Free Science Site!!!

Just as Bill Nye brought the world to us through fun and interesting demonstrations related to Science, Bob becomes a newer version of this desire for visual explanation and inquiry for students to question the world around them. The Science Bob website engages students with cool experiments, in some cases on a larger scale, not possible in the classroom setting (e.g. elephant toothpaste). Science Bob is making the 21st Century Education skills happen using the 4 C’s (Critical Thinking, Creating, Collaboration and Communication). He is the collaboration part of the C’s, developing a team to help create a digital tool to provide students with important topics in Science. They are able to collaborate with their own team to model these skills to online learners utilizing the platform. Common core standards are visible and embedded in the website for educators to choose specific areas of the website to use or not use depending on the lesson being taught. Which allows for conceptual understanding and critical thinking from the students and motivates creativity. The links to various research topics are great but not all links are working on the platform. The designer/presenter is relatable, knowledgeable and specific to science. The tool for Science Fair ideas is an added bonus expanding the minds of students to think outside the box when preparing to perform their own experiment and communicate their own understandings.

Science Bob is a website that offers some suggestions for science fair projects. The videos are good, but there is not a way to search and easily maneuver through the site. Tabs lump activities together but do not level them by ability or concept. Most example questions do not have written instruction for how to complete the experiment. This site would be best used for modeling purposes.