Science
Weblinks and other resources for teaching and/or learning elementary, middle and high school Science - Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Life Science, Geography/Earth Science
Educational Videos for K-12 at NeoK12.com
NeoK12.com is a site that aggregates educational videos from around the net and presents them in categories. more
Watch great documentaries online for free
Here's a pretty comprehensive list of 15 sites hosting documentaries for viewing. The content spans award-winning documentaries to films more directly related to school curriculum. The sites have done the hard work of vetting the content for you. more
10 Obscure Elements That Are More Important Than You’d Think
So you think you know the elements of the Periodic Table? Well think again - because between the well-known "rock star" elements at the bottom (think Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen ...) and the quickly disintegrating radioactive ones at the top-end lie some hidden heroes. more
MyPyramid.gov: A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body
Dietary guidelines, smart meal planning, suggestions for healthy snacking for kids (and adults!), and other handy tips to promote healthy eating in your home. more
Hubblesite.org
The astronauts at NASA have been pretty busy lately - undertaking exciting spacewalks and making repairs to the Hubble Telescope. Keep up with their progress and more at Hubblesite.org. more
Alarming new slides depict a worsening climate crisis
Al Gore's 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth may well be credited for sensitizing lay earthlings on environmental issues in ways that few other artifacts did - before or since. In this TED Talk earlier this year, Al Gore presented updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted. more
nanoZONE: A Handy Nanotechnology Primer
Ever have your kids ask you about Nanotechnology and found yourself stumped? This promising field of science and technology deserves some measure of lucid explanation to any curious child. nanoZONE - a creation of the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) at the University of California at Berkeley, is just what you and your kids need. more
Homeschool Science
The Homeschool Science section of Instructables.com has a decent collection of user-contributed science experiments that can be done at home. Experiments such as 'how to make your own thermometer', 'the Penny Battery', and 'how to make a 6-cent LED Throwie' sound like fun for teen tinkerers. more
A “Scratchy” Problem
— Here is a cool video posing a specific problem in an animation created in "Scratch". The video outlines a few different ways kids can approach tackling the problem and ways to use it in a learning context. more
Time travel anyone? … and let’s build a pyramid while we’re at it
"Time Engineers" is an interesting computer simulation game for kids between the ages of 7-17. The premise is novel - the kids travel back in time to solve engineering problems in three different eras. Science and Math concepts are woven into the playing of the game. more
