Science

These are resources, not necessarily recommendations (though for some tools I've written a glowing review).    Some are free and others are free to try then require purchase.  Please check them out and decide for yourself if they will work in your classroom.

• Period Table Games and More

• Cloud to Classroom - using technology for environmental change

• Ecolearn: EcoLearn is an educational research group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that explores the use of advanced immersive technologies to support learning about the complex causal dynamics of ecosystems.

  • EcoMUVE uses immersive virtual environments to teach middle school students about ecosystems and causal patterns.

  • EcoXPT: an immersive simulation in which students use inquiry to learn how ecosystems work.

• Teaching Genetics with Dragons:  From the Concord Consortium, “In all our dragon genetics games, students level up as they select alleles to control phenotypes, make predictions from genotypes, use meiosis to create gametes, and study inheritance by breeding baby drakes (the model species for dragons).”  

• Nature Lab at the Nature Conservancy - 

• NatgeoKids

• Heartbeat of the Earth - A series of online artworks interpreting climate data.

• Discovery Education  - Um. just check it out - there is too much awesome stuff for science and social studies to list in a one-line description 

• Britannica Launch Pack

• Gizmo

• Podcast response pages and this list or this list of podcasts

• Ed-tech and environment - projects that promote social good

• Coding and Natural Selection - Information with 5 challenges  

• Google Arts and Culture Muscles