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1. Boxing Weigh In - drag boxers to a scale and measure their weight, use a digital display to see kg or lbs
2. Platform Scales Addition - weigh several items and find the sum in hundredths of a gram
3. Platform Scales Subtraction - weigh several items and find the difference in hundredths of a gram
4. Using a Platform Scale - practice using scales like the one in a doctor's office, five Gregs will drop on the scale, waiting to be weighed, see how quickly you can weigh them

1. Sound & Noise: Household Science for Kids - 2 different projects to help demonstrate some of the physics of sound
2. Musical Bottles - from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood at PBS Kids
3. Showbox Harp - from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood at PBS Kids
4. Sounds and Hearing - experiment with sounds with this BBC quiz
5. What's that Noise - Listen to the sounds and then choose who made the sounds

1. Dissolving Substances - investigate the effect of solar energy on a balanced system
2. Eye to Eye - Students learn to pose mathematical questions about themselves and their surroundings through class. They gather data about eye color from their classmates and another class within their school. They organize this data to answer questions.
3. Data collecting - Collecting, Representing, and Interpreting Data Using Spreadsheets and Graphing Software: Collecting and Examining Weather Data

1. Learning to Look - five activities in one, introducing students to sensory investigation
2. Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World - reading level is too high for your students, but this site is packed full of great information for their teacher
3. Stick Out Your Tongue and Say Aah - full of good information to help a teacher plan a unit
4. Teaching Children About the Five Senses - from Nibbles ... Ideas for Families presented by University of Illinois Extension
5. The Senses - experiments and activities for kindergarten and above
6. Touching - presented by The Franklin Institute

1. Deliver a Message - Create a way to deliver a message
2. Fatty Foods - Which foods are higher in fat content?
3. Puff-mobile - Design a car and blow on it to make it move!
4. Young Engineer's Club - hundreds of exciting games, activities, and science experiments posted by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

1. Platform Scales Addition - weigh several items and find the sum in hundredths of a gram
2. Platform Scales Subtraction - weigh several items and find the difference in hundredths of a gram
3. Using a Platform Scale - practice using scales like the one in a doctor's office, five Gregs will drop on the scale, waiting to be weighed, see how quickly you can weigh them

1. Animal Match - Select which head goes with the animal body
2. Build your Wildself - Select parts to create a new self
3. Who Has What? - Pick the body parts of the animals - (words, not pictures)
4. I have - worksheet to use with the following words worksheet

1. Magnifier Walk - practice using magnifiers, and to familiarize themselves with the many interesting (and distracting) things in their habitat, prior to more formalized and focused activities ; lesson plan
2. Observing through a hand lens - Students can make their own magnifying glass lesson plan

1. The use of observational skills through the five senses - record observations on data collection sheet and share ideas with class; lesson plan

1. Classifying Living and Nonliving Things - worksheet
2. Characteristics of Living Things - lesson plan and worksheet

1. Intertidal Rocky Reefs - from the Barwon Bluff Marine Sanctuary

1. Find the Living things in this interactive quiz from the BBC
2. Living and Nonliving - A lesson plan that is five activities in one inquiry
3. Living vs Non-Living Quiz - This quiz is based on the information about the six characteristics of living things. For each of the following determine if it is a living or a non-living organism. Clicking on the answer allows you to check your answers. Good luck!
4. Living or Non-Living? - use this BBC quiz to classify things as animal or non living
5. Ourselves - use this BBC site to investigate living and non-living
   1. Take a Quiz - after the Ourselves activity, try the short quiz
   2. Worksheet to reinforce the topic
6. Plants and Animals in the Local Environment - collect all of the living things in the environment pictured
7. Worksheet for classifying living and non living things

1. Paper Towel Plants - video on growing plants on paper towels
2. Plants-In-Motion - need Quicktime to view; Plants are in constant motion as they develop, search for light and nutrients, avoid predators, exploit neighbors, and reproduce. Time-lapse photography allows us to easily see the movements of plants and clearly demonstrates that plants are living organisms capable of some extraordinary things
3. Plant Growth Observation Chart - worksheet to track plant growth

1. Helping Plants grow well - activity, then do the quiz-
2. What plants need to grow - information for students

1. Grow Up - learn the life cycles, then match the body parts of the animal
2. Life Cycles - frog and butterfly

1. Animal Match - Match babies with the parent
2. Animal Park - Match the babies with their parent
3. Baby Animals - Find the parent
4. Farm Babies -worksheets and lesson plan;
5. What will I be when I grow up? - Match babies with the parent

1. Animal Homes - three different activities to select from
2. Human and Animal Habitats - Would the animal be happy living here? Select correct answer; details given as to why or why not. Many different habitats can be selected

1. 10 Most Amazing Extinct Animals - pictures and information
2. Extinct Animals - pictures to color of extinct animals and the causes for extinction
3. Recently Extinct - pictures and information

1. As the Earth Turns - [this link opens in a new window] Students learn that day and night are caused by the rotation of the Earth. (Author - Sandi King)
2. Sky Paths - K-4 students will have the concrete experiences of observing, organizing, comparing, and describing the movement of objects that they observe in the sky.
3. What's Up? - lesson plan with handouts

1. Learning the Sky - Big Dipper
2. Our Solar System - interesting pictures of our planets
3. Views of the Solar System - pictures of planets and more

1. Map your Schoolyard - lesson plan
2. School Yard Mapping Exercise - lesson plan

1. Inquiry-Based Learning in the Schoolyard - lesson plan with activities for students
2. In my own Backyard - lesson plan with activities for students

1. Picture of a black sand beach with the rocks that the sand is made from
2. Coral Pink Sand Dunes - in Southwestern Utah
3. A pink sand beach in bermuda
4. Pebbles from a landscape company

1. What's the Weather Like Today? - weather chart template
2. What's the Weather? - lesson plan with templates to track weather

1. Tips for forecasting the weather - Look at the wind direction around your forecast city. Is the air blowing from colder areas toward your city, or is warmer air moving in?

1. Buoyancy Explorer - interactive site; virtual experiment
2. Characteristics of materials - interactive game
3. Sort by Materials - handout for students
4. Float my Boat - build tinfoil boats and test different designs to see how many pennies you can load without sinking your boat lesson plan
5. Magnets - video on how magnets work
6. Sinking Stuff - video on what sinks

7. Sink or Float? - lesson plan

1. Compare Liquids - handout for students tracking an experiment
2. How come some liquids don’t mix? - experiment lesson plan
3. Liquids - information about this type of matter

1. Density column - experiment
2. How to separate salt and pepper - scientific experiment (scroll to bottom of the page)
3. Make your own Lava Lite - salt water and oil experiment
4. Oil and Water - experiment

1. Does the Sun Influence the Temperature of the Earth? - lesson plan with handouts

1. Sun or Shade - lesson plan

1. Experiment: "Can you trap the sun?" - science expermiment
2. Plants help keep your house cool - science experiment This experiment is done in three steps. First you'll want to see if shading your "house" will keep it cooler. Then you'll want to see if painting the "house" different colors outside affects the temperature inside. Third you can combine the colored houses with or without shading.

1. Forces and Movement - give the truck various pushes to see how the truck moves
2. Pushes and Pulls - use a hard or soft push or pull to see how the toy horse moves

1. Friction activity sheet - handout for students
2. Friction - interactive site; see how far the car will travel on various surfaces

1. Magnet worksheet - whole class activity
2. Magnets - video on how magnets work

1. Magnet worksheet - for printing