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[1] National Geographic Kids for Science, History, Literature 1st - 5th Grade

Good resource for information on the world, people, and wildlife. There are polls, contests, games, and virtual inventions.

[2] Animal Corner for Science, Animal Science and Information K-5th Grade

This site deal with introducing animals to kids and uses pictures and descriptions.

[3] Primary Games for Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science 3rd-5th Grade

This site makes learning fun by making the educational activities into video games.

(Christy Swintek) Website: We Choose The Moon Discipline: Science, History Grade Level: 4 – 12 Address: http://wechoosethemoon.org/ Description: Bonus website: This is a really cool interactive celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Awesome for NASA buffs.

(Christy Swintek) Website: U. S. Energy Information Association/Energy Kids Discipline: Science Grade Level: K – 12 Address: http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/index.cfm Description: This sites provides in-depth information about the various sources of energy and their benefits and weaknesses. Curriculum support resources are available for teachers, as well as games for students.

(Christy Swintek) Website: The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education Discipline: Science Grade Level: K—12 Address: http://www.k12science.org/askanexpert.html Description: Ask An Expert is a handy feature of this website that allows students to get their questions answered by experts in a variety of fields. It would make an excellent on-line resource for research projects. The CIESE website, in general, has many interesting projects that support K-12 curricula.

(Zeahna Young) Discipline: Science Grade level: K-12 Web site address: http://www.learningscience.org/ Description: This site was developed for teachers, students and parents, and covers many subjects of science, from Physics and Life Sciences, to Science and our Society and the History and Nature of Science. It is a free and open community for sharing emerging tools for teaching science for all grade levels. The site utilizes the National Science Education Standards as their framework, and it offers various learning tools to foster science education.

Exploratorium: the Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception

Discipline(s): Science and Art

Grade Level(s): 4-12

Web Site Address: http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Description: This kid-friendly website offers hundreds of links to activities, online exhibits, articles, and games for children that allow them to explore various topics in science and art. Activities can be used by both parents and teachers to introduce their children to topics such as space, geology, culture, and a myriad of other science and art related areas. (Evelia Manzo)

Disciplines: Science, Math, History Grade Levels: 8th grade through high school web: [4] How does psychology provide different perspectives on human behavior? Hint: There’s the cognitive, behavioral genetic and social perspectives. I could learn about how to conduct research (which in Psychology is done through case studies). Also, there’s Environmental Science, such as illustrations of volcanoes and how convergent/divergent plates move. (Sevan Oskanian)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 1st web: [Dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/earth] This site teaches kids about global warming and what we can do; also, tells us what will happen to Earth if we don’t do something about this phenomenon. It gives water conservation tips and recipes for composting. It’s about taking care of the environment. (Sevan Oskanian)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 6th web: [faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html] Description: In this website titled Neuroscience for kids, as I click on Explore (in the left), and then Common questions about the brain and neuroscience, I learn what a neuron is, how it works, what neuroscientists do and so on. I can then go back and learn about drug effects on the brain and about neurological or mental disorders, such as Alzheimer’s. There’s much more information to explore and also ideas for science experiments.(Sevan Oskanian)

Discipline: Science, History, and Art Grade level: 4th [5] Description: This website teaches elementary children about some Art (under Explore by topic, Everything Art, and then African art for example), but mostly it’s about Science and History. The IdeaLabs are the most interactive and probably most educational resources. One IdeaLab, Walking on the Moon, teaches kids about the Race to Space between the Soviet Union and the United States: In 1957, Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, while the U.S. fails to follow suit. But in 1958, the U.S. launches Explorer 1, its first successful satellite, and the same year, Congress forms the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Every year there’s more developments and finally in 1969, “Task Accomplished” as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon. Also in this same IdeaLab, we see pictures of their expedition under Life on the Moon. (Sevan Oskanian)

(Caroline Joukjian/EED515/Thurs 7pm) Discipline: Geography, History, Biology, Physical Science, Language Arts Grade Level: Preschool-12th grade Web Site Address: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html Description: Engaging learners to be actively involved with materials. Since children need clear and simple computer interface, the material on this website makes it simple for even young learners to navigate and control keys. Enchanted learning can be used for free or with a subscription.

(MIA CORTEZ, EED 515, Thursday 7pm) 5. http://www.abcteach.com/directory/powerpoint/ Discipline(s) - This weblink has varied information, including Science. Target Audience - This website is a good resource for teachers of grades K-5. Description - This specific weblink has many PowerPoint presentations, including "The Animal Kingdom" and "Bees". These PowerPoint slide shows are available to teachers and any non-commercial parties for use at home, in classroom, or school only.

6. www.kidsbiology.com/biology_basics/cells_tissues_organs/structure_of_living_things1.php Discipline(s) – This specific weblink is about Biology. Grade Level(s) – This specific weblink would be appropriate for middle-school. Description – This weblink has descriptions, photographs, and diagrams about cells, animal and plan cells, and the various parts of both types of cells. It provides a brief history of a scientist named Robert Hooke’s discovery of the existence of cells. Microscopes are also discussed and the discoveries made by using them. (MIA CORTEZ)

Smithsonian Education

Discipline(s): Science & Technology

Grade Level(s): PreK-12/General Audience

Web Site Address: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/science_technology.html

Description: Good website for teachers and students. Teachers can find lesson plans and educational resources that are aligned to national or state standards. Students can explore, discover and learn through interactive programs. (Katje Gudis)

Discipline(s): Science Grade Level(s): K-6, 7-12 Web Site Address: http://education.usgs.gov/ Description: 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. (Tachun Andrew Kim)

Discipline(s): Science Grade Level(s): 6-12 Web Site Address: http://quest.nasa.gov/ Description: NASA Quest offers a wide range of free online tools and resources for teachers, students, parents and others including Web and print lesson plans, educator guides and workbooks. (Tachun Andrew Kim)

Discipline(s): Physical Science Grade Level(s): K-5, 6-8, 9-12 Web Site Address: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/physci.html Description: Lesson plans specifically designed by teachers who teach physical science. Many are tailored to Discovery videos at a cost. (Tachun Andrew Kim)

Discipline(s): Science Grade Level(s): 6-12 Web Site Address: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/teachers/ Description: This website provides teachers with teaching materials, lesson plans, links to curriculum standards, and science activity ideas which can be done in 30 minutes or less. (Tachun Andrew Kim)

Discipline: Earth Science Grade Level: 1-8 Web Site Address: kids.earth.nasa.gov Description: I love this web site for earth science! It has experiments, discussion questions, science word search games, and coloring pictures of the earth. It also has games such as navigating through the water cycle and dragging puzzles pieces to complete satellite images. (Rose Field)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 1-8 Web Site Address: reekoscience.com Description: Reeko’s Mad Science Lab provides science experiments (rated easy, intermediate, and advanced) along with underlying principals of the experiment. This site is entertaining and uses a lot of humor. There are resources such as book reviews, science links, and science fair secrets. The site also has games such as encrypted messages and codes, riddles, science trivia, and weird science facts and statistics. You can even chat with a robot named Ego. (Rose Field)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 3-6 Web Site Address: imax.com/hubble Description: Cool website! It has a 3D picture of the Hubble Space Telescope that you can move around and it tells what the different parts are and what they do. They introduce the astronauts that went to repair and upgrade the Hubble. It has a video of a close-up of the rocket launch and the astronauts working on the telescope in space. There is a gallery of pictures taken by the Hubble and puzzle games of those pictures. There is an education section for teachers to download activities for grades 3-5 and 6-8. I will definitely use this website because the Hubble is one of the fifth grade literature selections in Open Court and pertains to fifth grade science standards. (Rose Field)

Discipline: Science, Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Arts, Research and References Grade Level: K-6 Web Site Address: timeforkids.com/TFK/ Description: This is a fun and interactive website that has current event articles, games, and activities arranged by grade level. There is a teacher section that has quizzes and worksheets available to download. The best part is the homework helper section. When you select a discipline, it provides websites on the subject recommended by kids. There are some pretty cool websites. (Rose Field)

link titleDiscipline: Science Grade Level: 2-5 Website: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ Description: This website offers interactive games, facts, and loads of pictures. This is a great addition for the students to use in the classroom when learning about science. The students can see lots of great pictures, find out interesting facts and even read stories. The best part about the site is that it offers games to keep the kids attracted to learning science. (Janet Choi)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: K-12 Website address: School.discoveryeducation.com Description: This website has great links to free lesson plans, videos of different experiments and helpful tips for successful science fairs. It also has great resources for parents for summer activities, and a math helper. The website also has a feature called the puzzle maker. This feature creates crosswords, word searches, math squares and more. Organized and well maintianed, this website offers plenty of resources for more than just science including language arts, history and economics. (Maxine Daniels)

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu (Jon Salnick) covers links to space exploration, star news, and astronomy. This site is pretty advance because it doesn’t simplify the information for younger kids, it is probably for 6th grade and up. The site focuses on the cosmos and gives very detailed description of how outer space works.

http://dsc.discovery.com (Jon Salnick) which covers links to animal planet, science channel, and discovery health as well. The grade level can range from 2nd grade and up. The site covers extensive research on marine life, wild life, and all of the sciences. It’s a first good choice for kids who love to watch the discovery channel.

www.nationalgeographic.com (Jon Salnick) covers links to animals, environment, travel, science, and education. The grade level can range from 2nd grade and up. Like the discovery channel website, this site too covers extensive research on marine life, wild life, and all other sciences.

www.kidsbiology.com (Jon Salnick) covers links to biology, human biology, and animals. The grade level seems to be for 2nd to 4th grade because of the colorful background. The site gives basic information of biology in general, basic human biology, and gives lists of many animals that a child may click on to learn more about said species.

www.ansp.org (Jon Salnick) covers links to education, exhibits, and science. Grade level 5th and up because it well articulated and seems to be geared toward an older audience. The Academy of Natural Sciences is great for the higher learner who wants to visit museums to study more about advanced science. The site focuses on biology and evolution and even has a link for field trip information.

Tools for Educators.com (Melissa Quesada) Discipline(s): This site can be used for all academic areas and some extracurricular subject areas. Grade Levels(s): K-12th grade. The Website address is: http://www.toolsforeducators.com. This site offers many tools to help teachers save time while creating useable resources that fit exactly what they are doing in class. This site offers a bingo card maker, free board games, class worksheets, crossword puzzle makers, teacher site tools, links to help you become a teacher, pre-made vocabulary sets, maze maker, certificate maker, listening tests with matching audio files, over 1,000 writing prompts, and many links to other useful and resourceful sites.

School.DiscoveryEducation.com (Melissa Quesada) Discipline(s): English/Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Health, Micro World, Technology, and specific areas of Math and English. Grade Levels(s): This site is appropriate for K-12 students. The Website address is: http://school.discoveryeducation.com. This site has a five main categories with many sub listings underneath. The main categories are: Products and Resources, Classroom Resources, Home Resources, Professional Development, and Store. Some of the things you can access under these sub listings are: Curricular Resources, Assessment, Hardware, Puzzle maker, Lesson plans, Featured Content, Parent Corner, Science Fair Central, Discovery Student Adventures, and Contests and Grants. The things teachers and students get gain from this site are many. Students can find out how to enter, qualify, and win a trip to a place like Rome, parents can receive math instruction under the Home Resources tab. This site is science related, relates and works with NASA, and seems to be a great resource for students, parents, teachers, and other professionals in the education profession.

EZSchool.com (Melissa Quesada) Discipline(s): Math, English/Language Arts, Science, and Spanish. Grade Levels(s): Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. The Website address is: http://ezschool.com. This site is very easy to navigate. It only covers four academic disciplines so it is not overwhelming. The site has big tabs and the information is organized in a neat and easy way. It has worksheets, games, study tools, tutorials, spelling, reader, and store. The worksheets section did not seem to include any on science. The Games section seemed to only have Math, English, Fun Games, and weekend games. The study tools were pretty cool and interactive. The tutorials seem to be just like notes of key information. The spelling section broke down spelling into activities and tasks to help become a better speller. The reading section broke books down by grade level and recommends some. The store is where you can buy materials (mostly books) and they are arranged by grade level for Pre-K through 5th, then 6-8th, and then high school level. This site also recommends books up to the college reading level. The one bad thing about this site is that is says you cannot print or reproduce anything from the site for any reason. The interactive stuff is goof for students though. Some of the games are fun, but one verb game had 60 sentences before it came to the end. Students might not be able to hold their interest that long on verbs.

Discipline, science. (Mahsa Bokhour) Grade level, 6 to 12 Web site address, http://www.chem4kids.com Description, This web site is designed to give children a great tutorial about basic chemistry information; it also finds ways to relating scientific concept and related to math. The site goes into great details and does a great job at defining complicated scientific terms into simple term and providing pictures and examples. It also categories the important topics which makes it easier for children to search the site. Also the quiz at the end of each topic is a very helpful tool for students to see if they have understood the material that they have just learned.

TINA SONG 7. Discipline Math, Language Arts, American History, World History, Science Grade LevelK-8th grade Web Site Address http://kids.aol.com/KOL/1/HomeworkHelp DescriptionThis website helps students with homework in different subjects. It even helps with ideas and steps for science projects for the science fair. For the other subjects, there are more links for specific subject areas with explanations and visual pictures for students.

TINA SONG 6. Discipline math, science, English, social studies, world languages, health, visual and performing arts, research, reference, stories and games Grade LevelK-12th grade Web Site Address http://discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm DescriptionThis website is good for kids and teachers. There are word searches, math puzzles, criss-cross, and other puzzles that can be created. On the top of the website, there is a tab named “Home Resources.” If you click this tab, then there is a series of subjects that come out including math, science, English, social studies, and other educational information given. For example, if you click math, then math subtopics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division come up. Under each subtopic, there is a long list of more specific math topics. Each specific math topic is a video or demonstration of how to do that lesson. This website is great for students who need help on their homework.

TINA SONG 5. Discipline History, Science, Math Grade Level1-12th grade Web Site Address http://www.factmonster.com/ DescriptionThis website is good for students who need further help on different subjects. There are different subjects available for the student to learn from. For example, for the science section, there are more topics such as biology, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, and etc. Under each topic, there are more subtopics to help the student understand what is being taught. Explanations are given for the students to read and observe. There is even a homework center option and games and quizzes option as well.

TINA SONG Discipline Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, Technology Grade LevelK-12th grade Web Site Address http://www.brainpop.com/ DescriptionThis website is phenomenal! This website covers so many different subjects. When you click on the certain subject, there are other components or subtopics that are available. For example, when you click on English, 5 topics come out: Famous Authors & Book, Study & Reading Skills, Free Movies for English, Grammar, and Writing. When you click on one of those topics, more specific subtopics come out, such as adverbs, adjectives, antonyms, capitalization, etc. This website is designed to give definitions and clearer explanations of key term vocabulary used for that certain subject and lesson. This wonderful website also offers videos for students visually see a demonstration that can be shown during classroom instruction time.

• Mastery Challenge (Jessica Schackne) o Disciplines – Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Art, Misc – Sports, Music, etc… o Grade Levels – Appropriate for 4th graders and above o Web Site Address – www.masterychallenge.com o Description – Mastery Challenge is a website I use in my classroom. It provides a challenge for the students who want to go above and beyond. It has 90 topics for students to choose from. The students may visit the website then click on the topic link that they like. Then they need to study it until they have the topic memorized. If a student completes 15 mastery challenges, their name will go up on the “Wall of Fame.”

• Brain Pop – Animated Educational Site for Kids (Jessica Schackne) o Disciplines – Science, Social Studies, Math, English, Art & Music, Health, & Technology o Grade Levels – Grades 3 and up o Web Site Address – www.brainpop.com o Description – This website provides fun and entertaining ways to make learning fun. You can choose a subject and then a category in that subject that may be a game, movie, etc…

• Kids National Geographic and National Geographic (Jessica Schackne) o Disciplines – Social Studies (current events, geography, etc…) and Science o Grade Levels – Grades 2 and above o Web Site Address – http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ and http://nationalgeographic.com o Description – This website has many photos, games, stories, and more about social studies and science topics. Everything from animals to places in the world.

