Science 21

Science 21 Kindergarten- Exploring Our World

Unit 1: Using my Sense to Learn About and Appreciate Science

Brainpop -Senses- see animated videos and quizes on the Senses- topic include- balance, eyes, hearing, smell, taste, touch and vision http://www.brainpop.com/health/senses/

The Five Senses- easy to read descriptions about the five senses http://freda.auyeung.net/5senses/

Five Senses - lesson plans from the Southwest Educational Development Lab http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/senses/welcome.html

Five Senses Webquest- http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/webquest_orig/webquest_orig003.shtml

Ten Activities for Teaching the Five Senses from Education World- includes links. http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson183.shtml

Sandlot Optical Illusions- a great way to learn about your sense of sight and sound http://www.sandlotscience.com/Illusion_Jump_Main/Master_Jump.htm#

The Senses from Neuroscience for Kids- illustrated explanation of the five senses and how they work together, has word search puzzles online http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chsense.html

Unit 2: Using my Sense to learn about me in my World

Coming to our Senses from the Franklin Online Institute- suggested activity for exploring their five senses http://sln2.fi.edu/qa97/me9/

How is Sound Made? from the Museum of Music Inventions- listen to sound from different musical instruments http://library.thinkquest.org/11315/instrum.htm

Noses and other things that smell by Andrew Lost http://www.andrewlost.com/sense_of_smell_k1.htm

Preschool Activity Theme- The Five Sense- has suggested activitues for using your five senses to investigate the world around them. http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/5senses.htm

San Francisco Symphony Kids Site- Fun with Music- learn the instruments in the orchestra, compose your own song, learn music basics http://www.sfskids.org/templates/splash.asp

Sense of Smell Institute fun facts about our sense of smell http://www.senseofsmell.org/funfacts_main.php

Smell from Hawaii- activities sheets, scented riddles, earn about the sense of smell http://www.k12.hi.us/~dechong/t3web/indexsmell.htm

Touch from Hawaii activity sheets, learn about the sense of touch http://www.k12.hi.us/~dechong/t3web/indextouch.htm

Your Amazing Body from Semsame Street- learn about your five senses and inside your body http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/games/flash.php?contentId=108866

Unit 3: Using my senses to learn about other living things in my world (properties of plants and properties of animals

Animal Senses straight forward facts about various animal senses and link to insect senses. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/amaze.html

Creature Feature from National Geographic for kids has videos, photos and facts on animals http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/archive/

The Great Plant Excape be a plant detective and learn about plants http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/

Science4kids from the Department of Agriculture http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/

The Seedy Side of Plants from Nature video previews, facts, and games http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/plants/

Super Senses from National Geographic kids learn about animals super senses http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0006/senses/senses1.html

Unit 4: Using my senses to learn about non-living things in my world

The Art and Science of Bubbles from the Soap and Detergent Association contains buble recipes, buble magic, the square bubbles, the predictable pop, riddles, printable activities and poems,http://www.sdahq.org/sdakids/bubbles/

Bubble Town has recipe for bubble juice, bubble trouble game, make a high tech buble blowing tube, bubble invasion http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/bubble/bubble.html

World Buble Records most people in a buble, longest bubble wall, http://bubbleblowers.com/records.html

Science 21 First Grade- Order in our World

Unit 1: Organizing Ourselves To Do Science Investigations

Newton's Apple http://www.tpt.org/newtons/

Science Investigations- includes worksheets and prompt http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/science/contents.htm

An investigative approach to science http://www.ise5-14.org.uk/Prim3/New_Guidelines/Investigations/What_is.htm

Unit 2: Investigating Attributes And Properties Of Objects

Growing Crystals Experiments in Growing Crystals how to guide to Grow Alum Crystals, Growing Stalactites and Stalagmites Growing a crystal garden and Rock Candy http://rockhoundingar.com/pebblepups/growcryst.html

Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab- experiments http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/

