Mrs. Julie Thompson

Third Grade eMINTS Classroom

Alton, Missouri 65606

jules@semo.net

http://www.juliethompson.com

WEATHER
ANIMALS, PLANTS,  AND LIFE CYCLES
MATTER AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
SIMPLE MACHINES
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
LIGHT AND SOUND
 
EARTH AND SPACE
RECYCLING
THE HUMAN BODY
PERFORMANCE TASKS & ASSESSMENTS
National Science Foundation Online Movies

ANIMALS, PLANTS  AND LIFE CYCLES

  1. Ants: Super Organism


  2. Description: Listen to the audio clip or read the short transcript about ant colonies. Includes the sounds of an ant colony.

  3. Online Ants


  4. Description: Watch this movies that shows the movement of ants. Requires QuickTime.

  5. Ants and their Foods


  6. Description: This is a PowerPoint presentation about ants and their foods. This is a student-created report.

  7. Ant Cast


  8. Description: The site “gives a secret view into the lives of leafcutter ants.” Choose from live video or static images. NOTE: The live video stream is limited to 10users at one time. If you cannot see the video, you may read the ant facts first, which are rotating in the bottom of the page.

  9. Ant Facts for Kids Today

  10. A Handful of Cells

  11. Seeds PPT

  12. Living Things:  BBC Online

  13. Exploring Ecosystems (Flash Experience)

  14. Ecosystem WebQuest

  15. Enchanted Learning Life Cycles

  16. Types of Animals

  17. Living Things:  The Franklin Institute

  18. Butterfly collection

  19. Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Kid Zone

  20. Underground Adventure Biomes

  21. Artic Adventure:  Animal Adaptation

  22. Build Your Own Caterpillar and FOOD Web

  23. Creature Crazy from PBS

  24. DragonflyTV  Investigation from PBS

  25. Cow's Eye Disection:  What's Inside an Eye?

  26. Fun Optical Illusions

  27. All About Butterflies!

  28. Alien Empire Bee Anatomy

  29. The Great Plant Escape

  30. National Geographic:  Zoo keeper Online Adventure

  31. National Geographic:  Fantastic Adventures/ Yellowstone

  32. National Geographic:  Really Wild Animals Adventure

  33. Endangered Species Webquest

  34. Food Chain Webquest

  35. Ecology Producers and Consumers PPT

  36. Ecology Basic Needs PPT

  37. Ecology Food Webs PPT

  38. Fun with Food Webs (Flash Experience)

  39. Explore the Fantastic Forest

  40. Kidport:  The Food Chain

  41. Who Eats What?

  42. Fish Food:  FLASH Food Chain game

  43. PBS:  Feed Me

  44. Something Froggy:  A Frog's Lifecycle

  45. Animal Life Cycle Summary

  46. Three Phase Insect Lifecycle Summary

  47. Chickscope:  The LifeCycle of a Chick

  48. Morphing Fish Embryo Movie

  49. Morphing Chick Embryo Movie

  50. Morphing Pig Embryo Movie

  51. The Chick Hatchery Movie

  52. The Life Cycle of a Fish

  53. The Butterfly Life Cycle

  54. Frog Life Cycle

  55. Life Cycle WebQuest

  56. Tree Frog Game:  FLASH Predator/Prey Game

  57. Scott-Foresman Science:  How Things Live and Grow


HOW PLANTS LIVE AND GROW

HOW ANIMALS GROW AND CHANGE

LIVING THINGS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS

CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS

 

SIMPLE MACHINES

  1. Forces, Machines, and Work:  Take Flight

  2. Building Big:  Shapes Lab

  3. Building Big:  Forces Lab

  4. Building Big:  Materials Lab

  5. Building Big:  Loads Lab

  6. Ed Heads:  Simple Machines/ House and Tool Shed Activity

  7. Inventors Toolbox

  8. Simple Machines:  How Stuff Works

  9. Leonardo's Mysterious Machinery

  10. Bird Tools

  11. Simple  Machines Made Simpler

  12. Online Simple Machines PPT Review

  13. Utah State Science Machines Demonstration

  14. Simple Machine Final Exam

  15. Physical Processes:  Force/Gravity/Fiction

  16. Physical Processes:  Forces--Springs & Direction

  17. Exemplary Lesson Plans: Go, Go Gadget

  18. Machine-o-Rama

  19. Professor Beaker's Learning Lab:  Simple Machines

  20. SCOTT-FORESMAN:  Energy in Your World

EARTH AND SPACE

  1. The Earth PPT
  2. Windows to the Universe
  3. The Universe:  Objects in Space in Motion PPT
  4. The Universe:  Revolution and Seasons PPT
  5. The Universe:  Rotation/ Day and Night PPT
  6. Virtual Reality Moon Phases
  7. Space.Com
  8. Physical Processes:  Earth in Space
  9. Solar System Interactive Activities
  10. Solar System Spelling
  11. Arty the Part-Time Astronaut
  12. Star Child for Young Astronomers
  13. Astronomy for Kids
  14. Solar System Orbit Puzzle
  15. The Sun Brain Teaser:  Toon University
  16. Space Kids Play and Do
  17. Launch Planet 10
  18. Star Gazers (Flash Experience)
  19. The Gravity of the Experience (Flash)
  20. Virtual Solar System by National Geographic
  21. The Virtual Astronaut:  NASA (requires flash)
  22. The Ten Best of the Nine Planets
  23. Planets in our Solar System PowerPoint Demonstration
  24. Space Race:  Let's Go to Mars (Requires Flash)
  25. NASA's Observatorium Online Color the Planets
  26. SCOTT-FORESMAN:  Earth Science

