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History of Flight; transportation; technological innovation ; historical thinking; time continuity and change; |
"This overview of the past one-hundred years of flight was developed by the Time.com organization, and pays tribute to the men, women, and planes that have contributed to the technological innovation that has transformed transportation -- and, to a larger extent, how humans experience the world."
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A science site - very colorful, very interesting.
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Chemistry links
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Teachers, students, Science |
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Environmental Education Resources for Teachers.
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This site consists of nine main maps of the universe, ranging from the nearest stars to the sun, out to the limits of the visible universe. Each main map page contains a description of the map, as well as other related maps and information. There are extensive annotated links to related Websites and a glossary. You can also zoom in and out on
each map. Available in other languages, including French.
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Animal Life Cycles science |
Collection of web resources to cover grade three Animal Life Cycles |
Teacher reference; student web links and interactive sites |
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A wonderful site produced for children by Washington State University. Visitors can ask scientific questions and the university's team of researchers will find you the answer. The site also contains a database of previously answered questions.
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The ASP has also developed into the recognized leader in the field of astronomy education. Our free teachers' newsletter, The Universe in the Classroom, is posted on the web. With the support of the National Science Foundation and NASA, the ASP sponsors Project ASTRO,an innovative program to pair amateur and professional astronomers with teachers and classes.
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Science, Grade 6, Sky Science, Space, Astronomy |
Aimed at the sixth grade science curriculum and addresses all of the Pan Canadian curriculum objectives for astronomy and space science |
Teacher Resource |
Science 6, Division 2, Sky Science |
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Science, Grade 6, Sky Science, Space, Astronomy |
Aimed at the sixth grade science curriculum and addresses all of the Pan Canadian curriculum objectives for astronomy and space science |
Teacher Resource |
Science 6, Division 2, Sky Science |
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Information, News and Links
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The Human Body like you've never seen it!
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Take the Blue Planet Challenge.
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Superb pages for Biology, Nature and Physics.
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Multimedia journey through the story of evolution.
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Students will find information about: cells, microorganisms, plants, invertebrates, invertebrates and animal systems. Each topic has a corresponding quiz. |
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Biotechnology Australia is a multi-departmental Commonwealth agency, responsible for co-ordinating non-regulatory biotechnology issues.
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Lesson plans |
Websites linked to topics in the currieculum |
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Electricity, circuits |
Interactive learning site with quizzes on the topic of electricity |
Teachers, students |
Div II, III |
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Demonstrates how structures are affected by a variety of external forces. Focus on this site is the construction of bridges. Also contains a database of world structures. |
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Science links
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Biology links
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Chemistry links
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Physics links
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Lesson plans |
Lots of good stuff! Grade 9 Space Unit with modules and lessons; including webquests
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From Newton and his apple to climate change, the Science Toolkit has it all.
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28 projects, form the Creation of fire to the production of plastics |
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Student, Teacher Resources |
The concept of equilibrium is an extremely important one to master. It helps to explain the behavior of chemical reactions and buffer systems, and can be used to drive reactions that normally don't occur, or occur to only a small extent.
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Atomic Properties menu |
Revises the simple knowledge you should already have about the structure of atoms from introductory courses (e.g. GCSE)
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Periodic Table, Elements and Chemistry |
1. A higher atomic weight than the one on its left. The first periodic table was devised by Dmitri Mendeleev and published in 1869. Mendeleev found he could arrange the 65 elements that were then known in a grid or table so that each element had:
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Students can find information about topics including: the atom, matter, elements, reactions and biochemistry. Each topic has a corresponding quiz. |
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“Calling all students interested in Chemistry! This is a totally awesome website to support high school chemistry classes. If there is something that you did not understand in class then be sure to check out this site's extensive tutorials. The pedagogy section includes information about child centered classrooms and teaching methods. In addition to chemistry, there are math and general science resources and a variety of activities.”
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Labs. Projects, links |
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Student, Teacher Resources |
On-line resources for students, educators, and scientists |
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Study Guide, Titration notes |
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Chemtutor begins with the fundamentals and gives expert help with the most difficult phases of understanding your first course in chemistry.
