A  List of Super Websites for Science Teachers

From Science by Sinai 

Teacher Tools For You to Create Lessons

These are materials that others teachers have already developed and most of them are also free!

• https://www.screencastify.com/ Record your screen and edit and share the videos.
• https://info.flipgrid.com/ you or your students can make short videos.
• https://edpuzzle.com/ turn any video into a lesson with questions added.
• https://classtools.net/ puzzle, word search and game making.
• https://www.ck12.org/student/ create your own virtual textbook with great, standard-based curriculum.
• https://worldofteaching.com/ PowerPoints in science topics for teachers.
• https://www.canva.com/ Students and teachers can make great graphic designs and the pro version has great stock photos.
• https://kahoot.com/ fun site where are you can make review games.
• https://bookcreator.com/ very nice site for creating books and reports.
• https://quizizz.com/ create your own quizzes or use theirs.
• https://tuvalabs.com/dashboard/ Great data sets for creating graphs.
• https://nearpod.com/ design different types of tests and presentations. Very nice, premade lesson plans.
• https://hyperdocs.co/ very nice, ready made lesson plans.

Science Websites with Labs, Activities, and Simulations for Students

• https://www.biologycorner.com/ Biology lesson plans, tutorials and other resources.
• https://www.teachengineering.org/ Tons of hands-on, detailed activities.
• https://sciencespot.net/ Great source of activities and handouts.
• https://serc.carleton.edu/k12/index.html very nice labs laid out for many ages.
• https://www.explorelearning.com/ Fantastic, very interactive simulations.
• http://www.teachingabovethetest.com/ excellent site for project-based learning.
• https://datanuggets.org/ Data from real research projects for students to use.
• https://education.jlab.org/ Lots of activities about the periodic table.
• https://www.openscied.org/ Nice, well developed lessons.
• http://www.pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines Great lesson plans with up-to-date topics.
• https://www.chemicool.com/ Great information on the different elements.
• https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ Great way to do real time earthquake plotting.
• https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ Lots of real time weather information.
• https://www.labster.com/ Nice virtual simulations.
• https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/ experiments, games, facts, quizzes, projects, lessons, images, videos. Great site!
• https://phet.colorado.edu/ Well known as a great site for interactive simulations for physics, chemistry, and science and biology.
• https://www.ngssphenomena.com/ Great, short videos or images to start up a unit with inquiry.

Science Articles to Assign Students

Reading in the science classroom is very important for all students.

• https://www.ducksters.com/science/ Great articles on most subjects for students to take notes.
• http://scienceovereverything.com/ Very nice articles that follow the NGSS standards.
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/ One of my favorite sources of up-to-date science articles.
• https://sciencing.com/ Interesting science articles.
• https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/ Nice articles to send students to read.
• https://earthsky.org/ Up-to-date articles on earth and space.
• https://undsci.berkeley.edu/ Very nice science articles.
• https://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/ Nice website for students to do research on biomes.
• https://newsela.com/ Earth Free membership with the articles to assign students.
• https://www.brainson.org/ interesting science podcasts.
• https://laboutloud.com/ Nice collection of science podcasts.

Video Websites

• https://sciencetrek.org/ Very nice site bursting with videos and activities.
• https://www.howstuffworks.com/ Fascinating videos about many science subjects.
• https://www.brainpop.com/ Great short, informative videos.

YouTube Science Channels to Follow

Note: Quickly preview the video right before class because sometimes inappropriate ads will appear.

• https://m.youtube.com/user/AmoebaSisters very well done videos for middle school and high school.
• https://m.youtube.com/user/hooplakidzlab Experiments in science tricks.
• https://m.youtube.com/user/ParrMr Loved by my classes! He takes modern pop songs and adds very well thought out lyrics covering tons of science topics. Amazingly talented.
• https://m.youtube.com/user/TheSpanglerEffect Steve Spangler doing many labs.
• https://www.youtube.com/user/NatureVideoChannel Nice, short videos covering many nature topics.
• https://www.youtube.com/user/physicswoman short videos answering all types of physics questions.
• https://www.youtube.com/user/makemegenius cartoony but informative.
• https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision fascinating, up-to-date information.
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjHz5SVHeMT0AViCYZvsGDA nova online. Short videos explaining different areas of science.
• https://www.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys fascinating, slow motion experiments.
  https://www.youtube.com/user/NatGeoWild stunning short videos from National Geographic.