Ecosystems

Biomes of the World - Read about rainforests, tundra, taiga, deserts, temperate forests, and grasslands. 

Prairie Ecosystems

 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 

 Food Fight 

 Fun With Food Webs  

Energy Pyramids - Interactive 

 Food Chains Song -  To the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies

 Food Chains - I Know That 

 Ecosystem - graphic organizer

 Decomposers - Video

Pond Food Web 

 Estuaries - Choose Intermediate and Advanced levels to read more. 

 Estuary Education - Main site for information.

 Exploring Estuaries 

 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

 Environments

 Wetlands

 Tropical Rainforests

 Temperate Forests 

 Plants

 Conservation

 Working on the Food Chain - See the role of different animals in a food chain.

 Chain Reaction - Put a food chain together. Fun

 Build a Food Web 

 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.

 Build a Prairie  

 Energy Pyramid - Harcourt School video 

 Ecosystem Organization - My Science Box 

 Wetlands - Bill Nye video

 Wetland Food Chain 

 Intertidal Zone Videos 

 Intertital Zone - Information 

 Sunlit Zone - Information 

 Twilight Zone - Information 

 Ocean Habitats 

 Ocean Habitats - Brain Pop 

 Habitats - Brain Pop - Desert, Arctic, Rainforest, Ocean, Forest, Freshwater

 Strangely Beautiful Deep Sea Creatures - You Tube video

 Deep Sea Strangers 

Life at a Hydrothermal Vent 

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

Another graphic organizer 

Animal Adaptations -  How fast can you match the adaptations of animals?

Review Game Zone - Different games with similar questions.

Predator Photos 

More Predator Photos 

More Predator Photos

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  

Biomes of the World

 Build an Online Habitat - Interactive (simple)

 Interactive Map

 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

 Carbon Cycle -Short video

Fun with Food Webs

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 Three Laws of Motion

 Newton's Laws graphic organizer to print

 Newton's Laws - Tutorial (Good for beginners).

 Forces at Work 

 Explaining Motion - Revise, Activity, Test 

Explaining Motion - Continued 

 Force, Mass, and Acceleration 

 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

 Motion and Resistance 

  Experiment with different forces, masses, and friction

 Galileo Drops the Ball

 Tug of War with Trains

 Speed, Eggs, and Slam

 Move Our Principal

 Three Puck Chuck

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).

 Design and Test a Catapult

 Mumble Man - Learn about the laws of motion from a guy who mumbles!

 Balanced Forces - One diagram

 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.

 Coaster Creator

 Amusement Park Physics 

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 first Law

 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 Physics 

 The Physics of Baseball

 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 

 Galileo Games 

 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 

 Circus 

 Weight on other Planets 

 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

Michael's Inside Scoop

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

Where Did You Get That? 

DNA - The Double Helix - From the official site of the Nobel Prize.

Exploring Mice 

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.

Human Face Lab 

Crazy Plant Shop 

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.

The Heating Song - Mr. Parr

 Heat - Expansion and Contraction

Experiment with ping-pong ball. 

 Heat - Bill Nye video

 Heat Transfer - Song - Mr. Parr 

 Heat Transfer 

 Heat Transfer - You Tube animation

 Thermal Energy Transfer - Harcourt  

 Heat Transfer Science Game 

 Explore the different means of heat transfer.  

 Conduction,  Convection, Radiation - Video 

 Heat, Temperature, and Energy - You Tube video Part I

 Eureka Videos

Heat as Energy

Convection

Conduction

Radiation

Radiation Waves

Temperature VS Heat

Expansion and Contraction

Measuring Temperature 

From Hot to Cold - Song about heat transfer

Heat Processing

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears 

Understanding Heat Transfer - Video

Can You Feel the Heat? - Video 

Heat Transfer - 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 

Radiation Experiment 

Heat and Temperature Game 

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

 Games

 

Human Body


Seven Life Processes

 What Are Nutrients? 

 Nutrients 

 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.

 Guts and Bolts

 Fact Monster's Encyclopedia - Human body

 Body System Simulation 

 All Systems are Go! - An entertaining and educational game.  Help poor Arnold find his missing body parts!

 The Virtual Body

 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 

 Single-Celled Organisms Video

Cells, Tissues, and Organs Video 

 Gallery of Cells 

 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

 Plant and Animal Cell - Rap

 The Cell Song

 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.

 Cells - E-Review

 Cells - Bill Nye Video

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 Labeling Activity

Construct a Cell 

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 

Cell Games 

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

The Skeleton - Good place to start 

Skeleton - 360 degree view

Assemble a Skeleton

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.

 Skeletal Hip Hop 

Movie and Quiz - Skeletomuscular System - Watch the movie and take a quiz.

 Bones, Joints, and Muscles

 Muscles of the Human Body 

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

 The Circulatory System

 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

  The Human Heart

 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

 Circulation Animation 

  Blood Flow Animation 

 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

 Move It Around Song

 Circulation - printable graphic organizer

 Quiz 

 Sail the Circulatory System - Game 

 Interactive Human Heart 

 Rags to Riches - Who Wants to be a Millionaire Game 

 Bones and Muscles - Bill Nye video

 

Focus on Digestive System

Introduction

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

 Drag the Parts onto the Body

 The Body Machine - Video (Schoolhouse Rock)

 Digestive System - Video

 Stages of Digestion - Video

 Digestion Animation 

 Animation - Organs of Digestion 

 Build a Digestive System 

Peristalsis - Simulation

Digestive System Labeling - Drag the parts to label.

Who Pooped? 

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.

Germs Movie

Antibiotic Attack - game

Diabetic Dog Game - From the official site of the Nobel Prize.

Focus on Respiratory System

Respiratory System - Study Jams 

Introduction

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 

How the Lungs Work 

Breathing - Animation 

How Lungs Function - Short Video

Lung Attack - How does pollution affect the lungs? 

Watch the Heart and Lungs in 3-D

Don't Start Smoking!

 

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

 Brain Diagram

Telegraph Line - Video (Schoolhouse Rock)

Virtual Brain Surgery - EdHeads

 The Nervous System - Video (Make Me Genius)

 The Nerve Impulse - Animation 

 The Brain -  Bill Nye video

Focus on the Excretory System

Human 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

Mouse Party