ANIMALS, PLANTS  AND LIFE CYCLES

1. Ants: Super Organism


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

2. Online Ants


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

3. Ants and their Foods


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

4. Ant Cast


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.

5. Ant Facts for Kids Today

6. A Handful of Cells

7. Seeds PPT

8. Living Things:  BBC Online

9. Exploring Ecosystems (Flash Experience)

10. Ecosystem WebQuest

11. Enchanted Learning Life Cycles

12. Types of Animals

13. Living Things:  The Franklin Institute

14. Butterfly collection

15. Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Kid Zone

16. Underground Adventure Biomes

17. Artic Adventure:  Animal Adaptation

18. Build Your Own Caterpillar and FOOD Web

19. Creature Crazy from PBS

20. DragonflyTV  Investigation from PBS

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

22. Fun Optical Illusions

23. All About Butterflies!

24. Alien Empire Bee Anatomy

25. The Great Plant Escape

26. National Geographic:  Zoo keeper Online Adventure

27. National Geographic:  Fantastic Adventures/ Yellowstone

28. National Geographic:  Really Wild Animals Adventure

29. Endangered Species Webquest

30. Food Chain Webquest

31. Ecology Producers and Consumers PPT

32. Ecology Basic Needs PPT

33. Ecology Food Webs PPT

34. Fun with Food Webs (Flash Experience)

35. Explore the Fantastic Forest

36. Kidport:  The Food Chain

37. Who Eats What?

38. Fish Food:  FLASH Food Chain game

39. PBS:  Feed Me

40. Something Froggy:  A Frog's Lifecycle

41. Animal Life Cycle Summary

42. Three Phase Insect Lifecycle Summary

43. Chickscope:  The LifeCycle of a Chick

44. Morphing Fish Embryo Movie

45. Morphing Chick Embryo Movie

46. Morphing Pig Embryo Movie

47. The Chick Hatchery Movie

48. The Life Cycle of a Fish

49. The Butterfly Life Cycle

50. Frog Life Cycle

51. Life Cycle WebQuest

52. Tree Frog Game:  FLASH Predator/Prey Game

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

HOW PLANTS LIVE AND GROW

• Ring Around a Tree

• Traveling Seeds

HOW ANIMALS GROW AND CHANGE

• Arachnids

• A Sea Horse's Life Cycle

LIVING THINGS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS

• Animal Homes

• How Increasing Populations of Animals and Plants effect environments

CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS

• Deformed Frogs

• Human Effects on Wild Animals

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

• Solar Energy:  Sun Racers

1. The Earth PPT
2. Windows to the Universe
• Student Workbook
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

CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S SURFACE
• All Shook Up
• Grains of Sand
MATERIALS OF THE EARTH
• Changing leaves to soil
• Down the Drain
THE SUN MOON AND PLANETS
• What's for Dinner:  Astronauts/Zero Gravity
• We're Listening:  Telescopes
• What are the most interesting things about the solar system?
27. WEBQUESTS
• Traveling through the Solar System
28. 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

• Stratus

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

6. Months of the Year Activity

7. Weather Crossword Puzzle Online

8. SCOTT-FORESMAN:  CLOUDS AND STORMS

• Raindrops

• Flash Rumble:  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


THE BODY'S SYSTEMS

• The Bare Bones

• Speedy Delivery:  Blood

STAYING HEALTHY

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

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

• Rainy Day

• Chemical Changes:  Pop! Goes the Airbag

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


Can you make the bulbs light without blowing them?

5. Electricity and Magnetism Flash Demonstration

6. Physical Processes:  Electricity

7. Physical Processes:  Magnetism

8. Transportation:  Artie the Airplane Studio

9. SCOTT-FORESMAN:  Energy in Your World

• Solar Energy:  Sun Racers

• Electricity:  Shocking!

LIGHT AND SOUND

1. Physical Process:  Light

2. Physical Process:  Sound

3. SCOTT-FORESMAN:  Sound

• Talking with Animals:  Communication

• Hear Dog

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