Solar System Apps

My end of the year project for 3rd graders involves a study of our solar system. If you're like me and looking for solar system resources, here's a list of 14 apps for teaching students about the solar system.

Google Science Fair

Google Science Fair 2016 has begun! It's open to any individual or team of 13-18 years old. Good luck!

Websites across Content

Graphite recently posted a list of "great websites for learning" which includes multiple content areas. Each content area includes a list of about 5 websites, so it's a good starting point when collecting online resources for your class.

Static Electricity

I recently had a student ask me about static electricity. It led us on a search through the wonderful world of the internet. We stumbled upon this post from Free Tech 4 Teachers: The Science of Static Electricity. It helps students understand why rubbing a balloon on your head makes your hair stand up.

Ghosts-Static Electricity

Here's a fun experiment for elementary students: https://www.teachertube.com/video/static-electricity-ghost-400836

It teaches kids the basic ideas around static electricity while putting them in that Halloween spirit!

Virtual Field Trips--Farms

Are you looking to take your class on a virtual field trip? Discovery Education has a virtual field trip lined up for Oct 15 @ 1pm EST to tour the Creighton Brothers Farms. It's primarily intended for middle school students and explores the "interdependent relationships of organisms in an ecosystem and analyzes how every decision affects all aspects of a farm." Sign up for FREE and enjoy their archived field trips with lessons and activities.

Free Virtual FieldTrip (April 8th)

The Nature Conservancy offers another online field trip through their Nature Works Everywhere program. The virtual field trip occurs Thursday, April 8th using Google Hangout. Students will explore the functions of water in the Washington State temperate rainforest and the Arizona desert. Read more at Emerging EdTech.

Dinosaster

Culture Street, who creates numerous online activities for education, has created a game about Dinosaur extinction called Dinosaster. The object of the game is to gather all the dinosaur bones, and with each bone collected, a card is revealed about why the dinosaurs became extinct. Read a full review with lesson plans on Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers.

31 Apps for Science

A Media Specialists Guide to the Internet released a blog yesterday titled: 31 Free iPad Apps for Science Teachers.  The list includes Apps for ECE - High School.  Would you include any other free apps for this list?

How Electricity is Made

If you don't follow Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers, it's one of the premier educational technology blogs.  He recently posted about Energy 101 which explains how electricity is made and dispersed to us.

 I could definitely use this with my 4th graders and their Energy Unit.  How would you use it?