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Bats, Bats Everywhere
This website about bats was includes fun resources for children to learn about this unique and helpful animal. It has great pictures and clear, easy to read information.
http://members.aol.com/bats4kids/index.htm
Bats WebQuest: In Search of Stellaluna's Family
Students can use this webquest designed for primary students after reading the story Stellaluna to learn more about bats. All student and teacher resources, including handouts are available from this site.
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/chavez/batquest/batquest.html
Electronic Zoo
This site provides opportunities for a good cooperative learning experience between Kindergartners and older students as they explore real and imaged animals.
http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm
Emperor
Penguins @ Nationalgeographic.com
Best clicks include Fun Facts and the video and audio clips. Links to other Creature Features (including polar bears, tigers, and koalas) are found on the Fun Facts page. Great research source that fluent resources can use independently.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/0101/penguins.html
The
Farm
A primary webquest where children take a virtual trip to a farm and learn about the animals and people who live there. Appropriate for Kindergarten.
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq43/shannon.htm
This is a highly informative web site that has a broad based alphabetical listing of animals & related facts. It is sponsored by the Hannover Zoo and is an excellent site for focusing on non-fiction. Text requires students to be strong early fluent or fluent.
http://www2.zoo-hannover.de/zoo/uk/animals/default.html
New Jersey
Yucky Site: Worm World
You can see the body parts of a worm, watch a baby worm video, watch a 5 heart beat video, and more. A fun arcade, gift shop filled with wormy videos, books, etc....
http://www.nj.com/yucky/worm/
Something
Froggy
A story about the life cycle of Frederick Frog that promises to delight primary students! Beautiful photographs and illustrations. Young readers will need support reading the text.
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow9/jun99/
Spiders:
Westside Spidermania
A second grade teacher created this website about spiders. It has a information and real-life pictures for seven different kinds of spiders. May be used by fluent readers. Great example of writing to inform.
http://polk.ga.net/westside/Spider/Westside_Spidermania.html
A webquest exploring the wonderful world of the earthworm. Follow the links to answer questions and play games that will teach you about the earthworm. Early emergent readers will need support reading the content of the sites, great independent activity for fluent readers.
http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/formats/webquests/summer99/northside/worms/student.html
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Butterflies
Butterfly
Guide
Explore the 6 regions that are used in this guide to define the common range of each species of butterfly. Also includes beautiful pictures!!!
http://www.butterflies.com/guide.html
Butterfly
World
Take a walk in the garden, learn about the butterfly world, and find pictures of butterflies and flowers.
http://www.butterflyworld.com/
Monarch
Butterflies: Flying Towards Survival
A Webquest where cooperative groups of students use on-line and print resources to to seek information about the Monarch Butterfly habitat and persuade others to conserve it.
http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Mass/webquest/ymindex.html
The
Monarch Butterfly and the Milkweed
Detailed photos and descriptions of the lifecycle of the Monarch butterfly are displayed to show how caterpillars grow to 2700 times their original size in only two weeks! Supports the second grade Living Things science unit. This site is great for teachers and fluent readers.
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/entry_exhibits/insect/monarch.html
A comprehensive on-line hypertext book about butterflies. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic, and then to progress to much more advanced information as desired, simply by clicking on links.
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/butterfly/
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Dinosaurs
Dino
Russ's Liar
Experience the thrill of discovery of fossil remains of dinosaurs and other Late Cretaceous fossils that have not seen the light of day since 65 million years ago! Learn to recognize, find, and collect fossils. Experience, through hands-on learning, how paleontologists document these finds and excavate and remove fossils to museum for preparation and study.
http://128.174.172.76/isgsroot/dinos/dinos_home.html
Discovery
Room at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Construct your own dinosaur my matching fossil skeletons with their skulls! Also included in this site are dino facts, riddles, book lists and more.
http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/discovery
Honolulu
Community College Dinosaur Exhibit
Visit this site for real live sights and sounds of dinosaurs.
