Science Sites

BrainPop

In the K-12 arena, BrainPOP movies demystify Math, Science, Health, Technology and English topics. Through BrainPOP's online subscription, Teachers use movies to enhance traditional classroom learning and Parents are given a safe and informative resource for their children. We have a school license to view movies, see PC for username and password information.

Cool Science for Curious Kids Learn about the curiosities of science with a variety of online activities. Students can discover what the different classifications of animals are, what the life cycle of a butterfly is, or find out about the microscopic particles that travel through air. Science museums all over the country worked together to present these activities as a fun way explore science.

Dino Directory

The Dino Directory is a database of well-known dinosaurs. It does not contain all dinosaurs - many hundreds more are known. Dinosaurs are included in this database if The Natural History Museum holds a good image or reconstruction of the dinosaur, so there must be enough known about the species to reconstruct its probable shape.

Exploratorium Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 15,000 Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics. We currently serve fifteen million visitors a year. That makes us one of the most visited museum Web sites in the world

Jefferson Labs

Go to K-12 education. You MUST explore this site as there are teacher and student resources as well as many science and math based games. Take a look.

The Journey North

Engaging Students in a Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change. This is the site that our second graders rely on for their Monarch butterfly unit.

NASA's Kids Science News Network K-2, and 3-5. NASA's KSNN™ is a standards-based program that uses the Web, animation, and video to introduce science, technology, engineering, math, and NASA concepts
NASA Kid's Club Activities for children from kindergarten through grade 4. NASA will provide a wealth of resources that are safe, fun, and educational for your students. You can expect them to find reliable information on space-related topics, as well as games, Web quests, and even chats with NASA experts.

The Natural History Museum

The Museum's websites on natural history topics.

Ology

OLogy means "the study of." And here on the American Museum of Natural History's OLogy Web site, you can study and explore many cool OLogies. What's your favorite OLogy? If you're fascinated by spiders, then you're into ARACHNOLOGY. If you erupt with joy for volcanoes, then VOLCANOLOGY is your thing. If you're completely wowed by planets and stars, then you love ASTRONOMY.

Scholastic Teachers

Science Explorations puts authentic learning in students’ hands. The rich, interactive content, developed by Scholastic in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History, supports curriculum standards and teaches skills like observation, finding and predicting patterns, classification, and inference.

 

 

Up Close and Paleo

Up Close and Palaeo" is all about dinosaurs, fossils, bones and the technology that helps us understand them.

Virtual Body

Build a virtual skeleton bone by bone. Then take a narrated tour to learn about your brain, watch a heart pump blood and find three ums: duodendum, jejenum and ileum.

Virtual Field Trips Site

A field trip created with TourMaker guides you through a sequence of Web pages on any given topic. For each page, there is simultaneous commentary in an accompanying frame. You move forward and back through the Field Trip using the tour Control Panel and you can leave the Tour to explore links and return to it whenever you want.

Wild New England

This is new online magazine put together by wildlife officials in both Maine and New Hampshire to meet their states' frameworks. They developed a site for children and teachers that includes stories about seasonal wildlife topics and activities.

 

 

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