MSTE
3-5 RESOURCE LIST
MSTE
3-5 RESOURCE LIST
| General Resources | Science
Snacks
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/index.html Each snack (experiment or demonstration) begins with a photograph, a short introduction and a list of materials needed. Other sections offer assembly instructions, contain brief descriptions of how to use the completed exhibits, and explain the sciene behind them. Comment: Hands on edible experiments. |
| .. | Experiments
from the Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/index.html Comment: Valuable resource |
| .. | Mad Scientist Experiments
http://www.madsci.org/experiments/ Experiments for electricity, sinking and floating, and kitchen chemistry. |
| .. | Reeko’s Mad Scientist
Lab
http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/MoreExperimentsSortCategory.htm Experiments sorted by categories. This site lists experiments involving chemistry, electricity, floatation, motion, energy and sound. Comment: Wide variety of experiments with easily understood directions. Printable material list and procedures. |
| Plant Growth
and Development |
Explore
the Plant Kingdom
http://web2.airmail.net/kboyle/Planlink.htm Comment: Great pictures! Great Experiments and use of vocabulary. Very helpful. |
| v | In Search of Green Life
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/case1.html Detective LePlant needs your help to solve the mystery of plant life! To solve this case, you must identify the different parts of plants, what each part does, and how plants grow. |
| v | The Great Plant Escape
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe Become a junior plant detective. Help Detective LePlant sift information, find clues, and do experiments in order to solve mysteries such as why soil is so important to plants. LePlant will answer your plant questions by email. Comment: Good clear graphics! Great plant vocabulary in glossary. Lesson Plan
Activity Sheet
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| v | Kids Gardening
http://www.kidsgardening.org/ Comment: Good site with a great book reference list. |
| v | Cali’s Kid’s
http://www.avocado.org/calikids/cali188.shtml Activities using avocado seeds. |
| v | Experiments in Growing
Seeds
http://www.yale.edu/prgsmart/resources/curricula/botany.html |
| .Electricity | Activities to Explore
Static Electricity
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/staticmenu.html Comment: Excellent background for teachers with many useful activities. |
| . | Move A Butterfly's
Wings With Static Electricity!
http://web2.airmail.net/kboyle/Stbutter.htm |
| . | The World of Electronics
for Children
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3660/ Web site developed by children to show how various electronic devices work. Comment: Appropriate for intermediate level with good use of graphics. Good for providing information on electronic products and looking at their history. |
| . | Projects with Electricity
and Magnetism
http://www.yale.edu/prgsmart/resources/curricula/electricity.html Comment: Many good ideas to use with the class. This site is a great teacher resource for curriculum activities. |
| . | Electricity
and Magnetism
http://ippex.pppl.gov/ippex/module_4/ The text in this site may be too advanced for the students, but the animated illustrations are a useful visual tool to use on the large screen monitor. |
| . | Projects
Related to Electricity
http://www.halcyon.com/sciclub/kidproj1.html The projects are categorized as simple, intermediate and advanced. Many of the intermediate and advanced projects are suitable for classroom demonstrations. |
| . | Glossary
of Electrical Terms
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/glossary.html#charge Comment: This is a good site to print out for the students to use as a reference during the school year. |
| . | Make
a Lightening Rod: Getting a Charge Out of the Sky
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/energy/lightning.html |
| Animal Studies | Cool Camouflage
http://kidscience.about.com/kids/kidscience Comment: Very interesting site with wonderfully motivating photos. |
| v | Breakfast for the Birds
http://www.owu.edu/~mggrote/PP/zoology/f_zoology.html Investigate how bird beaks are adapted for particular environments and foods.Observe, predict, and test different beak designs, record information on a graph, use the knowledge gained from the experiment to design a beak for a particular food. |
| vv | Food Chain Activity
http://www.mos.org/oceans/life/game.html A classroom game to demonstrate the balance of life in the ocean. |
| v | Fins, Flippers, and Blowholes
http://connectedteacher.classroom.com/lessonplans/lessonPlan.asp?lessonPlanID=33&Subject=science&Grades=K-6 This web site has several wonderful sites for learning about whales. |
| v | Monterey Bay Aquarium:
Habitats Path
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/hp.asp The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Habitats Path tours marine habitats. While traveling through the Kelp Forest to the Outer Bay, you will see kelp, reefs, shale, and tidal pools. Photos from the aquarium of marine plants and animals are linked. Lesson Plan
Activity
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| v | Fish Activities from the
Sydney Aquarium
http://www.sydneyaquarium.com.au/html/july/July%20activities.htm Have your students take an online tour of the Monterey Bay Aquarium to learn about the variety of ocean habitats. Compare and contrast these different habitats and then have students show what they learned in drawings. |
| v | The Web Microscope
http://connectedteacher.classroom.com/lessonplans/lessonPlan.asp?lessonPlanID=31&Subject=science&Grades=K-6 This resource list explores a variety of topics in cellular biology. |
| v | Squirmy Wormy Research
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/cirriculum/littlekids/lesson_wormresearch.htm The colorful graphics and photographs, interesting facts and firsthand worm "interviews" on this site will catch the students' attention and motivate them to read and find out about worms. |
| v | Cool Camouflage
http://kidscience.about.com/kids/kidscience Comment: Very interesting site with wonderfully motivating photos. |
| v | The Swan Story
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/swan/bksw.html A simple story from England describing the life cycle of swans. |
| v | The Pond Explorer
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/pondexplorer/pondexplorer.html The Pond Explorer is an interactive page for pupils to explore some of the animals living in a pond. Information sheets containing interesting facts, food chain details and life cycles are provided for these animals. |
