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Actionbits "Action Bits is a series of in-depth technology skills classes developed by a team of professionals — experienced teachers & veterans of the high-tech industry — committed to teaching kids the computer skills they will need to excel in school...and beyond!" Parts of this site require a login, which you may get upon request. Besides tech modules, Lynne's Library features many elementary through high school links to some very good math, language arts, science, health and other ed sites. Pretty cool.
Activity
TV This truly excellent
site has at least a couple of hundred good instructional videos on subjects
like paper airplanes, science projects, magic, making jewelry, crafts, origami,
juggling, cheerleading, cooking (!), and more! It also has Lego action videos
and several good games! The videos are really world-class, with adult instruction,
printable parts lists, and recipes. Projects on the videos can be accessed by
skill levels, categories, most viewed, etc. You need
to look at Activity TV!
Bridge Building Contests We've seen some great popsicle stick bridges made by students over the years. Usually this involves how much weight the bridge can bear. These contests teach the value of following precise directions ( kids need more practice at this skill), as well as precise measurements. If you need help organizing one of these, here are some sites to get you started. Here is a typical bridge contest site. Here is a how-to site with examples. Here is a site with techniques and pointers. Thanks Steve K.for this idea.
Cyberchase This site deserves more attention. The technology focused Inventors' Workshop game is a series of exercises in building machines that work!
Egg Dropping sites. Not Egg Drop Soup, we hope! These sites cover organizing your own egg dropping contests, where physics meets engineering, and hopefully the eggs don't smash! An Egg Drop Contest with rules from Centenary College of Loiusiana. Egg Drop is a contest recipe from California, part of a site that also has a lot of other good activities listed up on top. UC Berkeley has a Junior High Egg Drop Contest with rules, etc. You get the idea. Thanks, physics teacher "Plet" G. for this idea.
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Now with Extreme
Sticky Note Experiments, too! "The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos
Experiments: What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over
500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane."
Yes, this is that site you've heard about. Among other projects, it duplicates
many of the famous outdoor water fountains of Europe using Diet Cokes and Mentos.
Lots of streaming videos of it, too. Might make a neat end of year outdoor science
exercise. Thanks
to Sam Fields, 9th grade science teacher in Spannaway, Washington.
EdHeads! THE primo
kid technology site! Interactive online activities teach about simple machines,
virtual surgery, weather, and basic physics, with lesson plans, too!
Lessons In Electric Circuits "A free series of textbooks on the subjects of electricity and electronics." Excellent free learning, just bring a brain and the ability to think and read. Consists of six online books: DC, AC, Semiconductors, Digital, Reference, and Experiments. Volume I starts with static electricitry and ends with explanations of capacitors and inductors. It's free, it's good, and it's on the web.
Invention Smithsonian - Centerpieces Lemelson Center virtual exhibits and explorations. Find out about all sorts of famous inventions, from Edison to quartz watches and electric guitars! Invention at Play is the fun and interactive part for kids! There are four activities here, the two we like best are Puzzle Blocks and Tinker Ball. Both are challenging thinking games that are fun, too! Thanks, Bevin.
Zoom Inventors and Inventions Zoom does it again with yet another big collection of facts! Inventors & inventions indexed alphabetically, by time, by type, women inventors, Afro-American inventors, much more.
Simple Machines Great basic simple machines site from EdHeads. Has animation, sounds, and very good interactive activities.
Simple Machines web page from Kennesaw State University of Georgia. This is a list of links to good sites that cover simple machines, online and offline activities, printouts, and lesson plans. A good resource for busy teachers.
Simple Machines Spotlight. Franklin Institute's simple machines page. Good explanations and some activities, too.
Technology from Extreme Science. The techno section of the larger site.
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