Ecosystems
Biomes of the World - Read about rainforests, tundra, taiga, deserts, temperate forests, and grasslands.
The Grassland Biome - Excellent photographs on this site.
Build a Prairie - Interactive
Biomes - The Wild Classroom
Biomes - Introductions to many different biomes with printable plants and animal pictures
Why the Ocean Matters - National Geographic video
Marine Ecosystems - Read about shorelines, temperate oceans, and tropical oceans.
Freshwater Ecosystems - Read about rivers and streams, rivers and ponds, and wetlands.
Temperate Grassland Video - You Tube - pictures and music only
Dive and Discover - Visit the polar regions to learn about the biotic and abiotic factors.
What's a Food Chain? - Simple introduction.
Antarctic Marine Food Web - Interactive
Earth's Major Life Zones - Video (about 30 min.)
Analyzing an Ecosystem - Interactive - Includes biotic and abiotic factors.
Ecosystem Concentration - Match key vocabulary with their definitions.
The Habitable Planet - I saved this site for us to use in class. It is a little harder than the others. But of course, you may work on it at home if you choose. That would be great! Focus on the decline of certain plant and animal populations and how humans impact ecosystems.
Food Webs - Includes marine, Antarctic, African, and Australian food webs.
Food Web - Your job is to build a food web
Food Chains and Food Webs - Shows webs from four different biomes.
Build a Food Web - Scholastic
Food Chain - printable graphic organizer
Food Chain - another graphic organizer
What are Food Chains? - Several games at the bottom of this page
Energy Pyramids - Interactive
Food Chains Song - To the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies
Food Chains - I Know That
Ecosystem - graphic organizer
Decomposers - Video
Estuaries - Choose Intermediate and Advanced levels to read more.
Estuary Education - Main site for information.
Estuary Poster - Scroll over an image to get information about the organism.
What's an Estuary? - Video
Fun With Food Webs - Create food webs in a meadow, in the arctic, and in a pond.
Food Chain - video from Desert USA
Ocean Food Chain - McGraw Hill video
Food Chain Video - Teacher's Domain
Working on the Food Chain - See the role of different animals in a food chain.
Chain Reaction - Put a food chain together. Fun
Rags to Riches - What Living Things Need & the Food Chain in a Who Wants to be a Millionaire game format.
Food Chains and Webs - A great site that explain food chains and webs, consumers, producers, and decomposers.
Experiment With This Food Web - Increase or decrease different species and see the direct and indirect effects on other species in the food web.
Energy Pyramid - Harcourt School video
Ecosystem Organization - My Science Box
Wetlands - Bill Nye video
Intertital Zone - Information
Sunlit Zone - Information
Twilight Zone - Information
Ocean Habitats - Brain Pop
Habitats - Brain Pop - Desert, Arctic, Rainforest, Ocean, Forest, Freshwater
Strangely Beautiful Deep Sea Creatures - You Tube video
Ocean Currents - Video
Current Capers - Help Herman the Hermit Crab in his new job as a travel agent.
Ocean Scavenger Hunt - Write answers on a piece of paper. Use websites listed at the bottom of the questions to find the answers.
Science Clips - Forces and Interdependence of Plants and Animals - Short interactive activities. Choose Interdependence and Forces to Correlate with the Fifth Grade curriculum
Habitat Maker - Make your habitats by inserting plants and animals. All animals can be animated and images can be printed.
Habitat Adventure: Panda Challenge - Giant pandas are native to central China. One of the best ways to help protect giant pandas is to protect their habitats. In "Habitat Adventure: Panda Challenge!", you will help make decisions about a fictional forest reserve. You will use binoculars, field guides, a camera, and other tools, as well as talk to local people to help you make the best decisions. (Choose the Broadband narrated version.)
Symbiosis - printable graphic organizer
Animal Adaptations - How fast can you match the adaptations of animals?
Review Game Zone - Different games with similar questions.
Carbon/Oxygen Cycle - Interactive
It Starts With Producers Song - Mr. Parr
You're an Omnivores Song - Mr. Parr
Decomposers Song - Mr. Parr
Food Chain Song - Mr. Parr
Ecosystems Song - Mr. Parr
My Biome Song - Mr. Parr
Build an Online Habitat - Interactive (simple)
Estuaries - Where Rivers Meet the Sea
What's an Estuary - You Tube video
All About Estuaries - You Tube video. Photographs and music only.
