Science+Resources

Why don't we post in grade order (starting with pre-K and ending with high school)? - Megan

I enjoy using [|Discovery Education], [|BrainPop], and [|National Geographic for Kids] with my first grade students. We have been completing animal research projects where we have used information and tools from all these sites. My students particularly enjoy watching the videos on Discovery Education and they have lot of videos to choose from, in all content areas too!- Rosanne

These are some great websites in which we used in the teaching of ourfourth grade science units this year. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/studyjams/water_cycle/. This website helped the students learn more about the water cycle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw275056JtA. This was a great you tube video that incorporated a song about the water cycle and by golly did it get stuck in the heads of my fourth graders! :-)

We order a lot of [|FOSS] science kits every year. They offer great hands-on materials. We also just had our third exhibition night of the school year this week and the focus this time was on science (last semester was on social studies). Preschool had done projects on color, first grade worked on animal classification, second grade had projects to reflect states of matter (solids, liquids and gases) and third grade had projects on sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks. Teachers and students designed and implemented incredible projects. My favorite was the second grade display depicting a giant cloud with over 1,000 cotton balls glued to it with blue streamers and raindrops to illustrate water as a liquid, an igloo made out of 200 empty milk jugs to illustrate water as a solid, and a stove made out of cardboard with a cool mist humidifier hidden inside to simulate water as a gas. All of the child docents were very knowledgable about their particular displays and answered questions about their projects with amazing elocution. I was so proud! - Lisa