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Appropriate for intermediate students. The bugs are grouped into a number of categories ranging from beneficial insects to tobacco insects to poultry and livestock insects. A photo is included for each bug. This site could serve as a model for IT students on how to present information in an uncomplicated way.
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Curricular Resources, Instructional Material and Theme Pages for Science.
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"A panel of Cool Chips one inch square will provide enough cooling for a refrigerator; a panel about two inches square will have the capacity to provide the air conditioning for a living room; and a panel about five inches square will supply enough cooling power to cool an entire house."
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology... on screen, off screen, and in between.
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Lesson plans |
Use the links on this page to develop lesson plans in math and science. Covers many different curriculum levels and topics..and a puzzlemaker |
Lesson plan library, puzzlemaker |
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Science Links by Kathy Shrock through discoveryschool.com. Categorized list of wonderful websites |
Portal to many more websites |
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We will use three molecules (CO2, CO32- and NH4+) as our examples on this guided tour of a simple method for drawing Lewis dot structures. While this algorithm may not work in all cases, it should be adequate the vast majority of the time.
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Typical Characteristics |
This reference manual contains general information on all Energizer/Eveready batteries in productions at the time of preparation manual. |
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Global trends, Environmental education |
Applets regarding global trends |
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Absolutely loaded with lesson plans, worksheets and fun activities! |
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Educational Adventures - Award-winning online learning activities about art, history and science. This sites' mission is to create exciting and effective learning experiences that hit the sweet spot where learning theory, Web technology, |
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Explore over 200 topics across many content areas. All are classified and indexed below within Applied Arts, Art and Music, English and Language Arts, Fitness and Health, Math, Science, Social Studies, plus General Themes. Click on a topic to explore good starting points in that topic area.
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Timeline - Explore the turning points in Einstein's life, both personal and The Light Stuff (Hot Science) The speed of light is constant but only out in space. Find out how the speed of light can change Time Traveler (Hot Science). |
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Comprehensive information on the past and present impact of El Niño on the climate of Canada and its effects on the global climate. |
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Enchanted Learning produces children's educational web sites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity. |
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A 200-word summary articles with a Grade 9 reading level; Mr. Burns icons identify articles with more detail and a Grade 12. |
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Biology, science |
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious, even audacious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth |
Teacher resource, science resource |
K-12, all divisions, science |
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Current Canadian weather conditions. The Meteorological Service of Canada's official online-presence for information.l |
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You can not only have fun by playing games, but you can find useful links for school. |
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Science questions |
Fun Science facts from the Library of Congress |
Teacher reference |
Teacher reference, question of the day |
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Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. |
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Gizmos, interaction, smartboard |
A large collection of Math and Science gizmos |
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The goal of explore Marsnow Website is to inspire learning about the space sciences and technology through this web-based Mars simulator. Using ultra realism in site content and graphics, plausible concepts for near future Mars missions a |
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Hundreds of fun explorations into astronomy as a classroom tool for learning how to theorize, experiment, and analyze data. |
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FearOfPhysics.com shows you physics in action. This site is an interactive, highly visual, and non-technical way for you to see the laws of physics |
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Flight-History is dedicated to developing an extensive online archive of aviation history. The archives currently focus on the pre-jet era. In time, Flight-History will extend the archive to the jet era and space. Recent stories that have been added to the archive include The Gipsy Engine; The Birth of a National Air Force; Bishop vs The Red Baron; The Victoria Cross Flight, The Flying Tigers in China; Miles Aircraft Company; History of the WACO Aircraft Company; The USS Macon; The Men on the Flying Trapeze |
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The Art of Crime Detection. |
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Great links to Great Science Resources |
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Become part of Project Prosauropod and watch as researchers uncover the 200 million year old skeleton of a prosaurop |
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Excellent visuals and explanations. Some links do not work, but otherwise a very good site. Grade 6 Science. |
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The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources. |
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Teacher Resources and Professional development programs; Science enrichment and career programs for students. |
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GF Awesome gives science students of all ages the unique opportunity to be connected to cutting edge forest research. |
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Busy educators guide to educational links on the web. |
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View the surface of Mars. |
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In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing. More about Google Moon. |
