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Windy.com is a visual weather website that offers real-time and accurate meteorological information across the world in visible, graphic form. The user interface is intuitive and easy to use with little instruction. The graphic display shows wind patterns, live radar, land temperature, precipitation, ocean waves, air quality, fires, atmospheric pressure, live webcams, dew point, UV Index, sea temperature, and much more in a visually appealing map format. Users can practice using observations to make inferences, track weather patterns, and make predictions.

The teacher will present an informational text from the website, ReadWorks. Students will interact with this non-fiction text by annotating the text digitally. The students will answer the questions associated with the article as an assessment. This learning activity will describe the freshwater distribution on the Earth's surface and provide a graphical representation of freshwater reservoirs. This activity can serve as reinforcement after students have already learned this concept or be used as an assessment at the conclusion of a lesson. 

Whenever you walk across a bridge or lean on a building, statics are at work. Statics is the study of objects when they're not accelerating. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Dr. Shini talks to us about stretching, compressing, and springing as they relate to statics.

In this game, students will learn how water molecules move through different reservoirs during the water cycle. Students can play the game as a single-player or join others in a multiplayer format. Students will begin to understand how water moves through the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere during the water cycle.

Music plays a big part in many of our lives. Whether you just like to listen or you enjoy playing an instrument, music is powerful. So what is music? How does it work? This video explores how sound travels in waves. 

Read like a detective and solve a BIG problem on the island of Sumatra where man and Asian elephants struggle to live together and get along. The elephants are destroying all the farmland. This self-paced lesson is interesting for all ages (and the BIG solution at the end may surprise you.)

In these Hero Elementary activities, children explore how materials change when heated and cooled. For example, if you cool a liquid, it may become solid. What happens when you reverse the process and heat the solid—does it become liquid again? Or, if you heat a solid, it may become liquid. If you cool the liquid, will it get solid again? Children will discover that some changes are reversible and others are not. You can heat ice and it becomes liquid water. If you cool the water, it freezes and becomes ice again. If you heat popcorn, it pops and it does not “unpop” if you cool it. There is no way to unpop popcorn.

The teacher will present an informational text from the website, ReadWorks. The students and teacher can interact with this non-fiction text by annotating the text digitally. The students will answer the questions associated with the article as an assessment. This learning activity can be used to introduce students to the growth needs of plants, serve as reinforcement after students have already learned this concept, or be used as an assessment at the conclusion of a lesson. This learning activity will provide important background information before students plan and carry out their own investigation of growing plants. 

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Dr. Shini talks to us about how power gets to our homes. It's kind of amazing when you think about it and much more complicated than it may seem.

Bring on the ants! Players send leafcutter ants and mushrooms—two important rainforest decomposers—into the leaf litter that is built-up on the forest floor, in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING™. In the process, they make healthy new soil that will provide nutrients for other organisms.

Students investigate the changing duration of daylight in a year, using data tables, observational videos, and informational text. They build off their own experiences with daylight throughout a year as they plot and analyze data for either their location or for New York City and compare it with observations of daylight on summer and a winter day. This lesson can be used to provide foundational knowledge before using the lesson Investigating Why Summer Days Have More Daylight. In that lesson, students consider Earth’s tilted axis as a reason for the differences in the amount of daylight in summer and winter.

The teacher will present an informational text from the website, ReadWorks. The students and teacher can interact with this non-fiction text by annotating the text digitally. The students will answer the questions associated with the article as an assessment. This learning activity can be used to introduce students to the varying habitats of living things, serve as reinforcement after students have already learned this concept, or be used as an assessment at the conclusion of a lesson. This resource also provides an eBook of the article with corresponding illustrations. 

In this video, Hank talks about the actual reactions happening in solutions--atoms reorganizing themselves to create whole new substances in the processes that make our world the one we know and love. We focus on acids and bases and their proton-exchanging ways.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the outer planets of our solar system. There is a dwarf planet called Pluto out there, too!

The classroom resource provides a slide show that will describe the components of the outer section of our solar system: the four outer planets and the dwarf planet, Pluto. This resource can provide background information for students before they create their own models. There is also a short test that can be used to assess students' understanding.

Students will plan and conduct an absorbency test on four different materials and be able to explain that when testing materials to learn about their properties, the materials need to be tested in the same way. Students will be able to explain that since the materials are made from different substances, they absorb different amounts of water.

This resource presents a short slide show about the human respiratory system. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short test to assess their understanding. 

In this episode of Crash Course Chemistry, Hank discusses what molecules actually look like and why, some quantum-mechanical three-dimensional wave functions are explored, he touches on hybridization, and delves into sigma and pi bonds.

Students will observe how the Moon appears in the sky when viewed on different days. The animated interactive storybook is used to give students an opportunity to interact with a character-guided observational experience of the Moon as they observe, analyze, and describe the Moon’s appearance in the sky.

In this lesson, students explore the interaction of two substances and see that they can use what they know about the interaction of particles to explain their observations. Students place an M&M in water and see the colored sugar coating dissolve around the M&M. Students help develop a model to explain that the attraction of water molecules for sugar and color (dye) molecules is a good explanation for why the sugar coating dissolves. Students then test whether the coating dissolves as well in a sugar solution as it does in plain water. They put three or four different colored M&Ms together in water and watch the coatings dissolve. Students will see a distinct “line” where the colors meet. Students use molecular models to make an argument about why the dissolving M&Ms form a line.

Tally Ho! Inspired by NATURE CAT, in this activity children will explore cause and effect relationships and what plants need to grow and thrive. Children will be challenged to create projects in PBS KIDS ScratchJr where they make their own plants and trees grow.

Children will learn how to use the PBS KIDS ScratchJr programming blocks to make animated stories and interactive projects. They will explore coding and computational thinking practices as they utilize technology as a tool for creativity, expression and learning with the PBS KIDS ScratchJr app.

In this video, Hank talks about aromatics and cyclic compounds and naming their substituents, resonance as well as common reactions & uses. What's that smell? Smell's like Organic Chemistry!

Electricity is a form of power that is produced by the movement of electrons. Static electricity and lightning are natural forms of electricity, and they occur when electrons jump from one object to another.

The classroom resource provides a video that will introduce students to the different types of electricity. This resource can provide background information for students before they conduct their own investigations. There is also a short test that can be used to assess students' understanding.

In this lesson, students add food coloring to hot and cold water to see whether heating or cooling affects the speed of water molecules. Students watch molecular model animations to see the effect of heating and cooling on the molecules of a liquid. Students will also draw their own molecular model.

Steve Trash teaches kids about science with fun and magic. The show is filmed in Alabama.

Soil is not dirt, it’s so much much more. Steve illustrates the value and importance of soil to all living things on Earth. Then, Steve helps shine a light on digital collaboration, a great way to work digitally with your friends to solve problems.