Science is a Blast

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Recommended Sites

LIFECYCLE

Seed Lifecycle: http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/lifecycles/lifecyc1.htm

Pollination: http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/pollination.html

Cool Plant movies of germination - click corn or sunflower: http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/earlygrowth/germination/germ.html

Flower Parts and Fertilization(To see the animation scroll down to the second flower picture. To watch the animation again, click the "Refresh" button on your browser.) http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/biology/world_of_plants/growing_plants_rev3.shtml

The Great Plant Escape: Be a Detective: http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/case3/index.html

Pollination and pollination game (Click through the pages to find the pollination game.): http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/ecotree/flowers/pollination.htm

Design a Flower Game: http://glasshouse.schoolscience.co.uk/discoveryzone/designaflower_game

Botany Basics / A great introduction to flowering plants, plant reproduction and the parts of a flower.A great introduction to flowering plants, plant reproduction and the parts of a flower.: http://www.backyardnature.net/botany.htm

Pollen under a microscope: http://education.denniskunkel.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keyword=pollen&osCsid=486bb5323c9bd218f087ef40a31fb36f&search_in_description=1

The Secret Lives of Flowers / Interactive: http://www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/bloom/secret_life_of_flowers/index.html

Farmer Jane / Click on farmer media and movie: http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/NewPlants/index.html

Flower parts: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/life_cycles.shtml

Poppy / flower diagram, click for more: http://www.plantlife.org.uk/poppy/interactive.htm

Digital flowers: http://www.life.illinois.edu/plantbio/digitalflowers/Flowers/index.htm

Assemble the parts of the flower: http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/ecotree/flowers/flowerparts.htm#top

Flowers of the UK: http://www.uksafari.com/wildflowers.htm

Photo gallery of flowers of North America: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wildseed/

Photo gallery of seeds: http://www.mobot.org/education/tropicalfeast/default.asp

Seed Dispersal: http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/seed_dispersl/index.htm

Seed Dispersal: http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/seed.html

Seed Dispersal: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/cool/seedy.htm

Seed Hunt: Printable cards: http://www.naturedetectives.org.uk/download/hunt_seeds

Fruits called Nuts: http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph8.htm

Grow Alfalfa Seeds at home: http://www.backyardnature.net/simple/alf-spr.htm

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: http://www.backyardnature.net/names.htm

Explore the Tree of Life: http://www.amnh.org/ology/?channel=biodiversity&c

Tree of Life: http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

Use a dichotomous key: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral/walk/default.cfm

Plant detective game: http://glasshouse.schoolscience.co.uk/discoveryzone/beaplantdetective_game

PLANTS AND PEOPLE

Major Biomes of the World: http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/index.htm

I Didn't Know I Ate That: http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/plant/foodparts.html

GM Foods: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_1740000/newsid_1746900/1746923.stm

Organic Farming: http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/landuse/organic_farm/index.cfm#

Earth's Atmosphere: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/oils/changesact.shtml

More on Earth's Atmosphere: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway/rocks_metals/6_clean_air1.shtml

Uses for gases of the atmosphere: http://www.boc.ebcnet.co.uk/index.html

All about the Atmosphere of Earth and other planets: http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/atmosphere/atmosphere_main.html

The Atoms Family: http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/index.html

Description of Atoms and subatomic particles: http://particleadventure.org/index.html

read about the discovery of the electron: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/onlinestuff/stories/atomic_firsts.aspx

Look inside a carbon atom (Click on "Launch Carbon Core Game"):  http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001897

Review atomic structure then watch a fun movie. (Click on "Next" for more information, then to watch the movie, click on the "Atoms and Atomic Structure" Activity on the right of the screen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_aqa/atomic/atomstrucrev1.shtml

Elements and atoms: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=elements_as_atoms/index.html

Build an atom: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/

European Organization for Nuclear Research (scroll down to see "About us"): http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

CERN's Particle Physics: http://keyhole.web.cern.ch/keyhole//main/Main.html

Atoms and Isotopes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_aqa/radiation/atomsisotopesrev1.shtml

