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Science & Technology:

3D Computer Dictionary - stumped by a techno term?

70+ Graphic Organizers new

Matisse's Glossary of Internet Terms new

4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources.

Academy of Energy Education from Johnson Controls, Inc.

Activate - The Journal of Technology Rich Learning - a wealth of ideas

Alien Invasion - Plants on the move

All About Atoms - Jefferson Lab

American Society of Civil Engineers: Kids

Animals at the National Zoo

Animal Alphabet at Billy Bear - great online resource for animals and letters

Arkive - 1000s of free multimedia resources for science new

Anti Drug - Freevibe.com - This drug awareness site provides students with the opportunity to make decisions based on real life scenarios in this fun, animated feature and then assesses the choices they would have made in these situations. This site also contains additional interactive educational features for students on drug prevention.

Artificial Intelligence - Manufactured Minds new

Ask An Expert - scientist who will interface via email

Assessment Consortium Database for Mathematics, and Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening.

Astronomy for Kids - Solar System walk

Autumn Internet Hunt

AWARE - Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education

Making Book Trailers with Photo Story 3 free software and free tutorial new

Backyard Farmer

Baltimore Curriculum Project Lesson Plans K - 5

Berkeley Lab's Center for Science and Engineering Education - wow!

Best Practices of Technology Integration in Michigan K12 all subjects!

Bird Thank You book - elementary learn birds

Biodiversity lessons

Biology Online

BioTech's Life Science Dictionary

Bluebirds at School

BrainPOP - multimedia science site (Health, Science, Technology)

Build a Prairie outstanding online habitat activity. I made a worksheet for it

Build it & Bust it!

Carbon Cycle Game

Rachel Carson & Silent Spring

Cells alive - animated resources for the study of cells

Cell Internet Activity

Centennial of Flight Special Edition: The "Wright" Math - provides middle and high school students an opportunity to study the physics and mathematics which describe the flight of a kite. You can choose from several types of kites and change the shape, size, and materials to produce your own design.

Chemistry4Kids - Matter, Elements, Atoms and more

Cicadas - Periodic cicada page at UMMZ

Cicada Hunt

Computer Recycling

Computers - Activities, Tutorials

Computer Internet hunts

Computer Webquest

Construction Function - basic building principles and design.

Cool Science for Curious Kids

Coral Reef Fish Count - Outstanding!

Curie, Marie - biography and much more

Cyberinfrastructure - examine the convergence of three realities -- the spread of
the Internet, the shrinkage of computers, and the accumulation of databases

CyberSmart - Free K-8 lessons on safety and use of the Internet

Dancing in the Night Sky, students will learn about the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Discover how NASA scientists and engineers use satellite technology to measure and analyze aurora data. They will see how Norwegian scientists apply the concepts of data analysis and measurement to study the Northern Lights

Data - links to rich data resources for calculating and for research

DCNR of PA - info on Pa's natural resources

Department of Environmental Protection PA

Dictionary of Units of Measurement

Digital Storytelling - Life around here new

Digital Edge Learning Interchange - K-12 lessons

Digital Investigator Activity - Digital Information Fluency

Digital Library for Earth System Education - a distributed community effort to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels

Digital Workshops - free new

Discover Life - WOW

DNA Interactive educational web site resource that celebrates the discovery of the DNA double helix structure.

Earth Observatory - Outstanding NASA site

Earth Science and Biology - using technology to investigate, analyze, and present a project

Echo the Bat - educational online storybook.

Ecokids activites & games new

Eduscapes - nature webquests

Electronic Naturalist - K- 8 nature study with materials

lightbulbEnergy

Explore Efficient Energy Uses

Energy Light bulbs compare/contrast Activity new

Energy Internet Activity

Saving on Home Energy Use Activity

EnergyQuest

Energy Alternatives Exploration

Energy Alternatives for your town pbl

Oil is not just gasoline

Energy Plans and their impact on you new

States and Energy Initiatives video Governors Association Conf. CSPAN

Oil Production Examining History - Finding the truth new

Energy Information Office Official Statistics of US Government

Energy research Resources

Energy info activites and games

Engineer Girl - Part of the National Academy of Engineering’s Celebration of Women in the Engineering project. The project brings national attention to the opportunity that engineering represents to people of all ages, but particularly to women and girls.

