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The Bear Facts from the National Zoo Learn about the eight bear species. Use the link above or use one of the specific links below. |
The Bear Facts from the Sedgwick County Zoo provides basic bear facts with links to facts about American Black Bear, Grizzly Bear, Spectacled Bear, Asiatic Black Bear, Sloth Bear, Sun Bear, and Giant Panda. | ||||||||||||||||
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Find printouts for
coloring of the
Giant Panda,
Grizzly Bear,
Black Bear,
Brown Bear, and
Polar Bear as well as lots of "kid friendly" information at
Enchanted Learning.
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Visit Cub's Corner, a page about bears just for kids. Find information and photos. |
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Learn about the frozen continent of Antarctica and the penguins that live there. |
Play the Polar Pairs game with your class and learn about polar animals and their habitat.
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Find just about everything you've ever wanted to know about penguins, and more at Pete and Barb's Penguin Pages. |
Check out Barb’s travel journal to Antarctica -- good pictures, interesting text. Worthwhile visit as a class or with adult volunteer | ||
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At Enchanted Learning, find lots of kid friendly information about Antarctica including a view from space, a quick quiz and printouts of map and animals. |
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Pictures from Antarctica including penguins and landscape. Photos can be enlarged for easier viewing. May be a fun all class visit. |
Visit Penguins Around the World and find facts, pictures, slide shows and lesson plans to use. | ||
| Find a great collection of penguin info and links and also find a great penguin webquest. May be suitable project to do with upper level "reading buddies" | |||
| This penguin webquest was created for second graders. | Try this online quiz on penguins or this one on Antarctica. | ||
| Enjoy this cyberhunt on Antarctica from Scholastic. | Listen to the sounds of penguins and seals from Antarctica. | ||
| Zoomschool has wonderful, kid friendly information on Antarctica. | |||
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| Take this Journey Through Space. | Star Child offers a great selection of directed activities | ||
| From Windows on the Universe comes Kids In Space. Games and activities at multiple levels. Also includes good research info. | The Planetary Photojournal provides extraordinary photos of the planets, spacecraft and more. Includes some of the latest pictures taken on Mars. | ||
| Send your students to Solar System Tutor. There are short readings followed by a quiz question. | Zoom Astronomy is a wonderful resource with information geared for kids, including classroom activities. | ||
| The Space Place Launch Pad has some great info and activities, some of which could work as "task computing" ideas. | Check out educational activities from NASA. Ready to use with minimal teacher prep time. Space Link home connects you to an index of other NASA resources. Students can also visit the NASA kids' page. | ||
| All about space. Here you can learn about our universe, our Solar system, Stars, Planets, Black holes, Stars life cycle, astro physics, Aliens. You can add your own page and find space related games and quizzes. | Find great online explorations from NASA including Trading Cards, Galaxy Safari, and Comet Cookbook. | ||
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solar system related
educational
activities from a collaborative effort of NASA and University of
Montana. They are annotated and describe appropriate grade level,
difficulty of project and duration. Welcome to the Planets has wonderful photos from the Hubble Spacecraft. Cosmos4Kids has lots of kid friendly information about the universe, each of the planets as well as the sun and the moon. |
The
Solar System in Pictures
provides beautiful photos of the planets as well as information and
quizzes to test your knowledge.
The Nine
Planets - For Kids
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| Send your students on this Journey Through the Universe | Then visit NASA's Solar System home page and find a wealth of info on the planets, current explorations and more. | ||
| At the Space Science Institute, find A Family Guide to Mars, A Family Guide to the Sun, as well as Two Interactive Games about the universe | Visit Current Sky to see location and timing of planets in the evening and morning sky. | ||
| Visit Marsquest Online to launch a spacecraft to Mars, explore its volcanoes and canyons and more........ |
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| What basic ideas make most machines possible? Log on to Brain POP and view animated videos to learn about levers and inclined planes. | Dirtmeister’s Science Reporters from Scholastic: What are simple machines and where can you find them? Simple machines help you move things more easily, and you can find them everywhere! Investigate the facts, observe, and record. | ||
| Learn about six simple machines at Simple Machines Learning Site . Each of the machine pages contain information and activities for students to use. | Here's a site that lets you play, explore and invent. There are sections about Exploration/tinkering, Make believe/visual thinking, Social play/collaboration, and Puzzle play/problem solving. There is also information about inventors. | ||
| Exploring Leonardo from the Boston Museum of Science has lessons, classroom activities as well as interactive activities. Be sure to read the Letter to Teachers. | The Inventor's Toolbox investigates the elements of machines. | ||
| Visit Simple Machines Made Simpler for explanations and animations of simple machines. Also has digital photos of machines they found in their school building. Fun activity for your class? | Machines Make Life Easier has definitions, explanations, short videos of machines at work as well as quick quizzes and extension activities. A little glitzy, but worth the visit. | ||
| Check on the webquest page to find a good choice for your class. | Identify simple machines around the house and in the tool shed. Great review opportunity as a class! First recognize simple machines and then identify what type of machine it is! | ||
| Franklin Institutes "Spotlight" on Simple Machines gives definitions, shows drawings and gives additional resources on the six simple machines. | Have your students Explore Simple Machines by trying this webquest designed for fourth graders. | ||
| Visit the American Field Guide from PBS. Follow the ecosystems link to connect to video clips of various biomes. | At Enchanted Learning find a table of contents to extensive, kid friendly information related to biomes and habitats. |
| Find a great collection of information on different biomes at What's It Like Where You Live? |  Find
a lesson called "Why
are Places Located on Cape Cod That Way" that utilizes
satellite imagery to study selected geological features of the Cape. |
| Make your case to the Board of Human Body Systems as to which system is most important by completing this webquest. | Be sure and check at United Streaming and Brain Pop for videos about the systems of the body. |
| Check out the weird and wonderful workings of body systems at the Your Gross and Cool Body. | At
Biology for Kids find an
entire section on the different body systems in kid friendly language. |
| For forecasts search in section titled "Browse for U.S. and International Forecasts" | Visit the weather channel and find local weather for cities in the US or around the globe. |
| British Broadcast Corp. weather page has maps for world weather forecasts. | Use the conversion page to help convert temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit, etc. |
| Find the current weather for any US location using Weather Underground. | At Windguru find wind and precipitation information. |
| At My Forecast find current weather, extended forecasts and more for locations around the US. | Find temperature and rainfall data from cities around the world at World Climate. |
| Additional current weather options can be found at The Washington Post or Accuweather. | At South Travels find weather and climate information for locations in Africa, Asia, etc. |
| At World Weather Information find official weather observations, forecasts and climate information worldwide. | Find more climate information at Geographic. |
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