Activity+Ideas

These four files are scans of a publication called "Science Comes Alive With //Reading Rainbow//" that provides activities to go with the episodes in the //Reading Rainbow// television series.

Toys from Trash website has many great ideas for simple ways to investigate science and math http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/toys.html

Although quite commercial, Steve Spangler's website has some good ideas that do not in every case require purchased materials http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiments/

TOPS -- Teach Science With Simple Things website. You need to click around on this a bit, but at some point you'll see a list that says "More Sample Labs Available" and there is a list of titles you can download for free. They are also trying to sell the activity idea guides, but there's plenty there for free, too. http://topscience.org/

Science Kids -- This website has a lot of resources. Be a bit careful about safety. I think this is a site from New Zealand, based on the address, and apparently they allow kids to do things that might not be allowed in U.S. schools any more (e.g., growing bacteria cultures--allowed in high school, maybe). Some of the resources are very useful. http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/