Bridge basics,activities

bridge basics

Bridge Quiz

video

General information about bridges

Choose your topic to look up

A spotter's guide to bridge design

video of covered bridges

Truss Bridges

Guess where the bridge of the month is located

Choose a place in the U.S. or Canada or the world at the top of the page to see different bridges

Newspaper article on safety of bridges; article 2010

News article on bridge safety; article 2007

Newspaper article on bridges; article 2007

Article and video of a bridge built to withstand an earthquake 2012

Kinds of bridges with videos; Great explanations

People's favorite 6 suspension bridges

The 39 most amazing bridges in the world

Bridges of Connecticut

about all kinds of bridges

Play games: learn about the elements or balance equations

Periodic Table game: read directions

Listen and see the elements

start at the beginning: atom to polymer

Chemistry Basics

Basic Chemistry information

Online interactive periodic table of the elements

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fun interactive research based simulations of physical phenomena from the project at the University of Colorado

Several "elementary" games. Be patient while they load.

Polymer game

Interactive that explains the periodic table

From David Hsu, this shows the Periodic Table of the Elements, with a legend defining what type of element each one is.

lots of information

Lots of information included in this site

see the updated version/ about 3 min

Click on element: Learn Facts (group, period,block, ect.), Uses and properties; History; Uses; Videos and other advanced inform

Learn about atoms: simple version

Explanation of the atom. Launch interactive

Video for "What is an Atom?" BASICS for KIDS about 6 minutes

Virtual lab: Using gel electrophoresis; find out which DNA fits the criminal?

Try Games, Experiments, Interesting videos

Exploring the Planets

Solar System for Kids

from planetarium director for Kansas City school district

site map

Your weight on other worlds

Sky: take a tour of the solar system

How does a pendulum prove that the earth rotates?

Galileo Galilei

Choose to see the phase of the moon 1800-2199

Space Hopper Constellation Game

Moon Phases Animation

Lunar phases Moon Challenge: 3 levels of difficulty

Click on the calendar; features visible that night

Go to LUNAR PHASES (also in Spanish)

many places to visit in space

lunar space missions

Pendulums prove the Earth Rotates

Explore the moon

Find out about Mars

Pictures of the planets and moon

Play: Mission to Planet Earth card game

Play the game: Go the head of the solar system

Earth and moon; lots of information from University of Texas

Play Moon Olympics: Play sports on the moon or Investigate the Earth to explain why it is a good place for life

Science Interactive: Moon in Shadow: Solar Eclipse(the website has other interactives that have been retired)

This is a celestial oberserver: What do you want to see in the sky?

Auroras: Paintings in the Sky

"Launch a rocket from a spinning planet" Activity

Read about the greenhouse gas effects on planet earth

You can learn about the history of the universe, tour the universe, learn about supernovas, and learn about how big the universe

Watch the movie: listen and learn

The Color of Stars

Ask Dr. Marc questions

Go to the homepage; Click on tour of the solar system. Lots of very specific information located on the different planets, moons

Developed for students in levels 1 and 2; click on Solar System level 2

Is Pluto a Planet?

Evolution of our solar system

Find out the scale model of our universe

A solar system building project/activity that you will complete!

Read up about the cosmos. There are many differnent postings.

Lunar cycle animation for all students. This is a good visual for all!!!!

Ask an astronomer: ask a real scientist a question.

Watch clips from BBC about solar system

Interactive review of Moon phases

Choose the date you want to see the moon; shows the date, place in the sky; etc

see the month of phases of the moon; learn about tides, etc.

Lots of moon facts

Play the game: follow the steps your teacher gives you

seasons, phases, eclipses, retrograde motion of planets

sky maps, planets, sky wonders, constellations, beginner, postcards, and puzzles

Interactive: Make weather happen

Find out: latest earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, droughts, floods,etc.

Learn about Plate Tectonics from a PPT

Earth's Layers

Learn about the earth: Follow a webquest about the Earth: layers, convection currents, etc

Earth Picture of the day

Weather conditions

Best place tor ead about rocks and minerals

Geology and geography

How do hurricanes form?

An introduction to weather erosion

The stream banks are being eroded because of improper stabilization!

Solve the mystery of the Disappearing Earth and crack the case from beneath the city of Ooze

Learn about the composition of the atmosphere and ozone

life cycle of a glacier

introduction

Fossils, Rocks, and Time online booklet

Read about history of Geologic Time and Time Scale

Click on a place in the world and see about the digging/research

for teachers and students

Build a prairie game

Show what you know about ecosystems

biomes of the world

Build a food web

Frogs as wildlife indicators

Lots of information and games to play

Match the cards: Click on a yellow orange card and then a blue card

Check your understanding of terms

game

The water cycle: watch it

Look and read about the Hydrologic cycle

Weather: What forces affect our weather?

