We are currently verifying that this resource no longer uses Adobe Flash and will update the review shortly.
Young Scientist Lab - Discovery Education and 3M
Grades
K to 8
The Young Scientist Lab features materials for parents, students, and teachers to explore a world of scientific innovation and opportunities. Click Science Starters to find materials...more
Here is the direct link to share this resource review. Feel free to copy and paste this URL into an email or place it on your web page or blog so others can read this TeachersFirst review:
The Young Scientist Lab features materials for parents, students, and teachers to explore a world of scientific innovation and opportunities. Click Science Starters to find materials for teachers that include lesson plans, interactives, and challenge support materials. For students, the site provides activities and features on scientists at work. Under Science Starters you will also find Science At Home with family activities with several engaging experiments to perform at home for students in grades K-8.
tag(s): careers (179), data (151), forces (37), light (56), magnetism (35), recycling (46), rockets (11), sound (72)
In the Classroom
Add this site to your science lesson resources. As students complete activities ask them to create blogs describing their experiments and results. Webnode, reviewed here, is a simple tool for creating and sharing blogs for all grade levels. Have students share their science experiments through weekly or monthly podcasts using a podcasting tool like Podcast Adobe, reviewed here.
This resource requires PDF reader software like Adobe Acrobat.