Unit 3: Identify The States Of Matter

Brainpop- Sink or Swim join Tim and Moby on an aminated video on bouyancy http://www.brainpop.com/science/motionsandforces/buoyancy/

Discover!Simulations! Will a Pumpkin float in water? animated simulation from Houghton Mifflin http://www.eduplace.com/science/hmxs/ps/moda2/discovery.html

Sink or Float includes activity and assessment sheet from Science Netlinks http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=4&DocID=164

Sink or Swim- flash animation explains how fish and humans can change their buoyancy from the Commonwealth of Australia http://www.questacon.edu.au/html/sink_or_swim.html

Unit 4: Investigating Living Things (Snails/Pillbugs)

All About Snails includes facts, stories and poems about snails, clipart, crafts, coloring pages from kiddyhouse http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Snails/

Animal Homes- pictures and easy to read brief description about animal homes from kidport http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/AnimalHomes/AnimalHomes.htm

Artic Animals from Enchanted learning - has brief description and picture of each animal
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
coloring/arcticanimals.shtml

Arctic Wildlife - information about a few arctic animals
http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/
arctic/Awildlife.html

Atlanta- has live cams of many of their exhibit, including the Panda cam http://www.zooatlanta.org/homepage.html

Classifying Critters from Cool Science for Curious kids- interactive activitty to help students classify animal types http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/critters/index.html

Fizzy, Funny, Fuzzy poems about snails http://www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com/showpoem.php?poemID=15

Kidsport Science Activities
Activities include Life in the Sea, Animal Homes, Who eats What?, How Plants Grow, Pollution
http://www.kidport.com/Grade1/Science/
ScienceIndex.htm

ZooKratt's Creatures- Includes creature of week, creature world and creature crazy http://www.pbs.org/kratts/

Science 21 Second Grade - Measuring Changes in Our World

Unit 1:
Tools To Measure Our World

Measure the Teddy Bear game using an online ruler from apples 4 the teacher http://www.apples4theteacher.com/measure.html

Measure it- funbrain measurement games http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html

Online conversion tool- how do you read a ruler?

The Ruler Game http://www.rickyspears.com/rulergame/

Time and the History of its Measurement explains a shadow stick, a egyptian t stick, and sundial http://www.zetnet.co.uk/sea.jnp/earth.4/time.htm

The World of Measurement has tools and description on measurement tools for temperature, length, mass, time and volume http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/measurement/

Unit 2:
Observing And Measuring Changes In Energy

Energy Arcade -From San Diego Gas and Electric there are online games that also teach you about energy. You can also take a virtual tour of the power plant. http://www.sdge.com/kids/

Energy Calculator converts energy measurements http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/science/energy_calculator.html#eleccalc

Earth's Energy
solar radiation, temperature, balance, movement, waves, em spectrum,
http://www.geography4kids.com/files/en_intro.html

Energy for kids links http://www.kathimitchell.com/energy.htm

Measuring Energy an activitity from creative kids at home http://www.creativekidsathome.com/games/measuring_energy.shtml#more

Watered down Electricity animated video narrated by Louie the Lightening Bug http://www.southerncompany.com/learningpower/h204kids.asp?mnuOpco=soco&mnuType=lp&mnuItem=oc

Windmill World links to sites about windmills http://www.windmillworld.com/

Unit 3:
Observing & Measuring Changes In Living Things (Crayfish)

Crayfish World.com has facts and photos about many varieties of crayfish http://www.crayfishworld.com/

My Triops- faq, gallery, mailing list, articles, reviews, links, from Scotland http://mytriops.com/

Spiny Freshwater Crayfish facts and photos about crayfish from Native fish Australia http://www.nativefish.asn.au/spiny.html

Triops- learn about the oldest living species on earth- faq- http://www.triops.cc/

Unit 4:
Observing And Measuring Changes In The Environment

Autumn Leaf Color- Why do leaves change color in the fall? from Science made simple http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/leaves.html

Billy Bears Winter Activities write a tiny title winter snowman storybook, artic animal flash cards, coloring pages, learn to draw a snowman, play a snowman game http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/winter/fun.htm