• The Kids Know It Network (Jessica Schackne) o Disciplines – Spelling, Math, Science (animals, astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, human biology), Social Studies (geography, dinosaurs) o Grade Levels – Grades 2 and above o Web Site Address – www.kidsknowit.com o Description – This website provides information for children looking for information regarding any of the disciplines listed above. It also has games to go along with each topic. As a teacher I found the free educational movies and music especially useful.

• Enchanted Learning (Jessica Schackne) o Disciplines – Everything from holidays to all subjects taught in school (writing, biology, physical science, languages, geography/history, and other topics like art, math, music, etc…) o Grade Levels – Especially useful for grades K-3, however some of the info could apply to other grades o Web Site Address – www.enchantedlearning.com o Description – This website has many useful tools for teaching grades K-3. I think it is primarily used for printing out helpful worksheets for topics that come up, but are not covered in the curriculum well. It does have some games, but it is more set up for teachers to look at and use as a resource for printing worksheets.

• Science Master – Learning Science Just Got Easier o Disciplines – Science – Space, Earth, Life, Physical, Technology o Grade Levels – Grades 3 to adult o Web Site Address – www.sciencemaster.com o Description – This website tries to make learning science more interesting. It has many links to other interesting sites like the NASA website. I suggest that an adult helps someone in third grade, as they tried to bring down the information to a level of a child, however some of it seems like older students would really appreciate it.

1) Kid Sites for Science(Pauline Misias) A. Discipline: Science B. Grade Levels: Kindergarten to 8th grade C. Website: http://www.kidsites.com/sites-edu/science.htm D. Description: A website dedicated to students exploring various scientific concepts.

2) Extreme Science! (Pauline Misias) A. Discipline: Earth Science B. Grade levels: 6th to 11th grade C. Website: http://www.extremescience.com/index.html D. Description: A website dedicated to providing young adult scientists and teachers with an opportunity to explore scientific concepts. It provides information on the ‘extremes’ that have occurred in science (i.e., most extreme earthquakes, tornadoes etc.). The site also provides information on how these events occur so students understand the seriousness of the events.

10) Bill Nye The Science Guy (Pauline Misias) A. Discipline: Science B. Grade levels: 2nd to 6th grade C. Website: http://www.billnye.com/ D. Description: An informative website that offers young scientists the ability to explore and create experiments of their own. You can find flash cards, pop quiz, demos of experiments, a television show guide, and worksheet that can help young students on their journeys! Tatiana Ramos (3 websites)

Disclipline: Sciences Grade Level: K – 8th Web Site Address: http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index2.html (Rock Hounds with rocky) (Tatiana Ramos) Description: this website is dedicated to rocks. The categories found in the home page are Rock Hound Collection Safety ( which is about safety for rock collecting), Rock Creations (information about types of rocks), Digging for Information (ideas and places about where and how to find rocks), there are also quizzes and puzzles about rocks. Teachers can also find Lesson plan, and collaboration ideas where teachers can connect to other teachers worldwide, and swap rocks from all over the world. The idea is that when teachers are going to make a lesson about rocks, they will have a variety of rocks to show their students.

Disclipline: Sciences Grade Level: K – 12th Web Site Address: http://www.madsci.org/ (Tatiana Ramos) Description: this website is a forum where people can ask questions and scientist can answer them. There are thousands of questions that have already been answer on the website, and students can search them by grade level, keyword or at random with the random knowledge generator. The scientist answering the question post links in case students want to get more research about certain topic. These are the rules for people who want to ask questions. 1. It should concern science. 2. It should be a question. Requests for web sites or resources will be directed to the MadSci Library. 3. We will not do your homework (science project.. graduate research..). 4. Highly technical questions are more appropriate for the USENET science groups which support threaded discussion. 5. We will not answer questions related to business operations, therapies, treatments, supplements, medical diagnoses, or to making explosives, illegal substances or rail guns.

Disclipline: Science, Language Arts and History Grade Level: K – 12th Web Site Address: www.desertusa.com (Tatiana Ramos) Description: this website contains information about the Southwest deserts. The site talks about animals, desert attractions, geology, maps, people and cultures, and recipes southwest. Everything in this website is related to southwest deserts. The website also shows pictures and videos about deserts. This site can be use useful for students because it touches on different things such as the people and cultures of the Southewest desert which students can utilize in History, it also gives information plants, animals and about the environment, minerals and rocks found in the desert. Students can use all this information for school projects or homework, and they can apply it to different subjects.

Contents 1 Headline text 2 Standards for Science Teaching 3 Online Resources for Science 3.1 Elementary Science Resources 3.2 Anatomy 3.3 Astronomy 3.4 Biology 3.5 Chemistry 3.6 Health 3.7 Geoscience 3.8 Physics 3.9 Psychology

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Standards for Science Teaching

Explore Learning

Discipline: Math and Science

Grade Level: Grades 3-12

Website: http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cCorp.dspLearnMore

Description:

This website provides learners and educators over 450 highly interactive online simulations for grades 3-12. The website provides with training, research, help, and support. It also offers the world’s largest library of interactive online simulations for math and science education which are fun, easy to use, and help students develop a deep understanding of challenging concepts through inquiry and exploration. It is research based and has flexible tools used by teachers across all 50 states. And finally this website is designed to supplement existing curriculum which has over 200 textbooks and provides training and professional development services. (Sona Avedisyan)

The great thing about the explore learning website are the interactive gizmos. The same format is followed on all the gizmos. Once you get the hang of one, it is easy to follow along on all the others. Their tutorial gives a good overview. From what I gather, either the teacher can employ it for showing examples or it can be used individually or in groups by students as an assignment and as a tool for understanding concepts. This site also allows the students to see processes in animation. This is useful since their textbooks only give snapshots. You can watch cells divide, watch the progression of disease in a population or other such simulations over time and you can change the parameters to see how your experiment will change. (Rashida Madraswala)

7. • Science • K-8 • www.fossweb.com • FOSS stands for full option science system. It provides support for students, resources, and fun activities that are science related. It was developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. (Nicole Kornreich)

8. • Science • 3-12 • www.exploratorium.edu • This website is a collage of 650 interactive exhibits in science, art, and human perception. Some of the topics that students can explore are light, color, sound, music, motion, animal behavior, electricity, heat and temperature, language, patterns, hearing, touch, vision, waves, and weather. (Nicole Kornreich)

Discipline: Science/ Math Grade Level: Primary K-3 Web Site Address: http://www.sciencewithme.com/ourcontent.php Description: This site includes both; Science with me! and Math with me! They provide animation (great for science), games and worksheets. I enjoy assigning the science site to supplement our science curriculum. It is interactive and gives students a better look at science than their textbooks. You can even do science experiments. You decide what to focus on and it shows what you will need and step by step how to do it. They also include tons of background knowledge! There is also a "parents corner" that gives parents ideas on how to do science at home. They are constantly adding new content specific material. You can sign-up to be on an e-mail list that with send you notices of new items added. Subscription is free! Worth looking at! (Nicole Warner)

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National Geographic Education
Discipline(s): Science, Social Science
Grade Level: K-12
Website Address: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/
Description: This website is designed for teachers to gather resources for their students. It offers a plethora of information including lessons/activities, an education network, a store for teachers to buy supplies, and a map machine. There are also recent news stories posted relating to science and social science that educators can share with their students or somehow incorporate into their lesson plan. Overall, this website has a lot of great information for teachers to explore and come up with ideas for interesting lessons in the classroom. (La Donna Lewis)

Smithsonian Education
Disciplines: Art, Science, History
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/index.html
Description: The Smithsonian Website is a great website to use for science and history. It is a place for students to explore, discover, and learn. The site has a games and activities section, favorites section, and a new and cool section. Depending on the topic that you are teaching, there are multiple games and activities that can be used to further your lesson. It is a visual way for students to explore maps. Learn about history and what has taken place, and use games to explore cultures and past time periods. (Mallory Marks)

Dig
Disciplines: Science (specifically Archaeology, Social Sciences, Social Studies, History, Art
Grade Levels: 3-9
Web Site Address: www. digsonsite.com
Description: This is a site that is an online magazine focusing on archaeology. It has some free resources but is mostly a subscription site. Each issue focuses on one topic. The issues feature photos, puzzles, games and hands-on projects. There is also an area for free teacher's guides on many different topics. (Pat Kondzella)

Science Monster.
www.sciencemonster.com.
Science.
Grades 7-12.
Kids learn about science through lessons and some games. Colorful graphics assist in the teaching of the lessons. (Pat Kondzella)

Cool Science for Curious Kids
Discipline: Science
Grade Levels: K-5
'Website Address: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/
Description: This site is geared towards kids who are interested in science. They have different games about plants, animals, and insects and how they relate to us. For example, it has kids build a salad with common things we use but instead of calling them their name (carrot) it says what group they belong too (a root). In the salad there are leaves, roots, fruits, flowers and stems. It is interesting and interactive for the kids because it relates to many things in their everyday lives. (Christina Sermak)

National Geographic Kids
Discipline: Science, Language Arts, Visual Arts
Grade Levels: K-Middle School
'Website Address: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Description: The National Geographic Society was founded over one hundred years ago, and seeks to further our understanding of the world around us. The same philosophy applies to the National geographic Kids website, although it is presented in a thoroughly “kid-friendly” manner. The easy-to-use site contains a variety of links to videos, games, stories, photos, activities, people & places, and animals, among others. There are quizzes and stories about pirates and dinosaurs, travel blogs written by children, and silly videos of animals. I think that this site would have a wide appeal across the different gender and age groups of children. It also is environmentally educational and would speak to those children who are interested in nature and animals. (Susan Boorujy)

Highlights Kids
Discipline: Science, Language Arts, Visual Arts, Mathematics
Grade Levels: PreK-Elementary School
'Website Address: http://www.highlightskids.com/
Description: When I was growing up, I received subscriptions to Ranger Rick magazine and Highlights for Children. I thoroughly enjoyed getting those magazines in the mail and would read them cover-to-cover, including any games or activities that were inside. The Highlight Kids website has successfully captured the essence of the magazine with its many and varied links on the home page such as: Hidden Pictures, Fun Finder, Games and Giggles, Express Yourself, Story Soup, and Science in Action. Most of these links bring you to an interactive activity complete with colorful graphics and sound effects. While the printed text of the original magazine should not be forgotten, this website is a great and green alternative to purchasing the magazine. (Susan Boorujy)

Discipline: Science
Grade Level: K+
Web Site Address: http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/
Description: The Exploratorium website link “science explorer” is a fun site for students to explore because it gives students a greater perspective on science. The site contains several activities to create science projects involving household materials in fun science experiments such as a bubble observatory and an ear guitar. The science explorer encourages students to explore the fun side of science, and due to the experimental nature of these activities it provides a fun and educational opportunity for students and parents to share. (Briahna Nelson)

National Geographic Kids
Discipline: Science
Grade Levels: K-12
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Description: National Geographic has a great educational website for kids. Kids can learn about science through interactive games, videos, pictures, and articles. The site is very informative and inviting. It is easy to navigate around the site, which is great for kids. The site is really beneficial to children because it hosts a variety of ways to learn about science, and promotes education in a very fun way. The colorful design of the site makes it inviting, and cool videos are also one of the site's main attractions. (Katherine Warner)

Brain Pop
Discipline: Science
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: www.brainpop.com/science
Description: This is a great website for kids to learn about all areas of science. However, most of the access can only be reached through subscribing to the website. The web site layout is fun, colorful, and inviting. The site explains science chiefly through animated videos. The site boasts information on a variety of science topics, from energy and electricity to geology and astronomy. Overall it is a useful site, though the subscription policy makes it a little limiting. (Katherine Warner)

ThinkGreen
Disciplines: Science
Grade Levels: 3-12
Web Site Address: http://www.thinkgreen.com
Description: ThinkGreen seeks to reverse the way we think about waste. It offers environmentally themed resources for teachers, students, and the general public. These topics include recycling, land reuse, and the conversion of waste to energy. The site also offers resources and classroom tools, such as puzzles, worksheets, and lesson plans. This interactive site has an awesome interface with a top navigation bar that points to the main sections of the site. Each section has a short introduction and links to informative videos and articles. (Jennifer Molfetta)

National Science Foundation: Classroom Resources
Disciplines: Science
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.nsf.gov/news/classroom/
Description: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Classroom Resources is a collection of lessons and Web resources for classroom teachers, students, and their families.. The Classroom Resources section of the National Science Foundation’s Web site offers classroom teachers, students, and their families several different resources for teaching and learning about a variety of topics, such as astronomy and space, biology, chemistry, Earth and the environment, engineering, nanoscience, and more. When you visit the site you can click any of the topics on the main page and be transported to a list of relevant resources and lesson plans. Each list has a short synopsis and indicates a grade level when appropriate. (Jennifer Molfetta)

Education World
Disciplines: The Arts, Health and Safety, History, Language Arts and Reading, Math, Physical Education, Science, Social Sciences, and Technology
Grade Levels: Pre K-8
Web Site Address: http://www.education-world.com
Description: Education World makes it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. Education world is a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet. The web site provides original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts. It also provides site reviews, teacher and principal profiles, and employment listings. All of this is free on the web site. (Jennifer Molfetta)

Chem4Kids
Disciplines: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Earth Science
Grade Levels: 5-12
Web Site Address: http://www.chem4kids.com
Description: Chem4kids educates students about the fundamentals of chemistry. Using text and pictures, the site will walk a student through any number of topics, such as states of matter, chemical and physical changes, and solutions and mixtures. The site divides its material into these major headings: Matter, Atoms, Periodic Table, Reactions, Biochemistry, Elements 1-18, Elements 19-36, and Miscellaneous topics in biology, physics, and earth science. On any one of these major topics, a student may take a ten-point quiz. (Kim Milanovich)

Enchanted Learning
Discipline: Science, Social Studies, Language Arts
Grade level: PreK-3rd
Website address: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
Description: This is both a great place for teachers and kids. It covers many subject areas in depth. It has a section on almost anything you would like to know about animals, science, and social studies. It also has reading and writing as well , but I would say the focus is on science and social studies. It also has corresponding pictures and activities to go with each topic. Under each topic it will give you a brief overview but if you are curious and want to know more they have a more detailed explanation when you click on the "want to know more" link. They also have a nice illustrated glossary for kids to click on at anytime if they are confused about a term the site uses. This is extremely helpful to children because they can get an answer right away instead of feeling confused and unsure of what they may be reading or what they should be doing in an activity. Overall, lots of things to do on this site and I think kids would enjoy the things they have here. (Christina Sermak)

National Science Teachers Association Discipline: Science
Grade Level: K-12
Website address: http://www.nsta.org/?lid=logo
Description: The National Science Teachers Association is designed for teachers of Elementary, Middle, and High school aged students. There are links for each area, a section on how to handle complaints about evolution, and substantial resources. In the elementary section, there are links to books, lesson plans, meeting minutes and discussion, and the John Glen Center for Science Education, Science and Children magazine online for free, competitions and grants, ebooks and a store. This vast resource allows any teacher to follow content standards with the latest in technology and resource, and support, professional development and a sharing of resources. (Edward B. Wahl)

National Geographic Kids
Discipline: Science, Social Studies
Grade level: Kindergarten-6th
Website address: http://www.kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Description: This site has a lot of interaction, from brainteasers to world map knowledge, this website really has it all for kids. This website has videos, games, activities, stories, photos, and even a whole section on animals. Kids will like this site because it has a lot of variety. The photos are great because kids can get a look at what the world around them looks like. It gets them excited to learn about all the interesting places in our world and what happens in these places. This site is easy to use and has a vast amount of information, kids will not get bored with this site! (Christina Sermak)

