Interesting Science Resources for Teachers and Homeschooling Parents

http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/faculty/pechenik/labHermitCrab.asp
This site includes a desciption of some work done by the Pechenik lab on the shell selection behavior of marine hermit crabs. Don’t miss the music video link towards the end!
http://ncse.com/climate/climate-change-101
This is a very helpful website about the scientific documentation for. Postings are designed as educational tools, courtesy of the National Center for Science Education.

http://science-fair-coach.com/
This is an excellent and very helpful blog about coaching students interested in doing successful science fair projects. It includes ideas for coming up with good projects, and advice about designing projects that win.

http://beastsinapopulouscity.blogspot.com
This is a very unusual, but completely wonderful natural history blog, with beautiful photographs, by a marine biologist now living near the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

http://http://www.entfdn.org/scienceprojects.php
This website presents ideas for interesting science fair projects, suitable for children in specified age groups. All of the suggested projects relate to the biology of insects.

http://www.sciencenews.org
Weekly science briefs in magazine format, aimed at kids

http://www.laboutloud.com
This blog presents podcasts about science education and recent scientific findings, and includes interviews with scientists and science writers.

http://cityhomeschooling.blogspot.com
This is a blog written by my neighbor, Kerry McDonald, about her homeschooling adventures in the city of Cambridge, MA

http://www.hepg.org/hel/article/507
This is an article published recently in the Harvard Education Letter, about a well thought-out system for getting students to ask interesting and meaningful questions, and by so doing gain ownership of the topics being studied.

http://www.ScienceBlogs.com
Their goal is improve science literacy in general, by providing space for about 80 bloggers to present many different aspects of science.

http://www.howtoteachscience.com/index.shtml
An interesting link about teaching science, intended for homeschooling parents but also relevant to anyone who wants their kids to enjoy learning science. The website includes a free PDF about the periodic table.

http://www.superchargedscience.com
Because teaching Homeschool Science should be fun, not hard.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/03/sign-up-to-play-vanished-a-new-alternate-reality-game/
This brings you to Vanished, an alternate reality game developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Smithsonian Institution. “The game encourages students, ages 11 to 14, to kick their critical thinking skills into high gear to solve a mystery.”

http://www.marine-ed.org/bridge/
Marine education resources for elementary and middle-school students.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/educators/subject-life.html
Wonderful short science videos from NOVA on a wide range of topics from many areas of science, including anthropology, chemistry, earth science, life science and oceanography.

www.sodaplay.com
This is a difficult website to describe. It’s for the budding engineer in all of us!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZGINaRUEkU&feature=related
This is a very catchy YouTube music video called The Symphony of Science — The Quantum World! There are more than 20 other videos in the series, but this is one of my favorites.

http://education.jlab.org/indexpages/index.php
This link takes you to the Student Zone section of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility website. It includes games, quizzes, videos, puzzles, and even a periodic table of the elements.

http://education.jlab.org/indexpages/index.php
This video gives a delightfully clear idea of what critical thinking is all about, and the obstacles to teaching it.

http://http://123kindergarten.com/
At this site, Barbara Allisen, a kindergarten teacher and parent, offers advice and plenty of simple learning activities to prepare children for kindergarten.

http://www.evolution-of-life.com/en/home.html
This site presents fascinating animations and videos about all aspects of the evolution of life. The site also includes virtual experiments for students to do, along with quizzes that teachers can use to assess learning.

http://www.newenglandoceanodyssey.org/
Use this link to sign up to follow Ben Skerry’s underwater photographic expedition exploring the deep waters off the New England coastline. It promises to be pretty spectacular!

http://www.vendian.org/envelope/dir1/length_shift6.html
How big are things? An excellent attempt to give people a sense of size. What things are about a micrometer in size? What things are about a millimeter in size? Just how big is a kilometer? Check it out.

http://tools4teachingscience.org/
This site provides tools and resources to support “ambitious science instruction” at the middle school and high school levels. Produced through the National Science Foundation

Interesting Science Resources for Teachers and Homeschooling Parents

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