SCIENCE RESOURCES

Get Smarter

http://www.getsmarter.org/

Get Smarter is an interactive site where students can compare their math and science achievement against others worldwide.  Grades 3-12

 

Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu/
The Exploratorium is a collage of 650 interactive exhibits in science, art, and human perception.  Students can explore any of these subject: light color, sound, music, motion, animal behavior, electricity, heat and temperature, language, patterns, hearing, touch, vision, waves and weather.  Grades 3-12

 

Cool Science for Curious Kids
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience

Cool Science is a fun site that helps students appreciate science. Covered: Observation skills, plants, animal classifications and metamorphosis. Grades K-3

 

Fun Brain

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A4=1

This site contains a variety of edu-taining activities covering areas of math, language arts, social studies, and science.  Grades K-6

 

The Great Plant Escape

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/
Students can help Detective Leplant and his partners investigate plant mysteries including cases about soil, plant growth, seeds, and reproduction. Grades 4-5

 

Creature Feature

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/

Audio and video clips help students learn about featured animals. Grades 3-8

 

Entomology Image Gallery

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegallery/

Students can view images and movies of beetles, ticks, lice, and lots of other creepy crawling insects!  Grades 3 and up

 

Endangered Animal Channel

http://www.endangeredtv.com/

Students explore videos of endangered animals from the Bagheera site.  Grades 2-6


Popular Science

http://www.popsci.com
There are plenty of interesting things to read at Popular Science Magazine's web site. Articles on science, space, the Internet, computers, and more.  Grades 3+

 

The Astronomy Workshop

http://janus.astro.umd.edu/index.html
Students can view a multitude of Java programs that creates a solar system, view the moons and their orbits around their planets, and learn about astronomical distances.  Grades 3+
 

Exploring the Planets

http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/etp.htmExploring the Planets is a simulated research center at the National Air and Space Museum that illustrates how scientist explore planets that are millions of miles away.  Students can choose to log in, enabling them a chance to save their work.  There are three levels for grades 5-8, grades 6-8, and grades 7-9.

 

Solar System Trading Cards

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/trading/

students will collect solar system trading cards by playing an interactive card game. They will identify the sun, planets, comets, and asteroids by answering questions about them. Students will learn facts about the solar system presented with amazing pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and various NASA missions.  Grades 3-6

 

Funology

http://www.funology.com
At Funology find fun facts, experiments, crafts, recipes, magic tricks, jokes, and a whole lot more.  Grades 2-5

 

ScienceMonster

http://www.sciencemonster.com
Created by the makers of CoolMath, this site entertains with information about our solar system.  Students can take a star tour, see how gravity and inertia work, and play a fun lunar landing game.Grades 2-5

 

Amazing Space

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu
Amazing Space is a collection of interactive activities designed to teach students about black holes, collect solar system trading cards, and more.  Each activity includes high quality graphics and animation.  Grades 3+

 

Kid Port

·         Kindergarten Games http://www.kidport.com/GradeK/Science/ScienceIndex.htm

·         Grade 1 Games  http://www.kidport.com/Grade1/Science/ScienceIndex.htm

·         Grade 2 Games  http://www.kidport.com/Grade2/Science/ScienceIndex.htm

·         Grade 3 Games  http://www.kidport.com/Grade3/Science/ScienceIndex.htm

·         Grade 4 Games  http://www.kidport.com/Grade4/Science/ScienceIndex.htm

·         Grade 5 Games  http://www.kidport.com/Grade5/Science/ScienceIndex.htm

·         Grade 6 Games  http://www.kidport.com/Grade6/Science/ScienceIndex.htm

·         Grade 7 Games  http://www.kidport.com/Grade7/Science/ScienceIndex.htm

·         Grade 8 Games  http://www.kidport.com/Grade8/Science/ScienceIndex.htm

 

Engineer It!
http://www.omsi.edu/visit/physics/engineerit/
The online guide devoted to basic engineering principles with cool activities and online games.  Grades 3+

Experiencing Chemistry

http://www.omsi.edu/visit/chemistry/unit.cfm?UnitCurrentKey=1

Online chemistry resource and experiments for students.  Grades 4+