science resources

• FOSSweb – Populations and Ecosystems

  "Welcome to the Populations and Ecosystems Course! Discover the roles every organism has a role to play in its ecosystem and the structures and behaviors that allow it to survive."

  (tags: elementary middle ecosystems interactive science biomes games ecology biology lessons)

• Shake, Rattle and Slide – University of Illinois Extension

  "The work of earthquakes, volcanoes, and glaciers."

  (tags: science glaciers earth interactive earthquake earthscience volcano elementary middle high geology geography)

• Teachers' Domain: What Killed the Dinosaurs?

  "The extinction of the dinosaurs is one of the most compelling mysteries in the history of life. Did they fade away gradually or did their reign end with a catastrophic exclamation point? This interactive feature from Evolution allows you to compare the evidence gathered so far and decide for yourself which extinction hypothesis is strongest." (requires free registration)

  (tags: interactive socialstudies history extinction dinosaurs fossils inquiry science middle high evolution)

• Antibiotic Attack

  interactive. "The pros and cons of medicine."

  (tags: medical science health elementary middle biology interactive)

• Centre of the Cell

  (tags: interactive cells science biology middle high animations)

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

  "Abilities Necessary to do Scientific Inquiry" links and descriptions of interactives related to inquiry

  (tags: elementary middle high resources interactive links science inquiry)

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

  "Abilities Necessary to do Scientific Inquiry" links and descriptions of interactives related to inquiry

  (tags: elementary middle high resources interactive links science inquiry)

• Abilities of Technological Design

  "Abilities of Technological Design (5-12)" links and descriptions of interactives related to technological design

  (tags: middle high interactive stem science technology links resources)

• Teachers' Domain: Farm Nitrates in the Water Supply

  "In this video excerpted from Big River, learn how farm runoff impacts water quality and human health. Tour the water treatment plant in Des Moines, Iowa, and learn how the water is filtered. Hear how high nitrate content in water can affect human health, causing such problems as blue baby syndrome, and understand why water treatment plants in agricultural regions need nitrate removal facilities because of the pollution from fertilizer runoff." (requires free registration)

  (tags: elementary middle high water conservation science videos medical health)

• Teachers' Domain: Global Water Distribution

  "Earth is covered by water, hence its nickname: the Blue Planet. This interactive resource adapted from Oxford University Press reveals just how much water is saline — the kind that fills the oceans — and how much is fresh water. As you explore these statistics further, you may be surprised to learn just how little water is available to share among Earth's six billion human inhabitants, not to mention all the other organisms that rely on fresh water for their survival." (requires free registration)

  (tags: water weather interactive middle high science conservation)

• Teachers' Domain: Safeguarding Alaska's Waters

  "This interactive activity featuring videos adapted from the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council, KTOO, and NOVA: "The Big Spill" explains how oil and other environmental contaminants jeopardize the health of animal and human populations along the Alaska coastline. It also features four strategies that the region's residents have developed since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound to safeguard against incidents that may disrupt the local ecosystem: using tugboats to help steer tanker vessels, requiring the use of double-hulled tankers in Alaskan ports, developing near-shore clean-up response tactics in the event of future spills, and contaminant impact studies." (requires free registration)

  (tags: middle high science water conservation interactive Alaska)

• FOSSweb – Chemical Interactions

  "Welcome to the Chemical Interactions Course! Find out about the atomic theory of matter and use this notion to think about familiar materials and chemical interactions, such as the behavior of oil and water, rusting, dissolving of common materials, plastics and melting ice with salt."

  (tags: chemistry elementary middle experiments matter lessons science interactive)

• OLogy- Climate Change

  (tags: environment science elementary middle interactive earthscience climate weather)

• Shaping Earth's Surface

  (tags: earth interactive elementary middle earthquake volcano flood naturaldisasters geography science)

• Exploring Fossils and the Fossil Record

  interactive

  (tags: interactive fossils science games earthscience dinosaurs elementary middle)

• FOSSweb – Levers and Pulleys

  "Welcome to the Levers and Pulleys Module! Have fun trying to put the clown on stage using simple machines in the Rube Goldberg activity."

