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National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Fun for Kids - National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
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2 to 12
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Hours of exploration of the ocean or atmosphere await you at this site. From tornado and hurricane preparedness to working an oceanographic puzzle with participants around the globe,...more
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Hours of exploration of the ocean or atmosphere await you at this site. From tornado and hurricane preparedness to working an oceanographic puzzle with participants around the globe, there is something here for kids and kids-at-heart. Students can attend the online weather school, then explore the Fish FAQs link.
Teachers will find a wealth of resources for classroom use at several subsections. Don't miss the Marine Life and Exploration section with added teacher resources. The NOS Education section has Discovery Kits: a wealth of lesson plans and onine activities for middle and high school. The NOAA's Ark gallery has marvelous photographs of wildlife, oceans, and more that you and students MAY dowload and use (they are in the public domain). The only requirement is that you give proper credit (read "about" the gallery). Portions of the site require Flash. Get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
Teachers will find a wealth of resources for classroom use at several subsections. Don't miss the Marine Life and Exploration section with added teacher resources. The NOS Education section has Discovery Kits: a wealth of lesson plans and onine activities for middle and high school. The NOAA's Ark gallery has marvelous photographs of wildlife, oceans, and more that you and students MAY dowload and use (they are in the public domain). The only requirement is that you give proper credit (read "about" the gallery). Portions of the site require Flash. Get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
tag(s): animals (274), coral (11), hurricanes (36), images (267), oceans (142), tides (6), waves (14), weather (175)
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Elementary teachers may want to use sections of this site as a center. Many portions include atciivities wekll-suited for laptops or lab use with students in pairs. The images are great for students creating multimedia projectsto explain what they have learned. Even if you simply want to talk about some of the creatures or science onccepts on a projector or interactive whiteboard, there are photographs and activities galore to explore with your class.
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Build a Bridge - NOVA Online
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4 to 8
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Learn about bridge designs and their pros and cons. The introduction page provides students with information about arch bridges, beam bridges, suspension bridges, and cable-stayed bridges....more
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Learn about bridge designs and their pros and cons. The introduction page provides students with information about arch bridges, beam bridges, suspension bridges, and cable-stayed bridges. After reading about the bridges, there is a short matching activity (matching the ideal bridges with four specific locations). Be sure to choose the non-Shockwave version.
tag(s): bridges (9), structures (15)
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This web activity would be perfect on an interactive whiteboard. Make this activity a class project. Ask the class to reach consensus on their choices before entering them--and watch them get into some heated arguments! As you continue your study of structures and stresses, ask your students to work with a partner to collect online images of different bridge types into a PowerPoint presentation (with URL citations for the images, of course) explaining the types and their advantages. Then build some!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Bulletin Board Hang Ups - TeachersFirst
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2 to 12
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TeachersFirst provides this collection of printable quotations, ready for your classroom or bulletin board. Inspire, engage, or challenge your students to think with quotes from famous...more
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TeachersFirst provides this collection of printable quotations, ready for your classroom or bulletin board. Inspire, engage, or challenge your students to think with quotes from famous leaders, sports figures, thinkers, and writers.
tag(s): bulletin boards (13), quotations (18)
In the Classroom
They look great printed on brightly colored paper! As an opening day activity, challenge small groups of students to interpret the quote hanging closest to them and predict how it may be important in your course this year. For younger students, ask them to write a paraphrase or to illustrate the quote. Be sure to change the quotes periodically and give a prize to the first student who notices. Or give a pop-quiz during the last week of school, asking students to recall as many of the year's quotes as they can (working in small groups will probably help). If you have classroom blogs, ask students to choose and reflect on a specific quote and its relevance to your class throughout the past year.