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WebQuest - Athena Middle's Ten Wonders of the World is a long-term WebQuest. Its purpose is to, in an interdisciplinary fashion, immerse our students in a body of knowledge, have them analyze it deeply, and, given prescribed conditions, transform or synthesize that information by creating a product to which others will respond. |
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This site allows the individual to answer several questions about their handwriting. In order to access the results, students need to enter their email address. |
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This site tells you when satellites will be visible in your evening sky. |
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This Website tells the story of the universe from the big bang to black holes - in a simple and understandable way, complete with graphics. |
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From asteroids to urban legends and everything in between. |
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Hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach, this is the public home page for Hubble Space Telescope images and news. The site is well organized and offers those spectacular images of planets, nebulae, etc. in a variety of download sizes and formats. These "may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract" which certainly covers all educational institutions. |
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Eureka ! Science offers the I Can Do That! web pages as a painless way to find fun facts about DNA, RNA, cells, protein and other biology topics. |
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Space, Exploration |
Lesson Plans, information, and resources |
Teachers, Space Exploration. Astronomy Students, |
Div III, IV |
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"It is our dream that we can learn from each other, co-ordinate our efforts, and truly make Canadian school mathematics, science and technology education the most innovative, exciting and effective in the world." |
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“How much do you really know about Insects? Although we tend not to think about insects unless we are trying to avoid getting stung by a bee or bitten by a mosquito, insects are indeed very important members of the animal kingdom. |
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"Physicsclub.org is an online service provided by the Institute of Physics for physics students in schools and colleges. Physicsclub.org provides fun and useful services and can help with your physics studies. |
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Space, Exploration |
Lesson Plans, information, and resources |
Teachers, Students |
Div III, IV |
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"Interactive Pages - The Science and Information Technology sections both contain exercises that are 'assessed' by code (JavaScript and Perl) within the web-site. These pages contain single answer; multiple choice; and missing word sections to test the understanding of the stated facts. Feedback is given on the same web-page ... usually in the form of a green tick or a red cross. |
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Health information geared towards kids and teens. Kids - you can choose from articles in areas suThere is also a section for parents on this comprehensive Website. In the games closet, students can read interactive stories from kids who have different illnesses or look at animations of different parts of the body. |
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“This website by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust contains downloadable lesson plans, data sets, factfiles and images about water, wetlands and wetland life. Designed for primary school children, it is aimed at learning in both school and home and is linked closely to the English National Curriculum but adaptable for children living in other countries." |
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“Even though he did not finish many of his paintings, you could not call Leonardo DA Vinci lazy. In his lifetime, he worked as an artist, scientist, architect and inventor. He painted the world's most famous painting and designed flying machines hundreds of years before anyone got round to building them. |
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"An exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the electron" |
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Electricity |
Elementary and introductory site to electricity. |
Lesson plan |
Grade 5 Grade 9 |
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Calculating, Mass, Composition |
Guide Sheet for Moles Problems |
Chemistry |
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Biology, Reproduction, Embryology |
The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo is a collaboration funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to produce and make available over the internet a three-dimensional image reference of the Human Embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging. The collection of images is intended to serve students, researchers, clinicians, and the general public interested in studying and teaching human development |
Teachers, students |
Div IV, Biology, Reproduction, Embryology |
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International Space Station |
Expedition 13 - Mission to the International Space Station. View maps by region or by theme |
Interactive web-stite |
Grade 9 |
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Science, weather |
Get satellite imagery and radar maps of the latest storms |
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Science, Div 2-3 |
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Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and earthquakes |
Databases pertaining to natural hazards data, such as volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and earthquakes. |
Teacher information |
Grade 7 |
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Current events, research |
Canada's premier science and technology research organization. |
Current events |
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Paid subscription required. The NSTA is the largest organization in the world committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. |
Teacher pd |
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Science, video clips, flight, nature, physics, space, technology |
It presents well-written articles derived from the documentary series, including images and video clips. |
Video clips |
Science Div II - IV |
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Optics |
Aspects of light including: lenses, reflection and shadow. |
Interactive website great for smartboard |
Grade 8 Opitics |
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The oxidation number of an element indicates the number of electrons lost, gained, or shared as a result of chemical bonding. The change in the oxidation state of a species lets you know if it has undergone oxidation or reduction.
