1. http://www.sdnhm.org/exhibits/mystery/education.html - Fossil Mysteries**** - This is a great site, perfect for third graders!  Online activities include sequencing events leading to fossilization and excavating by paleontologists.  Breakdown of analysis of fossilized reptile – all kid-friendly.  There are links to other fossil activities.  

2. http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/fossil_activities.html - Fossil-Facts-and Finds*  - Not very kid-friendly.  There is lots of information, pictures, etc. but embedded in too much text.  Online activities limited to PDF crossword puzzles of reptiles from different eras.  

3. http://www.juniorgeo.co.uk/D_activities.html - Discovering Fossils (uk)** This is a commercial site, but find the JuniorGeo page which includes an art project.  

4. http://www.surfnetkids.com/fossils.htm - Fossil surfing the net* - This is a huge site with dozens of links; good source for photos but the material is very high level.  

5. http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/HOMEPAGE5a.html - Plant fossils of West Virginia - lots of information about plant fossil types, small to very large fossils, great pictures.  

6. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/seedplants/seedplantsfr.html - Background information about the first seed plants found in the fossil record.  

7. http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/Palaeo/Palbot/ewald0.htm Background information about the first prehistoric forests found in the fossil record.  

8. http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/KPS/pages/fossilphoto.html - Great pictures of plant fossils found in Kentucky.  

9. http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/core/4th/4thSciber/fossils/html/fossils2.htm - Here is a friendly website with fossils activities.      

10. http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-lifeform=Fossil--Plant+%2860%29&rel-taxon=contains&where-taxon=&rel-namesoup=matchphrase&where-namesoup=&rel-location=matchphrase&where-location=&rel-state=eq&where-state=any&rel-country=eq&where-country=any&where-collectn=UCMP+%286479%29&rel-photographer=eq&where-photographer=any&rel-kwid=equals&where-kwid – This site is a photo gallery of fossils.  

11. http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=93 - Students will understand what can be learned from fossils and in doing so; realize the difference between fact and theory (idea). They will also gain a general understanding of how fossils are formed.  

12. http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=94 - Students will recognize the kind of information that can be accumulated by studying dinosaur fossils, as well as understand that some fossil facts are made based on comparisons with living organisms.  

13. http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/geosurvey/geo_fact/geo_f17.htm - Fact sheet about Ohio's fossils with information about the ecosystems present when various fossils were formed.  

14. http://www.ohiorc.org/for/science/Default.aspx - This content resource presents information about fossils found in Ohio. It is a great place to find information about Ohio's fossils.  Information about invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils is available on this site. Fossils are grouped by type. Information provided for each fossil group includes habitat, modern forms, geologic span, and where in Ohio similar fossils can be found. Photographs of specimens for each type and specific locations where they were found are also included.  

15. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1379 – Ohio’s Geological Timeline.    

16. http://paleobiology.si.edu/dinosaurs/interactives/dig/main.html - Virtual Dinosaur Dig-Great Interactive**** - Perfect for third graders!  

17. www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/index.html - Enchanted Learning** - Some fossil info-kid-friendly text. Bulk of site more focused on dinosaurs.  

18. http://www.rom.on.ca/schools/fossils/index.php - Royal Ontario Museum**  

19. http://nature.ca/discover/exf/index_e.cfm - Canadian Museum of Natural History**** - Great video virtual footage and information with multiple activities.

EXTINCTION WEBSITES

1. http://darwinfoundation.org/en/library/children/kids - Galapagos turtles*** - Interactive links for various Galapagos species – Lonesome George, close to extinction.  

2. http://www.livemonarch.org/ - Monarch website.  

3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/dinosaurs/seamonsters/ - Sea Monster – early life facts background for fantastic game.  

4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/seamonsters - interactive game on extinction, adaptations – this is a class favorite*****

OHIO AND NATIONAL LIFE SCIENCE WEBSITES  

1. http://www.ohiodnr.com/wildlife/Kids/default.htm – Ohio Department of Natural Resources / Division of Wildlife - includes features and fun activities for kids.   

