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What an appropriate time to  celebrate the NSTA Conference with a tribute to an awesome collection of  STEM resources! For those not familiar with STEM education, imagine the power in combining Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math into a program that brings cross curricular understanding with real world application. Those familiar with ...

  Directions: Spiders may be a little scary — but they are also amazing creatures that play an important role in the cycle of life on earth. Learn more about them with the interactive hunt, below. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper, or on the reproducible provided by your teacher. This page includes links outside of ...

Discover lots of free resources, videos and enter our giveaway during National Science and Engineering Week! (12th- 21st March). The theme this year is Earth and there are some great resources on the British Science Association website to engage your pupils with science - including a poster competition, a chance to win annual passes to the Eden ...

There is a great variety of reptiles here on planet Earth, and they first started to evolve more than 300 million years ago. There are more than 8,000 species of reptiles, and they include crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and turtles. The majority of reptiles are oviparous (egg-laying), have scales, and breathe air through their lungs. Apart from ...

      Start Here: http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/create/index.html         1.   How are igneous rocks formed?  Name 2 igneous rocks. 2.  How are sedimentary formed?  Name 2 sedimentary rocks. 3.  How are metamorphic formed?  Name 2 metamorphic rocks.     addthis_url = ...

Nothing speaks louder than a good role model. As a teacher and a father, I absolutely believe that. That's also why I love picture books which retell the lives of men and women who, from their very childhoods, proved themselves to be innovative, independent, and incredibly resolute. So while this post (and the next) might be seen as my ''doing ...

White and Smart Board Activities http://teacher.scholastic.com/whiteboards/sciencemath.htm http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/ (language arts) http://www.myinteractiveclassroom.com/ http://www.learningtoday.com/corporate/second-grade-interactive-whiteboard-lessons.asp (2nd ...

PBS, that trusted acronym that brought us Sesame Street, continues to provide cutting edge learning tools with their embeddable activity packs. If you're a teacher with your own web site, web page, blog, or other media platform, read on! What's an activity pack? According to the site, ''An activity pack is a set of educational resources focused ...

Learn a little more about frogs by watching this Flash activity, and doing a labelling quiz on the morphology of a frog. Please come back here to leave a comment after you've played the game. Click here to watch the life cycle of a frog Click here to play the game

We are learning about the Five Senses and I decided that this week, we should focus on one sense each day.  Today was Smell Day.  Last night I put various food items with distinctive scents into little plastic tubs, and today I sat at the science center at centers time and the kids stopped by to check out the smells. Lemon was popular, as were ...