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return to subject listingMoon Phases and Seasons - Science Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources for all grades with great ideas in each review! Share these sites on your interactive whiteboard or have students explore on individual devices. Use these tools for review before the test or for research options. Share the link to this page on your class website.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Earth and Rock Cycle - Science Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): earth (186), rock cycle (12)
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This collection includes resources for all grades. Find appropriate activities for your class. Explore the lessons suggested. Find ideas in each review.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Protection Agency
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7 to 12tag(s): chemicals (41), environment (246), pollution (51), recycling (45), water (102)
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Bookmark this site to include with units on the environment and current events. Ask students to search for local environmental issues and concerns using search tools on the site. Encourage students to use a tool like Diigo, reviewed here, to keep track and highlight the important information they find. Upon completion of research, have students create infographics using a tool like Canva, reviewed here, to share the facts they find. Canva is easy to use and provides many templates for creating infographics. Ask students to create a podcast featuring information on the environment along with suggestions on how to solve environmental concerns. Podcast Generator, reviewed here, is a free tool for publishing audio and video podcasts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Disaster Fact Sheets - FEMA
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K to 6tag(s): disasters (37), earthquakes (45), fire safety (16), floods (10), heat (15), hurricanes (33), snow (16), tornadoes (15), tsunamis (15), weather (161)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for use during your weather unit as an introduction to types of severe weather. One of the fact sheets discusses home fires and is perfect to include with Red Ribbon Week activities. After sharing disaster facts with students, ask students to create word clouds using vocabulary terms related to any specific type of disaster. Improve student learning by using a site like Word It Out, reviewed here, to easily create custom word clouds. Upon completion of your unit, ask students to create a book sharing their tips and advice for dealing with disasters. Reshape and redefine learning by using an interactive book creation tool like Book Creator, reviewed here. Book Creator offers tools for making online books that include images, videos, audio, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Biome Crossword Puzzle - Technological Solutions, Inc. (TSI)
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5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): biomes (112), crosswords (19), puzzles (142)
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Share this crossword on your interactive whiteboard to introduce your biome unit and assess prior knowledge. Have students use the words from the puzzle and find online images to use as examples of each definition. Ask students to create a Google Drawings, reviewed here, using their images. Google Drawings allows you to annotate an image with links to videos, text, websites, and more. Not familiar with Google Drawings? Watch an archived OK2Ask session to learn how to use: OK2Ask Google Drawings, here. Have students create their own crossword puzzle with terms related to your study of biomes. HTML 5 Crossword Generator, reviewed here, allows users of any technology level to easily create their own puzzles to solve online or download as a PDF document. Have students use Google Earth (reviewed here) to make a virtual field trip to a biome, then add interviews with scientists discussing the features and animals found in that location.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Smithsonian X 3D - Smithsonian Institution
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6 to 12tag(s): coral (10), dinosaurs (41), electricity (62), fossils (41), jamestown (6), lincoln (65), magnetism (37), museums (47), presidents (133), space (216), STEM (279), virtual field trips (96)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of these many resources to take a virtual visit with your class to the Smithsonian Museum. View artifacts and tours together on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector then allow students to explore on their own. After viewing a tour, ask students to research a topic further. Instead of a written report have students create an online quiz for fellow students using a quiz tool like Knowt, reviewed here. Use a video response tool like Gravity, reviewed here for student collaboration and sharing of research. Extend learning by asking students to create their own virtual field trip using Google Earth, reviewed here. Have students add articles, images, and videos to locations featured on their virtual trip.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Temperate Forest - Kids Do Ecology
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4 to 8tag(s): animals (288), biomes (112), habitats (87), plants (148)
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Include this site with your other biome resources. Share a link on classroom computers and your class website. View information from the site together on an interactive whiteboard or projector highlighting important information. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as WordItOut, reviewed here. At the conclusion of your biome unit, have students make an interactive multimedia poster using Visme, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World Biomes: Savanna - Kids Do Ecology
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4 to 8tag(s): animals (288), biomes (112), habitats (87), plants (148)
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Include this site with other resources featuring biomes. Consider creating a Webmix (web-based screens of link "tiles") with all of your biome resources using Symbaloo, reviewed here. Share a link to your Symbaloo Webmix on your class website or classroom computers for easy student access. Use an online infographic creator, such as Canva, reviewed here, to create infographics including images and facts about biomes. Instead of asking students to create written reports at the end of your biome unit, have students create maps sharing locations and features of different biomes using Zeemaps, reviewed here. Zeemaps allows students to create audio recordings AND choose various locations on a map where the report takes place.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Tropical Savanna - Center for Educational Technologies, Wheeling Jesuit Univ
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4 to 8tag(s): animals (288), biomes (112), habitats (87), plants (148)
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Share information from this site on your interactive whiteboard as an introduction to the Savanna biome. Ask students to use the tools on your whiteboard to highlight important information, then save your work on your computer to share on your class website. Ask students to participate in an online bulletin board, such as Lino, reviewed here, to reflect on what they are learning and collect information and images about the Savanna biome. Challenge students to create an annotated image sharing information about the Savanna or animals found on the Savanna including text boxes and related links using a tool such as Google Drawings, reviewed here. Google Drawings allows you to annotate an image with links to videos, text, websites, and more. Not familiar with Google Drawings? Watch an archived OK2Ask session to learn how to use: OK2Ask Google Drawings, here. Have students work in groups to create a virtual field trip to Savannas around the world using Google Earth, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cabinet of Curiosities - Philippe Cousteau Jr.
