I came across a website full of resources for science classrooms…http://www.learningscience.org/. It contains links to a wide variety of learning tools including interactive websites, gizmos, real-time data, and a bunch more that provide opportunities for students to engage themselves in learning science content. The great thing is that the tools featured on this site are evaluated by science teachers as well as other scientists. I’ve used many of the websites named on their site in my own class (before finding them at learningscience.org) and they are awesome. This helps me to trust the panel’s approval of the links that they post. Also, it is free to access the site along with most of the tools presented. The organization of the site makes it very easy to find tools specific to a topic. The site first organizes the tools by major scientific branches including sections for both inquiry and the nature of science. From there categories are further broken down by both grade level and standards taken from the National Science Education Standards. Teachers (and anyone else who is interested) are invited to share links for review to keep the site growing with good and useful tools.
