Mrs. Dickens
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Khan Academy
Excellent tutorials on many topics for all gradeshttp://www.khanacademy.org
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Earth, Sun and Moon - BBC KS2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/earth_sun_moon.shtml -
Ptolemy Wikepedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy -
Ptolemy Mac Tutor Summary
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html -
Ptolemy Nine Planets Site
http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/theman.html -
Copernicus Wikepedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus -
Copernicus Mac Tutor Summary
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html -
Copernicus Biography
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm -
Galileo Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei -
Galileo Mac Tutor Summary
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html -
Moon Phases
http://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phases/moon_phases.phtml -
Galileo Biography
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/galileo.html -
Aristotle Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle -
Aristotle Mac Tutor Summary
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Aristotle.html -
Aristotle Biography
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aristotle.html -
Lunar Cycle Challenge
Play a game to help remember the moon phaseshttp://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/moon/moon_challenge/moon_challenge.html -
Moon Phase Calendar
http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon
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Food Chains - Crickweb
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=foodchains -
Virginia Naturally
Linking Virginians to their Environmenthttp://www.vanaturally.com -
Virginia's Wildlife
Department of Game and Inland Fisherieshttp://www.dgif.state.va.us/wildlife -
Animals in Our Backyard
Good site about an actual school nature trailhttp://www2.lhric.org/poCantico/trail/trail.htm -
Walter reeves.com
Tips for building a school nature trailhttp://www.walterreeves.com/how_to/article.phtml?cat=26&id=883 -
Windsor Hill Elementary School Nature Trail
good ideas for a school nature trailhttp://www.windsor-hill.org/whesnatr.htm -
Tidewater Growers
National Directory for Finding businesses that sell native plantshttp://www.wildflower.org/suppliers/show.php?id=4464 -
Virginia Master Naturalist
Great links to many relevant websiteshttp://www.virginiamasternaturalist-tidewater.org/links.html -
Virginia.gov
Information about water qualityhttp://vaperforms.virginia.gov/indicators/naturalResources/waterQuality.php -
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Information about natural resources in VAhttp://www.dcr.virginia.gov/ -
Adaptations Adventure
Use this website for the adaptations webquesthttp://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webquests/adaptations/ -
Kids Gardening
Tips and ideas for kids planning a gardenhttp://urbanext.illinois.edu/firstgarden/ -
eco-art
http://cynthiarobinson.net/ecoart.html -
water quality
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/waterquality.html -
Virginia water quality
http://www.deq.state.va.us/water/ -
NorfolfkBotanical Gardens
http://www.norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/education -
Nature Trail Activities
http://www.alincolnlearning.us/Naturetrailteacher.html -
Virginia Beach Wetlands Board
Information about what the board doeshttp://www.vbgov.com/vgn.aspx?vgnextchannel=d85354cf18ad9010VgnVCM100000870b640aRCRD&vgnextparchannel=92d154cf18ad9010VgnVCM100000870b640aRCRD -
Virginia Products Webquest
http://www.agintheclass.org/Teachers/Pages/VirginiaRegionsandProductsWebQuest.aspx
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Changing Circuits - BBC KS2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/changing_circuits.shtml -
Using Electricity - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/electricity.shtml -
Materials, Circuits and Conductors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/conductors.shtml
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goal shots
practicing reading a distance time graphhttp://www.sycd.co.uk/dtg/ -
The Physics Department
Great information on energy and forceshttp://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/mechanics/mechanics.html -
Beyond Books
Newton's Laws of Motionhttp://www.beyondbooks.com/psc91/4.asp -
Utah Office of Education
visuals of Newton's laws of Motionhttp://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/forces/sciber/newtons.htm -
Thinkquest
forces in the context of outer spacehttp://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215468/ -
US Department of Energy
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/education/ -
UCI Summer Science Institute
Speed and Motion Webquesthttp://www.can-do.com/uci/ssi2002/motion.html
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The Great Plant Escape
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/ -
Plant Life Cycles - Crickweb
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=lcycles5b
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Fema
Information on Natural Disastershttp://www.fema.gov/kids/dizarea.htm -
Fema - What Now?
US map with links to stormshttp://www.fema.gov/kids/whatnow -
Kidspace - Internet Public Library
Many links to weather siteshttp://www.ipl.org/div/searchresults/?searchtype=traditional&words=weather&coll=youth -
NOAA Drought Information Cener
http://www.drought.noaa.gov/ -
NOAA Education
http://www.education.noaa.gov/sweather.html -
U.S. Drought Portal
http://www.drought.gov/portal/server.pt/community/drought.gov/202;jsessionid=750C395B69E7EDF61F60521CC1A09BBE -
Weather - World Book Student
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/search?st1=weather&searchprop=WBS -
Weather Forcast - Crickweb
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=wforecast -
Weather Whiz Kids
Kid friendly information about weather (though they do include earthquakes and volcanoes!)http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-thunderstorms.htm -
Edheads Weather Page
Interactive weather prediction and forecastinghttp://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/frame_loader.htm -
Windows to the universe
Great information on storms and frontshttp://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Atmosphere/front.html
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e-nature
online field guideshttp://www.enature.com
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Estimation - AAA Math
http://www.aaastudy.com/est.htm -
Addition - AAA Math
http://www.aaastudy.com/add.htm -
Decimals - AAA Math
http://www.aaastudy.com/dec.htm -
Division - AAA Math
http://www.aaastudy.com/div.htm -
Multiplication - AAA Math
http://www.aaastudy.com/mul.htm
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Fire - Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=143 -
Adjustable Spinner - Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=79 -
Bar Grapher - Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=63
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Geometry - AAA Math
http://www.aaastudy.com/geo.htm
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Measurement - AAA Math
http://www.aaastudy.com/mea.htm
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Concentration - Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=73 -
Equivalent Fractions - Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=80
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fun 4 the brain
variety of gameshttp://www.fun4thebrain.com/ -
Multiplication
Great for fact practicehttp://www.multiplication.com -
Math Is Fun
Explanations and tutorials on many math topicshttp://www.mathisfun.com -
Learning Box
good games on patterns and fractionshttp://www.learningbox.com -
Khan Academy
Excellent tutorials on math topics for all gradeshttp://www.khanacademy.com
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Khan Academy
video help on many math and science topics as well as practice problemshttp://www.khanacademy.org -
Dad's Worksheets
lots of practice pages on many many math topicshttp://www.dadsworksheets.com -
Worksheet Works
practice sheets on many math topicshttp://www.worksheetworks.com
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The World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html -
Grolier Online
http://go-passport.grolier.com/ -
The World Almanac for Kids
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/
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Pics4 Learning
http://www.pics4learning.com/
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QuickCite - NoodleTools
http://www.noodletools.com/quickcite/
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Kids' Vid
tools for video productionhttp://kidsvid.altec.org/ -
Web Poster Wizard
http://poster.4teachers.org/
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How-to Articles from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/education/howto.mspx
