Science Journal for Kids and Teens Free reports on cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science research adapted for students and their teachers. Articles can be selected according to reading level (elementary school, lower high school, middle school, upper high school) and/or subject field (biodiversity and conservation, biology, energy and climate, food and agriculture, health and medicine, physical science, pollution, social science, technology, water resources).
NASA Kids' Club is a collection games, interactive activities, and images for students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. At the center of the NASA Kids' Club is a set of games and interactive activities arranged on five skill levels. The activities range from simple things like guessing numbers in "Airplane High Low" to more difficult tasks like identifying planets based on some clues provided in prompts in "Go to the Head of the Solar System." NASA Kids' Club offers a teachers' section in which each of the Kids' Club activities is outlined with alignment to NCTM and Common Core standards. www.freetech4teachers.com
NASA’s Space Jam: Yes, I said Space Jam. Students use music, astronomy and coding to create a solar system that really rocks! Give students our NASA Space Jam explore board to give them choices! You can also download this explore board in Microsoft Word.
Access Mars "Picture this: August 5, 2012—a momentous day when the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, captivating the entire world. Since then, it has been tirelessly beaming back more than 200,000 awe-inspiring photographs from the surface of the red planet. Thanks to an incredible collaboration between JPL engineers and Google Creative Lab, you can now embark on an extraordinary adventure in this breathtaking web experience where the rover’s photographs come to life in a mesmerizing 3D model."
STEM strategy card game from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology to get students thinking like the NASA scientists and engineers working on exciting missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, as they prepare to join the Artemis Generation
Space Math is a NASA website containing space-themed math lessons for students in elementary school through high school. This evening I revisited for the first time in a couple of years and noticed that it now offers more than 700 math problems related to space and space exploration. On Space Math you can search for problems according to grade level or mathematics topic. The bulk of the materials seem to be PDFs of directions for carrying out the lesson plans. The exception to that pattern being the middle school (grades 6-8) resources which include the use of some of NASA eClips
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
NASA has a treat for you. They have made their entire collectionof images, sounds, and video available and publicly searchable online. It’s 140,000 photos and other resources available for you to see, or even download and use it any way you like.
NASA Space Place
NASA Space Place is a sizable collection of fun projects, games, animations, and lessons about Earth, space, and technology. Before playing the games or attempting one of the projects, students should explore the animations and facts sections to gain some background information. The projects section of NASA Space Place provides teachers, parents, and students with directions for hands-on projects like building a balloon-powered rover, building relief maps, and building a moon habitat. The games section offers thirty games covering all of the subjects in the animations and facts sections. www.freetech4teachers.com
NASA eClips
NASA's eClips videos are arranged by grade level; K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. There is also a section labeled for the general public. The videos are short clips designed to show students the work NASA is doing and how that work impacts space science as well as its potential impact on everyday life. All of the videos can be viewed online on the NASA eClips site, viewed on YouTube, or downloaded for use on your local computer. www.freetech4teachers.com videos.www.freetech4teachers.com
10 Good Resources for Learning About Space
How Big is Space? - Four simulations that model space and help demonstrate the size and scale of space
Orion’s Quest An internet-based education program for upper elementary, middle, and high school students, Orion’s Quest (OQ) employs current NASA research to reach and inspire “the next generation of explorers.” OQ places students in the role of research assistant in their classrooms, supporting authentic research being conducted on the International Space Station. The programs consist of hands-on missions designed to stimulate student interest in the STEM disciplines. The curriculum template covers each experiment, or “mission,” from preflight preparation to postflight activities, including student and program evaluation. Each year Orion’s Quest adds new “live,” or near real-time, missions to its offerings. While these current missions usually take place during a single semester, the virtual missions previously conducted in space are available online throughout the school year.
Journey Through The Cosmos To Explore Life Beyond Earth
This collection of media resources from “NOVA Wonders” will show your students just how far we’ve come in our search for answers about the universe, how we managed to get here, and how scientists hope to push the research of the universe even further.
MySciLife (gr 6 - 8) A free educational social media platform that leverages social media elements students already enjoy using to create media and active connections with curricular content and develop digital citizenship skills. Students design identities based on science concepts, conduct research to build their profiles, and learn from one another as they personify their identities in posts, comments, and responses. For example, they may choose to become their favorite planet and talk about their region of the Solar System. Or they may comment on posts as different organisms to show relationships in the food chain, or play two truths and a lie while personifying a tectonic plate.
Science Journal for Kids and Teens reports on cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science research adapted for students and their teachers. Articles can be selected according to reading level (elementary school, lower high school, middle school, upper high school) or subject field (biodiversity and conservation, biology, energy and climate, food and agriculture, health and medicine, physical science, pollution, social science, technology, water resources). Teachers will also find a collection of lesson ideas, including hands-on activities, case studies, and games with distance-learning options.
Earth Science Links
Science Netlinks Science NetLinks is a premier K-12 science education resource produced by theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science. At Science NetLinks, you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities.
National Reconnaissance Office’s Jr. Elementary-aged students will experience the wonders of science, math, and space exploration when they visit the National Reconnaissance Office’s Jr. “Ollie” interactive website. “Ollie the Satellite” takes students from the home page to a free web portal with choices to explore games, simulations, orbitology (science of orbits), our Solar System, and information about satellites and their purpose.
Realtime Satellite Images and interactive lessons
The Satellite Observations in Science Education project (SOSE), provides free tools known as Reusable Content Objects, or RCOs. You can easily and quickly use RCOs to put an interactive web page together and get your lesson taught.
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php for all grade levels created by University of Colorado.
Earth Science Links
Glean - Ever feel overwhelmed by all the educational videos online? Aided by a team of teachers, this service chooses and catalogs the best videos.
Realtime Satellite Images and interactive lessons
The Satellite Observations in Science Education project (SOSE), provides free tools known as Reusable Content Objects, or RCOs. You can easily and quickly use RCOs to put an interactive web page together and get your lesson taught.
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php for all grade levels created by University of Colorado.