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Beacon Learning Center: Student Web Lessons - Beacon Learning Center
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K to 12
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This website, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, provides an enormous collection of "web lessons" (interactives) for all grade levels. There are lessons in language...more
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This website, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, provides an enormous collection of "web lessons" (interactives) for all grade levels. There are lessons in language arts, math, science, social studies, and health. There are too many lesson plans to count - and all are projector, laptop, or whiteboard-ready. Just to give you an idea of some of these unique lessons, some of the titles include "Where is Japan?", "Walrus World", "Piece of Pie", "Medians", "Fence Me In", and "Critter Craze". On the main page, a brief description is provided for each lesson plan. Click Teacher Solutions > Lesson Plans to search by subject or grade level.
tag(s): charts and graphs (196), evolution (86), expository writing (30), industrial revolution (22), native americans (130), primary sources (134), probability (132), symmetry (32), writing (309)
In the Classroom
If you want ready-to-go lessons guaranteed to work well on your interactive whiteboard, this collection is a winner. You simply open the activity on the whiteboard and have students tap and drag their way through as you talk with the class. (Invite your most "active" student to be "Vanna White" for a great behavior management solution). Many lessons would work well on laptops or on a computer cluster center, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Panoramas.dk
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K to 12
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Have a high speed Internet connection? (Most schools do) Then you MUST visit these 3D virtual tours of beautiful sites all over the world with your students. Read the Welcome ...more
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Have a high speed Internet connection? (Most schools do) Then you MUST visit these 3D virtual tours of beautiful sites all over the world with your students. Read the Welcome message on the home page for directions and details, then explore the current features and several years of archives for 3D virtual tours from major world capitals to true "experiences" such as Times Square and white water rafting. Even the tour of a Banyan tree will amaze you. Bring the world into your classroom for geography, landforms, world cultures, foreign language study, or literary settings. Be in the midst of festivals or atop the Sydney Bridge.
tag(s): images (267), landforms (36), virtual field trips (139)
In the Classroom
Use a projector--or better yet, an interactive whiteboard--to take students atop the Eiffel Tower, to the high Sierras, or aboard a Mars explorer. Allow student to navigate on the whiteboard. Nte that Shift and Ctrl keys alow you to zoom, as well. Be sure to click at the top of the 3D view to Read More about the image. These tours will make landforms real, culture come alive, and science a visual art form. As you introduce terms and place, use images! You could even use a tour as a writing prompt for poetry or descriptive writing. Include the link on your teacher web page for students to "tour the world" outside of class or feature one location a week to broaden class horizons on a classroom desktop.Comments
What a GREAT idea! Thank you. I found one with mountain biking and vistas. I'll put it up early in the period and come back to it in the end and have them write their exit cards about it. Then I will revisit it in a week or two when we start talking about metaphorical language.Shirley, CA, Grades: 6 - 12
I plan to use this as a way to start the school year with my sixth grade G/T kids. I will display a panorama on an interactive whiteboard-- one of mountains with peaks and valleys. I will ask, "Why would I show you this and say that this is our classroom this year?" The students will write down an idea on a slip of paper, guessing why I might use this as an introduction to my class. They will most likely introduce all of the classroom conduct and learning environment issues that I want to touch upon that first day: peaks and valleys during the year, some rugged terrain, studying mountains and geography, some amazing views (everyone's opinions), and more. It will also get them thinking in analogies and allow me to see how quickly some of them do this and how literal others are.Thinking, PA, Grades: 5 - 10
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Making Science Fun: Screaming Balloon - Steve Spangler
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3 to 6
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This very simply written explanation of how to make a balloon "scream" is easy to follow for the teacher and appealing to all kids who enjoy experimenting with sound effects. ...more
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This very simply written explanation of how to make a balloon "scream" is easy to follow for the teacher and appealing to all kids who enjoy experimenting with sound effects. Besides the "how-to" part, there's also a brief explanation of why the balloon starts emitting shrieks. There are also variations on the experiment. The page includes links to several other, related experiments.
tag(s): experiments (65), halloween (46), sound (74)
In the Classroom
Use this activity to teach scientific observation, centripetal force, or sound-- and have the bonus of a great spooky sound if it happens to be October!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Protopage - Protopage
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K to 12
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This online tool creates a highly visual "home page" that can incorporate multiple elements simply by dragging and dropping them in place. Not unlike Google's personalized homepage,...more
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This online tool creates a highly visual "home page" that can incorporate multiple elements simply by dragging and dropping them in place. Not unlike Google's personalized homepage, the elements look like little sticky notes or boxes, but there is far greater flexibility and a wider variety of content readily available. You can also make the page local (simply use it as the "home" on your classroom computer), shared by a select group (passworded), or completely public. You can easily make a theme or unit page for quick access of resources, complete with directions.