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Games |
Planet Science is a campaign aimed at stimulating the imagination about science & technology. It’s for everyone, but it’s focused particularly on young people and the adults around them, particularly their parents. |
Games |
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Interactive, java applets |
“The goals of Project Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation and dissemination of interactive java-based courseware for exploration in science and mathematics." |
Jave applets |
Math Science Smartboard |
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Rocks Minerals science |
Collection of web resources to cover grade three Rocks Unit |
Teacher reference; student web links and interactive sites |
Div 2 Grade 3 |
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Rocks, minerals |
Geology site with lesson plans, activities and literature. |
Interactive lessons |
Grade 7 |
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Teacher resources Elementary science |
Science Alberta Foundation collaborates with educators, parents, community leaders and scientists to develop programs, such as Science-In-A-Crate and Festivals of Science that showcase the importance science plays in our everyday lives. |
Teacher resources |
Science, Div. I - II |
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Textbook companion |
Password required. Junior High science links offering great information to teachers. |
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Grade 7-9 |
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Science, life sciences, earth and space sciences, chemistry, physics |
"A cyber-community for teachers, students and researchers of science." Links to water experiments, activities |
Lesson plans |
Science K-12 |
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Science, Math, Technology Acids & Alkalis, Weather, Body Parts, Changing Matter, Animals, Life processes, Living things, Plants, Seasons, Earth, Electricity |
"A collection of activities produced by the Birmingham Grid for Learning. Topics include: Acids & Alkalis, Birmingham Weather Station, Body Parts, Changing Matter, Elephant Feet, Hams Hall Pond, Life Processes and Living Things - Cells, Making Bread - Microbes, Measures, Multiple Intelligences, Plants - Life Processes, Seasons and the Moon, The Earth - Day and Night, The Electricity Book and The Solar System." |
Interactives, information |
Science, Math, technology k-12 |
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“STAR (Science Through Arts) Project being sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The website you will learn about the planet Mars, our solar system neighbor next out from the sun. Students are challenged to develop questions about what they have learned and to imagine experimental means for acquiring answers. In some cases, students can perform basic experiments in the laboratory. " |
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Science, toys, building |
This non-commercial site features projects that use easily-available, inexpensive materials, and don't require special skills, tools materials or facilities. Activities are thoroughly tested to work, yet also have the potential to be improved by creative inventors and tinkerers |
Teacher resources, Science Fair projects |
Science Div II - III |
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Science, solar system |
Science U TM is for people who like science. Interactive exhibits make science fun. |
Student activities |
Div. II - III |
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Science, nature, plants |
Listing of dozens of common flowering plants with pictures and descriptions
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Plant pictures, descriptions |
Science, chemistry, physics, space sciences K-12 |
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Science news and issues |
Science Revealed is both a new web site and T.V. program. Both have been put together by the initial partners of the SciQ Consortium, which includes Alberta Learning, APEGGA, Access Television, Reel Girls Media, Royal Tyrrell Museum, and the Science Albert |
Teacher resource |
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Space, Exploration |
SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. |
Teachers, Students |
3,4 Space Exploration. Astronomy |
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Aquatic life, animals, science, lesson plans, interactives |
"Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA) contains a treasure trove of aquatic science resources for K-12 teachers and students. SEA brings the Philippines to life for your students with fact sheets and multimedia interactives based on the Wild Reef exhibit at Shedd Aquarium |
Lesson plans, interactives, explorer’s guide |
K-12 |
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Science, sounds, sound effects, music |
Free searchable database of hundreds of downloadable special effects and musical instrument samples. |
Sound effects |
Science Div. I sound effects |
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Monitor the movements of the eider, caribou, peregrine falcon, polar bear, and leatherback seaturtle, as well as their habitats, from beyond the Earth's atmosphere. |
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This intergalactic site will keep you in orbit. |
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Science, International Space Station, Shuttle |
This is where you go for news of Shuttle launches, the International Space Station and more! |
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Div II - III
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Space, Nature, Science & Techology, History, Environment, Health |
Watch over 150 educational videos from full length documentaries to short video clips! |
Educational videos |
Science, K-12 |
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Science, teacher resources, stars |
“Star Gazer” is the only weekly naked eye astronomy show. |
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Div II - III
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Science, biology, paleontology |
A fascinating look at "the rocky road to modern paleontology and biology." Strange Science examines the early development of paleontology and biology during the Renaissance |
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Biology, paleontolgy, science Div. III - IV |
