Explore the Science of the Human Body with PBS LearningMedia

 In recognition of Nutrition Awareness Month, PBS LearningMedia is turning the spotlight on the processes and systems that keep the human body in motion. Choose from a robust collection of interactive resources, videos, and lesson plans for Grades k-12. Remember to create an account for full access to the site!


PBS LearningMedia™ is a FREE digital media content library offering educators access to thousands of resources designed to inspire teaching and enhance classroom learning. Educators can easily search, save, and share resources with colleagues and students by creating a user account.
PBS LearningMedia™ is the go-to destination for instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos, games, audio clips, photos, lesson plans, and more! You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia is free for educators.

Learn What Is In Your Food From The Museum of Science and Industry

Would You Eat That? Learn What Is In Your Food

The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago recently released a new game designed to promote awareness of the ingredients in common foods. Would You Eat That? presents a food and a list of ten ingredients that you might not expect to find in that food. To play the game you have to correctly identify which four of those ten ingredients is in your food. When I tried the game with a packet of hot cocoa and a bag of dog food, I was surprised at a couple of the ingredients. 

Applications for Education
Playing Would You Eat That? brought to mind Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. While the ingredients in the foods in Would You Eat That? aren't as disturbing as what Sinclair discovered, there are still some surprises. Playing the game could teach students about ingredients and what function they perform in creating a tasty food.

re-posted from Free Technology for Teachers by Ricard Byrne

The Science Behind the News - The Why Files

The Why Files is a good website that I discovered in a Classroom 2.0 discussion. The Why Files is a resource designed for students to learn about the science of stories in the news. The Why Files doesn't cover every news story, just the stories that have clear connections to science concepts. For example, one of the stories on the front page over the weekend was about the start of Hurricane Season. The story goes on to explain in text, image, and video the science of hurricane formation.

Applications for Education
Most of the material on The Why Files is geared toward an elementary and middle school audience. The teachers' section of The Why Files offers pdf guides and quizzes that you can use to teach the science of the stories featured on the front page of The Why Files. The Why Files could also be a good resource for students to explore independently or with their parents.
**reposted from Free Technology For Teachers

The Science of Football

The Science of Football is a series of ten videos from NBC Learn explaining and demonstrating math and science concepts as they relate to football.

The Science of Football could be a good way to get students who enjoy sports, but don't necessarily enjoy math and science, interested in learning math and science. Lessonopoly offers lesson plans corresponding to each video to support your use of the videos in your classroom.

Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:

The Science of Skateboarding, Bicycling, and More

Sport Science - The Science of Baseball

ESPN's Sport Science

3M and Discovery Education Launch Interactive Web Portal for Families and Teachers Celebrating the Science of Everyday Life

Science of Everyday Life provides teachers, parents and students with a fun and interactive platform to explore the surprising and important role that science plays in our daily lives. Science of Everyday Life introduces a new opportunity for fun and creative learning with family activities and interactive tools designed to encourage exploration and engagement with the science that is part of the most relevant “laboratories” in our world – our homes, classrooms and communities.

Science of Everyday Life provides content to empower teachers and engage families and students including:

• Innovations from yesterday to today through brain teasers, virtual labs and an interactive timeline.

• Unique inquiry-based lessons, aligned to national standards, addressing key areas of science and the technology and innovation behind them.

• School-to-home family activities encouraging students to discover the real-world science around them and make connections to what they are learning in school.

Earth Day Resources

Brought to you in partnership by Waste Management and Discovery Education, it's your complete source for exploring the 4 R's of environmental education - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover. This Earth Day, it couldn't be easier to turn over a new leaf. Whether you're looking for quick Earth Day project ideas or year-round resources, ThinkGreen.com/classroom is the answer. Visit today to access nearly 100 K-12 lesson plans, videos, activities and interactive tools. That leaf, and the tree you found it on, will thank you.
What you'll find:
New Earth Day project ideas for K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12
Lesson Plans, Videos and ActivitiesK-5: Teachers and students discover different properties of various recyclable materials and learn surprising new uses for old things.
6-8: Students consider the environmental impact of too much waste, and take action to design solutions for the problem.
9-12: Students explore the process of recovering energy from waste.
Supporting videos, interactives, virtual labs, worksheets, and more

Science Web Resources

Science Websites

Some interactive resources are:
Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Chem Collective: Online resources for teaching and learning chemistry. Carnegie Mellon

Touchspin Chemistry Two Pan Balance

Touchspin Chemistry Virtual Triple Beam Balance

Interactive Periodic Table of Elements

Periodic Table of Videos

Virtual Scientific Calculator, eCalc

VITAL http://vital.thirteen.org

Visionlearning http://www.visionlearning.com

There is also a listserve for Chem and Physics teachers although I am not sure how active they are. All are through Suny Oneonta. Below is the sign up page.
http://external.oneonta.edu/mentor/listserv.html

New biology streams from BioMedia

New biology streams from BioMedia have been added (234) to the Digital Media Library. Biology teachers will love this material.

Sample topics include: Algae; Annelids; Bacteria; Biology of Lakes, Ponds, Streams, and Wetlands; Biology of Seashores; Chordates; Cnidarians; Domains of Life; Echinoderms; Flatworms; Fungi, and much, much more.

The trial for the Digital Media Library can be found here:http://dml.esboces.org
login: teacher
password: teacher/user
Click on the search box in the upper left. On the next screen, key in Biomedia in the text box, and all 234 streams will appear in a list. Teacher guides are also available.

Online Review Games in Science

The Review Game Zone is a web based review game creation site. Any teacher can easily create games for free using a simple form on this website. Simply input the question data, type the answer choices and that’s it! The games are automatically created and provide interactive review for exams or quizzes. Students can use games that have been created by other teachers on a variety of subjects. This is a new site and does not yet contain all subject areas. This what they have so far for grades 6-11
http://www.reviewgamezone.com

ScienceReviewGames.com, your FREE, fun and interactive site to help you study for science exams! Here you can play games such as basketball, soccer and deal or no deal all while reviewing science topics! Test review just got fun!

Any teacher can create games using a simple form on the website. Simply input the question data, write the answer choices and that’s it! The games are automatically created and provide interactive review for exams or quizzes.

http://sciencereviewgames.com