One of the folks I follow on Twitter recommended the Sixty Symbols website. It is a collection of videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy in which experts from the University of Nottingham share their knowledge and passion for their subjects as they explain what the symbols mean. The videos are just a few minutes long. These are the same folks that created the Periodic Table of Videos. Wouldn’t it be neat to have students create something like this rather than the traditional element reports?
I was also poking around the Vocabulary Sushi website. The vocabulary on the site is not limited to science vocabulary, but if any of your students are preparing for the SATs, ACTs, or other standardized tests that include vocabulary, this may be of interest. The words are presented in the context of actual news stories from around the world, rather than simply matching words and definitions.
I admit that I was not familiar with the NSTA Recommends website until it was mentioned in one of the journals. We know that NSTA publications will be relevant and worth reading, but what about materials from other publishers? This part of the NSTA site has educator-written reviews of publications on many topics. There is a search feature so that you can get to titles of interest. You can export the search results to Excel to create your personalized reading list.