      WILD School Sites are considered an action extension of Project WILD and can involve any school property used by students, teachers, and the school community as a place to learn about and benefit from wildlife and the environment. The sites function within the premise that every school, regardless of size and location, can provide outdoor educational opportunities that can and should be part of an integrated environmental education program. The Division of Wildlife offers WILD School Sites grants to local schools, government agencies, non-profit organizations and other school-oriented facilities to start an outdoor classroom. These grants are designed to provide funding for materials, equipment and activities that are otherwise unaffordable to the school or organization.

2.  http://www.ohiodnr.com/wildlife/Resources/wildschools/default.htm  -

      Project WILD involves young people and wildlife, a proven formula for generating   interest and participation. Project WILD is a supplementary education program emphasizing awareness, appreciation, and understanding of wildlife and natural resources. Attractive and easy to use, Project WILD is an ideal way to supplement your curriculum and fire the imagination of your students.

      Project WILD teaches young people how to think about wildlife, not what to think. Students in kindergarten through twelfth grade learn basic concepts about wild animals, their needs, and their importance and relationships to people and the environment. The hands-on, diverse activities help develop problem solving and decision making skills in determining responsible human actions.

      Project WILD was developed through a joint effort of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and the Council for Environmental Education. It is endorsed by the National Council for the Social Studies and is consistent with the recommendations of the National Science Teachers Association. The Project WILD curriculum has been recently correlated to Ohio's academic content standards in Science, with Social Studies, Technology and English Language Arts to soon follow.

3.   http://www.ohiodnr.com/wildlife/Resources/projectwild/default.htm

4.    http://www.kidsgardening.com – A site for kids and gardening with thematic, classroom explorations, activities and other neat links.

5.   http://www.nwf.org/schoolyard - this is the National Wildlife Federation site with many good ideas and suggestions for educators on integrating to help children appreciate nature.

LIFE SCIENCE LESSON PLAN LINKS

1.     http://www.ohiorc.org/record/1558.aspx - Students are asked to predict what would happen to the algae in a pond if fertilizer from a field were washed into the pond. They are also asked to explain why they think the fertilizer would have the predicted effect.

2.     http://www.ohiorc.org/record/1557.aspx - Students are asked to explain the effect the introduction of a new type of large fish to a pond.

3.     http://www.ohiorc.org/record/3538.aspx - The purpose of this lesson is to investigate familiar and unfamiliar ecosystems using Internet resources; to explore how various organisms satisfy their needs within their environments; to study the kinds of relationships that exist between organisms within an environment.

4.     http://www.kidwings.com/index.htm - This is a great site for birds and owl pellets.  It has a virtual owl pellet dissection and lots of ID sheets.

5.     http://www.nclark.net/Biology - This website is divided into many biology links including biomes, diversity of life, genetics, and some general topics.  This is a good resource page for ideas in the area of biology.

GENERAL USE SCIENCE SITES

1.     http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=311&ContentID=11904&Content=17566 – This is Ohio’s web-based source to help teachers creatively teach Ohio’s Content Standards.  There are model lessons, assessments, and unit plans and much more at this site.

2.     www.col-ed.org/cur/science.html -
Science Lesson Plans – Elementary (K-5) and Animal Mapping (4 – 6).  Sci48.txt Discover properties of sensational slime (1 – 4) sci49.txt, Fossil imprints.

3. http://www.nappc.org/curriculum/. -
   The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign has recently been putting together a curriculum for grades 3 – 6.

     4.  www.sciencespot.net - This website is run by an 8^th grade science teacher in Illinois.  It has won many awards for its many purposeful science uses.  I cannot even begin to tell you all the stuff on this site but it is incredibly user friendly for students and teachers alike. The site is grouped into lesson plans, puzzles, and a kid zone with links for any topic in science, etc. This is a bookmark favorite!

5. http://www.beyondbooks.com/ - As the website states, this is geared for the new generation of middle school/high school students that goes beyond a textbook with links to websites that kind of do the teaching.  This isn’t just a website for science.

