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):
- Breathing earth–the environment
- Dynamic Earth–interactive
- Earth Science Digital Library
- Electric Circuits Game
- Forest Life
- Forests
- Geologic history
- Geologic movies–great and fun
- Human Body Games
- Moon around
- Moon—We Choose the Moon
- Nature—explore it
- Ocean Currents–video
- Ocean Videos
- Ocean Waves–video
- Ology Sites
- Periodic Table of Videos
- Planet in Action via Google Earth
- Satellite Fly-bys–by zip code
- Science games
- Science Games II
- Science Games—Bitesize
- Science Stuff
- Smithsonian Museum
- Solar System Video
- Solar System in 3D
- Stardate Online
- Virtual tour (with pictures) of a zoo
- Virtual tours
- Volcano Adventure
- Water Cycle
- 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.
