Web, Chrome, & G Suite Resources for Education - Science
We hope that everyone approaches these resources with a mindset connected to the idea that a digital tool is only valuable if it enhances the student learning experience. We always recommend that you know your why before focusing on the how or the what. The best digital resources engage students in the 4 C’s of collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking. The ISTE Standards are another great resource for building a mindset that connects content to essential digital skills.
Document Objective: The goal connected to the creation of this document is to help teachers and students explore digital resources that can enhance teaching and learning in Science Classrooms. These Web Resources, Chrome OS Web Apps, Chrome Extensions, Google Drive Add-ons, and Drive Apps have been recommended by our PLN to enhance engagement and inspire curiosity in Science Classrooms.
Navigation: We’ve organized the resources into different categories selected by our Science teachers. To view the Categories. click on ‘View’ in the menu above to turn on the ‘Document Outline’ on the left. The outline categories are linked to each section in the document.
Additional Resources and G Suite Tools for teachers and students can be found linked on the Wicked EdTech Site. The Google Chrome Web Store also supports keyword searches for additional Chrome Apps and Extensions connected to educational content. Common Sense Media is another great resource to explore digital resources for teaching and learning.
Before Diving Into The Digital Resources, we wanted to share some great books connected to teaching and learning in science.
- The 5Es of Inquiry-Based Science (Professional Resources for K-12 Teachers)
- Ask a Science Teacher: 250 Answers to Questions You’ve Always Had About How Everyday Stuff Really Works
- I'm a Science Teacher Just Like a Normal Teacher Except Much Cooler: Journal
- Inquiry-Based Science Activities in Grades 6-12: Meeting the NGSS
- An Educator's Guide to STEAM: Engaging Students Using Real-World Problems
Please feel free to suggest additional resources using the comment feature in this Doc or in this Padlet.
Science Digital Resources Categories
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- Additional Chrome OS Apps and Extensions
- Additional Google Drive Add-ons
- Additional Web Resources
- Formative Assessment Resources
Science News, Research, & Reading
Create and edit scientific articles in your browser. Write in LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, Javascript, and more.
AweSci.com is a one-man science magazine where you can learn one new thing every day - no more, no less.
Discovery Education offers free student and teacher resources that bring learning to life both inside and outside the classroom.
Turn almost any website into an engaging lesson by adding questions, discussions, insight, and more into the text.
Best PDF and Document Annotation and Markup Tool. Works with Google Drive and Google Classroom.
National Geographic Photo of the Day
Beautiful and Interesting colorful photos. Enjoy National Geographic's incredible photo collection. You'll get new pictures daily.
Combine real-time assessments with differentiated content from premier daily news sources
Phys.org Spotlight Science News
Get the latest spotlight science and technology news from Phys.org
Pocket Extension for Chrome - The best way to save articles, videos, and more. You can read offline and eliminate web clutter using the Pocket App on iOS, Android, and Chrome.
ThinkCERCA’s personalized literacy platform helps teachers nurture students' critical thinking skills.
Science Activities, Experiments, & Interactives
An interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood, including over 100,000 nearby stars.
Simulations and animations for astronomy. Topics include seasons, moon phases, and NASA HD Photo of the Day, Save to Google Drive.
The BioDigital Human is a 3D platform that simplifies the understanding of anatomy, disease, and treatments. Explore the body in 3D!
CK-12 is an app to help students, and teachers improve K-12 learning globally by providing self-paced learning content & tools.
Powerful periodic table and chemistry reference tool.
Hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials, supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in math and science.
Science Journal is an experimentation and observation tool that makes data collection, supposition and reflection both easy and fun.
The LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0 App allows students to explore great science projects.
This is a resource for students who want to level up their skills to score 90+% on math and science tests at school.
Try your hand at classifying clouds and investigate the role they play in severe tropical storms.
Design renewable energy systems and compete with others to see whose designs can produce the most power.
Free science and math simulations for teaching STEM topics, including physics, chemistry, biology, and math, from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Spongelab is an online learning platform with science animations, images, videos, and games integrated into a teacher content management system
Graphing & Calculators
A calculator with 29-functions for basic arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, and discrete math.
Inspired by the fantastic calculator built into Google's search engine, Cloudy Calculator handles many of the same kinds of calculations as Google does.
