"WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a free 'Web 2.0 visualization software' environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe." (Source: WWT)

WWT is developed by Microsoft Research and is an absolutely amazing tool for children and adults alike. read more

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

These books seem to be better than Wikipedia for helping school children with extra reading on several topics.The wikijuior books are not many in number just now but whatever I saw seem to be well targeted at school children's leve. The wikibooks on Science that I saw seemd more for the children preparing for Board Exams - they even have questions at end for assessing what has been learnt and for exam practice. read more

I received this book from Arvind Gupta accompanied with this note - 

"Today I stumbled upon a wonderful book on PEACE STORIES by a very famous author Martin Auer - he is a very distinguished author - winner of the Hans Christian Anderson and other awards. He has put them on his website for free individual downloads. His story THE BLUE BOY is already out in 25 languages. Here is a really kind man who for world peace has done such a selfless job. read more

With all the buzz around the Large Hadron Collider experiment which will fire up today, I thought I'd share a few links that you could share with your students as well to understand this huge, and hugely important, science experiment that we will be witness to.

If you want to get an idea of what the (Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is all about - I've found this basic intro on Alice, CMS, Altas, LHCb and read more

"The Habitable Planet is a multimedia course for high school teachers and adult learners interested in studying environmental science. The Web site provides access to course content and activities developed by leading scientists and researchers in the field."

Fantastic resource with videos, interactive labs, and images & animations.The audience is teachers and adult learner, but could be used by high school students as well.

A new and unique translation in Hindi of the ancient Indian Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद) has recently been published - the first volume of a four-part series. This covers the third, fourth and fifth mandalas of the sacred text and is generally dedicated to Agni - the sacred fire. This volume also includes the sacred "Gayatri Mantra". read more

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"TAMING INFINITY" is a presentation by Manil Suri , Professor at University of Maryland.
It basically explains the concept of infinity,in interesting manner.

The video is a must see for anybody, having basic knowledge of Mathematics.

 It will really help  students   understand Calculus better.

This resource search was inspired by reading this article and my response to it.

An excerpt:

Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for everyone, not just for computer scientists. To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child’s analytical ability. read more

(...as are so many things on the web these days (or at least seemingly so :))

Thus readeth the tag line of this amazing site for free documentaries that a friend shared last night. Freedocumentaries.org has about 125 documentaries that are also categorized by themes and regions of the world. read more