For learners of all ages - Get to know our vast universe by exploring its planets, galaxies, comets, black holes, and more
Grades 1-4 - This nicely organized visual site about animals is perfect for independent student research at the elementary level. Students can select an animal by type, read through the kid-friendly text to learn more about it, and browse through some great photographs. Includes games and a search feature (scroll to bottom of home page).
Grades K-8 - Discovery Kids inspires kids to explore the awesome world around them and satisfy their curiosity with innovative games, activities, quizzes and articles
Grades K-12 - This site is sponsored by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. Students can learn about drinking and ground water.
How to do an Earth Day on your block. A guide for pre-K - adult.
Grades 2-6 - Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards.
Grades K-4 - Information about the planets in our solar system.
Grades 3-5 -Energy Quest is the energy education website of the California Energy Commission. The resources, games, and activities are designed to help elementary students learn about energy.
Grades 2-5 - This site focuses on the science and impacts of global warming or climate change, and on actions that help address global warming issues. It is designed as a resource for both kids and educators. The site also features games, animations, events, and links to other relevant sites for kids and educators.
US EPA's website for educating K-grade 12 students about the environment and how to protect it.
Grades k-4-The K-4 Earth Science curriculum is divided into four modules based on topic: Biomes; Weather, Seasons, and Climate; Remote Sensing; and Earth System. Each module contains an overview section, online and hands-on activities, and an Earth action story with small problems for students to address,
"Get messy, get airborne, get loud, get shocked!"
Do you wonder how things work, or are you curious about what is entailed in different careers? How cell phones work and how a pit crew works together to maintain a race car in such short time are just two examples of the unusual topics that you will find on this site. The videos (10 minutes or less) look at science and career topics through the eyes of the cameraman. . Windows media player and Acrobat reader are required.
The official site of the inquiry-based Foss science curriculum- contains games and activities for students K-Grade 8.
Interactive games and activities for space explorers of all ages.
Hundreds of ideas for science fair projects from Astronomy to Zoology
Grades 2 and up - Come aboard the whale research vessel, Odyssey and experience the life of scientists and crew onboard.
K-Grade 12 - A user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public.
Grades k-4 - Short lessons about fire escape planning, smoke alarms and general home fire safety. Each lesson is followed by a brief five-question quiz. Also on the site, you will find games to reinforce the information learned in the lessons. Finally, through a 10-question quiz, children will have the opportunity to earn a Jr. Fire Marshal certificate signed by the U.S. Fire Administrator.
Grades 4 to adult - This site sponsored by Why Files hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides information on hurricanes.
Grades 2-4 - This highly interactive, audio-visual site introduces students to a variety of rocks and their characteristics. Place each sample - slate, granite, marble, pumice and chalk - into the virtual tester to discover which is permeable, which can be split, and which can float. Drag the magnifying glass over each rock to reveal common uses. Includes an interactive quiz.
Grades K - 6 -This site, sponsored by IBM, allows students to explore the world of sound.
Grades K-12 - This site sponsored by Neuroscience for Kids has been created for all students and teachers who would like to learn about the five senses.
Grades 4 and up - Learn about the Hubble space telescope.
Grades 2 and up -This NASA site is a must visit for anyone writing a school report. It includes fact and figures, an image gallery, and a Kid's Eye View section with a scale that calculates how much you would weight on Pluto.
Grades 4 and up - Are you prepared for a natural disaster? Find out by taking a quiz.
A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System: describes the history, mythology and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons and other objects in our solar system.. This site is suitable for upper elementary students.
From the PBS television series Zoom, these science experiments include feedback from kids around the world who have already tried them. That's pretty cool! Even cooler is being able to submit your own comments after performing the experiments. The ZoomSci activites are categorized into Chemistry, Engineering, The Five Senses, Forces, Life Science, Patterns, Sound, Structures, Water, with a special icon marking those activities that help the environment.
Grades 1-2 - Follow Peep, the inquisitive, newly hatched fowl, as he embarks on a series of scientific adventures involving patterns, colors, sound, memory and more. Click on the "Interactive Games" link to browse through the selections. Also includes an extensive collection of science lessons and printable coloring pages
Grades 4 and up- This activity lets you manipulate tectonic plates. Pull the plates apart and push them together and watch what happens to the Earth.
Grades 2-8- The rock cycle and the relationships between igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are detailed in this well-organized site that spans multiple grade levels. Choose Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced paths through the site and select a type of rock to explore. Prolific photographs, hyperlinked text, and well-written descriptions make this a great resource for earth science class. Also available in Spanish.
Grades 1-4 -Science games, Guided Internet tours, and science activities
Grades 2-5 - This site has experiments, games, and resources for learning about various science topics for example weather, body systems, electricity, matter, seeds, and minerals
Grades 3-5-This is an interactive activity in which students test their reaction time. Students control a hungry frog. Their job is to catch a fly as soon as they see or hear it.
This site contains science news for children of ages 9 to 13. It offers items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials.
Grades 4 - 8 - Science Buddies offers a pyramid of online programs that maximize the value and student enjoyment of science research projects. Building on a solid base of content that describes how to do a science fair project,
Grades 4-6 - Explore the dark and mysterious world of the ocean floor with this interactive site. In the murky light from a human-occupied submersible, students can gaze at the variety of organisms that inhabit the undersea world, and click on each one to learn more about them.
Basic facts about space weather. Grades 4-adult.
Grades 4 and up - Explore myths, misconceptions and superstitions about spiders.
This site offers an interactive introduction to electric circuits covering the basics of circuits and leading up to conductors, insulators, switches, and circuit diagrams. Easy to use with bright colors, The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits presents the perfect introduction to circuits for the elementary student. Students follow Bob and the other Blobz through five lessons on circuits. Each lesson begins with background information, moves to an activity using drag and drop, and then ends with a quiz.
Take a voyage through the vastness of the universe. Begin with the sun and learn facts about composition, temperatures, and more. View different images of each object and zoom in and out. Use the bottom navigation bar to choose between the different planets of our Solar System, or browse through the Milky Way, various nebula and comets, Proxima Centuri, Andromeda, or a Black Hole.
Grades 4 and up - This site gives current weather conditions for any where in the world.
Grades 3-5 - Weather education site especially for students, parents, kids and teachers from national TV meteorologist Nick Walker.
This website especially for elementary students allows them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather.
Grades 4 and up -Test your knowledge of math and science as you work your way to the million dollar level! Although the questions you will answer are real, the money, unfortunately, is not.
Reinforce space knowledge through on-line games. Grades K-12.
Grades 2 and up - Ever wonder what you might weigh on Mars or The Moon? Here's your chance to find out.
Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic, and then to progress to much more advanced information, simply by clicking on links.