tag(s): resources (80)
In the Classroom
How would you use this in your teaching? Create a set of RSS feeds for current events or a specific curriculum topic such as weather and make them available for an in-class activity, complete with directions. World language, world cultures, or geography teachers can profile a location on the globe, complete with local weather and news. Make separate tabs for separate activities. Students can access them by password or publicly from outside of class, as well. For primary grades, make simple instructions right on the desktop for a computer center activity. Use color coding of the instructions to differentiate for different children (Sam, I want you to do the yellow one). If your school permits students to set up accounts on web services, have groups make Protopages on an assigned topic, collecting and organizing resources, images, and information: "A Protopage Guide to Cells" or "Shakespeare's Times." Gifted and highly-able students will go crazy!Skills needed: Join (free). Check out the Intro, Overview, and Quickstart to see how it works. Play to your heart's content, including making tabs. Learn about RSS feeds and other Widgets-- including sticky notes. Share the URL with those you wish to have use it. Note: this works on Internet Explorer 6 and higher and on Firefox. If your users are on older web browsers, the developers recommend upgrading. This may be a problem for some. Check with your end-user computers before you spend too much time making the perfect Protopage!
If you allow students to create their own Protopage, you will need to have very specific rules about content, since there are non-educational elements available.
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LEAF - University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point
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3 to 12
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LEAF: Learning, Experiences, and Activities in Forestry was designed to help users identify the trees by their leaves. The dichotomous identification procedure makes it easy to narrow...more
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LEAF: Learning, Experiences, and Activities in Forestry was designed to help users identify the trees by their leaves. The dichotomous identification procedure makes it easy to narrow types of leaves by selecting certain characteristics. Although the site is designed for Wisconsin trees, it would be useful for any states in the same climate zone and region. Tree identification cards with color photographs in pdf format are available. A lesson plan for use with the tree identification tools available on this site is offered in both WORD and pdf format. For younger students, there is a link to a parallel, more cartoon-like kids page.
tag(s): trees (19)
In the Classroom
Plan a hands-on tree identification activity using this site or digital pictures you take using trees in your area. The sequence for identification would work the same way. Even better: share this site on a projector and model the process, then ask your students to create their own cards and ID sequence using local digital pictures THEY take. You can then offer the "Tree ID Kits" to other teachers and classes to use.
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The Butterfly Website - Frequently Asked Questions - Rick Mikula
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K to 6
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This web page offers a long list of frequently asked questions and answers regarding butterflies and caterpillars. There is a lot of information listed but no real method by ...more
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This web page offers a long list of frequently asked questions and answers regarding butterflies and caterpillars. There is a lot of information listed but no real method by which to sort through the pieces of information.
tag(s): butterflies (14)
In the Classroom
This would be fun for students to sort through during center time or use for a portion of a web quest. As you study butterflies, keep a list of questions on your computer of the students generate as they learn-- and of the answers they find. You might even want to let them make their own Butterfly FAQ wiki. Learn more about wikis in the TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through, then use this FAQ page as a starting point so students understand what an FAQ page is.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Butterfly Curricula - The Butterfly Website- Rick Mikula
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K to 3
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This web page offers links to lesson plans for butterfly and life cycle units. [Unfortunately, a couple of the lesson ideas are now dead links, but the remaining ones are ...more
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This web page offers links to lesson plans for butterfly and life cycle units. [Unfortunately, a couple of the lesson ideas are now dead links, but the remaining ones are good.] The lesson plans are user-friendly and geared toward primary grades. You can also obtain information on applying for grants to create a butterfly garden at your school. That would make a fantastic Earth Day project for a classroom or entire school to promote team work.
