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Science Resources media type="custom" key="5217307" align="right" width="102" height="30" [| NSTA National Science Teachers Association]  The NSTA Blog for the Early Years is a great place to look for information about science topics for young learners. There are blogs that range from gardening to dinosaurs to snowflakes to playdough to light. Take a look at the Member Services tab and get information about joining NSTA. Get in touch with kids gardening with the National Gardening Association's Kids Gardening website. Check out the Dino Database and Science News for Kids. Find out how to make your own playdough with ingredients from home. Build your own periscope and peek around corners. Lots to do and lots to learn. This is a place you must explore. Rating * * * * *

[|Discovery's Make a Quake] Students can make a real world connection between Haiti and earthquakes by creating their own earthquake with Discovery's earthquake virtual simulator. Experience this extreme natural occurence first hand with choices of the ground the building was built on, the preventative measures put in place and the magnitude of the earthquake. These features allow students to make predictions about various factors that cause different scenarios. This a is great activity that can be used in the computer lab or in the classroom utilizing an interactive whiteboard or a projector. Rating * * * * *

 [|Discovery Education's classroom]      is another one of my favorite sites to use in my classroom. Anytime I am teaching science I can go onto this site and find a video, link or additional information to use with my students. The students are engaged since they are seeing it happen themselves and it makes comprehension stick. You can take your class on a virtual field trip or use it to Take your classroom to a world they have never seen before!  find science fair project ideas. Especially valuable for students who's life experiences are limited since it opens the world up to them. Rating * * * * *

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[|Harcourt Science Glossary] This site has all the science terms and words that are associated with science per grade levels. The site is divided by grade levels K-6. The site also offers the definition for the word along with a picture or an example of it. There is also an audio file which pronounces the word aloud Rating * * *

teachersdomain.org This is one of my favorite sites for finding great resources for my science class. Teachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital media resources produced by public television, designed for classroom use and professional development. Type in a keyword and you can have many ideas to bring technology into the classroom for the subject. Rating * * * *

[|The synapse] This is a biology blog site that has tons of information. It is most useful for high school biology information. They divide the blogs into categories that connects you with educators that work in areas such as: general biology, zoology, good practice, and even chemistry. Rating * *