Cool Science Sites:

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ABC Science: Awesome stuff from film clips to activity plans from the ABC in Australia.

The Octonauts: A somewhat accurate but entirely entertaining animated show about underwater sea creatures which is a BIG hit with the preschool set.

Sid the Science Kid on PBS KIDS:  fun animated science show for the younger set,

with [mostly] accurate musical explanations of scientific phenomena:

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/: Great teachers resources at the PBS website

Fun information and great interaction at Ask A Biologist: http://askabiologist.asu.edu/index.html

Practice your virtual DNA work in this activity for middle-school age kids and up from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sheppard/analyze.html

Leaf Movement videos at Dr. C. Robertson McClung’s webpage: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rmcclung/NiceMovie.html

[Explanation here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rmcclung/leafmovement.html ]

Plants-in-Motion theater from Dr. Roger P. Hangarter’s lab: http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/starthere.html

DNA Interactive [lots of great explanations and animations about DNA! ]: http://www.dnai.org/

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Dolan DNA Learning Center Animations: http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/animations.html

Looking for spooky worm movies? Check THESE out!

http://old.cropsci.illinois.edu/faculty/lambert-k/nematodes.cfm

Fun science games:

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/

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