Science Resources

Land of the Living Skies WebQuest

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Land of the Living Skies WebQuest a weather webquest.

1000 Facts on Fossils

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The Three Little Pigs: A Scientific Home Construction Challenge WebQuest

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The Three Little Pigs: A Scientific Home Construction Challenge WebQuest. A Science Web Quest for learning about fossils and rocks.

The Solar System - A Planet WebQuest

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The Solar System - A Planet WebQuest
You are an astronaut on a mission to another planet in our solar system. You will join a crew to gather information about your destination. When you become experts, you will voyage to this planet. After exploring it, you will contact Mission Control on Earth by cyber postcard to communicate your impressions and data.

Building Big Structures

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Building Big Structures - Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a five-part PBS television series and Web site from WGBH Boston. Learn more about bridges, domes, skyscrapers, tunnels and dams.

Bridges!: Amazing Structures to Design, Build & Test

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Saskatoon a City of Bridges

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Saskatoon a City of Bridges

* Bridge Building Lesson Plans - A terrific unit of bridges: research types of bridges, draw diagrams, and build a bridge!
* Building Big Bridges: Here is information about spans and different kinds of bridges.
* Basic Bridge Types - This site is a bit harder to read but has lots of great information.
* Bridges Around the World - This site has lots of pictures of bridges from around the world. Most of the photos were taken by students and many of the photos are of bridges in Edmonton.
* Types of Bridges - Lots of information about different types of bridges.
* Build a Bridge - You're a civil engineer. Four bridges need to be built. Only you can decide where they go...

Understanding Tsunamis

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Understanding Tsunamis - A listing of some online resources to use in your classroom to help you answer questions students may have about this historic geological happening.

K-9 Science sites

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This site created by the Saskatoon School District features resources (units and internet sites) that support the Saskatchewan Science Curriculum objectives grades 1-9.

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Life Systems
Characteristics and Needs of Living Things
Growth and Changes in Animals
Growth and Changes in Plants
Habitats and Communities
Human Organ Systems
Diversity of Living Things
Interactions Within Ecosystems
Cells, Tissues, Organs, and Systems

BBC: Bitesize Lessons -Science- Physical Processes

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BBC: Bitesize Lessons - Science- Physical Processes
Online activities from BBC Education. Includes lesson plans and worksheets. Activities cover some of the Energy and Controls, Structures and Mechanisms, and Earth and Space Systems expectations ( circuits, sound, light, magnets, forces in action, etc...)
Bitesize Lessons - Science Teacher's guide

BBC: Bitesize Lessons - Science - Materials

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BBC: Bitesize Lessons - Materials
Online activities from BBC Education. Includes lesson plans and worksheets. Activities cover the Matter and Materials expectations ( solids, liquids, gases rocks, etc...)
Bitesize Lessons - Science Teacher's guide

BBC: Bitesize Lessons - Science - Living Things

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BBC: Bitesize Lessons - Living Things
Online activities from BBC Education. Includes lesson plans and worksheets. Activities cover Life Systems expectations ( food chains, life cycles, plants & animals, etc...)
Bitesize Lessons - Science Teacher's guide

Air and Water in the Environment

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Water - topics; What is Water? Solid, Liquid Gas Water in the Air (written for a grade 3 American curriculum)

The Water Cycle at Work - an animated diagram - from the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water. Other links and resources available at their Kid's Stuff page.

The Water Cycle - an animated and narrated diagram (using Shockwave)

Cloudia's Adventures through the Water Cycle

Energy From Wind and Moving Water

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Crash Course in Wind Energy - from the Danish Wind Industry Association

Energy Quest - the following sections have relevant information but the reading level is higher than grade 2
The Energy Story Hydro Power Wind Energy

Teachers! Link to lesson plans on this topic.

Properties of Liquids and Solids

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Water - topics; What is Water? Solid, Liquid Gas Water in the Air (written for a grade 3 American curriculum)

Solids and Liquids - click on "Change It!"

Strange Matter: Properties (from the Ontario Science Center)

Chem4Kids - Solids Liquids (reading level is above grade 2)

States of Matter - an animated illustration

Growth and Changes in Animals

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Zoobooks - information about animals and a "virtual petting zoo" This site also has interactive games and activities. (banner advertising for their magazine)

Meet the Animals (at the Toronto Zoo) - animal videos

Kratts' Creatures - the companion web site to the PBS television program

All About Animals - large printable pictures and fact sheets about animals - grouped by habitat. The files are in Microsoft Word format, however if you save them (right click on the link and then select Save Target As...) you can open them later in WordPerfect.

EekoWorld - from PBS Kids - Try the EekoCreature and Plant & Animals sections.

Let's Talk About Insects - from the University of Illinois

Daily and Seasonal Cycles

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Dress Caillou - Check the weather and then dress Caillou in the correct clothes.

What's the Weather? - Cold, hot, warm, cool, what does the temperature mean to you? Come help our bear decide what to wear!
(Click on "What's the Weather?" on the left side of the page.)

Cycles in Nature - This web site has four main pages: Day and Night, Seasonal Changes, The Phases of the Moon and Tides. Each page explains how and why each of these things happen.

Everyday Structures

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Everyday Structures - learn about structures around you. This was site was designed to specifically address the Ontario Gr. 1 curriculum.

Energy in Our Lives

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Energy Connect-The-Dots -- The Earth's Main Source of Energy - Connect the dots by pointing at the numbers in order.

Characteristics of Objects and Properties of Materials

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Materials - Grouping and Classifying - from BBC Education - an interactive site with simple sentences to read and lots of graphics and animation

Grouping Materials - from BBC Schools

Sorting and Using Materials - from BBC Schools - test materials to see if they are waterproof and/or bendy

Characteristics of Materials from BBC Schools - students can test properties (waterproof, flexibility, transparency, strength) of different materials

Characteristics and Needs of Living Things

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Life Processes - from BBC Education - an interactive site with simple sentences to read and lots of graphics and animation.

Growing Plants - from BBC Schools - Experiment with the basic needs of plants.

EekoWorld - from PBS Kids - Try the EekoCreature and Plant & Animals sections.

Your Amazing Body - Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street ask you about your outside and inside body parts

Sense-ational - try the Making Sense and Sensational Sue sections to learn about your 5 senses

Tickle the Toes - Look at pictures of toes (or fingers) and try to guess the animal. A scrambled picture puzzle is also included, along with lots of pictures and information about the animal. (the reading level of the information is above grade 1)

General Science Resources

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Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century Explore a list of the top 20 achievements, and learn how engineering shaped a century and changed the world.

Extreme Science "Ever wondered what the biggest, baddest and the best are in the natural world? Check out the gallery of world records in science and meet some of the way cool scientists who are out on the edge studying this stuff!"

How Stuff Works The title says it all!

Great Canadian Scientists

Inventions and Innovations

The Great Idea Finder is a place to explore the exciting world of innovation. Whether you're a student, teacher, writer, inventor, history buff, or just looking for innovative consumer products, you'll find things you can use here.

Invention Dimension Invention of the Week and many other invention related links and resources.

The Wacky Patent of the Month is devoted to recognizing selected inventors and their remarkable and unconventional patented inventions.

freepatentsonline - includes a Crazy Patents section

Technology at Home From PBS Online How much time do you spend at your computer? How about listening to CDs or the radio? Watching TV? When was the last time you used a microwave oven? Try to imagine going through a day without these items. They all make use of technologies developed in the 20th century. This activity lets you go back through the century to find out when everyday items such as these first appeared in homes.