Science Topics

Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Animals

1 Kit and curricular companions
Date: 2002 Grade: Kindergarten - 8 ENC#: 026393
This Internet site provides a connection of links to curricula resources for technology, life, Earth, and physical science teachers in grades K-8. Developed by the Keystone Science Network, the site is intended to supplement national standards-based science...
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2 The living Edens
Date: 2002 Grade: 4 - 8 ENC#: 026382
This Internet site provides background information and teacher resources for grades 4-8 that support the PBS ONLINE series, The Living Edens, which currently features a documentary on Glacier Bay, Alaska. Students can read basic ecological information...
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3 Biology lessons
Date: 2002 Grade: 1 - 12 ENC#: 017384
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition, contains hyperlinks to biology lesson plans organized by grade level. The lessons come from different coalition partners. The lessons range from...
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4 Animal information database
Date: 2002 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 002381
This World Wide Web (WWW) site for K-12 students and teachers features information about marine and terrestrial animals. The site aims to increase awareness of the interrelationships of humans and the marine environment, to build students' basic competencies...
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5 American field guide
Date: 2001 Grade: 6 - Post-secondary ENC#: 025369
This website provides 1,400 narrated video clips of outdoor programming content from nearly 30 Public Broadcasting Stations. Clips may be searched by keyword, or accessed on the homepage under eight topics, including Animals, Human History, and Public...
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6 Plants and animals
Date: 2001 Grade: 4 - 9 ENC#: 021012
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created by the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, offers an online unit that explores the theme of plant and animal interaction during the pollination process. The unit presents information about pollination...
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7 Science and health
Date: 2000 Grade: 3 - 12 ENC#: 020177
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 3 to 12 by the New York Times Learning Network, offers lesson plan units that use recent New York Times articles as springboards for engaging students. Written in partnership with the Bank Street ...
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8 Brookfield Zoo
Date: 2000 Grade: 7 - 12 ENC#: 018800
This World Wide Web (WWW) site has an interactive exploration and field guide to highlight the Brookfield Zoo's exhibits and worldwide conservation efforts. At the time of abstracting, the interactive exploration is an animated adventure through ...
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9 Enchanted learning
Date: 2000 Grade: 1 - 8 ENC#: 017206
This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains information, activities, and products related to animals, habitats, and astronomy. Visitors to the site can use a search engine to find specific topics on the site. The site contains animal printouts that have...
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10 Explore the estuary live on the Web
Date: 2000 Grade: 3 - 12 ENC#: 016992
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, produced by the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve Program, has materials designed for grade K to 12 students to explore an estuary and are related to a live Internet broadcast from the Rachel Carson Reserve...
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11 Sea urchin embryology
Date: 1999 Grade: 9 - Post-secondary ENC#: 016733
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by teachers and Stanford University researchers, contains educational materials related to sea urchin reproduction. The site offers a core lab, which is suggested as a first lab experience, as well as primary...
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12 NOVA online
Date: 1998 Grade: 7 - Post-secondary ENC#: 012691
This World Wide Web (WWW) site is maintained by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) as the companion web site to the television science series, NOVA. In addition to broadcast schedules and program synopses, the homepage takes visitors to an additional...
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13 Flinn, your safer source for science supplies
Date: 1998 Grade: 9 - 12 ENC#: 014317
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for high school science teachers by Flinn Scientific, offers resources for the chemistry and biology laboratory. From the homepage, visitors have access to chemistry demonstrations and biology activities, frequently...
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14 EEK!, Environmental Education for Kids!
Date: 1998 Grade: 4 - 8 ENC#: 013466
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is an electronic magazine for kids in grades 4 to 8. Readers are invited to surf around and learn more about the great outdoors. The site features interactive...
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15 Prisoners or protected? A web quest exploring the humanity of zoos
Date: 1998 Grade: 5 - 8 ENC#: 012499
This Internet site is a webquest intended to help children think about some important, yet controversial issues surrounding zoos. A webquest is group project that uses the Internet to help students gain insight and make some decisions about difficult ...