Classroom Earth
http://classroomearth.org created by the Natioonal Education Fopundation for high schools.content and lesson plans to strengthen environmental education
Greenovation
Green Environmental Projects http://greenovationnation.com/
WISE
A simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. http://wise.berkeley.edu/
Earth and Environmental Science: Research Overview
http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/earth-environ/index.jsp
Examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate? What can rock layers tell us about earth's history? How can we understand the forces that lead to earthquakes and volcanoes? How can organisms live without sunlight? How do long-term changes affect earth's ecosystems? (NSF)
SEREF
the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation, has built a couple of tools that could be of interest to science teachers. SEREF has an energy estimation tool that allows you to estimate the potential solar and wind energy of any location. To use the estimation tool you have to enter your location using on the map and input the size of the solar panels or wind turbine structure. You can also draw out the dimensions of your solar panels on the map. The potential energy is then calculated based on climate, latitude, and typical weather patterns.
Spacecraft AR - ( Android ) Interact with 3D models of NASA spacecraft, including the Curiosity rover, SMAP, Voyager, and more.
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
Offers hundreds of teaching activities, visualizations, and resources for teaching earth science. Categories include biosphere, climate change, energy/material cycles, geology and human health, geochemistry, hydrosphere and cryosphere, mineralogy, ocean systems, petrology, solar system, and earth history. Special sections are provided on using data and teaching quantitative skills. (NSF)
A Walk in the Woods
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/woods Aimed at urban students in grades 3-5 - city kids who rarely get away from the concrete. Virtual trips.
Classroom Earth
http://www.classroomearth.org/
An online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans.
EEK!
dnr.wi.gov/eek Environmental education for kids aimed at gr. 4-8 and inlcudes links for k-12.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz
myfootprint.org online quiz to determine your family's ecological footprint.
PowerUp
powerupthegame.org free downloadable game where players try to save world from evironmental disassters. by IBM
The Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center
epa.gov/teachers lesson plans and classroom activities.
Earth - Windows to the Universe
Earth.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html
Includes documents, images, movies, animations, and data that explore the Earth.
Explore Geology
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/
The National Park Service has developed this exemplary set of educational resources which draws on their greatest assets, namely national parks from Maine to Utah. The materials are specifically designed for teaching geology, but it's easy to see how these items could be incorporated into general science classes.
Rocks & Weathering
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_18_09-03-26.swf is a great animated site produced by the BBC. The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass
Planet Earth Guide - Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/planetearth.html
Learn about the structure of our planet and what we are learning from and about it.
Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/
3 - 8 earth studies
DYNAMIC EARTH: http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/origlessons/
dynamic_earth/index.html
Earthquakes and volcanoes, grades 3 – 8
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/library/
Presents thousands of reviewed resources on atmospheric science, biology, chemistry, climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography, geology, mineralogy & petrology, hydrology, mathematics, natural hazards, ocean sciences, physics, soil science, space science, & more. (NSF)
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
NASA has a treat for you. They have made their entire collectionof images, sounds, and video available and publicly searchable online. It’s 140,000 photos and other resources available for you to see, or even download and use it any way you like.
NASA Kids' Club is a collection games, interactive activities, and images for students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. At the center of the NASA Kids' Club is a set of games and interactive activities arranged on five skill levels. The activities range from simple things like coloring pages and pattern recognition games to more difficult tasks like identifying planets based on clues provided in written and video form. www.freetech4teachers.com
NASA Space Place
NASA Space Place is a sizable collection of fun projects, games, animations, and lessons about Earth, space, and technology. Before playing the games or attempting one of the projects, students should explore the animations and facts sections to gain some background information. The projects section of NASA Space Place provides teachers, parents, and students with directions for hands-on projects like building a balloon-powered rover, building relief maps, and building a moon habitat. The games section offers thirty games covering all of the subjects in the animations and facts sections. www.freetech4teachers.com
NASA eClips
NASA's eClips videos are arranged by grade level; K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. There is also a section labeled for the general public. The videos are short clips designed to show students the work NASA is doing and how that work impacts space science as well as its potential impact on everyday life. All of the videos can be viewed online on the NASA eClips site, viewed on YouTube, or downloaded for use on your local computer. www.freetech4teachers.com
Rocket Science: Ride To The Station is a simulation created by NASA where players can put themselves in the role of running a mission to the International Space Station. The ‘Rocket Science: Ride 2 Station’ app is a free download, out now on iOS, and also available on the web.
Earth Season's
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
For elementary students, Enchanted Learning defines the terms solstice and equinox, and explains why we have four seasons. To complete the topic, there are variety of printable worksheets including an Earth's Seasons Quiz, a Seasons Word Pieces Puzzle, and a Label Me! Four Seasons Printout. Related topics, such as the Seasons Theme Pages (chock full of craft ideas) and The Planets, are just a click away.
Liverpool Museums: Sunbeams & Sundials
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
With illustrations and animations, this online exhibit from the Liverpool Museums explains how the tilt of the Earth's axis causes the Earth's four seasons, and how a sundial works. Don't miss the SunTracker, an applet that illustrates the sun's path on any day, in any location. "Along the way there are quiz questions to answer, experiments to try and a sundial to make, so there's plenty to do. Words marked in red are glossary words. Click on them to see their meaning."
NASA's KSNN: Why Are There Seasons?
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_seasons.html
Best clicks at the Kids Science News Network (KSNN) site for grades K-2, are the activities page (two classroom projects about seasons) and an animated video about why the weather changes from one season to the next.
Oceans Alive
Classroom Earth
http://classroomearth.org created by the Natioonal Education Fopundation for high schools.content and lesson plans to strengthen environmental education
Greenovation
Green Environmental Projects http://greenovationnation.com/
WISE
A simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. http://wise.berkeley.edu/
Earth and Environmental Science: Research Overview
http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/earth-environ/index.jsp
Examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate? What can rock layers tell us about earth's history? How can we understand the forces that lead to earthquakes and volcanoes? How can organisms live without sunlight? How do long-term changes affect earth's ecosystems? (NSF)
SEREF
the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation, has built a couple of tools that could be of interest to science teachers. SEREF has an energy estimation tool that allows you to estimate the potential solar and wind energy of any location. To use the estimation tool you have to enter your location using on the map and input the size of the solar panels or wind turbine structure. You can also draw out the dimensions of your solar panels on the map. The potential energy is then calculated based on climate, latitude, and typical weather patterns.
