On this interactive website, student practice various math skills using a real life scenario at an igloo. Those skills include naming the days of the week and identifying the differences between weekdays and weekends.

Students play the role of nitrogen atoms traveling through the nitrogen cycle to gain understanding of the varied pathways through the cycle and how nitrogen is relevant to living things.

News program reports on the current events of the day. Includes a video, transcript and critical analysis questions. Video.

How-to's for using a weekly planner to keep track of homework, assignments, test dates, and other school priorities, with instructions for how to make a planner if you don't want to purchase one. Includes a downloadable blank weekly...

Kids learn about Constitution Day and Week. The history and facts about this holiday that celebrates the US Constitution.

Get ready to set a course for sky exploration. The following activity is designed to help students learn to listen, read, and communicate in both written and oral formats about the sky.

In this investigation, students explore the permeabilities of different materials as it relates to oil production.

During a study of rock weathering, young scholars model the process of rock abrasion.

Students use glitter to test the effectiveness of hand washing.

Students use geologic maps to learn about rocks and minerals.

Students identify fire risk factors for a property located near a wildland area.

In this experiment, students investigate what impact the composition of soil, its water content, and its location have on the soil's temperature, which in turn would have an effect on the rate of decomposition of organic matter in the soil.

For this activity, students research what types of severe weather their county has had over the past 50-60 years. They will look at the severity of these events and the number of injuries and deaths they caused. They will then decide...

In this activity, students examine soil. They choose a location and describe it. They then dig a hole, measure the depth of the topsoil and subsoil, take samples of each, and describe their composition and characteristics.

Students learn how to create a disaster preparedness kit in this activity.

This investigation will help students understand exactly how much water they use in their home and how to can keep from wasting water.

Five-year-olds need to count things that relate to them. This activity builds on their need to be included or see the relevance of their counting. Students will practice counting, writing numbers, and filling in a chart or bar graph....

Study Earth's surface using an apple as a model of the Earth.

In this activity, students will calculate scales of distance and length as used by ocean drilling scientists.

Middle school students from the North Kirkwood Middle School in Kirkwood, Missouri, created this scientific magazine as part of a study of bacteria. After doing background research, a small group of students created this magazine to...

Students learn how citizen scientists involved in the Geological Society of America's EarthCaching project use GPS technology and latitude and longitude coordinates to find special places on the Earth.

Students will explore local places with wild elements, such as wildlife refuges. Students also will create maps showing spatial relationships between wild places and school, and they will find creative ways to record experiences.

Students model earthquake waves with a slinky toy.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides interesting information on Chester F. Carlson, the inventor of the photocopier. The site provides good background on the history of the photocopier, and a photo of Carlson.