The focus here should be online resources that have significant potential impact on curriculum. I'm not going to try to list every interesting science video at the national geographic, zoo, or a museum.
Jason.org - A national geographic owned amazing educational resource. It's been discussed that I could remarket it. Odd concept since it's free. Also, it requires a very educated involved teacher to run students thru it. So we would provide the virtual online classroom setting and charge money. We've never confirmed that jason would be supportive of this. They only have two middle school modules.
Gizmos - These little online ...gizmos...are cool. What's their business model?
Time4Learning Homeschool Science Curriculum Online - Very good, not so comprehensive. Could be updated.
http://www.homeschool.com/ - They have the premier homeschool directory by subject. The owner director lady, Rebecca, is on the T4L advisory board.
http://www.homeschoolscience.com/ - number one on google.
Apologia is the leading Christian homeschool science vendor.
Many homeschoolers use spiraling multidisciplinary unit studies to study science. Simply, every four years, you study the same unit. So imagine a family with a 2nd, 3rd, and 7th grader. They might all start with a unit on the digestive track. The 2nd and 3rd graders use the same materials, the 7th grader is covering the same unit but at a more sophisticated level. So the curriculum spirals. The unit part is that it might integrate with other subjects so bees might have a social studies, economics, historical, literary, or mathematical component.
www.pandiapress.com - looked great at a trade show. I bought the Earth & Space unit for grades 1-4. Looks great.
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