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
Offers hundreds of teaching activities, visualizations, and resources for teaching earth science. Categories include biosphere, climate change, energy/material cycles, geology and human health, geochemistry, hydrosphere and cryosphere, mineralogy, ocean systems, petrology, solar system, and earth history. Special sections are provided on using data and teaching quantitative skills. (NSF)
Earth Science Links
Realtime Satellite Images and interactive lessons
The Satellite Observations in Science Education project (SOSE), provides free tools known as Reusable Content Objects, or RCOs. You can easily and quickly use RCOs to put an interactive web page together and get your lesson taught.
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php for all grade levels created by University of Colorado.
Classroom Earth
http://classroomearth.org created by the Natioonal Education Fopundation for high schools.content and lesson plans to strengthen environmental education
Greenovation
Green Environmental Projects http://greenovationnation.com/
WISE
A simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. http://wise.berkeley.edu/
Earth and Environmental Science: Research Overview
http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/earth-environ/index.jsp
Examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate? What can rock layers tell us about earth's history? How can we understand the forces that lead to earthquakes and volcanoes? How can organisms live without sunlight? How do long-term changes affect earth's ecosystems? (NSF)
SEREF
the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation, has built a couple of tools that could be of interest to science teachers. SEREF has an energy estimation tool that allows you to estimate the potential solar and wind energy of any location. To use the estimation tool you have to enter your location using on the map and input the size of the solar panels or wind turbine structure. You can also draw out the dimensions of your solar panels on the map. The potential energy is then calculated based on climate, latitude, and typical weather patterns.
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
Offers hundreds of teaching activities, visualizations, and resources for teaching earth science. Categories include biosphere, climate change, energy/material cycles, geology and human health, geochemistry, hydrosphere and cryosphere, mineralogy, ocean systems, petrology, solar system, and earth history. Special sections are provided on using data and teaching quantitative skills. (NSF)
A Walk in the Woods
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/woods Aimed at urban students in grades 3-5 - city kids who rarely get away from the concrete. Virtual trips.
Classroom Earth
http://www.classroomearth.org/
An online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans.
EEK!
dnr.wi.gov/eek Environmental education for kids aimed at gr. 4-8 and inlcudes links for k-12.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz
myfootprint.org online quiz to determine your family's ecological footprint.
PowerUp
powerupthegame.org free downloadable game where players try to save world from evironmental disassters. by IBM
The Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center
epa.gov/teachers lesson plans and classroom activities.
Earth - Windows to the Universe
Earth.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html
Includes documents, images, movies, animations, and data that explore the Earth.
Explore Geology
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/
The National Park Service has developed this exemplary set of educational resources which draws on their greatest assets, namely national parks from Maine to Utah. The materials are specifically designed for teaching geology, but it's easy to see how these items could be incorporated into general science classes.
Rocks & Weathering
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_18_09-03-26.swf is a great animated site produced by the BBC. The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass
Planet Earth Guide - Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/planetearth.html
Learn about the structure of our planet and what we are learning from and about it.
Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/
3 - 8 earth studies
DYNAMIC EARTH: http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/origlessons/
dynamic_earth/index.html
Earthquakes and volcanoes, grades 3 – 8
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/library/
Presents thousands of reviewed resources on atmospheric science, biology, chemistry, climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography, geology, mineralogy & petrology, hydrology, mathematics, natural hazards, ocean sciences, physics, soil science, space science, & more. (NSF)
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
Earth Season's
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
For elementary students, Enchanted Learning defines the terms solstice and equinox, and explains why we have four seasons. To complete the topic, there are variety of printable worksheets including an Earth's Seasons Quiz, a Seasons Word Pieces Puzzle, and a Label Me! Four Seasons Printout. Related topics, such as the Seasons Theme Pages (chock full of craft ideas) and The Planets, are just a click away.
Liverpool Museums: Sunbeams & Sundials
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
With illustrations and animations, this online exhibit from the Liverpool Museums explains how the tilt of the Earth's axis causes the Earth's four seasons, and how a sundial works. Don't miss the SunTracker, an applet that illustrates the sun's path on any day, in any location. "Along the way there are quiz questions to answer, experiments to try and a sundial to make, so there's plenty to do. Words marked in red are glossary words. Click on them to see their meaning."
NASA's KSNN: Why Are There Seasons?
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_seasons.html
Best clicks at the Kids Science News Network (KSNN) site for grades K-2, are the activities page (two classroom projects about seasons) and an animated video about why the weather changes from one season to the next.
Oceans Alive
A Walk in the Woods
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/woods Aimed at urban students in grades 3-5 - city kids who rarely get away from the concrete. Virtual trips.
Classroom Earth
http://www.classroomearth.org/
An online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans.
EEK!
dnr.wi.gov/eek Environmental education for kids aimed at gr. 4-8 and inlcudes links for k-12.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz
myfootprint.org online quiz to determine your family's ecological footprint.
PowerUp
powerupthegame.org free downloadable game where players try to save world from evironmental disassters. by IBM
The Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center
epa.gov/teachers lesson plans and classroom activities.
Earth - Windows to the Universe
Earth.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html
Includes documents, images, movies, animations, and data that explore the Earth.
Explore Geology
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/
The National Park Service has developed this exemplary set of educational resources which draws on their greatest assets, namely national parks from Maine to Utah. The materials are specifically designed for teaching geology, but it's easy to see how these items could be incorporated into general science classes.
Rocks & Weathering
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_18_09-03-26.swf is a great animated site produced by the BBC. The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass
Planet Earth Guide - Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/planetearth.html
Learn about the structure of our planet and what we are learning from and about it.
Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/
3 - 8 earth studies
DYNAMIC EARTH: http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/origlessons/
dynamic_earth/index.html
Earthquakes and volcanoes, grades 3 – 8
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/library/
Presents thousands of reviewed resources on atmospheric science, biology, chemistry, climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography, geology, mineralogy & petrology, hydrology, mathematics, natural hazards, ocean sciences, physics, soil science, space science, & more. (NSF)
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
Earth Season's
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
For elementary students, Enchanted Learning defines the terms solstice and equinox, and explains why we have four seasons. To complete the topic, there are variety of printable worksheets including an Earth's Seasons Quiz, a Seasons Word Pieces Puzzle, and a Label Me! Four Seasons Printout. Related topics, such as the Seasons Theme Pages (chock full of craft ideas) and The Planets, are just a click away.
