Each Friday on Facebook and Twitter, we share a curated digital resource from our library that is one of our favorites.  Here’s what we shared in October:

With this interactive, students can explore the forces that create a hurricane:

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/oceans_weather_climate/media/create_hurricane.swf

Show students the meaning of each number on the Richter scale:

http://www.iknowthat.com/ScienceIllustrations/earthquake/earthquake_movie.swf

Watch plants grow and move through time lapse photography.

http://www.cjhs.org/teacherssites/taylor/accbio/PLANTS/TROPISM-MOVIE/TROPISM%20%20MOVIE.swf

Create a habitat best suited to the needs of each animal:

http://switchzoo.com/games/habitat.swf

Find, identify, and see how simple and compound machines function:

http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/frame_loader.htm