     6.  http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/ - I just cut and pasted their description    as it says it best. This site is wonderful especially if you want to read current and relevant science articles in all the content areas and support nonfiction reading outside of your textbook or for supporting nonfiction in preparation for the reading achievement test.

            Science News for Kids is a new Web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14.

            Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and   other useful materials.

            Our emphasis is on making the Web site appealing by offering kids opportunities to comment on and grade the subject matter, get ideas for science projects, and try out mathematical puzzles. At the same time, offer teachers creative ways of using     science news in their classrooms.

7. http://guest.portaportal.com/freund - Just a good website for educational use – all subjects and graphic organizers, rubrics, etc.  

8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools  - this is a great site for primary and secondary students in all subjects.  

9. http://middleschoolscience.com/life.htm - this site is very purposeful for all areas of science with neat lessons and interactive places to support science curriculum across the content standards.  I have directly linked to the life science idea page.  

10. www.biologycorner.com – This is really a good website and very well organized.  There are lessons, web lessons, web quests, quizzes, and images to go to in this link.  The lessons link takes you to more links specific to science areas of interest.  The web lessons are interactive and topic specific.  The web quests are…. well web quests in various areas of interest.  The images are sometimes drawing and sometimes real images such as a microscope for labeling.  The quizzes are made for high school so avoid them (most likely).  

11. http://www.ohiorc.org/for/science/oat.aspx/#LifeSciences - These mini- collections focus on standards-based topics and provide suggestions for how to integrate them into classroom instruction.  

12. http://www.mbgnet.net – This is an awesome and user friendly website for biomes of the world in which students can research animals, plants, climate, and other facts about biomes.  

13. http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/main.html - Great interactive site about plants, plant parts, adaptations, interactions, photosynthesis, seed dispersal, pollination, etc  

14. http://www.jnorth.org – Great site!  Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes -- and other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events.  

15. http://www.flashcardmachine.com/Register/?verify=O9O6F0Z3R4I0 – This website is a place to create online flashcards for teacher or student use. This link is for the free registration. After registering, you will receive an e-mail confirmation and a link to begin making your own cards.  It’s pretty easy.  

16. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph - This is a great site for creating professional looking graphs made by the students themselves.  It is a user friendly site with tutorials to help the student understand how to use the site.  In addition, the tabs allow the user to go from section to section of information, and in the preview tab, they can proofread their graph and go back and change anything they do not like it or if they have left information out of the graph.  If the student leaves something out, especially number data, they will see nothing when they preview the graph.  The user will have to have Acrobat Reader on their computer for printing; however, they provide a way for the user to e-mail the graph for viewing or printing elsewhere.   

17. http://www.ohiotreasurechest.org – This is an online collection of thousands of websites that are high quality, teacher-reviewed, interactive, and free. Each website is aligned directly to the Ohio Academic Content Standards in math, science, language arts, and social studies, and ready for use in your classroom.  

18. http://www.monarchlab.umn.edu/research/ResearchTopics.aspx - This website is useful in understanding the life cycle and care of the monarch butterfly.   

19.  www.sciencespot.net - This website is run by an 8^th grade science teacher in Illinois.  It has one many awards for its many purposeful science uses. I cannot even begin to tell you all the stuff on this site but it is incredibly user friendly for students and teachers alike. The site is grouped into lesson plans, puzzles, a kid zone with links for any topic in science, etc. This is a bookmark favorite!  

20. www.cellsalive.com -This is an interactive cell site in which the students can visit the cell parts, interact     with mitosis and meiosis and practice identifying cell parts.  

21. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron/ - The activities in here are good for practicing the understanding of genetics.  There are also some activities for meiosis and mitosis practice. Also, if you have to      teach something on evolution, there are some activities here.  These are geared toward middle school and high school age kids.  However, if you have a particularly bright group or need to enrich some kids, this site would help with  ideas.  

22. http://www.middleschoolscience.com/life.htm - This site is very purposeful for all areas of science with neat lessons and interactive places to support science curriculum across the content standards.  