Liverpool Museums: Sunbeams & Sundials
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
With illustrations and animations, this online exhibit from the Liverpool Museums explains how the tilt of the Earth's axis causes the Earth's four seasons, and how a sundial works. Don't miss the SunTracker, an applet that illustrates the sun's path on any day, in any location. "Along the way there are quiz questions to answer, experiments to try and a sundial to make, so there's plenty to do. Words marked in red are glossary words. Click on them to see their meaning."
NASA's KSNN: Why Are There Seasons?
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_seasons.html
Best clicks at the Kids Science News Network (KSNN) site for grades K-2, are the activities page (two classroom projects about seasons) and an animated video about why the weather changes from one season to the next.
Oceans Alive
NASA Kids' Club is a collection games, interactive activities, and images for students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. At the center of the NASA Kids' Club is a set of games and interactive activities arranged on five skill levels. The activities range from simple things like guessing numbers in "Airplane High Low" to more difficult tasks like identifying planets based on some clues provided in prompts in "Go to the Head of the Solar System." NASA Kids' Club offers a teachers' section in which each of the Kids' Club activities is outlined with alignment to NCTM and Common Core standards. www.freetech4teachers.com
NASA’s Space Jam: Yes, I said Space Jam. Students use music, astronomy and coding to create a solar system that really rocks! Give students our NASA Space Jam explore board to give them choices! You can also download this explore board in Microsoft Word.
Access Mars "Picture this: August 5, 2012—a momentous day when the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, captivating the entire world. Since then, it has been tirelessly beaming back more than 200,000 awe-inspiring photographs from the surface of the red planet. Thanks to an incredible collaboration between JPL engineers and Google Creative Lab, you can now embark on an extraordinary adventure in this breathtaking web experience where the rover’s photographs come to life in a mesmerizing 3D model."
STEM strategy card game from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology to get students thinking like the NASA scientists and engineers working on exciting missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, as they prepare to join the Artemis Generation
Space Math is a NASA website containing space-themed math lessons for students in elementary school through high school. This evening I revisited for the first time in a couple of years and noticed that it now offers more than 700 math problems related to space and space exploration. On Space Math you can search for problems according to grade level or mathematics topic. The bulk of the materials seem to be PDFs of directions for carrying out the lesson plans. The exception to that pattern being the middle school (grades 6-8) resources which include the use of some of NASA eClips
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
NASA has a treat for you. They have made their entire collectionof images, sounds, and video available and publicly searchable online. It’s 140,000 photos and other resources available for you to see, or even download and use it any way you like.
NASA Space Place
NASA Space Place is a sizable collection of fun projects, games, animations, and lessons about Earth, space, and technology. Before playing the games or attempting one of the projects, students should explore the animations and facts sections to gain some background information. The projects section of NASA Space Place provides teachers, parents, and students with directions for hands-on projects like building a balloon-powered rover, building relief maps, and building a moon habitat. The games section offers thirty games covering all of the subjects in the animations and facts sections. www.freetech4teachers.com
NASA eClips
NASA's eClips videos are arranged by grade level; K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. There is also a section labeled for the general public. The videos are short clips designed to show students the work NASA is doing and how that work impacts space science as well as its potential impact on everyday life. All of the videos can be viewed online on the NASA eClips site, viewed on YouTube, or downloaded for use on your local computer. www.freetech4teachers.com videos.www.freetech4teachers.com
10 Good Resources for Learning About Space
How Big is Space? - Four simulations that model space and help demonstrate the size and scale of space
Orion’s Quest An internet-based education program for upper elementary, middle, and high school students, Orion’s Quest (OQ) employs current NASA research to reach and inspire “the next generation of explorers.” OQ places students in the role of research assistant in their classrooms, supporting authentic research being conducted on the International Space Station. The programs consist of hands-on missions designed to stimulate student interest in the STEM disciplines. The curriculum template covers each experiment, or “mission,” from preflight preparation to postflight activities, including student and program evaluation. Each year Orion’s Quest adds new “live,” or near real-time, missions to its offerings. While these current missions usually take place during a single semester, the virtual missions previously conducted in space are available online throughout the school year.
Journey Through The Cosmos To Explore Life Beyond Earth
This collection of media resources from “NOVA Wonders” will show your students just how far we’ve come in our search for answers about the universe, how we managed to get here, and how scientists hope to push the research of the universe even further.
MySciLife (gr 6 - 8) A free educational social media platform that leverages social media elements students already enjoy using to create media and active connections with curricular content and develop digital citizenship skills. Students design identities based on science concepts, conduct research to build their profiles, and learn from one another as they personify their identities in posts, comments, and responses. For example, they may choose to become their favorite planet and talk about their region of the Solar System. Or they may comment on posts as different organisms to show relationships in the food chain, or play two truths and a lie while personifying a tectonic plate.
Science Journal for Kids and Teens reports on cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science research adapted for students and their teachers. Articles can be selected according to reading level (elementary school, lower high school, middle school, upper high school) or subject field (biodiversity and conservation, biology, energy and climate, food and agriculture, health and medicine, physical science, pollution, social science, technology, water resources). Teachers will also find a collection of lesson ideas, including hands-on activities, case studies, and games with distance-learning options.
Earth Science Links
Science Netlinks Science NetLinks is a premier K-12 science education resource produced by theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science. At Science NetLinks, you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities.
National Reconnaissance Office’s Jr. Elementary-aged students will experience the wonders of science, math, and space exploration when they visit the National Reconnaissance Office’s Jr. “Ollie” interactive website. “Ollie the Satellite” takes students from the home page to a free web portal with choices to explore games, simulations, orbitology (science of orbits), our Solar System, and information about satellites and their purpose.
Realtime Satellite Images and interactive lessons
The Satellite Observations in Science Education project (SOSE), provides free tools known as Reusable Content Objects, or RCOs. You can easily and quickly use RCOs to put an interactive web page together and get your lesson taught.
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php for all grade levels created by University of Colorado.
