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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. Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab - experiments sorted by category
2. The Science Explorer - an exploratorium-at-home book
3. Weird Science - lots of experiments from Fun-ology
4. Zoom Science - mix hot science with your cool idea, lots of suggestions for planning simple science investigations

1. Iron in Cereal - scientific experment
2. Favorite Ice Cream Survey - lesson plan

1. Student Designed Investigations Part 4: Poster Presentations/Science Fair - This unit ends with students deciding on a testable question, designing an investigation, doing the investigation, collecting data and drawing conclusions. Students then create poster presentations of  their investigation for a grade level science fair.

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. Alien Assembly - What do aliens look like? You decide. Use the parts to build your very own alien.
2. Draw an Alien in its Natural Habitat - [designed for grade 3] Students will be able to apply what they have learned about living things, structures of living things and how living things sense and respond to their environment by creating a habitat and an alien that could live in that habitat.
3. What is a Living Thing, and How Does a Living Thing Respond to Its Environment? - [Unit Overview - 6 lessons] - In this unit students are given time to think about and discuss the fundamental question, "What is a Living Thing?" They are also introduced to a process for planning science investigations on the topic of how different living things interact with their environment.

1. Animals and Plants - The Chesapeake Bay watershed is home to thousands of species of plants and animals. Use this page as a source of pictures.
2. Critter Corner - lots of pictures from EEK, Environmental Education for Kids
3. Desert Plants and Animals - from the Mojave National Preserve
4. Georgia's Natural Wonder - Plants and Animals from the Okefenokee Swamp
5. Plant and Animal Families - resources for science learning frolm the Franklin Institute

1. Create a Food Web - choose from four webs, select animals or plants to populate the food web
2. Energy and Ecosystems - lesson plan from Annenberg
3. Energy Pyramid - an alternate way to look at food chains
4. Experiment with a Pond Food Web - change various population sizes to see what affect the change has
5. Food Chain - National Geographic for Kids has a featured Quick Flick from Brain Pop on the subject.
6. Food Chains - a slide show with places to stop and ask for responses from your students
7. Food Chains - an interactive site from the BBC
8. Food Chains - another site from BBC
   1. Quiz on Populations and Pyramids
9. Food Chains & Food Webs - information and links
10. Food Chains and Food Webs - What's for dinner? from Enchanted Learning
11. Food Chains and Webs - Information regarding population size on food webs is presented here. After learning about food webs, select the link named "create a possible food web" at the bottom of the page. Click and drag to create your own food web.
12. Forest Food Webs - lesson plan from Discovery Education
13. Fun with Food Webs - three webs are available; arctic, meadow, and pond - click and drag elements into place
14. Habitats - investigate food chains with this interactive site from the BBC
15. Interdependence and Adaptation - Use this BBC interactive site to review living things, then take a quiz about interdependence and the food web
16. Interesting Facts About Food Chains - a brief description of the food chains and food webs in an ecosystem
17. Make a Possible Food Web - click and drag elements [works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Netscape Navigator]
18. Make Your Own Food Web - an interactive food web from Scholastic
19. Predator/Prey Relationship - an interactive investigation from McGraw Hill
20. Welcome to Biology 2002 - This college level PowerPoint show has some great images. Save the show, throw out the college content and modify the show for your classroom.
21. Working on the Food Chain - interactive site

1. The Antarctic Food Chain - print out pictures and use those to create a food chain. Links available for needed pictures.
2. Experiment with a Pond Food Web - change various population sizes to see what affect the change has
3. Food Chains - an interactive site from the BBC
4. Food Chains - a slide show with places to stop and ask for responses from your students
5. Food Chain - National Geographic for Kids has a featured Quick Flick from Brain Pop on the subject.
6. Food Chains and Webs - Basic information regarding food webs is presented here. After learning about food webs, select the link named "create a possible food web" at the bottom of the page. Click and drag to create your own food web.
7. Habitats - investigate food chains with this interactive site from the BBC
8. Working on the Food Chain - an animated overview

1. 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
2. Animal Habitats - scroll down and select an animal
3. Activity sheet- Best place - download this worksheet

1. Design a Habitat - interactive game; ( I could not get the game with sound to work, but the one without sound does work; can be used as a class activity)
2. Design a Panda Habitat -

1. Butterfly Life Cycle - from Enchanted Learning
2. Butterfly Life Cycle - frolm the Beal Early Childhood Center
3. Butterfly Life Cycle - lesson plan with nine activities
4. Four stages of the butterfly life cycle - short explanation of each stage
5. Frog Life Cycle - eleven weeks from egg to frog
6. Life Cycle of a frog - page to print
   1. Frog life cycle page to label
7. Monarch Butterfly life cycle - separate page for each of the four stages
8. Stages of a butterfly

1. Grow Up - learn the life cycles, then match the body parts of the animal
2. Life Cycles - frog and butterfly
3. Life Cycle Survival Game - help the newly-hatched turtle make its way from nest to the sea and back (download the PPT show in zip fomat)

1. Genetic 'Experiments' for 2nd grade students - lesson plan with activities
2. Life Cycles - use this lesson plan as a resource for students; list of what similarities to look for.

