www.exploratorium.edu The Web site of San Francisco’s Exploratorium is an excellent resource for kids interested in finding out how the world around them works. Like its meatspace counterpart, the virtual Exploratorium emphasizes scientific discovery through activities and demonstrations, and there is plenty of fun content to keep curious kids engaged.
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Music in the chemistry lesson
Mark Rosengarten has recorded a lot of chemistry tutorials and songs. My chemistry colleague’s favourite is the song “It’s a family thing”, a song that covers a list of organic molecules. She used it in the classroom at the end of the lesson and gave her students the link to use the song as a Full Article…
The Axon Game
Wellcome Trust has collected and designed lots of interesting biomedical resources. Among them there is an interesting ‘brain’ game called “the axon”. In this game you have to grow a neuron as long as possible. In the end, when you “lose” the game they tell you what kind of neuron you’ve grown. They then give Full Article…
Want to play some Mendeleev?
Five minutes left in the chemistry lesson and no point in starting a new topic? Here you can find a nice interactive game on the periodic table. You can play it on the interactive whiteboard. Ask 2 students to come up to the board and if one of them makes a mistake, ask somebody else Full Article…
SimSound Game
A colleague of mine used the SimSound game (http://www.iop.org/education/teacher/resources/sim/page_41572.html) as an assignment spread out over one month. SimSound is an engaging multimedia game for 11-16 year olds that aims to use the context of music recording to introduce a range of concepts about waves. There are four Sim sound challenges: Fix the guitar riff – Full Article…
Periodic table of QR codes
What about a Periodic Table of QR codes for your classroom? Brady Haran fromPeriodic Videos, has created a periodic table with QR codes in place of the elements. Each QR code takes you to a video about the appropriate element.
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