Monday, April 30, 2012

Science Websites for Kids!

http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/index.html
This website talks about the physics in amusement parks and how rollercoasters are created using physics.  It is created for children and makes learning fun by taking a virtual tour of how a roller coaster is designed and how they work while showing that physics is a major part of this.

http://druniverse.wsu.edu/
This is a blog created by Washington State University.  It has multiple posts created by Dr. Universe where children can go to learn about multiple science topics.  It has questions that parents and teachers ask to review about animals, plants, space, astronomy, chemistry, physics, the human body, and more.  Dr. Universe answers all of these questions and anyone can go to view the questions and answers.

http://www.brainpop.com/
Brainpop is a great resource for teachers and children.  It covers all content areas including science.  It has a lot of cute informative videos that teach children about different topics.

http://www.billnye.com/for-kids-teachers/
Who doesn't love Bill Nye when it comes to science?  This is Bill's website for kids and teachers that includes different activities to do at home, videos from his show, and printout sheets to do activities with.

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/
This is a website for kids to explore science created by Howard Hughes medical institute.  It has activities to explore plants, animals, and the air around us.  All of these activities are focused around the science topic Biology.

http://www.funology.com/laboratory/
Funology is a website that includes multiple different science games for children to explore.  It includes games to play for physics, biology, and chemistry.  It also has games to teach about the seasons and the weather.  These games make learning about science fun for children.

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
This website is all about the human body.  It enables viewers to tour the human body and discover what it looks like and how the different systems work.  It is interactive where the viewer holds their mouse over any part, and a label pops up to click on for more information.

http://www.planetpals.com/
Planet pals is a childrens site to teach about the planet earth. It discusses different ways to protect our earth, recycling, and the weather.  It is full of different games, crafts, and printout activities to do with children.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/
This is a page that is filled with multiple different science experiments to do with children.  It includes activities involving light, static, bubbles, mixtures, flying objects, colors, sinking/floating, and many more.  All of these are hands on fun activities involving science.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/index.html
This is a really cool site to use when learning about the solar system.  It allows users to type in their weight on earth and it then calculates what their weight would be on the other planets or the moon.

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