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3 Educational Websites Science Teachers Should Check Out. Below are three interesting science resources selected specifically for elementary teachers.

3 Educational Websites Science Teachers Should Check Out

These websites provide teachers with a wide variety of educational materials to help young kids enjoy science learning. Mystery Science: Lessons for elementary teachers. Nature Soundmap. STEM to STEAM: Resources Toolkit. Free Resources. Close If you are trying to view the videos from inside a school or university, your IT admin may need to enable streaming on your network.

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Please see the Internet Filtering section of our Technical Requirements page. DVDs AND OTHER COPIES Videos on this page are not available on DVD at this time due to licensing restrictions on the footage. Mystery Science: Lessons for elementary teachers.

Evolution News. Mar. 15, 2016 — Previous analyses of the hominins from Sima de los Huesos in 2013 showed that their maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA was distantly related to Denisovans, extinct relatives of Neanderthals in ... read more Mar. 15, 2016 — A pregnant Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed Montana 68 million years ago may be the key to discerning gender differences between theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur, ... read more Mar. 14, 2016 — The fossilized remains of a new horse-sized dinosaur reveal how Tyrannosaurus rex and its close relatives became top ... read more Paleontologists Discover 250-Million-Year-Old New Species of Reptile in Brazil Mar. 11, 2016 — A new fossil reptile that lived 250 million years ago in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southernmost Brazil has been discovered by an international team of researchers.

Evolution News

The species has been ... read more Mar. 10, 2016 — A difference of one hundredth of a percent in fitness is sufficient to select between winners and losers in evolution. You Can Science It: Archive. Data Nuggets. Useful websites for science teachers. Chocolate: Facts, History, and Factory Tour. SciCentral: Gateway to the best science news sources. Teaching science with bad science: resources for teachers. People often wring their hands over how to make science “relevant” to the public, or to young people.

Teaching science with bad science: resources for teachers

For me, this is an open goal: we are constantly barraged with health claims in popular culture, and evidence based medicine is the science of how we know what does good, and what does harm. Every popular claim is an opportunity to learn about the relative merits and downsides of randomised trials, systematic reviews, cohort studies, laboratory work, and more. I got together with Collins, the people who make the biggest selling GCSE textbooks, and we’ve made some resources for teachers who are interested in covering these kinds of things at school. ExpeRimental. 40 STEM Activities for Kids - Playdough To Plato. Activities for ages 4 and up.

40 STEM Activities for Kids - Playdough To Plato

STEM activities {Science Technology Engineering and Math} are all the buzz in education. Kids love finding out how things work through fun, hands-on projects and teachers love knowing that they’re preparing students for their techy future. For a little STEM inspiration, check out this awesome roundup of our 40 favorite STEM activities for kids. Curriculum resources - Royal Academy of Engineering. The Academy’s curriculum resources provide longer learning activities for use in a STEM club, for a STEM challenge day or to enhance and add context to the curriculum.

Curriculum resources - Royal Academy of Engineering

Developed primarily to engage Key Stage 3 students with STEM subjects, such as D&T, ICT, science and mathematics, the resources give students the opportunity to learn by investigating big questions and working in an engineering context. The following themed resources are all free to download. Deployable structures These resources allow the learning of maths within the engineering context of deployable structures.

AMAZING Science Activities for Kids. Online Science. About Science Friday. Science Friday Science Friday is your trusted source for news and entertaining stories about science.

About Science Friday

We started as a radio show, created in 1991 by host and executive producer Ira Flatow. Since then, we’ve grown into much more: We produce award-winning digital videos and publish original web content covering everything from octopus camouflage to cooking on Mars. STEM Resource Finder. Free Online Course Materials. MIT BLOSSOMS. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS)

Bozemanscience. Classroom Resources. Classroom Resources Welcome to Classroom Resources--a diverse collection of lessons and web resources for classroom teachers, their students, and students' families.

Classroom Resources

Materials are arranged by subject area to help you quickly find resources in your interest area, and then use them to create lesson plans or at-home activities. Most of these resources come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). NSDL is the National Science Foundation's online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

Games, Simulations and Virtual Labs for STEM Education. STEM Behind Hollywood by Texas Instruments. Scientists and experts who consult on Hollywood films and TV worked alongside leading math and science educators to create free classroom activities for TI-Nspire CX™ handhelds, TI-Nspire™ Teacher and Student Software, and TI-Nspire™ Apps for iPad.

STEM Behind Hollywood by Texas Instruments

These activities center around the math and science behind Hollywood themes like zombies, superheroes, space and forensics, and they give students the chance to solve problems just like real-life scientists using the concepts behind their favorite movies and TV shows. TI’s STEM education advocate Her role as one of TV’s most endearing nerds — Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory — is hardly a stretch for TI’s brand ambassador, the Emmy-nominated actress Mayim Bialik. Science Behind the Headlines: Education Packs - Royal Institution of AustraliaRiAus - Australia’s national science hub. NSW Syllabus. $10 Smartphone to digital microscope conversion! CK-12 Simulations. World Library of Science. CREST. Elementary Science Resources- Part #1. Virtual Labs. The links on this page are all VIRTUAL LABS offered by the Glencoe textbook company.

Virtual Labs

These labs give the students the adventure of laboratory experimentation without costly supplies, worrisome environmental and safety issues, or time-consuming clean up. Sparticl Homepage. Lesson Plans. Human Evolution Timeline Interactive. HowStuffWorks "Science". Free Education Films : Twig. Home - Australian Academy of Science. Online Mind Games for free,Brain teaser for kids,adults to play,Puzzle game site. Rolling Fall is a fun physics-based puzzle game for children and grownups where you have to cut chains at the precise moment so that the heavy wrecking balls attached to them can swing or fall loose with gravity and knock the Zombies from the platforms below. It starts off easy but then gets really tricky as the levels progress! This game turns into an addicting brain-teaser of epic proportions.

You need to keep your thinking cap on tight! OK Zombie Smasher, do some damage! Your job is to cut the chains, release the wrecking balls and do-away-with all of the unfortunate Zombies! You need to decide which chains to cut first so that you are able to take out of all of these bad guys. How To Play: Use your computer mouse to simulate the cutting of the chains (with the little knife icon that appears). Doctor games for kids,online hospital simulation game,free educational medical activity for girls,boys,children,teens. Arm Surgery 2 is an educational online activity for children who dream of becoming doctors, nurses or other medical professionals one day or just for today.

It’s your first day of work at St. Flak’s Hospital, but you will be saving lives in no time. Choose your language at the right bottom corner of the game screen. Then click ‘Operate’ to start the surgery or ‘How to Play’ for Lara, the head nurse, to guide you through the game stages. A distressed patient with a bump on her arm is brought into the hospital. Start treating the patient as quickly as possible. How to Play: Left Click using your computer mouse or touchpad to choose an item. Home - Science NetLinks. Browse Archived Questions and Answers (Everyday Mysteries: Fun Science Facts from the Library of Congress)

Human Evolution Timeline Interactive. Scope, Sequence, and Coordination. Symphony of Science - Scientists become rock stars // A project by melodysheep. Science Experiments, Videos, and Science Fair Ideas at Sciencebob.com. Dr. Lodge McCammon. The Science Behind the News. The Stone Age Institute - From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web - Home. Catalyst - Forensics Special - Phar Lap, Drug Forensics, Narrabeen Man - ABC TV. TryEngineering. Online Science. Early Elementary Science Curriculum - K-2 Interactive Science Program.