StarChild is a great resource for students and teachers because it is an online learning center for young astronomers. This site has interactive games for students that are educational about stars and planets, and also could serve as a great activity for teachers to use.
Discovery lab is an awesome resource for students and teachers because it is an interactive website for students that enables children to learn about different kinds of insects. Teachers could use this as their main activity, or even as a bell work activity.
Although this is a resource more geared towards elementary schools in Virginia, this site has plenty of lesson plans for teachers that could be adapted to their own state. I like this website because it is sorted out for grade levels, which makes it very easy to use and find what you are looking for.
This website is amazing because it has a ton of STEM lesson plans for teachers. It also includes strategies and tutorials for teachers regarding science as well. The STEM lesson plans are great because they are very detailed and ready for use.
This book was shown to us in class and is a great resource for students and teachers. It has tons of activities that integrate math and science. This book focuses on the plant cycle and has lots of ideas for activities to do with students.
This book is a great resource because it contains tons of poetry for students to read that are all about science. Integrating language arts and science is always a bonus. This could be used in a classroom if a student finishes early with an activity, they could read this book while other students finish.
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Cool Science has recently been discontinued, but the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has many free resources for teachers. Some of these include videos, recent science news, and images of the week.
Eurek Alert is the global source for science news. This is great for teachers because it allows us to stay up to date on current science events that we can inform our students about.
Weather Wiz Kids is a great website for students. They have a hurricane tracking chart, lots of information on natural disasters, as well as many other tabs that have tons of information regarding weather. This is a great resource for teachers to give students because they can learn a wide variety of things all on one site.
The Smithsonian Science Education Center has an amazing site for teachers. You can find videos, other resources, games, ebooks, and much more, as well filter what grade level you are looking for. This site is very easy to navigate and awesome for teachers wanting to find science lessons based off of the curriculum.
RubiStar is very beneficial for teachers because it allows teachers to look up rubrics according to subject, and even allows you to create your own rubric. This saves a lot of time for teachers which is great because we need all the time we can get.
These bags were also show to us in class and are great because they can hold a lot of books but they also have fun science things on the outside of them. I think this is a resource for teachers because they can engage students through these bags. They could use the science bags to hold materials for a science center in their classroom.
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