All about Atoms: http://education.jlab.org/atomtour/

Chemistry 4 Kids: http://www.chem4kids.com/activities.html

Chemical of the Week: http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/chemweek.html

Climate Change: http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/carbon_cycle_version2.html

Climate Change: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/specials/climate_change/default.stm

Compounds - Cooking: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway/carbon_chem/1_cookingact.shtml

Important Compounds: http://www.chem.yorku.ca/hall_of_fame/gallery.IE.htm

Household compounds: http://www.epa.gov/kidshometour/

Common Names for Common Chemicals - Quia game: http://www.quia.com/mc/65904.html

What are elements and compounds: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/ICI/11-14/materials/match4pg1.html

Compounds: http://www.docbrown.info/page01/ElCpdMix/EleCmdMix.htm#MIXTURE

Quiz: http://www.docbrown.info/ks3chemistry/8E8Fmc.htm

Game - Periodic Table: http://www.activescience-gsk.com/module5/home.html

Elements: http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000000840

Game - Learn elements and their symbols:  http://www.quia.com/jg/3.html

Game - Metals, non-metals and metalloids: http://www.quia.com/pop/7392.html

Reactivity of metals and non-metals: http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/chemistry/metals--the-reactivity-series/properties-of-metals-and-nonmetals.html

Unreactive vs reactive metals: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/chemistry/m_m_chem_props_1.shtml

Illustrated facts about many elements: http://www.galleries.com/minerals/elements/class.htm

Chemistry: http://lgfl.skoool.co.uk/keystage3.aspx?id=64

Transition Metals: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/edexcel/patterns/transitionmetalsrev1.shtml

Metals: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002744/adlm-mtls.html

Metals Matter interactive: http://www.minerals.org.au/education/secondary/secondary_resources/down_to_earth_learning_objects_1-3

Mining: http://www.nswmin.com.au/education/minerals_classroom/virtual_tours/cadia/

Aluminum in America: http://www.aluminum.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Overview&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=25625

Aluminum: http://aluminium.matter.org.uk/content/html/eng/default.asp?catid=&pageid=1

Carbon: http://invsee.asu.edu/Modules/carbon/question.htm

Carbon is 4ever: http://library.thinkquest.org/C005377/content/selector.htm

Is Carbon hard or soft: http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/MaterialWorld/

Carbon and Buckyballs: http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/buckball/buckball.html

See different forms of carbon: http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/molecules/carbon.htm

Model of Buckyball: http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0504/es0504page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization

Buckyball:  http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/buckyball/c60a.htm

Copper: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/CDA/14-16/chemistry/index.html

Copper and The Statue of Liberty: http://www.copper.org/education/statue_of_liberty.html

More Copper: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/CDA/14-16/chemistry/copch0pg1.html

Copper Use through the ages: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/CDA/14-16/chemistry/copch0pg2.html

Copper and Coins: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/CDA/11-14/biology/copch31pg3.html

American Coins: http://www.usmint.gov/faqs/circulating_coins/index.cfm?flash=yes

Canadian Coins: http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/circulation-currency-1100028

Gold Artifacts: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/gold/golden/

Nitinol - memory alloy: http://www.memory-metalle.de/html/01_start/index_outer_frame.htm

Sulfur: http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/data/sulfur_data.html

Facts about sulfur: http://www.georgiagulfsulfur.com/uses.htm

All about Zinc: http://www.iza.com/index.html

Titanium and its uses: http://www.webelements.com/titanium/

Iron Age: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/online_tours/britain/daily_life_in_iron_age_britain/daily_life_in_iron_age_britain.aspx

Stainless steel's benifits: http://www.worldstainless.org/About%20stainless/Animations/

Steel Making Videos (see blast furnace): http://www.matter.org.uk/steelmatter/steelmaking/default.html

More about steel: http://www.matter.org.uk/steelmatter/six_stages/default.htm

Blast Furnace Animation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_ani_blast_furnace.shtml

Game - Invar and Steel Alloys: http://www.worldstainless.org/About+stainless/Animations/

Making iron and steel: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/Corus/14-16/steel/msch2pg1.html