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16 Remote access online real-time science experiment
Date: 1998 Grade: Kindergarten - 8 ENC#: 013214
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 8 by the Center for Biological Timing, invites students to participate in an experiment to investigate the physiology of circadian rhythms. The Center for Biological Timing is a National Science...
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17 World builders
Date: 1997 Grade: 9 - Post-secondary ENC#: 011634
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for grades 9 to postsecondary, provides a course in which students design planets from the stellar dust through the emergence of plants and animals in balanced ecological communities. Their planets are posted ...
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18 Glacier
Date: 1997 Grade: 7 - 12 ENC#: 010889
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for students in grades 7 to 12, supplies extensive information on the continent of Antarctica and the research that is carried on there. The weather of Antarctica features information on temperature, snowfall,...
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19 Nature Science and the Web (NSW)
Date: 1997 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 011584
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grades K to 9, is the online home of the Education Department of the Chicago Academy of Sciences (CAoS). CAoS provides a variety of science learning experiences for teachers, students, adults, and the general...
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20 Educational in nature
Date: 1997,1999 Grade: 4 - 5 ENC#: 015826
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for students in grades 4 to 5 and sponsored by Georgia-Pacific Corporation, contains a series of environmental education units designed to foster understanding and environmental awareness in the classroom. Visitors...
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21 Science Museum of Minnesota
Date: 1997 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 011381
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Science Museum of Minnesota, provides information about the museum and its educational programs. In addition to general visitors' information, a schedule of OmniMax movies, and links to science related...
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22 Discovery Channel School
Date: 1996 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 008734
This World Wide Web (WWW) site was developed to help teachers and parents find ways to use the resources of the Discovery Channel with their students. In addition to weekly and monthly television schedules, the site also provides (as of January 27, 1997...
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23 Exploratorium
Date: 1996 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 008389
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 12 by the Exploratorium, offers online resources to support science education, virtual field trips to the museum, and introduces visitors to on line technologies through special exhibitions. The...
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24 Dragonfly
Date: Grade: Pre-kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 009038
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the National Science Teachers Association and Miami University Ohio, is an online version of the magazine DRAGONFLY and combines text, graphics, and sound. Topics center around scientific research being done...
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25 The biology place
Date: 1996 Grade: 9 - Post-secondary ENC#: 002117
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grades 9 and up, is a subscription web service devoted to developing innovative electronic teaching and learning resources for college and secondary sciences curricula. The site covers the content areas of...
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26 Journey north
Date: 1996 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 004101
This World Wide Web (WWW) site is host to an annual Internet based learning adventure in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. Beginning on Groundhog's Day (February second) students relay migrational data on different animals ...
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27 National Wildlife Federation (NWF)
Date: 1996 Grade: Pre-kindergarten - Post-secondary ENC#: 008654
This World Wide Web (WWW) site developed by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) provides information about the NWF and its programs. Included among the programs and resources that are pointed to is Animal Tracks Online, a collection of environmental...
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28 Elementary science this month
Date: 1995 Grade: Kindergarten - 6 ENC#: 004060
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by the Mankato State University College of Education, provides a science activity or two each month. The activities provide a materials list, the procedure, and an explanation of the scientific principles. A monthly...
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29 Ocean planet
Date: 1995 Grade: Kindergarten - 12 ENC#: 003412
This World Wide Web (WWW) site focuses on the conservation of the world's oceans through the study and understanding of environmental issues affecting the health of the oceans. Included is a map of the exhibition of the Ocean Planet Exhibition at ...
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30 The Tiger Information Center
Date: 1995 Grade: 5 - 12 ENC#: 008595
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, sponsored by Save the Tiger Fund, is dedicated to providing information to help preserve the remaining five subspecies of tigers. From the homepage, users can read about the natural history of the tiger as well as the ...
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