NSDL

I found all of these websites in the NSDL library

Air Junk
This is a site that is about the specks, flecks, and particles in air. It has a a project/activity that enplanes how to make a junk detectors to find out what is in the air that we breath. I think that this would be a very interesting project for students. The project can be simplified or made more difficult depending on the age of the students in the class. It is a quick project that would not take long to get up and running. I would use this site when discussing air and things that are found in the air. I would use it to show then that even if we cannot see the particles they are there.

Where Do Butterflies Come From
This site captured my attention because I have been discussing and learning about the importance of introducing students (preschool or young grades) to bugs and butterflies are a great way to do that. This site has a art activity that will help students understand that butterflies come from caterpillars that make Chrysalis and eventually hatch/come out of it. I would use this site in my class because it has a good integrated project that would help students have a deeper understanding about butterflies because of the hands on aspect of the project.

Helping Your Children Learn Science
This site is created by the U.S. Department of Education. It is a site that has many links on it. I looked through these links and found them to be very interesting. They all contain activities or projects that are dealing with a science concept and a hands-on activity that helps illustrate the concept. I would use this site a lot for all of the different discoveries that it could give my students. It has things that are simple which would be fun to do with younger grades and others that would be very interesting to do with older grades.