December 13, 2011

32 Science Websites for Fifth Graders

This list covers all sorts of science from nature to geology. Like with the math websites, for my

students, occasionally I put a list on the internet start page and let students go there during sponge time (click the link and see what’s up this month, so close to the end of the school year):

  1. Breathing earth–the environment
  2. Dynamic Earth–interactive
  3. Earth Science Digital Library
  4. Electric Circuits Game
  5. Forest Life
  6. Forests
  7. Geologic history
  8. Geologic movies–great and fun
  9. Human Body Games
  10. Moon around
  11. Moon—We Choose the Moon
  12. Nature—explore it
  13. Ocean Currents–video
  14. Ocean Videos
  15. Ocean Waves–video
  16. Ology Sites
  17. Periodic Table of Videos
  18. Planet in Action via Google Earth
  19. Satellite Fly-bys–by zip code
  20. Science games
  21. Science Games II
  22. Science Games—Bitesize
  23. Science Stuff
  24. Smithsonian Museum
  25. Solar System Video
  26. Solar System in 3D
  27. Stardate Online
  28. Virtual tour (with pictures) of a zoo
  29. Virtual tours
  30. Volcano Adventure
  31. Water Cycle
  32. Wonderville
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    Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and creator of two technology training books for middle school. She is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, an Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, an IMS tech expert, and a weekly contributor to Write Anything. Currently, she’s seeking representation for a techno-thriller she just finished. Any ideas? Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab.