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This is a great interactive from the ABC that tracks back through history to look at a range of factors that may or may not play a part in climate change including human population, industrial landmarks and geological changes. As well as looking backward through time it also offers 4 scenarios for the future none of which are terribly optimistic.

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The ABC and the NSW Department of Education and Training's Centre for Learning Innovation are collaborating to produce the ABC Teachers’ Resource Pilot which pools ABC science content from TV, radio and online together into one place where teachers can easily search for topics/articles relevant to them via year level, subject and keyword.

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This wikispace is an interesting use of a wiki. In this space students can access course material and upload work samples. It makes use of glogster and as a result it can be a little slow to load some pages.

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"Established in 2006, Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia elearning resources. The online resource library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects. Resources have been produced according to key stage 3 and 4 of the UK National Curriculum for students aged 11 to 16."

Though the learning objects are not downloadable they are eminently suited to using on an interactive whiteboard.

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Phun is a free game like 2D physics sandbox where you can play with physics like never before. The playful synergy of science and art is novel, and makes Phun as educational as it is entertaining.

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This is THE place to go for all things NASA in education.

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neoK12 is a isting and repository of educational videos suitable for students from K-12. The videos in the listing are reviewed and screened by teachers and are drawn from YouTube, MetaCafe as well as some other video sites. They are arranged under listings and can also be searched from within the neoK12 site.

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The Amphibian Research Centre site is the web presence of the centre dedicated to research and conservation of Australia's unique frogs. They provide a range of services from the site including
Tadpoles in schools kits
A Field Guide to Frog Groups of Australia
Frogs of Australia: A Regional Guide to Frogs of Australia
Frogwatch
amongst other activities and links to amphibian sites.

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Frogs in Orbit is a hands-on program which integrates Biology, Ecology and Physics from the Australian Ecolinc organisation. The pdf and Powerpoint files for a 2008 project involving the MIR space station are intended for use with secondary school students in year 9 or 10 but can be adapted for other levels. The lessons can be used individually or as a complete unit. This material is copyright free and can be freely distributed.

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Maureen Tumenas is assembling an ever expanding collection of movies of er class and others working especially with science. These are great examples of how video can be used on a number of levels. The videos are a great reminder for the students in Maureen's class, they enable parents to be involved in what is happening in the classroom, they can be used as a stimulus for other students and teachers can review them as a means of professional learning.

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This is just simply the most amazing collection of easy to make and do activities I have seen. There is so much science here in this huge list of easy to make DIY toys and other things from Arvind Gupta. Complete with excellent images this page should be part of every science teacher's kit. Be warned though the page may take a little time to load on slower connections.

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You won't believe your eyes when you see what happens to ordinary packing peanuts when they come in contact with a solvent called acetone. They seem to just "disappear" like magic. In fact, the Styrofoam reacts with the solvent to reveal the fact that Styrofoam is made up of long strands of styrene molecules with lots of air pockets. This demonstration also reminds us about the importance of reducing our use of Styrofoam and replacing it with more Earth-friendly packing materials.

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Breathing Earth is a real-time simulation that purports to display the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, alongside birth and death data. The simulation tracks on a map where in the world these vents are likley to be taking place. Really interesting stuff.

"Please remember that this real time simulation is just that: a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate. Please note however that the CO2 emission levels shown here are much more likely to be too low than they are to be too high. "

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Part of the larger Physics.org site this selection of interactive websites and games show a whole different side of physics. Here you can find a cartoon street where you can explore the physics of life or take a look at a selection fo videos demonstrating physics principles in real life or even perform your own colonoscopy, (teacher guidance required).

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Engineering Interact is a series of flash based games and accompanying resources, links and notes for primary school children aged 9 to 11 around a number of science and engineering based themes. They also contain information about real world applications.Though they are now a few years old most of the content is still very applicable and well suited to working either on the interactive whiteboard or on individual computers. The games come from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering.

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This site has a whole lot of physics flash based games that can be played directly from the site, or even better be embedded into your site or blog etc.

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This blog and embedded videos are an attempt by teacher Alom Shaha to answer the perrenial question from students as to why learn science. As Alom says,

"I want this project to reach people who don’t think science is important and convince them otherwise. I want it to demonstrate that science is absolutely crucial to the future wellbeing of our world, that its contribution to culture is as significant as that of music, art or literature and, most important of all, that a sound appreciation of science is vital to realising your potential as a human being. I want this project to make it far, far easier for any science teacher to be able to answer that inevitable question, ‘what’s the point of all this?”

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Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado. These Java applets can be downloaded or used online.

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Peep and the Big Wide World site contains a collection of science activities and resources suitable for Junior students. The site produced by WGBH Boston and 9 Story Entertainment in association with TVOntario and Discovery Kids features a daily online video. There is a Video guide at the side of the video area, which tells which video will be shown each day for a 2 week period. The site also has loads of other interactive games and activities that are suitable for use on the IWB as well as classroom computers.

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This online exhibit from the Lemenson Center includes Invention Playhouse. The Tinker Ball game in particular is a great physics based interactive. The site also includes Inventors’ Stories and a section called Does Play Matter?
How have attitudes toward

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