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Digital Universe Atlas - Hayden Planterarium
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Try showing the video (on your interactive whiteboard or projector) at the beginning of a chapter or unit on universes and galaxies. Have students discuss what they think is correct or even incorrect about the video. As you work through your unit, use the teacher activities in addition to your traditional curriculum materials. Revisit the video at least twice throughout the unit to "check-in" on your student's understanding and to assess whether their misconceptions are being cleared. Another idea, is to show the video as a writing prompt for science. Pose a question such as, "How big are you? Explain in terms of the universe." Then, have students view the video and write about their ideas generated by the video.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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The Brain From Top to Bottom - The Canadian Institute of Neuroscience
Grades
7 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Try using this site as a research site for students working on individual or small group projects about the brain. Have students create their own mini site about a different organ of the body. Another idea, have students create a tiered report much like the format of this website. For instance, if the students are studying the respiratory system, have them create the reports that appeal to adults, peers and elementary students with a focus of explaining the functions of the system. For either of the above ideas, try using Weebly reviewed hereAdd your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Scitable - Nature Publishing Group
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
Biology students can browse through the topics related to genetics to find research material or to determine how to focus a project. Teachers can create packets of materials to share with their class or with the other members of the Scitable community around the world. Check with your school to see about its policy for registering and creating a class community on such a site. This site is especially appropriate for AP science students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Environmental News Network - Environmental News Network
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Use these articles as a springboard for further research, participation in the creation of editorial articles by students, and topics for public service announcements either created conventionally (posters, bulletin boards) or using technology (blog or wiki posts.) Use this site as a resource when planning environmental education topics and activities. Follow a specific topic over time and discuss how new procedures and techniques of obtaining data can change how a topic is viewed. Use for reading comprehension practice. Encourage the use of WordItOut, reviewed here, or mind mapping to identify known and problematic words. Students can work in groups to ferret out important information which can be presented and discussed with the class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - pcrm.org
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
When discussing foods, biomolecules, or the food groups or portion control, use this site as a tremendous resource that discusses not only scientific facts but how nutrients act in the body. Use this information and search for other information to validate or dispute the information. Create a healthy discussion about web resources and credibility. Encourage students to pick a nutrition issue they would like to know more about and research to create a multimedia presentation (blog or wiki post, podcast, or video) or conventional (bulletin board, poster, or pamphlet) display of the information. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wikispecies - Wikimedia Foundation
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Use this site to determine the taxonomy and review the taxonomic categories of plants and animals. Though not a complete resource yet, it is valuable when paired with other resources such as Wikipedia.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NASA's Space Place - a site for Kids! - NASA
Grades
1 to 12In the Classroom
Make sure to check here for a unit on space, or recommend to parents for enrichment at home ideas.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WordSift - Stanford University
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
This is a classic tool to promote "before reading" strategies and vocabulary development. Use WordSift to preview text to be used in class and define vocabulary before reading to increase reading comprehension. Have students use WordSift with different portions of text to identify key words and vocabulary for class presentations. Use WordSift to discuss different meanings of words using images presented through the site. This site isn't only for English teachers, share with Science and Social Studies teachers to use in their classrooms with reading texts in their content areas. ENL/ELL and learning support teachers will want to share this as a support for any reading assigned in regular classes. Be sure to show students how to copy/paste to WordSift texts from informational web pages and news stories on the web, as well. Share this link as a Favorite on your public page so students can use it anytime.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science Daily - ScienceDaily LLC
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Use this site as a research tool or to provide practice reading informational texts in the content areas. Choose an article relevant to what you are teaching, post it on your website or wiki, and have your students discuss what the article means and how it made them think. Since the articles are heavy with text, you may want to have students work in small groups to read the article you have selected for them, and use a tool such as Mindmeister (reviewed here) or bubbl.us (reviewed here) to create a concept map of the important ideas and their details for the article. Each article has several related links. Have each group choose a different one to explore, and create a concept map to share on your interactive whiteboard or projector so all can benefit from the related articles. Once created, the concept maps can be posted as links or embedded on your teacher website or wiki for review and to share with parents. If the text of the articles is simply too challenging without some "before reading" help, show students how to preview it using WordSift, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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GLOBE at Night - The GLOBE Program
Grades
6 to 10In the Classroom
Include Globe at Night with your lessons about stars and constellations to teach students about the different star formations and the impact of light pollution on our ability to view stars. If you and your students are unsure about what you are seeing in your location, use Neave Planetarium's < a href="/single.cfm?id=10137">reviewed here app to view and learn about objects observable from your location. As an extension activity, ask students to write a new mythological story about one of the constellations observed. Share stories as a comic strip using Free Comic Strip Maker, < a href="/single.cfm?id=16999">reviewed here or as an interactive story created with Elementari < a href="/single.cfm?id=18507">reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SketchUp - Google
Grades
8 to 12In the Classroom
To introduce yourself to the program, check out the training video. There are templates that you can use to create your designs and they are offered in both metric and English measurements. The application is reminiscent of basic paint programs. Perhaps the best way to learn how to create with this tool is to take some time to "play" with it. The editors at TeacherFirst strongly recommend working your way through a sample before you implement this in a class. It gives your students a great model to visualize your expectations, and it will give you the hands on experience that you can use to help them. Another way to implement this is to roll it out to your students and have them "play" with it. You may learn more from them than you could have ever anticipated. Another neat feature of this program is that it allows you to Google search for previously constructed 3D models and download them directly into SketchUp on your computer!As part of a multidisciplinary unit in science, technology, economics, math, social studies, and English classes, use this site to create a culminating design project. In English classes, have students create a written grant or design proposal. In economics, have the students discover how to construct the project for the best possible cost. Have the final design project be a new museum or historical/tourist attraction to commemorate a local hero/heroine. In math and science classes, have the students "build" the project with accurate measurements. Then as follow up, have students use Google Earth reviewed here to predict the environmental impact of the new construction. Or, in technology education or industrial arts class, use this as a way to submit project drafts for construction.