Engineering and Technology

Environmental Education Network

Environmental Ethics Curriculum - high school resource

Environmental Inquiry - a collection of ideas and resources to support student projects on a wide range of topics in the environmental sciences.

Environmental Internet Hunt

Environmentalists Internet Hunt

Environmentalist Award - a problem based learning activity that studies outstanding environmentalists

Exploring the Environment new

EPA's Climate and Weather - global warming

EPAAirNow - data rich web site with recources for indoor and outdoor air.

Exploratorium - online science museum

Fahrenheit and Celsius

Frogs - Something Froggy - a story about the life cycle of Frederick Frog. It is an outstanding web project

Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth new

Geologic web links and resources

PA Geology activity new

Geyser Info

GIS activty new

GPS activity

Grasshopper - interactive - shows different organ systems with labels

Gravity - What goes up must come down.

Great Plant Escape - primary/intermediate/ms Outstanding online resources for teaching about plants

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century

Greek and Roman Science and Technology ancient scientists and mathematicians

Happenin Habitat - National Wildlife Federation

Healthy Teeth - oral hygene for younger students

Health Tutorials - interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute.new

Health - Basic Body Internet Hunt

Heart anatomy - outstanding resource

Heart Internet Hunt

Virtual Body from Medtropolis - incredible site

Hypography Sci-Tech: Gateway to Science and Technology

The Five Senses

Food As Medicine webquest

Influenza Epidemic of 1918

To Plant or Not to Plant

 

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If Trees Could Talk

Learn About Trees. Download information and worksheets about trees.

iTunes U is a part of the iTunes Store featuring free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more, that you can enjoy on your iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. Explore over 50,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world. With iTunes U, there's no end to what or where you can learn.

Bud Burst Protocol

Internet Hunts about science subjects

It's a Math World - terrific integration!

COUNTDOWN - engaging math instruction & activities

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurementnew

NOAA Learning Objects videos

Environment Issues Game problem based learning new

Nightlighting for Moths activity video new

Leonardo Challenge - encourage creativity and design by using this resource

Postcards from the Field - Antarctic by Jean Pennycook

Electronic Naturalist free, weekly series on animals, plants, and the environment

Electronic Field Trips

FOSSweb is a modular K-8 science curriculum - engaging interactive method

Fear of physics

Green Energy online videos

States and Energy Initiatives video Governors Association Conf. CSPAN

The Future Channels integrating math science and career exploration

GeoWeb - Be a cyber cartographer new

Listen: Making sense of Sound

Mix and Match new

Mythbusters: A Scientific Inquiry Project

Map tree inventory new

Iron Science Teacher @ Exploratorium

Explore your Science Knowledge

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument

Acid Rain sWebquest

Rainforest maths interactive math K to 7

OLogy at the NMNH

Solve the science mystery - what has happened? new

Mystery Bird activity

Mystery Butterfly Activity new

Mystery caterpillar activity new

Mystery caterpillar 2 activity

Merlot - Multimedia Educational Resource and Learning & Online Teaching

NASA Quest!

How to be a Plant webquest

Human Body Webquest - rich in resources

Invisible or Deep Web

Journey North - a global study of animal migration

K-4 Earth Science modules new

Learning with handhelds - integrating palm pilots

Life of Mammals

Light: A learning unit

Marketplace For The Mind online PA Agriculture Education

Matter online practice activities 3rd - 8th grades

Measure 4 Measure - offers links to many sites that have online conversions or calculation features.

Milkweed & Monarch Mania - explores animals that live on milkweed plant

Monarch Watch - a site observing butterfly migration

MacOSaiX - Make photo mosaics

Nine 8 Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System

Solar System - Venn Diagram activity

Nutrition.gov

Oil more than just gas

Observation skills: Nest | Sky | Line | Hole | Larvae | Bushnew

Oceans

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument

Ocean.com - think deep

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean Life - American Museum of Natural History

OceanLink

U. S. Commission On Ocean Policy

University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System

Oceans - a cause for concern - pbl

Fish Activity

Ology - AMNH sites on Archeology, Astronomy, Biodiversity, Biology, Einstein, Genetics, Marine, Paleontology

Optics for Kids

Our Solar System

PA Center for Environmental Education - enviromental resources

Pathfinder Science - "hands-on, minds-on" activities ( student scientists not just science students)

Periodic Table of Elements - interactive

Elements Online Games

Energy and Mathematics

Pinniped Facts

Physics Applets - (requires java) explores a variety of phenomenon

Physics Classroom - tutorials in momentum, kinetics, light, sound and more

Plants and People - explores the ways people use North American native plants

Plant ID Activity - a must do!

