Websites

Resource: Mediterranean association of international schools
Website: http://www.maisk-6scienceinquiry.org/lessonexamplemodels.htm

Comments: This resource is a great site for any teacher wanting to get ideas for design challenges, science investigations and inquiry activities. It is mainly foucs around the K-6. The first part of the website gives teachers quickplans to help engage students in science and technology and the second part gives teacher heaps of other websites they can use to come up with more ideas.

Rating: 4/5

Resource: Brain Connection
website:http://www.brainconnection.com/edu/

Comments: This website contains information about how the brain develops and works.It gives teachers educational games that can assist and help children exercise the processes involved in remembering information.

Rating 4/5
Resource: National aeronautics and space administration
Website: http://esc.nasa.gov/

Comments: This website consists of NASA exploring space challenges. It gives teachers an overview of the challenges and students can register and post their completed work to the website. It is a national program providing a compilation of investigations and design challenges for all grade levels in the primary and secondary schools. NASA ESC supports many of the national education standards for science, mathematics, technology and the arts.

Rating:3/5

Resource: DragonflyTV
Website:http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/scifair/index.html

Comments: This is a great website for students and teachers. It has a range of ivestigations and challenges that students can do. In each ivestigation or challenge it explains to the students what they asked, what kind of expeirments they did and hwat they found out. It then gives the chidren projects to try around the subject.

Rating: 2/5

Resource: Questacon: the national science and technology centre
Website:http://www.questacon.edu.au/

Comments: This website is for all ages, from kids to teens and even teachers. It is produced by the Australian Government: Department of education, science and technology. The website consist of information about the national science and technology centre and also has information that children and teens can use. It is a useful site for teacher if they were interested in taking their students there

Rating: 1/5

Resource:Building Big
Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/

Comments: Buliding build is a website that allows students to try our interactive engineering labs. Students can take on the challenges of building big, explore our databank of big structures, investigate big structures near you and find out what's cool about being an engineer. It has simple steps and is easy to follow and read.

Rating 3/5

Resource: Super bridge
Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/

Comments: This website is an excellent way for students who are doing a design challenge on bridges. It has heaps of information on the different types of bridges and ways to help construct your bridge. It also gives heaps of extra links to different sites that you can gain information about bridges.

Rating 3/5

Resource:Space day
Website:http://www.spaceday.org/conmgmt/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=229&op=page&SubMenu

Comments: This is an exceleent website for teachers who are doing a unit on space it has desgin challenges from years 4 to year 8. The design challenges are inquiry-based developed to inspires young people to achieve academic excellence in science, math and technology. They require young people to use creative problem solving, critical-thinking skills and teamwork to find solutions to real challenges encountered by people living and working in space.

Rating 4/5

Resource: Design Museum
Website: http://www.designmuseum.org/education/primary

Comments: This website is an information resource about workshops, however their provide get design challenges that teacher can implement intoi their classrooms.

Rating 2/5

Resource: The solar cooking archive
Website: http://solarcooking.org/

Comments: This internet site gives information about solar cooking and ways you can designand create your won solar cooker. It is great for teacher when developing a unit plan around solar cookers as it gives alot of background information and knowledge teachers could use.

Rating 2/5

Resource: Destination Imagination
Website: http://www.idodi.org/challenge/team_challenges.html

Comments: This is a great site for teachers to gather ideas or even use through ideas for a design challenge. Destination ImagiNation is a community-based, school-friendly program that builds participants' creativity, problem solving, and teamwork in enjoyable and meaningful ways.

Rating 4/5