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Re-Energy - GreenLearning
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
The projects outlined are in simple steps to show students how to create their own renewable energy technologies. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to get hands on experience with engineering, design, and sustainable energy technologies. It also could be a resource for science fair projects.If you live in Canada, you can participate in a solar oven design challenge. Teachers from other countries may want to have their class host an on-line collaborative project to compare and contrast the performance of their home made solar ovens
The website provides a unit plan meant to be completed in 11 class periods. You can download free complete lesson plans with detailed instructions. A student planning worksheet outlines research procedures, project guidelines, timeline for completion dates and evaluation criteria they are expected to meet.
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LiveBinders4Teachers - Barbara Tallent
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use these prefabricated binders as the base for your own binders! Also, connect with other adventurous technology using teachers to glean new ideas and discover even more new tools.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science IQ - Science IQ. com
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Try using this site's questions on a weekly or daily basis in science or math class to start discussions and provoke student thinking. Allow students to view the question on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then brainstorm possible answers. Once enough thoughts have been seeded, share the real answers. Or, allow students to work at the answer as the lesson continues for a few days and reveal the correct answer as a finale to the lesson.This site could also be used as a learning station for the question of the day or the week.
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This is a great resource to begin a class. It really helps students to apply science to the natural world.Gia, , Grades: 7 - 12
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Science Bob Experiments - Steve Galgas
Grades
6 to 11In the Classroom
Print out instructions and have student work through the experiments when relevant to topics. Also, some experiments could be used as demonstrations. Assign cooperative learning groups specific experiments to try out and create a video to share with the class. Share the videos on a site such as TeacherTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary - University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
Find specific lessons on a topic such as Erosion. Use the simple and effective lesson plans and activities to learn about the processes and effects of erosion on the land. Research additional information such as losses attributed to erosion, natural events that disrupt human and other animal populations, and other related environmental problems. Use Google Maps or Google Earth, reviewed here, to map out the case studies presented in the resource. Create placemarks in either application that provide information about erosion, the causes, and the problems created. Research additional items to include in maps or Earth such as images, videos, or news articles that can be viewed to understand the problems. You might consider having students use a tool such as Middlespot, reviewed here, an innovative website for bookmarking in a unique, visual way. Add search material from anywhere on the web by dragging and dropping elements around the screen. Students would use this to help them keep track of their findings. Use with food and fiber activities that identify how many grown products are used not only as food but for building and other materials.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Topmark Interactive Whiteboard Resources - Topmarks
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use activities offered on the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector either as a whole class activity or use your whiteboard as one of the learning centers in your class. Share with parents on your blog or classroom newsletter as a resource for practice at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Central Park Conservancy - Central Park Conservancy
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Use this resource to plan a trip to the park. Or, create a virtual field trip by designating specific places on the website that students have to visit. Have students locate different buildings, art, and trees in the park. It could be a great way to do a virtual leaf collection (in this case - tree collection) with the site's tree database. Have students find at least ten different trees and then create a presentation providing different information about those trees, including their locations in the park. Assign small groups to explore one facet of this site and create a multimedia presentation using one of many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): PBWorks (wiki), Site123 (blog/webpage), Renderforest (newscast video), and Genially (poster/bulletin board).Use the site to help teach geography content such as latitude and longitude by having the students create a map to "escape the park."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Life Sciences Learning Center: Animations - University of Rochster Medical Center
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
Use this resource to review concepts that have been learned in a biology class such as photosynthesis, cellular respiration, protein synthesis, or electrophoresis. Give students time to view the animations and create study notes for each part of the process that is happening. For example, have teams of students create the script for the scene unfolding in each slide of the movie. Team members could share the work using a tool such as Google Docs, reviewed here, to create the script. Create a glossary of terms that need to be known to understand the process. Create a concept map either using conventional or digital means to outline the major points of the process and the similarities or differences that occur between each of the processes. Use a tool such as bubbl.us, reviewed here.Provide time for students to generate questions from the information they still do not understand or to create quiz questions to check for understanding following the viewing of the resource. You might want them to use Vevox, reviewed here, to create online polls or surveys with their classmates to see who has the answers to the questions they still have.
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Types of Radioactivity - Andy Darvill
Grades
9 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Use this site as a great review for students learning radioactivity. Use for students to identify the basic information of radioactivity prior to class discussions. Use on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector for the whole class. Follow with specific nuclear reactions that occur naturally in the Earth or that are controlled as in a nuclear power plant. Discuss radioactive decay, half-lives, and other important information related to radioactivity. Research the various other applications for radioactivity such as diagnostic tests in hospitals, etc. Research the various elements that emit radioactivity and their useful applications to our lives.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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