Kids Know It
Discipline: Science/ Multi
Grade level: 2nd-8th
Website address: http://www.kidsknowit.com/
Description: The biology site listed second is one of many links available on the kidsknowit.com homepage (astronomy, mathematics, paleontology, etc.). The biology link shows a drawing of a body, arms outstretched. On the left are tabs, each identifying a different subject: muscles, bones, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, excretory, endocrine, and nervous. I selected bones, and was then linked to a simply worded explanation of the human skeletal structure. It was lengthy, but easy to follow. Each page offered the option of going forward for more information on bones, or back to the information on the previous page. There is a distracting amount of advertising on each page. (Jenny Graham)

kids know it
http://www.kidsknowit.com/
Discipline
science, history, memory etc..
grade level
1-12
Description
This website is a fun and interactive way for students to engage in the sciences and other subjects. There are databases; visual maps of space, a program that helps one learn the capitals as well as many other learning activities. Not only does the site contain exciting activities, but also there are free educational movies to watch, educational music to listen to as well as numerous links to other educational programs. The best part about it is that there is no cost to use the site and therefore makes it accessible to all students. (Tova Leibovic) '

National Geographic'
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
discipline
science
grade level
K-8
description
There is such a wealth of information on this site that I think most students would really appreciate and value. There are great explanations about animals, games, stories, photos and activities. I also like that it is focused on a specific subject as opposed to having multiple subjects present. It allows the students to focus in on science and specifically animals. This is a very educational and helpful website. (Tova Leibovic)

Biology 4 Kids
Discipline: Science Grade Level: 9-college
Website: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
Description: Offers high school and college students new approaches to cutting-edge science topics. It also provide educators with a host of innovative resources they can use in their classrooms. Students can refresh or increase their knowledge of many basic science subjects. There are links on this page to find biology and chemistry tutorials, hands-on labs and virtual instruments, ideas and strategies for teaching science, study tips, and other valuable tools.(Michael Crawford)

Amazing Space
Discipline: Science Grade Level: 7-12
Website: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
Description: Amazing Space uses the Hubble Space Telescope's discoveries to inspire and educate about the wonders of our universe. Find online adventures, pictures of celestial wonders, and answers to cosmic questions. This site provides links to artricles and other related resources.(Michael Crawford)

NASA for Kids
Discipline: Science, Math, Literacy
Grade Level: Skill Level 1-5 (doesn't specify grade, just skill)
Website: www.kids.msfc.nasa.gov
Description: This website is a link of nasa.gov for children. Nasa provides kids with a ton of resources that are fun and educational. It also stresses how it is “safe” for students to browse. You can find games, space related topics, web quests and you can chat with a NASA expert. If you spend some time on the site you can see different games that aren’t just related to science and space. For exapmple if you click on level three it will take you to “Addition Blast off” where you have to add faster than a rocket. I think most children find space and astronauts to be very engaging, so this website is a great idea! Having NASA be apart of educating children is great. I think every teacher should visit this website at least onec in their teaching career. (Molly Ivory)

(NASA) PUMAS Online Journal of Math and Science for Pre-College Education
Discipline: Science,Math
Grade Level:K-12
Website:https://pumas.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Description: Interesting,imaginative examples,scenarios,puzzles,literature for all grade levels contributed by scientists,engineers and content experts who have practical experience with the subject matter.

Chem4Kids'
Discipline: Science
Grade Level: 1st grade to 5th grade
Website: http://www.chem4kids.com/
Description: This site provides different explanations and interactive games for matter, atoms, elements, reactions, biochemistry, and et cetera. The child, teacher, or parent are able to chose which topic he or she wants to study and play the games. Provided on this site are puzzles, quizzes, stories, and labs. This is a great site for teachers to use to help teach science in a fun and interactive way using technology. (Julie Shapiro)

Apples for the Teacher'
Discipline: Science
Grade Level: 1st grade to 5th grade
Website: http://www.applesfortheteacher.com/science.html
Description: This site is full of interactive games, quizzes, word searches, and informational worksheets in animal classification, dental health, Ground Hog’s Day, the human body, plants, seasons, the solar system, and weather. It is easy to navigate and provides information that students can share with parents; it can also be used as a tool for teachers to help teach these subject matters. Other links are sponsored such as back to school, computer science school, and worksheets for teachers. It is very user friendly and a great way to keep the interest of children in these subjects from a very young age. (Julie Shapiro)

Science Fair Projects'
Discipline: Science
Grade Level: 1st-12th
Website: http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/
Description: This website provides detailed lesson plans/ instructions on how to recreate over 500 science fair projects that can be done for either a science fair or as a class project. The projects can be browsed by many different subjects (including botany, chemistry, food science, photosynthesis and yeast), by difficulty and by keywords. (Bethany Adler)

National Science Teachers Association
Discipline: Science
Grade Level: Elementary - College
Website: www.nsta.org
Description: National Science Teachers Association. This website contains books, blogs, ideas, online interaction and more. It is the nuts and bolts website for science teachers. This website is useful for all grade levels. However, at some points you may notice that you have to be a member and join their association in order to access certain publications or resources. It also gives you classroom management ideas, how to integrate science and how to make sure your science classroom is a safe one! This website is for teachers, not students. So if you’re looking for a good student science website, this isn’t the one. (Molly Ivory)

Science Buddies
Discipline: Science
Grade Level: 3-12th Grade
Website: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/
Description: This website has an enormous amount of science resources for students, teachers, and parents that involve science projects. Students through this website can access step by step science fair project guides and project ideas. In addition, students can ask an expert which consist of scientist and top high school students any question regarding the sciences. The website provides teachers with guides to planning a science fair, guides to science projects, and useful printables and hand-outs to help guide you and your students through the science fair project process that consist of the scientific method. (Juana Cruz)

NASA Education
Discipline: Science, and Math
Grade Level: K-College Level
Web Address: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html
Description: This website contains links for educators and students. The website contains a section where teachers can look for resources in the NASA educational resource database. Teachers can retrieve lesson plans, video learning plans, classroom activities, and much more either by grade level or science fields such as earth science and physicals science. This website also informs about educational programs available for students and teachers. (Juana Cruz)

Discovery Education
Discipline: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Technology, World Languages, Health and Visual and Performing Arts
Grade Level: K-12th Grade
Web Address: http://www.discoveryeducation.com
Description: This website contains many resources on all academic subjects from kindergarten to the twelve grade. This website contains two categories called classroom resources and home resources that are just full of many helpful resources to students, teachers, and parents. For instance, if you click on classroom resources you will see a section called lesson plan library which consist of a collection of hundreds of lesson plans ranging from K to 12 grade and from all academic subject you can image. In addition, this website under the home resources category contains videos, tutorials, and interactive explorations in all academic subject that will sure engage all students. (Juana Cruz)

Kidipede
Discipline: Science
Grade Level: 3-6
Web Address: http://www.historyforkids.org/scienceforkids/index2.htm
Description: Kidipede offers a wide variety of science articles on biology, space, chemistry, physics, plants, and geology. They are written in a kid friendly format that highlights important words linking them to other articles, while also utilizing engaging pictures and videos of real events, such as earthquakes. For teachers, this site offers guides on each subject and ideas for projects.(Charlotte Purcell)

Kindergarten Lessons
Discipline: Science
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Web Address: www.kindergarten-lessons.com
Description:Kindergarten Lessons has great teacher resources for planning science units. They have many interesting ideas for bringing science to life with kindergarten students. Many of the lessons are thematic units, which incorporate different disciplines. This can enhance science instruction for kindergartners. My favorite part of the website was the ideas that they had for teaching the children about the environment. These are great ideas to get children to be environmentally conscious at a young age. (Raquel Kloostra).

High School Ace
Discipline: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics
Grade Level: High School (some features, such as games, are listed as K-12)
Web Address: http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm
Description: High School Ace offers subject guides, reference sites (including unit conversions, world maps, street maps, nutrition data, a pedometer, etc.), subject guides, quizzes, games and puzzles, a dictionary/encyclopedia/rhymes look up feature and homework help. Other features range from news links, word of the day, SAT Prep links to actual high school homepage links across the country. This site also covers other topics including English, Foreign Language, Math, Physics, and U.S./World History.

Discipline: Science
Grade level: 6-12
Website address: http://www.space.com/
Description: This website gives you all the information you need, and then some, about space. From this site, you are able to view images from the Hubble telescope, get information about the International Space Station, and learn about NASA’s new green sustainability base. Space.com serves as a wonderful resource for students who are researching space-related assignments or even those who just have a healthy curiosity about the galaxy. (Heather Feldbaum)

Discipline: Sea and Sky
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://www.seasky.org/index.html
Description: Sea and Sky is a very interesting and unique website that offers a plethora of information and facts of the sea and sky. It was developed for the purposes of providing a resource of information for teachers and students to come and learn about these two subject areas. This site contains pictures and illustrations, games, and featured pages of sea life and solar system discovery. (Heather Gurnick)

Discipline: Science
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/subject.html
Description: This website provides a collection of hands-on science lesson plans for K-12 students. Lesson plans can be searched either by subject (astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, physical science, and technology), actual grade level, or in an alphabetical list. All lessons are geared for hands-on science learning that allows for students to investigate and experiment with scientific ideas. This site also allows for teachers to submit there own lesson plans, in addition to providing tips and guides for preparing a science lesson activity. (Heather Gurnick)

4. Amusement Park Physics

a) Discipline- Physics and Science
b) Grade- 4th-and up
c) http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster.html
d) At Amusement Park Physics, kids can design a rollercoaster and learn about different rides that an amusement park has. They will learn the physics of how to build a rollercoaster and then eventually get to try it out. After building the rollercoaster, the website will tell the kids if it is going to be fun, and if it is safe. The kids are able to explore and find the best way for their rollercoaster to work. (m. smith)

Discipline Science
Grade Level3-8
Web Site Address http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/
Description This website offers older students the opportunity to play computer games within the different Science modalities of “Living Things”, “Materials” and “Physical Processes.” .There are 27 games available within these three categories. The games provides options for both teachers and parents. Teachers can use these activities as supplemental lesson plans. Parents can use them to have the students do some science in a fun way. Some students only want to play the video games or computer games at home, so this will be perfect for those students who need some type of computer “stimulation” during the day; the students will learn while they are satisfying their need for fun. The benefit is that they will be learning Science lessons instead of mindless video games. Perhaps the best part of this website is the fact that on each game, the student can choose to either play a game, read about the topic of the game or take a quiz, or do all three!(Mary Loynes)

Discipline Science
Grade Level3-7
Web Site Address http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Feature?id=http://www.worldbook.com/wb/worldbook/cybercamp/html/walk.html
Description The Worldbook Encyclopedia has several links that will be of interest to all students, not only those interested in Science. One link has a “Nature Walk” where the students click on various plants and animals to learn about what they would see if they were on an actual nature walk. Simply reading about nature and science in a book can be boring for some students, and this website makes science as real and authentic as possible for the students without actually taking them out into the “wild.” When clicking on the “Atlas” link away from the “nature walk” link, students can click on a world map and atlas of the entire globe portraying detailed visuals for the students of all parts of Earth. Another link posted, http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Students?science_projects/dinosaur, has step-by-step instructions for students to build their own Tyrannosaurus, which is another wonderful way for parents and siblings to spend time together during holidays and weekends. (Mary Loynes)

Discipline: Science Grade level: 6-8 Web Site Address: http://sciencespot.net/ Description: This website was created by a teacher and features many valuable science lesson plans for middle school. It also has ideas for teachers who are interested in starting a science club and has ideas on how to implement ideas like daily science trivia into the classroom. One unique aspect of this website is that it includes an idea factory where teachers have posted their favorite science teaching tips. It also has information on starting a garden program at your school and keeping the students involved. (Stephanie Perry)

Science Daily

Discipline: Science Grade level: 9-12 Website: http://www.sciencedaily.com/ Description: This is an online science magazine that features breaking news in the world of science. I thought that this would be a great thing for high school science teachers to implement in their classrooms from time to time. It could be used as a resource for students to do current events and stay up to date on important advances in the field of science. I think it’s important to stress that a subject like science is always changing so it’s important to stay current on all of the issues. This website will certainly help students and teachers accomplish this. (Stephanie Perry)

Discipline: Physical Science: Gravity Grade Levels: 2-5 Website Address: http://www.instructorweb.com/lesson/gravity.asp#LESSON_PRINTABLES

This website had a great introduction to an understanding gravity lesson plan. It discusses the common misconception that weight and mass are often mistakenly used interchangeably. The lesson also provides a great definition of the word gravity that could easily be understood by 2nd through 5th graders, with modifications made when necessary. The page also said that there was a worksheet to go along with the lesson. A link was provided for the worksheet, but you had to register for the website and fill out a long information sheet to be able to have access to the other information that the website has to offer. I would use this page as an introduction to a gravity lesson before doing a more hands-on activity with elementary school students. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Physical Science: Mass Grade Levels: 5-6 Website Address: http://www.iit.edu/~smile/phma1700.htm

This website provided a fun but time consuming lesson for the upper grades (5th and 6th). This lesson involves the students making their own paper helicopters and parachutes that they would drop from an agreed upon height to see if mass has anything to do with their landing times. They would attach different amounts of paper clips to the parachutes and helicopters to test their hypotheses. What I liked about this lesson is that they provided you with the instructions on how to make the helicopters and the parachutes. The instructions also came with pictures, which I always think is helpful when you are trying to construct something. There was also a step-by-step strategy procedure that was followed with a culminating activity that relayed the objectives listed at the top of the website. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Science Grade level: K-6 Web Site Address: http://www.sciencewithme.com/ Description: This website is created for elementary school students who are interested in learning science in a fun way. You can play different games, do projects, color book pages and also read stories in order to understand different principles in science. This can also be very helpful for teachers who are looking for interesting ways to teach science to their children in class. Children can learn about the human body, animals, plants, earth and space. They can even learn about famous scientists and become aware of everything connected with science in a fun and entertaining way. (Hykui Oganesyan)

""Discipline"": Science ""Grade level"": k-12 ""Web Site Address"": http://www.kqed.org/education/ ""Description"": This website is created for educators. This site provides resources, tools, and information for science teachers. The site says' "Engage your learners with high quality, content standards-aligned KQED multimedia and curricula integrating 21st century literacies. Join with other Bay Area educators in trainings and events designed to support your use of these resources." (Meg Platt)

Discipline: Science Grade level: 1-6 Web Site Address: http://www.science4mykid.com/ Description: This website is created to help parents and teachers turn learning science into a fun experience. The webiste provides different types of easy experiments that parents or teachers can conduct with children. These experiments will be educational a and fun at the same time and it will help the students understand principles in science. Some interesting experiments on this website include blowing up a ballon with a lemon. It guides you through the experiment and even explains the reasons why the experiments had certain outcomes. (Hykui Oganesyan)

Discipline: Science Grade level: 4-12 Web Site Address: http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/ Description: This website is created for the purpose of children learning more about science through fun experiments, looking at interesting images, learning cool facts, and playing online games. Children can even get science fair ideas, which will provide them with different topics that they can choose to do during science fairs. It also provides teachers with helpful classroom lesson ideas which will help them make the experience of learning science entertaining because you can use hands on activities. (Hykui Oganesyan)

Discipline: Science Grade Levels: K-12 Website Address: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/matrix.cfm

This is such a great overall science resource. On this page you are able to choose from a plethora of science lesson plans that are divided into four sections of grade levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. On the left hand side of the chart are the names of the specific lesson plans and the grade levels that they should be taught in. Some of the topics include: animals, farming, the moon, making good decisions, simple machines, the sun, water, fossils, weather, magnets, nutrition, etc. I would come back to this site if I ever needed an idea for any science lesson. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Physical Science: Magnetism Grade Level: 2nd Website Address: http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/2/2OSci.htm

This website offers a second grade unit on magnetism. It provides teachers with different activities they could do to teach the concept of magnets. It also lists books that you could display around the classroom so that students could continue investigating about magnetism during IWT time for example, or during their silent reading time. Some of the experiments include activities where the students have to find out what materials are magnetic and which materials aren't and different activities with compasses, magnetic fields, and poles. There were questions for the students to answer during the lesson in a worksheet format that you could easily type up on your computer. There was also homework suggestions that would help reinforce what was taught in class. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Physical Science: Magnetism and Polarity Grade Levels: 3-5 Website Address: http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1.html

