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 * Science & Technology 2011 **

[] The Science Learning Hub consists of a collection of science contexts and stories, for years 5 to 10. The contexts explore a major science idea, and include: material that supports the science concepts, relevant up to date New Zealand research, teaching and learning approaches (these are downloadable resources that can be modified to suit your learners), a glossary of key terms and Sci Media - a collection of images, videos, animations and interactives. The stories are smaller collections of resources.
 * Science Learning Hub**

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 * Interactive 3D Model of the Solar System**

"Moon Zoo gives students the chance to study the lunar surface while contributing to real science. Students can get an up close and personal view of the moon viewing images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Moon Zoo’s mission is to provide detailed crater counts for as much of the moon’s surface as possible. Your students can take part in actually helping to count and map out craters and features of the lunar surface. Students can identify craters with boulders around the rim to help map the regolith across the surface of the moon." Sourced from iLearn Technology
 * Moon Zoo**

These clips from The Simpsons cartoons are intended for use by science teachers. It is recommended that you download and archive each clip that you would like to use. The clips are in MPEG (.m4v) format and should play on iTunes, Quicktime Player, and many other free video players like VLC. They are a great way to liven up a slide presentation and should import into PowerPoint and Keynote.
 * Science on the Simpsons**

"Science Toy Maker is a teacher-created website with fantastic instructions and ideas for science toys and projects. These are mysterious, kinetic, noisy, do-it-yourself science projects that spur scientific investigation. The science toys and projects are inexpensive (seriously so cheap that anyone can make them!) and don’t require special skills, tools, materials, or work space." Source.
 * Science Toy Maker**

"NASA has an excellent interactive timeline tracing the history of astronomy and space exploration from the Greek philosophers through today. Planet Quest provides a good overview of the history of astronomy and space exploration. The culture element could provide an interesting way to engage students who aren't excited about science, but are interested in what people thought at various times in history.' Source.
 * Planet Quest**

WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.
 * WeatherSpark**

Understanding Science: An overview To understand what science is, just look around you. What do you see? Perhaps, your hand on the mouse, a computer screen, papers, ballpoint pens, the family cat, the sun shining through the window …. Science is, in one sense, our knowledge of all that — all the stuff that is in the universe: from the tiniest subatomic particles in a single atom of the metal in your computer's circuits, to the nuclear reactions that formed the immense ball of gas that is our sun, to the complex chemical interactions and electrical fluctuations within your own body that allow you to read and understand these words. But just as importantly, science is also a reliable process by which we learn about all that stuff in the universe. However, science is different from many other ways of learning because of the way it is done. Science relies on testing ideas with evidence gathered from the natural world. This website will help you learn more about science as a process of learning about the natural world and access the parts of science that affect your life.
 * Understanding Science 101**

This is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. See the entire solar system moving in real time.
 * Eyes On the Solar System.**

Wonderville is a fun, interactive destination for kids to discover the exciting world of science. This award-winning site encourages exploration and curiosity, while helping kids discover how much fun science can be.
 * Wonderville**