The BBC weather homepage

Electron Microscopy Unit Snow Page

Ice and Snow

Recycling game

food webs, food chains;test yourself

different ecosystems; different biomes

Learn about ecosystems

Complete food web and more interdependence and adaptations

visual activity

Edmond Halley's visit and Einstein's words

Middle School teacher Georgia Louviere's presentation

Forces and motion NOTES

Read about accleration and velocity

Get help/answers/equations for physics problems

Newtons laws of motion

Participate in the interactives about Sir Issac Newton's Laws of motion

The sciencce of baseball

Speed, Eggs and Slam! An Interactive activity to demonstrate the first law of motion. Protect your egg from crashing!

Rube Golberg designed machines that made simple tasks more difficult. Play the Game

Play Chuck the Puck; you need Flash player

Pendulum game: You need Shockwave. Install it once so you can play games on the web. It's free.

The science of surfing

See how forces and simple machines work together to make a compound machine.

Forces at Work Activity

Build a plane; learn about the Wright brothers

How things fly Interactive

10 free designs to make paper airplanes

Use this interactive to understand frame of reference. Make sure you read the directions.

Gravity lecture

Animations about gravity

Interactive: Forces in Motion

Science news for kids

Increase your science IQ with one fact a day!

Optical Illusions, etc.

Test yourself using a triple beam balance

homework help, etc.

activities that affect your brain/nervous system

illing ims

explore activities, etc.

Kyptos episode: ciphers

For curious students

Carbon Footprint Calculator

read the science news of TODAY

Sylvia Earle interview

Cynthia Moss's study of Elephants

Dr. Penny Patterson; she studied the gorilla( Koko) that learned how to communicate with humans

Alfred Nobel

with Neil deGrasse Tyson

A simple explanation of light, the electromagnetic spectrum and bats, or pigeons

Science.gov searches over 42 databases and over 2000 websites offering authoritative U.S. gov't science information

type in something, and learn the way it works

Dictionary of the units of Measure

Quiz yourself on the scientic method

Place a number that you know and find out what it measures in metric (SI)

Read and study, then take the quiz

Study the metric measures for length, then patch in the numbers and check yourself!

Find out if you can balance an animal using your "American" measurement, then compare in Metric (kg)

Try to test yourself; easy, and harder

for those students who LOVE birds

Learn how to make a graph

Read, reread or check up on your science and math vocabulary

Discover and explore all kinds of cool science

Check out the answers to real question from Beakman

Practice reading the meniscus

entertaining experiments

Go to Amazing Cells; then Inside the Cell

15 cell organelles read to you;

Challenging DNA educational game, and others

Intro to life; and cells explanation is in English and Spanish

DNA workshop activity

video tutorial of mitosis

male and female systems

Nearly Teens: Everything or just about everything you need to know about being a teenager

descriptions

human anatomy on line

Mitosis simulation "game"

Mitosis with music/cell division bioclip

Read carefully, use your notes.

genetics

your genes, your health

from Mr. Hand's webpage

the Cell cycle: mitosis. Read the information on the phases and then take the quiz

Try introductory lesson on Gregor Mendel

Click on cell anatomy

Organelles inside the cell

Cell inspector: Identify the parts of the cell by dragging the name to the right spot. Check. Do plant cell and animal cell.

Plant cell parts

Genetics home reference

Click on the interactive of the cell. Unbelievable images. Read carefully.

Cell Explorer interactive

Slide presentation on the discovery of mitosis and the stages of mitosis

Dragon Meiosis

Mitosis Java animation

Interactive: Take a journey into the body and get to the DNA

The DNA of human evolution: What makes us different from chimpanzees? It's in the genes

Click on the chromosome that you want to learn about. (You must use the number on the right side of the page.) If you are intere

Choose ONLY "Enter weblab" to enter into a Wonderful assortment of Genetics activities

Family ties. Then click on Genetics,Mendel, etc. These pages are no longer being maintained. Therefore if you click on the words

Test your knowledge of cell organlles

Go to the GENE SCENE

Play interactives of cell and mitosis

Play the cell games to add to your knowledge of the CELL.FUN!

Practice Meiosis; genetics with the Snurfles. EXCELLENT activity

includes conditions; chromosome and DNA information

Concise information about DNA, Genetics and Gregor Mendel

Chapter 1 Mendel's discoveries read to you or not (You can choose to hear the words.)

Learn about how pea plants helped explain genetics

The story of DNA; Gregor Mendel and traits

Brain games, etc.