PA Science and Technology Standards

PA Ecology and Environment Standards

Rainforest - rich resource

Rainforest maths interactive math K to 7

Ranger Rick's Go Wild - resources for animal projects from NWF

The Right Ratio of Rest: Proportional Reasoning NASA connect site

Rx for Survival — A Global Health Challenge is a very informative multimedia project, anchored by a six-hour PBS television series on world wide health issues. Use the factally rich Web site to explore the nautre and origin of deadly diseases that threaten all of us.

SciCentral

Science-athon offers elementary and middle-grade students opportunities to discover the science in their daily lives. Presented as challenges, the Science-athon asks students to investigate their world in ways that are engaging and fun. Catching Sunshine

Science for All Americans

Science Fair Handbook

Science Friday Kid's Connection

ScienceGems - a remarkable index of online science resources

Science Service Historical Image Collection at SI

Science Spot - resources for many curricula

Scientific American - a wealth of science news video new

Science Toy Maker - many projects

Scientific Method online activity

Scientific Method quiz

NSF Scrub Club - handy info and advice

Simple Machines

Simple Machines at Ed Head highly interactive

Sports Nutrition and the Olympics

Star Gazer - PBS series

Student Data Mapper - Collaborative GIS. Create a project, contribute data, and make a map - all through the web.

The Tech Pod Zone new

Time - Ancient Observatories: Timeless Knowledge NASA Connect Using simple tools of geometry and the angle bisector method, students will measure the movement of the Sun and find solar noon for their location.

Free Thinkfinity.org an innovative online resource for teachers, students, parents and the literacy community new

Topographic Maps of Planet X - students will map the surface of a “mystery planet” landscape and make predictions about its appearance. This activity introduces students to the coordinate plane, ordered pairs, and concepts of data gathering, graphing, and analysis. .

Tuskegee Tragedy - A WebQuest Exploring The Powerful and their Victims

Visual Ranking tool

Vote for School Lunch - National School Lunch Week (October 9-13)

Water

drop Wetlands online activity 7-11

drop Water cycle and water facts 4-7

drop Lentic or Lotic environment?

drop Water words puzzle

drop MYO Water Crossword Puzzle

drop PA Map of waters - label

drop Wetlands information

drop Precipitation and Population new

drop Natural Resource Wars project based learning

drop Drought Presentation new

drop Watering Milkweed - Spreadsheet activity

drop Wetlands ecosystem

drop Water word problems

drop Mapping Pennsylvania Waters

 

Weather and Climate - online resources

Weather at NOAA

Who Can Lift the Baby Hippo - Explains how a lever operates and defines related terms such as load and fulcrum. new

Why Files - The science behind the news. Excellent new

Wildfire prevention curriculum PreK - 6

Wired: A Day in the Life of Energy

Wired Science - website for the PBS series new

Windows to the Universe

WorldWide Telescope - free downloadable software spans astronomy, education and computing

Winter Resources

Wondernet- your science place in Cyberspace

Your age on other Worlds - online calculator

Your weight on other worlds - online calculator

Zam's Quest - 8 units based on environmental issues

 

Zoos: virtual

National Zoo Live AnimalCams

Bronx Zoo

Brookfield Zoo Zoocasts

Cleveland Metro Parks Zoo "Roar Report" Blog

Denver Zoo

Kansas City Zoo Wild Bunch for Kids

Lincoln Park Zoo

Los Angeles Zoo

Miami Metro Zoo Podcast Zoo Tour

Philadelphia Zoo

San Diego Zoo & Wild Animal Park

World Assoc. of Zoos & Aquariums

ZooBooks

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