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Planning

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The Internet provides teachers with an increasingly diverse and reliable alternative to traditional print resources for planning purposes

Google is usually the first choice but when you go searching does it sometimes seem like this.

To get the best out of Google make sure that you read the Search Tips, check out Google Features and learn how to use the Advanced Search function.
There are lots of other search options besides Google including crucially Wolfram Alpha, (Wolfram Alpha has an education portal and also offer a range of apps and widgets and offers a pro service.
Storing your bookmarks or favorites on your computer is far from efficient. Social Bookmarking site such as Diigo or delicious offer many advantages. To see either in action go to mrpbps' Diigo Bookmarks and/or mrpbp's delicious Bookmarks (make sure you do a search on the tag 'science').

To get science news and a science-based investigation idea in your email inbox each week consider joining: CSIRO Science by Email and Robert Krampf's Experiment of the Week.

An excellent collection of science based activities plus the science underpinning them can be found at Science Playwiths. Monster Science is another Aussie science site full of teaching ideas and science investigations. For regular updates, make sure you also check out the MonsterSciences Blog. Science Kids is a great New Zealand site chock full with investigations and interactives as is the Science Learning Hub. The National Science Digital Library is an American portal and 100+ STEM sites is a livebinders full of science links organised under tabs. Other collections of science links can be found on the ICTMagic Wikispace. Yet another pot pouri site containg videos, interactives and links is 101 Websites for Science Teachers.