Explore math with Desmos! Plot functions, create tables, add sliders, animate your graphs, and more. Be sure to check out the Desmos Teacher Resources
Be sure to check out the Desmos Teacher Resources
This is a scientific calculator created especially for GED students. It emphasizes the use of fractions.
What makes this calculator unusual is that you can see both sides of the current binary operation.
You can use Plotly for scientific-quality graphing.
Teach Geometry using 3D realistic Straightedge, Compass, Protractor, Set Square and Pencil
Graphical Analysis™ 4 is a tool for science students to collect, graph, and analyze data from Vernier sensors.
Web-based tool to extract numerical data from plot images or maps. Also includes simple distance and angle measurement tools.
Measurement, Diagrams, and Conversions
Edge is an on-screen ruler that supports multiple units, horizontal & vertical orientation, and looks like a native application.
Collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, organizational charts, website wireframes, mind maps, concept maps, and other types of diagrams. Explore this post connected to Google Drawings.
MB-Ruler is an overlay to measure distances and angles on websites.
Teach Geometry using 3D realistic Straight Edge, Compass, Protractor, Set Square, and Pencil
Convert length units, weight, volume, area units like acre and square meters, temperature, and time.
Math Equations
Free website that allows you to create mathematical and scientific expressions and equations.
Now edits formulas quickly and easily expressed in your Chrome browser.
Easily create mathematical equations, formulas, and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn.
Lightshot is the fastest way to take a customizable screenshot. Simple interface, nothing useless, and is lightweight.
Turn mathematical expressions on Wikipedia or any other web page into dynamic expressions you can interact with!
Makes browsing and reading documents with mathematical notation easy! Just click on an integral icon and all MathML & LaTeX formulas on this website would be rendered with MathJax.
Capture Web page, a part of it or the whole browser window, edit screenshots and save the images.
No more do you have to worry about missing a bracket or mistyping your equation with the real-time preview.
Screencastify is a simple video screen capture software for Chrome.
Creation Resources
Videos, Infographics, Audio, & Multimedia
Easily design beautiful, professional graphics. Canva gives you all the tools you need to design.
Create and share powerful visuals (infographics, posters)
Drawing tool that pairs the magic of machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual
Add some color to your documents, presentations, and websites with easy-to-create charts and diagrams.
Automatically organized and searchable by the people, places, and things in them, your photos are always easy to find and share.
Create stunning visual content for print, mobile, or web. Make brochures, newsletters, magazines, reports, and more.
Free photo editor with Collage, Touch Up, Teeth whitening, Fonts, Effects, Filters, Frames, Stickers & more.
Make information beautiful using Piktochart. Create infographics.
Make media come alive. With ThingLink you can easily create interactive images and video content.
WeVideo makes video editing easy for everyone and accessible from anywhere.
Screencastify is a simple video screen capture software for Chrome.
3D modeling web app that lets you build with a wide range of three-dimensional shapes, and then modify the solids’ size, shape, color, and other attributes.
Explore additional Creativity resources here.
Discussion Resources
Google Classroom, Google Docs, and Google Slides are great resources to engage students in digital discussions.
Video for igniting student discussion and engagement.
Create secure online communities for collaboration and discussion.
It works like a sheet of paper where you can put anything (images, videos, documents, text) anywhere, from any device (pcs, tablets, phones), together with anyone.
Online whiteboard for visual team collaboration. Add pictures, mockups, drawings, videos, sticky notes, office documents, and Google Drive files on an endless canvas.
Verso Campus is the teaching platform that supports educators in collaborating to build online discussions while activating student voices as a driver for deeper, more personalized instruction.
Explore additional communication resources here.
Interactive Lessons
HyperDocs are a great framework for student-centered learning using G Suite for Education resources.
Create engaging content like lesson plans, digital stories, presentations etc.
Engaging real-time interactivity in the classroom in both teacher-led and student-paced lesson scenarios
Interactive assignments and assessments.
Make videos into interactive lessons by adding questions and resources.
Collaborative and interactive presentations. Now with add-ons to enhance learning.
With Haiku Deck, anyone can create stunning, image-rich slideshows.
Turn almost any website into an engaging lesson by adding questions, discussions, insight, and more into the text.
Turn your Google presentations into Nearpod lessons.
Interactive presentations and formative assessments.
Embed rich, dynamic questions into online video to track learning.
PowToon lets you create awesome presentations and animated videos.