Ecogames from the Bell Museum of Natural History Build-A-Prairie. Can you turn a barren plain into a healthy prairie?The Watershed Game is an interactive watershed-planning

Gravity Launch is an interactive activity that allows students to virtually launch a rocket into space to see how the force of gravity can pull an object toward the earth and moon. Students also can experiment http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/gravity.html

Learning about Seasons-links to websites on seasons http://www.kathimitchell.com/seasons.htm

Rainbow Magic Summer Fun online activities, summer reading, music, and recipes http://www.rainbow-magic.com/holidays/summer/

Spring- from Kidsdomain - online games, clipart, activities, crafts, online stories http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/spring/index.html

Sundials:Building a Simple Sundial step by step how tomake a sundial http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/Earth/Sundial/Sundial-ConstructSimple.html

Weather Watch- Winter Storms from Scholastic- observe, gather info, investigate, and analyze http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter_storms/index.htm

Science 21 Third Grade- Cycles in the Natural World

Unit One: How a Scientist Investigates a Plant

4HGarden interactive build a plant and water me under explorations section, can in connections section plant e-cards and ask a plant expert questions from Michigan State University
http://4hgarden.msu.edu/main.html

The Great Plant Escape become a plant detective and solve one of six cases about plant from The University of Illinois extension
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/gpe.html

Plant Parts Salad Interactive activity to help students indentify plant parts http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/vegquiz/index.html

Plant Growth video at Brainpop http://www.brainpop.com/science/livingsystems/plantgrowth/

Unit 2: How a Scientist Investigates Electricity

Current Electricity video at Brainpop

Electric Avenue from the AECL- Atomic Energy Commission of Canada explains electricity and energy sources
http://www.aecl.ca/kidszone/atomicenergy/electricity/index.asp

Electricity Online Thinkquest made by students from three different countries-many resources has applications, lessons, history, great intro video http://library.advanced.org/28032/

Lightening Kills, Play it Safe Discusses science of why some clouds produce lightening, indoor anmd outdoor safety, myths, survivor stories and great teacher links www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/

The Electric Avenue from FirstEnergy includes experiments, electric journey, fun facts, meter reading, safety, quiz show, glossary and energy efficiency http://www.firstenergycorp.com/kids/

Video of Franklin's Kite getting hit my electricity
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/kite.mov

Understanding Electricity from the Nasa SciFile -one page explaining electricity
http://whyfiles.larc.nasa.gov/text/kids/Problem_Board/problems/electricity/electricity2.html

Theater of Electricity from MIT- includes videos, photo gallery, of Van de Graaff Generator and Franklin's kite, and teacher resources
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/toe.html

Unit 3: How a Scientist Investigates Water Cycles

Drinking Water and Ground Water kids' stuff from the US Department of Environmental Protection Agency has water cycle activity, how to build your own water cycle activity, interactive water cycle and downloadable activity book
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/kids_k-3.html

Hydrologic Cycle from NASA Observatorium - Through animation examines the five processes of the hydrologic cycle. Includes quiz and word search game.
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/hydrocycle/hydro1.html

Interactive Water Cycle - A flash animated activity that lets you control the water cycle as you learn from the US Department of Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html

Oceans Alive from an exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science- the water planet covers-water cycle, changing oceans, ocean profiles, oceans in motion- current events, winds and waves, the ebbs of and flows of the sea, life in the sea covers-life near the surface and predators and prey http://www.mos.org/oceans/index.html

The Water Cycle from kidzone- brief explanation about the water cycle includes print out poster and suggested activities.
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/

The Water Cycle from Enchanted Learning- has brief explanation of the water cycle with an illustation and explains why oceans are salty, also has label me printout diagram and water cycle find it quiz. http://members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Watercycle.shtml

Water Cycle Follow a drop through the water cycle from US Department of Interior http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html

Water goes Round- online activity where you have to place the picture in the order they appear in the water cycle
http://www.e4s.org.uk/frame_3.htm

