Fraboom.com is an online virtual museum for kids that has tons of fun activities including games, videos, interactive books, and more. Children may also attend real-time classes featuring live teachers; just visit the website for a schedule of times. Much of the content is free, but there are paid membership levels that allow you access to more content. Enjoy!

FOSSweb has many wonderful interactive science activities for K-8 students. Insect Hunt is one of my favorites from the K-2 section. Move the magnifying glass around to find the insects. Once you answer whether or not it is an insect, you will then be presented with some insect facts. Look for insects on land and water! Don’t forget to check out all of the other activities on the site. Enjoy and TGIF!

Super Science World is an awesome website with tons of Science activities on a variety of topics ranging from cells to atoms to circuits. All of the activities are free and have a number of levels for each game. Choose a character and answer the questions to try and beat your opponent and earn a star! Also check out Super Maths World for some of the free sample activities available.

What a fabulous site to learn about butterflies! There are several quiz activities, a field observation activity where you identify the parts of a butterfly, and a section where you can also build your own butterfly habitat! This would be a great extension to a lesson on butterfly life cycles. Enjoy!

Hams Hall Pond is a wonderful interactive site for teaching students about life cycles, food chains, and the variation and classification of living things in their environments. See a virtual pond and learn about its inhabitants, complete drag and drop activities on the life cycle of a frog or butterfly, and more. Check it out!

Check out the Molecularium Kid Site for learning about atoms, molecules, solids, liquids, gases, and more! The Nanolab section contains 3 interactives that include  Build, Zoom, and Transform activities. Your students will love the groovy music, too. Did I say groovy?

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Happy New Year! Hope you had an awesome holiday break!

Learning Circuits is a wonderful website to learn about, you guessed it, CIRCUITS! You can play up to 3 people or play as an entire class on the SMART Board. You can even customize your character and theme color! Check it out!

Kinetic City is a cool science website with many interactive activities, games, and experiments. Check out the All Systems are Go mindgame where you must put the pieces of the body systems in order. Have fun exploring!

The Bug Investigators is teaching resource for young students. There are online games, printable projects and links- all about bugs! Check out their new and improved site The e-Bug Platform for more, including the e-Bug Junior Game.

The Lawrence Hall of Science kids site is just amazing! There are projects, quizzes, research information, photos, and games on many science topics such as animals, oil spills, and plants, to name a few. The arcade currently has 14 games, and many of them work great on the SMART Board. Check it out!