| v | The Grassland Explorer
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/grassland/index.html This site contains clear illustrations that can be placed on worksheets or shown on the large screen monitor. If you'd like assistance please contact your Technology Assistant. |
| v | Creepy Crawlies
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/spiders.htm This resource site is worth taking the time to explore. Comment: Good factual information. Excellent experiments to test. There is a lot of material to use form this site. |
| v | Monarch Butterfly Resource Page
http://www.smm.org/sln/monarchs/tf/otherlinks.html Comment: Good website with great pictures. The information is very useful. There are great pictures of each butterfl y stage. |
| v | Comparing Butterflies
http://eee.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/lesson_comparingbutterflies.htm Unit lessons support the English standards. Students will practice the skills of note taking, the use of graphic organizers, and writing to inform. |
| v | Monarch Butterfly Migration
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/lesson_butterflymigration.htm Students use the information they have learned from the Journey North Web site http://www:learner.org/jnorth/ to write a newspaper article about the Monarch migration |
| v | Food Chain Activity
http://www.mos..org/oceans/life/game.html A classroom game to demonstrate the balance of life in the ocean. |
| v | Communicating with Animals
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/talkingtotheanimals/index.html An outdoor activity you can do with your students so they may better understand how dolphins and trainers communicate without words. Comment: Very good website with excellent links. |
| v | Frogs
http://atozteacherstuff.com/themes/frogs.shmtl Lesson plans and resources for building a theme or unit on frogs. Comment: Lesson plans were very good. |
| v | Spiders in the Classroom
http://avocado.dade.k12.us/projects/spiders/ Comment: Very good site. |
| vv | Spiders!
http://www.discovery.com/exp/spiders/spiders.html Comment: Excellent site |
| Ecosystems & Biomes | Biomes
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/index.html Comment: Interesting set up and appropriate amount of content. |
| v | Habitats of the World
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/habitats/ Explore the saltwater marshes of the Northern Territory of Australia and see how plants and animals have adapted to their environment. Investigate the balance of life between animals and plants on the grassland habitat of a vast savanna in East Africa. Observe the interdependence of life-forms in the tropical rainforest, and visit animals living in the polar habitat of Antarctica. Comment: Very good overview. It is interesting and practical when connecting to the standards. |
| Sound | The Sound Site
http://www.smm.org/sound/nocss/ Comment: Good class project demonstration. The experiments could be very helpful to the students. |
| Simple Machines | Simple Machines
http://www.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html Comment: Useful links iwth many attractive illustrations. Fun activities. |
| v | The Elements of Machines
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html Introduces the various elements of machines. Towards the bottom of the page is a link to the Gadget Anatomy page. This page challenges you to think about how each part moves as the tool does its job. Your job is to figure which elements of machines you see in each gadget. |
| v | Simple Machines from the
Franklin Institute Online
http://www.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html |
| Floating and Sinking | Air Travelers
http://www.omsi.edu/sln/air/ Air Travelers is an introduction to the basic principles of buoyancy properties of gases, temperature, and the technology involved in hot air ballooning. The activities are designed for upper elementary classes. Comment: Excellent site with great pictures! Attractive home page with links that are easy to follow. The activities are interesting and diverse. |
| Food Chemistry | Liquid Layers: Exploring
Density
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/l/liquidlayers/liquidlayers.html |
| v | The Ph Factor
http://www.miamisci.org/ph/ Acid or base? Find out with the pH Factor resource! Comment: Interesting site with many fun activities. |
| v | Colors and Food Chemistry
http://www.acs.org/wondernet/activities/past/color/color.html Experiments using color to help determine what a substance is, when a substance has changed, and how strong or weak a substance is. Comment: This site is both student and teacher oriented. It contains a lot of wonderful information. |
| v | Simple Chemistry Combos
http://www.chemistrycombos.com/index.html 10 lessons on simple chemistry and provides students with authentic, hands-on experiments to make learning fun and exciting. A blackline master of a science experiment form for student use is also attached in the curriculum resource. Comment: This site is very teacher oriented. It contains specific experiments with clear explanations for the teacher. |
| Solids and Liquids | Project TEAM Lessons for Studying Solids
and Liquids
http://www.cedu.niu.edu/scied/student/lessonplans/team/sproul.htm#lesson If you are asked to a user name and password just click cancel to continue. Comment: Good lesson plans and activities. There are many activities that will build upon the child's STC lessons. The lessons are all set up and ready to be implemented. |
| v | Activities for Solids and Liquids
http://pc.collegestation.isd.tenet.edu/matter.html Comment: Attractive site with brief ideas and quick response. |
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Time
http://www.fi.edu/qa00/attic3/index.html |
| .v | Hello
Sun
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/Hello/hello.html#intro |
| .v | Me and My Shadow
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/Shadow/shadow.html#intro |
| .v | Measuring
Time with a Stick
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/Stick/stick.html#intro |
| .v | Capturing Shadows
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/@rtrageous/shadows.html Use your digital camera to capture shadows. Create a "Guess My Time" bulletin board |
| ..v | Creating Moondials
http://www.crosswinds.net/cambridge/~pignut/Make_your_own_moondial.html |
| .v | Sundial Mottos
http://www.sundials.co.uk/mottoes.htm Great fun! A list of sayings inscribed on ancient and modern sundials. Have your students create their own motto on their sundial. |
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