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Grades 4/5 VA Science SOL Activities

Science Grade 4

Science Fair Links

Education. com Science Fair Links
5th Grade Science Fair Project Ideas
Science Projects
All Science Fair Projects
World Book Online -- username -- NCPSWbonline, password -- NCPS
this site also provides students with a good explanation of the steps involved in developing a science fair project!
Science Buddies Science Fair Project Ideas
I really like this one! It has a topic selection wizard to help you decide on a project!

Science Practice Sites

Gizmo link
Use this link to access our Gizmos with Explore Learning!
Study Island
SOL Pass
login information -- Kiptopeke Elementary, password stewart
Jefferson Lab Science Vocabulary Hangman
Science Review Activities by SOL
Virginia SOL Resources: Fifth Grade Science
Virginia SOL Resources: Fourth Grade Science
Great Suffolk Resources!
Remember -- change the 04 to an 05 in the address bar for fifth grade standards!!!!!
SOL Practice Questions Site
Another SOL Practice Questions Site
MeasuringUp Live
Rockingham County Resources
Remember -- change the end of the url (4science) to 5science for a fifth grade standard!
Jefferson Lab Practice SOL Questions
Make sure you select Grade 5 science and 40 questions.
Fifth Grade SOL Review
Good practice assessment!
Science Review Activities by SOL
This links with SOLPass!
Virginia SOL Resources: Fourth Grade Science
Click on the different standards to link to the fourth grade science resources
Virginia SOL Resources: Fifth Grade Science
Click on the different standards to link to the fifth grade standards.
Jefferson Lab Science Vocabulary Hangman
Great vocabulary review! Make sure you check Virginia Standards of Learning!

SOL 4.1 and 5.1 Scientific Investigations

Surface Tension Lab

Video "Meet the Jesus Christ Lizard"
Video "Jesus Christ Lizard | National Geographic"
YouTube "How Does Surface Tension Work?"
YouTube "Surface Tension for Kids"
Surface Tension Explanation
Pay close attention to the second paragraph

Static Electricity Lab

SOL 4.3 YouTube "Bill Nye The Science Guy on Static Electricity (Full Clip)"
SOL 4.3 YouTube "How Static Electricity Works - Stuff to Blow Your Kids' Mind #3"
SOL 4.3 YouTube "Static Electricity"
What is Static Electricity?
Student-friendly explanation -- scroll down to What is Static Electricity?
SOL 4.3 Static Electricity
Good explanation!

Chemical Reaction Lab

Density Lab

YouTube "Bill Nye the Science Guy S01E05 Buoyancy"
Everyone MUST watch this video and complete the study guide before continuing with the lab! You may complete the study guide wi
Density for Kids
Density for Fifth Graders
BrainPop: Buoyancy
Remember: kiptopeke, bpop
"What is the definition of Density for Kids?"
YouTube "Thinking about sinking and floating: Density"
Density Lesson for Kids
Watch the video!

SOL 4.2 Motion

SOL 4.2 Energy in a Roller Coaster
SOL 4.2 Forces at the Funfair
SOL 4.2 Roller Coaster Game
SOL 4.2 Simple & Compound Machines
SOL 4.2 Review
SOL 4.2 Potential vs. Kinetic Mini Quiz
SOL 4.2 Look at Forces and Friction!
SOL 4.2 Vocabulary Flashcards
SOL 4.2 Jeopardy Labs Review Game
SOL 4.2 - Kinetic vs. Potential Energy
SOL 4.2 -- Friction and Inertia
SOL 4.2 - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire With Energy?
SOL 4.2 Force and Motion Webquest
SOL 4.2 Flashcards
SOL 4.2 -- Simple Machines
SOL 4.2 StudyJams "Force & Motion"
SOL 4.2 -- Forces at the Funfair
SOL 4.2 -- Friction
SOL 4.2 -- StudyJams "Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia"
SOL 4.2 Kinetic Energy Game
SOL 4.2 YouTube "Mass vs Weight" Song
SOL 4.2 YouTube Mr. Edmunds "The ENERGY Song"
SOL 4.2 YouTube "Brainiac - Do heavy objects fall faster than light objects? Aristotle vs Galileo "
Cool video!
SOL 4.2 Video -- Falling Rate of Objects
Feather and bowling ball in vacuum
SOL 5.4 YouTube "They Might Be Giants - Speed and Velocity w/ Marty Beller "
SOL 4.2d Kinetic and Potential--YouTube "The story of kinetic and potential energy"
SOL 4.2 Force, Motion, and Energy Webquest Links
SOL 4.2 Whoah-ercoaster Game
SOL 4.2 YouTube "Donald Duck -- Put-Put Troubles"
Check out the kinetic and potential energy, as well as the friction! Look for push, pull, motion!!!
SOL 4.2 YouTube "Bill Nye -- Motion"
SOL 4.2 YouTube "Bill Nye -- Friction Clip"
SOL 4.2 YouTube "The Power of Friction"
SOL 4.2 YouTube "A World Without Friction"
SOL 4.2c Science Games for Kids -- Friction
Much like the friction lab!
SOL4.2c YouTube "Friction"
Good information, but oh my goodness, the tune!!!!!
Watch How Quickly a Runaway Truck Ramp Stops an Out-Of-Control Big Rig
Great visual showing friction with different road surfaces -- asphalt and gravel

