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Harcourt science topics interactives with audio

Houghton Mifflin Science: K-6 simulations

MacMillan/McGraw-Hill science editions online with animated and audio content.

What a great tool to see how the sun and planets compare in size. Try it, it's easy: In the first box choose "Sun". In the second box, choose "Mercury". Next, click the word "compare" located between the two boxes. Try different variations.

From the CDC, a great interactive site for health topics: diseases, food and nutrition, physical activity, your safety, your life, your body. Resources for teachers here as well.

We are an online community of naturalists who enjoy learning about and sharing our observations of insects, spiders, and other related creatures. Includes clicable guide, taxonomy, images, and indo

Engaging site designed by a middle school teacher for grade 7 life science, but content can be used for 5th grade unit because of the way the information is presented in bulleted format with graphics. If students have trouble using the naviagation menu, use the site map:http://vilenski.org/science/humanbody/hb_html/map.html

You are in a spaceship leaving Earth to explore the Universe! How fast do you want to travel? Enter the rate of travel and see how long it will take to visit different places!

Fascinating virtual solar system explorer and world builder. Teaching resources available at the bottom of this page: http://www.solarsystem.org.uk/planet10/

Tour the solar system in this animated adventure

Every question you answer correctly will boost your rocket a little further toward its destination--leaving the Earth's atmosphere. Click the button that you think holds the correct answer, or click a 'Life Line' button for helpful clues. 'Open a Link' will take you to a web page that has information about the question, and 'What have others answered?' will show you the percentage of people that have previously chosen each answer.

Fill in all the empty cells by dragging and dropping the planets Every row,column,and 3x3 box with orange borders should contain all nine planets. No planet should appear more than once in a row, column, or box.

Use these numbers for the observing site Lat 44°47'17" Long 73°9'11"

Caculate your age on other planets

Use this calculator to figure out your weight on the other planets

Interesting comparison of EXTREME weather on other planets. Could be adapted for Clicker5

Learn about the solar system with this trading card game

ARKive (www.arkive.org) is the world's centralised library of films and photographs of the world's endangered species - freely accessible to all online for private research and internal educational purposes. Hailed as the digital Noah's Ark, it has won numerous conservation, education and communication awards since its launch by Sir David Attenborough in 2003, and has now profiled over 2,500 of the world's endangered species, using over 3,000 movie clips and 18,000 photos as well as a full research page on each animal - all freely available for internal educational use at www.arkive.org. Register for free and create a scrapbook that can be shared with students

ARKive Education is a free-to-use, multi-media resource bank for teachers and other educators. Making use of the stunning imagery available at the award-winning ARKive website www.arkive.org, ARKive Education provides downloadable, ready to use modules on a wide range of curriculum topics, suitable for geography, biology, environmental education and citizenship lessons.

Good source for students with a passion for aeronautics. Various reading levels available.

In this interactive online activity, students investigate how the gravitational force of a large solar system body, such as Jupiter, can affect the path of a smaller body, such as a comet. They will launch a comet to learn how gravity can change its path. They also learn how changing the speed, the angle of approach, or the masses of large and small bodies affects the force of gravity on a comet. Students are challenged to use this knowledge to crash their own comet into Jupiter or make their comet fly past the planet without colliding with it

Come on in and check out our games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.

Perfect images for the Size and Distance Activity located here: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/activity_10.html