ELECTRICITY - GENETICS - LANDFORMS - MAGNETISM - MATTER - PLATE TECTONICS
1. Electricity and Magnetism - Click on "Launch Gizmo" for an interactive introduction to the principles of electricity and magnetism.
2. BBC - Physical Processes - This is a good interactive site to help students understand circuits. Follow through the slides, then test your knowledge. Also includes a fact sheet and test.
3. Welcome to Electricity! - An animated presentation that includes heat, light, motion, conductors, insulators, and safety and more!
4. Electricity and Magnetism - This site features an interactive Shockwave presentation explaining how electricity and magnets work.
5. Super Sparker - Make very tiny lightning anytime you want!
6. Theater of Electricity - This site about electricity includes video clips of lightning striking a kite and more.
7. Frankenstein's Lightning Laboratory - Three different activities on electricity: safety, static, and fruity electricity experiments.
8. Circuit Construction and Exploration - Learn about simple and complex circuits in this lesson.
9. Homemade Batteries - This activity shows you how to build and test a simple homemade battery to better understand electricity.
10. Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Circuits - How can you make a flashlight shine brighter?
11. BBC - Electrical Conductors - An interactive lesson on conductors. Includes a fact sheet, test and worksheet.
12. The Electricity Book - This interactive and animated book teaches the basic concepts of electricity. Includes information about series and parallel circuits.
13. The NASA Science Files: Electricity - Read a description of open, closed, serial, and parallel circuits. Includes diagrams.
14. The Simple Electric System - This diagram shows how utility lines carry electricity from power plants to distribution systems.
15. Charge and Carry - Store up an electric charge, then make sparks.
16. Remote Control Roller - Rub a balloon on your head, then watch a soda can race across the floor!
17. Professor B's Thunder and Lightning Secrets - Take a short quiz to on safety during a thunder and lightning storm. From FEMA for Kids.
18. Electrical Fleas - Start your own electric flea circus!
19. Enchanted Learning: Static Electricity - An overview of static electricity and that includes helpful illustrations.
20. Electric Safety for Kids - Electricity can be dangerous. It doesn't take much power to hurt someone -- less than one-fifth of the electricity it takes to light a bulb can kill an adult. Find out how to stay safe around electricity by choosing from 3 different activities.
21. Quia Quiz: Atoms and Electricity - Complete each exercise correctly and collect all 3 coins!
22. Electricity and Magnetism Matchup - Repeat this activity several times. You'll see many new terms each time you try.
23. Make a Lemon Battery - Learn how to make electricity from a lemon! From BBC Schools.
24. BBC Science Clips: Changing Circuits - Click on the screen that says "Ages 10-11." Then click on the screen with "Changing Circuits." Animated and interactive.
25. An Electrifying Web Page - A teacher's directory of electricity links for students.
26. Electricity Matters - Make your own electromagnet, create your own on/off switch, take an up close and personal look at a light bulb, or test the strength of a charge in the great soda can race!
27. The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits - A very cool site! Choose from five different sections.
28. PBS KIds: Dragonfly TV: How Do You Get Electricity From a Cow? - So if a cow won't move, what else could you try? Choose an option from the TV screen and you'll be well on your way to answering this electrifying question.
GENETICS:
1. Genetic Science Learning Center: Tour of the Basics - Interactive introduction to DNA, genes, chromosomes, proteins, heredity and traits. Very cool animations! From the University of Utah.
2. Genetic Science Learning Center: Inside a Cell - Students learn about different cell components as they point at different parts of the cell on the computer screen. From the University of Utah.
3. Genetic Science Learning Center: Build a DNA Module - This is an interactive activity in which students practice base pairing while creating a short strand of DNA. From the University of Utah.
4. The Gene Scene - What make you YOU? Explore this question and other fascinating facts at this very cool site! From the American Museum of Natural History.
5. Discovery Lab 2000: Where Did You Get Those Genes? - An interactive introduction to the study of inherited characteristics.
6. Kids Only - Learn about genes and DNA, and try some fun gene games!
7. Understanding Genetics: Online Exhibits - View amazing real images of cells, chromosomes and DNA from 100X to 900,000X. What color eyes will your children have? Learn about genetic inheritance while having fun with the interactive eye calculator!
8. Tiki the Penguin: Whose Genes? - What makes you human or Tiki a penguin? What are genes? A fun guide for kids on genetic engineering.
9. Kids Genetics - Did you know goldfish have more chromosomes than humans, or that humans share genes with bananas? Find more genetics fun facts at this site from GlaxoSmithKline.
10. Houghton Mifflin Science Vocabulary Games: Click on Grade 5, then click on Chapter 3: Traits of Living Things. Choose from eWord Game, crossword puzzle, or a word find.
