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K - 4

Standard 5.1 Scientific Processes
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
K-4
 Science & Health activities from PBS KIDS.
K-4
 Planetarium Star Shows, Mini Zoo Programs, Science Lab Activities, Science Gallery Programs.
K-4
 Four Steps to Fight Bacteria Brought to you by Health News!
3-4
 This activity furthers the students' understanding of cells and gives them the experience of using a microscope.


STANDARD 5.2 (SCIENCE AND SOCIETY)
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
4th
The following is a brief time line of Thomas Edison, from the National Park Service.
4th
He is the co-inventor of the first successful airplane.
4th
Who invented the automobile?
K-4 Imaginative Inventors - Berenstain Bears
 Using the concepts of choices and decision making, students will study inventors, inventions.
4th
He became famous for being a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a musician and an economist.
4th
Mr. Bell is best known for his invention of the telephone.


STANDARD 5.3 (MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS)
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
PreK - 2
Students participate in activities in which they focus on patterns and relations that can be developed from the exploration of balance, mass, length of the mass arm, and the position of the fulcrum (from NCTM Illuminations).
1st
What causes air quality problems? How bad is the air quality? And much more...!
K-2
Students will be able to combine three-dimensional shapes to make a three-dimensional whole using Geoblocks.


STANDARD 5.4 (NATURE AND PROCESS OF TECHNOLOGY)
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
K-4
 A list of instructional sites on making paper airplanes!


STANDARD 5.5 (CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE)
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
PreK- K
 Scroll to "Some Parts of Our Bodies are Different and Unique" (from PBS Kids).
3-4
Salmon Homing Instincts
In this activity, students can experience first hand what it is like to be a returning salmon attempting to find its home by smell.


STANDARD 5.6 (CHEMISTRY)
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
2-4
The purpose of this activity is to introduce students to a basic property of light and how we use this property in our everyday lives.
K-4 Chemistry Laboratory Safety Guide A School Chemistry Laboratory Safety Guide available from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). It also contains a myriad of other chemical management resources for schools.
K-4 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Try some experiments on your own or read about Nobel Prize related topics.
3-4
Make an unusual instrument with water, glasses, and a spoon. Predict how the sound will change by changing the water level.



STANDARD 5.7 (PHYSICS)
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
3-4 Dome Challenge Learn more about materials used to build domes in an online activity where you select the appropriate types of domes to meet the town's needs.
3-4 Newspaper Tower Challenge students to build a tower out of newspaper alone, to learn about forces and foundations.
3-4 Paper Bridge Design paper bridges that will hold the most pennies.
3-4 Shapes Lab Explore on-line interactive activities which simplify real-life conditions that affect structures of different shapes including rectangles, arches and triangles.
K-4 The Nobel Prize in Physics
Play games, explore simulations and get in-depth information about challenging topics.
3-4 Geodesic Dome Build the strongest dome possible out of newspaper.


STANDARD 5.8 (EARTH SCIENCE)
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
K-4 The Great Plant Escape Each of the lessons in this program is interdisciplinary, designed to introduce students to plant science and increase their understanding of how foods grow.
3-8 Rocks and Minerals Students will realize that rocks and minerals have characteristics like hardness, cleavage, solubility, luster, etc. that make them useful for some applications, but not so useful in others.
K-4 Erosion
 The purpose of these activities is to increase students awareness to the point where they can make intelligent decisions on proper land use.
K-3 PBS Kids Lets Think About... Day & Night

 

STANDARD 5.9 (ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE)
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
3-4 Constellations The following activities provide our young scientists with success-oriented practice in locating and recognizing stars in the sky.
4th The Universe Galaxies, Stars, Black Holes The Milky Way, Quasars, Cosmology.
4th Glowing Glimpses Of Our Universe
 The purpose of these activities is to bring space "home"
to young people.
4th The Solar System The Sun, The Planets, The Moon, The Asteroid Belt, Meteoroids, and Comets.
4th Interplanetary Distance and Travel Time
 The Travels of Slimey the Slug and Sunscout I, the
Starship, in an interactive fable that increases knowledge. People understand how long it takes to travel specific distances at different speeds by modeling and comparisons.


STANDARD 5.10 (ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES)
Grade Level
WEB SITE
DESCRIPTION
K-4 Freddy the Fish Helps students identify ways man pollutes our water supply; determine the harmful effects of our careless habits; and state the effects water pollution has on plant and animal life.
K-2 Science NetLinks
RECYCLING-Materials and Manufacturing		 Students examine the properties, limitations and durability of a variety of materials, then evaluate which of the materials would be best for building a model house.
K-4 Smokey Kids Smokey's special kids section with lots of games, stories and fun!
2nd Wump World Activities The students will help the environment by conducting an activity in which plants are used to help reduce air pollution.