blogland/

Excellent resource for science teachers working to meet Common Core ELA standards.  Passages and question sets are included for grades K-6.

A teacher's description of her experience using a reading workshop model with her students in a science lesson. There are some great ideas here.

"If this wasn't a science page, if this happened 3,000 years ago in, say, a Middle Eastern desert, I would call it a Miracle. But it's not. It's just a plain, ordinary moment of "wow!"

Great Science Resource

This short video would be excellent for prompting discussion or student research for 6-8 grade science students.  Be sure to check out the other great short videos from the "Its Okay to be Smart" YouTube channel as well.  Remember, students are not currently able to access YouTube from their devices, so you will need to project this video for the class if you want to use it.  

This cool, simple interactive exhibit will help students visualize the history of time in geologic, evolutionary, and cosmological terms. This would be an excellent visualization for helping provide this perspective in a science class.

The Google Science Fair is on for 2013!  The competition is open to students from ages 13-18 from around the world.  It is free to enter!  Be sure to check out some of the previous years' winners and their projects.  Wow!

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Good one. I am adding this to science list and Haiku page.

A zoomable visual demonstration of scale.  Zoom in all the way to Plank length and out to the whole of the observable universe.   This would be an excellent jumping off point for student writing, discussion, and thinking in a science (or math) class.  Another wonderful interactive visual demonstration from Cary and Michael Huang.