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1.
Kids can sort stamps by alive/not alive, large/small, warm weather things/cold
weather things.
2. KP Stamps - look at different kinds of animals in the stamps libraries. Find as many examples of each kind as you can. Then, write to tell what makes each group special. Can also do in Kidspiration.
3.
Yuckiest Site on the Internet – Yucky
to us, but cool to kids.
4. Students can draw a picture of a plant, then use the Text Tool to label.
5. Adopt a tree/spot in the school yard. Take a digital camera picture of it every Friday for one season (watch the leaves fall in Autumn, watch the snow come & go in winter, watch the tree bud in Spring) and then at the end of the year assemble into a slideshow and show it to parents at a final open house. Or record the changes on the 1st of every month throughout the year.
6. Butterflies
of North America – Click on Michigan to find information about our butterflies.
7. Create a template of the food pyramid and let students stamp foods in their proper section.
8. Alfy Plant Games – Gotta bookmark this site!! Great for non-readers and beginning readers.
9. You probably use videocassettes often, but have you considered using a video camera also? We use it to record science experiments and experiences (the properties of goop, the emergence of a Monarch butterfly, the melting of snow – a five-second shot taken every few minutes produces a neat time lapsesequence).
10. Enchanted Learning Science Pages Check this out – lots of resources for K-3
11. Write a short
poem about an animal, or simply write words that describe it. In Kid Pix, use
the Wacky Brush alphabet tool to write the words. Kids can now ‘draw’ the silhouette
of the animal with the wacky brush – creating the outline in words! Tip: Students
can draw the outline of their animal with vis a vis on a transparency. Tape
it over the monitor, and they now have a guide for drawing their animal.
12. Destination: Bats – a fine collection of websites about your favorite flying mammal
13. Use Kid Pix or Kidspiration to draw the life cycles of crickets, butterflies, etc. Younger students might find this easier if you create a template with labels & borders for them to draw within.
14. In Kid Pix, students
can invent a machine to do something interesting (make your bed, feed the fish,
get you dressed in the morning). Younger students can draw their invention
& name it, olders might label the parts also and write about its use.
15. Leonardo’s Mysterious Machinery – Match a da Vinci picture of an invention with a name
16. If you are lucky enough to have a telephone in your classroom, you have another great science resource. Your class could "interview" local science experts via speakerphone. Set up a time for the phone conference, then draw up a list of questions students would like to ask, have them practice asking, and make sure someone records the answers as they are given. Make sure you follow up with a thank you note!
17. Create a Matter slide show – name it the Solid Show and draw/insert digital pictures and label different solids
18. Create a Kid Pix template of a 3 Venn Diagram. Compare the 3 states of matter – how are they alike and different.
19. Interactive Distance Learning -
Connect multiple classrooms with distance learning. Students from different
schools and environments can work together. Check out this listing of 45 minute
science sessions. Your school needs two-way interactive video capabilities to
do this.
20. A digital camera
is a good Science tool. Students can easily record their experiments step-by-step,
then download to the computer, sequence the pictures, label, and present their
information to the class.
21. Alfy’s
Picks for Sound – Games to reinforce sound studies
22. Divide a Kid Pix picture in half and use stamps, stickers, or text to list what magnets do & don’t stick to.
23. The Art and Science of Bubbles – Recipes, activities, even riddles!
24. Create snowflakes with this online Snowflake Designer!
25. Alfy Weather – good for non-readers
26. In Kid Pix, students
can venn diagram the earth, moon, and sun for similarities and differences.
27. Exploring Biomes on the Internet – an article from Classroom Connect Newsletter that covers just about every biome/habitat/ecosystem/living community you could imagine. A good resource.
28. Create a template with a squirrel or fish or other animal. Students can then draw the background to show what they’ve learned about the animal’s habitat. For a final touch, youngers can dictate and olders can write a fact about squirrels or fish, etc
29. StarChild - Simple introductions to the sun, planets, comets, meteorites, and asteroids. Level one, suitable for primary-aged readers, contains a link to an audio file of the text.
30. Zoom Astronomy
– Well illustrated facts about the sun, planets, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.
31. Have students write and illustrate a picture: I know it’s Spring because…
32. Trombone’s Clean Up the Park – Sort recycle items
33. NASA Kids – A nice collection of NASA pages. Check out the games page for paper shuttles, how much you weigh on different planets, and more fun stuff.
34. Animated Water Cycle – View this page, then have students create their own picture of the water cycle in Kid Pix.
35. If you run Curriculum
Nights, have kids write, illustrate, and record their ideas about What Is Science
or Our Favorite Books or Math All Around Us etc. Have the SlideShow run continuously
during the evening.
36. BrainPop - movies on Science, Health, and Technology (with a few seasonal movies thrown in for good measure). Preview and read the For Teachers section regarding access. BrainPOP is a FREE site where users may watch up to 3 movies/day, free of charge, or you can pay for unlimited access. Check it out.
37. Good for any topic of study: create an ABC SlideShow based on your unit e.g.. Insects: Ants, Beetles, etc. Pages don't have to be in order originally - you can move them around easily in your SlideShow!
38. MTN Science Standards – Lists Michigan Science standards and benchmarks along with suggested online resources to help you teach
39. Teach-nology Science
Webquest Collection – over 250 K-12 webquests
40. Often forgotten are laser disks. Your REMC probably has a wealth of disks available for you to check out that would fit your units well. The nice thing about laser disks is that you can stop at any point, discuss, and continue or scan in a different clip.
41. Use the SlideShow to build classroom vocabulary. Assign a student a vocabulary word, they are responsible to add to the SlideShow by typing the word, defining, and illustrating. You will have a great collection of your curriculum concepts/vocabulary. Students can review/edit as needed.
42. How Stuff Works – Bookmark this site
for the next time a student asks one of those ‘why does it’ questions!