Earth Science Links
Glean - Ever feel overwhelmed by all the educational videos online? Aided by a team of teachers, this service chooses and catalogs the best videos.
Realtime Satellite Images and interactive lessons
The Satellite Observations in Science Education project (SOSE), provides free tools known as Reusable Content Objects, or RCOs. You can easily and quickly use RCOs to put an interactive web page together and get your lesson taught.
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php for all grade levels created by University of Colorado.
Classroom Earth
http://classroomearth.org created by the Natioonal Education Fopundation for high schools.content and lesson plans to strengthen environmental education
Greenovation
Green Environmental Projects http://greenovationnation.com/
WISE
A simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. http://wise.berkeley.edu/
Earth and Environmental Science: Research Overview
http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/earth-environ/index.jsp
Examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate? What can rock layers tell us about earth's history? How can we understand the forces that lead to earthquakes and volcanoes? How can organisms live without sunlight? How do long-term changes affect earth's ecosystems? (NSF)
SEREF
the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation, has built a couple of tools that could be of interest to science teachers. SEREF has an energy estimation tool that allows you to estimate the potential solar and wind energy of any location. To use the estimation tool you have to enter your location using on the map and input the size of the solar panels or wind turbine structure. You can also draw out the dimensions of your solar panels on the map. The potential energy is then calculated based on climate, latitude, and typical weather patterns.
Spacecraft AR - ( Android ) Interact with 3D models of NASA spacecraft, including the Curiosity rover, SMAP, Voyager, and more.
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
Offers hundreds of teaching activities, visualizations, and resources for teaching earth science. Categories include biosphere, climate change, energy/material cycles, geology and human health, geochemistry, hydrosphere and cryosphere, mineralogy, ocean systems, petrology, solar system, and earth history. Special sections are provided on using data and teaching quantitative skills. (NSF)
A Walk in the Woods
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/woods Aimed at urban students in grades 3-5 - city kids who rarely get away from the concrete. Virtual trips.
Classroom Earth
http://www.classroomearth.org/
An online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans.
EEK!
dnr.wi.gov/eek Environmental education for kids aimed at gr. 4-8 and inlcudes links for k-12.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz
myfootprint.org online quiz to determine your family's ecological footprint.
PowerUp
powerupthegame.org free downloadable game where players try to save world from evironmental disassters. by IBM
The Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center
epa.gov/teachers lesson plans and classroom activities.
Earth - Windows to the Universe
Earth.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html
Includes documents, images, movies, animations, and data that explore the Earth.
Explore Geology
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/
The National Park Service has developed this exemplary set of educational resources which draws on their greatest assets, namely national parks from Maine to Utah. The materials are specifically designed for teaching geology, but it's easy to see how these items could be incorporated into general science classes.
Rocks & Weathering
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_18_09-03-26.swf is a great animated site produced by the BBC. The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass
Planet Earth Guide - Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/planetearth.html
Learn about the structure of our planet and what we are learning from and about it.
Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/
3 - 8 earth studies
DYNAMIC EARTH: http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/origlessons/
dynamic_earth/index.html
Earthquakes and volcanoes, grades 3 – 8
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/library/
Presents thousands of reviewed resources on atmospheric science, biology, chemistry, climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography, geology, mineralogy & petrology, hydrology, mathematics, natural hazards, ocean sciences, physics, soil science, space science, & more. (NSF)
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
NASA has a treat for you. They have made their entire collectionof images, sounds, and video available and publicly searchable online. It’s 140,000 photos and other resources available for you to see, or even download and use it any way you like.
NASA Kids' Club is a collection games, interactive activities, and images for students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. At the center of the NASA Kids' Club is a set of games and interactive activities arranged on five skill levels. The activities range from simple things like coloring pages and pattern recognition games to more difficult tasks like identifying planets based on clues provided in written and video form. www.freetech4teachers.com
NASA Space Place
NASA Space Place is a sizable collection of fun projects, games, animations, and lessons about Earth, space, and technology. Before playing the games or attempting one of the projects, students should explore the animations and facts sections to gain some background information. The projects section of NASA Space Place provides teachers, parents, and students with directions for hands-on projects like building a balloon-powered rover, building relief maps, and building a moon habitat. The games section offers thirty games covering all of the subjects in the animations and facts sections. www.freetech4teachers.com
NASA eClips
NASA's eClips videos are arranged by grade level; K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. There is also a section labeled for the general public. The videos are short clips designed to show students the work NASA is doing and how that work impacts space science as well as its potential impact on everyday life. All of the videos can be viewed online on the NASA eClips site, viewed on YouTube, or downloaded for use on your local computer. www.freetech4teachers.com
Rocket Science: Ride To The Station is a simulation created by NASA where players can put themselves in the role of running a mission to the International Space Station. The ‘Rocket Science: Ride 2 Station’ app is a free download, out now on iOS, and also available on the web.
Earth Season's
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
For elementary students, Enchanted Learning defines the terms solstice and equinox, and explains why we have four seasons. To complete the topic, there are variety of printable worksheets including an Earth's Seasons Quiz, a Seasons Word Pieces Puzzle, and a Label Me! Four Seasons Printout. Related topics, such as the Seasons Theme Pages (chock full of craft ideas) and The Planets, are just a click away.
Liverpool Museums: Sunbeams & Sundials
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
With illustrations and animations, this online exhibit from the Liverpool Museums explains how the tilt of the Earth's axis causes the Earth's four seasons, and how a sundial works. Don't miss the SunTracker, an applet that illustrates the sun's path on any day, in any location. "Along the way there are quiz questions to answer, experiments to try and a sundial to make, so there's plenty to do. Words marked in red are glossary words. Click on them to see their meaning."
NASA's KSNN: Why Are There Seasons?
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_seasons.html
Best clicks at the Kids Science News Network (KSNN) site for grades K-2, are the activities page (two classroom projects about seasons) and an animated video about why the weather changes from one season to the next.
