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Listed below is an assortment of websites teachers across the country have recognised as being useful in their teaching for themselves or their students, whether for the resources they contain, as research tools for their students or simply for the quality of the information they provide about a topic in science.

The sites have been roughly categorised into:

  • General audience
  • All students
  • All teachers
  • Secondary students
  • Primary teachers
  • Secondary teachers

We've provided an approximate indication of the website's content, however by no means is this a strict assessment.

Note that while every site has been checked, Science by Email takes no responsibility for the information on the site or sites they might link to. If you find questionable material on any of the following websites, please send an email to sciencemail@csiro.au containing the site URL and an explanation of your concern.

Key

General science     Activities
Biology     Online games
Physics / Astronomy     Informational content
Geology     Multimedia (applets, flash etc.) & images
Chemistry     Worksheets
Environment / Meterology        
Mathematics / Statistics        

 

General Audience

  • Windows to the Universe
  • Do Science
  • Elementary Science and Math - The Worsley School
  • Playing with Time
  • Science Mystery 'Pick a Mystery'
  • Questacon's official web site
  • Woodlands Science Zone
  • Hunkin's Experiments
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy
  • Free Science Fair Projects
  • Science Toys
  • How Stuff Works
  • Brain Pop
  • Amphibian Research Centre
  • Biology In Motion
  • Michael Bach Ilusions
  • Victorian Spiders
  • CSIRO Entomology
  • ReefED
  • Fossils, Facts and Finds
  • NASA's Star Child
  • Eight Planets
  • Volcano World
  • Minerals Education
  • Numbernut
  • Cool Math

All students

  • Neuroscience for kids
  • BBC Bitesize Science
  • Albert Einstein Science Revision and Educational Games
  • Ask Dr. Universe
  • Braingle
  • Gross biology stuff
  • Planet Science
  • Bugasaurus Explorus
  • Laurence Hall of Science Showcase
  • ABC Spark
  • Funology: the science of having fun
  • Kids Health - Kids
  • Web Weather for Kids

All teachers

  • Teachers Domain
  • The Educator's Reference Desk - lesson plans
  • Enchanted Learning
  • ABC Science 'The Lab'
  • Try Science
  • Discovery Education 'Puzzlemaker'
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Australian Bureau of Metereology
  • DEWHA Discovery

Secondary students

  • Technology information
  • Inquiring Minds: Answers to life's most challenging questions
  • Ed Heads
  • Biology 4 Kids
  • Chem 4 Kids
  • Physics 4 Kids

Primary teachers

  • Singing Science
  • Primary School science and technology

Secondary teachers

  • Curriculum Resources for Inquiry Based Learning
  • Skoool: Learning and teaching technology
  • Science Spot
  • NOVA - Science in the news
  • Crocodile Clips
  • Bizzare stuff
  • The Naked Scientists
  • Bio Ed Online - Biology Teacher resources
  • Exploratorium
  • University of Sydney Teaching Resources
  • Ippex interactive physics animations
  • The Dover Trial
  • Science Class
  • Teachers TV - Science
  • Virtual Labs and Simulations
  • Online biology textbook
  • John Kirk Animations
  • Biotechnology Education
  • CDC Education
  • Centre for Genetics Education
  • The Visible Human Project
  • Visual Cognition Lab
  • BioInteractive
  • Cells Alive
  • Chemistry Teaching
  • Jefferson Lab Periodic Table
  • UCI Chemistry applets
  • Web Physics Java Applets
  • Physclips
  • Physics Java Applets
  • Astrophysics Science Project
  • Physics 2000 Applets
  • Teacher's Lab
  • Light and Matter
  • All About Circuits
  • Java Applets on physics
  • Learner.org Amusement Park Physics

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