Curriculum

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Curriculum and Instruction
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Chris Crites
Instructional Technology

The key to Increasing your students Science achievement is Inquiry.
Students should be provided opportunities to learn that inquiry and their own experiences can help them achieve a deeper understanding of their world. Our goal is to foster a spirit of inquiry in all students.
We seek to develop life-long learners who are curious and set out to seek and achieve deep understanding of the world that they live in.

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Science
eNature.com http://www.enature.com/home/ goENC.com http://goenc.com/ Math and Science Gateway http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Services/Education/Gateways/Math_and_Science NASA Education Program http://education.nasa.gov/home/index.html Science NETLinks http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/ Space.com http://www.space.com/ Space Educator's Handbook http://www.space.com/ The Yuckiest Site on the Internet http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/ Harcourt School http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/science/grade5_nl.html
Virtual Science Labs
"Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I'll understand." --Chinese Proverb Experiments & projects to do in the classroom http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/index_virtual.htm Virtual Engineering http://www.jhu.edu/~virtlab/virtlab.html Geology Labs On-Line http://www.sciencecourseware.org/GLOL/ Virtual Earthquake http://www.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualEarthquake/ Virtual Biology http://www.sciencecourseware.org/BLOL/ http://www.biology.arizona.edu/ MicroWorlds The Giant Heart University of Virginia Virtual Lab http://www.virlab.virginia.edu/VL/home.htm Interactive Math and Science Gizmos http://www.explorelearning.com/ Virtual Chemistry Lab http://modelscience.com/ Leonardo Virtual Science Museum http://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/museo/leonardoen.html Physics Lab http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/ http://id.mind.net/~zona/index.html http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl Explore Science http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/explore/dswmedia/index.htm Cool Science for Curious Kids http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/ Doppler Effect http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/sound.htm Chemistry http://www.ecarter.k12.mo.us/dept/pace/chemistry.html Froguts http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html Virtual Frog Dissection http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu//Frog1/ Ed Heads- Virtual Knee Surgery http://www.edheads.org/activities/knee/ Inside Out http://insideout.rigb.org/ri/anatomy/casing_the_joint/joints_explorer.html Earth Science Windows to the World Bagheera in the Wild The Great Plant Escape Amazing Space University of CA Museum of Paleontology Earth Floor Kids Do Ecology
Teaching Inquiry
"Questioning is the most sophisticated and civilized of arts." John Stuart Mill Exploratorium*** Just Science Now -Inquiry Resources Minds on Science National Science Education Standards Constructivism We the Teachers - Teaching Resources in Science
Science Fun
Games can be meaningful and effective if they are used as an educational purpose in your classroom. Games should be used that apply to your grade level GLE's Who Wants to Win a Million Dollars? Kaboose Science Games Gamequarium Engaging Science Games!** Games for the Science Classroom NASA Games BBC Science and Nature Games Science Monster Search Quia Planet Science I Know That Science EdHeads GAMES for National Science Week!

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