Websites 5th Grade Life Science - Living Systems

Websites 5th Grade Life Science - Living Systems

4 Girl's Health

4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background "Girls Health" provides health information for girls ages 10 to 16. Many topics are covered from fitness and nutrition to bullying and relationships.

Ask A Biologist - Arizona State University

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th;PK Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Worksheets;Tea Ask A Biologist began in 1997 in the School of Life Sciences. The site continues to be developed, and maintained by a dedicated group of volunteers. It is designed as an educational resource for students preK-12, and their teachers and parents. Ask A Biologist is visited by over 9,000 people every day and has answered more than 30,000 questions.

BBC The Human Body and Mind

3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background Contains information on all the body systems including some interactive quizzes.

BBC Bitesize - Food Chains

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th Website Types Student Background;Teacher Background Nice background information on food chains including pictures

Biology4kids

3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Student Background;Teacher Background This site about cell structure is written for kids and has some good diagrams along with the written content.

Bone Biology for Kids

4th;5th;6th;7th;8th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background Bone Biology for Kids was created by University of Washington professor Dr. Susan Ott as an educational website for 4th - 8th grade students and as a resource for science and biology teachers.

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Bug Scope

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background The Bugscope project is an educational outreach program for K-12 classrooms. The project provides a resource to classrooms so that they may remotely operate a scanning electron microscope to image "bugs" at high magnification. The microscope is remotely controlled in real time from a classroom computer over the Internet using a web browser. The page also has many close up images of insects and descriptions.

Cells For Kids

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Teacher Activities;Teacher Background The is a site full of links on how to study cells. Most of links are on different ways to model cells, but there is a lot more, too

Come to Your Senses

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background Developed by older students. The web site is geared towards upper elementary and above, but has good background information for everyone.

Composting in Schools

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Teacher Activities;Teacher Background Includes information under: Why Composting? ?Teacher's Page ?Ideas for Student Research Projects ?Compost Quiz ?Science and Engineering ?Composting Indoors ?Composting Outdoors ?Weird and Unusual Composting ?Frequently Asked Questions ?Glossary

CuriosiKid - site is in Spanish

1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th Website Types Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities This site from El Museo de Los Ninos in Caracas, Venezuela has a bunch of on-line games and simple experiments for kids on most of the science topics. Site is all in Spanish.

-primaria

1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th Website Types Teacher Activities Eleducador is a Colombian website full of links to lesson plans for science as well as other subjects. This page contains links to Science for elementary school-age students. Vocabulary, activities, and articles for teachers are included. Site is free for use and available only in Spanish.

Enchanted Learning "Label Me" Printouts

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th Website Types Student Background;Teacher Activities

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This Web site contains elementary-level diagrams on many subjects which may be printed out and labeled for practice. The diagrams come with a word bank, complete with definitions printed on the same page. Diagrams are available, including the human eye, ear, brain, skeleton, teeth, plant parts, animals and insects, geology and weather. Some diagrams also available in French, German, Italian, or Spanish.]

Food Webs - online games

3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Background Online activities on the Australian Grasslands Foodweb, African Grasslands Foodweb, and Antarctic Foodweb

Franklin Institute's Walk Through Heart

5th Website Types Student Background;Teacher Background Heart activities and information based on the famous walk-though model heart.

Froguts

5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Background This commercial site has demos that provide introductions to virtual dissections. The demos include a frog, an owl pellet, and a squid. You can purchase the full versions through this site.

Fruits, Seeds and their Dispersal

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th Website Types Teacher Activities;Teacher Background Plants have a variety of ways in which they disperse their seeds, or the fruits containing the seeds. Four main groups of dispersal mechanisms can be recognized: animal, wind, water and self-dispersal. The size, shape and color of the fruit and seed, together with other features, reflect the method of dispersal.

Fun with Food Webs

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities Interactive Games about food webs in three different habitats - Meadow, Arctic and Pond

Human Body Travel Guide

5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Teacher Activities This outline and grading rubric for a human body systems travel brochure for high school level but can be adapted for lower grade levels

Illuminating Photosynthesis

3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities Explanation and animated puzzles and games about photosynthesis at the most basic level.

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Infection Detection Protection

3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Background Background, on-line games and quizzes, and links to lots of other resources about microbes. Some of the best clicks are the Shockwave games like "Bacteria in the Cafeteria" and "Infection!"



5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Student Background;Teacher Background Students can use this interactive web site to build on their knowledge of the human body and its systems.

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System

1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Student Background;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background This Web site from the Canadian Lung Association contains an excellent collection of learning resources about the respiratory system for grades 1- 12. Content varies according to grade range; for instance, the section for grades 1-3 covers basics of lungs and their function with an illustrated story, coloring book, interactive games, and downloadable worksheets. Older students focus in on smoking, air pollution, and other issues in addition to covering respiratory system biology. As with the section for grades 1-3, resources for older students include loads of extras, such as word games and online quizzes. The site also offers a helpful teachers' guide. [RS]

K-12 Soil Science Teacher Resources

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Teacher Activities;Teacher Background Online resources from the Soil Science Society of America. Includes links to lesson plans, background information about the science of soil, connections between the land and people, soils around the world and more.

Kids Health

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Background KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources.

Kids' Health - the Facts About Broken Bones

2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th Website Types Student Background;Teacher Background Nice article written at an elementary level about what happens and will happen when you break one of your bones.

KidsHealth in the Classroom

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background Get on board with KidsHealth's new online resource for educators! KidsHealth in the Classroom offers free health curriculum materials for all grades and subject areas. Each teacher's guide includes discussion questions, activities, and reproducible handouts and quizzes - all aligned to recently updated national health education standards.

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Leaf Pigments

5th

Website Types Teacher Activities;Teacher Background Nice activity that relates internal processes of plants to chemistry processes. Explore the different kinds of pigments in leaves. How do the pigments in various leaves differ? Students Will Know: Leaf chromatography - The process of separating the pigments that color leaves Students Will Be Able To: Use the process of chromatography to separate leaf pigments

Life Cycle of Plants

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th

Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities Set of simple on-line activities to familiarlize students with the life cycle of plants including: Seed Growth, Parts of a Flower, Seed Dispersal and Plant Identification

Living Things

K;1st;2nd;3rd;4th;5th;6th;7th;8th

Website Types Teacher Activities;Teacher Background A link from the Franklin Institute. Living things is a comprehensive topic with many sub-topics. This site categorizes them by individuals, families, neighborhoods and circles of life. Information covers Organization of Ecosystems, Definition of Ecosystems, Florida Ecosystems, Aquatic Ecosystems, Undersea and Oversee, Seaweed, Ecological Regions of North America, Rewilding Mallory Swamp, and The World's Biomes.

Microbes in Action

4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th

Website Types Teacher Activities;Teacher Background For teachers and homeschoolers, Microbes in Action provides dozens of microbiology activities for grades three through twelve. Each unit (in PDF for easy printing) contains both a teacher's guide and student worksheets. An excellent link section completes the site.

Microbes in Sickness and in Health

4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th

Website Types Teacher Background This is a nice article for teacher background on different microbes and how they effect human health.



4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th

Website Types Student Background;Teacher Background This site contains content and pictures of many different kinds of microorganisms. Also contains advertisements to related services of the specifid types of organisms being explored.

Microscope Imaging Station

4th;5th;6th;7th;8th;9th;10th;11th;12th

Website Types Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Background This section of the Exploratorium website allows you to look at different kinds of plant and animal cells, structures and organs. Beautiful photos, research stories, and video.

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