SOL 4.2 Force, Motion, and Energy Webquest

Pushes and Pulls Practice and Quiz
#1
Forces and Motion Practice and Quiz
#2
Forces Practice and Quiz
#3
Forces at Work Practice and Quiz
#4
Friction
#5
Position, Velocity, and Acceleration
#6
Roller Coaster Physics
#7
Newton's Laws of Motion
#8
SOL 4.2 Force, Motion, and Energy Webquest Links
This page identifies all the links above

SOL 4.3 Electricity and Magnetism

SOL 4.3f Historical Contributions Videos

SOL 4.4 Plants

Plant Parts and Their Purpose
Diagram to label
Photosynthesis Lyrics
SOL 4.4 Vocabulary
SOL 4.4 Louisa County Curriculum Guide
Flower Parts
Interactive Flower Parts -- BBC
Plant Life Cycles
Interactive -- Kids enjoy
SOL 4.4b YouTube "Pollination Rock"
Plant Life Matching
Parts of a Flower
Photosynthesis
Illuminating Photosynthesis
Plant Overview
Flower Parts Check
Interactive Flower Parts
Plant Life Cycles Video
Plants Overview
Parts of a Flower Diagram
SOL 4.4 YouTube "Photosynthesis Rap (50 Cent - In Da Club) "
SOL 4,.4 YouTube "Mr. Parr -- Parts of Flowers Song"
SOL 4.4 Plant Parts Match-up -- Choose Flashcards, Matching, Concentration
SOL 4.4 YouTube "Learn About Plants"
SOL 4.4 YouTube "Learn About Plants - Photosynthesis"
YouTube "Parts of a Flower Rap"
SOL 4.4d Plant Adaptations
SOL 4.4d Plant Adaptations YouTube "Adaptations in Plants -Video lesson for Kids"
SOL 4.4ab YouTube "Slo-Mo Footage of a Bumble Bee Dislodging Pollen"
SOL 4.4d Plant Adaptations
Use with SOL 4.4d Plant Adaptations Sheet
SOL 4.4c -- Photosynthesis Facts
SOL 4.4 YouTube "Plant Parts for Kids"
Kind of Neat!
The Parts of a Plant (song for kids about flower/stem/leaves/roots)
Explains the purposes of each plant part
SOL 4.4 Video "10 Amazing Plants"
Just something to enjoy!
SOL 4.4a -- The Four Parts of a Plant - Roots, Stem, Leaf, and Flower
SOL 4.4 YouTube "Peep and the Big Wide World: Peep Plants a Seed "
Extra -- not specificlly addressing SOL
SOL 4.4 Seed Germination Animation (From seed to plant) - English
SOL 4.4b Video -- Pollination in Action -- Disney "The Beauty of Pollination"
SOL 4.b"The Beauty of Pollination - Wings of Life"
SOL 4.b YouTube "(Bumble) bees collecting pollen (hd) macro videography"
SOL4.4b YouTube "Slo-Mo Footage of a Bumble Bee Dislodging Pollen"
SOL 4.4b Busy Little Worker Bees
SOL 4.4 YouTube "Plant Parts for Kids"
Mr. Demaio!!!
SOL 4.4 YouTube "Bill Nye: Flowers"