  27. CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S SURFACE
    MATERIALS OF THE EARTH THE SUN MOON AND PLANETS
  28. WEBQUESTS
  29. GAMES

  1. Space Sense:  Test your knowledge of space trivia
  2. Order it Up:  Solar System edition (order planets)
  3. Junk in Space
  4. Adlib Solar System Stories (construct a story of your own)
  5. Construct your own Alien
  6. Solar System Concentration
  7. Solar System Online Coloring Book

WEATHER

  1. Current Weather Conditions

  2. Scholastic Weather Watch

  3. Winter Weather Writing Prompt

  4. Interactive Weather Maker

  5. Clouds

  6. Months of the Year Activity

  7. Weather Crossword Puzzle Online

  8. SCOTT-FORESMAN:  CLOUDS AND STORMS


THE HUMAN BODY

  1. How the Body Works

  2. Virtual Tour of the Human Body

  3. The Amazing Human Body (Flash Experience)

  4. SCOTT-FORESMAN:  THE HUMAN BODY


  5. THE BODY'S SYSTEMS

    STAYING HEALTHY

Recycling

  1. Junk Dunk Online Recycling Game
  2. Resource Trail (What resources do we use?)
  3. Sort it out recycling game
  4. Dump Town online game
  5. Bin Game
  6. Recycle Trio
  7. Fun Brain:  Clean up the Park
PERFORMANCE TASKS & ASSESSMENTS
  1. Magnetic Testing
  2. Measurement:  Using the balance
  3. Measurement:  Length, Volume, and Temperature
  4. Balls and Ramp
  5. People Interacting with the Environment
  6. Run for your life:  Animal Science
  7. Follow those Tracks
  8. Pulse
  9. Identifying Unknown Creatures
  10. Insects and Spiders
  11. Tree Study
  12. Classifying Rocks
  13. The Food We Eat
  14. Properties of matter
  15. Plants and Germination
  16. Plants and Germination 2
  17. 1999 DESE Released Items
  18. 1998 DESE Released Items
  19. Online Assessment Practice: Virginia 2003
  20. Online Assessment Practice:  Virginia 2002
  21. Online Assessment Practice:  Virginia 2001
  22. Online Assessment Practice: Virginia Standards of Learning
  23. Online Assessment Practice:  Texas
  24. Online Assessment Practice:  Illinois
  25. Third International Science Survey Online Assessment
  26. Printable Sample Tests:  Florida in PDF
  27. All States Released Items from EdInformatics
 

 

 

 


MATTER AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

  1. Grouping and Classifying Materials

  2. States of Matter (Flash Experience)

  3. Classifying Matter PPT2

  4. Classifying Matter PPT3

  5. Classifying Matter PPT4

  6. Magnification:  Matter PPT

  7. States of Matter PPT

  8. Water Cycle WebQuest

  9. Water Cycle Student  Experiment

  10. Purpose of Materials:  Matter PPT

  11. Substances and Mixtures:  Matter PPT

  12. Thermal Conductors

  13. Electrical Conductors

  14. Water PPT

  15. Solids, Liquids, and Gases

  16. Changing Matter

  17. Separating Matter

  18. Interactive Periodic Table of Elements

  19. Scott Foresman Science:  Matter and How it Changes


ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

  1. Relative Motion and Position: Magnetic Force PPT

  2. Types/Properties of Forces and Motion: Magnetic Force PPT

  3. Interactions of Forces and Motion: Magnetic Force PPT

  4. Circuit Builder


  5. Can you make the bulbs light without blowing them?

  6. Electricity and Magnetism Flash Demonstration

  7. Physical Processes:  Electricity

  8. Physical Processes:  Magnetism

  9. Transportation:  Artie the Airplane Studio

  10. SCOTT-FORESMAN:  Energy in Your World


LIGHT AND SOUND

  1. Physical Process:  Light

  2. Physical Process:  Sound

  3. SCOTT-FORESMAN:  Sound

National Science Foundation Online Movies

ENERGY FROM EARTH'S INTERIOR       Sample VIDEO
ANCIENT TREE: MODERN WONDER       Sample VIDEO
THE LIFE AND TIMES                              Sample VIDEO
MAGNETIC FORCE AT WORK                 Sample VIDEO
MOVEMENT OF THE HUMAN BODY       Sample VIDEO
UNDERSTANDING EARTHQUAKES         Sample VIDEO

WHERE THE SEA MEETS THE SHORE   Sample VIDEO

National Science Foundation Video Directory with many more videos

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