General Science:
- Aspire:
- American Museum of Natural History:
- FossWeb:
- Happy Scientist,The:
- McGraw-Hill Science 2008:
- McGraw-Hill Science, Student Editions:
- National Geographic Kids:
- Science Museum:
- Skateboard Science:
Animal Kingdom
- Alaska Department Of Fish and Game: Birds & New Zealand Birds:
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Mammals
- Alaska Wildlife Notebook:
- Animal Web Cams at the National Zoo:Students can take a virtual Zoo with a live web cams or explore the photo gallery.
- Animal Migration: The Journey North: Journey North is a free, Internet-based program field observations.
- ARKive:
- Butterflies: Life cycle
- Butterflies: Brain Pop Jr.
- Classifying Animals: Brain Pop Jr.
- Cycles of Life:
- Structural and Behavioral Adaptations:
- The Secret Lives of Wild Animals: Students use resources from the National Science Foundation to find facts
- WWF-Mammals, birds, reptiles & fish
- Wildlife Conservation Society:
Animal Kingdom (Early Concepts):
- Animal Homes:GGFI
- Food Chains: BBC, Students decide what eats what.
- Food Web, Things that Eat Fish, A Touch of Class: This site has students select the predators.
- Living and Non-living: BBC,
- Kids Planet: This site has lessons about the Animal Kingdom intended for students.Kids Planet, Lessons:
- Plants and Animals in the Local Environment: BBC, Students find the living things in an environment.
- Variation: BBC, Students sort animals into birds, insects, mammals or plants.
- Teeth and Eating: BBC, Students have determine what teeth a human and animals need to eat their food.
- Magic School Bus Habitat Match-Up: This is a Scholastic web resource that teaches student about habitats.
- Just for Fun. Build Your Wild Self: Students select different body parts to build a creative self .
Climate and Weather:
Conservation:
- Conservation Society: This organization has partnered with McGraw-Hill.
- Connection-Conservation:
- Exploring Nature:
- Florida Everglades:
- Science Explorations: This Scholastic website with in depth science topics with online activities and expert input from the American Museum of Natural History.
- Writing with Scientists with Natural History: This is a Scholastic resource that teaches students to write factual stories.
Earth:
Environmental Science
- Eco-Index:
- Good Harmony:
- GreenHouse Gas Online:
- Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
Force, Electricity and Energy
Primary:
- Compound Machine: BBC, Edhead,
- Pushes and Pulls: BBC, Ages 5-6
- Forces and Movement: BBC, Ages 6-7
- Magnets: BBC, Student use the knowledge of magnets to solve a problems.
- Magnets and Springs: BBC, Ages 7-8
- Simple Machines: Edhead, Students find the simple machines.
- Simple Machine: Students work with simulated simple and compound machine to solve problems.
Intermediate:
- Examples fo Simple Machines:Mi Kid had many pictures and images of simple machines.
- Friction: BBC, Ages 8-9
- Forces in Actions: BBC, Ages 10-11
- Forces: BBC, Students need to use their knowledge of resistance, balance and gravity to solve problems.
- Circuits and Conductors: BBC, Ages 8-9
- Changing Circuits: BBC, Ages 10-11
Insects
- Going Bug-gy: Scholastic.com
- True Bugs: Scholastic.com
- Let's Talk About Insects:
- USDA Agricultural Research: Insects:
- Using Live Insects in the Classroom:
Spiders:
- Giant Spiders:
- Spiders of North-West Europe:
- Spider Glider Activity:
- Spider Facts:
- Spider Lessons (Teacher Resource):
Light and Sound
- Aspire Waves:
- Light: Students use their knowledge to solve problem.
- Light and Dark: BBC, Students drag objects into a room to find out if they give off light.
- Light and Shadows: BBC, Place and object in the center move the light machine up, down, close or fair.
- How We See Things: BBC, How light reflects
- Sound: BBC, Students use sound to solve a problem.
- Changing Sound: BBC, Students can change sounds by adding or taking away.
- Sound: BBC, Students hold down the space bar to simulate the strum of string on a guitar.
- Sound and Hearing: BBC, Students make quiet and loud sound and later have to sort the sounds.
Matter, Gas, Liquid and Solid
Primary:
- Sorting and Using Materials: BBC, Waterproof or bendable
- Grouping and Changing Materials: BBC , Wood, Glass, Metal or Rubber
- Characteristics of Materials: BBC, Waterproof, Transparent, Flexible or Strong
- Solid or Liquids: BBC, How heat and cool changes objects
Intermediate:
- Gases Around Us: BBC, Show how with heat liquid changes to gas and "Sorter" will have student sort gas, liquid or solid.
- Changing State: BBC, Show how water changes from solid, liquid to gas and back.
- Reversible and Irreversible Changes: BBC, Show how some matter change from solid, liquid to gas and back and some can not.
- Reversible and Irreversible Changes: BBC, Students use tools that change matter to solve problems.
- Rock and Soils: BBC, Students tests objects density.
- Keeping Warm: BBC, Students test how well materials retain heat.
Plants:
- All About Plants:
- Biology of Plants:
- Jungle Journey: An online activity
- The Plant Kingdom:
- Growing Plants: BBC, Ages 5-6
- Plant Life Cycles: BBC, Students have to work out why a plant goes wild by studying it's life cycle.
- Plants and Animals in the Local Environment: BBC, Age 6-7
- Helping Plants Grow: BBC, Ages 7-8
- Habitats: BBC, Ages 8-9
- Life Cycles: BBC, Ages 9-10, Students define the petals, sepals, nectaries, carpel, stamens and recetacle of a flower.