Alloy: http://www.gcsescience.com/ex29.htm

Phosphorus: http://www.webelements.com/phosphorus/

Phosphates: http://www.phosphatesfacts.org/what.asp

Helium - how it works: http://science.howstuffworks.com/helium.htm

Properties of common elements: http://www.activescience-gsk.com/home.html

Online Lessons: http://ippex.pppl.gov/interactive/matter/elements.html

Coal - how its made: http://www.planete-energies.com/content/coal/formation.html#

Coal mining techniques: http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/exhibit/coal/technique/techniques.htm

Carbon is 4ever: http://library.thinkquest.org/C005377/content/selector.htm

The Hindenburg: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/flash/flash.html

About Hydrogen: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/flash/flash.html

Hydrogen and fuel (Scroll down and click on "Interactive tour" to see how a fuel cell works in a car.): http://www.gm.com/experience/education/5-8/fuels_energy/hydrogen_basics.html?exist=false

Fuel Cells in Cars - Mercedes Benz (Point your mouse at the sprockets icon (Technology), click on "Research", point your mouse at "Energy flow" and click on "Fuel cell". Choose the movie camera icon for the animation and the control pad for the game.): http://www.cedysworld.com/en/mb4k.php?Insref=domain_com/

Hydrogen based economy: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/hydrogen-economy.htm

Experiment - Electrolysis - showing water is made of hydrogen and oxygen: http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/electrolysis/ofwater.html

Cars that run on hydrogen: http://www.gm.com/experience/education/5-8/fuels_energy/sequel.html?exist=false

Refining Oil: http://www.adventuresinenergy.org/

Active Science: http://www.activescience-gsk.com/home.html

Science Essentials: http://www.channel4learning.com/sites/essentials/science/index.shtml

The Fun Zone: http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/minerals/index.htm

School Science.co.uk: http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/ages_7_-_11/student_resources.cfm

Bill Nye: http://www.billnye.com/

Global Warming - Ozone Hole Watch: http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

Climate Change: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/specials/climate_change/default.stm

Recipe for Ozone: http://www.airinfonow.com/html/activities.html

Teeth need to be brushed - eggsperiment - COOL: http://www.crestsmiles.com/crest-kids/eggsperiment.aspx

Chlorine in our water: http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_chlorine/science_index.asp?CID=1210&DID=4580&CTYPEID=113

Importance of Phosphorus to the body: http://www.mmeade.com/cheat/phosphorus.html

Phosphate: http://www.phosphatesfacts.org/what.asp

How a Halogen Light Works: http://home.howstuffworks.com/question151.htm

States of Matter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/gases.shtml

Online lessons: http://ippex.pppl.gov/interactive/matter/elements.html

Physical Properties of Matter Interactive: http://ippex.pppl.gov/interactive/matter/intro.html

Particle Model: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/chemistry/particle_model_test.shtml

Atomic Structure: http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/chemistry/atomic-structure/particles.html

Super Slime: http://www.at-bristol.org.uk/Slime/default.html

Changing Matter: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/science/changing_matter/index.html

Materials and their Properties: http://www.abpischools.org.uk/page/modules/solids-liquids-gases/?coSiteNavigation_allTopic=1

Snowflakes: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/

Make a snowflake: http://www.planet-science.com/wired/shake_down/01_snow.html

Old Faithful - Changes in States of Matter: http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/oldfaithfulcam.htm

Activities - Upside Down Water: http://www.planet-science.com/text_only/wired/magicbox/index.html#water

Chemistry: http://lgfl.skoool.co.uk/keystage3.aspx?id=64

Create Giant Bubbles: http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/bubble_tray/index.html

Activity - Do hot and cold liquids mix: http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/watertrick.html

Liquids: http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_liquid.html

Gases - how they work: http://www.channel4learning.com/sites/essentials/science/material/gasesaroundus_bi.jsp

How gas makes a refrigerator work: http://home.howstuffworks.com/refrigerator.htm

Animation - gases: http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/chemistry/atomic-structure/states-of-matter.html

Air Pressure: http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/air_pressure/index.html

Activity - Make a hot air balloon: http://www.msichicago.org/online-science/activities/activity-detail/activities/fly-a-hot-air-balloon/