Estuaries - You Tube video. Photographs and music only.
What is a Salt Marsh? - Video
The Everglades - Slideshow
Food Chains, Webs, and Pyramids - Make me Genius video
Food Web - Bill Nye video
Force and Motion
Force and Motion - Bill Nye video
Gravity - Bill Nye video
Friction - Bill Nye bvideo
Newton's Laws - graphic organizer to print
Newton's Laws - Tutorial (Good for beginners).
Explaining Motion - Revise, Activity, Test
Explaining Motion - Continued
Mass VS Weight - Introduction
Mass VS Weight - Accelerating Mass - Video
Inertia - Bill Nye video (Frame of Reference and Inertia)
Motion - Bill Nye video
Remembering Newton's Laws of Motion - Bill Nye video
Describing Motion - Newton's Laws
Experiment - with different forces, masses, and friction
Forces in Action - Includes gravity, mass and weight, balanced and unbalanced forces
Ball Race - See the effects of mass and acceleration in this experiment (Newton's Second Law).
Mumble Man - Learn about the laws of motion from a guy who mumbles!
Balanced and Unbalanced Forces - Interactive
Friction Explorer - Learn about the effects of force and friction on an object sliding across a table.
Your Own Flight - Learn how lift, thrust, drag, and weight affect flying.
Distance, Speed, and Time Relationships - Control the speeds and starting points of runners on a track, watch the race, and examine a graph of the time-versus-distance relationship.
Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
The Real Deal - Forces and Motion
Interact Science - Scroll down to the forces and motion section and work there
Newton's Third Law - Who will win - Newton or the elephant?
Force Equals Mass Times Acceleration - Watch, Know, Learn video
How Newton's Laws of Motion Work - Includes several pages to read.
Newton's Laws - Chapter by chapter.
Using Graphs to Explain Motion
Newton's First Law - Wisc short animations
Newton's Second Law - Wisc short animations
Newton's Second Law - School Physics
Newton's Trains - Animation
Physics and Sports - Videos
Laws of Motion in Sports - You use physics everytime you participate in a sport. It helps you kick or hit a ball, make a catch, or jump the farthest....select one of the titles below to take a look at some athletes in action and how their bodies and physics work together!
Basketball Hang Time - Video
If Forces are Equal and Opposite, How Can Anything Move?
Force and Motion Science Class - Lots of resources for grades 5-9.
Acceleration and Mass - Experiment
Force and Motion - Video
Speed and Velocity - Video
Why Gravity Causes Things to Fall - Experiment
Forces of Gravity and Air Resistance - A self-paced activity.
Virtual Balloon Cars - Interactive activity.
How is Friction Created? - Video clip from BBC
Friction - BBC
Friction - Interact animation
Gravity - Interactive
Vocabulary - Reads aloud
Friction Ramp - Experiment
Simulations - Great activities - PHET
Crash Scene Investigation - Help the highway patrol recreate a deadly crash by examining the evidence and calculating the forces.
Genetics and Heredity
All About Genetics - Kids' Health
Heredity - Brain Pop video
Heredity - Study Jams video
Inherited Traits - You Tube video - No words. Good for introduction.
The Story of Fido's Traits - You Tube video
Bill Nye Genetics - Video
Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms - In English and in Spanish
Learn Genetics - Tour the Basics
Where Did You Get Your Genes? To answer this question, work through this Discovery Lab.
The Mixed-Up Cells - Lesson
Whose Genes? - With Tiki the Penguin - Work through the first 4 chapters only.
Michael's Inside Scoop - Play the Game
Punnett Square - You Tube video
DNA - The Double Helix - From the official site of the Nobel Prize.
Monstor Story - Ask a biologist.
Monster Manual - Build a monster using your knowledge of genetics.
Build a Monster - Click in the yellow menu on this page for directions.
Introduction to Heredity - Lesson plans and activities to use in the classroom.
Build a Fish - In this game, it's your job to design a fish with the right adaptations to survive.
I Want to Know - Heredity - United Streaming video
Dog Breeding - Interactive
Heat
The Transfer of Heat Energy - from the National Weather Service
Heat Transfer - WISC video. Good introduction.
Heat - Expansion and Contraction
Experiment with ping-pong ball.
Heat - Bill Nye video
Heat Transfer - Song - Mr. Parr
Heat Transfer - You Tube animation
Thermal Energy Transfer - Harcourt
Explore the different means of heat transfer.
