Science: ENC Online has hundreds of lessons and resources for teaching science and organized them by topic, an example is earth and space science, but this is not all!
National Geographic provides activities and lesson plans for various science topics for many grade levels.
Education World lists links to a dozen great science sites for students and teachers.
BRAINPOP is a website that offers videos for students on different science themes. Some videos are free and teachers can sign up for a free five day trial, but the program is around 200 dollars, but encompasses all BRAINPOP affiliates.
Science Animations is a website that offers videos and interactive tutorial links for all grade levels and almost all science themes.
SCIENCE BOB is a great website for teachers if they need ideas for a Science Fair, experiments and videos. It even has a store for teachers and students to do experiments in the class or at home. Be careful because some school districts are in rural or poverty areas, so don't expect parents to be able to afford this things for students to do at home just because it seems like a neat idea.
Everything ESL is a website for teachers who have ESL students and are helping them achieve new possibilities. Most seem geared towards the elementary level, but if looking at these lessons, it isn't impossible to make modifications in the older levels when riffling through these lessons.
All of these are very helpful websites for a variety or learners and abilities which is important when designing lessons for our students. Again these sites are not an end all be all for our students, but great hook or platform ideas to get our students engaged.
These are some great websites. I have used Education World as a source for lesson plan ideas for a variety of subjects. Another great site (and you may have noted it in a previous blog) is The Science Channel wesite located at http://science.discovery.com/. The Science Channel website has sections for all of their channels including The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Animal Planet, Military Channel, and Discovery Health. The website also has a games section where you can play a variety of science based games.
ReplyDeleteI keep adding these sites too. It's good to see some new ones. I am on a search right now to find sites with authentic learning involved. I think I may duplicate some of these, but with a different bent. We just talked a little in class how we want to make sure students are engaging in learning when they use online programs, and not letting the sites do the work for them. In other words, they are coming as close as they can discovering the information themselves, with the only the aid of the technology. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI am also researching interactive websites, and I personally believe they are a great way to get students engaged in what you are teaching. They are also a great way to teach some experiments on a budget, because you don't actually have to buy the supplies but the students still get to do the experiment virtually. There are so many great interactive and educations websites available to us for free. Why not take advantage of them as a teacher and have our students become engaged and involved in their learning. I think this is a great topic to research, keep it up.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. I will be adding those links to my bookmarks. In fact, this whole semester I've been accumulating great resources such as the ones you pointed out. The text books and materials teachers get from publishers is only so much. I like the fact that we can use other innovative and engaging ways to assist our future students in learning the material. Websites with interactive activities, lesson plans, labs ideas, etc are prime!
These are some great links I will for sure be adding to my favorites. I think as teachers, we must find engaging yet credible websites for our students. Sometimes I see teachers having students do things on websites that is sort of just busy work, or games where they really aren't learning a whole lot of anything. I think the websites you have found are good, and have information that is both relevent and correct. Thanks for sharing.
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