Organize content and resources into a Path for participants to navigate.
Complete group assignments using Team Up.
Create a gaming-style Learning Path using the best educational resources.
Create an interactive TED-Ed Lesson page with any video from YouTube.
Differentiate instruction by creating interactive engaging digital lessons.
Note Taking and Organization
Shared Google Docs and Google Slides are great resources for shared and collaborative notes.
Securely view, edit, and sign PDFs. Fill forms. Merge documents and reorder pages. Create templates. DocHub is 100% free.
Draftback lets you playback the revision history of any Google Doc you can edit. It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write.
Collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, organizational charts, website wireframes, mind maps, concept maps, and other types of diagrams. Explore this post connected to Google Drawings.
Organize notes, web resources, images, and to-do lists. Use the Google Keep notepad to add keep notes directly into Google Docs and Google Slides.
Highlight anything. Save and share highlights, right as you read.
Best PDF and Document Annotation and Markup Tool. Works with Google Drive and Google Classroom.
Record voice while taking notes.
Online planner for students, teachers, and lecturers designed to make your study life easier to manage.
You can make notes on any web page, any position. When you open that page again, the notes get loaded automatically.
The Stencil Chrome extension lets you highlight text anywhere on the web and turn it into an image instantly.
Sticky note app for your desktop.
To-do list and task manager.
Most efficient way to take & share time-stamped notes while watching videos!
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Additional Apps & Extensions
A web app that helps you get the most out of your smart board. Includes activities for math, language, science, and much more!
3DTin is a 3D Modeler that runs in your browser.
Science Bits is a repository of multimedia science lessons designed to fire up science classes.
Lightshot is the fastest way to take a customizable screenshot.
Busy working on your computer? Spending hours searching the internet? Get active with Move It.
Your wonderful to-do & task list to make all things done and get life well organized.
Quizlet makes simple tools that let you study anything, for free.
Get your class on the same (web)page, instantly.
Turn almost any website into an engaging lesson by adding questions, discussions, insight, and more into the text.
Google Drive Add-ons
Google Docs and Google Sheets in Google Drive are great collaborative resources that can be enhanced with different Add-ons. To learn more about how to find and connect Drive Add-ons please visit the Drive Add-on Tutorial
Texthelp Study Skills (Google Docs)
Texthelp Highlighting Tools: Select, Highlight, and Group Content Together for Review and Learning.
EasyBib Bibliography Creator (Google Docs)
The easiest automatic bibliography and citation generator is now on Google Docs. Format in MLA, APA, and Chicago style.
Gliffy Diagrams (Google Docs)
Create professional-looking diagrams quickly and easily in Google Docs. Draw flowcharts, wireframes, UML, ERD, and more.
Flubaroo (Google Sheets)
Flubaroo helps you quickly grade and analyze online assignments and assessments, as well as email scores to students!
Super Quiz adds brilliant functionality and assessment tools to a quiz made with Google Forms.
Doctopus gives teachers the ability to mass-copy (from a starter template), share, monitor student progress, and manage grading and feedback for student projects in Google Drive using Google Sheets.
Google Drive Apps
Drive Apps can be found in Google Drive. To learn more about how to find and connect Drive Apps please visit the Drive App Tutorial The Apps can be added and opened in Google Drive by clicking on the New Buttonin Drive and then clicking on Connect more apps .
Podcast App
Collection of popular podcasts from the Worldwide Podcasts, Podcast Awards, iTunes Top Podcasts, and NPR. Listen to them in your browser.
WeVideo
WeVideo makes video editing easy for everyone and accessible from anywhere.
Coggle
Collaborative mind mapping: Real-time brainstorming, add images, Drive support, saving mind maps as PDF, Image, .mm, text.
Lucidchart
Diagramming software for students, educators, and faculty with an email address from accredited educational institutions.
Additional Web Resources
- Assessment Resources to Support Teaching and Learning
- Chrome Resources - Productivity and Workflow
- EdTech Resources - The 4 Cs
- Recharge Learning - EdTech Resources
- Recharge Learning - Chromebook 101
- Recharge Learning - Google 101
- Explore Learning Gizmos
- Exploratorium
- Interactive Science Sites
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Understanding Science
- Science and Math YouTube Channels
- Science News for Students
- National Geographic Kids
- Wonderville
- TED-ED
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