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Teacher resources LA, math, science, social |
Free 7 day trial, then subscription. TeacherVision® is dedicated to helping teachers save time. Find 17,500 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources |
Teacher resources |
K-12 , all subject areas |
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The ChemTeam provides study resources in all standard topics for students in high school and Advanced Placement. |
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Science, science fair ideas, science experiments |
A great resource for kids, teachers and parents with answers to general science questions and suggestions for science projects |
Information resource, teacher resource |
Science Div. I - III |
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Science, health, lesson plans, puzzles |
Developed by a science & health teacher this site is a good resource for teachers. You will find science trivia, lesson plans, project ideas, puzzles and more! |
Teacher resource |
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Science, natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data |
The U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and issues that affect our quality of life. Discover selected online resources, including lessons, data, maps, and more, to support teaching, learning, education (K-12), and university-level inquiry and research |
Teacher resources, lessons, data, maps |
K-12 |
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"The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals. The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project® is to
produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts." |
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Div. III - IV |
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Science, planets, solar system |
An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related. |
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Education, Math, Social, Science, Technology |
"Mastering the web one site at a time." |
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Archaeology |
Since its inception in 1978, the Theban Mapping Project (TMP, now based at the American University in Cairo) has been working to prepare a comprehensive archaeological database. |
Teacher resource |
Div. III - IV |
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Science, skeletons, bones |
"...funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation as part of the interagency Digital Libraries initiative. The purpose of this site is to enable you to view the bones of a human, gorilla, and baboon and to gather information about them from our osteology database. This site provides an interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy. This includes: high-quality images of bones labels of all muscles, articulations, and morphological features high-resolution 3-D renderings of the skeletal elements in both animation (Quicktime) and interactive virtual reality (V |
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Science Elementary Flight |
Twenty-five years ago, on November 12, 1980 at 3:56 PM PST, the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn in mankind's first detailed reconnaissance of that giant planet. One hour and 25 minutes later, the signal from that moment arrived at Earth, while the world waited in awe as picture after picture unfolded on monitors at JPL showing never-before-seen details of the Saturn, its rings and satellites. Voyager remains NASA's most successful planetary mission as measured by total number of scientific discoveries. |
Student information, teacher information |
Science Div. I - III
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Biology, science |
Explore the evolutionary links between living things with the Wellcome Trust's Tree of Life. On this site you can watch the video of the Tree of Life animation and explore the interactive version. |
Teacher resource, science resource |
K-12, all divisions, science |
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Many students experience difficulties with the calculations associated with volumetric analysis. These notes are intended to help students of the North East Wales Institute overcome any such difficulties. Example calculations are given together with self-help exercises. It is your responsibility to go through the examples and work through the exercises given. If having completed the work-sheet you still have problems then please come and see me, either in class or privately. (That's if you are a student at NEWI)
The notes are divided into two main sections covering acid-base titrations and redox titrations
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Science, science fair projects, science experiments, |
This site has fun "do-at-home" experiments for kids and adults alike on diverse topics in science. An explanation of what's going on and a list of cool links are also provided for each experiment. Check out the teacher’s page |
Science fair projects, science experiments, teacher resource |
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Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Theory and Lewis structures are invaluable mdels that all chemists use as starting points
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Thermodynamics, Ideal Gas Law |
In this series of experiments, you will control the action of a piston in a pressure chamber which is filled with an ideal gas. The gas is defined by four states:
- Temperature
- Volume or density
- Pressure
- Molecular Weight
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What's That Stuff? explains the chemistry of everyday products like lipstick, bathroom cleaners, tanning formulas and much more. |
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Links to activities involving wheels and levers. Also includes links to Wonderville |
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Space, Exploration |
Lesson Plans, information, and resources |
Teachers, Students |
Div III, IV Space Exploration. Astronomy |
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Science, Elementary |
Science activities, teacher resources |
Science |
Div I, Science |
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"You can find tons of cool stuff throughout The World Almanac for Kids Online. Believe it or not, we've been putting this information together since 1868!" |
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