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As an anticipatory set or activator, try using a projector with a few of the images found at the "Photo Gallery" link at the left on this site. Your children will be very excited to OOOO and Ahhh at the beautiful pictures.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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American Bald Eagle Information - Hope Rutledge
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3 to 12
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This website is filled with wonderful information about our national bird, the American Bald Eagle. It is a detailed site, with topics ranging from nesting and migration to eyesight...more
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This website is filled with wonderful information about our national bird, the American Bald Eagle. It is a detailed site, with topics ranging from nesting and migration to eyesight and hearing. The site is easy to read and simple to navigate. Be sure to click on the Myths and Legends to see how the Bald Eagle has been viewed throughout history. Students with reading disabilities or low reading levels may need to some assistance with Native American verbiage.
tag(s): endangered species (28), species (15)
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Use this site as the starting point for individual and group projects. Save it on your desktop as a center or enrichment activity, especially during a unit on American symbols. Note that the images are strictly copyrighted (see the notice at the bottom).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Soaring High With Kites - everythingesl.net
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1 to 6
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This multi-level lesson plan for ESL students offers opportunities for vocabulary development, reading, writing, and cultural sharing by responding to stories and books about kites....more
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This multi-level lesson plan for ESL students offers opportunities for vocabulary development, reading, writing, and cultural sharing by responding to stories and books about kites. Primary grade teachers could also use it in a unit on weather or as an interdisciplinary science/language arts activity. Because of its high interest level, it motivates students to participate in understanding new words and in expressing their ideas about the books they read and the techniques and history of kite flying in their countries. Students also read and talk about kite safety rules and examine websites about kites. Writing opportunities include writing rules,original stories, cultural histories haiku, and diamante poems. Students also get to design, make, decorate and fly their own kites.
tag(s): poetry (196), vocabulary (251)
In the Classroom
Plan a kite day in the fall or spring and use all or part of these plans to learn new words, build kites, and even fly them before you write about them. This would be a terrific activity to include parents at school year's end.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Internet Bird Collection - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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K to 12
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This website is appropriate for any grade level interested in learning about birds. The Internet Bird Collection includes many "real life" videos, reference information, and much more....more
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This website is appropriate for any grade level interested in learning about birds. The Internet Bird Collection includes many "real life" videos, reference information, and much more. Fly on over and enjoy these great videos!
tag(s): birds (47)
In the Classroom
As you study different classifications of animals, use this site on a projector or interactive whiteboard to introduce your students to many species of birds. This would also be a good research source for students to compare structures/functions of different bird species and their adaptations to their habitats.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Franklin Institute - The Franklin Institute Science Museum
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2 to 12
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This website includes information about Benjamin Franklin, lesson ideas for the classroom, field trip ideas for visiting the Franklin Institute and information about the many unique...more
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This website includes information about Benjamin Franklin, lesson ideas for the classroom, field trip ideas for visiting the Franklin Institute and information about the many unique and educational exhibits at the museum. Ben Franklin is one of America's most colorful patriots. His accomplishments as legislator, diplomat, and scientist were recognized as extraordinary even in his own day. Philadelphia's Franklin Institute has a memorial to Franklin. You can include it in your Philadelphia visit, or learn more about it here.
tag(s): colonial america (97), franklin (12), philadelphia (10)
In the Classroom
Share this and other sections of the TeachersFirst Colonial America tour as part of your study of the colonies so students can see what these historic locations look like today.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mindomo - Expert Software Application
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1 to 12
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Create collaborative mind maps (graphic organizers), concept maps, and Gantt charts using this online tool. See an...more
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Create collaborative mind maps (graphic organizers), concept maps, and Gantt charts using this online tool. See an example created by our editors. The example provides some ideas for using this online graphic organizer tool. Sign up with your email or download. The free version gives you 3 graphic organizers with sharing, publishing and collaboration.
tag(s): graphic organizers (57), mind map (33)
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Have students create graphic organizers in cooperative groups as a study guide for unit content, to collect information for a group research project, or show examples of an important concept. Share and compare the organizers on an interactive whiteboard or projector in class and allow classmates to suggest changes. Skills needed: join the site, practice with the tools (don't miss the notes feature!). Save up to 7 "private" maps and an unlimited number of "shared" maps.Make a map available online by saving and clicking "yes" for sharing, then clicking the Save by URL icon. This will copy the URL onto your computer's clipboard so you can paste it into a word doc or even your teacher web page. Imagine sharing several student made "study guides" in the days before the unit test.