SOL 4.4 Plants WebQuest

Parts of a Plant
Plant Parts and Life Cycle
Remember to use the KES login -- kiptopeke, bpop
YouTube "The Four Parts of a Plant - Roots, Stem, Leaf, and Flower"
Plant Parts -- Flowers
Photosynthesis in Plants
Photosynthesis: How Plants Make Food and Energy?
Biology of Plants: Making Food
StudyJam Plant Adaptations Video
YouTube "Plant Adaptations"
Parts of a Flower
Pollination Explanation
Make sure you read the steps at the end of the page!
YouTube "Pollination lesson with stop motion science animation for kids"

SOL 4.5 Ecosystems

SOL 4.6 Weather

SOL 4.7 The Planets

Planet Song
Kids love!!!
SOL 4.7 -- YouTube -- History of the Universe in a nutshell: Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
Remember PAW -- Ptolemy and Aristotle were Wrong!
SOL 4.7 Early Astronomers
SOL .47 -- YouTube -- The Planets in our Solar System
SOL 4.4 -- YouTube -- The Solar System video
SOL 4.7a Solar System -- Planets
Great Planet Characteristics Site
SOL 4.7 Planets
BrainPop Videos
SOL 4.7 -- YouTube "We Are the Planets"
Great song!
YouTube "Planet Rock"
YouTube "The Planets Rap"
Great Video!!!
Just How Big is Space?
Pluto Video
Interactive Solar System
SOL 4.7 YouTube "Bill Nye: Planets"
REMEMBER: Pluto is now a dwarf planet!!!!
SOL 4.7 YouTube "We Are the Planets (with Lyrics)"
YouTube: 10 Strangest Planets in Space
NOT TESTED, BUT INTERESTING!!!
SOL 4.7 YouTube "The Magic School Bus Gets Lost In Space"
Complete study guide with this episode.

SOL 4.8 Sun, Moon, and Earth

SOL 4.8 Seasons
Remember that Pluto is now a dwarf planet!
SOL 4.8 Flashcards
SOL 4.8 BBC School Science Clips -- Earth, Moon, and Sun
Movement of Earth and the moon around the sun
SOL 4.8 YouTube -- "The Earth, Moon and Sun System"
SOL 4.8 Earth's Orbit and Daylight
SOL 4.8 -- StudyJams: A Day on Earth
SOL 4.8 -- StudyJams: The Moon
SOL 4.8 YouTube -- Eclipses -How & Why-Education Video for Kids from www.makemegenius.com
Not an important part of the SOL, but interesting!
SOL 4.8 Eclipses
SOL 4.8 Moon Phases Animation with Eclipses
SOL 4.8 -- YouTube "All About Eclipses"
SOL 4.8 YouTube "The Universe: The Phases of the Moon "
SOL 4.8 Interesting Moon Links
SOL 4.8 YouTube Story Bots "The Moon Song"
SOL 4.8 YouTube Story Bots "The Sun Song"
SOL 4.8 Sun Video "The biggest star in the universe is a monster next to our sun"
Not something you have to know, but new discoveries are always exciting!
SOL 4.8 YouTube "Mr. Lee -- Phases of the Moon"
Sun, Moon, and Earth Activities
Great links!
SOL 4.8e "50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing"
Google Apollo Anniversary Video -- Narrated by Mike Collins -- Apollo 11 Astronaut!
SOL 4.8e -- YouTube "Apollo 11 40th Anniversary"
SOL 4.8e -- Brainpop Galileo
User name kiptopeke Password bpop
SOL 4.8e YouTube "Copernicus - Mini Biography "
SOL 4.8e -- Apollo Missions to the Moon
SOL 4.8e -- Apollo Missions Data
SOL 4.8 Seasons
Recommended by the VDOE!!!!
SOL 4.8 YouTube StoryBots "Outer Space: "A Beautiful, Beautiful World," The Earth Song by StoryBots"
SOL 4.8b YouTube "Earth's Tilt and the Seasons - for Planetarium Show "
Good explanation!
SOL 4.8b YouTube "Bill Nye Explains Seasons "
SOL 4.8b Youtube "Bill Nye Explains the Seasons"
SOL 4.8b YouTube "How Seasons Work"
SOL 4.8c YouTube "Mr. Parr -- Moon Phases Song"
SOL 4.8c YouTube "Mr. Lee - Phases of the Moon Rap"
SOL 4.8c Flocabulary Moon Phases
SOL 4.8c YouTube "Nye and baseball moon phase"
SOL 4.8 YouTube "Galileo Sun-Centered System"
SOL 4.8e NASA Apollo Missions Data
Normally, do not trust Wikipedia, but the Apollo information is accurate!
Moon Phases Challenge
Great Review!!!!
SOL 4.8 YouTube "Bill Nye -- Seasons"

