Intro to Science
Lab Safety Rap from YouTube
Online Lab Safety Jeopardy Game
Link for nonflash devices, iPad
Free online resource for tutors, teachers, parents and educators and where young kids enjoyably learn all about science through our extensive articles, free science worksheets and downloadable science activity sheets, fun FREE and educational interactive science quizzes, coloring in activities, science experiment tips and ideas, our large collection of the best science videos and much more.
Award-winning multimedia resources, including apps, animations, videos, interactives, and virtual labs, to bring the excitement of scientific discovery into the classroom. Rich video resources range from a series of short films on evolution, hosted by an award-winning author-scientist, to lectures on the brain given by a Nobel-prize winner—all supplemented by teacher guides and classroom activities.
Matter and Energy
What lives in the nano world? You'll find out here through interactive activities, a gallery, and more! By Rensselaer’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures. Build Section, create elements in increasing difficulty levels. Zoom section, zoom from 10,000 kilometers to 1 Nanometer. Transform section changes states of matter from solid, liquid, to gas.
Atoms and Molecules from AHA Science
This is an free instructional module preview from AHA Science. Teachers can use the whole module or individual parts. Topics covered include Introduction to Matter, Atoms, Elements, Molecules, Atoms Never Change, Physical Change, Mixture, Solution, Chemical Change, and Mixtures and Compounds.
Tutorial for Balancing Equations
Step by Step interactive animation to help students balance equations.
Physical or Chemical Change Quiz
Requires Java. This is a quiz only. The quiz gives an example and students must choose between Physical or Chemical.
Exothermic and Endothermic Chemical Reactions Quiz
Balancing Act from Jefferson Labs
A game for practicing balancing equations. Students can pick how many questions and what level; beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
Each element has a YouTube video attached from the University of Nottingham. (The professor has quite a hairdo.)
This site also includes games and teacher resources
Includes info on history, classifies elements, and quizzes
Periodic Table Game from Active Science
Videos and Animations from American Association of Chemistry Teachers
Force, Motion, and Energy
Explore forces and motion as you push household objects up and down a ramp. Lower and raise the ramp to see how the angle of inclination affects the parallel forces. Graphs show forces, energy and work. You can download or run from this link.
Simple Machines from the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Accelerating Mass: F=ma video from Planet Nutshell
When is Acceleration the Greatest in Skydiving Video by Untamed Science (3:53)
Centripetal Force video from Planet Nutshell
Virtual Car, Velocity and Acceleration
Pearson Online Learning, Differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration.
Motion and Forces Video: The Adventures of Velocity Girl
Starts off easy, but gets harder. Great game
Lots of information and quiz following. Can be done with clickers or Insight 360 verbal mode.
Forces and Interactions from NASA Physics and Engineering Collection, PBS Learning Media
Newton's Laws of Motion Interactive
Amusement Park Physics from Annenburg, Bumper Cars
Physics4kids Newton's Laws Online Quiz
Circus Physics: Newton's Laws of Motion from PBS
Physics in Sports, Newton's Laws
Laws of Motion Videos from Neok-12
BrainPop Forces, Motion, and Time
Organisms and Environments
Saint Ocean Hall, Coral Reef Interactive
The interactive activity teaches students about the elements of and around a Caribbean coral reef, including marine life, such as the Elkhorn coral, Marine Algae Azure Vase Sponge, Nassau grouper, and Caribbean Spiny lobster, and the impact of humans
Citizen science project where users are asked to classify animals on the Serengeti from camera traps to help real scientists survey and track populations of important and endangered wildlife.
Oceans, Sample Instruction Module from AHA Science
This is a sample instruction module. You can watch the whole video or watch just short clips. Areas covered are Oceans and Ocean Water, Earth's Five Oceans, Waves and Surface Currents, the Gulf Stream and Deep Ocean Currents, Tides, Zones of the Oceans, The Ocean Floor, Importance of Oceans, Harmful Human Activities, Policies to Protect Oceans, Spreading Awareness, and Protecting Oceans.
Field Notes from Madagascar Video
This website lets students follow sharks around the world in real time. Students may follow one shark or many. Curriculum available also.
Earth and Space
Solar Eclipses, Stories from the Path of Totality from Exploratorium
Webcasts, Stories, and Information about Solar Eclipses
Moon Shadow from MSNBC
How the Universe Works: A Solar System is Born Video from Discovery
Mysteries of Space from PBS
Includes information on scientists, interactive timeline, the Hubble, trivia challenge, and classroom activities.
Voyage to Epsilon Eridani 3 from Exploratorium
Observe the effects of special relativity as you travel near the speed of light!
The Planets Today, A Live View
Awesome Solar System simulator! Go back in time or to the future, and see how the planets or comets look.
A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars
Vimeo, The anaglyph images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera holds information about the topography of Mars surface. There are hundreds of high-resolution images of this type. This gives the opportunity to create different studies in 3D. In this film I have chosen some locations and processed the images into panning video clips. There is a feeling that you are flying above Mars looking down watching interesting locations on the planet.
Life on Mars:Preparing for the Red Planet, The Daily 360, New York Times
YouTube 360 Video Mars simulation
Black Holes, Gravity's Relentless Pull
An amazing resource which shows the relative scales of things in the universe and guaranteed to make you feel insignificant.
Sizing Up the Universe from the Universe
Very cool site that shrinks the universe by using common objects and then mapping it using an address.
NASA TV, watch live International Space Station and much more.
Pictures of the Year 2013: Space
SpaceRip, YouTube Channel
A superb YouTube channel with a juge collection of stunning space videos. Explore planets, galaxies and the universe.
The Breakup of Pangaea from exploratorium
Savage Earth from PBS Animations
360° video of Close Range Tornado near Wray, CO
Interactive Dynamic Earth from the Annenberg Project
THis 3D globe shows the locations and elevations of 1406 volcanoes on planet earth.
Dynamic Earth from the Smithsonian
Forces of Nature from National Geographic
Click on the menu at top to get information and activities for volcanoes and earthquakes
A searchable directory of free images (many satellite images), visualizations, and animations of Earth. Topics include soils, clouds, storms, hurricanes, droughts, precipitation, vegetation, oceans, sea ice, human population, land use, erosion, fires, rocks, minerals, regions, and countries.
Earth Alerts is a site that tracks natural disasters around the world in real-time. This includes earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and tropical storms. You can view the site as a map of the world or zoom in on geographic areas such as the Pacific Rim of Fire (a popular location for volcanic activity). It also includes webcams, a natural disaster catalog, and more.
Current Earthquake Information from USGS
Animations for Earthquake Terms and Concepts
Weather Watch from Scholastic, Weather Detective or Weather Maker
Composite Then and Now Photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Since 2010, San Francisco photographer Shawn Clover has been working on a striking series of then and now composite photos of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. To create the series, Clover collected archival photos of the earthquake’s aftermath. He then replicated the photos himself, down to the location, camera position and focal length (to the best of his estimation). The resulting composite photos hauntingly combine stark images of the earthquake’s devastation with modern scenes of life in San Francisco.
Click on Select Category and choose Earth
Great short videos on many weather patterns