Conduction, Convection, Radiation - Video
Heat, Temperature, and Energy - You Tube video Part I
Eureka Videos
From Hot to Cold - Song about heat transfer
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
Understanding Heat Transfer - Video
Can You Feel the Heat? - Video
Temperature Effect on Atomic Movement - What happens to particles when they are heated or cooled?
Conduction, Convection, Radiation - rap
Heat Transfer (Hot to Cold) - Song
Conduction, Radiation, Convection Song
Convection Current - You Tube - aquarium
Convection Current - using four bottles
Conduction, Convection, Radiation - Quiz (21 Questions)
Investigating Heat Transfers - Power Sleuth (Teacher Lessons)
Animations - For teacher use
Heat Transter- Simple interactive
Heat Transfer - Study Jams video
Human Body
Living Things - Lesson from PBS website.
The Human Body - General Websites
The Human Body - Introduction to body systems
E-Learning for Kids - Learn about many body systems using this interactive website.
The Virtual Body - Explore the brain, heart, skeletal system, and digestive system.
Circulatory System - Bill Nye video.
Fact Monster's Encyclopedia - Human body
All Systems are Go! - An entertaining and educational game. Help poor Arnold find his missing body parts!
Tour of the Human Body - Click on a body part to watch movies, read articles, take quizzes, and do activities.
National Geographic - Facts, photos, news, videos, and more about the human body.
Human Body and Body Systems - Information, animations, and quizzes about the different body systems.
Discovery Kids Body Systems
All Systems Go - Help the poor man locate his lost body systems!
Human Body Diagram Game - 10 questions
Body Parts - Drag and drop body parts.
Interactive Body - drag parts to the right place; organs, muscles, skeleton, nervous system (Challenging).
Pushing the Limits - Your body in action, from the Discovery Channel.
So Many Systems - Rap
Human Body - I Know That
Focus on Cells
Six Characteristics of Life Song - Mr. Parr
Cells, Tissues, and Organs Video
Single-Celled Organisms- PBS video
Cell Structures and Functions - Video - 14 min.
Cells - Levels of Organization
Cell Transport - Discovery Ed.
Bacteria - Discovery Ed. - Use with sheet
Life Science - Bacteria (Full video from above)
Bacteria and Health - Discovery Ed.
Bacteria - Make me Genius video
Microorganisms - Interactive (BBC)
The Cell - An Interactive learning tool.
Parts of the Cell - Rap
Cell Structure - Interactive animations
An Adventure into Cells and their Parts - Begin on page 9 (Scroll down).
Science Online - Information on plant and animal cells. Numerous links to additional websites.
Cell Block - Bill Nye video
Cell Rap - by another fifth-grace class (with a lot of repetition).
Amazing Cells - Teaching Materials
Comparing Plant and Animal Cells
Cell Explorer - Animation
Plant Cell - Mix and Match
Animal Cell - Mix and Match
Plant and Animal Cells - virtual tour
Cell Theory - with Shaggy the Dog
View Cells - Use different microscopes to view e. coli, euglena, and pollen cells.
Science in Motion- E-Review
From Cell to Organism - E-Review
Mitosis - Cell division
Drag and Drop - Cell Organelles
Animal Cells - Study Jams slideshow
Virtual Tour - Plant and Animal Cells
Cells - I Know That - See plant and animal cells under a microscope
Journey Through a Cell - Video
The Importance of Homeostasis - BBC
How Osmosis Works - Animation
Active and Passive Transport - Animation
Active and Passive Transport - Go Animate
Active Transport - BBC
Just Passing Through - Animation
Diffusion - Hot water VS cold water - Video
The Cell Cycle - Animation interactive
Key Ideas - Cell Sentence Builder
Cells - Vocabulary
Cells - Word Search
Cell Games - Animal, plant, and bacterial tutorials, games, and quizzes.
Song - You Can Tell Its a Cell
Compare a Plant and Animal Cell
Cells - Numerous links to other pages on the web
The Lives of Cells - United Streaming video (You must have login information).
Student Workbook - An Adventure Into Cells and Their Parts
Cells - Practice questions (after completing workbook)
Lapbook - Cells
Focus on Skeletons and Bones
The Skeleton - Good place to start
Skeleton - 360 degree view
Virtual Knee Replacement Surgery - EdHeads
Virtual Hip Replacement Surgery - Ed Heads
Them Not So Dry Bones - Video (Schoolhouse Rock)
The Human Skeleton - Choose the correct labels for bones from a list provided.
