My Top 25 Free Science Resources for Education

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Over the years I have accumulated and bookmarked hundreds of science resources in My Diigo Account.  As I was checking my email today, I stumbled across a really great Discovery Education resource for science ... so I decided to bookmark it!  Then I thought to myself, What am I ever going to do with all of my awesome science bookmarks?


So I thought, I know ... I'll share them with my Science Department Head in my school!  Then I thought, While I'm at it ... why don't I share it with the world?  So, I did!

Here you have it ... my Top 25 Free Science Resources List, purposefully organized for your viewing pleasure!  Those of you who are disappointed that I used bullets instead of numbers, I apologize ... but if you count them all up, you will see that there are exactly 25 links! I am true to my word! Enjoy!

Competitions and Challenges

• Young Scientist Challenge: http://www.youngscientistchallenge.com/home.html
• Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge: http://www.wecanchange.com/
• Google Science Fair: http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/
• Siemens Competition: http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition.htm

For Learning and Understanding: 

• Phet-Science Interactive Simulations: http://phet.colorado.edu/
• Science Animation Gallery: http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animation.html
• Science Homework Help: http://bit.ly/rH9Oj4
• Khan Academy (search science): http://www.khanacademy.org/

Inquiry

• Curiosity.com: http://curiosity.discovery.com/
• Curiosity in the classroom: http://curiosityintheclassroom.com/
• Scirus (A scientific search engine for research): http://www.scirus.com/

Lesson Plans

• Science of Everyday Life: http://www.scienceofeverydaylife.com/teachers/six-to-eight.cfm
• Thinkfinity-Science-Lesson Plans-Grades 3-8:  http://tinyurl.com/cro5dwn
• Succeeding With Science: http://www.succeedingwithscience.com/
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence-Science: http://free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=41

Online Museums

• Science Museum: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/onlinestuff.aspx
• Marian Koshland Science Museum: http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/index.jsp
• Exploratorium: http://www.exploratorium.edu

Resources

• Discovery Education Network Resources: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
• Free Teacher Resources from Discovery: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/
• Siemens Science Day: http://www.siemensscienceday.com/
• Siemens STEM Academy Science Resources: http://bit.ly/smmZ0Q
• Science Fair Central: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sciencefaircentral/index.html
• National Science Digital Library: http://nsdl.org/
• NASA for Students: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/

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