This website offers a really cute hands-on lesson to teach the concept of magnetism. According to the website, this would be the motivation that the students would do: "Have all the students stand in a circle facing the center. Explain the rule that if they are facing the same direction they can not touch each other. If they are facing in the opposite direction than their neighbors, then they need to make a connection and hold hands." I liked this idea because it is a really concrete and explicit way for students to understand this rather abstract concept. In addition, the lesson has the students explore before the teacher introduces the concept. That way, the students can make their own discoveries and construct their own knowledge. This website is laid out as a standard lesson plan with objectives, prerequisite skills needed, materials needed, a procedure and an extension. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Physical Science: Magnetism Grade Levels: 2nd Website Address: http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/298AmazingMags.htm

This website is also a great resource that teachers could use when teaching about magnets. This website offers 11 different activities and lessons that could be used during science time. The activities on the website were neatly organized. They started with the title of the lesson, the intended objective and goals, the materials needed, the prior knowledge that the students need to complete the experiment, vocabulary, the procedure, and then evaluation and assessment. This would be a great resource to look at when thinking of lessons to use for CSUN, since the format is almost the same as the College of Education format for lesson plans. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Earth Science: The Sun and the Moon

Grade Levels: 3rd

Website Address: http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=2359 http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/LPview?core=3

This website provides a lesson plan that integrates the physical sciences and the earth sciences. This lesson deals with the moon and how we see it at night because the sun reflects off of its surface. The moon does not create its own light like the sun, which is a common misconception that many students have. The experiment found on this website is easy to follow and seems like something that 3rd grade students would really enjoy. They are to take an orange and cover it up with aluminum foil. Then the teacher shines a flashlight on the moon to show that light reflects off of the surface of the moon. This lesson covers two content standards at once. The second website is the home site that has many other science lessons to do with 3rd grade science content standards. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Physical Science Grade Levels: 1-2 Website Address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/light_dark.shtml

This is a really cute interactive quiz that will test the students' knowledge on what objects give out light. Students are to drag certain objects into the center of the darkened room. Then they can see which objects make their own light and which objects reflect light. The students can drag things like a flashlight, a candle, a jack-o-lantern, and a lamp to see that these objects create their own light when the room is dark. But when you drag the disco ball into the center of the dark room, the room remains dark. There are also questions at the top of the page that prompt the students' thinking as to what they should be seeing and understanding. Then, when the students think that they have mastered this concept, they can then take a quiz to test their knowledge on light. This would be fun for students to do during IWT time or as a whole class review session. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 3rd Website Address: http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~cdavis01/map2000/3rd.html

This website has powerpoints that a teacher could use to introduce many scientific concepts in her classroom, from space, water, ecology, and matter. For example, the first presentation that I checked was an introduction to matter. The first slide provides both the teacher and students the content standards that they will be covering during the upcoming lesson. Then it went into an activity that made students classify shapes into different categories to go along with the standard that matter can be classified based on physical properties. But when I tried to look at the other powerpoints, I wasn't able to view them either the page was busy or it no longer existed. These powerpoints (if they had worked) would be a quick and easy way for teachers to start off a science lesson, while modeling the use of technology. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 3rd Website Address: http://www.quia.com/pages/3sciences.html#matter

This website provided links to various science activities. Some links didn’t work, but the sites that did work were a lot of fun and would be enjoyed by students. There was an interactive matter page where you could click on buttons to either heat or cool an object to see what would happen to it (freeze or melt). After these mini-lessons, there would be a quiz that you could take to see if you learned the content. The quizzes were easy to understand and fun to take. There was also a great "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" type game that was really fun that asked different questions about the different states of matter. This would be fun to play as a whole class or individually for students during IWT time. There were fun matching games that dealt with space topics and putting in order the different phases of the moon. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Life Science: Digestion Grade Levels: 4-5 Website Address: http://hes.ucfsd.org/gclaypo/digestive_system.html This website is a kid-friendly site. On the left hand side of the site there is a list of content questions that deal with the subject of digestion. Some of the questions include: Why does my stomach growl? How does digestion begin? Can I swallow if I am upside down? When you click on one of these links, the question is answered in a very clear and concise way. There is also a list of vocabulary that you can click on and definitions are provided. (Kelly Iannuzzi)

Discipline: Science Grade Levels: k-12 Web Site Address: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ Description: This science website is for children of all ages. The national geographic website allows students to learn about all animals, play games, watch videos, read stories, and do activities involving science. At the bottom of the site there is a section for what’s popular which picks the most visited places from the entire site. News Bites is on the bottom left and it allows students to see what is going on in the world right now. (K. McLaughlin)

Discipline: Science Grade Levels: 3-12 Web Site Address: http://dana.org/resources/brainykids/ Description: The Dana Foundation website allows students, teacher and parents to explore science in a fun and interesting way. There are interactive games on biology, health, neuroscience, astronomy, chemistry and ecology. The lab section allows students to experiment virtually without making a mess. There is another section for teachers that involve lesson plans for science. (K. McLaughlin)

Generation Cures http://www.generationcures.org

This is a free website geared to children from ages 8 - 12yrs. This site aims to spark kids' natural curiosity and inspire kids to think about others and make a difference in the world. Generation Cures features animated web stories and puzzle-adventure games created by researchers and educators, as well as original kid-directed videos. They hope to excite students about science, scientific research and medicine. Generation Cures gives kids a chance to increase skills in logic, reason, critical thinking, and creativity. This site encourages family conversation about childhood illnesses and philanthropy.

NASA

Discipline: Astronomy
Grade level: 4-12
Web Site Address: http://www.nasa.gov
Description: This site has a plethora of information that is geared towards a general audience however any student who has reading skills should be able to find this site useful. In addition to numerous images that are present on the home page the user also has the ability to find anything by doing a simple search. The search results keep you at the NASA site but the amount of information they provide is astonishing. The results provide numerous photos and an enormous amount of information. This site is well organized. Additionally, what is most important about this site is that it is a government site which is on the list of trusted research databases thus if the students use this site all information and can be trusted to be credible. (Dave Miller)

Interactive Periodic Table of Elements

Discipline: Chemistry
Grade level: 9-College
Web Site Address: http://www.dayah.com/periodic
Description: Although this site is geared towards those students taking chemistry you could also use it in lower grades as well it would just have to be more clearly explained or teacher directed. That being said this interactive periodic table allows you to click on a specific element and it will display all of the information that is known about it in addition to any images that are related to it and its chemical composition. Additionally it allows for the user to choose in what way they would like to view the entire table. (Dave Miller)

Discipline: Science/ MAth
Grade Level 4th -12
Website:www.onlineconversion.com
Description:Converts all kinds of terms, weight, density, length, money, time, fluid, as well as English to Spanish etc. (Stacey Phelps)

Discipline – Science
Grade Level-Elementary through High School
Web Site Address – www.discoveryschool.com
Description – discoveryschool.com has classroom resources, including their Scotch science fair, contests and grants. There is a parent corner, lesson plans, and a puzzlemaker. (Jennifer Pershes)

Discipline – Science
Grade Level – Middle School
Web Site Address- www.middleschoolscience.com
Description – middleschoolscience.com contains a search engine to find activities, lesson plans and activities. It has a notebook, science starters and a blog.(Jennifer Pershes)

Discipline: Science
Grade Level 6th -12
Website:gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html
Description:This site provides a variety of video clips, interactive applets and articles that can enhance student learning in Biology, Chemistry, Geo Science, Physics, health etc. (Stacey Phelps)

http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/ (submitted by Whitney Harrison) Discipline: Science Grade Level: k-5 Description: Curious about why armpits sweat, or how worms help us, or the anatomy of a cockroach? Usually uncomfortable topics of science are at your fingers tips on this site. Try some yucky and gross experiments, like ‘snot funny and swamp chomp to make your learning an experience. Don’t forget to ask Wendell your yuckiest science question.

http://www.brainpop.com/ (submitted by Whitney Harrison) Discipline: Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art and Music, Health, Technology Grade Level: k-8 Description: This site makes learning all of the subjects interactive. It offers activities and games. Click on the subject of your choice. This will lead you to several subtopics. For example, under Science, learn about genetics, or famous scientists, or ecology, and so on. Once you select the general topic, you can choose from more specific topics. Become a member to enjoy all the activities and videos offered on this site.

http://www.amnh.org/ology/ (submitted by Whitney Harrison) Discipline: Science Grade Level: k-8 Description: Increase your knowledge on all content areas of science, from astronomy to archaeology. This site will inspire you to become a scientist by trying the online and offline activities. Learn more about particular scientists and what they contribute to the scientific community.

Explore Learning

Website: http://www.explorelearning.com (submitted by Rosemary Blankson)

Discipline: Math and Science

Grade level: 3-12

Description: This site is designed as a tool to enhance math and science learning through the use of interactive lessons, gizmos and supporting materials. Gizmos are computer based manipulative that are designed to help students develop a deep and lasting understanding of key concepts in math and science through inquiry and exploration. The gizmos automatically offer visualizations, data gathering and calculations, diagrams and facilitate students’ inquiry learning. All of the interactive lessons featured on the website including the gizmos correlate to the national and state curriculum standards. Students are able to readily test their understanding of the lessons by completing a short set of assessment questions. When they’re finished they receive responses to their assessments with detailed explanations for each answer. Teachers are able to see their progress immediately and also incorporate the same set of lessons or similar into extension worksheets or quizzes. Teachers are also able to create an entire setting using this site for their class. Class lists can be generated for easy use as a computer lab lesson with students using a class code provided by the teacher to login.

Environmental Literacy Council
Discipline: Science
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.enviroliteracy.com
Description: This website provides thorough “science-based information on environmental issues.” It is organized into 7 environmental categories and then each category is further divided into more specific issues regarding different environmental topics. The website provides cohesive background information for each environmental topic and then provides links to further resources and classroom applications. It is a reliable up-to-date resource to use in the classroom for current scientific issues. (Lauren Smith)

ScienceMonster.com Discipline: Science Grade Level: 4 and up Web Address: http://www.sciencemonster.com/ Description: Kids can learn about gravity, the planets, astronomy, and other aspects of science through this fun, interactive website. (Mike Jaffe)

Web Site Address: http://www.sciencewithme.com/

Discipline: Science

Grade Level(s): K-5

Description: Sciencewithme.com is an interactive, colorful, animated, and informative site focused on making science activities clear and fun for elementary students. Animations make what could be rather dull material, stand out and catch the student’s attention. Games, such as, the human body, allow students to interact and point to the part of the body the narrator says. Other sections of the website include worksheets which can be used by students and/or printed out by teachers to use for particular lessons, and online books that are read aloud to the visitor. (Abigail Reifman)

Web Site Address: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

Discipline: Science

Grade Level(s): 4th-8th grade; Teachers of these grades

Description: Sciencenewsforkids.org is not only a place for students to explore science activities, experiments, and facts, but a place for teachers to get ideas of how to mesh science into their daily routines. The site prides itself on up-to-date information that will be of interest to students in the classroom today. Games and science activities are geared towards using the knowledge gained through recent articles to explore the wonderful world of science. (Abigail Reifman)

Kids Invent
Discipline: Science
http://www.kidsinvent.com/
Grades: K-8
Description: According to the site, this is: "Where kids learn to invent and invent to learn." Students, Parents or Educators enter through their given portals to find cool invention activities and guidance on how to use them. The invention workbook is a great aspect of this site where students can record all aspects of their ideas. Membership is free and necessary for students to save their work. The strength of this site is the science curriculum and ideas on encouraging creative thinking. (Melissa Smith)

Science News for kids
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/ (Jessica Roussel) This is a very fun website for those students to need to do research projects from about the 3-8 grade level. There are articles of science for just about every sub-subject including dinosaurs and fossils, food oand nutrition, space and astronomy, transportation, and weather to mention a few. There are logic puzzles, a game zone that mostly address mathamatical thinking, a scifizone where other students have come up with science fiction reasons to the sinking of the titanic and other events in history. Additionally, there is a section for ideas on science fair projects, as well as a link for teachers to use this website as a resource for them.

Educational Games for All
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_menu.htm (Jessica Roussel) This website is for k-5 students. It is an interactive website with games and activities the students can do in multiple subjects. This website is a resource for helping reinforce matters of the US, World, Animals, Vocabulary, Health, Science, Math and History. What is really excellent is that there is free software that can be downloaded so that kids can use these games in the classroom. One example is a world geography game that can be used during free time.

Educational Games

www.schooltimesgames.com (Jessica Roussel)

This website is great for students from 4-12. There are games in all genres from social studies, language arts, science and math. The Social Studies genre covers geography from all around the world. A Time trip game in which the students are to order when events happened in history. A game that takes you back into the past of colonial beginnings. The science genre has games covering different that teach gravity, ecosystems, properties of a blood cell, and more. The language arts component to the website has them practice matching words to their definition, and word scrambles. The math section of this website challenges the students logic, has practice for using money, and works theirs geometry skills. It is a great website to keep math review learning fun. The logic parts of each section are great for the older kids.

Cool Science for Curious Kids Address: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience Discipline: Science Grade Levels: K-3 Description: This is a fun, free site that helps students appreciate science. Observation skills, plants, animal classifications and metamorphosis are addressed.(Taryn Feingold)

Star Light, Star Bright Address: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/light/ Discipline:Science Grade Levels: 6-9 Description: The nature of the electromagnetic spectrum is explored. Students will identify the different properties of waves and the relationship that exists between energy, wavelength, and frequency. Students will correlate images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and other astronomical instruments to the wavelength, color, and temperature information that can be found in the spectrum.(Taryn Feingold)

Science With Me
Discipline: Science
Grade Level: K - 12
http://www.sciencewithme.com/
This is a free subscription based website that offers a multitude of animated video clips on various physical science and life science subjects. Science worksheets can be downloaded as well as numerous mini science projects that children can do on their own or with their parents. There are also interactive e-coloring books. (Andre Munoz)

Science with Me!

Site: http://www.sciencewithme.com/

Grade Levels: K-5th

Discipline: Science

Description: This website provides an interactive science experience for children in elementary school. Through a variety of worksheets, science projects, science coloring book pages, science games, movies, and animation, children are introduced to the world of science. The site requires that users attain free username and password, which present a significant obstacle to students that may not understand how to go through that process. (Morgan Irving)

How Stuff Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Grades: 6-12

Discipline: Science (also some history and geography, and popular searches)

How stuff works is a really fun website with all kinds of information on how the world works (in almost every aspect). It is a site that older students, some middle school but mostly high school students, can use to find information for any kind of science project. It has information from biology (how genes work, how plants grow, etc) to physics, animals, health, and everything in between. It has great information, however all of the fun stuff on the site (like how cell phones work, how NASCAR Sponsorships work, etc) can be a little distracting. There are also some links for History and Geography, so it can be used in those subjects as well, but most of the site focuses on science related materials and pop culture information. It is free and easy to use, and I think most older students will really enjoy reading the information on this site. (Amanda Griffith)

Volcanoes

Discipline: Science

Grade Levels 5-9

http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/ Have you ever wanted to go on a tour of a volcano? Well on this site you can do that from the safety of your own computer. This website has up to date news about dormant and active volcanoes. You can learn about volcanoes from all over the world, by simply clicking on what part of the world you are interested in. There are also complete lesson plans for teachers who want to teach students about this topic. (Jessica Zafran)

The Great Plant Escape

Discipline: Science

Grade Levels 2-5

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/ This site is all about plants. There are a number of “cases” posted on this site that teachers can do with students or students can do alone to figure out more about plants. The students are solving a mystery and learning about plants at the same time. Website is in Spanish and English. (Jessica Zafran)

Nutrition Cafe

Discipline: Science

Grade Levels 6-8

http://exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition/nutrition_cafe.html This site is full of interactive activities. All the activities address proper nutrition and why each food group is important and what it does in our body. There is also a feature that calculates whether you are eating healthy. (Jessica Zafran)

http://www.education.noaa.gov/ Science K-12

This website explores environmental issues and how it can be implemented in the school setting. It divides the website into three sections: teachers, students, and everyone. It is beneficial for those especially interested in volunteering in ways such as workshops, training opportunities, etc. Once you go into the teacher portion, it is sectioned in a comprehensible manner so it’s easy to find exactly what you’re looking for. For example, there are links titled, “Oceans and coasts” and, “Weather” so depending on the subject you are looking for, you can click and it will give you wonderful resources such as teaching methods, models, and activities. (Sondra Dingcong)

1. Educational Videos(Kasozi) http://www.brainpop.com • Disciplines: Social studies, math, science, English, Art, Music, health and technology. • Grade levels: Kindergarten to twelve. • Description: Brain pop is a series of animated short movies that illustrate content-based curriculum in simple yet engaging format. They can be used to introduce topics, summarize, or prepare students for a test. No downloading of any sort is required. The videos are designed according to state standards and supportive of both students and teachers.