Minerals: http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/minerals/index.html

Minerals by Name: http://www.galleries.com/minerals/byname.html

Mineral factsheets: http://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/education/minerals_index.jsp

Mineral Factsheets: http://www.minerals.org.au/education/secondary/secondary_resources/factsheets

Grow your own crystals: http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/minerals/index.html

Images of Minerals: http://www.theimage.com/mineral/index.htm

Minerals Down Under: http://www.australianminesatlas.gov.au/education/down_under/index.html

Minerals and Rocks: http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/education/vwlessons/lessons/lesson4.html

Diamonds: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/diamonds/composition.html

More about diamonds - see inside: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/diamond/inside.html

Mixture: http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/chemistry/atomic-structure.html

Bill Nye's Marbled Paper (Enter the site and click on "Home demos", then "Physical Science", then "Chemistry" and select "Marvelous marbling"): http://www.billnye.com/

How eggs are used in cooking to make emulsions. (Click on "Science of eggs" then scroll down to "Mix 'em up".): http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/eggs/index.html

Try a simple experiment with liquids that don't mix - and make a "liquid sandwich"! (Scroll down and click on "Separation Sensation".)http://www.planet-science.com/outthere/index.html?page=/outthere/primary/index.html

What is an emulsion - types of mixtures: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/ICI/11-14/materials/match2pg4.html

Mixture quiz: http://www.chem4kids.com/extras/quiz_mattermix/index.html

Separating Mixtures - Oil and Natural gas: http://www.adventuresinenergy.org/

Separating Mixtures - Chromatography, filtration, evaporation, and distillation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/chemistry/elements_com_mix_8.shtml

Activity - mixing and separating: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/rev_irrev_changes.shtml

Separate salt and water: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/ICI/11-14/materials/match3pg1.html

Separation techniques: http://www.docbrown.info/page01/ElCpdMix/EleCmdMix.htm

Learn about molecules: http://www.nyhallsci.org/marvelousmolecules/marveloussub.html

Mirror Molecules: http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/molecule/

Chemical Formula: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway/carbon_chem/0_fundamental_concepts3.shtml

Game, Build a Molecule: http://www.gm.com/experience/education/5-8/games/chem_skills/chem_skills.jsp

Periodic Table - Interactive: http://www.webelements.com/

Periodic Table: http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/PeriodicTable.htm

Periodic Table: http://www.gcsescience.com/periodic-table.htm

Print a copy of the Periodic Table: http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/index.html

Origin of the Periodic Table: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/periodic_table/index.html

Game - Periodic Table - Scroll down and click "launch obstacle": http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001080

Population Growth: http://www.activescience-gsk.com/module3/home.html

Habitat Game: http://www.abpischools.org.uk/page/modules/humans_animal_habitats/activity.cfm?coSiteNavigation_allTopic=1

Prehistoric Earth: http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/education/vwlessons/lessons/lesson5.html

Palaeotraveler and Rock back in Time: http://www.minerals.org.au/education/secondary/secondary_resources/down_to_earth_learning_objects_1-3

Carbon is 4ever: http://library.thinkquest.org/C005377/content/selector.htm

How steel is recycled in USA: http://www.recycle-steel.org/index.html

Game Recycle Steel: http://www.recycleroom.org/

Steel Recycling in UK: http://www.recyclenow.com/why_recycling_matters/how_is_it_recycled/steel/

Learn about recycling steel: http://www.scrib.org/

More about starting a recycling club - UK: http://www.alupro.org.uk/index.htm

Steel recycling and energy use: http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/saving/index.html

Recycle Copper: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/CDA/11-14/chemistry/copch32pg3.html

Material Things: http://www.channel4learning.com/sites/essentials/science/material/index.jsp

Rocks: http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/minerals/index.html

Rocks and Minerals: http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/education/vwlessons/lessons/lesson4.html

Volcanoes and Sulphur crystals: http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/crater_rim_drive/menu1.html

Volcanoes: http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/volcanoes/volc_images/southeast_asia/Ijen_hike/ijen_hike.html