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6 to 12tag(s): anthropology (10), careers (140), communication (138), ecology (102), engineering (126), marine biology (27), oceans (149), STEM (279)
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Bookmark and save to use when exploring career options with students. Ask students to use information found on this site and others to create an infographic sharing information about a chosen career. Canva Infographic Maker, reviewed here, offers many templates for creating infographics. To increase student knowledge of options within STEM careers, have groups of students create a weekly podcast sharing different career fields. Buzzsprout, reviewed here, is an online tool to use when creating and hosting podcasts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Time Now - Shane Buck
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): calculators (37), calendars (37), moon (73), space (216), sun (71), time (92), time zones (7), weather (161)
In the Classroom
Bookmark (or save in your favorites) The Time Now on your classroom computers for students to use throughout the year. Find out the local time and temperature in countries as you study them and compare their local time to yours. Include time/date conversions for online conferences you will hold with parents who are deployed or traveling in different time zones. Share meeting dates/times for virtual sessions using the time conversions, so everyone is "on time." Find a partner classroom located in a different time zone - try finding one at Global Virtual Classroom, reviewed here, and use The Time Now to compare local times throughout the day. Then create a collaborative class book with your partner class to contrast and compare what is happening in one area of the world compared to your partner. Use a tool like Book Creator, reviewed here, to create collaborative books including images, videos, and audio recordings.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Climate Explorer - globalchange.gov
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8 to 12tag(s): climate (83), climate change (93), floods (10), temperature (34), weather (161)
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Bookmark and share this resource for student research into climate change anywhere in the world. Have groups of students work on different perspectives of climate change including rainfall, annual and monthly temperature change over time, population density, or flooding changes. Have students make an impressive, interactive poster, infographics, chart or multimedia presentation sharing their findings using Genially, reviewed here. Genially allows you to add polls, videos, embeds, web links, PowerPoint, PDfs, and more to any presentation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Biomes of the World - Arizona State University School of Life Sciences
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6 to 12tag(s): biomes (112), deserts (16), forests (28), oceans (149), rainforests (18), rivers (15), tundra (14)
In the Classroom
Have cooperative learning groups create podcasts describing each different biome using the scientist's audio from the site as a model. Use a site such as Podcast Generator, reviewed here. Have students use a mapping tool such as Zeemaps, reviewed here, to create a map of biomes from around the world (or country) with audio stories and pictures included!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Timeline Eons - Maani.us
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6 to 12tag(s): climate change (93), conservation (92), geologic time (11), space (216), timelines (56)
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Have students explore the timeline on their own, then research and share information on any given period of time. Encourage students to view future predictions on the timeline as a research project to find the basis of the predictions. Have students create a simple interactive infographic sharing their findings using Infogram, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Miles of Ice Collapsing Into the Sea - New York Times
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6 to 12tag(s): antarctica (30), climate (83), climate change (93), oceans (149)
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Include these animations and text with any lessons on climate change, oceans, or weather. Enhance learning and build student understanding for your weaker readers and ENL students by creating and sharing a guided reading activity with Read Ahead, reviewed here, prior to reading. Share the locations using Google Earth, reviewed here, and have students research other locations experiencing the effects of climate change.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Climate Kids Big Questions - NASA
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3 to 6tag(s): carbon (17), climate change (93), conservation (92), earth (186), oceans (149)
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Use the Big Questions wheel to guide and direct lessons on climate change. Share each question on your interactive whiteboard to introduce content and spark student conversation. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as Word Cloud for Kids, reviewed here, or WordItOut, reviewed here. Upon completion of your climate change unit, challenge students to create online comic strips sharing what they learned about climate change using a site such as Make Beliefs Comix, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Climate Kids Time Machine - NASA
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4 to 12tag(s): carbon (17), climate (83), climate change (93), earth (186), oceans (149), temperature (34)
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Share these timelines on your interactive whiteboard as an introduction to your unit on weather and climate change. Include a link to the site on your class webpage and classroom computers for students to explore on their own. Have students research causes for climate change, then make a multimedia presentation using Powtoon, reviewed here, or Sway, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Anyplace America - AnyplaceAmerica.com
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4 to 12tag(s): bridges (11), glaciers (17), landforms (37), maps (207), mountains (10), national parks (28), natural resources (38), rivers (15), volcanoes (56), water (102)
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Bookmark this site to use when teaching about landforms, bodies of waters, or geographic features. Be sure to create a link on classroom computers or your class website for students to access at any time. Have students use a mapping tool such as MapHub, reviewed here, to create a map of local landforms with audio stories and pictures included.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Human Influence on Ecology Mapped - Erle Ellis
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8 to 12tag(s): biomes (112), conservation (92), ecology (102), population (48)
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Share this video as part of your unit on biomes, conservation, or world populations. Use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed here, to compare and contrast the proposal to current definitions of biomes. Then have students debate the pros and cons of the proposal outlined in the video using a tool such as Thinkalong, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Grassland Biome - University of California Museum of Paleontology
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7 to 12tag(s): biomes (112), climate (83), environment (246)
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Include this site with other resources when teaching lessons about biomes. The text portions may be challenging, so you should pair weaker readers with a partner as they research on this site. Have students create a simple infographic sharing their knowledge about grassland biomes using Visme, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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