MS+Science

Science Databases
[|PowerKids Life Science]
 * Articles, videos, images for the life sciences.
 * Includes **science fair projects**, experiments and games.

[|Science in Context]
 * Reliable information for assignments and projects
 * Magazines and academic journals
 * Experiments and statistics
 * Audio and video resources

General Databases
[|Image Quest] Two million plus rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best collections in the world (DK Images, Getty, National Geographic, et al).

[|Global Issues in Context]
 * Analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural
 * Focuses on broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues.
 * Detailed information on nations to provide a foundation for cross-cultural studies
 * Overviews summarizing background information, historical context, and contemporary stances
 * Expert perspectives analyzing an issue or event through multiple aspects
 * Reference documents providing background information on all issues and nations
 * Full-text international magazines, academic journals, news source, and primary sources
 * Statistics, including interactive graphs, tables, and charts

[|MAS Ultra] > [|Middle Search Plus] > [|Points of View]
 * 500 popular, high school magazines
 * 360 full text reference books
 * 85,670 biographies
 * 107,000+ primary source documents
 * 510,000 photos, maps & flags.
 * 140+ full text middle school magazines.
 * 84,774 biographies
 * 105,786 primary source documents
 * Image collection of photos, maps and flags
 * Full-text database providing students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
 * 280+ topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

[|SIRs Discoverer]
 * General reference resource
 * 1,900+ newspapers, magazines, and government documents
 * 29,000+ graphics, photos, maps, and charts connected to associated articles.

Web Sites
[|24/7 Science] Projects and activities from Regents of the University of California

[|BBC Stargazing Live] Stargazing Live is a BBC programme on air in January 2112. This site has many great resources to help you understand the night's sky. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

[|BioDigital Human] A 3-D model of male and female bodies. Point your mouse at a part of the human body - the mandible - and it will be identified for you in visually and audibly. Explore with your mouse as this is pretty amazing resource to learn about the human body!

[|Concord Consortium] High-quality, free activities for science, math and engineering

[|National Science Digital Library] (NSDL)
 * Search[| K-12 Resources at NSDL]
 * [|NSDL on iTunes]
 * [|Browse all Collections at NSDL]

[|How Stuff Works]
 * Award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works
 * Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998
 * Now owned by Discovery Communications

[|Kahn Acadamy]
 * 2,400+ videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history
 * 150 practice exercises to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

Media-savvy physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public.
 * [|Naked Scientist] **

[|Science Daily]
 * 65,000 research articles, 15,000 images, 2,500 encyclopedia entries, 1,500 book reviews, and hundreds of educational videos

[|Tree of Life] Follow evolution and explore the variety of life on the planet with the Interactive Tree of Life. Can also search for specific organism (mite, mole, wolf, etc.)

Blogs
[|A Blog Around the Clock] "If you were to pick only one person to follow to keep up with new scientific discoveries and the science community, we recommend Bora Zivkovic." //Booklist//. December 1, 2010. 71.

[|PLoS] "PLoS Blogs has been set up to bring a select group of independent science and medicine bloggers together with the editors and staff who run our blogs. Our independent network is made up of writers who love science and medicine, and scientists and physicians that love to write."

Science Fair Sites
Digital Bits Science Lab Digital Bits Science Lab – Science Experiments for Kids, Parents, and Teachers
 * Click on the science concept** you want to explore – there’s a **list on the left-hand column**.

Middle School Science Activities
 * Look toward the top, left** of the screen for a tan box that says **“Browse Activities by Grade & Topic.”** __Type in a key word__ you want to explore (friction, magnets, etc.) There are a lot of advertisements and links to **“related websites.”** **__Please ignore these__**. They often lead to sites where you have to buy things to get the activities/information you want.

Reeko's Mad Scientist lab On the left column of this home page, click on “Science Experiments.” You can choose experiments by title, topic, difficulty, etc.

Science Buddies Over 1,000 science fair [|Project Ideas] in more than 30 different areas of science