Free Virtual Science Resources

Science Review Games

http://reviewgamezone.com/site/subjects/science-review-games.php

Review game—students can play soccer, ping pong, baseball, basketball, golf, or Super Quiz

http://www.eram.k12.ny.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=38249

Earth Science Hangman

Rocks/Minerals/Soil

http://www.mineralogy4kids.org/

Mineralogy 4 Kids website provides interactive tutorials on minerals and the rock cycle

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/soil/down_dirty.html

From Discovery Education—The Dirt on Soil Information and games

Plate Tectonics/Earthquakes/Volcanoes

http://www.learner.org/interactives/index.html

Interactive tutorials on a variety of topics:  Dynamic Earth, Volcanoes, Weather

http://geographyworldonline.com/tutorial/lesson1.html

Latitude and Longitude lesson and skill builder exercise

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/shockwave.html

Interactive tutorial on plate boundaries

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/

Earthquakes for Kids:  games, animations, facts

http://www.sciencecourseware.org/eec/Earthquake/

Virtual lab-Earthquakes

http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/main_frames.html

The Dynamic Earth—information and interactives

http://kids.discovery.com/games/pompeii/pompeii.html

Build your own volcano

World’s Water

http://www.nature.org/popups/freshwater/watershed.html

Freshwater Conservation interactive

http://www.secretsatsea.org/main.html

Interactive game…try to crack the code

http://www.floridasprings.org/expedition/wakullaflash/

Virtual Cave Dive—Wakulla Spring

http://games.noaa.gov/

NOAA games

Geologic Time and Fossils

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/earth/yesterday.cfm

Interactive geologic timeline

http://www.amnh.org/ology/?channel=paleontology#features/layersoftime/??KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=550&width=800

Arrange the rock layers in order from oldest to youngest using index fossils

http://sciencespot.net/Pages/kdzdino.html

Geologic time, dinosaurs, and fossils websites from the Science Spot

Atmosphere/Weather

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/atmosphere/index.html

Animated diagram

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=The_Greenhouse_Effect

Greenhouse Effect—Interactive Simulation

Earth’s Environment

http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/index.jsp

Climate Change and Global Warming—Interactive

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/croak/

Solve the mystery of the declining frog population

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/earth.html

Interactive:  World in Balance, see the effects of our human “footprint” on our planet

Astronomy

http://www.amnh.org/ology/index.php?channel=astronomy#channel

Astronomy—Our Place in Space - Information, games, quizzes

http://sciencenetlinks.com/media/filer/2011/10/14/moon_challenge.html  

Lunar Cycle Challenge—drag moons to their places in lunar cycles

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/home.html

Black Holes Interactive

http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/seasons/cd190b.htm

Seasons Visualization

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/

Online explorations:  Telescopes, Comets, Galaxies, etc…

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/index.html

Auroras—self-guided tour

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasacity/index2.htm

Take a video tour of the rooms of a house and various locations in NASA City to see how space exploration affects your daily life.

General Science Resources

http://www.science-class.net/

Resources for science educators, teacher created site

http://www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp

Digital library for Earth Science Education

http://nsdl.org/

National Science Digital Library

http://www.teachersdomain.org/

Lesson plans, interactive media, and video

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Digital Library—Learning Resources Collection

Middle School Science

http://msteacher.org/science/

Middle School Portal—Science Resources

http://www.middleschoolscience.com/

Lesson plans

http://www.sciencespot.net/

Lesson plans and educational websites

All Links have been verified and are working as of November 3, 2011. 

© Lisa Michalek  

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