Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Personas Que No Deben Recibir La Vacuna Contra La Viruel
This site covers what type of people should not get the smallpox vaccine. This information is also available in English.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Science Fair Project Idea
Great science fair project ideas! Learn how to ask a testable question and choose from elementary, middle school, or high school science fair project ideas. View examples of testable questions, and see what is changed, what stays the...
Other
Holoworld: Frank De Freitas Holography
This website focuses on Frank DeFreitas including his biography and the science of holograms and the technology of making holograms. Illustrated with examples.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Physics/mechanics (Force and Motion)
A collection of mechanics activities. Many pertain to Newton's laws of motion. Step-by-step directions provided with illustrations. Great for teacher demos or student projects.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: K 12 Education Curriculum: Online Classroom Projects
This site presents projects for individual classrooms and collaborative projects that can be done with other classes or schools. Most of these are science projects.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Project Samples
Explore three science fair project samples about birds, stain removal, and keeping it cool. See how the report is written after the investigation is complete.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv Try This!
A collection of simple experiments your students will enjoy! Each activity only requires a few household items, and will certainly spark the creativity in young scientists!
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad
This resource provides suggestions for projects that kids can design and engineer using simple materials.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Project Type Inventions
Great ideas to get students started on an invention for a science fair. A list of ways students will design and engineer a solution to a problem will help students begin choosing a topic. Check out the list of general science topics,...
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Arizona State University: Sci Starter
SciStarter aggregates more than 1100 citizen science projects on a single website in order to connect scientists and community leaders with anyone who wants to learn about and contribute to science to make the world a better place. Pick...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Soup Roll
A lab activity written for grade 5. Students roll various cans down inclined planes and compare the times required to reach the bottom. Results are related to rotational inertia.
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Science Fairs: Ideas for Elementary Projects: Grades 4 6
This Science Fairs website is a resource for a wide variety of science fair starter ideas. Use an idea from here and build your own project.
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Radio Sky Publishing: Site for Amateur Radio Astronomy
Site describes multiple resources for the beginner amateur radio astronomer. Great general information for beginners on basic radio physics and on the fundamentals of radio telescopes. Nice set of links to other useful sites.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Solar Brightness
Want to know how bright the sun is? In this lesson plan, students construct a photometer to be used in determining the brightness of the sun.
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Tech Museum of Innovation: Rat Round Up [Pdf]
This resource explains how to design a device to capture and carry a runaway rat! Students will create a device that will return a rat to its cage without harming it using specific materials. The lesson includes worksheets and teacher...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central
Are you, your students, and their parents wandering lost in the Science Fair desert? Here's an oasis! The Science Fair Central website provides a complete guide to the topic. There's a "Soup to Nuts Handbook" that assists the student in...
Oregon State University
Volcano World
Read stories and legends about volcanoes, check out volcano-inspired art, get school project ideas, and play volcano games.
Science & Plants for Schools
Science & Plants for Schools: Project Ideas
A website featuring project starter ideas to help students carry out hands-on practical investigations on plants. Some ideas featured on the page include exploring food waste, medicinal plants, enzymes in fruits, and much more! Project...
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Science Made Simple
This website houses kids science projects and experiments, science fair projects and science articles.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye: Bill Nye Online Science Lab
Bill Nye's Online Science Lab offers home demos for planetary, physical, and life science, a "Question of the Week," e-cards, episode guides, and lots of fun facts. A great resource for students looking for science-fair project or lab...
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Cool Science
This non-profit organization brings "cool" science programs to schools in the Pikes Peak, CO area, but the website also provides exciting videos, experiments, and links to online users. Watch real chemistry and physics experiments and...
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Van Cleave's Science Fun
Excellent guide to all things science from science projects and fun experiments to science research and homeschool science.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Lab Activity: Aviation
This site from the Illinois Institute of Technology provides a student lab activity in which the flight of a paper airplane is investigated and studied. Designed for primary grades, but easily adaptable for junior high students.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Water Sphere Lens
A discussion of how to make a magnifying lens exhibit using a water-filled flask and a light bulb. Consists of assembly instructions and a "To do and notice" section. Great for a teacher demonstration or a student project.