Science

The Smithsonian's searchable website, that presents more than 202,000 wildlife photos taken with camera traps--automated cameras with motion sensors. These images "record the diversity and very often the behavior of animals around the world." @http://siwild.si.edu/

__Rocks & Weathering__ is a great animated site produced by the BBC. The site using interactive animations to teach students all about rocks. The site illustrates and explains how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form. In each stage of the site, students can "create" rocks and "inspect" rocks with a virtual magnifying glass. Students "create" rocks by compacting sediment or by adding water to cool lava. After creating rocks, students can then "destroy" rocks by adding elements of weather.

@http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_18_09-03-26.swf

**Website offers ideas for STEM projects** A website called STEMtube is amassing a collection of student videos of projects and experiments in science, technology, engineering and math that could help students develop projects and expand on their ideas, according to technology-integration expert Katie Klinger. In this blog post, Klinger writes that students struggling to find a STEM topic that interests them can visit the site for inspiration. Edutopia.org/Dr. Katie Klinger blog (5/24)

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