Oceans Alive
Classroom Earth
http://classroomearth.org created by the Natioonal Education Fopundation for high schools.content and lesson plans to strengthen environmental education
Greenovation
Green Environmental Projects http://greenovationnation.com/
WISE
A simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. http://wise.berkeley.edu/
Earth and Environmental Science: Research Overview
http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/earth-environ/index.jsp
Examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate? What can rock layers tell us about earth's history? How can we understand the forces that lead to earthquakes and volcanoes? How can organisms live without sunlight? How do long-term changes affect earth's ecosystems? (NSF)
SEREF
the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation, has built a couple of tools that could be of interest to science teachers. SEREF has an energy estimation tool that allows you to estimate the potential solar and wind energy of any location. To use the estimation tool you have to enter your location using on the map and input the size of the solar panels or wind turbine structure. You can also draw out the dimensions of your solar panels on the map. The potential energy is then calculated based on climate, latitude, and typical weather patterns.
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
Offers hundreds of teaching activities, visualizations, and resources for teaching earth science. Categories include biosphere, climate change, energy/material cycles, geology and human health, geochemistry, hydrosphere and cryosphere, mineralogy, ocean systems, petrology, solar system, and earth history. Special sections are provided on using data and teaching quantitative skills. (NSF)
Earth Science Links
Realtime Satellite Images and interactive lessons
The Satellite Observations in Science Education project (SOSE), provides free tools known as Reusable Content Objects, or RCOs. You can easily and quickly use RCOs to put an interactive web page together and get your lesson taught.
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php for all grade levels created by University of Colorado.
Classroom Earth
http://classroomearth.org created by the Natioonal Education Fopundation for high schools.content and lesson plans to strengthen environmental education
Greenovation
Green Environmental Projects http://greenovationnation.com/
WISE
A simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. http://wise.berkeley.edu/
Earth and Environmental Science: Research Overview
http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/earth-environ/index.jsp
Examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate? What can rock layers tell us about earth's history? How can we understand the forces that lead to earthquakes and volcanoes? How can organisms live without sunlight? How do long-term changes affect earth's ecosystems? (NSF)
SEREF
the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation, has built a couple of tools that could be of interest to science teachers. SEREF has an energy estimation tool that allows you to estimate the potential solar and wind energy of any location. To use the estimation tool you have to enter your location using on the map and input the size of the solar panels or wind turbine structure. You can also draw out the dimensions of your solar panels on the map. The potential energy is then calculated based on climate, latitude, and typical weather patterns.
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
Offers hundreds of teaching activities, visualizations, and resources for teaching earth science. Categories include biosphere, climate change, energy/material cycles, geology and human health, geochemistry, hydrosphere and cryosphere, mineralogy, ocean systems, petrology, solar system, and earth history. Special sections are provided on using data and teaching quantitative skills. (NSF)
A Walk in the Woods
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/woods Aimed at urban students in grades 3-5 - city kids who rarely get away from the concrete. Virtual trips.
Classroom Earth
http://www.classroomearth.org/
An online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans.
EEK!
dnr.wi.gov/eek Environmental education for kids aimed at gr. 4-8 and inlcudes links for k-12.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz
myfootprint.org online quiz to determine your family's ecological footprint.
PowerUp
powerupthegame.org free downloadable game where players try to save world from evironmental disassters. by IBM
The Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center
epa.gov/teachers lesson plans and classroom activities.
Earth - Windows to the Universe
Earth.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html
Includes documents, images, movies, animations, and data that explore the Earth.
Explore Geology
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/
The National Park Service has developed this exemplary set of educational resources which draws on their greatest assets, namely national parks from Maine to Utah. The materials are specifically designed for teaching geology, but it's easy to see how these items could be incorporated into general science classes.
Rocks & Weathering
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_18_09-03-26.swf is a great animated site produced by the BBC. The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass
Planet Earth Guide - Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/planetearth.html
Learn about the structure of our planet and what we are learning from and about it.
Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/
3 - 8 earth studies
DYNAMIC EARTH: http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/origlessons/
dynamic_earth/index.html
Earthquakes and volcanoes, grades 3 – 8
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/library/
Presents thousands of reviewed resources on atmospheric science, biology, chemistry, climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography, geology, mineralogy & petrology, hydrology, mathematics, natural hazards, ocean sciences, physics, soil science, space science, & more. (NSF)
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
Earth Season's
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
For elementary students, Enchanted Learning defines the terms solstice and equinox, and explains why we have four seasons. To complete the topic, there are variety of printable worksheets including an Earth's Seasons Quiz, a Seasons Word Pieces Puzzle, and a Label Me! Four Seasons Printout. Related topics, such as the Seasons Theme Pages (chock full of craft ideas) and The Planets, are just a click away.
Liverpool Museums: Sunbeams & Sundials
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
With illustrations and animations, this online exhibit from the Liverpool Museums explains how the tilt of the Earth's axis causes the Earth's four seasons, and how a sundial works. Don't miss the SunTracker, an applet that illustrates the sun's path on any day, in any location. "Along the way there are quiz questions to answer, experiments to try and a sundial to make, so there's plenty to do. Words marked in red are glossary words. Click on them to see their meaning."
NASA's KSNN: Why Are There Seasons?
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_seasons.html
Best clicks at the Kids Science News Network (KSNN) site for grades K-2, are the activities page (two classroom projects about seasons) and an animated video about why the weather changes from one season to the next.
Oceans Alive
A Walk in the Woods
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/woods Aimed at urban students in grades 3-5 - city kids who rarely get away from the concrete. Virtual trips.
Classroom Earth
http://www.classroomearth.org/
An online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans.
EEK!
dnr.wi.gov/eek Environmental education for kids aimed at gr. 4-8 and inlcudes links for k-12.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz
myfootprint.org online quiz to determine your family's ecological footprint.
PowerUp
powerupthegame.org free downloadable game where players try to save world from evironmental disassters. by IBM
The Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center
epa.gov/teachers lesson plans and classroom activities.
Earth - Windows to the Universe
Earth.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html
Includes documents, images, movies, animations, and data that explore the Earth.
Explore Geology
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/
The National Park Service has developed this exemplary set of educational resources which draws on their greatest assets, namely national parks from Maine to Utah. The materials are specifically designed for teaching geology, but it's easy to see how these items could be incorporated into general science classes.
Rocks & Weathering
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_18_09-03-26.swf is a great animated site produced by the BBC. The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass
Planet Earth Guide - Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/planetearth.html
Learn about the structure of our planet and what we are learning from and about it.
Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/
3 - 8 earth studies
DYNAMIC EARTH: http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/origlessons/
dynamic_earth/index.html
Earthquakes and volcanoes, grades 3 – 8
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/library/
Presents thousands of reviewed resources on atmospheric science, biology, chemistry, climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography, geology, mineralogy & petrology, hydrology, mathematics, natural hazards, ocean sciences, physics, soil science, space science, & more. (NSF)
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
Earth Season's
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
For elementary students, Enchanted Learning defines the terms solstice and equinox, and explains why we have four seasons. To complete the topic, there are variety of printable worksheets including an Earth's Seasons Quiz, a Seasons Word Pieces Puzzle, and a Label Me! Four Seasons Printout. Related topics, such as the Seasons Theme Pages (chock full of craft ideas) and The Planets, are just a click away.
Liverpool Museums: Sunbeams & Sundials
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
With illustrations and animations, this online exhibit from the Liverpool Museums explains how the tilt of the Earth's axis causes the Earth's four seasons, and how a sundial works. Don't miss the SunTracker, an applet that illustrates the sun's path on any day, in any location. "Along the way there are quiz questions to answer, experiments to try and a sundial to make, so there's plenty to do. Words marked in red are glossary words. Click on them to see their meaning."
NASA's KSNN: Why Are There Seasons?
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_seasons.html
Best clicks at the Kids Science News Network (KSNN) site for grades K-2, are the activities page (two classroom projects about seasons) and an animated video about why the weather changes from one season to the next.
Oceans Alive
Earth Science Links
Realtime Satellite Images and interactive lessons
The Satellite Observations in Science Education project (SOSE), provides free tools known as Reusable Content Objects, or RCOs. You can easily and quickly use RCOs to put an interactive web page together and get your lesson taught.
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php for all grade levels created by University of Colorado.
Classroom Earth
http://classroomearth.org created by the Natioonal Education Fopundation for high schools.content and lesson plans to strengthen environmental education
Greenovation
Green Environmental Projects http://greenovationnation.com/
WISE
A simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. http://wise.berkeley.edu/
Earth and Environmental Science: Research Overview
http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/earth-environ/index.jsp
Examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate? What can rock layers tell us about earth's history? How can we understand the forces that lead to earthquakes and volcanoes? How can organisms live without sunlight? How do long-term changes affect earth's ecosystems? (NSF)
SEREF
the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation, has built a couple of tools that could be of interest to science teachers. SEREF has an energy estimation tool that allows you to estimate the potential solar and wind energy of any location. To use the estimation tool you have to enter your location using on the map and input the size of the solar panels or wind turbine structure. You can also draw out the dimensions of your solar panels on the map. The potential energy is then calculated based on climate, latitude, and typical weather patterns.
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
Offers hundreds of teaching activities, visualizations, and resources for teaching earth science. Categories include biosphere, climate change, energy/material cycles, geology and human health, geochemistry, hydrosphere and cryosphere, mineralogy, ocean systems, petrology, solar system, and earth history. Special sections are provided on using data and teaching quantitative skills. (NSF)
NASA's Solar System Exploration website contains interactive displays of the planets, dwarf planets, and moons of our solar system. To launch an interactive display just choose one of the planets, dwarf planets, or moons from the menu in the site's header. Each display includes little markers in it. Click one of the markers to open a side panel that contains information about that particular feature of the planet, dwarf planet, or moon.
Crash Course Astronomy: Tides
Why Isn’t There An Eclipse Every Month Interactive Lesson Plan
Galileo’s Big Mistake
Ready Jet Go!: The Moon
A Walk in the Woods
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/woods Aimed at urban students in grades 3-5 - city kids who rarely get away from the concrete. Virtual trips.
Classroom Earth
http://www.classroomearth.org/
An online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans.
EEK!
dnr.wi.gov/eek Environmental education for kids aimed at gr. 4-8 and inlcudes links for k-12.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz
myfootprint.org online quiz to determine your family's ecological footprint.
PowerUp
powerupthegame.org free downloadable game where players try to save world from evironmental disassters. by IBM
The Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center
epa.gov/teachers lesson plans and classroom activities.
Earth - Windows to the Universe
Earth.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html
Includes documents, images, movies, animations, and data that explore the Earth.
Explore Geology
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/
The National Park Service has developed this exemplary set of educational resources which draws on their greatest assets, namely national parks from Maine to Utah. The materials are specifically designed for teaching geology, but it's easy to see how these items could be incorporated into general science classes.
Rocks & Weathering
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_18_09-03-26.swf is a great animated site produced by the BBC. The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass
Planet Earth Guide - Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/planetearth.html
Learn about the structure of our planet and what we are learning from and about it.
Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/
3 - 8 earth studies
DYNAMIC EARTH: http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/origlessons/
dynamic_earth/index.html
Earthquakes and volcanoes, grades 3 – 8
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/library/
Presents thousands of reviewed resources on atmospheric science, biology, chemistry, climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography, geology, mineralogy & petrology, hydrology, mathematics, natural hazards, ocean sciences, physics, soil science, space science, & more. (NSF)
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
Earth Season's
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
For elementary students, Enchanted Learning defines the terms solstice and equinox, and explains why we have four seasons. To complete the topic, there are variety of printable worksheets including an Earth's Seasons Quiz, a Seasons Word Pieces Puzzle, and a Label Me! Four Seasons Printout. Related topics, such as the Seasons Theme Pages (chock full of craft ideas) and The Planets, are just a click away.
Liverpool Museums: Sunbeams & Sundials
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
With illustrations and animations, this online exhibit from the Liverpool Museums explains how the tilt of the Earth's axis causes the Earth's four seasons, and how a sundial works. Don't miss the SunTracker, an applet that illustrates the sun's path on any day, in any location. "Along the way there are quiz questions to answer, experiments to try and a sundial to make, so there's plenty to do. Words marked in red are glossary words. Click on them to see their meaning."
NASA's KSNN: Why Are There Seasons?
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_seasons.html
Best clicks at the Kids Science News Network (KSNN) site for grades K-2, are the activities page (two classroom projects about seasons) and an animated video about why the weather changes from one season to the next.
