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Harcourt Science grades 1-6 with audio narration

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.

Hi! We're Art and Spleen from PROBE, PROfessional Body Explorers. Do you know how your body works? Let’s find out!

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

Try some of these interactive games to learn about the human body.

Activity for Grade 5 Human Body Unit

The Lake Champlain Basin Atlas by the Lake Champlain Basin Program contains more than 40 full-color maps about the Lake Champlain Basin, articles about the maps, photographs, and a glossary. Extra resources, such as website links, manuals, and factsheets are also available. This 2004 version is loaded with lots of new information, many revised maps, and a new Students and Educators page!

Our philosophy is that the more we learn about animals, the more we respect them and take better care of them. Do you want to learn something new every day about animals? On this frequently updated page you will find information and news about animals. You can even add "animal of the day" to your own site (read more)

Watch this video clip about frozen frogs....

This is an animated storybook about a newly born elk's first year of life. The story begins with the spring birth of a healthy elk calf and continues through the herd's winter migration.

Nine engaging, interactive science mysteries combining logical thinking and problem solving.Mysteries span grades 5-12. Have a look!

"Strange Dead Bird" is an interactive mystery. Can you figure out what this strange dead bird has to do with our disappearing wetlands?

Put on your thinking cap and try your hand at these fun science games

Memory, labeling, and science vocabulary Where's the earth's crust? What are a flower's anthers? Study the diagram and then fill it out from memory.

Build a Fish by choosing a body, mouth, and color/pattern, then release it into the reef! You can drive your fish around the reef in search of food and to evade predators. Can your fish find enough food without being eaten?

Ace on the Case: Secrets @ Sea is an online curriculum-based adventure story for grade 4-7 students covering topics in Ocean Science.

Pack your computer for a virtual tour from a wide selection of nature spots across the country. Investigate wildlife inhabitants in Who Lives Here and view narrated movie clips on your virtual tour of America. Includes Northeast Kingdom in Vermont

Interactive site for elementary school to learn about the body.

Learn about the body systems in this Virtual Body Tour

Walk in the Woods is designed for third through fifth grade students to gain an appreciation of nature. Accompanied by audio narration.

Excellent collection of online explorations for space/astronomy topics. Plenty of teacher_resources.

Interactive resources for elementary science. From PBS, DFTV has units on Body and Brain, Earth and Space, Living Things, and Matter and Motion. Students will enjoy the Riddles section where they can find answers to tricky questions such as "How do you get electricty from a cow?"

Many curriculum related templates created by teachers for grades k-5 available for downloading. Check it out!

Explore how energy powers every aspect of your life, where it comes from and how the planet is coping. Teacher resources at http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/energy/site/TeachersActivities.asp

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan