Friday, April 6, 2012

Little Miss Hypothesis (Blog/Website 7)

littlemisshypothesis.blogspot.com/

This blog is full of great resources: Advice for aquariums in the classroom, how to make "Earth Day Hats," hand-washing lessons, unit ideas for the five senses, and much much more. I especially liked how each post was specific about what grade it was geared for.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Science Fun Online! (Blog/Website 6)

www.omsi.edu/for-kids

This website offers instructions for many science related activities, including how to make your own flubber!


It also has links to different live camera footage of things like real lab rats, and an infrared camera view of locations in Portland, Oregan.

Teaching Blog Addict (Blog/Website 5)

www.teachingblogaddict.com/search/label/Science

The posts in the science section of this blog include ideas for lessons and downloadable data collecting sheets on a topics like weather, animals, and the scientific method for students.



Internet 4 Classrooms (Blog/Website 4)

www.internet4classrooms.com/science_elem.htm

This website offers technology based activities for a wide variety of elementary science topics. From animals to weather, this website has games and links to online resources for a plethora of science lessons in the elementary school.

The National Science Teachers Association Early Years Blog (Blog/Website 3)

nstacommunities.org/blog/category/earlyyears/

This blog is a great resource from The National Science Teachers Association. Its posts cover topics like integrating science into other curricular areas, involving parents and family in science with their children, and fitting scientific exploration into the daily classroom routine.

NASA Kids (Blog/Website 2)

www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/index.html

This website is awesome! It has interactive games, ideas for lessons, and videos about all sorts of topics, some featuring NASA astronauts themselves talking about science.

Crystal Ball Science (Blog/Website 1)

www.crystalballscience.com/
This website is a great resource for teachers of elementary school science. It has links to helpful sites, graphic organizers to help with lessons, and several PDFs of actual  interactive lesson plans for kids. Most of them seemed to be geared toward about the 4th or 5th grade, but could be adapted for the younger grades with some minor adjustments, like changing the vocabulary, and using a teacher-model presentation style for the experiments before having students conduct the experiments on their own.