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Missouri Botanical Garden: Ocean Facts
Click on all the links to find out many interesting facts about the ocean. Why is the ocean blue? Why is it salty? Where do most of the animals and plants live? Which ocean is the biggest? The deepest? How much of the Earth is covered by...
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Franklin Institute: Welcome to My World!: Medicinal Chemist
Learn what is involved in being a chemist who works to develop new medicinal drugs.
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Franklin Institute Science Museum: Rock Hounds With Rocky
Rocky the Rock Hound uses simple animations to show the formation of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Includes teacher connections to lessons, literature, and activities along with online quizzes and puzzles on rocks and rock...
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Franklin Institute: Music to Our Ears
Discover the connection between sound waves and hearing with this webpage tutorial. Be sure to click on the picture for detailed information.
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Franklin Institute: The Science of Sound
This Franklin Institute webpage provides an introduction to understanding sound waves based on 5th grade science lessons.
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Franklin Institute and Science Museum: First Flight
Experience the first flight, through words, pictures, and actual quotes from the Wright Brothers about their real life experiences prior to, during, and after the successful flight.
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Franklin Institute: Flights of Inspiration
Franklin Institute site showcases the first flight taken by the Wright brothers. Follows the Wright brothers plan to achieve first flight as they used their failures to win them success in aviation.
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As the Drill Bit Turns
Is the world running out of gas? Teach your students how their lives impact the depletion of non-renewable resources, specifically oil, and how the depletion of those resources will effect the future.
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The Franklin Institute: Minutes From Me: Add Graphics to the Links Web Page
A great way to make a web page interesting is to use pictures,or graphics. This site describes how to integrate images into a web page to make it more appealing.
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The Franklin Institute: Minutes From Me: Add a Java Wordsearch to the Links Web
Word searches are popular with students. This site describes how to create a web page that includes an interactive word search implemented as a Java applet.
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In Quiry Almanack: Touching
Let your students get a feel for their sense of touch by perusing this site. Site includes interactive activities to use in the classroom.
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In Quiry Almanack: Smelling
Site provides fun activities for kids to do in the classroom to help them better understand the sense of smell.
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The Franklin Institute Online: On Reflection
This is an activity site to learn more about reflective symmetry. In order to complete this activity you will need a mirror.
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Franklin Institute Online: Simple Machines
Information on all six simple machines, nicely presented with extra information available for all. Other sources available. Do "Try This Demonstration."
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In Quiry Almanack: Undersea and Oversee
Dive into a greater understanding of the oceans by tagging along on this exploration of the oceans.
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The Franklin Institute: Minutes From Me: First Steps in Browsing
Using the internet for research can be a bit overwhelming for young students. This site shows how to create some simple web pages that can be used to teach young students how to best navigate the internet for research.
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The Franklin Institute: Minutes From Me: Build a "Links to Click" Web Page
Teachers are sometimes reluctant to turn students loose on the internet. This site explains how to create a simple webpage using HTML that guides the students to the intended sites.
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Franklin Institute Online: Make Your Own Barometer
At this site from the Franklin Institute Online, you are given instructions how to make a simple barometer as part of an activity in which you make a weather station for observation.
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A Penny Flipped Is Science Learned
What is the probability that a penny will land on heads when flipped? Test this on Ben Franklin's birthday and find out!
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The Franklin Institute: Land Mass Formation
The Franklin Institute has provided a demonstration that theorizes how the earth's crust was formed. This is a lesson plan that needs only a few materials.
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The Franklin Institute: Restriction Enzyme Cleavage
A great step by step site for how DNA is prepared and plated in the process of electrophoresis.
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The Franklin Institute Online: Slick Sea Spills
Use this site to promote environmental awareness in your classroom with this lesson on the effects of oil spills on water habitats.
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Science Museum: Long Flight
The story of two men that persevered. Read the inspiring story of their transatlantic flight.
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The Franklin Institute Online: Greenhouse Effect in a Jar
Students can investigate the greenhouse effect on the atmosphere with this simple lesson. The steps are easy and the materials needed are basic.