8. Website portal for kids(Kasozi) http://www.enchantedlearning.com/home.html • Disciplines: All subjects. • Grade levels: k through 12. • Description: Enchanted learning is a developer of educational website. It is a link to over 20,000 website that cover disciplines of all subject areas in science, social studies, geography, English, math and so many others. This website requires membership subscription in form of individual, family or classroom subscription for teachers. The website offers visual pictures and illustrations in simple yet educative format for the young learners to adults. This is a very interesting website for elementary students.

9. Children’s learning Network(Kasozi) http://www.kidsknowit.com/ • Disciplines: All disciplines • Grade levels: K through 8 • Description: This is a free children’s learning network that encompasses all subjects from math, science, English, astronomy, biology, and geology, in an exciting and engaging way. It has educational games, activities, worksheets and free online classes. It is a children’s portal that links them to various topics as desired and it links them to very illustrative and engaging lessons.

10. Interactive medium for math and English(Kasozi) http://www.funbrain.com/kidcenter.html • Disciplines: Math and English. • Grade levels: K to 6th. • Descriprition: Fun brain is a website that offers an interactive medium for kids in the subjects of math and English. Children can play flash card games in basic math skills and can also purchase the latest literature books through this website. The website also offers e-cards that children can send to each other and also offers them latest news

Explore A-Pond Discipline: Science Grades: K-12 Site Address: www.uen.org/utahlink/pond/ (Casey) Description: The Explore A-Pond website is a website sponsored by the Utah Education Network. This site is an interactive on-line project for grades K-12 where students from around the world can explore the ecology of a pond. This website offers students the chance to take a virtual tour of a pond and experience the unique ecosystem of the pond with out leaving their classroom, it provides teachers with lesson plans that incorporate math and science, and it offers an opportunity to adopt a pond. This website is highly collaborative and encourages community participation

http://www.science-active.co.uk/ Science High school and College

This site is fairly easy to navigate and it provides a lot of appropriate content. There is a lot of focus on chemistry. Students are able to explore and investigate through interactive activities as well as play games and take quizzes. It is very easy to choose the specific topic you want to find out more about. . (Jenna Fodor)

Cool Science for Curious Kids
Discipline: Science (Biology)
Grade Level: 3 – 12
Address: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
Description: Howard Hughes Medical Institute developed “Cool Science for Curious Kids” where they invite children to get excited about science. Through this website children are given four to five topics to explore biology related concepts, which are explained in detail. For example, a topic may be, “Butterflies don’t look like caterpillars. What is the connection?” All topics are accompanied by fun pictures, simplified explanations and a home science experiment to reinforce the concept. (Stefanie Gross)

FEMA for Kids
Discipline: Science, Reading and Math
Grade Level: K-6
Address: http://www.fema.gov/kids
Description: The main theme of this website, developed by FEMA, is to educate children on what causes natural disasters, how to react when one occurs and how to prepare for them. FEMA for kids accomplishes this in many ways. They integrate learning about disasters by using word problems, legends, or stories with comprehension questions, such as “The Disaster Twins”. A child playing and looking on this website would have the opportunity to learn about hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, fires, ice storms, or any other natural disaster they choose. (Stefanie Gross)

Desert Animals
Subject: Science
Grade Level: Third and higher
Address: http://www.desertanimals.net/
Description: As the name suggests, this site is all about animals of the desert. Each animal is listed with its scientific name, location, diet, habitat, size, and photograph. An easy to follow categorical guide, information on deserts, activities, and a list of helpful books are also offered. This would be a good supplement for any classroom or as a resource for individual student or small group work. (Louanne Heintz)

Science With Me!

Grade Level: Elementary Age

http://www.sciencewithme.com/

Science with me is a good website that teaches lessons through animation. The best part about it is that it's free! Children can learn how to conduct science projects and experiments. The site also has worksheets you can print out and color about the human body, plants, animals, oceans...etc. (Kelly L.)

National Geographic Kids

Grade Levels: 2-8

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Kids National Geographic is full of fun activities for kids. There are many kids games, animal facts, stories, videos, and much more. They are able to click on things like animals, and learn fun facts about them. (Kelly L.)
Animals
Discipline(s): Science
Grade Level(s): 2-5
Web Site Address: http://www.lazoo.org/
Description: This website is a great place for students to find information about animals that they may need to research about. It provides detail information about many kinds of animals as well as information about animal health. There is also a fun zone were students can play games and print coloring sheets of zoo animals. Also this site can help them prepare for a visit to the zoo, as there is information about current activities at the zoo. (Lucia Lestrange Ireland)

Science Reference

Grade4-8 http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/search.asp?catid=2 (Leslie)

Science News for Kids is a free website that complements a multitude of topics covered by your science standards. It engages students with hands-on activities,such as PuzzleZone, SciFiZone, ScienceFairZone, GameZone and Labzone.The TeacherZone has resources to bring science news topics to the classroom. There is no shortage of links to books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials.

Science Reference

Grade 5-8 http://kids.yahoo.com/science (Leslie)

This site gives students an opportunity to watch a variety of science videos on various science topics. It also offers students a reference section that includes a dictionary as well as a place to ask and post their science questions.

Science Reference

Grade 1-5 http://www.zoobooks.com/default.aspx?n=96250 (Leslie)

This site offers students a chance explore a virtual zoo, view an animal directory, and play a “guess who I am” animal game. It provides students information on topics such as where an animal lives, what it eats, and a brief summary of other interesting information. The animals are organized alphabetically.

PreK-12

http://www.pbs.org/teachers
PBS offers the site. It features lesson plans and activities. Professional development credit is available through PBS “Teacherline” online courses. The Family Resource link offers games, activities and parenting advice.

Kapili.com
Location: [7]www.kapili.com
Grade Levels: 3-12
Disciplines: science
Description: This is actually a network of excellent free science sites. The main topics covered are physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and geography. This is a ‘teaching’ site with tons of information on all of the topics. It is great for students who want to learn more about a particular subject or reinforce existing knowledge.

National Geographic Kids
Site: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Discipline (s) – Biology, Geography, History, Science
Grade Level(s) – 2nd through 8th Grade
Description – National Geographic Kids is a website focusing on all living things and the places they inhabit. The site offers videos, activities, games and stories. You can learn about amazing animals and fascinating people and places. In the games sections, you can view animals in Africa and Antarctica on the critter cams. (Elizabeth Martinez)

Enchanted Learning
Site: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/categories/science
Grade Levels: Content appropriate for K-8, but Accessibility only appropriate for grades 4-8
Discipline: Science
Description: This website is dedicated to different areas of science, grouped by topic and by grade-level. There are links to each topic that contain more specific links to areas of study within that field. Most of these links provide detailed explanations and definitions that would be most appropriate for grades 4-8 because of the lengthy paragraphs and overall website layout. Many of these topics may be covered by teachers of lower primary grades, but these students would not be able to easily navigate this site. There are interesting tables found throughout, including one comparing sharks and bony fish. Also, there are links at the bottom of this site’s main page that link back to the Enchanted Learning homepage, which showcases a variety of useful links for teachers who are searching for classroom activity ideas. (Nadia)

Cool Science for Curious Kids
Site: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
Grade Levels: 2-5
Discipline: Science
Description: This is a fun, interactive site where students can learn more about how different areas of science are involved in their daily lives, as well as learn more information about very intriguing aspects of the scientific world in which we live. There is an activity to build salads while learning where each ingredient comes from in nature, an activity to classify different types of animals and learn more about each of them, an activity that encourages students to conduct an experiment away from the computer screen. They are given instructions about how to create their very own “particle collector,” which will demonstrate the amount of debris floating around in the air that we breathe. There are also other activities that encourage experimentation and careful scientific thought. This is a great resource, albeit somewhat limited in size, for students who are curious about science and who want to have fun.

Kids Go Wild
Site: http://kidsgowild.com/
Grade Levels: 2-5
Discipline: Science
Description: This website, created by the Wildlife Conservation Society, is geared toward students who want to learn about endangered species, and different ways they can help protect these animals. There is a news section where they can read about what other kids are doing to help save endangered animals. The area that lists many different types of animals is very detailed and would be helpful for students who need to research endangered species. Unfortunately, the “Education” and “Calendar” links are outdated and therefore do not serve any purpose. However, there is a link to an arcade where students can play games that relate to endangered species through matching, puzzles, etc. From almost any part of this site, students can learn more about the WCS by clicking on the link to their homepage. (Nadia)

SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com Discipline: Science Grade Level: 1-12 Description: This site offers several free science fair project ideas for all grade levels. Not only could these be used as for science fairs, but they could also be used in the classroom and at home during longer breaks. (Leah Stephens)

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Kids know It

Discipline: Astronomy, Biology, Geography, Geology, Math

Grade Level:k-12

Website: http://www.kidsknowit.com

Description: A wonderful tool to have. This website has the majority of subjects that a student can use as a resource. All subjects start with the basics and gradually has the information required to cover the subjects core information. It is a free site to join and enjoy for students and those who want to refresh their memory in some subjects.

Science Explorer

Discipline: Science

Grade: Not specified, 1 or 2 and up

Website: http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/

Science Explorer contains a variety of science projects for kids. Most use household products. Each project comes with a set of exploration questions to accompany the activities, followed by an explanation of what is really happening. Projects range from making ooze and growing crystals to analyzing the different pigments that go into a black marker. (Megan Maxwell)

Discipline: Life Sciences Grade Level: 2-5 http://kidsdinos.com The website is for students to gain knowledge about dinosaurs and learn all about their characteristics and their different names. The website includes games like hangman, and dinosaur matching games. There is also activities that include flash cards about dinosaurs to help students study.(Therese Zeyadeh)

Discipline: Life Sciences Grade Level: 2-5 http://kidsbutterfly.org/life-cycle

The website is for students to learn about the life cycle of a moth and butterfly. It includes pictures with detail about each cycle. There is a coloring page that can be printed out. This website contains information about getting videos and other resources about moths and butterflies-useful for teachers.(Therese Zeyadeh)

Discipline: Earth Sciences Grade Level: 2-6 http://rockandminerals4u.com

The website has information about rocks and minerals and their characteristics. There is a crossword puzzle to practice learning about the rocks. The website includes pictures, background information about rocks and minerals, and resources for teachers, such as other links to get more information. It also has examples of lesson plans for teachers to use in their classroom. (Therese Zeyadeh)

Fun School Kaboose http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/games/lightning-librarian.html Discipline: Math, Science, Geography, History Grade level: Pk-3 Description: This is a fun site for kids in early elementary pk-3. It deals with math, science, geography and history. There are plenty of games that are interactive, quizzes and word play. There are games with addition and subtraction as well as science games and experiments they can make at home. There’s also a section for parents and teachers.(Candy Castro)

Engineering http://www.engineeringk12.org/ Discipline: Science Grade level: K-12 Description: This website incorporates engineering activities in K-12 classrooms. Projects are hands on experience for students as they build on their math and science skills. The website has lesson plans like making model bridges, making an air powered car with a sheet of paper, plastic straws, life savers, etc. for grades 2-6. The lesson plans can be modified for older students. The section for students contains information on engineering jobs as well as games for them play.(Candy Castro)

Elementary Science Resources

Primary Games
Discipline: Science, Social Studies, Math and Language Arts
Grade: K- 4th Grade
Website: http://www.primarygrades.com
Description: This website contains interactive games that focus on math, language arts, science, and social studies for children to play. In each subject category there is also a curriculum guide where one is given the subject and grade levels a particular game is targeting. It also contains a printing zone where one is able to print out award certificates, activity pages, stationaries for young and older writers in the elementary grades. The website also contains downloadable games such as Count the Cubes, Candy Land Dora, and others that involve math subject areas such as counting, matching and sorting shapes, patterns, and addition. (Juana Cruz)

Enchanted Learning
Discipline: Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Languages and Music
Grade: K-3rd Grade
Website: http://www.enchantedlearning.com
Description: This website although requiring to subscribe to the site with a small fee has very useful printable worksheets. It contains a great amount of science worksheets and activities which include themes such as plants, the oceans, and biomes to name a few. The website also has printable books for early to fluent readers in different topics. This website also contains handy and useful writing prompts, graphic organizers, and a couple interactive educational activities. (Juana Cruz)

Science Buddies
Discipline: Science
Grade: 2nd—12th
Website: http://www.sciencebuddies.org
Description: A very thorough website for science teachers and students. There are some great features that help students select projects for science fairs that actually suit their interests. They have an “Ask an Expert” section that is monitored by a staff of volunteers. There is also an incredibly detailed Science Fair Project Guide for teachers. (S. Jacks)

Discipline: Science Grade level: K-5 Web Site Address: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ Description: This is a very colorful and fun site for kids to research animals by clicking on animals, videos, stories and fun facts. There are also games and fun activities. Under each of these (videos, fun facts, games) there a What’s Popular and Cool Clicks. Kids can also create their own page that they can personalize with backgrounds and color combinations. Kids can also save favorite items from around the website, email friends and play exclusive games. (Michelle Karlin)

Discipline: All Grade Level: K-5 Web Site Address: http://www.abcya.com/ Description: Parents can find free & exciting computer activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All educational computer games and activities were created or approved by certified teachers! Activities are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way to learn. The activities incorporate content areas such as math and reading while introducing basic computer skills.(Michelle Karlin)

Discipline: All Grade Level: K-8 Web Site Address: http://www.kto8.com/ Description: School lab directors, parents classroom teachers can use this curriculum to develop computer literate and technology savvy students while at the same time reinforcing National and State academic standards. This powerful combination assists the lab director and classroom teacher with practical computer lab activities and exercises that reinforce not only what is being taught in the classroom, but also what is being tested and measured annually.(Michelle Karlin)

(Natasha Novian) Disciplines: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Handwriting, ABC activities, Reading comprehension, Holidays, Months, Seasons, Class signs.

Grades: K-3rd

Web Site Address: http://abcteach.com/

Description: There is a wide selection of worksheets pertaining to the disciplines listed above. This website is useful for students in the primary grade level. It also includes an array of signs that can be printed out to make the classroom more child friendly. This site is well organized and easy to use. By following the links parents and teachers can find a range of beneficial assignments for their children.

(Natasha Novian) Disciplines: Handwriting, Geography units, Social Studies units, Science units Mathematics, Phonics, Writing, Early Learning, Creating your own worksheet or quiz.

Grade Levels: K-5th

Web Site Address: http://www.schoolexpress.com/

Description: This site provides some free worksheets but many of the units must be purchased. School Express contains many activities with eye catching illustrations and fun units for students to work on. In my opinion the best component of this site is the ability for teachers to create their own worksheets, awards, quizzes, word walls and practice sheets.