1. Life Cycles - use this lesson plan as a resource for students; list of what similarities to look for.
2. Family Genetics Chart - print this chart to use in your classroom

1. Critter Craze - [this link opens on a new page] This lesson introduces the concepts of basic needs, grouping, and habitats. (Author - Laurie Ayers)
2. Intertidal Rocky Reefs - from the Barwon Bluff Marine Sanctuary
3. Match Animals to their Habitat - [this link opens on a new page] select one of the twelve habitats at Animal Universe and choose animals that live in that habitat (select Maybe Later on the registration screen)
4. Snuffy's Safari (Sesame Street) - [this link opens on a new page] travel to one of three environments and search for animals that live there using Sunffy's binoculars.
5. Squish the Fish - [Reading skills required] Help Squish travel out across the reef to find his lunch. He needs to find friends who will help him hide from his nemesis, Big Tooth Blob. Learn about shape, color, and behavioral adaptations for survival.

1. Beaks and Bills - different characteristics of these body parts.
2. Flying Snakes - Leaping lizards avoid these snakes
3. How Wolves Communicate - interactive site to learn about wolves characteristics
4. Porcupines - How does this animal protect itself?
5. Foraging Animals - characteristics of fox squirrels

1. Fossil Image Galleries - fossils organized by taxon, fossil site, or geological time
2. Plant Fossil Gallery - plants
3. Fossil Coloring Pages -
4. How a Fish turns into a fossil - no sound, video clip
   

1. Fossil Lesson Plan - discuss fossils and make your own
2. Fossils Online - Click the links on the left to see the photos
3. The FLMNH Paleobotanical Collection - Compare fossil plants with those living today.

1. Apparent Motion of the Sun- lesson plan; track sun during school day
2. Day and Night Experiment - simple activity to show students how the sun moves in our sky
3. Make a Sun Clock - The position and length of a shadow depends on the time of day--but it also depends on the season of the year
4. Solar Car - How does the sun's position in the sky affect a solar car's performance?

1. Current Moon Phase Calculator
2. Phases of the Moon - short lesson on phases with several links to follow
3. Phases of the Moon Interactive - drag the slider left or right to observe different positions and phases

1. How Much Soil is There? - using an apple as an analogy
2. Soil Science and Worm Composting - lesson plan
3. Soil Science Basics - links to other resources (some links are to dead pages)

1. Pebbles, Sand, and Silt - find out how earth materials are used all around us
2. Rocks and Minerals - from The Franklin Institute
3. Rocks and Soils - perform virtual experiments at this BBC interactive site
4. Sand - This web site is all about sand. It is a place where you can learn about sand, see a variety of different kinds of sand, and look at sands from different places around the world.
5. Sands of the World - an interactive earth science project

1. Energy Facts - site with many links for kids geared to understanding regarding energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
   

1. Classroom Activities - resources to help teachers and educate students (grades 2-12)
2. EcoforKids - short videos with methods for reusing resources.
3. Energy Facts - site with many links for kids geared to understanding regarding energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
4. Recycle City - How the people of Dumptown turned their backward city around.
5. Tree Power - for class discussion, teacher led; video

1. Regional Climates - see how weather changes at different times of the year in each of the large regious of the US
2. Seasonal Changes - description of the four seasons including several links to follow

1. Magnify It - there are limits to what the eye can see and that a magnifying glass can help extend those limits. lesson plan
2. Make your own Balance - This balance is made out of a coat hanger and easy to use
3. Measuring Scales - interactive activity
4. What Tools - interactive quiz

1. Changing States - interactive activity
2. States of Matter - video, activity and quiz
3. Solids and liquids - click on the link on the side to start the activity.

1. Water - explanation of water molecules; grade three but can be adapted
2. Melting and Boiling Point - interactive lesson

1. Why Does the Balloon Change? - explanation of air pressure with an interactive experiment on the side.

1. Effects of the Sun on Our Planet - 50 page Unit plan; activities and worksheets
2. All About the Sun - 50 page Unit plan; activities and worksheets
3. Sun's effect on Earth - article

1. Effects of the Sun on Our Planet - 50 page Unit plan; activities and worksheets
2. All About the Sun - 50 page Unit plan; activities and worksheets

1. Ear Guitar - scientific experiment
2. How we Hear sounds -interactive lesson, may have to be adapted for younger students, video
3. Good, good, good, vibrations - scientific experiment
4. Hilarious Honker - scientific experiment; Discover how a plastic or paper cup affects sound vibrations

1. Changing Sounds - interactive sound activity
2. Hilarious Honker - scientific experiment; Discover how a plastic or paper cup affects sound vibrations
3. Musical Coat Hangers - scientific experiment; Discover how sound travels and what materials make better sound conductors
4. Paper noise Experiments - How to make paper screech. How to make paper bang.

1. Marveling in Magnets- unit plan with activities and handouts
2. May the Force be With You - unit plan with activities and handouts
3. What is a Magnet - handout for students to color

1. The Force of Gravity - lesson plan with handouts
2. Free Fall - scientific experiments and explanation