11. BrainPop Science Movie: Cloning - Watch the movie and take a short quiz afterwards.
12. iKnowthat:Science:Science Lab: Cells
Click the Reference Sites link at the top of this page for additional landform sites!
1. Enchanted Learning: Landforms - Landforms and bodies of water
2. Encarta: Canyons - Encyclopedia article on a variety of types of canyons and how they are formed.
3. Encarta: Mountains - Encyclopedia article on the formation and importance of mountains.
4. Encarta: Islands - This encyclopedia article is about how islands form. There is also a list of the world's 10 largest islands.
5. Encarta: Beach - Read about the type of land that borders oceans, lakes, and rivers. Includes color photographs of beaches.
6. Quia Quiz: Erosion Word Search - Read the definitions of various landforms and erosion, then find the word on the grid.
7. Types of Land - Click on an area of the map to learn about different landforms.
8. Grand Canyon Explorer - Read how this canyon was formed, where the rock came from, and when it happened.
9. Shaving Cream Landforms - Students participate in hands-on activities and discussion to learn four landforms and practice map-making skills.
10. Landform Definitions - A listing of landforms and their definitions.
11. Landforms: Face of the Earth - A great site for information and photos on valleys, plateaus, mountains, plains, hills, loess, glaciers.
12. The Florida Peninsula - A very cool aerial photo!
13. The Florida Bay - An aerial photo
14. Geology of the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks - This site is about how the land in these parks was formed over time.
15. Encarta: Great Plains - Encyclopedia article about this type of land found in the United States and Canada.
16. Anatomy of a Volcano: Make a 3D paper volcano.
17. Volcanic Eruption QuickTime Movie - Click on "A Volcanic Eruption."
18. Volcano World: Kids' Door - Virtual field trips, art gallery, project ideas, and much more!
19. GeoDetectives Photo Album - This is a list of images to illustrate the different landforms and some schematics that show how those landforms are formed.
20. GeoDetectives: Landforms Activities - A list of experiments that can allow students to see how various landforms are created.
21. Learning About Earth's Landforms - This lesson introduces some of the major kinds of landforms with a link to a picture or image. Ideas for student activities are also included.
22. iKnowthat:Science:Science Lab: Earthquakes and Volcanoes
1. FossWeb: Magnetism and Electricity - Click on the "Activities" box on the left.
2. How Electromagnets Work - The basic idea behind an electromagnet is extremely simple: By running electric current through a wire, you can create a magnetic field. Explore the devices that use electromagnets and try some electromagnetic projects for yourself.
3. Magnetic Force - Activity, test and interactive worksheet from BBC.
4. NASA: The Magnetic Earth - Learn all about the earth's magnetic field and watch several very cool movies!
5. The Magnetic Field of a Bar Magnet - The magnetic field of a bar magnet can be investigated with this interactive compass needle applet.
6. BBC Schools: Physics: Electricity and Magnetism - Field lines round a magnet. Tutorial with animations.
7. Cool Experiments with Magnet Man - This web site is devoted to magnetism and the cool experiments you can do with permanent magnets and electro-magnets.
9. Millionaire Magnets Game - Win a million dollars by answering each of the magnet questions correctly. From Quia.
10. Magnets Pop Up Game - An animated quiz on magnets.
11. Magnet Madness: Learn more about magnets! A fun site for kids.
12. FAQ's About Magnets: Canada Science and Technology Museum
13. Earth's Magnetic Field - A simple explanation with graphics.
14. Magnets in My Kitchen - Find these common kitchen items that contain magnets.
16. Electromagnets - See how many iron filings you can pick up by changing the different items in the window.
1. States of Matter Quiz 1 - Definite shapes and definite volumes, solids, liquids and gases. Select the correct answer and get your score. Note: Answer buttons already selected are not necessarily the correct answer.
2. States of Matter Quiz 2 - Condensation, freezing, evaporation, vapor. Select the correct answer and get your score. Note: Answer buttons already selected are not necessarily the correct answer.
3. States of Matter Quiz 3 - What takes the shape of the container it is in?, melting points. Select the correct answer and get your score. Note: Answer buttons already selected are not necessarily the correct answer.
4. States of Matter Quiz 4 - Condensation point, freezing, melting points. Select the correct answer and get your score. Note: Answer buttons already selected are not necessarily the correct answer.
5. Space Jell-O - What does Jell-O have to do with bending space? Click on "Space Jell-O" to find out! From The American Museum of Natural History.
6. Atomic Mobile - Make a mobile of a carbon atom! Click "Atomic Mobile" to get started. From The American Museum of Natural History.
7. BBC Schools: Reversible and Irreversible Changes - A fun and interactive demonstration on the physical changes in some forms of matter.
8. The Periodic Table of Comic Books - Click on an element to see a list of comic book pages involving that element. Click on a thumbnail on the list to see a full comic book page.