23. http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/electronmicroscope/ -This website with lesson plan reviews the basic differences between plant and animal cells and lets the kids use an electron microscope through virtual reality.  If you are doing any activities with microscopes, this takes it a step further or if you do not have any microscopes, this site might be helpful.  

24. http://www.kumc.edu/gec/lessons.html - There are a lot of websites in this link that have to do with genetic lesson plans/activities.  Some I included in the notebook but this is worth investigating because   there is so much to do that might be useful (or not) for your curriculum.  

25. http://www.iit.edu/~smile/biolinde.html -This is the biology index of the SMILE program run through the Illinois Institute of Technology.  In here are a number of activities and ideas for genes, heredity, food chain, cells, etc.  Click on the categories at the top of the page and it will send you to the specific section on the page itself so you don’t have to scroll through categories that you are not interested in looking through.  

26. http://www.biologycorner.com/ - This is really good website and very well organized. There are lessons, web lessons, webquests, quizzes, and images to go to in this link. The lessons link takes you to more links specific to science areas of interest.  The web lessons are interactive and topic specific. The webquests are…well webquests in various   areas of interest.  The images are sometimes drawings and sometimes real images such as a microscope for labeling. The quizzes are made for high school so avoid them (most likely).  

27. http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/genetics.html - This is a lesson plan for inherited traits and genetics.    

28. http://library.thinkquest.org/3696/index2.htm - This is genetics kids’ style with interactive buttons to click on.  It’s almost like a tutorial. There are also games and quizzes as well.  

29. http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edsci.htm#biology -This is a page full of biology links to lesson plans and activities.  I have included some of the activities in the notebook.  This is a good resource page for more ideas.  

30. http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/experiments/protein_exp/cover.htm- An interactive website on genetics. Not my favorite but check it out.  

31. http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/animcell.htm -This is the specific link for the animal cell from the above same address.  

32. http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/plntcell.htm -  This is the specific link for the plant cell from the above same address.  

33. http://www.beyondbooks.com/ - As the website states, this is geared for the new generation of middle school/high school students that goes beyond a textbook with links to websites that kind of do the teaching. This isn’t just a website for science.  

34. http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/cell/index.html -  Play the Incredible Megacell game with cartoon like cell parts.  This might be alittle more sophisticated than our typical 6^th graders but the graphics and sounds are cool for the kid into drawing and cartoons.  

35. http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/index.htm - This is a virtual tour of a cell.  This is easy to use and the parts of the cells come complete with their function as well as buttons to cut the cell parts open to see their interiors and also turn them so see all their sides.  

36. http://biologyinmotion.com/cell_division/index.html- This is an interactive quiz site where kids can go in and practice their understanding of mitosis and meiosis. The sound is very high pitched so be ready.  

37. http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/ - I just cut and pasted their description as it says it best.  This site is wonderful especially if you want to read current and relevant science articles in all the content areas and support nonfiction reading outside of your textbook or for supporting nonfiction in preparation for the reading achievement test.

            Science News for Kids is a new Web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14.

            Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials.

            Our emphasis is on making the Web site appealing by offering kids opportunities  to comment on and grade the subject matter, get ideas for science projects, and try out mathematical puzzles. At the same time, we offer teachers creative ways of using science news in their classrooms.

38.  http://genetics.gsk.com/kids/index_kids.htm- This is an interactive game on DNA, heredity, and genes. This is another website for kids to practice their understanding of these concepts.

39.  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cell/cell.html- This is a good site for practicing the identification of cell parts as kids can click and drag the names of the organelles into the plant or animal cell.

40. http://guest.portaportal.com/freund -Just a good website for educational use – all subjects and graphic organizers, rubrics, etc.  

41. http://www.uni.edu/schneidj/webquests/spring05/trait/index.html - webquest on cells geared to 8^th graders but worth checking out as our stuff is similar.  

42. http://www.freewebs.com/aimeejustinewhite/ - This is a pretty sophisticated webquest by design.  Check it out.  It’s Professor Hooke’s lab.  (get it?)

 

43. http://www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/classes/lab7/lab7.html -This activity makes a three-dimensional model of a cell using Hershey kisses, cookies, gumdrops, pipe cleaners, etc.

