SLEUTh Academy

Here are some great resources I’ve come across for science teachers. Others are included in the LINKS on the right side of every page. Also visit the Sample SLEUTh Activities page for some additional activities and resources in the SLEUTh format (Seek, Learn, Experiment, Understand, and Think). Please send me comments and questions below!

VIDEOS and Classroom Materials – in addition to United Streaming (available to Broward teachers through BEEP), these sites are free:

• Teach to the misconception. See this video for an interesting study of Harvard graduates about the seasons and phases of the moon.
• The Annenberg Project has additional videos that are great for building teacher background knowledge. Registration is free and watching videos on demand is free too!
• www.open-video.org has videos from NASA and some other sources
• www.teachersdomain.org has video and other content from PBS (like ZOOM, NOVA, Nature). You can register on this site for free and then save your content or just take a test drive and visit as a guest.
• www.krampf.com has video experiment of the week and a FCAT specific video on Processes that Shape the Earth. Subscribe to the experiment of the week for an interesting email once a week!
• Krampf Makes a Cartesian Diver This is a direct link to a video describing a cartesian diver experiment – directly related to density and air pressure (Lessons 1 and 2 in Broward Hands-On Science, Grade 5).
• The Futures Channel has short clips that link science (and math) to the real world.
• sunearthday.nasa.gov – register for Sun Earth Day materials and get a great package free every spring for celebrating our place in space. See past themes for great resources (many of the videos are available on open-video.org).
• www.awim.org - The Society for Automotive Engineers will work with you and provide materials for several engineering projects through their A World in Motion program.
• http://quest.nasa.gov/vft/#wtd: Go here to download software and lesson plans for comparing and contrasting all the different planets and moons. You can also write your own compare/contrast data sets. Kids love this program and they learn about planet Earth in the process.
• NASA Quest – offers challenges that you can particpate in without leaving your classroom. Great for afterschool clubs and classes looking for extra projects. Collaborate and communicate with NASA scientists and students from around the world. See our Science Club page above for information about the 2006 Quest – Moon Base Eagle!
• KSNN – Kids Science Network News - from NASA, but covers a wide range of topics. K-2 are animated and funny, about 1 minute long. 3-5 are informative with a kid newscaster and about 3 minutes long. Some have activities and quizzes to go along with topic.
• Using Science Notebooks and Science Notebook Toolkit – these are informative sites for getting started using science notebooks/journals with your students. Here is a couple of pages for the front of the book with the process skills, fair test checklist, and safety rules: Lab Notebook Insert
• A couple of sites from educators for educators – Internet4Classrooms,    eLeMeNTS at http://www.lmnts.org/ and http://www.indiana.edu/~oso/lessons/