9. Chem4Kids: Four Stages of Matter - This site offers good descriptions of the properties and relationships of gases, liquids, solids, and plasmas.
10. The Answer Files: What Are the States of Matter? - Read a short description on each state of matter. Click on the "More" link at the bottom for more fun facts.
11. National Geographic: Blue Goo - Many kids have written to National Geographic asking for recipes for “slimy, goopy stuff.” Here’s a recipe for Blue Goo. IMPORTANT: Blue Goo is to play with, not to eat.
12. National Geographic Kids: FunScience: Quick Changes - What will happen when you mix baking soda and vinegar in grape juice? Try this easy experiment to find out what changes you will see!
13. Dirtmeister's Science Lab: What is Matter? How Does it Change Forms? -
Matter, matter everywhere. There's matter in your hair. Matter in the air. There's even matter in a pear!
There's liquid matter, solid matter, and matter that's a gas. Even you are matter, because you have volume and mass! Read the explanation of the changes in matter by this wacky scientist! Then visit the science lab by clicking on the link below!
14. Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Matter - In the Dirtmeister's lab you'll see what happens when mechanical energy meets some wild and wacky "mystery matter"! A fun experiment!
15. What is Matter? - Designed for fourth grade students, but it's a good explanation of matter for 5th grade as well. Includes links to several chapters on matter.
16. View the Action - Wait for the page to finish loading, then click on the different stages of matter to see an animation of what the particles look like.
17. Games: The Structure of Matter - Click on Grade 5, then scroll down to Unit E: Kinds of Matter. Choose eWord game, crossword puzzle, or word find. From Houghton Mifflin Science.
18. Games: The Characteristics of Matter - Click on Grade 5, then scroll down to Unit E: Characteristics of Matter. Choose eWord game, crossword puzzle, or word find. From Houghton Mifflin Science.
19. Games: Changes of State - Click on Grade 5, then scroll down to Unit E: Changes of State. Choose eWord game, crossword puzzle, or word find. From Houghton Mifflin Science.
20. Games: Matter and Its Properties: Composition of Matter - Click on Grade 6, then scroll down to Unit E: Composition of Matter. Choose eWord game, crossword puzzle, or word find. From Houghton Mifflin Science.
21. Games: Matter and Its Properties: Physical and Chemical Changes - Click on Grade 6, then scroll down to Unit E: Physical and Chemical changes. Choose eWord game, crossword puzzle, or word find. From Houghton Mifflin Science.
22. The Case of the Mystery Matter - You have just been hired as a Private Investigator for the GRAY MATTER DETECTIVE AGENCY. The twin owners, Identify Matter and Classify Matter, need you to help them crack, "The Case of the Mystery Matter". It seems that several of the agency's clients have received some packages of mysterious matter. The twins find clues written on the outside of each package, but are afraid to open them because they don't know what they contain.Your assignment will be to identify the contents of each package and find out if they are safe to open.
23. Changing State - An animated and interactive activity on changing states of matter. A fun site from BBC Schools!
24. iKnowthat: Science: Science Lab: Matter
25. The Atoms Family - From the Miami Museum of Science. Learn about energy conservation, kinetic, and potential energy in The Mummy's Tomb. Learn about the properties of light, waves, and particles in Dracula's Library. Visit Frankenstein's Lightening Laboratory to learn about different forms of electricity and electrical safety. Or visit the other members of this very energetic family!
26. Science Unleashed: States of Matter Game - This interactive game involves the placement of various characteristics under the headings solid, liquid, or gas. The game involves catching the characteristics under the right category without letting them hit the ground.
1. Geology: Plate Tectonics - Plate tectonics QuickTime movie animations and animated gif's. Note: All animations load very slowly, so please be patient.
2. Institute for Geophysics: The Plates Project - More animations in the form of PowerPoint movies are available on this site. Click the "Movies" link on the home page.
3. Volcano World: How Plates Move - You need to click on the buttons and icons to move through the pages of this lesson.
4. NASA: Plate Tectonics - Advance through the short lesson then take a quiz and try the plate tectonics word search.
5. A Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - A hands-on exercise about plate tectonics and earthquakes from PBS. (requires Shockwave plug-in)
6. Observe the Breakup of Pangaea - This animation shows how the locations of continents and islands have changed over the past 150 million years.
7. Plate Movements - Observe different types of movements that occur along plate boundaries. Click the images to see the animations.
8. USGS: For Kids Only: Tectonics Word Search
9. USGS: This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics - Scroll down to view the contents listing.
10. GeoDetectives: Plate Tectonics Activity List - A great activities resource for teachers and students!
11. Earth: Our World in Motion: Plates on the Move - Look around you. It may seem that the Earth is perfectly still. But the Earth's outer shell or surface is actually moving all the time. Explore this cool site to learn about plates and and how they affect your world.