Note that maps that are shared can be seen by the public, but not altered. You specify members who may collaborate and make alterations. For students to collaborate using this tool they must have individual memberships, requiring an email account. These memberships must be activated from their email. So, if students do not have email that is accessible from school, classroom use BY STUDENTS will be severely limited. Editor's note: we asked the Mindomo folks about spell check and student safety issues. They are still developing this tool, so they MIGHT address these issues at a later date.
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Mad Sci Network - Mad Sci Network/Third Sector New England
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K to 12
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This excellent reference resource is an attractively packaged compilation of ways to get answers to science questions. Offerings include a place to ask questions from K-college, access...more
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This excellent reference resource is an attractively packaged compilation of ways to get answers to science questions. Offerings include a place to ask questions from K-college, access to a search engine, a list of FAQ's on common topics, a library with links to other relevant sites, a knowledge generator, an archive of lab experiments, and other assistance with science fair projects. The Mad-Sci labs also have a "Guided Tour of the Visible Human" section on human anatomy, with many images of cross-sections and internal organs.
tag(s): experiments (65), scientists (72)
In the Classroom
Navigate the human body and label parts on an interactive whiteboard, or find the appropriate experiments for all your science concepts. By searching the question archives, you can find answers to questions at all levels. Be sure to include this link on your class web page year-round to promote curiosity about science. Teachers of gifted students will love this one as a treasury of open-ended science ideas from scientists.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science Presentations - Jefferson County Schools
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K to 12
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This website truly has something for every science teacher. If you are teaching a new science topic or want to review an already introduced science concept, you must visit this ...more
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This website truly has something for every science teacher. If you are teaching a new science topic or want to review an already introduced science concept, you must visit this website. This website provides free PowerPoint presentations on over 100+ science topics. There are presentations for grades K-5 and 6-12. If you do not have PowerPoint software, some of these presentations may not open, depending on how the site creators saved them. This site has heavy advertising at the top of the landing page. Scroll down to find the presentations.
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This site includes advertising.
tag(s): air (27), animals (274), matter (52), periodic table (49), plants (141), solar system (124), water (104)
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Try these ready-to-go PowerPoint presentations on an interactive whiteboard or projector in your classroom. Some may also be well-suited for individual students to run on a single classroom computer for remediation or review. There are games, resources, and a lot of information. The site includes a disclaimer requesting that users notify the site if they find any unauthorized or copyrighted material. TeachersFirst recommends that you NOT download copies but instead use them online, just in case.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TONMO.com: The Octopus News Magazine Online - Deep Intuition, LLC
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3 to 12
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This oddly humorous website is all about the Octopus (cephalopods). There are articles about the octopus and other ocean animals, forums, features, videos and games. There is even an...more
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This oddly humorous website is all about the Octopus (cephalopods). There are articles about the octopus and other ocean animals, forums, features, videos and games. There is even an "octopodcast"! Some of the activities are more "fun" than "educational." But if you navigate through the website, you will find some great information and activities.
tag(s): marine biology (32)
In the Classroom
This website does provide some informative and humorous videos and games, be sure to view them prior to sharing them with your class. Some of the videos are not appropriate for younger audiences. The image galleries can provide some "real" examples of cephalopods for your budding marine biologists. Project them on an interactive whiteboard for students to label the parts!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Wild Ones - Wildlife Trust
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3 to 8
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This site has separate sections of information on bioscapes and wildlife. Each article in the wildlife section describes the animal, its habits, habitat, and threats to survival. A...more
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This site has separate sections of information on bioscapes and wildlife. Each article in the wildlife section describes the animal, its habits, habitat, and threats to survival. A curriculum section offers classroom ideas and resources, including lesson plans shared by teachers. Some sections of the site are also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
tag(s): animals (274), endangered species (28), habitats (104), species (15)
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Use this site as the starting point for individual or group projects on animals. You will want to assign a reading partner with your weaker readers, especially in lower grades.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Food Chains and Webs - Alan and Hui Meng
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4 to 8
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This site provides basic information about food chains. Included are examples of food chains in different environments. An interactive section allows students to create a food chain....more
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This site provides basic information about food chains. Included are examples of food chains in different environments. An interactive section allows students to create a food chain.
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Share this site on a projector or interactive whiteboard before allowing students to use it individually or with a partner to create and print their own food chain. You will want to tell students to steer clear of the "Ads by Google" links.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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