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Here Downunder, schools don't really start teaching science until about age 11 - give or take a few units that seem to be predominantly about climate change for some reason.
DD8 however is extremely interested in science (she wants to be a particle physicist - as well as a cowgirl) but has vowed to never mention any of her STEM interests at school because she's a girl (I know, yikes!).
I have been bleating about this to the school for two years, and finally one teacher has asked if there are any websites DD can work on by herself during class time. All I can think of is BrainPop and Ted Ed - mostly we encourage her interests with clubs (Makerlab and astronomy club) or with sneaking into random homeschooling classes or with books.
Any suggestions?! I don't care too much about her making any progressions through a curriculum or anything like that, I just want it to be a) easy for her to navigate through herself, with appropriate content, b) cool and interesting. Mostly I want her to feel that it's ok to be a girl at school interested in STEM so something that causes as few hiccups as possible for her, the teacher and the class would be great, otherwise it could all be given up on.
This same teacher mentioned doing an official science course via correspondence during class time but her boss made a sour lemon face at that so I'm not holding my breath This school has no gifted program, no one trained in gifted education, doesn't even stream, so this is a real baby-step situation
Thanks!

1. phet: https://phet.colorado.edu/

2. Khan academy physics: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics

If her physics interest persists and she wants more advanced material
3. MIT open courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/

You've received great responses above. I'll just add what PhET means, in case anyone is curious:

Some MIT physics lectures are no longer at that site but can be accessed elsewhere: Walter Lewin Lectures on Physics.

Open Yale Courses (physics)
with accompanying book "Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics (The Open Yale Courses Series)" (2013) by R. Shankar

There is also edX
https://www.edx.org/course

This would only be introductory videos for purposes of kicking off a topic - but have you seen the Physics Girl videos on youtube? (And related blog that could be a useful next step). Here is her latest on "What Are Quarks?": Good/fun teaching that doesn't dumb things down.

I'm not a physicist, but I do have science training, and I haven't spotted any inaccuracies. Plus, I believe she has a degree in physics from MIT, so probably a decent source.

Sue

Thank you SO much everyone, cool stuff there (and good timing, Suevv, DD has just been getting excited about quarks and explaining some of their curiosities to DH - hilarious)
Cheers everyone

Thanks to Portia for the fabulous lists. DS watched the ancient computer this morning and was fascinated by it.