12. Plate Tectonics Part 1 (on BrainPop) - Gap-fill exercise.
13. Plate Tectonics Part 2 (Excerpts from BrainPop) - Gap-fill exercise.
14. Earth Matchup - Quia matching, concentration, and flashcards games.
15. Earth Matchup - A Concentration-style game from Quia.
16. PBS: Savage Earth: Animations - Click on the animations menu to view animations on various fault movements.
17. Moving Plates - Quiz from Quia
18. Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics - Quia quiz
19. The Cracked Crust: Tectonic Plates - Quia Quiz
20. Discover Our Earth: Plate Tectonics - Read about continental drift, plate boundaries, sea floor spreading, earthquake depth and earthquake magnitude.
21. On the Move: Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics - Have you ever noticed how South America and Africa seem to fit together? If you have, you aren't alone! Check out the interactive map, glossary, word search game and quiz.
22. Exploratorium: Life Along the Fault line: Why the Earth Shakes - You wake in the darkness, unsure about what has disturbed you. Strangely, the clock on your bedside table begins to rattle about, as if it has a will of its own! Read about continental drift, types of faults, and more.
23. The ABC's of Plate Tectonics - Choose from 4 different lessons on plate tectonics. The site includes an explanation of the formation of the super continent named Pang ea.
24. Earth Floor - Click on the "Plate Tectonics" link.
25. Discover Our Earth: Earthquakes - A fantastic new site posted by Cornell University Cornell University. This is part of a Geoscience Information Project funded by the National Science Foundation.
26. National Geographic: Nature's Fury: Earthquakes
1. Earth: Our World in Motion - What would rocks tell us if they could talk? Can you make your own rocks? Who is The Amazing Mundo, and just what is the big idea, anyway?
2. The Dynamic Earth: The Rock Cycle - Vocabulary games. Click on Grade 6, then scroll down to Unit C: The Dynamic Earth. Select eWord Game, crossword puzzle, or word find.
3. The Dynamic Earth Vocabulary Games - Click on Grade 6, then scroll down to Unit C: The Dynamic Earth. Select eWord Game, crossword puzzle, or word find.
4. Earth Systems: Earth's Changing Surface - Vocabulary games. Click on Grade 5, then scroll down to Unit C: Earth Systems. Select eWord Game, crossword puzzle, or word find.
5. Earth Systems: Earth's Structure - Vocabulary games. Click on Grade 5, then scroll down to Unit C: Earth Systems. Select eWord Game, crossword puzzle, or word find.
6. Grand Canyon Explorer: The Geology of the Grand Canyon - The ultimate display of rock layers!
7. Rock Hounds - Get your hard hats on and let's go digging for some fun and facts! A fun resource for learning all about rocks. There are puzzles, pictures, and hands-on activity ideas, plus a quiz.
8. Mineral Matters - Discover the basic physical properties of minerals. With just a few things from around the house, you can grow your own crystals. Turn that bunch of rocks and minerals into a collection. Think you know a thing or two about minerals? Then dig into these brain teasers, puzzles and games. Dig into Mine Games!
9. Petrified Paper - Observe the petrification process by making your own petrified paper.
10. The Wonderful World of Minerals ThinkQuest - Click on "Minerals" to learn about them. "Games" has a word search and rock memory. "Growing Crystals" is a science experiment.
11. Rocks and Minerals Slide Show - See examples of minerals, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
12. The Mystery of the Floating Rock - Here's a sight you don't see everyday—a rock that floats! How can that be? The key to this mystery is inside the rock!
13. Rock Cycle Song - Sing to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." ( Don't forget to sing this as a "Round"; after all, it is the Rock "Cycle"! )
14. Recipe for "Amazing Rock Candy"
15. This Planet Really Rocks: Fun Rock and Minerals Activities - Fun hands-on activities.
16. GeoFind: Word Search - Find the names of rocks. Click "Rescramble" to get a new puzzle.
17. Smithsonian Education: Kids Collecting - This is the place to visit if you've ever thought of starting your own rock or mineral collection.
18. USGS: Minerals in Utah - Check out this map to see what minerals may be in your own backyard!
19. GeoMysteries - Find fast and fun answers to common questions about rocks and fossils at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
20. How Rocks and Minerals are Formed - This school site has a student report and includes a Venn diagram of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.
21. Dinosaur Floor: The Rock Cycle - his page has a diagram showing the rock cycle. Read how igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are formed.
22. Quia: Dig into Geology - Four games about rocks and minerals.
23. Rocks and Minerals Hangman Game
24. Exploring Earth: Animation - Observe an animation of clastic sedimentary rocks forming.
25. Exploring Earth: Animation - Observe how sediments are deposited.
26. Exploring Earth: Animation - Observe an animation of metamorphic rocks forming.
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