Label the Human and Animal Skeleton Parts
Human Skeleton - Identify the bones by numbers.
Skeleton Labeling - Drag the bones to label.
Movie and Quiz - Skeletomuscular System - Watch the movie and take a quiz.
Close-Ups - View real human bones up close. Be sure to always click YES if you get a pop up window.
Bio Motion Lab - How do certain things affect the way you walk?
Moving and Growing - Mostly information about bones
Focus on Circulatory System
The Circulatory System - Study Jams video
The Circulatory System - E-Review
Heart Pumping Blood - Watch blood flow through the heart in this simulation.
Blood Flow - Click a vein or an artery to observe how blood flows.
Circulatory System - Facts
Blood Flow in the Heart - Choose from a list of phrases.
Parts of the Heart - Drag and Drop
Map of the Human Heart - Step-through
Circulatory and Respiratory Systems - Watch them working together.
The Heart and Circulatory System - Video (Mayo Clinic)
Getting a Blood Test - Video
Circulatory System - Video (Kids' Health)
Do the Circulation - Video (School House Rock)
How a Normal Heart Pumps Blood - Video (You Tube)
Cardiovascular System - Video (You Tube)
Your Heart and the Circulatory System - Kids' Health
Circulatory System Gizmo - Make sure you have your login information.
Magic School Bus Works Out
Circulation - printable graphic organizer
Sail the Circulatory System - Game
Rags to Riches - Who Wants to be a Millionaire Game
Bones and Muscles - Bill Nye video
Focus on Digestive System
The Digestive System - Good place to start.
Digestive System - Facts
Digestive System - Matching Game
Your Digestive System - Kids' Health
Digestive System - Video (E-Review)
How the Digestive System Works
Feed the System - National Geographic
Parts of the Digestive System - Labeling Activity
Labeling - Practice Worksheet
The Body Machine - Video (Schoolhouse Rock)
Digestive System - Video
Stages of Digestion - Video
Animation - Organs of Digestion
Peristalsis - Simulation
Digestive System Labeling - Drag the parts to label.
Digestion - Bill Nye video
A Journey Through the Digestive System - Video
Digestion song - Mr. Parr
The Digestive System - Study Jams video
Digestive System - Puzzle
Focus on Immune System, Diseases, and Illnesses.
Immune System - E-Learning
The Immune System - Kids' Health
Infection, Detection, Protection - This website will help students understand what causes infectious disease and what they can do to prevent it.
Antibiotic Attack - game
Diabetic Dog Game - From the official site of the Nobel Prize.
Focus on Respiratory System
Respiratory System - Study Jams
Your Lungs and Respiratory System - Kids' Health
Respiratory System - E-Review Video
The Respiratory - Interactive
Exploring Lungs - movie
How Does the Respiratory System Work? - Short video to read independently.
Respiratory System Labeling - Drag the parts to label.
Learn About Your Respiratory System - Clickable parts
Diaphragm & Lungs - pull down diaphragm to see how lungs take in and get rid of air.
Lung and Diaphram - Movement Simulation
Respiratory System - Labeling Interactive
Respiration 3-D - Video
The Respiratory System - Video (Kids' Health)
Respiratory Systems - Video (Make Me Genius)
Respiration Animation- You Tube
Gas Exchange - Animation
Lungs and Breathing - Animation
Breathing - Animation
How Lungs Function - Short Video
Lung Attack - How does pollution affect the lungs?
Watch the Heart and Lungs in 3-D
Focus on Muscular System
Muscular System - Video (Make Me Genius)
Your Muscles - Click through all three pages.
Focus on Nervous System
Your Brain and Nervous System - KidsHealth article
Movie - Brain and Nervous System
Quiz - Brain and Nervous System
Telegraph Line - Video (Schoolhouse Rock)
Virtual Brain Surgery - EdHeads
The Nervous System - Video (Make Me Genius)
The Brain - Bill Nye video
Focus on the Excretory System
Excretory System - E-Review video
The Urinary System - Video (Kids' Health)
Introduction to the Kidneys - You Tube
Your Kidneys - Kids' Health
Excretory System - Video
Alcohol and Drugs