Oceans Alive
Realtime Satellite Images and interactive lessons
The Satellite Observations in Science Education project (SOSE), provides free tools known as Reusable Content Objects, or RCOs. You can easily and quickly use RCOs to put an interactive web page together and get your lesson taught.
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php for all grade levels created by University of Colorado.
Classroom Earth
http://classroomearth.org created by the Natioonal Education Fopundation for high schools.content and lesson plans to strengthen environmental education
Greenovation
Green Environmental Projects http://greenovationnation.com/
WISE
A simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. http://wise.berkeley.edu/
Earth and Environmental Science: Research Overview
http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/earth-environ/index.jsp
Examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate? What can rock layers tell us about earth's history? How can we understand the forces that lead to earthquakes and volcanoes? How can organisms live without sunlight? How do long-term changes affect earth's ecosystems? (NSF)
SEREF
the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation, has built a couple of tools that could be of interest to science teachers. SEREF has an energy estimation tool that allows you to estimate the potential solar and wind energy of any location. To use the estimation tool you have to enter your location using on the map and input the size of the solar panels or wind turbine structure. You can also draw out the dimensions of your solar panels on the map. The potential energy is then calculated based on climate, latitude, and typical weather patterns.
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
Offers hundreds of teaching activities, visualizations, and resources for teaching earth science. Categories include biosphere, climate change, energy/material cycles, geology and human health, geochemistry, hydrosphere and cryosphere, mineralogy, ocean systems, petrology, solar system, and earth history. Special sections are provided on using data and teaching quantitative skills. (NSF)
NASA's Solar System Exploration website contains interactive displays of the planets, dwarf planets, and moons of our solar system. To launch an interactive display just choose one of the planets, dwarf planets, or moons from the menu in the site's header. Each display includes little markers in it. Click one of the markers to open a side panel that contains information about that particular feature of the planet, dwarf planet, or moon.
- NASA’s Space Jam: Yes, I said Space Jam. Students use music, astronomy and coding to create a solar system that really rocks! Give students our NASA Space Jam explore board to give them choices! You can also download this explore board in Microsoft Word.
Crash Course Astronomy: Tides
Why Isn’t There An Eclipse Every Month Interactive Lesson Plan
Galileo’s Big Mistake
Ready Jet Go!: The Moon
A Walk in the Woods
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/woods Aimed at urban students in grades 3-5 - city kids who rarely get away from the concrete. Virtual trips.
Classroom Earth
http://www.classroomearth.org/
An online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans.
EEK!
dnr.wi.gov/eek Environmental education for kids aimed at gr. 4-8 and inlcudes links for k-12.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz
myfootprint.org online quiz to determine your family's ecological footprint.
PowerUp
powerupthegame.org free downloadable game where players try to save world from evironmental disassters. by IBM
The Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center
epa.gov/teachers lesson plans and classroom activities.
Earth - Windows to the Universe
Earth.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html
Includes documents, images, movies, animations, and data that explore the Earth.
Explore Geology
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/
The National Park Service has developed this exemplary set of educational resources which draws on their greatest assets, namely national parks from Maine to Utah. The materials are specifically designed for teaching geology, but it's easy to see how these items could be incorporated into general science classes.
Rocks & Weathering
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_18_09-03-26.swf is a great animated site produced by the BBC. The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass
Planet Earth Guide - Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/planetearth.html
Learn about the structure of our planet and what we are learning from and about it.
Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/
3 - 8 earth studies
DYNAMIC EARTH: http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/origlessons/
dynamic_earth/index.html
Earthquakes and volcanoes, grades 3 – 8
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/library/
Presents thousands of reviewed resources on atmospheric science, biology, chemistry, climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography, geology, mineralogy & petrology, hydrology, mathematics, natural hazards, ocean sciences, physics, soil science, space science, & more. (NSF)
Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/index.html
NASA project which brings together the expertise of scientists, science museums and K-12 educators to produce science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom use.
Earth Season's
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
For elementary students, Enchanted Learning defines the terms solstice and equinox, and explains why we have four seasons. To complete the topic, there are variety of printable worksheets including an Earth's Seasons Quiz, a Seasons Word Pieces Puzzle, and a Label Me! Four Seasons Printout. Related topics, such as the Seasons Theme Pages (chock full of craft ideas) and The Planets, are just a click away.
Liverpool Museums: Sunbeams & Sundials
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/
With illustrations and animations, this online exhibit from the Liverpool Museums explains how the tilt of the Earth's axis causes the Earth's four seasons, and how a sundial works. Don't miss the SunTracker, an applet that illustrates the sun's path on any day, in any location. "Along the way there are quiz questions to answer, experiments to try and a sundial to make, so there's plenty to do. Words marked in red are glossary words. Click on them to see their meaning."
NASA's KSNN: Why Are There Seasons?
http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_seasons.html
Best clicks at the Kids Science News Network (KSNN) site for grades K-2, are the activities page (two classroom projects about seasons) and an animated video about why the weather changes from one season to the next.
Oceans Alive
Videos
Scishow This is one of the most popular science channels in YouTube. SciShow discusses science news and history and concepts.
What is the universe made of? - Dennis Wildfogel
The atoms around you have existed for billions of years -- and most originated in the flaming, gaseous core of a star. Dennis Wildfogel tells the captivating tale of these atoms' long journeys from the Big Bang to the molecules they form today.
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What is the universe made of? - Dennis Wildfogel
The atoms around you have existed for billions of years -- and most originated in the flaming, gaseous core of a star. Dennis Wildfogel tells the captivating tale of these atoms' long journeys from the Big Bang to the molecules they form today.
View full lesson »
iPad Apps
DIY Sun Science is a free iPad app from The Lawrence Hall of Science. The app features directions for hands-on lessons about the sun. The lessons are a mix of activities that students can do on their own and activities that they should do with adult supervision. All of the activities use common household goods. Some of the activities that you will find in DIY Sun Science are measuring the sun, making UV detectors, detecting solar storms, and cooking with a solar oven. At the end of the directions for each activity in DIY Sun Science you will find short video lessons related to the focus of the hands-on lesson. You can also just jump to the video section of DIY Sun Science to access the videos without going through all of the directions screens.