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Fact Monster Science
Use this search engine to explore various scientific areas. Learn about the environment, weather, animals, space, computers, and much more! This page also has an interactive periodic table, conversion calculator, and science project ideas. It is a great resource for students of all ages. |
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Whyville
This is a science education site intended to support both home and classroom-based learning by scientific inquiry. Whyville is a virtual world where students from all over the real world come to chat, play, learn, and have fun together. |
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BrainPOP Science
Investigate the two hundred and three categories presented on this site. Each concept offers descriptions and animations that stretch learners understanding of science. Explore concepts that connect within and across topics. Sign up for a free trial, and access the site for five days. The growth that takes place in that time may pop your brain! |
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BrainPOP Math
Wow, sixty-eight mathematical concepts to pop your brain! Each concept offers descriptions and animations that stretch learners understanding of mathematics. Explore concepts that connect within and across topics. Sign up for a free trial, and access the site for five days.
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Girls go Tech!
No matter where you live or what language you speak, math, science and technology play an important part in your everyday life. Take a look around, and you'll start to notice that math, science and technology are everywhere!
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PBS Kids PLAY!
Enjoy this stress-free, and ad-free way for children to begin learning basic computer literacy. Designed for kids ages 3-6, Kids PLAY! provides rich learning opportunities behind every corner. Currently, the site is in testing mode and will be accessible for free.
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NCES KidZone
Need a brain teaser, or homework helper? Check out this interactive site. Click on the top toolbar to create your own graph, or compare your knowledge with other students in the country. Look for daily history facts, and quotes of the day, while you are searching. |
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Gamequarium Math Games
Do you like playing math games while you are at the beach? Gamequarium offers interactive games across twenty topics to practice, while you enjoy the sun and sand. Happy learning! |
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Gamequarium Science Games
Need a tropical vacation? It's just a click away! Gamequarium interactive games across sixteen topics to practice your skills as you enjoy the sun and sand. Happy learning! |
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Cool Math
Coolmath is for anyone between ages 13 and 100. Navigate your way through a world of math games, practice problems, and terminology. In addition to all this excitement is a page dedicated to interactive calculators. Designed for the pure enjoyment of mathematics! |
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Mathathon Fun and Games
Add like mad, or experience subtraction action. The practice games on this site make number sentences fun! Practice adding a string of numbers, or subtracting until zero. You can also send e-cards to your friends and family and download the official Math-A-Thon screen saver. |
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Buzz Lightyear in Orbit
NASA and Disney are teaming up to make learning science fun! Check out the 5 different missions that you can go on! Help Buzz load his shuttle, match up exciting things that have happened in space, find lost items on Buzz's spaceship, program a robitic arm to fix Buzz's ship, and learn how different toys behave in space! |
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AIAA Kid's Place
Enjoy games, puzzles, fun experiments, teen-recommended books and movies, and more. |
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National Geographic Kids
Enjoy kid's games, animals, photos, stories, and more. |
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Rochester Falconcam
Watch the Peregrine Falcons, Mariah and Kaver, create a new family every spring.
Check out the two new nest boxes on the Powers Building at the corner of State and Main Streets and on the Times Square building at Exchange and Main both in downtown Rochester.
Which one will Mariah and Kaver choose as their new home? Who will occupy the other one?
Main camera view. Multi-camera view.
Image provided by the Rochester Falconcam. |
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Biology4Kids
Learn basic biology information, including cell structure, cell function, scientific studies, plants, vertibrates, invertibrates and other life science topics. All explained in a kid-friendly manner. |
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Edheads
Lots of STEM related games including designing your own cell phone, deep brain simulation, and virtual knee surgery. All games are directed towards kids!
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Planet Arcade Games
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers more than 20 online games focused on environmental education. Topics addressed include nautical charts (boat safety), humpback whale migration, correct disposal of marine debris, ocean literacy, recycling, pollution and invasive species, and a virtual ocean expedition to track gray whales. |
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Made Science Kids Club
The Mad Science Kids Club will offer unique science-based applications including Lab Rat, a panel of experts answers kids science questions; Science Zone, offering kids and parents fun, do-at-home science experiments; Brain Busters, with brain teasers, puzzles, and optical illusions; and Around the Word, an online kids book club. Starting with an invite only beta, The Mad Science Kids Club will launch in the third quarter of this year. |
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Moonbase Alpha
NASA's new online game, "Moonbase Alpha," has single and multiplayer options that allow participants to step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement. Players must work to restore critical systems and oxygen flow after a meteor strike cripples a solar array and life support equipment. Available resources include an interactive command center, lunar rover, mobile robotic repair units and a fully-stocked equipment shed. |
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Star Lite
Work with your colleagues (some humanoid, some not) to complete quests in a lab. The STAR-LITE laboratory can be chaotic and safety violations will occur. You will make critical safety decisions to ensure that you and your colleagues work safely in a lab. STAR-LITE (Safe Techniques Advance Research — Laboratory Interactive Training Environment) is an innovative and groundbreaking method to learn about laboratory safety techniques. |
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Cell Craft
In the game, players start out by learning the parts of a cell and how they work; it's a crash course in cell science in the first few minutes of the game. Then the action comes in: You must save your cell from freezing to death, being invaded by viruses, or even being digested by a giant crocodile. You can do this, but only with a strong understanding of how a cell works. |