(Natasha Novian) Disciplines: Reading and Writing, Language, Special Education, Foreign Languages, Math, Critical Thinking, Social Studies, Science

Grade Levels: Pre K- High School (concentration mainly between 1st- 6th grade)

Web Site Address: http://edhelper.com/

Description: This easy to use website contains a variety of fun worksheets pertaining to disciplines listed above. The worksheets and quizzes also come with an answer sheet. It also contains activities for holidays. This useful website also allows teachers to access an array of units across curriculums. The table of contents format of the site makes this site easy to use. Teachers can find what they are looking for by subject matter or grade level by using the search button. This site displays different subjects, quizzes and units for different grade levels.

Dinosaurs
Discipline: Science
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/dinosaurs-other-extinct-creatures/
Grades: K-6
Description: This British museum site has a variety of multimedia resources and even sprinkles in humor. This site includes two Dino games: What Dinosaur Are You? and Dinosaur Defender. The educational clicks are easy to find, and include the Dino Directory and the interactive T-Rex discovery activity. This site is chocked full of interesting dinosaur facts. (Melissa Smith)

The Magic School Bus
www.scholastic.com/magicschooolbus/ (Jessica Roussel) This website if primarily for k-5 students. This site is great for teachers, parents, and kids. There are games, labs, a theme index for the different sub-subjects of science. Children really enjoy this website because they go from reading the books to actually participating as if they were in Ms. Frizzels class. Episodes from the TV Cartoon and videos are available through the website.
Weather works is a great tool for teachers. It provides various ideas to make a excellent lesson in teaching how weather works. Website: Weather Works
Discipline: Science
Grade level: k-5
Website address: http:// www.weatherworks.com
Description: Weather works is a great tool for teachers. It provides various ideas to make a excellent lesson in teaching how weather works. . (Amie Hull)

Astronomy http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/ Discipline: Science Grade level: 5th (and 3rd) Description: Great ideas and challenging ideas to bring into your classroom on the topic of astronomy – especially to 5th graders. It is not just information on the planets, but also craters and other necessary Earth Science concepts. (Jason)

Kids Konnect http://www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/62/27/ Discipline: Science Grade Level: 3-5 Description: This is another well-rounded site that covers other subjects, but I primarily have used it for science. This section on Biomes gives links to other related pages on different types of biomes, some of which have pictures, etc. (Jason)
NASA
Discipline(s): Science/Astronomy
Grade Level(s): 2-8
Web Site Address: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
Description: This website provides information to students about the solar system that might intrigue young learners. The site provides two levels of information. Level one is less complex and more appropriate for younger students, and level two gives more complex information appropriate for older students. There is also a lot of information about all things space related, such as telescopes and satellites. There is also a teacher corner link with ideas of activities you can use in the classroom. (Lucia Lestrange Irealnd)

Science, " Airjunk"

4th Graders

http://www.hhml.org/coolscience/airjunk/nosep3.html

This site is to help students explore part of nature by creating something from the experiment and testing it out for certain results. This gives students expereinces to learn and understand the nature of science. It also shapes children to understand how part of life cycle works. (Chrstine)

kidzone

Site- http://www.kidzone.ws

Dicipline- Geography, language arts, math , Science

Grade Level - Preschool - 5th

Description This website offers students workseets, games, experiments, puzzles, and coloring pages and both fun and educational. They offer worksheets on how sees grow to explaining the water cycle. They offer many examples and visual aids.(Brenda C.)

Science Homework Help
Site - http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/science/science_homework_help.html
Discipline - Science
Grade Level – 3rd – 5th
Description: Master the basics of science in the world around you. On this page, you will find resources to help students connect science content taught in class to things that they can see and experience. Videos, Interactive Explorations, and Interactive Videos engage students to explore topics independently.(Elizabeth Martine)

Discipline: http://www.kids.nationalgeographic.com relates mostly to science.
Grade Level(s): This website can be used in Grades K-6.
Description: This website is a really fun resource to use when teaching science. It provides an assortment of pictures of different types of animals for students to view and pictures are accompanied with fun facts about each animal. Videos are also available that show very interesting traits of different species. There is a link called activities that allows students to learn about how they can help the environment. I like the people and places link that gives information about people and places all over the world; this could be a great way to introduce a geography report/assignment. (Melody Himidian)

FOSS Web
Location: [8]www.fossweb.com
Grade Levels: K-6
Disciplines: science
Description: A good website that is growing. I like that the modules align with the standards at all grades K thru 6. If your school has adapted FOSS this site is a great resource for science resources and materials management. Additionally, there are videos, pictures, vocabulary words, and parent and teacher resources.

Title http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-for-kids/index.php
Grades 3-5
Description: This site is an in depth online geography textbook written for kids. Students can learn about the world around them. Geography is the study of the Earth as it exists today, focusing on the surface, the atmosphere, the oceans, as well as the distribution of plants, animals, and people. This site contains information on all of these areas and would be an appropriate supplement for a geography unit.

Title http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/astronomy.html
Grade 3
Description: This web site contains information on astronomy including the solar system, sun, meteorites, stars, galaxies, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, exploration, and some photos taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. The information is very easy to comprehend and would be appropriate for a 3rd grade level and higher. It would be a good introduction and reference for a unit on astronomy.

Title
K-12
http://www.theteacherscorner.net
This web site offers lesson plans, thematic units, seasonal items and printable worksheets. It also includes puzzle makers and links to teacher forums and opportunity for your class to have a pen pal class. This is all offered free of charge. I found the daily writing prompts particularly useful, as were the bulletin board ideas.

National Geographic Kids Location: [9]kids.nationalgeographic.com
Grade Levels: K-6
Disciplines: science and social studies
Description: This is another ‘little brother’ site. If you have not been to the National Geographic website I encourage you to start there. This site is very kid friendly with games, videos, stories, and activities for students of all ages. I especially like the fact that students can personalize their own page based on their interests.

Ocean Animals Site- http://www.kbears.com/ocean/turtle/index.html
Grades- 2-5
Discipline- Science
Description- This website is interactive and quite fun. The page opens with a colorful display of ocean animals. The topic of the website is learning about sea animals. As you click on each sea animal, there are different pictures of the animals in their habitat as well as facts written about them beneath the pictures. This website would be suitable for lower grade levels if they had someone assisting them with reading the facts. The site would be a wonderful tool for a student doing a report on one of the sea animals discussed on the page. The animals that can be researched on this website are killer whales, dolphins, stingrays, sharks, octopus, seals, turtles, and starfish.(Michelle Kaufman)

Where do butterflies come from? Site- http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/index.html
Grades- 1-3
Discipline- Science
Description- This website describes the life cycle of a butterfly. There is an activity posted where students can make their own butterfly. The materials listed to make the butterfly are simple and can be found around the house. The steps are simple and can be done by themselves or if they are young with the aid of a parent or guardian. The site goes on further to explain the butterflies life cycle with an animation.(Michelle Kaufman)

Explore Science Site- http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Discipline- Science
Grades- K-6
Description- This is a great resource for students who want to learn more about science. There are a number of links that the student can click on such as animals, games, videos, stories, activities, people and places, and photos. The links all relate to science. Here students can learn about the environment and how important it is to recycle. The website is very colorful, interactive, and user friendly.(Michelle Kaufman)

Museum of Science and Human Perception

Grades 2 - 8

This website is a great resource for children to explore the world of life and help explain why things happen the way they do. This website is free and easy to navigate. There are informative articles and interactive maps that display the various locations of animal life. There are great ideas for science projects which are all separated by regions or interests. Students and parents would benefit from visiting the after school activities section together. The after school activities give the children a chance to explore topics they may not have ever thought about and get them asking questions and wanting to learn more. (Emily Shepherd)

Kids Know It

http://www.kidsknowit.com/
Disciplines: Math, Biology, Science, History and Spelling
Grade Levels: Second through Six
This website provides educational information for grades second through six. There are articles that provide information on biology, astronomy, dinosaurs and animals. There are also games that focus on all of these areas. Students can read the articles and then complete the online activites to test their knowledge. The vocabulary used in this page is appropriate for second graders as well as sixth graders. There is also a link where children can watch movies for free. (Andrea Figueroa)

Primary Games
http://www.primarygames.com/science.htm
Disciplines: Language Arts, Math, Social Studies and science
Grade Levels: Kindergarten through Fourth
This online source has activities for four of the subjects that students are taught. It has about forty activities for each of the subjects. It deals with vocabulary, reading, spelling, the alphabet, and handwriting. There is also a curriculum guide that allows teachers to view all of the activities for each subject area and decide which is suitable for their class based on grade level and subject area.(Andrea Figueroa)

PBS - Plate Tectonics http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/# (Jeanette M. King)

Discipline(s): Earth Science Grade Level(s): 6th grade CA science standard

Description: If animation is an excellent tool, interactive animations are even more so. I was particularly impressed with this interactive site. Not only does it show how tectonic plates push against, pull away, and slide against each other, your are actually moving the plates with the mouse. This concept is strongly reinforced though the visual and kinesthetic aspects of this activity.

Scholastic - Food Web

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorer/ecosystems/be_an_explorer/map/form_wildcats.htm (Jeanette M. King)

Discipline(s): Life Science Grade Level(s): 4th grade CA science standard

Description: There is a link from this site to an interactive activity – building your own food web. I liked this one more than the others I had found. The pictures were clear, the connections really connected, it gave you hints about how many connections were needed, and you can move the pictures around for clarity without breaking the connections. I had fun with this one.

Bill Nye the Science Guy

http://www.nyelabs.com/

Grade: 4 and up

Disciplines: Science: Physical Science, Astronomy, Life Sciences

Description: Remember that show "Bill Nye the Science Guy"? Well he's still around. I remember watching his show back when I was in middle school and learning a lot from it. This website contains a lot of experiments that kids can do on their own at home. A lot of these "Home Demos" would be appropriate for the classroom, also. Each week there is a new "Question of the Week" - this week it is about the materials/sizes/shapes of the balls used for different sports. You can also purchase episodes of the show and science books from the website. One thing I like about this website is the "Did you know..." facts on the bottom of every page. (Jessica Charvat)

Primary Games

Discipline: Science

Grade Levels: K - 6

Website Address: http://www.primarygames.com/science2.htm

Description: This site is very easy for children to use and laid out in a very logical manner. There are two pages of games for children to play. The topics range from learning about the ocean to Earth Day. All the games have graphics that would attract children’s attention. Also at the bottom of the page there is a curriculum guide for teachers based upon grade and topic. (Michelle Moran)

National Geographic Kids

Discipline: Science

Grade Level: K - 8

Website: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Description: National Geographic’s site covers all topics of science. This site is very clean and easy to use. There are videos, games, blogs, stories, and activities that all have to do with science. The pictures are amazing and make kids curious to learn more about that particular topic. The games have great music and the graphics make it look like a video game. For example, the game Recycle Round up teaches kid what to recycle and what kind of recycle bin it would go into but does it in a way that is fun and imaginative! (Michelle Moran)

Backyard Nature

Discipline: Science

Grade level: K-5

Website: http://www.backyardnature.net/

Description: This site provides a basic overview on observing nature by providing information and guidance for classifying plants, insects, and animals. Information is provided for plants, geology, gardening, animals, fungi, ecology, and tools for the backyard naturalist. Each category of plants and creature is supplemental with photos of backyard specimens. (Olga Collins)

Environmental Kids Club

Discipline: Science

Grade level: K-12

Website: http://www.epa.gov/kids/

Description: The Environmental Kids Club is hosted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The purpose of the site is to help kids explore their local environment and learn ways to protect it. The site provides an understanding of the impacts on air, water, garbage and recycling, and plants and animals by explaining concepts like the water cycle and climate change. The site also has links to its sister site: Teaching Center. The Teaching Center provides resources and guides for teachers developing lesson plans. (Olga Collins)

Science Fair Project Guide

Discipline: Science

Grade level: 2-8

Website: http://www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide/

Description: This website is hosted by the Internet Public Library. The site provides guidance for getting started, choosing a topic, completing the project, and displaying your project. The site serves a resource for designing a science project by providing the viewer with links to other sites that covering a particular aspect of science projects. There are also section of the site that provides information on the scientific method and hints and tips. (Olga Collins)

Anatomy

(Shannon Kilcoyne) Discipline: Astronomy Grade Level(s): 7 Website Address: http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/home.html Description: The subject of black holes is the focus of this website. The home page gives a brief description of black holes. From the home page, there is the option to click on Journey to a Black Hole, an interactive journey through a black hole, or to click on Black Hole Encyclopedia, thorough information on black holes.

Net Frog http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/Frog2/home.html
Grades 7-12
Disciplines: science-anatomy, physiology
Description: This website allows you to virtually dissect a frog. Teachers can use this instead of real frogs in biology classrooms. It explains the tools used for the dissection and then you can begin. It takes you step-by-step through the dissection process showing you images of what you would be seeing if you were dissecting the frog. There is narration and quickfacts as you go through the steps. I think this is a very good alternative to actually dissecting a frog for several reasons. One being that the kids will be less distracted by the smell, gross factor, and goofing around so they will actually learn something. (Jessica Charvat)

Cow's Eye Dissection http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/step01.html
Grades 5-12
Disciplines: science-anatomy
Description: This website is a great alternative to actually dissecting a cow's eye. There is a video of a cow-eye dissection that you can watch, then you can click on another link to learn about eyes. It also gives instructions if you want to do your own cow-eye dissection - but it wouldn't be necessary after viewing the video and then visiting the learning section. If you go step-by-step through the process you can see the different layers of the eye along with descriptoins of what part of the eye this is and what it is for. The pictures are really gooey and gross. (Jessica Charvat),

Astronomy

Nasa for Kids
Discipline: Science
Grade: 2nd—6th
Website: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html
Description: This is a great website for the introduction to, and exploration of, space for elementary school age children. There are puzzles, photos, news, and five separate levels of games that increase in difficulty; all of which are connected to the various aspects of space exploration. Your students can even have their name included on a microchip inside the next rover going to Mars in 2011. (S. Jacks)

Google Sky
http://www.google.com/sky/
Grades: K-12
Google sky is an interactive searchable sky map that helps students learn about the all that lies outside of our planet. There are links to superimpose constellations onto the stars. Students can learn about different types of star formations, the moon, and planets. In the lower left hand corner, numbers change as students move their mouse. This is their current location in the sky, measured in right ascension and declination, a celestial coordinate system used by astronomers. Besides the obvious science lessons, this learning aid can be used to teach Greek and Roman mythology, history lessons discussing the age of exploration, and can assist with math lessons on angles. When this is coupled with http://www.astroviewer.com/index.html a website that teaches students how to locate stars and constellations in their sky, practical science lessons will take off! (Melissa Smith)

Title http://hubblesite.org/ Ages K - Adult Live podcasts from outer space; printables; reading – endless choices for the novice or aficionado

NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/Redirect_Spacelink.html
Grades K-12
This website has a great section for educators. This website is free and organized by grade groupings K-4, 5-8, and 9-12. The site offers lessons that can be taught to your students. There is also a section of teaching tools and resources that are aligned to individual state education standards. There is an alphabetical list of resources from the NASA sites. As well as all the information for educators there is an abundance of pictures and articles for parents or students to explore. There is a great interactive portion of the website that teaches you about the current, and upcoming project and plans for Nasa. (Emily Shepherd)
Website: Nine Planets
Discipline: Science
Grade level: 5-12
Website address: http://www.nineplanets.org
Description: Nine Planets is a great tool for all students learning about the solar system. It provides a virtual tour for all planets. It is a very interactive website that students of any age can enjoy. (Amie Hull)

StarDate Online
http://stardate.org/
Grades K-12
Disciplines: Science - Astronomy
This website has a lot of uses. There is general information about astronomical subjects as well as good teacher resources. It has activities for elementary age kids and lesson plans for high school kids. There is a moon phase calendar which tells you what phase the moon is in each day and shows a picture of what it looks like. There are some really neat images of meteors, volcanoes on Venus, and more. Another neat thing about this website is that you can see all of the new explorations that have been made in space recently. This is good because you can stay up to date with the ever-changing world of Astronomy. (Jessica Charvat)