  (tags: simplemachines interactive lessons science elementary middle physics games forces energy)

• Edheads – Simple Machines Activities – Lever – Pulley – Wedge – Screw – Inclined Plane – Wheel and Axle – Gear

  "Simple Machines Activities: Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!"

  (tags: interactive science simplemachines games physics elementary middle lessons)

• Welcome to Edheads Compound Machine!

  great interactive about simple machines!

  (tags: science simplemachines interactive games elementary middle forces physics)

• StudyJams! – Water Cycle | Scholastic

  "Water is constantly moving, but where does it go? Watch this three minute video and get the full story on the water cycle."

  (tags: elementary middle interactive water watercycle science weather scholastic)

• Rivers and Coasts – Water cycle

  (tags: bbc water watercycle rivers science elementary middle geography interactive)

• Water Cycle Stories | My Science Box

  "In this lesson, students review the water cycle (a concept most have hopefully explored before in elementary school science) and write stories to describe the journey of a water molecule through the water cycle."

  (tags: water watercycle printables elementary science lessons middle)

• FOSSweb – Water Planet

  "Welcome to the Water Planet Module! Find out which weather factors influence evaporation the most. Become a water molecule and travel through the water cycle. Explore Earth’s atmosphere as you travel on a glass elevator into space."

  (tags: science water watercycle weather elementary middle interactive atmosphere)

• FOSSweb – Water

  "Welcome to the Water Module! Water is essential for life. Learn how the special properties of water allow life on the water planet—Earth."

  (tags: water science elementary middle weather watercycle interactive lessons)

• Weather Course – e-learningforkids.org

  (tags: science weather earth ecology geography interactive elementary middle)

• OLogy- Water – H2O=Life

  (tags: water biology elementary middle conservation science watercycle interactive)

• FOSSweb – Landforms

  landforms module

  (tags: lessons science elementary middle geography landforms geology earthscience earth interactive)

• OLogy – Earth – Our World in Motion

  (tags: science earth elementary interactive rocks goegraphy geology earthscience middle)

• Ecosystem Organization | My Science Box

  "The study of ecology has many layers, ranging from the individual organism, to the population, to the ecosystem, to the planet. It is important for students to know the levels within this hierarchy and to recognize which level they are focusing on at any one time. For the purposes of this activity, students will learn about the different levels (organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere) by choosing an organism and the illustrating a pyramid about that organism. The result is a colorful display of organizational pyramids."

  (tags: elementary ecology science lessons ecosystems printables biomes)

• Food Chains | My Science Box

  "Students review the concepts of food chains and the roles of organisms in a food chain through a simple card sorting activity. Cards representing different individuals in a California ecosystem are first sorted by herbivore, carnivore, dentrivore, and omnivore, then are reordered to create several food chains. In addition, students begin to understand the idea of a food pyramid – since all living things use energy to move, reproduce, respond to the environment and grow, less energy is available to pass on at each link of the food chain."

  (tags: science elementary middle lessons foodchain ecosystems animals biology)

• FOSSweb – Environments

  "Welcome to the Environments Module! Learn which factors are important for the survival of living organisms and conduct experiments to determine what these factors are. Set up a virtual aquarium (Aquarium activity) and try to create a good environment for three different fish."

  (tags: science ecosystems environment biomes interactive ecology elementary middle lessons)

• ARKive Education – Teaching resources

  categorized by age. most include interactive, teacher guide, student activity guide and mroe.

  (tags: elementary middle high science ecosystems lessons printables pdfs resources animals interactive)

• OLogy- Biodiversity

  (tags: science biodiversity elementary middle biology ecology animals interactive environment ecosystems)