Science+Links

**Science** From Science Meeting, 2/24/09 [|http://my.hrw.com] (From Kelly – this is the 5th – 8th grade science textbook website. It provides a wealth of study tools for students including the textbook online, worksheets, interactive concept maps, etc). Also looked at the whiteboard’s gallery of pictures which included some interactive diagrams.

[|www.learner.org/interactives/] (From Lizanne, has more than just science, looked at rock cycle, parts of the Earth and volcanoes)

[|www.internet4classrooms.com] (This is a winner from Katie. Definitely one stop shopping with a huge wealth of sites for all curricular areas, organizes many web sites, has lessons, interactive sites, and is for all grade levels).

[|http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/interactive/interactive.html] (From Denise with a focus on volcanoes. Really fun interactive in which you construct a volcano).

[|www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesof nature/interactive/index.html] (From Denise – great site with earthquakes, tornadoes, etc)

[|http://paleobiology.si.edu/interactives/dig/main.html] (From Mary, may need to access through the main Smithsonian website, about paleontology with a dinosaur to excavate)

Life science – search for frog dissection interactive website (from Vanessa)

[|http://learningscience.org] (From Lauren and John – provides links to numerous science sites, of interest were the tools to do science)

=Possibilities for the Science/SS media project room= Science Seekers http://www.tomsnyder.com/products/product.asp?SKU=SSKSSK#

Interactive Gaming http://ced.ncsu.edu/hifives/games/grade9.html

modeling and simulation software http://education.mit.edu/drupal/starlogo-tng

Game of Life (poverty) (overlap of content areas) http://ayiti.newzcrew.org/globalkids/

SS http://www.muzzylane.com/ml/making_history

//**PhET Interactive Simulations**// http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php?cat=Featured_Sims

//**The Satellite Site**// http://www.thetech.org/hyper/satellite/

//**Physics 2000c**// http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl

//**Forge FX--Prentice Hall (Catapult)**// http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/

//**Physics Java Applets**// http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/

//**Understanding Genetics**// http://www.thetech.org/genetics/

//**Explorelearning--Science and Math with Gizmos**// http://www.explorelearning.com/

//**Zephyrus Interactive**// http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/index.html

//**earthguide**// http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/

//**Al Bodzin's Web-based Science Activities**// http://www.ncsu.edu/servit/bodzin/

//**West Point Bridge Design Contest Software**// http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/

//**MERLOT**// Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching [|http://www.merlot.org]

//**The ChemCollective Virtual Lab Simulation**// http://www.chemcollective.org/vlab/vlab.php

//**Imaging Technology Group Virtual Lab--The Virtual Microscope**// [|http://virtual.itg.uiuc.edu]

//**BioLogica**// http://biologica.concord.org/index.html A systematic approach to learning science.

//**CERES Project**// (teaching astronomy) http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/

//**USGS Earthquake Hazards Program**// http://earthquake.usgs.gov/