Houghton Mifflin Education Place
http://www.eduplace.com/
Resources for elementary school teachers, students, and parents. Includes
Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies Centers, Intervention,
Professional Development, searchable activity database, educational games,
and textbook support. Check out the monthly theme. It takes a theme and gives
activities on that theme for grade k-8. Some lessons include activities with
activity sheets and rubrics.
Gardening for Children
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/kinder.htm
An introduction to the many ways children can interact with plants and
the outdoors. There are many opportunities available for children to become
involved with plants, gardens, or the outdoors in general. Some of these
opportunities include children's programs at school gardens, botanical gardens
or community gardens. This site contains ideas for gardening with kids. There
are some interactive games on nutrition.
Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
This page includes many links for activities at the primary level. The
"K-3 Themes" has many science activities.
Lessons by grade
http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/science/
Minnetonka Public Schools provides dozens of lessons arranged by
Grades K-1
(Check "Spider lesson"),
Grades 2-3
(Check "Year of Trees-18 Activities"), and
Grades 4-5
(Check "M & M Project").
The Franklin Institute Online
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/act-summ.html
The Franklin Institute Online provides many science activities from k-8.
The Learning Resources section
of The Franklin Institute New! "Melting Pot Math" offers a collection
of math problems inspired by cultures around the world. Use these problems
to make connections between social studies and math class. Try the "Open
Ended Math Problems" and "Seasonal Math Problems" too. Many of the links
in the other areas also include real audio clips. Links also link to outside
interactive sites like Virtual Volcano under "Earthforce".
Kids Snow Page
http://www.teelfamily.com/activities/snow/
This page is a wonderful resource for winter activities with snow. You can
download and print out all the activity sheet via Adobe Acrobat. Just click
on the link.
The Puzzle Factory
http://www.thepuzzlefactory.com/
Includes jigsaw and sliding puzzles, memory games, tangrams, arcade games
and coloring books. Try the Tangrams Game. Jigsaw Puzzles are loads of fun
but addictive.
Early Elementary Lessons
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/funexperiments/agesubject/earlyelementary.html
This set of links to Early Elementary Lessons leads to many outside links
like Newton's Apple and Beakman's World. Many lessons are from the University
of Michigan and include handouts and extension activities, (see Egg Fun).
There are also sets of links to:
Later Elementary Lessons
;
Middle School Lessons
;
High School Lessons
; Other
teacher Resources
This link contains many good resources. Scroll down to Science Web
Quest Lessons 99 then click on Electric Circuits for a good example.
Fun Science Resources Especially for Students
is filled with many sites that can engage students.
TERC
http://ll.terc.edu/
With this project, TERC is redesigning the units in the Kids Network
series to incorporate a web-based structure and delivery system and add
a new unit for grades 5-8. Each unit includes hands-on investigations, online
inquiries, activities for reading, writing and communicating about the science
content that is the focus of the unit, and embedded assessments. This work
is being funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Most units contain dowloadable teacher guides. Check out "What are our Favorite
Pets?" suggested for grades 2-3. For older students, you might want to try
The Last Straw
. The simulation is quite interesting and complex.
Hurricane!
http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/
This site, from the Miami Museum of Science has many wonderful suggestion,
handouts, and complete instructions for making a weather station. It has
many internal links that give students additional information if needed. The
Teacher's Guide is invaluable.
The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
http://wings.avkids.com/
This site has many activities and lessons that revolve around aeronautics.
It present the information in book format but the link go to activities,
quicktime movies of students working, and step by step instruction to complete
activities. Lessons are also available in Spanish. A self paced guide on using
the Internet, located on the site, might be of interest.
Lawrence Hall of Science
http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu
The Human
Skeleton Assembly Kit
allows students to assemble a skeleton on line. You can try an on-line
interactive activity that allows students to
duplicate patterns from various geometric shapes
. This could be a good activity for art. They also have a
cute interactive home safety game
.
Einstein's Legacy
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/einsteins_legacy.html
Large-format text integrated with interactive on-screen activities dealing
with X-rays, CAT scans, microwave ovens, lasers, TV screens. Content is aimed
at older students.
The Learning Planet
http://www.learningplanet.com/
The Learning Planet is a great site for basic math practice. You DO
NOT need to join, sign in, or purchase anything to use this site, so
don't let the advertisements fool you.
Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
"The Site for Health and Bioscience Teachers and Learners". Activities
To Go is a place for all science teachers to share innovative, successful
teaching strategies and activities to help students learn the concepts and
processes of the life sciences. You may upload an activity, or do a search
by Keyword, Grade Level, Subject and Special Categories, or National Science
Education Standards (NSES).
Arithmetic skills
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/iongoal/index.htm
200 pages of arithmetic skills with interactive exercises on each page.
(all grades)
Science Lessons
These pages include many science lessons produced by Teachers in Tennessee
arranged by grade levels:
Kindergarten
; First
Grade
; Second
Grade
; Third
Grade
; Fourth
Grade
; Fifth
Grade
; Sixth
Grade
; Seventh
Grade
; Eighth
Grade
. Be sure to click on the little boxes labeled "0A1", "8B2", etc. to
get to the actual lesson plans for that section.
The Academy Curriculum Exchange (Science Lessons K-5)
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/elem.html
The Curriculum Exchange is an area where teachers can find a variety
of lesson plans. The original group of 700 lesson plans came from the Columbia
Education Center's Summer Workshops. These lessons were done by a consortium
of teachers from 14 states dedicated to improving the quality of education
in the rural, western, United States, particularly the quality of math and
science education. These lesson plans are available with permission from
Big Sky Telegraph, which distributed these lesson plans.
Core Units
http://www.prof-dev.okcps.k12.ok.us/coreunits/index.html
Lessons on various subjects, including science, k-8. From the Oklahoma
City Public Schools Curriculum & Instruction Department.