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Fifth Grade Science |
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Animals and Plants |
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This is an outstanding zoo site with lots of pictures, information about animals, and animal learning games. |
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EEK! Environmental Education For Kids At this site there is lots of information about the relationship between the earth and animals. |
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Animals at the Smithsonian Zoo Take a virtual tour of the Zoo, watch animals with zoo cams placed throughout the zoo, and see photographs from their photo gallery |
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This site includes the sights and sounds of 5,500 species such as mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, etc. Text may be used for projects, but you need permission from the photographers to use the photos. |
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Learn how to plant a garden at this great site. |
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What's It Like Where You Live? Explore different biomes including freshwater and marine ecosystems. |
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Ask an Expert |
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Ask Dr. Universe a question you've always wondered about. |
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Do you have a question about science? Send an e-mail and receive an answer from a California scientist. |
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Body Systems |
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Visit the links at this excellent site to study the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and excretory systems in humans. There are for movies, articles, quizzes, word finds, and activities. |
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This site show how each of your body systems work |
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Cells |
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Study cells and cell parts by making different models out of ordinary or unusual substances. |
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Photographs illustrate the basic comparison of plant and animal cells. |
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A great overview of cell information. |
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Test your knowledge of how a plant cell works. |
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Plant and Animal Cell Vocabulary Play concentration, a matching, or a word search game to learn cell vocabulary. |
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Shows and describes the parts of cells. |
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A great drawing of an animal cell with clear desciptions of all the parts of the cell. |
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Educational Games |
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Who Wants to Win a $1,000,000 Dollars: A Science and Math Game Test your knowledge of math and science as you work your way to the million dollar level! |
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General Sources |
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This site has great activities to help you explore science. |
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An introduction to many branches of science such as geology, astronomy, genetics, marine biology, and paleontology. Click on the Stuff to Do links to find activities. This site is by the American Museum of Natural History. |
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These toys are easy and inexpensive to make. |
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This site contains information, videos, and games about many science fields. |
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There are games, pictures, stories and other activities on this site for kids ages 5 to 12. Kids learn how to keep the environment safe while having fun. |
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The American Museum has lots of information about earth science, astronomy, Genetics, Environmental studies, Marine Biology, and archaeology. It includes games as well as great graphics and text. |
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This is an award winning site which explains how things work. There is an explanation about cells in this source. |
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Inventions |
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This site shows how 40 different products are made and includes video clips. |
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Photographs |
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This is a Library of weather, climate, and Earth system imagery. This site includes photographs and illustrations of clouds, lightning, tornadoes, floods, storms, air pollution, and more which can be used free of charge by students. Every photo is clearly labeled and described. |
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This collection has many interesting images of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes. |
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Space |
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This site provides space puzzles, games, and text for kids of all ages. |
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Mixtures and Solutions |
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Learn all about solutions. |
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Learn all about mixtures. |
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Water |
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Water Science for Schools: a USGS site This site offers information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center |
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Learn the vocabulary of oceans by play four different games. |
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on Oceans Try to be a millionaire by answering questions about oceans. |
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No matter where you live, the ocean plays an important role in your life as you'll see at The National Maritime Museum |
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Get into the flow of things and travel through the rugged mountains, active volcanoes, vast plateaus and seemingly bottomless trenches in the ocean. |
Updated August 25, 2009