Daryl Science

Here's another site that takes some sorting through, but has some treasures to be found. I was fortunate enough to attend a couple of workshops presented by Daryl, which were loaded with great demo ideas for science classes. He's a high school physics teacher, so the bulk of his things are geared to that set, but many are appropriate/adaptable to younger students and he's tried to add some demos for other branches of science. In order to get to the demos, you have to do a bit of navigating on the site... on the top left of the home page, click on "Professional Stuff", then on "Science Teacher Demos". There's a lot of other good stuff to look through while you're at the site, so spend some time there.

When I've had questions about some of his demos - things I saw in person or found on the site - I found Daryl to be very responsive to emails (his address can be found on the site). That said, I'm not sure if he's regularly updating his site anymore and if that's still the case, but I suspect that if he gets your question, he'll answer it to the best of his ability.

A warning of sorts.... he's got a sense of humor... some of us appreciate it, others have to wade through it. Regardless of whether or not you find him funny, he knows physics and has solid activities.

Access Excellence

I have found several great activities in the Fellows Collection at Access Excellence. These activities were designed by high school biology teachers, so they may need some tweaking before most of this group can use them (and some others just aren't appropriate for the younger age group), but that shouldn't stop you from looking. I like to use the Chromosome Shuffle to illustrate mitosis and meiosis - always a tough subject, plus it gets the kids up and moving and participating in the process. That particular activity takes some prep work to get the props ready, but once you've done it, you've got them forever and you just have to pull them out the next year. Who Dirtied the Water is totally adaptable to middle school students and even the elementary set. While you're at the site, check out the other activities found at the Activities Exchange.

Science-Class.net

Here's another site chock full of ideas... science-class.net. Have that ink cartridge and ream of paper ready!

On another note, I'm working on getting a bunch of other things ready to post shortly... I hope. The summer has snuck away on me - hope yours has been good!

Also, I'll return to the original Iron Science format this fall. Anyone want to share any ideas for "ingredients"? I'd appreciate the input - leave it as a comment or email me at adventures-in-science@gmail.com.