Water Aid- impact of water in the world-learning activities and booklets for children has country fact sheet where water aid is helping http://www.wateraid.org.uk/international/learn_zone/

Water Cycle video at Brainpop http://www.brainpop.com/science/weatherandclimate/watercycle/

Water Cycle advanced video at Brainpop http://www.brainpop.com/science/weatherandclimate/watercycleadvanced/

Unit 4: How a Scientist Investigates Animal Cycles

All About Butterflies from Enchanted Learning
http://members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/toc.shtml

Animal Bytes from San Diego Zoo facts about hundreds of animals, sound clips, photos and videos, also includes habitats and where in the world sections http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/index.html

Butterfly Cam created by Spackenkill Union Free School District has live cam on butterflies, lifecycle section, puzzles and poetry about butterflies http://www.dcboces.org/sufsd/nassau/vitek/butterfly/index.html

Butterflies and Moths of North America many photos and fact about butterflies http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/

Butterfly Life Cycle simple page with straight forward information
http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/beal/curriculum/butterfly/cycle/index.htm

Label the Butterfly
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/label/butterfly.shtml

Go Diego Go- Blue Morpho Butterfly animated video from Nick Jr. http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/cats/video/index.jhtml?playlistID=32259

Life Cycle websites- Butterflies links to life cycle webpages on butterflies, frogs, chicks, spiders
http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/resources/lifecycle.cfm

Monarch Watch- join a nation wide project to collect data on Monarch butterflies migration
http://monarchwatch.org/index.html

Butterflies and Bugs - The Life of a Monarch Butterfly
http://www.billybear4kids.com/butterfly/flutter-fun.html

Butterfly and Moth Internet Savenger Hunt
http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/envirothon/butterflyhunt.html

Science 21 Fourth Grade- Organization in the Natural World

Unit 1: Organizing Ourselves For Doing Science

Health and Science Careers- Interesting, Fun and Rewarding- read interviews from different sciencetists
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/labcoat.htm

Leonardo da Vinci includes inventors workshop where you see sketches of his inventions and have to guess what they were used for, Leonardo perspective, leanardos right to left, what where and when, addtioanl resources from Boston Museum of Science exhibit http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/
Introductory letter for teachers http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LettertoTeachers.html

Reasoning in Science explanation of how scientific method works from Rader'sBiology4kids.com
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/studies_scimethod.html

The Scientific Method simple one page description about Scientific method

BrainPOP: Scientific Method Video
http://www.brainpop.com/science/matter/scientificmethod/index.weml

Conversion from US to Metric from Science made simple http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html

Want to be a Scientist? learn about different scientists areas and read stories about their research from Sci4kids http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/scientists/scientistsframe2.htm

Unit 2: Digestion, Nutrients, Food Chains And Food Webs

Chain Reaction build a food chain interactive game teachs about food chains
http://ecokids.earthday.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/
frogs/chain_reaction/index.cfm

Food web worksheet - Indentify the producers, consumers
http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/foodweb.htm

Rader's Geography 4 kids - you are a lik in many food chains - food chains illustrated and explained
http://www.geography4kids.com/files/land_foodchain.html

5 a Day Fruits and Vegetables
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/5aday

Food Guide Pyramid from kidshealth for kids
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/pyramid.html

Unit 3: Simple Machines

Simple Machines

Aspire Simple Machines -brief description with illustration of simplemachines, interactivity lab activites for wedge and pulley, ramp and pulley and wheel and axle from university of Utah. http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/javalabs/java12/machine/stdntovrvw.htm

Inventors Toolbox- elements of machines with photos and gadget antatomy which is an interactive quiz from the Boston Museum of Science- part of Leanardo exhibit http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html

Inventors Toolbox-The Elements of Machines from the Museum of Science- illustrations and brief description of simple machines- view Gadget Anatomy to guess what simple machine make up common gadgets.
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html

Marvelous Machines experiments and activities to be printed out http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/machines/index.shtml#exper