Discover Nasa Site- http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html
Grades- K-12
Discipline- Science
Description- This is a wonderful website. The website is directed towards every grade level. There is news regarding space on the site that kids would find interesting. There are links for research, scholarships, and a kids club and that is just on the main page. The page then allows students to click on the appropriate link for their grade level which is broken into three sections: K-4, 5-8, 9-12. Also, the main page has updates on what is currently going on in the nights sky. When I was on the site the item that was featured was the 'highlights of September's sky'. I clicked on a link which brought me to a short movie which discussed what you were able to see in the September sky.(Michelle Kaufman)

http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/index.shtml

Here is a great website for grade three science, especially for the topics: earth, space and technology. It has fun facts (like September 5, 2008 is National Cheese Pizza day), games, activities, and teaching resources for the classroom. They also offer different projects that you can do in the classroom or that students can do at home. If a student is interested in space they can, for example, make an editable space ship out of tortillas. The website offers information that is kid friendly about the earth, solar system, and the laws of the universe. (Sam Z)

Website: Astronomy for Kids

Discipline: Science

Grade Levels: Elementary and Middle School

Web Site Address: http://www.kidsastronomy.com

Astronomy for Kids has lots of stuff about the solar system, the universe, and space exploration. There is current observation information for what to look for in the sky each night, an Astronomy Dictionary, games, and free wallpaper. The site is interactive, with great animation and cool sounds. Students can also complete lessons in the Online Astronomy Academy and get a certificate of completion (all free!). Astronomy for Kids also includes a Teacher’s Corner with worksheets and other resources. (Megan Folsom)

NASA Kids’ Club

Site: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html

Grade Levels: K-12th

Discipline: Science

Description: This website provides an online learning experience for children about the work of NASA and the science and adventure of space travel. Numerous online games are provided for students to learn different scientific concepts. Particularly interesting is the Picture Dictionary, which contains pictures illustrating various NASA space vocabulary. The site is very creatively organized and has sound effects and a visually pleasing design. (Morgan Irving)

NASA
Discipline(s): Science/Astronomy
Grade Level(s): 2-8
Web Site Address: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
Description: This website provides information to students about the solar system that might intrigue young learners. The site provides two levels of information. Level one is less complex and more appropriate for younger students, and level two gives more complex information appropriate for older students. There is also a lot of information about all things space related, such as telescopes and satellites. There is also a teacher corner link with ideas of activities you can use in the classroom. (Lucia Lestrange Irealnd)

Science 4 Kids

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 3-6 Web Site Address: http://www.science4mykid.com/ Description: This is great websites for teachers, parents and students, where can learn to conduct science experiments. Each experiment is listed and with a clear list of the materials needed, what to do, and explanations on why something happened. The website doesn’t provide many visuals, which makes a difficult for younger grades and therefore, recommended for grades 3-6, unless the students are working with their parents or teachers. Teacher can conduct some of the experiment as a whole class to engage students in science, and understand science concepts (Navneet Kaur).

Nine Planets

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 3-K Web Site Address: http://www.nineplanets.org/ Description: At this website students can learn everything about the planets. Even though the website is called nine planets, on the home page they corrected it by writing “one star eight planets”. This website would be great resource for fifth grade, because it allows them to research each planet and it’s moons in depth. In addition, the website has a glossary to look up terms and names associated with planets(Navneet Kaur).

NASA

Discipline: Science Grade Level: K-12 Web Site Address: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents Description: At NASA’s website students can select their grade level, and learn about science in general or search for a particular topic. For younger student (K-2), the website has videos like explaining the job of a scientist and so on. Students can go do research on a particular topic like the asteroid belt, and have illustrations and pictures to explain the concepts. Teacher can use this website, as a part of lesson to show students different videos and pictures to illustrate a point. The websites also gives history of previous missions and the missions coming up (Navneet Kaur).

NASA Kids Club

Discipline: Astronomy

Grade level: K-5

Website: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub)

Description: The NASA Kids Club provides a collection of games like “Go to the Head of the Solar System” which test kids on knowledge of space based on their knowledge or skill level. In addition, the sites provide information on current space missions, and profiles of on crew of the latest expedition. The site also has a collection of photos of space, exploration equipment, and astronauts during space missions. (Olga Collins)

Biology

Kids Biology

Discipline: Biology

Grade Level: Kindergarten to 12th

Web Site Address: http://www.kidsbiology.com

Description: This website provides students with a variety of information about biology. By clicking on the type of biology that the student is interested in, they can find out an abundance of information on that specific subject. In fact, this website allows the individual to narrow down the exact type, species, ext. that he or she wants to learn about. (Danielle Abrams)

Movie Sheets

Discipline: All subjects are represented from Astronomy to Zoology

Grade Level: Middle- High School

Web Address http://www.moviesheets.com/index.php

Description: This web site contains worksheets for hundreds of movies. It contains worksheets for videos from all subjects, but the most comprehensive collection is in the sicences especially the biological sciences. Users are able to upload their own worksheets so the collection keeps growing daily. (Marschal A. Fazio)

The Hybrid Heart

Discipline: Cardiovascular System

Grade Level: 7th grade

Web Address: http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/anim_heart.htm

Description: The Hybrid Interactive Heart is an exploration into the various and novel ways a beating heart can be visually represented using the latest technology.

The Geee! in Genome

Discipline: Genetics

Grade Level: 7th grade

Web Address: http://nature.ca/genome/index_e.cfm

Description: This plays an interactive game that is good for students in 7th grade life science. The student has to genetically engineer a baby from the mom and dad by picking dominant or recessive genes from the mom and dad that match a picture of the baby. This game can be used during the unit on genetics. The site is free.

The Mighty Mutation

Discipline: Genetics

Grade Level(s): 7-9

Website Address: http://nature.ca/genome/04/0413_e.cfm

Description: This is a game that teaches how mutations occur during the replication of DNA. The player is asked to type in their name which is then decoded into a sequence of amino acid bases. Players may choose one of five mutations that can occur and are provided a description of exactly how that mutation affects the sequence and provides an example of how the codons would be changed in their name. (Sabrina Loesh)

Kids Gardening!

Discipline: Biology: Earth Science

Grade Level(s): K-8

Website Address: http://www.kidsgardening.com/

Description: This is a website designed for elementary school teachers who are looking for information on starting a school garden. There is a store where supplies can be purchased, activities for the kids to do, information for parents, and (very important) information on requested grants and fundraising to support the garden. (Bethany Adler)

Biology 4 kids

Discipline: Biology

Grade level: 3-6

Website address: http://www.biology4kids.com

Description: Biology 4 kids is a great tool for all science students. This website describes in detail the meanings of main areas of science. It provides examples in all scientific areas. Biology 4 kids also gives links to: astronomy chemistry, earth science, physics and more. (Amie Hull)

The Great Plant Escape

Discipline: Botany

Grade Level(s): 5-6

Website Address: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html

Description: This website invites the user to join Detective Leplant in his endeavors to find out about plant life. There are six different endeavors, a glossary, and green links (links for gardening). Each endeavor (aka case) starts with a case brief, then lists goals, offers ideas, and then gives facts of the case. The facts of the case contain written information and pictures. Within the written information, the user can click on important vocabulary words, which leads the user to the glossary. At the end of each case, there is a quiz to test the knowledge gained from the case facts.(Shannon Kilcoyne)

Recycle City

Discipline: Environmental Studies

Grade Level(s): 6-7

Website Address: http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/mainmap.htm

Description: On the Welcome to Recycle City page, the user can click the map on the right or on the Welcome to Recycle City sign. On this sign, the user can click on dump town game, activities, or help. The Dump Town game gives the user the opportunity to explore with various trash programs. The activity includes things to do within Recycle City as well as promotes critical thinking skills. For the map on the right, the user can click any area of the map. This area of the map becomes maximized, so the user can click on another area and detailed information for buildings and companies in that specific area appears. For each item the user clicks on there is information about the role of that item in the recycling process. (Shannon Kilcoyne)

http://www.innerbody.com/index.html
Grades 9-12
Description: This site breaks down the human body into the following categories or systems: Skeletal, Lymphatic, Digestive, Muscular, Endocrine, Nervous, Cardiovascular, Male Reproductive, Female Reproductive, and Urinary. You can enter each category and learn more about that area of human anatomy. Contains great images of the human body and is very user friendly. It would be a good way to review what you have already learned in class.

"Planets"
Nineplanets.org
Grades 4-7
This website is a multimedia tour of all nine planets, the sun, our moon, the planets’ moons, and other solar systems. This website overviews detailed information about each item one can view, includes a glossary, discusses spacecrafts used, and even has a bookstore for all things astronomy. (Amber Diem)

"Black Holes and Neutron Stars"
Eclipse.net/~cmmiller/BH/blkmain.html
Grades: 3-8
Astronomy/Science This website instructs about black holes and neutron stars. This instruction includes how they form and how they are detected. There is a Q&A page as well as related links for more exploring. This website does not include fun interactive displays and was clearly meant to be informational only, but includes a lot of good information explained in simple terms. (Amber Diem)

Animal Info
http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/index.htm
Grades K-12
This site is a wonderful resource for both students and teachers. This is a great site to introduce to students so they can explore about all different animals and the animal kingdoms to which they belong. There is a section on ecosystems and zoological research. There is a fun and interesting animal sound library as well. You can find basic and interesting facts on almost any species. There is also a wonderful section for educators which provide ideas for lessons and classroom activities. There are also safari games, coloring, and fun guides to help your children learn. The teachers section is divided by grades and topics.(Emily Shepherd)

Website: Age of the Dinosaurs

Discipline: Science

Grade Levels: Elementary and Middle School

Web Site Address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/dinosaurs

Produced in conjunction with their TV series, “Walking with Dinosaurs,” the BBC has included some stunning visuals on this site. The pictures look like photographs of real animals, and the information presented is detailed and thorough. There is great Sea Monsters Adventure game (I played it!) and links to other dinosaur info from the BBC and elsewhere. In addition to Age of the Dinosaurs, the Prehistoric Life section of this website includes Human Beginnings (Caveman Profiles, Lucy’s Legacy), news, more games and puzzles, and radio and television programming. (Megan Folsom)

The Geeee! In Genome

Discipline:Science/Genetics

Grade Level: 6-8

Web Site: http://nature.ca/genome/index_e.cfm

Description: This site offers a diversity of information, interactive tools and games that all teach about genetics. There are tutorials that take you step by step through the basics of DNA and chromosome replication with many useful and detailed photos. The site also includes interactive parts for the students. There a number of games that focus on the different topics of genetics and how genetic traits are passed to offspring. The site also offers some activities to use in the classroom to further aid the students learning. (Melissa Savage)

The Virtual Transgenic Fly Lab

Discipline: Genetics

Grade level: 10-12 (Honors or Advanced Placement)

Website: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/transgenic_fly/index.html

Description: This web based activity is a virtual lab experiment where students are the scientists and their goal is to insert a glow gene into Drosophila melanogaster embryos so that they can be used in an experiment on circadian rhythms. The students can learn the basic process behind creating transgenic organisms and their uses in laboratory investigations. The students can also complete the extension activities where they learn how to use the NCBI genome browser and BLAST. Their are several quiz questions that students take along the way to test their understanding of the activity. (Marschal A. Fazio)

Chemistry

Website: Quizlet

Discipline: any

Grade Level: secondary

Web Site: http://quizlet.com/

Description: Quizlet lets students prepare online flash cards in almost any subject that uses the Roman alphabet (no serious math equations.) Besides language vocabulary (obviously) this is great for memorizing factoids in any subject and for learning jargon, which is what my chemistry students use it for. Students can play study games and also can quiz themselves and track their scores. A closed chat room option allows groups of students to engage each other while learning. (Susan Gendreau)

Website: Chemical Element Games

Discipline: Chemistry (Periodic Table)

Grade Level: Secondary

Web Site: http://sheppardsoftware.com/Elementsgames.htm

Description: This site has games at various levels to get students to become more familiar with chemical symbols, chemical names, and atomic numbers. Students are given a chemical symbol, and asked to type in the first 3 letters of the chemical name. There are various levels to either introduce the concept and more advanced levels for those seeking mastery. (Roman Slavinsky)

Website: The List Universe: Top 10 Amazing Chemical Reactions

Discipline: Chemistry (reactions)

Grade Level: Secondary

Web Site: http://listverse.com/science/top-10-amazing-chemical-reactions/

Description: This site has a collection of 10 eye-catching videos of extremely dangerous chemical reactions. There is a simple explanation for each video. It is a good way to show dangerous and/or expensive chemical reactions safely and inexpensively. You can also use the videos to help re-create these demonstrations for the classroom as well. Students will love this! (Shannon Dods, edited by Jhauvy Roter)

Health

Title http://www.apples4theteacher.com/science.html#groundhogsday Grades 1 - 6 Interactive games and printables on wide range of science: dental hygeniene (coloring pages for printing), animal classification (hangman), solar system, weather, etc.

Geoscience

Dr. Art’s Guide to Planet Earth
Discipline: Science
Grade Level: 6-12
Web Address: http://www.planetguide.net/index.html
Description: Dr. Art's Guide to Planet Earth explains how our planet works. Interactive lessons follow Utah State Earth Systems Core Standards in Science curriculum. Excerpts from chapters of his book: Earth, Matter, Energy, Life, Global and Local can be read on this website. Each chapter is broken into themes with lessons that supplement and challenge the student's learning experience. Animations, Brainers, and Activities offer glimpses of Earth’s history and changing universe while posing questions to provoke critical thinking. Dr. Art prods students to become involved in their community and facilitate social and scientific change with respect for our world. Dr. Art Sussman directs the WestEd Eisenhower Regional Consortium for Science and Math Education (WERC), a non-profit Joint Powers Agency, authorized by a California Joint Powers Agreement and governed by public entities in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.(Shelley Singer)

Earth 911—recycling
Site: http://earth911.org/recycling/
All grade levels
For teachers, parents, and students--free
Learn all about what, how and why to recycle. Everyday guide to what you can recycle, why recycling helps the earth, and how to recycle. Includes a nation-wide recycle-center search engine with links to the recycle center’s web site. Did you know Staples and Best Buy are recycling drop-off centers for computers? (Janeth Benjamin)

Education World—How long does trash last?
Site: http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/03/lp308-04.shtml\
Grades 3-5 & 6-8:
For teachers--free
A complete lesson plan for teaching children about what happens to trash in the landfills. Includes objectives, materials list, and assessment. Student learn how long trash lasts in landfills in this cooperative activity. (Janeth Benjamin)

Site: http://resources.kaboose.com/games/science.html,

Grade Level: Preschool-6th Discipline: Science This website is filled with advertisements. I picked it so that students could see what was out on the internet and how big companies are influencing young students. Students can play mini games that revolve around and product that advertisers are trying to sell. Amazing how much marketing is directed at young children. . (Shannon Carney)

The Nine Planets

Address: http://www.nineplanets.org/

Discipline: Science

Grade Levels: 5-6

Description: This website gives an in-depth of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in the solar system. The website also has pictures, movies and other multimedia of the solar system. (Rene Ramirez)

Amazing Space

Address: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/

Discipline: Science

Grade Levels: 4-6

Description: This website has various activities that are space related. Some activities include creating a timeline of the universe and discovering how gravity works here and on other planets. (Rene Ramirez)

Physics

Phun Physics Simulator http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home Phun is a simulation environment somewhat similar to the old Interactive Physics program. It allows you to create objects and connect them with hinges, springs etc.

Psychology

Vocational

Discipline: Science/Vocational (Russell Gustafson)

Grade lvl: Highschool

Web site address: healthcareers.about.com/od/whychoosehealthcare/p/T (About.com: Healthcares)

Description: The site is fairly easy to read. Along the top is a series of tabs that allow you to go more in-depth. Clicking the health career tab you go to a screen that is broken up into various sections each with a simple heading in large print and set off from the section itself. Most sections also have a set of bullets. Click on those bullets and it allows you to go more in-depth in that specific area. This set up allows the student to customize their exploration without a great deal of help from you. This site also includes a section on terms alphabetized to make it easier.

