Good Science Web Sites for Carson Families |
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| Sky Watch at NASA tells you when the International Space Station and shuttle are visible in the San Antonio sky. | http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi? |
| Nye Labs is the home of Bill Nye the Science Guy. Enough said! | http://www.nyelabs.com/ |
| Although Brain Pop is pretty much a paid site, it is worth inclusion here. The animations are awesome, and will help your child understand science concepts. | http://www.brainpop.com/ |
| Science Bob guides students through different experiments. It is a great resource for science fairs, also. | http://www.sciencebob.com/ |
| The Try Science site has experiments, on-line field trips, and adventures. | http://www.tryscience.org/ |
| Bubble Sphere will teach you more about bubbles than you want to know! | http://www.bubbles.org/ |
| NASA's "For Kids" site is a powerhouse site full of fun activities and exciting games. | http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html |
| This is the Franklin Institutes site for "learners". It is loaded with resources. | http://www.fi.edu/learn/learners.html |
| How Stuff Works is a great place to learn how stuff works. DUH! | http://www.howstuffworks.com/ |
| I Know That has a great group of science games that really make you think. | http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_Science |
| The Bayer Aspirin people created this awesome interactive table of periodic elements. He Mom and Dad, check out the ones that weren't there when we were in school? | http://www.bayerus.com |
| This site is from PBS. It has lots of information on the science involved in building bridges, dams, tunnels, and other big things. | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/index.html |
| The Baltimore County Public Schools Library Information Services are really on the ball. This site has loads of links for science. They are clustered by grade levels. | http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/curric/elem/Escience.html |
| The Electronic Zoo and Net Vet are provided by Washington University in St. Louis, where my mother in law got her medical degree. It has lots of information about animals. | http://netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm |
| The Student Online Lab for Science Stuff has many fun things for kids. | http://www.osti.gov/sciencelab/elementary.html |
| This is Reuter's breaking science news site. | http://www.reuters.com/news/science |
| ABC Science from Australia has some great quizzes and activities. | http://www.abc.net.au/science/ |
| Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab is loaded with easy expirements. | http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/ |
| Kid's like yucky things. This site uses them to teach science. | http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/ |
| This site has lots of cool science experiments. | http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiments/ |
| Mr. Smith lets his fourth graders reconstruct skeletons here. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/skeleton_jigsaw/ |
| Learn about adaptations by blending your own animals. | http://www.switcheroozoo.com/make_play.htm |