Simple Machine Activites- interactivity activity to locate simple machines and their uses on everyday household items from EdHeads http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/

Simple Machine from Franklin Institute simple one page explaination with illustrations http://fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/

SimpleMachines from MIkids.com has illustration, explanations, example, activity, an printable activity sheets
http://www.mikids.com/Smachines.htm

Simple Machines Learning Website from University of Houston- illustration and indentification of simple machines, quiz and resources available
http://www.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles1/finalhome.htm

Simple Machines website links from Educational Technology from Georgia http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/simmach.html

Unit 4: Organization Of The Earth (Constructive & Destructive Forces, Rocks & Minerals)

Animated Guide from BBCon Hurricane, Tsunami, Earthquakes and Volcanoes http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4588149.stm

Savage Earth PBS presents the factors and forces behind volcanoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes. Based on the TV series of the same name. http://www.wnet.org/savageearth

Earthquakes
ABAG- Earthquake Maps and Information (ABAG, the Association of Bay Area Governments, is the regional planning and services agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.) Sections include: Kid Zone, On Shaky Ground, Liquefaction, Housing, Fix It!, Transportation, Preparing for Traffic, Hazmat Releases, Dam Failure, Tsunami, Other Natural Hazards, Links and Earthquake Publications http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/eqmaps.html

Earthquakes for Kids- from FEMA sections include:Shake With The Quake Story, Rumble Tumble Story, The Northridge Earthquake, Fact or Fiction?, Home Hazards Hunt, Historic Earthquakes, Tasty Quake, Map of Earthquake Risk States, Earthquake Disaster Math, Disaster Intensity Scales, Water, Wind and Earth Game, Earthquake Legends, Jess & Sam's Earthquake http://www.fema.gov/kids/quake.htm

Earthquake Information From frequently asked questions about earthquakes to the most recent seismological data, the Earthquake Information Web site offers information and links to related sites.
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/index.html

Earthquake Information: Reducing Hazards Find images, recent information, probability, preparedness tips, FAQ and details on resources from the United States Geological Survey.quake.usgs.gov

Ecolinks- has information about biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere from the Miami Museum of Science http://www.miamisci.org/ecolinks/

Faultline-Seismic Science at the Epicenter includes live eye on the earth which contains realtime data, great shakes includes 1889, Sf quakes, 1906, quake basic- cover tectonics, faults, waves and measurements, damage control- predicting, active zone- interactive online activities includes graphs, podcast, videos photos and links http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/index.html

Global Earthquake Response Center Presents a section of earthquake-related news stories, supplies links to related resources, and includes a site search function.
www.earthquake.org

Hurricanes- a storm science - illustrates insde a hurrican, weather instruments, survivors stories,and killer storms from Miami Museum of Science http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/

National Earthquake Information Center Earthquake Lists The U.S. Geological Survey offers information about earthquakes around the world, including statistical details on the location and magnitude of each quake. The site is updated regularly.
www.neic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqlists.html

Seismology on the Internet A directory of sites with seismic information. www.oma.be/KSB-ORB/SEISMO/seismo_link.html

Surfing the Internet for Earthquake Data Directory links to Web pages with original seismic data or seismic research information. Take a global approach, or browse by region.www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html

USGS: Earthquake FAQ Find answers to frequently asked questions, dictionary of earthquake terms and much more from the USGS.
earthquake.usgs.gov/faq/

USGS Geology Division Offers earthquake bulletins, research and educational information, software and publications. An "Ask a geologist" feature is also provided. geology.usgs.gov

Web Earthquakes: Global This site's clickable global map leads users to information about recent earthquake activity around the world. cires.colorado.edu/people/jones.craig/EQimagemap/global.html

Geo Mysteries Fast FAQ about Rocks and Fossils by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis- have illustrated animations for answers http://www.childrensmuseum.org/geomysteries/faqs.html

If Rocks Could Talk from the American Museum of Natural History http://ology.amnh.org/earth/ifrockscouldtalk/index.html