Discipline: Vocational/healthcare(Russell Gustafson)

Grade lvl:Highschool

health.learninginfo.org/bedsores.htm

Description: This is a simple site to read.This is really good for students who may read at a middle school or upper middle school lvlbut are in highschool. This site avoids a great deal of the more advanced terminology. Each section begins with a clear simple heading set off from the paragraph and is in bold.

Discipline: Science (Russell Gustafson)

Grade lvl: Middle school to high school

Web site address: mammals.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_is_a_mammal

Description: This is a nice site. The information is presented clearly. Another nice thing is that this site links you to numerous articles concerning such things as birds and reptiles. This site puts the charateristics in bulleted lists. Website: http://www.earthbrowser.com (submitted by Viggen Avedissian)

Discipline: Earth SCience

Grade level: K-12

Description: EarthBrowser is a real-time three dimensional model of the earth with continuously updating global information. It renders a virtual representation of the earth along with a large variety of data which is accurate to the minute. The globe can be easily rotated and magnified to give a distant or close up view of the earth from space. EarthBrowser has several interesting and useful sets of data available in the Datasets tab of the control window. Data includes weather, cloud formations, Doppler radar, tropical storms, earthquakes, space crafts and global forcasts.

Discipline(s): Science Discipline(s): Teachers Web Site Address: http://www.homeworkspot.com/elementary/science/ Description: The science section of homeworkspot.com has a lot of great resources for teachers; it has links to other sciences related sites that might be helpful. However, they do not have any lesson plans on their website. Instead they only offer selected topics, when you click on a topic you three to six very informative websites you can go to, to get more information on that topic. They have a lot of resources for teachers to use for a science lesson, and a section with science related places you can bring students in your area, like museums, and a link to groups that will come to your classroom and perform experiments with the students. I think this is a great website to help teachers add more color and interaction to their lessons. (Annalee Schwartz)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 4th Web Site Address: http://www.education.com/activity/fourth-grade/science/ Description: This is a good website for parents that want to conduct experiments with their children at home. Some of these include making a battery using lemons, soda pop “fireworks”, and making healthy foods. The experiments come with a list of all needed materials, as well as step by step instructions. Scientific logic is given as to how the experiments work, as well as ways to extend them further (i.e. having a control experiment and exploring different variables). There are great activities for those simple experiments teachers don’t always have time to do in the classroom. [Submitted by Margarita Granadino]

Discipline: Science
Grade level: k-12
Website address: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/science/
Description: A website full of resources for science grades k-12. Once clicking on a topic, the next page shows different worksheets, resources, puzzle worksheet makers, and teacher related workbooks. It is full of information, and the page after clicking on a topic provides a lot of resources that can be used for all grade levels. If a teacher gets stuck on a science topic and can’t expand the lesson plan, this is a good source to encounter for additional information and resources. (Julie Kim)

Discipline: Science
Grade level: 8-12
Website address: http://www.newyorkscienceteacher.com/sci/movies/index.php
Description: This website is mostly for the high school level science curriculum. It covers science subjects from astronomy to geology. The great thing about this website is that it utilizes videos and movies related to science, and provides worksheets that can be correlated and related to those videos and movies. The links on the left side of the website are handy, as it provides other internet links, games, esl/bilingual glossaries, cartoons, and other teachers’ websites. (Julie Kim)

Science Buddies

Discipline: Science
Grade Level: 6th - 12th grade
Website: http://www.sciencebuddies.com/
Description: Teachers can utilize this website to support the science curriculum in their classroom. The Guide to Planning a Science Fair is integrated with tools, tips and tricks for teachers to offer students the benefits of a Science fair project. The student tab allows individual to search a variety of Science Fair projects. Students are even able to ask questions to an expert relating to projects. (Carin Truong)

NASA

Discipline: Science
Grade Level: Pre K- 12th grade
Website: http://www.nasa.gov/
Description: A great website for instructors to use to implement Science into their classroom. The website offers a variety of classroom activities, lesson plans as well as posters and videos. There is also a NASA Kid’s Club, which offers interactive games. The website will periodically send updates to keep others informed regarding events happening in the space program. It is a website for all to browse. (Carin Truong)

Science News for Kids

Discipline: Science Grade Level: Middle School Website Address: www.sciencenewsforkids.org Description: This website’s goal is to offer interesting items to kids, as well as suggestions for hands-on books, activities, articles, and other resources. There is a really cook feature called “The Weekly Scoop” where students can find out the latest news about science around the world. Students also have the opportunity to do puzzles or play games relating to science. The website also has a section called science fair zone. The section features science projects or experiments done by students from all over as well as suggestions for students who are interested in competing in a science fair. (Diana Yerevanian)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: Prek-12th Website Address: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/ Description: This is a great website for science lesson plans. The lessons are organized by subject and really easy to access. They actually have great ideas. Some websites for science have silly lesson plans but not this one. They offer really great lessons that are user friendly and easy to understand. (robin purcell)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: Kinder -12th Website Address: http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/teachers_resources/lesson_plans.html Description: I love this website! It's dedicated solely to lesson plans on energy and saving energy. If offers a library resource and science projects. It is geared for teachers as well as students and children. It has a page dedicated to young scientists and posts information on winners of any science awards or discoverers of new technology. If offers a glossary for energy awards and numerous links for further energy information. (robin purcell)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: Middle School Website Address: http://www.middleschoolscience.com/ Description: This is a cool website geared towards science teachers. If offers numerous lesson plans on life science, earth science, chemistry and physics. It also has a discussion board where teachers can post lesson plans and comments on whether or not they worked and what modifications are needed for the lessons to be successful. The lessons posted include the standard being addressed and some lessons can be planned and used over a period of time. It also includes a guide on how to make lab journals for students. (robin purcell)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: All Grades Website Address: http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ Description: This is a fantastic website! I am posting it for science but it actually covers much more than just science. It has great science lesson plans, however, I did not browse the other areas that much. It offers numerous links to other sites but you don't even need the other links, this site is enough. If offers every lesson plan possible in every area of science you could possibly think of, and the lesson plans are fun, engaging, and user friendly. If offers in depth information on all the lesson plans and is a great resource if you just have a question about something or want to double check your facts. I definitely recommend this site. (robin purcell)

Discipline: Emphasis on computational science, mathematics, and science
Grade Levels: Most interactive and online activities are popular for children in grades 3-12.
Web Site Address: www.shodor.org
Description: This site features a place for students and teachers to gather additional materials, information, and instruction relating to computational science. In particular, it is very helpful for students and educators because it is designed to facilitate a better understanding of course materials through interactive computing. Interactive online materials, activities, and lesson plans are provided for both teachers and students. (Ashley Gazzaniga)

Discipline(s): Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology Grade Level(s): 4-12 Website Address: www.brainpop.com Description: Brainpop.com is an animated educational website that teaches and informs students about all the core curriculum areas: Science, Social Studies, English, and Math. Most importantly, students gain an understanding for how the world works, how people behave in society, words and their usage, and calculations and computations by researching the various topics. Yet, there is also valuable instruction for students on Arts and Music, Health, and Technology to reach the whole child. The learning process is facilitated for students because they have the written information along with access to a short BrainPOP movie about each topic. The site also has two separate links that take the learners to BrainPOP Jr. for students in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade and BrainPOP ESL for English Language Learners (ELLs). Additionally, there are quizzes, activities, FYI, and Q&A to help students become experts on the different areas of study. Specifically, the Q&A is useful for students because it allows them to send in a question (for example about what is a main idea) and they receive the answer with a video that explains and takes them through the process to help them comprehend. Then, the homepage spotlights important people or events (like Black History month) so that students are aware of their significance. In the end, the website is also a valuable tool for teachers as they have access to lesson plans, class tools, and video tutorials. (Daniel Dueñas)

National Geographic Kids Discipline: Science, Language Arts, Art, Social Studies Grade Level: K through Middle School Website Address: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ Description: This National Geographic Society kid-friendly website, like the magazine, seeks to further the understanding of the world around us. This website has links to pictures and information about animals, people and places, games, videos, stories, and activities. This website is great for children of all ages, especially those interested in nature and protecting the environment. Kids can also create their own “page” with their favorite pictures and games. (Jennie Garsha)

Highlights Kids Discipline: Science, Language Arts, Art, Math Grade Level: Pre-K through Elementary School Website Address: http://www.highlightskids.com Description: When I was a kid, I highly anticipated the arrival of my Highlights Magazine in the mail. Like the magazine, the website makes learning fun. On the homepage there links to Highlights Magazine editions, Hidden Pictures, Fun Finder, Games and Giggles, Express Yourself, Story Soup, and Science in Action. The site is kid-friendly offering many online interactive activities for learning. (Jennie Garsha)

3. Biology Disciplines- Biology. Cells, Microorganisms, Plants, Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Animal Systems Grade Levels- 1st to 10th grade Website Address- www.biology4kids.com/index.html Description- This website provides information on different parts of Biology such as cells, microorganisms, plants, invertebrates, vertebrates and the animal systems. It gives you in depth information on each topic along with diagrams so students can visualize what they are reading. Important vocabulary words are in bold which allows us to become familiar with the word. The site also provides practice tests so that students can test themselves after reading on the certain topic. This is good for parents or teachers to use so that they can make sure the child has actually learned from the readings. (Grace Hong)

5. Kids Astronomy Disciplines- Astronomy: Solar System, Deep Space Grade Levels- First Grade to Eighth Grade and for Teachers Website Address- www.kidsastronomy.com/ Description- This kids astronomy site is awesome. It provides information on each of the planets in our solar system and what they look like. There is also information on each of the moons that orbit each planet. Also, there is a link that lets the student explore deep space and learn about Nebulas, Galaxies, Black holes, Quasers, and Stars. Students are also able to learn about space shuttles and telescopes. There are diagrams to allow students to visualize what

                they are learning about. The site also provides games like crossword, hangman, word search and more so that students can practice using their knowledge of what they learned about astronomy. Visuals like maps of the constellations are also provided. Teachers are able to use this site to get ideas for lesson plans and there are worksheets provided that they may use in class. Another thing I liked about this site was that it provided an astronomy dictionary which is useful since certain words are difficult. Also, students are able to hear how certain words are said because there is a man that talks on the site.(Grace Hong)

Discipline(s): Math, Language Arts, Science, History Grade Level(s): K-8th grade Web Site Address: www.funbrain.com Description: This site has several different games that help reinforce the different aspects of all subjects listed above. They also have web books and comics that children can read online. Along with the educational games, there is also an arcade that has arcade type games. There is access to an online gradebook as well as a homework help center. (Crystal Choi)

Discipline(s): Science – Biology and Animals Grade Level(s): K-8th grade Web Site Address: www.kidsbiology.com Description: This site is all about biology. This includes human biology as well as a whole animal database. There is an online biology textbook that includes several chapters on the basics of biology. The human biology section discusses the human body and what it is comprised of. The animal database gives information of several different animals of the world. For each animal, it gives a short description and list of facts about that animal. There are also games that have to do with biology, such as a hangman and memory type game. (Crystal Choi)

Discipline: Science-Astronomy Grades: 8th-high school Website address: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::800::600::/sites/dl/free/007299181x/78778/Parallax_Nav.swf::Stellar%20Parallax%20Interactive Description: Stellar Parallax Great simulation for stellar parallax. [10]

Discipline: Science; Geography; History; Math; Language Arts (Julie Gillichbauer)

Grade: 2nd – 6th

Web Site Address: http://www.kidsknowit.com/

Description: “Kids Know It” is a free children’s learning network. It has several educational games coving numerous disciplines, such as, astronomy, biology, dinosaurs, math, history, spelling, and much more. It has educational movies and music that is both entertaining and informative. The site is brightly colored and kid friendly, and is a good resource to supplement classroom curriculum, as well as increase student awareness in several areas of development. The comics are funny, yet encourage educational awareness in science, math, and language arts. Keeping students engaged is a primary objective of this site. It is fun and interactive, and can be utilized by students, parents, or teachers. It can be used to supplement instruction in the classroom or at home.

Discipline: Science (Julie Gillichbauer)

Grade: K – 6th

Web Site Address: http://www.sciencewithme.com/

Description: This is a hands-on, easy way for children to learn about science. This is a free educational website for all elementary aged children. The site offers movies, games, coloring pages, science animation, and fun projects, just to name a few activities. The stories are a great tool to help children master the scientific principles in a fun way. The videos are played to a catchy music tune that is sure to keep the attention of all children. To view the complete video you will need to register, however it is free and well worth it. This site is sure to attract the attention of students who may not be interested in science, and they will enjoy learning a good deal about the different sciences.

Discipline: Science (Julie Gillichbauer)

Grade: 5th – 6th

Web Site Address: http://sciencebuddies.org/

Description: This site focuses on Science fair project ideas, answers and tools. It would be a wonderful resource to guide students through the process of choosing, and conducting a science project for competition. This is a great site for students to find ideas, and information on how to complete their science project. There are a wide variety of topics and guides to help students understand science. They can ask an expert if needed. For students who have a particular interest in science, the blog is a good source. This site has links for parents and teachers alike.

Discipline: Science (Julie Gillichbauer)

Grade: 3rd – 6th

Web Site Address: http://www.nwf.org/Kids.aspx

Description: National Wildlife Federation is an online magazine for kids, parents and teachers. It is and easy reader full of fun facts, along with serious environmental issues. There are games, videos, and activities for all ages. The articles and activities promote critical thinking and problem solving skills. They encourage their readers to make a difference at home, by conserving energy or writing your congressman about specific issues; at school, by working with teachers and administrators, or in their community, by visiting places and sharing your wildlife stories with others. This site increases global warming and climate awareness, as well as informing readers to help protect our wildlife.

NASA Kids’ Club
Discipline: Science, Mathematics
Grade Level: 1st to 5th grade
Web Address: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html
Description: This website is the official website from NASA for kids. This website is very well made with sounds, moving pictures and videos. Children could click on a level (arranged from easiest to hardest) and they can select a game or activity within the level. One activity requires children to guess the pattern and place the correct object in the blank. Another activity involves reading the text and searching for the correct object. In order for the children to answer correctly, they must understand the text provided. There are also more games on the bottom of the page including a game with Buzz-Lightyear. This site is fun and informative and it will get children to learn astronomy and science. (Teewa Saks EED 515)

Schools Manatee
Discipline: Science Grade Level: K-12 Web Address: http://www.schools.manatee.k12.fl.us/291PSTREAM/291pstream1_1/edgeprojects1.html Description: Great source for whole lesson plans on all sciences, earth, physical, life etc...Very good quality content with free teacher work-aids, homework activities and classroom handouts. (Gregg Goldin EED 515 HYBRID)

SCIENCE NET LINKS Discipline: Science Grade Level: K-9 Web Address: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.php?BenchmarkID=1&DocID=48 Amazingly comprhensive science site. Very well-laid out. Covers all K-9 sciences. Numerous lesson plans, assessment, and development tools. Very user friendly and best of all free! (Gregg Goldin EED 515 Hybrid)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 3-5 Website: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ Description: The website is the National Geographic website for children. It has all types of exercises the children can use such a games, videos, stories, activities, photos, blogs, games. There is a lot to see and learn from. It is a fun website that the children can pick and choose from. (Catholine Ossy - Hybrid E ED 515)

Discipline: Science Grade Level: 6-8 Website: http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/ Description: The website is a dataset of selected astronaut-acquired imagery from earth. Earth from Space provides several ways to search the selected images. Each image is available in three resolutions and includes cataloging data and a caption. However, this site contains only a small selection of the best of our Earth photography. Some sections they can view include: cities, earth landscapes, distinctive features, hurricanes and weather, geographic regions, earth’s water habitats. (Catholine Ossy - Hybrid E ED 515)

Discipline: Science Grade Levels: K-12 Website Address: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4962 Description: This site provides the National Science Content Standards for each grade level. It also provides many resources for teachers on how to teach Science. Along with the content standards, there are resources given for assessing the students and teaching Science according to the Science Education System Standards. Useful Principles and definitions are also given to help teach Science. (Stefanie Singer,EED 515 Hybrid)