Tree Identification:
Dichotomus Keys - watch for clues to help you identify types of trees
EEK- Enviornmental Education for Kids provides another dichotomus key utilizing descriptions and line drawings.
What tree is that? -You can identify most trees by studying their leaves, seeds, and fruit. This animation will help you learn to identify these characteristics and take a “step-by-step” approach to arrive at the name of your tree
Plants:
The Biology of Plants - provides reading material on plant life cycle, plant parts, pollination, seeds, etc.
BBC - Interactive BBC activity on plant parts
The great plant escape - Unlock the amazing
mysteries of plant life!
National Geographic/BrainPOP - Photosynthesis movie
National Parks :
Mrs. Weeks National Park Links
National Park Service - learn more about your park
National Park Service - check out the statistics about your national park
Skippy
Climb Mountains
Fact Monster
Rocks and Minerals:
Rock Identification Link 1 and Rock Identification Link 2- Learn about different kinds of rocks!
Foss Web - Rock Activities, rock data base, teaching hints and videos
Rock Comparison - compare the different types of rocks
Geology Lab Rock Types - view samples of the different types and see animation of
formation
Minerals and Metals - A World to discover. Join Mrs. Dodson on an e-scavenger hunt to learn about minerals that are found in your own home!
Exploring The Environment -Learn about the rock cycle
BBC Schools - Learn about rocks and soil
Visualize Rock formation!
View rocks from a Satellite!
Sedimentary rock animation
How sediments are deposited
Metamorphic rock animation
Rock Hounds - Get your hard hats on and let's go digging for some fun and facts about rocks!
Measurement:
FunBrain Measure It!
The Ruler Game
Canada:
Canada's Treasure Trek
Canada Geography Game - come to the computer lab and improve our knowledge of Canadian geography!
Enchanted Learning
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password: rocks
Basic facts on Canada
Flags, Crests and Official Symbols
Info Please
Canadian provinces population data
Canadian travel and tourism information
Canadian province flags AND much more
Government of Canada
The World Fact Book
Fact Monster has info on each province:
* Alberta
* British Columbia
* Manitoba
* New Brunswick
* Newfoundland
* Nova Scotia
* Nunavut
* Ontario
* Prince Edward Island
* Quebec
* Saskatchewan
* Northwest Territories
* Yukon Territory
Phonics practice:
BBC
Surfnet
Mexico:
Mexico For Kids
Mexico biodiversity
Mexico - World Fact Book
MCAS:
MCAS Practice - This site is designed to provide practice MCAS tests for 4th grade students in English, Math, Language Arts, and Science & Technology.
Vocabulary:
Free Rice - improve your vocabulary and the state of world hunger one word at a time!
Spelling:
Core Word Activities
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Weather:
Enchanted Learning- weather
Dunstable Weather Forecast - Click on the TOMORROW button for the forecast of your assigned day. Refer to the DAY and NIGHT chart for your forecast data.
The Weather Channel
Weather Watch - check out the weather maker!
Weather Eye - can you forecast the weather?
Web Weather For Kids -
Learn what makes weather wet and wild, do cool activities, and become hot at forecasting the weather on Web Weather for Kids!
Edheads - predict the weather and more!
Simple Machines:
Simple and Compound Machines Activity 1
Simple and Compound Machines Activity 2
Simple Machine Test
Edheads -
Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!
Leonardo’s Mysterious Machines - from Boston Science Museum
Center of Science and Industry - Simple machines online exhibit
Simple Machines Learning site - from University of Houston
Inventors:
Inventors - This MIT site provides an alphabetical listing of interesting inventors
Enchanted Learning Inventors
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password: rocks
About.com Inventors
Smithsonian Inventors
CBC Kids: History on Invention - A timeline of inventions, designed for young researchers.
Think Quest Junior: Greatest Inventors and Inventions - A website created by 6 elementary students in Highland Park, Illinois!
Invention at Play - From the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Lemelson-MIT inventor archive- A comprehensive website of inventors written for college students and adults. (The articles can be difficult to understand!)
A to Z inventors - Useful information, but you have to ignore all the advertisements
Smithsonian Invention -
A list of links to other invention websites
Regions:
State Identification activities
Enchanted Learning
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password: rocks
America's Library
Grolier - View various maps
Click on the atlas button
Click on North America
Click on United States
Use toolbar on the top to choose
the type of map:
Agriculture
Population density
Precipitation
Temperature
Geology
US Feature Map - Try and locate US Rivers, Mountains, Lakes and Landforms!
50 States - Everything you ever wanted to know about each state of the US!
Internet Public Library - Learn about the capital, size, major industries, historic sites, points of interest and population of your state
National Park Service - Be a travel agent and learn about the National Parks in your state
Fact Monster - Learn many facts about the states of your region including famous people
Landforms:
Enchanted Learning - Landforms
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password: rocks
Peakware Photo Gallery - learn about mountains
National Geographic/BrainPOP - mountain movie
National Geographic/BrainPOP - movie on glaciers
Grasslands and Grassland Animals
Build a Prairie
Deserts and Desert Animals
Desert Life in the American Southwest
Continents:
US Feature Map puzzle
Pangea animation - watch the animation of how the locations of continents and islands have changed over the past 150 million years!
Pangea puzzle - This interactive puzzle allows you to move and rotate the continents around to the desired location. View the outline of the ancient continent of Pangea or the Modern Day location of the continents.
Continents and Oceans
Name the continent
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