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html
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Food &
Nutrition
Dole, Five
a Day
Looking for information on nutrition? This is a cute, colorful site. You will find information about fruits and vegetables and a special site of the week.
http://www.dole5aday.com/
Food
Pyramid
Here you will find a food group pyramid. This site provides descriptions of each food group.
http://www.ganesa.com/food/index.html
Food
Pyramid Match Game: Dairy Council
Great review or assessment at the end of a nutrition unit. Put the pieces together to create a the food pyramid, then sort the foods into each food group. All students can play these games independently.
http://www.dairycouncilofca.org/activities/pyra_main.htm
My
Body
Find out more about how the body works by reading these interesting, interactive articles. Although the articles have a lot of text, the vocabulary is straight forward and there are great diagrams and illustrations to support the text. Best for more fluent readers. (This site requires Shockwave and may take a long time to load.)
http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/index.html
PearBear
Healthy Kids
This site was created to help students learn about nutrition. It includes stories, recipes and activities.
http://www.usapears.com/pbnw-kids.html
Clouds Webquest
This webquest has some good ideas for using images on the web to support learning about clouds. Includes links to necessary web resources.
http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/WebQ97/clouds.htm
Cool
Clouds for "Kids" of all Ages
On this site you are shown an image of a cloud formation and can think about what you see (imagery). Then, by clicking the text button, you can read about what the author saw. There are no right or wrong answers- we all are right in what we think we see in the sky! Great match for the grade two William and Mary lesson one or a cloud science lesson.
http://pals.agron.iastate.edu/carlson/look_like/index.html
Dan's Wild Weather Page
NEWSCHANNEL 19's, Chief Meteorologist Dan Satterfield shares weather information with Kids between 6 and 16 years old and for their Parents and Teachers, too!
http://www.whnt19.com/kidwx/
FEMA
For Kids: The Disaster Area (a weather site)
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has created a webstie that teaches children learn about different weather disasters. Includes engaging graphics, animations and sounds with a basic factual information. This site has a lot of text with some difficult vocabulary, it is best for fluent readers. It has activities and games that students of al levels could use.
http://www.fema.gov/kids/dizarea.htm
Planet
Pals: Lets Weather Together!
Read about different types of clouds, how they are formed and the weather associated with them. Take the short quiz to see how well you read! This page could be used as a class with teacher support, it has excellent pictures and information. It would also be a great independent reading activity for fluent readers! Teachers, be sure to check the Teacher Resources for additional ideas about using the Planet Pals site in your classroom.
http://www.planetpals.com/weather.html
Teacher
Talk-Observe Today's Weather
Observe weather daily, record with charts and graphs.
http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/curric/weather/ttpriwea.html
Observing
the Weather Today
You will find topics including hurricanes, storms from space, weather charting, etc... Terrific resources, wonderful programs such as "Adopt a City". Great maps and charts.
http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/curric/weather/weather.html
The
Weather Dude
Great songs to help teach weather concepts, complete with audio files. Teachers and students can listen to audio clips, find weather books, and find other weather resources. Teachers can order music tape about weather or print out lyrics to songs.
http://www.wxdude.com
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Come to Your Senses
A comprehensive guide to the five senses including links for more information.
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3750/
Cool Science for Curious Kids
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology... on screen, off screen, and in between. Activities cover animals, plants, life cycles and microscopic life.
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html
Exploratorium Science Snacks
Find miniature science snacks, which are popular exhibits at the Science Exploratorium. Experiments and information in many areas of science.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/index.html
Fantastic
Forest
Take a journey through a forest and explore maps, problem solving, and awesome graphics. This is a incredible experience for kids!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/forest/index.html
Funology.com:
The Science of Having Fun
This colorful site is full of activities for young kids to learn how to make things, explore the world, and discover new skills. Sign up for the free newsletter that includes jokes, tricks and creative craft ideas.
http://www.funology.com/
Helping Your Child Learn Science
If you like bugs, aquariums, and nature, this is the place to be. Go on a nature hike or visit the zoo on this page. Also, lots of activities for teachers to use with their kids!
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Science/index.html
NASA
Observatorium
Includes image gallery, aeronautics, educational resources, fun and games and more. Terrific pictures and kids can send a postcard to a family member of friend!
http://www.observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/core.shtml
USA EPA Explorer's
Club
Fun and interesting things to read and do about the environment. Find art projects about the ozone depletion or recycling. Categories include plants, animals, garbage, ozone, pollution, and ways to save our environment and earth!
http://www.epa.gov/kids
Wondernet
Science Activities
These hands-on science activities in WonderNet are adapted from WonderScience magazine. Students should be encouraged to do what scientists do: make predictions, design and modify experiments, make observations, and draw reasonable conclusions. WonderNet activities give students opportunities to do what scientists do: make predictions, design and modify experiments, make observations, and draw reasonable conclusions.
http://www.chemcenter.org/wondrnet/
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