     
 

LIFE SCIENCE WEBQUESTS

1.     http://webquest.org/search/webquest_results.php?curr=currscience&grade=grade35&Submit=Search+Matrix – For grades 3 – 5

2.     http://webquest.org/search/webquest_results.php?curr=currscience&grade=grade68&Submit=Search+Matrix – For grades 6 – 8

CELL WEBSITES

1.     www.cellsalive.com – This is an interactive cell site in which the students can visit the cell parts, interact with mitosis and meiosis and practice identifying cell parts.

2.     http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/electronmicroscope - This website with lesson plan, reviews the basic differences between plant and animal cells and lets the kids use an electron microscope through virtual reality.  If you are doing any activities with microscopes, this take it a step further of if you do not have any microscopes, this site might be helpful.

3.     http://www.iit.edu/~smile/biolinde.html - This is the biology index of the SMILE program run through the Illinois Institute of Technology.  In here are a number of activities and ideas for genes, heredity, food chain, cells, etc.  Click on the categories at the top of the page and it will send you to the specific section on the page itself so you don’t have to school through categories that you are not interest in looking through.

4.     www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edsci.htm#biology – This is a page full of biology links to lesson plans and activities.  I have included some of the activities in the 6^th grade notebook.  This is a good resource page for more ideas.

5.     http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/cell/index.html - Play the Incredible Megacell game with cartoon like cell parts.  This might be a little more sophisticated than our typical 6^th graders can handle but the graphics and sounds are cool for the kids into drawing and cartoons or for enrichment purposes.

6.     http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/index.htm - This is a virtual tour of a cell.  This is easy to use and the parts of the cells come complete with their function as well as buttons to cut the cell parts open to see their insides and also turn them to see all their sides.

7.     http://biologyinmotion.com/cell_division/index.html - This is an interactive quiz site where kids can go in and practice their understanding of mitosis and meiosis.  The sound is very high pitched so be ready.

8.     http://www.science-class.net/Biology/Microbiology.htm - This site is divided into links for activities and labs, slideshows, interactive sites, vocabulary practice, and online quizzes all under the category of cells.

9.     http://www.science-class.net/Biology/Cell_Division.htm - This site is divided into links for activities and labs, slideshows, interactive sites, vocabulary practice, and online quizzes all under the category of cell division.

10.  http://www.nclark.net/MitosisMeiosis - This website is full of links for activities centered on cell division.  There are links for the Mitosis Rap, cell division jeopardy, and a power point presentation called, “It’s Mitosis Time” set to the music of “Celebration Time” by Kool and the Gang.  This is a full page of activities.

 

GENETICS AND HEREDITY WEBSITES

1. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron - The activities in here are good for practicing the understanding of genetics.  There are also some activities for meiosis and mitosis practice.  Also, if you have to teach something on evolution, there are some activities here.  These are geared toward middle school and high school age kids.  However, if you have a particularly bright group or need to enrich some kids, this site would help with ideas.
   
   
2. http://www.kumc.edu/gec/lessons.html - There are a lot of websites in this link that have to do with genetic lesson plans/activities.  Some I have included in the 6^th grade notebook, but his is worth investigating because there is so much to do that might be useful (or not) for your curriculum.
   
   
3. http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/genetics.html - This is a lesson plan for inherited traits and genetics.
   
   
4. http://library.thinkquest.org/3696/index2htm. - This is a genetics kids’ style with interactive buttons to click on.  It’s almost like a tutorial.  There are also games and quizzes as well.
   
   
5. http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/experiments/protein_exp/cover.htm - An interactive website on genetics.  Not my favorite but check it out anyway.
   
   
6. http://genetics.ask.com/kids/index_kids.htm - This is an interactive game on DNA, heredity, and genes.  This is another website for kids to practice their understanding of these concepts.
   
   
7. http://www.science-class.net/Biology/Genetics.htm - This site is divided into activities and labs, slideshows, interactive sites, vocabulary practice and online quizzes all under the category of genetics.