Anatomy online

Human body systems student site

Movies, quizzes, answers questions, etc.

the yuckiest site on the web: Pick a body system to discover

Real photographs of different bones

In English or Spanish; Brain, Skeleton (put together a skeleton), Digestion, Heart

Take a virtual tour of the brain

Systems: Excretory,Circulatory, Muscular, Nervous, Skeletal, Respiratory

All about taste

Importance of your tongue

Test your skeleton knowledge: interactive bone test

test your heart circulation iq

How a hinge joint works

Using Flash: identify the parts of the heart

Virtual knee surgery

Virtual dissection of a frog. Your computer needs FLASH interactive

Choose a picture and follow directions

Learn about your heart

Do you know your BONES? Check, A timed quiz

Games on the human body

Great pictures and lots of information: brain, heart, digestive system, lungs and skin

An interactive where students perform a heart transplant

A short video on how scientists are learning to grow body parts

Learn about the four types of tissues that make up the human body: connective, epithelial, muscle and nervous!

*** Go to different body systems; chose a website to assist you

Virtual lab: you must test blood types for a blood transfusion

Virtual lab: How much energy is in the food you eat?

Virtual lab: Compare Hominid skulls

Ideas for projects: life science, earth science, physical science. Ideas based on difficulty. Parent suggestions and more

Site merges Internet Public Library and Librarian's Internet Index: it walks you through the steps of designing a project

Choose a topic from the left; Follow the easy steps

Choose from the topics on the left to help you.

A winning site for science fair project help

Science fair information from a science teacher, science fair organizer, and judge

Science fair projects from the U S Geological Society

List of science project ideas divided by difficulty

Home demos from Bill Nye the Science Guy

List of science project ideas from an 8th grade physical science teacher

Science fair ideas, scientific method, resources, and a little helpful advise

Things to make and do

Science fair information about chemistry

The steps of a science fair project

Middle School botany project selections

nanotechnology

You Try It: doctor over time

Accidental medical discoveries

Read about the top 10 accidental inventions

From the Howard Huges Medical Institute: Wow!

What you can do to improve the environment

read the magazine

Read articles from the magazine

Do your own projects, how-tos

Read articles from the magazine

Choose and article and read about it

infoplease

Notable Scientists

Listed in Alphabetical Order

Famous Biologists

People and Discoveries

10 women scientists working today

ALL winners: Medicine, Chemistry; Physics; (Check to see if your scientist has earned a Nobel Prize)

List of African American scientists and inventors

scientist Charles Drew

Black inventors A-Z

Choose Inquiring Mind

Leonardo da Vinci

Albert Einstein

Dr. Robert Goddard

Thomas Edison

Diann Fossey and her research

Click on Jane Goodall's story

Wernher von Braun

Steven Hawking

lots of scientists

Read about the ideas that changed the world including lasers (Neil Bohr); Marie Curie and radium, Einstein and the theory of rel

Search by subject

the human face of science -30,000 photos of scientists and their work

Marie Curie a great story

Lists of Women Scientists

Take a quiz

Learn about levers

Simple machines information

Lab on simple machines

Learn about simple machines

Leonardo's workshop

Understanding simple machines

Answer your questions about simple machines

Activities that you can do using Mechanics

Gadget anatomy

Class one levers

All about the inclined planes

All about Rube Goldberg

Inventor's toolbox

Six simple machines and a quiz

Energy game

The steps in the Scientific Method

Learn and play at the same time!

six steps of scientific method

What is the scientific method

Scientific Method lab

Pick a geographic location and review some vocabulary words. The pictures are fantastic

Be a weather detective. Investigate climate conditions. There are 3 cases. Choose each and click the websites to solve the probl

Weather Watch: Forecast the weather (hurricane, drought, tornado, winter storm). Use a weather map. This is practice and will no

Build a food chain. Decide what color your caterpillar will be.

complete 2 Food Webs

Follow the frog as a healthy indicator of wild places.

Droplet and the watercycle game

REVIEW simple and compound machines as you travel though the house and tool shed

You know all about simple machines? Take a quiz!

Match the animals that are more closely related. In order to play, read the directions and click on the pink statements that lea

Complete the body system by dragging the bone, muscle, organ, etc. to the correct spot on the body frame.

Slideshows of many science topics

Play the game about simple machines

Test yourself games of speed; gravity

Moon and tides; interactive; quiz yourself. Then find another topic to learn about and study.Click bottom of the page

food webs, food chains;test yourself

build a food web

Classifying: kingdoms of life

Test your knowledge and get immediate feedback

Play games to learn all about plants

Learn about plants

Play the plant parts game

Click on the chapters that you are interested to learn about

Diagram of photosynthesis

Learn about photosynthesis in detail through videos, etc

Introduction to plants; continue on to photosynthesis

Watch video about photosynthesis; 21 minutes; clearly explained

The 7 stage process explanation of how plants grow

Help make your plant grow by playing this "game"

Light and Plant growth virtual lab

Plant transpiration: Explore what environmental factors affect your plants' wilting leaves

Virtual lab: How do plants respond to different stimuli?

A virtual lab that looks at different light waves and how plants grow

How light moves

Watch powerpoints on various topics about light

Light and color google slides

Wave basics

Interactive: You are Changing circuits

Tutorial: magnetism, static electricity, and electricity

magnetism powerpoints

magnetism power points

Many sample questions to study and review

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