Sunday, January 13, 2008

Science Resources-explore and post

Listed below are some elementary science related blogs and sites. The first group of links are larger resource sites; the second group is a small collection of elementary science teacher blogs.

Explore a site(s), and write a post on your blog about what you encountered. Link back to the blog about which you are commenting. (Use the little link icon, in the toolbar above your post as you are writing.)

Science Resources

Elementary Science; Resources, hands-on experiments, discussions, and tips for K-5 science teachers in Cobb County, Georgia.

Instructify. Instructify is brought to you by LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education. LEARN NC finds the most innovative and successful practices in K-12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina–and the world.

HCPSS Elementary Science: From the Howard County Public School System, Maryland.

American Museum of Natural History: A wealth of resources from AMHH in New York.

Hayden Planetarium: A digital universe atlas.

Exploratorium Blogs. Written by Exploratorium staff and project partners, here you can find out what’s happening behind the scenes at the museum.

Open Wide, Look Inside
This link goes straight to the Science Category of Tricia Stohr-Hunt's blog about using poetry and children’s literature across the curriculum. Dr. Stohr-Hunt is on the faculty at the University of Richmond. Wonderful categories, thematic book lists and general resources make this site an exciting treasure of a blog.

Science Teacher Blogs


Ring Mountain Wildlife Blog: 5th grade science at MCDS in Marin.

The Trout Blog: a K and 6th grade collaboration.

A Duck with a Blog: from 2005-06, an edublog winner.

Guidelines for commenting

Practicing and Coaching - Claire's test blog; "guidelines for commenting"