Group 3: STEM: Science
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The Classics
Do your students know "the classics" in your field? Do they know the best starting point for quality information?
- General: ScienceDaily
- Teacher Resources: ScienceNetLinks, PBS Science, Exploratorium, National Geographic Science, Scientific American, Science Education: National Institutes of Health, PBS Science & Technology, Mr. Nussbaum Science, Physics Central,
- Student Resources:
- Earth and Space: Global Climate Change, Solar System NASA
- Life Science: Biology, AllAboutBirds, Encyclopedia of Life,
Multimedia
Teaching Resources
- Earth and Space Science: Teachersdomain,
- Life Science: Teachersdomain,
- Physical Science: Teachersdomain,
Student Resources
- General: PBS Nova, NPR: Science
- Earth and Space: PBS LearningMedia, Lights at Night
- Life Science: Vimeo Nature, PBS LearningMedia
- Physical Science: Physics and Math, PBS LearningMedia
Science Audio
- Earth and Sky
- Science Friday
- How Stuff Works Science
- Naked Science
- Radio Lab
- Science Netlinks
- Douchy's Biology
Science Video
- American Museum of Natural History: YouTube Channel
- Animal Video: video of animals
- Arkive: Images of Life: animals and biodiversity video
- Ask an Astronomer: YouTube Channel
- Biology: cell biology animations
- Cassiopeia Project
- CDC: YouTube Channel
- Chandra XRay Observatory: YouTube Channel
- Discovery Channel: science topics
- DiscoveryNetworks: YouTube Channel
- EPA Energy Challenge: YouTube Channel
- FDR Library: YouTube Channel
- FEMA: YouTube Channel
- Field Museum: YouTube Channel
- Futures Channel: STEM videos
- Health Resources and Service Administration: YouTube
- HowToon How-To Videos
- HubbleSite: YouTube Channel
- Molecular Video - many topics
- NASA Ames: YouTube Channel
- NASA CASI: YouTube Channel
- NASA Connect: YouTube Channel (great K-12 resources)
- NASA Kids Science News: YouTube Channe
- NASA Explorer: YouTube Channel
- NASA JPL: YouTube Channel
- NASA Kennedy: YouTube Channel
- NASA Langley: YouTube Channel
- NASA SciFiles: YouTube Channel (great videos for Grades 3-5)
- NASA e-Clips
- NASA e-Clips: YouTube Channel
- NASA Edge: YouTube Channel
- NASA Glenn: YouTube Channel
- NASA Solar Dynamic: YouTube Channel
- NASA Television: YouTube Channel
- NASA Web: YouTube Channel
- National Cancer Institute: YouTube Channel
- National Geographic: YouTube Channel
- National Human Genome Research Institute: YouTube Channel
- National Institutes of Health: YouTube Channel
- National Science Foundation: YouTube Channel
- NestCams: video from bird nests
- New Scientist: YouTube Channel
- NOAA: YouTube Channel
- PBS Series(Grade 3-5) - Fetch, Cyberchase, Zoom, Dragonfly
- PBS Series (Grades 6-12) - Nature, NOVA, NOVA ScienceNOW, Secrets of the Dead, Ocean Adventures,Wired Science, Design Squad, E2, First Measured Century, Scientific American Frontiers, Your Life, Your Money, Ken Burns Baseball
- Periodic Table of Video
- Public Health Emergency: YouTube Channel
- San Diego Zoo: video from cams
- Science Magazine: YouTube Channel
- Senate Hub: YouTube Channel
- Smithsonian: YouTube Channel
- Smithsonian Videos: YouTube Channel
- Smithsonian: National Zoo: YouTube Channel
- Smithsonian: Air and Space: YouTube Channel
- Smithsonian: American History: YouTube Channel
- Smithsonian: Migratory Bird Center: YouTube Channel
- Test Toob: science video sharing
- Thinkport Science Clips
- Untamed Science: biology and earth science
- USDA: YouTube Channel
- USFoodSafety: YouTube Channel
- US Dept of Health & Human Services: YouTube Channel
- US Cenus Bureau: YouTube Channel
- US Citzenship and Immigration Services: YouTube Channel
- US Dept of Energy: YouTube Channel
- USEPA: YouTube Channel
- US Food&Drug Administration: YouTube Channel
- USGS Media: science topics
- USGS: YouTube Channel
- Wildlife Conservation Society: YouTube Channel
- Wired Science: varies science topics
- World Health Organization: YouTube Channel
- ZooBorns (animal babies): YouTube Channel
- Zoo YouTube Channels: Oregon, Minnesota, Santa Barbara, Woodland Park Zoo, Houston Zoo,Monterery Bay Aquarium, Zoo Society of London, Vancouver Aquarium, Cincinnati, Denver, Georgia Aquarium,
Student Video Productions
Interactives and Social Media
Go to Smithsonian Ocean. Notice the features.
Interactives
- General: PBS Science Interactives, PBS LearningMedia, Nobelprize Physics/Chemistry Games, Scientific American Interactives, Edheads, National Geographic Interactives, Scholastic Interactives, Science Links, Science View
- Earth and Space: Dynamic Earth, Climate Time Machine, Drinking Water, Sea Level Viewer, Geology Toolbit, Global Ice Viewer, Rock Cycle, We Choose the Moon, Volcanoes, Weather, Astronomy Interactives, Carbon Cycle Game, Dynamic Earth
- Life Science: eskeletons, American Museum of Natural History's Science Bulletins (Google Earth), Bang Biology Challenge, Digestive System, DNA, Ecology Lab, Garbage, Infectious Diseases, Kitchen Chaos, Putting DNA to Work, Unzip Your Genes, Virtual Ecosphere, Design a Panda Habitat, Diabetic Dog, EnviroMysteries, Learn Genetics
- Physical Science: Amusement Park Physics, Auditory Illusion, Periodic Table, Spark It, Bay Trippers, Crayon Physics, FreezeRay
Social Media
- My Moon (Flickr and YouTube), EarthQuake Social Network: Did You Feel It?
Tools
- Eco-Calculator widget
- Scales: Drought Severity, Beaufort Scale, Modified Mercalli Earthquake Intensity Scale, Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale, Fujita Scale
Topical Ideas
Background information and links to quality websites, activities, webquests, and teaching materials
- animal homes
- animal tracks
- ants
- astronomy
- balloons
- bats
- bears
- bees
- birds
- bridge building
- bubbles
- butterflies
- caves
- clouds
- color
- coral reefs
- corn
- creatures of the night
- deserts
- dinosaurs
- dirt
- disaster, castastrophe, & calamity
- drought
- earthquakes
- eggs
- electricity
- farming
- fire
- flight
- floods & flooding
- frogs and toads
- gardening
- genetics
- glaciers
- global warming
- horses
- hurricane insects
- invasive species
- inventors and inventions
- iron & steel
- knots
- light
- marsupials
- mining
- mountains
- Nuclear Age
- owlspaper making
- patterns
- penguins
- pond life
- polar regions
- potato
- pumpkins
- prairies
- prehistoric people
- rabbits and hares
- railroads
- recycle - reduce - reuse
- rivers
- respiratory system
- robots
- rocks and minerals
- sharks
- shelters
- ships and boats
- simple machines
- skeletal system
- snakes
- snow
- soils
- television
- tide pools
- tobacco, smoking, and cessation
- tornadoes
- trees and forests
- vitamins & minerals
- volcano
- water
- weather
- wetlands
- whales and dolphins
- wind
- wolves
- worms
Use the links on the left to move through this online workshop.