Pivotal Kids
Learning Resources
Science
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Adaptation-Evolution
See also
Water
Science
experiment -
learn about
sound waves when
you make a
candle dance
with
this experiment
Soil science education
Interactive pages and
information for students and for teachers about soil e.g.
How much soil is there?,. and Filtering Qualities of Soils.
Visit the site
Make a
simple pump
Slowmation
http://www.slowmation.com.au/
Slowmation is a simplified form of stop-motion animation that engages
university or school students in creating their own animations of
science concepts. These learner-generated animations can be enhanced
with narration, labels and real-life photos to explain science concepts.
Fall Science
Challenge
This Science Experiment looks at what happens when
Food Coloring is mixed with Oil and Water
Bytesize Science
This site provides a collection of science related podcasts for young
students. Bytesize Science translates cutting-edge scientific
discoveries from ACS’s 36 peer-reviewed journals into stories for young
listeners about science, health, medicine, energy, food, and other
topics. New instalments are posted every Monday and are available free
of charge.
Middle-school science teachers have a new resource at
their disposal: SIMPLE Science, an online collection of science
activities created by Tucson, Ariz.-based education company Science
Approach with funding from the National Science Foundation. SIMPLE
Science lets students explore X-rays of animal skeletons, measure snow
and ice cover over time, explore bipedal locomotion, manipulate
photographs, diagnose lung disease, and much more. Each topic can be
covered in a 50-minute class session. The site is free and is available
to anyone with high-speed internet access and a Java-enabled
browser. The site's goal is to help overcome
barriers to the use of image processing and analysis in K-12 classrooms
by giving educators access to extensive, updatable archives of imaging
data, while designing a pedagogical structure that helps teachers use
imaging data in a way that supports middle-school science standards.
SIMPLE Science consists of a three-tired structure that scaffolds
students’ use of image processing and analysis, from basic explorations
of how imaging is used in various fields of science, to lessons
developed from an archive of images and data housed on the site's
server.
http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm#ecology
The use of a well-placed animation in a lecture
can help illuminate any number of important concepts in the
sciences. Educators seeking high-quality animations need look no
further than this very useful site created by staff members at
North Harris Community College. The animations are divided into
a number of topics, including plants, ecology, astronomy,
geology, anatomy, and biology. Each section contains links to a
host of fascinating and helpful animations from institutions
like Florida State University, Cambridge University Press, the
University of Nebraska, and the University of Alberta. As a
note, the astronomy and physics areas are particularly strong,
and visitors would do well to take a look at the lunar and
planetary time-lapse animations offered up by António Cidadão.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007.
http://scout.wisc.edu/
Periodic
Table of Comic Books
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.html
"Click on an element to see a list of comic book pages involving that
element," then click on thumbnails to see the whole strip. Another
wonderfully sneaky way to interest kids in science.
From: Neat New
Stuff I Found This Week
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html Copyright, Marylaine Block,
1999-2007.
FOSSWEB
http://www.fossweb.com
Ages
5-12
FOSSweb has
interactive science activities for grades k-6, and more resources for
middle schoolers (but you have to register for the middle school
modules).
The modules
are fun and creatively done. They cover a broad range of science topics,
including animals and plants, mechanics, electricity, earth science, and
science-related math.
Some
activities require a little clicking around before you figure out what
you're supposed to do, so parents might want to help their kids get
started.
Also, (buried
so deep in the site you might never find it) there is a great set of
resources for caring for live plants and animals in a classroom or at
home. You can find that here:
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/foss/fossweb/teachers/materials/plantanimal.html
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