LINKS
- Calm (calm.com/schools)
HANDS-ON INQUIRY
- “Inside a Desktop Computer” video GCFLearnFree (gcflearnfree.org/computerbasics/7)
- Computer Hope (computerhope.com/issues/ch000997.htm)
- How Stuff Works (computer.howstuffworks.com/inside-computer.htm)
- “Computer Tour” (computer.howstuffworks.com/23-computer-tour-video.htm)
- Computer Science Unplugged (csunplugged.com/activities)
TOUCHPADS
- Common Sense Media has iPad recommendations for elementary (tiny.cc/6hxgwy)
- Starfall (starfall.com)
- Blabberize (blabberize.com)
CITIZEN SCIENCE
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology Citizen Science (birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=1664)
- SciStarter (scistarter.com/educators)
- Zooniverse (zooniverse.org/projects)
- NASA (science.nasa.gov/citizenscientists)
- The Smithsonian citizen science projects (si.edu/volunteer/citizenscience)
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
- Moon in Google Earth (google.com/earth/explore/showcase/moon.html)
- The Tenement Museum (tenement.org/immigrate)
- The Secret Annex Online (annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home)
- Let’s Take a Dip (fergusonfoundation.org/hbf-kids-zone/lets-take-a-dip)
VIRTUAL SIMULATIONS
- KidWings (kidwings.com/virtual-pellet)
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) (nlvm.usu.edu)
- Interactivate (shodor.org/interactivate/activities/byAudience)
- Phet (phet.colorado.edu)
- Learning Science (learningscience.org)
- Game for Science (gameforscience.com)
- iCivics (icivics.org)
- CSI: Web Adventures (forensics.rice.edu)
- Coolmath-Games’ Lemonade stand (coolmath-games.com/lemonade)
- Coffee Shop (coolmath-games.com/0-coffee-shop)
- Online Science Games for Kids (learn4good.com/games/scienceforkids.htm)
- Fantastic Contraption (fantasticcontraption.com/original)
- Historical Scene Investigation (hsi.wm.edu)
- Gen I Revolution (genirevolution.org)
- San Francisco Symphony (sfskids.org)
- New York Philharmonic (nyphilkids.org)
- Challenge: Robots! (nationalgeographic.org/game/challenge-robots)
MAGNIFICATION
- Online Digital Microscope with tutorials on its use (tiny.cc/0uxgwy)
- Online Virtual Microscope (tiny.cc/awxgwy)
- Microangela (pbrc.hawaii.edu/microangela)
ROBOTICS
- Early Robotics competitions (earlyrobotics.org)