Life’s A Weekend!

This in NO way is a comprehensive list. I’m not a scientist, but a curious home educating mother. These are some of the what-I-think-interesting sites that I’ve stumbled on in my 5 years of homsechooling.

Science:

General or All 

How Stuff Works - also http://science.howstuffworks.com/

Science from the Beeb - 4-11 yo
+ Teacher resources - 9-10 yo
Teacher’s (or home educating parents’) resources : scienceclips

Bitesize 
+ teachers : 3 pages of lesson plans and worksheets

Science Fair help

3D Papercraft - see the Science section

Krampf Experiment newsletter - www.krampf.com

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/category/science-fair
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiments/

Biology

Biology for kids 

Some anatomy printables

Physical

 NZ Science Learning Zone - earthquakes, volcanoes, ice house

Physics

http://www.squidoo.com/physicslapbook - Jimmie

Life Sciences

Life Science downloads - parent and student copies -

http://eequalsmcq.com/elem%20life%20science%20websites.htm - extra resources, mainly BBC
http://www.eequalsmcq.com/Thank%20you%20for%20downloading%20Life%20Science.htm
parent and student copy - better on dsl for 2-10 MB download.
Great resources for topics like: sense, human body, classification etc.

Dinosaurs -

Chemistry

http://www.webelements.com/- click through to further info on each element

Can sign up for ‘Elements’ email at: www.howtoteachscience.com - Teresa
http://www.howtoteachscience.com/newslettersignup.html

webquest - http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/homeschoolingmommaof4/Chemistry

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Don’t know where to start?  (by UGA)  - www.libs.uga.edu/ref/scifair.html

More project ideas for elementary projects - www.uga.edu/oasp/gsef/sources.html

Middle School Science Fair basics - www.uga.edu/oasp/gsef/gsef/basics.pdf

Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge  -
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/dysc/

Discovery Channel Schools (Science) Curriculum Center -
http://school.discovery.com/curriculumcenter/

NASA lesson plan search - http://questdb.arc.nasa.gov/lesson_search.htm#search

Newton’s Apple teacher’s guides - www.tpt.org/newtons/alpha.html

Cyber-Fair (a resource elementary students) - www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/steps.html

Exploratorium - www.exploratorium.edu/educate/index.html

Science resources - http://camillasenior.homestead.com/resources.html

Janice VanCleave’s Science Fair Handbook (Scientific Method, topic research, sample project/report, display, presentation and evaluation) - http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/scifairstudio/handbook/index.html

(thanks to Gin at Bryant Academy - bryantacademy@comcast.net)

Fun

http://www.abc.net.au/science/surfingscientist/icehand.htm

Freaky Ice Hand

I know my DS8 will enjoy doing this!  Check out the rest of the website - for budding scientists or the plain inquisitive.