Journey to the Center of the Earth This web activity was created by John F. Pattie Elementary Students. See how this school has created a site about geology!http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow4/nov98/index.html

Making Rocks from the American Museum of Natural History learn how an earth scientist studies volcanoes and forms rocks http://ology.amnh.org/earth/makingrocks/index.html

Rock Hounds from the Frankline Institute@Wired School has rock creation section that has animations that show how rocks are formed and has illustrated examples of rocks, has section to ask a geologist http://sln.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/index2.html

"Rock"ology 101 Developed by Roger's Group and crushed stone producer, offers activities that you can do with your classroom. Develop a treasure hunt by pointing your class to a particular page(s) and have them report back information that they found. Check out their fun facts and activities for classroom ideas. http://www.rogersgroupinc.com/ourcommunities/rockology/index.htm

Video Clips on Volcano World Watch videos of volcanic activity and volcanic eruptions across the globe.
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/movies/movie.html

Science 21 Fifth Grade-Interactions in the Natural World

Unit 1: Interactions Of Chemical Matter (Focus On Controlled Studies)

Unit 2: Interactions In The Microworld

Cells
Animal Cells part of a Biology online textbook by John Kimball from Harvard http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/
BiologyPages/A/AnimalCells.htm

Cells Alive has pictorals on Animal and Plant cells, how big is??, mitosis, the cell cycle, cytoskelton,etc.. The have video clips for sale at reasonable prices. http://www.cellsalive.com/

How Cells Work from How Stuff Works website written in fairly easy to read covers cell parts, enzymes, DNA,and viruses. http://www.howstuffworks.com/cell.htm

Molecular Expressions see the Milky Way at ten million light years from Earth. Then move towards Earth increasing magnification into subatomic levels at: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

Scanning the Electron Microscrope- many black and white images of animals and plants, how it works, links from the Museum of Science in Boston http://www.mos.org/sln/SEM/index.html

Unit 3: Interactions In The Human Body (Respiratory/Circulatory & Muscular/Skeletal Systems & Genetics)

Virtual Open Heart Surgery animated tutorial of Open Heart surgery from COSI
http://www.cosi.org/files/Flash/openHeart/heart.html

Unit 4: Interactions In The Environment - Energy Transfer

Dr. E. Energy lab- Department of Energy provides links to Wind, Solar, GeoThermal, Efficiency, and Renewable Energy,

Energy changes make things happen Science and Technology from FT Exploring many enrgy sections suchs as energy pyramid, energy in wind, power and energy, how many forms of energy, etc. -definitions with illustrations http://www.flyingturtle.org/energy/energy-1.htm

Energy kids page from the Energy Information Administration- has energy facts,fun and games, energy history, classroo, activities, and glossary http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/

Energy Around Us from Geology4kids by Raders topics include covers EM spectrum, Quanta, Waves, Solar Radiation, Emittance, Balane, Global Geometry.Movement, interaction, Transmission and Temperature- very informative-includes a quiz http://www.geography4kids.com/files/en_emspectrum.html

Energy quest from energy department of California, contains sections on energy story, bios on energy scientists, how it works, homework help, ask professor quester, enrgy weekly news, art gallery, games, energy library, time machine, science projects, and saving energy.
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html

Facts about Niagara Falls http://www.niagarafallslive.com/Facts_about_Niagara_Falls.htm

Hoover Dam background on movie made by PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hoover/index.html

Savage Earth PBS presents the factors and forces behind volcanoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes. Based on the TV series of the same name. http://www.wnet.org/savageearth

Theater of Electricity- Thomson Theatre of Electricity was completed featuring the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator- learn about static electriciity and lightning http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/

Water Cycle Follow a drop through the water cycle from US Department of Interior http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html

Wind with Miller animated crash course on wind power from the Danish Wind Association http://www.windpower.org/en/kids/index.htm

WonderNet- Energy- gives an activity for battery, heat and mechanical http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/wondernetdisplay.html?DOC=wondernet\activities\energy\index.html