17 Great Interactive Sites to learn about Forces and Motion

Currently we are looking at forces and motion Science and I came across these great sites that have a range of interactive activities including design a skate park, simple machines, Funderstanding roller coaster simulation and the Pendulum experiment.  Access them here

Explosive fun for students with THE POWDER TOY a great science game

My kids have been playing this game for months at school and I really only sat down to have a good look at it this week and found to my surprise that THE POWDER TOY was both a fun game and great educational opportunity for students to learn about chemical reactions.

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Kids love to blow things up which is essentially what Powder is all about but it goes a great deal deeper  than simply allowing students the opportunity to play around with many "powdery" pixels of diverse natures, each having different simulated physical and chemical properties.

Some fall faster than others, a few are "solid" and hang in mid-air, etc. A good number of them are flammable, so all you high-school chemistry students who just want to see things blow up should get hooked on this game pretty easily. = ) Almost every substance has a special quality when thrown together with another: for example, water solidifies magma; thunder electrifies metal; torch burns what hits it but is dissolved by water; and the infamous virus eats through and overruns all others, eventually turning back into the first material it came in contact with. Searching for all the unique reactions is part of the entertainment.

As you can see there is plenty here for your casual gamer to hard core science geek to get something from POWDER.  I would recommend it to boys especially looking for something a little different. Here is the latest version of the POWDER TOY to Download.

Update on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 2:02PM by Kevin Cummins

We would love to hear of any other games just like powdertoy that are great fun and also educational.  Please post them below if you aware of any.

Great Simulation Game that teaches kids about Natural Disasters

Stopdisastergame.org is a great website for your students to learn about various natural disasters such as tsunamis, bush fires, earthquakes and more by managing a village or city through a disaster period.  Anyone who has played SimCity will pick this up in a flash and discover the purpose of the game with ease.  Quite simply you are given a budget and limited time to create natural and manmade infrastructure to both prevent a an imminent catastrophe and manage it once it occurs.  Your kids will really enjoy this challenge and it has loads of replay value in it across a range of disasters.  Check it out here.