VA Homeschooling: A One-Stop Shop for Your Homeschooling Needs

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Physics for Homeschoolers
This honors physics course is both fun and challenging. It provides thorough preparation for students interested in science or engineering in college. Non-science majors with a strong math background have also enjoyed the course.
Grades: 11-12

The Science Place
The Science Place is an innovative setting for children’s learning, fun, and self-actualization. Here your child will discover, experiment, and explore, while uncovering the mysteries of science.
Age: 3-15

Wallops Island
Space Flight Adventure Camp
Summer and weekend camps for students interested in learning about the science and engineering of rockets and space flight.
Age: 11-15

Online Resources
Bridge Ocean Education Teacher Resource Center
The Bridge is a growing collection of the best marine education resources available online. It provides educators with a convenient source of accurate and useful information on global, national, and regional marine science topics, and gives researchers a contact point for educational outreach.
Grades: K-12

Clean Virginia Waterways
Information and activities for teachers to support interdisciplinary and problem-based teaching about watersheds, water quality, stewardship, and management issues. Correlated to Virginia's Standards of Learning.
Grades: 1-12

CDC: Hurricanes
Find key facts about hurricane readiness and recovery as well as information on how to protect your health and safety after a hurricane.
Grades: 9-12

David's Whizzy Periodic Table
This website shows models of atoms of the elements of the periodic table. You click on several things--pick an element, then click on things both below the box and on the right to get more info and a visual viewpoint.
Grades: 7-12

Drinking Water and Ground Water Kids Stuff
Features classroom lessons, games, and activities.
Grades: K-12

Earth Portal
The Earth Portal is a comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource on the environment, and to engage civil society in a public dialogue on the role of environmental issues in human affairs.
Grades: 9-12

Exploratorium
Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 18 thousand award-winning Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics. We currently serve 20 million visitors a year. That makes us one of the most visited museum Web sites in the world.
Grades: K-12

Estuaries.gov
Explore these lessons to learn about more about estuaries and how to protect them.
Grades: K-12

FEMA: Hurricane
Features hurricane facts, pictures, ideas, activities/projects, and funding sources people like you used to help reduce or prevent the impacts of hurricanes.
Grades: 9-12

Get Wise
These classroom activities and printable worksheets are designed as a resource for teachers to help students learn ways to conserve water and energy.
Grades: 5-8

Home Science Tools
View more than 10 science curriculums, and get all the resources you need for an in-home science lab.
Grades: K-12

How Stuff Works
Get the explanations on how things work about stuff that kids ask about, but parents don't always know.
Grades: 6-12

How to Teach Science
Children love repetition. By having them follow along with the periodic table, they won't develop fear or intimidation. Like tables, charts, puzzles, kids like returning to these things and adding to them over time. It gives stability and predictability.
Grades: 1-12

Hubble Geritage Image Gallery
Up-to-date Hubble gallery. Click on tabs at top of page to view by category. Get more information for each photo by clicking on caption/fast facts at the top of the image.
Grades: 6-12

Indoor Weather Calculator
The Weather Channel has all sorts of interesting little bits and pieces. Find the usual (and unusual) weather information, vacation and travel weather, and health-related information. Under PollenCast at the second link, look for "Indoor Allergy Meter." Enter your zip code and follow the instructions on the next page to calculate your indoor humidity. Learn about the effects of a too-dry or too-wet indoor climate.
Grades: 7-12

Kids DO Science
The hands-on workshops and materials developed for this program are available at the links below. We invite you to try these with your students. The workshops cover a variety of topics and are appropriate for grades 3-6. All activities were developed to get students involved in science and to stress the scientific method and science inquiry skills. Above all, it is important that kids have fun, learn new skills, and DO science!
Grades: K-12

Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics, and You
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space toward the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
Grades: 6-12

NASA Kids' Club
NASA will provide a wealth of resources that are safe, fun, and educational for your students. You can expect them to find reliable information on space-related topics, as well as games, Web quests, and even chats with NASA experts.
Grades: 1-8

Newton's Apple
Discover the fascinating science of the world around us with over 300 video clips. Organized lessons and activities help you plan your science learning activities from acid rain to zoo veterinarians.
Grades: 1-12

National Science Teachers Association
Find free resources and services can help you develop your teaching strategies for next year.
Grades: Preschool - 12

NIH Curriculum Supplement Series
The NIH Curriculum Supplement Series are interactive teaching units that combine cutting-edge science research discoveries from the National Institutes of Health, one of the world's foremost medical research centers, with state-of-the-art instructional materials. Each supplement is a teacher’s guide to two weeks’ of lessons on science and human health.
Grades: Preschool - 12

Nobel Prize
Learn about the various nobel laureates and their inventions; play some games, too!
Grades: 6-12

Journey of Mankind: The Peopling of the World
This website shows human migration and global climate change over the last 160K years, based on mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome evidence as well as traditional archaeological evidence.
Grades: 6-12

Science NetLinks
At the heart of Science NetLinks are standards-based lesson plans that incorporate reviewed Internet resources, and can be selected according to specific benchmarks and grade ranges. Each lesson is tied to at least one learning goal and uses research-based instructional strategies that support student learning. The lessons are written for the teacher, but include student-ready materials such as student sheets (student reproducibles) or E-Sheets (online worksheets that enable students to engage directly in Internet activities).
Grades: K-12

Severe Weather Page
Your weather team reviews the action of Hurricane Andrew (1992) in preparation for tracking, analyzing, and predicting the course of a new hurricane that may threaten North America.
Grades: 6-12

Space Videos
Vies some of the amazing happenings in space.
Grades: 6-12

StarChild
The information and activities found in StarChild can be used to engage, excite, and educate students in your classrooms. In this section, you will find lesson plans which show you some of the ways you can use StarChild in your teaching.
Grades: K-12

Try Science
TryScience.org provides online and offline science activities that the whole family will enjoy! Over 400 science centers worldwide have pooled their resources and invite you to investigate, discover, and try science yourself.
Grades: K-12

Virginia Naturally
Information, activities, and resources for elementary teachers.
Grades: K-6

Water on the Web
WOW lessons use the aquatic environment and real lake data to explore basic science concepts. Most lessons appear in two different forms: a "Studying" lesson and an "Investigating" lesson. "Studying" lessons allow you to apply and learn concepts through direct, guided experiences. "Investigating" lessons provide opportunities to discover the same concepts and involve more problem-solving.
Grades: 9-12

Weather Wiz Kids
The website is designed especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. It’s also a wonderful educational website for teachers and parents that gives them the right tools they need to explain the different types of weather to children.
Grades: 1-6

WebExhibits
Founded in 1999, WebExhibits is an interactive, web-based museum that challenges visitors to think and explore scientific and cultural phenomena in new ways.
Grades: 4-12

The Why Files
Discover the science behind events in the news.
Grades: 6-12

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