:: Integrating Technology Into Classroom Instruction

Science Resources:

Animals

• PandaCam: Live video stream of the giant panda at the San Diego Zoo
ShamuCam: Live video of Shamu at Sea World
• Kids Planet: Wildlife Information
• Winter Animals: Descriptions of migrate, hibernate, and adapt
• Moth or Butterfly: Can you tell the difference?
• Butterfly Scavenger Hunt: Simple scavenger hunt
• Chain Reaction: The Food Web
• Rainforest Action: Site designed for kids to learn about the rainforest
• Web of Life: Learn about the web of life with a spider as your tour guide
• Animal Fact Sheets: Great for research projects
• Animal match: Online memory game
• PBS Create an adventure: Interactive games about habitats
• Who Lives Here?: Match the animals to learn about them and their tree habitat
• Concentration: Find the matching dogs
• Animal Information: Created by 2nd grade students at Kings Park Elementary
• Animal Hide and Seek: 2nd grade WebQuest
• Animaland: Fun site with animal care information
• Echo the Bat: Follow Echo through Arizona on his adventure to his winter hibernaculum. NASA Site.

Apples

• Four Seasons of an apple tree: Pictures to show each season
• Bud stage: Picture of a apple bud
• The seasons of an apple tree: Enchanted learning printout
• Webquest: creating your own apple tree book

Dinosaurs

• Scrambled Pictures: Choose a dinosaur picture to unscramble then just click and drag.
• Jurassic Park Institute: Games, facts, and activities.
• Discovery Channel: Animated movies about different types of dinosaurs and other information material.
• Walking with Dinosaurs: BBC site about dinosaurs. Lots of video clips.
• Online Coloring: Enchanted Learning, choose a dinosaur to color.
• Enchanted Learning: various online activities.
• Scholastic: Dinosaur activities

Fossils:

• Geo-Mysteries: Help Rex the Dino Detective solve mysteries about rocks, fossils, and minerals.
• Scavenger Hunt: Follow the links to learn about fossils
• 2,000 Fossils Under Ground: ThinkQuest

Insects:

• Alien Empire: Includes information & interactive pages about butterflies, silk worms, honey bees, mayflies, and the Aerodynamics of Insects.
• Enter the Hive: Interactive Honey Bee Hive
• Magic School Bus: Interactive Insect Tour where you can build a bug, watch a video clip and take a quiz.
• DeBug: Name that insect, insect anatomy, and a quiz
• Pest World For Kids: Learn all about these amazing pests
• Insect Webquest: Created for 2nd grade
• Going Buggy: Scholastic site includes activities and resources.
• Learning Pages: Insects and Spiders worksheets, fact sheets and lesson plans

Items in the sky 

• Toon University: Solar System activities, movies
• Solar System activities: Various activities about the solar system 
• Solar System quiz: Interactive quiz created by 2nd graders
• Solar System: Basic information about the solar system, easy reading  
• Constellations: Information about major constellations.  
• Stars: Basic information about stars  
• Sun: Basic information about the sun  
• Solar System Lesson Plan: Students will conduct Internet research, create and present a PowerPoint presentation and create a travel brochure.    

Oceans

• ShamuCam: Live video of Shamu at Sea World
• Create an Ocean Scene: Students drag items into the ocean.
• Ocean ABC books: A WebQuest on creating books
• Swimmy and the Deep Blue Sea: 2nd grade WebQuest
• An Aquatic Adventure: Webquest for 2nd grade
• Splash into the Aquarium: Webquest
• Under the Sea: Grade 2 online project
• The Ocean's in Trouble: 4th grade Webquest

Other

• BBC Site: Various interactive online science activities.
• Electric Circuit: Interactive page that explains how a circuit works, very cool
• Magic School Bus Tours: Marine Life, Animals, Space, Insects, The Human Body, Dinosaurs, Archeology and What On Earth?
• The Nine Planets: Multimedia Tour
• Frog Guts: Virtual Frog Dissection
• Basic Science Links: variety of links
• EdHeads Simple Machines: Choose to learn about simple or compound machines.
• Arty the Part Time Astronaut: Under Adventures you can choose Travel the Nine Planets, Changing Seasons, The Constellations, and in Memory of the Challenger
• Maggie's Earth Adventures: Teacher section includes lesson plans, weekly activity packets and free stuff! Kids section includes games for math, language arts and GeoSpy which focuses on geography.
• Earth Day Activities: A page of links
• Wonders of Science: Visit various websites to answer interesting science questions.
• Mineral Matters: Identify minerals, create your own crystals, & FAQ's

Plants

• Parts of a Plant: Name the parts of the plant
• Plant Explorer: Find out what we eat, what plants need to live, and plant parts 
• Plant Salad: Meet the plant parts and make a salad.

Pumpkins

• Life cycle of a pumpkin: A lesson plan with a printout of the life cycle. 
• Photos of the various life cycle stages of a pumpkin 
• My Pumpkin Book: PDF for print out
• Pumpkin Sequencing: PDF printout
• Pumpkin Science: ESL Activities, PDF printouts, etc.

Seasons

• Why do leaves change colors? Find out how and why leaves change colors.
• Why do leaves change colors in the fall? Information is written so that even young children can read part of this on their own.

Soil

• Herman the Worm: Learn about worms and soil from Herman
•  The Dirt on Soil: Discovery School
• Ask the Answer Worm: He answers your questions about dirt and soil
• Case #2: Soiled Again: Dig for clues to solve the case
• Underground Adventure: Includes a Virtual Tour

Solids, Liquids, and Gases

• Harcourt School: Animated demonstrations of states of matter
• Pod's Mission: Interactive games about solids, liquids and gases
• Brain Pop Movie: States of Matter
• Movies about Solids, Liquids and Gases
• What are the 3 states of matter? : Movie Clip from NASA Newsbreaks
• PowerPoint: Review of the different states of matter.
• Exploring Solids, Liquids and Gas - Experiment 
• Solids, Liquids, Gases: Quiz

Water

• Water Cycle: Basic information about the water cycle
• The Story of Water: From EcoKids website
• Water Wonders: EEK, Environmental Education for Kids
• Water Movies: Brain Pop (only allowed to view 2 per day)
• Water Cycle Simulation: see a simulation of water cycle and then put the steps in order

Weather

• EdHeads Weather: Interactive site where students can predict or report the weather.
• How do you measure the weather? A short movie about the weather
• Scholastic Weather crossword puzzle: Search the websites to find the answers
• Magic School Bus: Choose...What on Earth? 
• Advanced Weather: BrainPop movie (You can only watch 2 movies per day from BrainPop)
• Weather: another BrainPop movie
• Weather Research Project: Activity from Scholoastic
• Weather Dog: Quiz about weather 
• Weather and You: Basic information about weather for kids
• Encyclopedia of Weather: Click on Bart for a kid explanation of each term
• Clouds: A WebQuest for elementary students about clouds.
• Webweather for Kids: Learn what makes weather wet and wild, do cool activities, and become hot at forecasting the weather on Web Weather for Kids!
• Interactive Weather Maker: Scholastic.
• Various weather activities
• Dress for the weather (K/1) Caillou and Speckle

Webquests

• Life Cycle of a Butterfly: WebQuest K-1
• Just Winging It: Webquest on insects and butterflies
• Butterfly lifecycle: Simple Webquest
• Weather WebQuest
• Zoo WebQuest: Study of animal habitats