SOL 4.9 Virginia Resources

SOL 4.9 Overview
Study Guide
SOL 4.9 -- Compilation of Resources
SOL 4.9d -- Virtual Forest
4-H Activites and Games
SOL 4.9a -- Watershed Sequencing
Interactive
SOL 4.9 -- Virginia's Natural Resources Game
Ignore the Spelling!
SOL 4.9a -- Watershed Explanation
Makes the definition clear!
SOL 4.9 Virginia Sites
SOL 4.9 WebQuest Links
SOL 4.9a -- Watershed Video
SOL 4.9a -- We all live downstream.
SOL 4.9c -- VA Mineral Resources
SOL 4.9 -- SOLPass -- Virginia Resources
SOL 4.9 -- BrainPop -- Natural Resources
SOL 4.9 -- Study Jams -- Natural Resources
SOL 4.9a -- YouTube -- Chesapeake Bay Watershed
SOL 4.9a -- National Geographic -- Watersheds
SOL 4.9 -- Virginia's Forest Resources
SOL 4.9 -- VA Natural Resources Education Guide
SOL 4.9 -- Virginia's Regions, Ecosystems, and Natural Resources -- Good Foldable Information
SOL 4.9a -- Watershed Activity
SOL 4.9 -- Virginia's Regions, Ecosystems, and Natural Resources -- More Good Foldable Information
SOL 4.9a -- Virginia Watersheds Activity
SOL 4.9 -- Virginia Geography --Another Good Foldable Resource
SOL 4.9 -- The Five Regions of Virginia
Scroll down -- good information on geography for foldable
SOL 4.9 -- Region Information
More good foldable information
SOL 4.9 -- Virginia Regions and Resources for Foldable
Scroll to the bottom for regions
SOL 4.9a -- YouTube Watershed Video
SOL 4.9a -- YouTube Watershed Video
This one is long, but gives a nice explanation!
YouTube "Erosion: A love song for soil "
SOL 4.9a Virginia Trekkers Watershed Video
SOL 4.9a Virginia Trekkers Watershed matching Activity
SOL 4.9a -- Watershed Visuals
SOL 4.9 Watershed -- The Chesapeake Bay Watershed
USDA Watershed Learning Video
SOL 4.9 YouTube "What Is A Watershed?"
SOL 4.9 What's a Watershed?
SOL 4.9 YouTube "Human Impact On The Environment"

SOL 4.9 Virginia's Natural Resources WebQuest

Natural and Human-Made Resources
Content Vocabulary Words -- Nature Definitions
Watershed Video
Here is the address if the hyperlink does not work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f63pwrMXkV4
We All Live Downstream
Here is the link if the hyperlink will not open: http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module01/Downstream.htm
SOL 4.9a Virginia's Watersheds
SOL 4.9a A Typical Watershed
Watershed Address Activity
Woodies Riverhouse is your starting point for the watershed address.
Importance of Virginia's Mineral Resources
Mineral Resources #1
Rock and Mineral Resources #2
Mineral Resources #3
Natural and Cultivated Forests
Land and Soil Use in Virginia
SOL 4.9a -- Virginia Watershed Information from DCR -- Virginia Naturally
Read "Virginia's Watersheds" on page 2
SOL 4.9a What is a Watershed?

Science Grade 5

SOL 5.2 Sound

SOL 5.2 Sound WebQuest Links

BrainPop -- Sound
remember to login -- Kiptopeke, bpop
The Science of Sound
Pitch and Frequency
Watch the video!
YouTube "The Coolest Things Sound Waves Do"
Dangerous Decibels
Whale Sounds
Wave Traits | NASA Online
BBC Sound Game
Changing Sounds

SOL 5.3 Light

SOL 5.3 Light WebQuest

What is light?
What is the visible spectrum (visible light waves)?
What is visible light?
YouTube :The Science of Light and Color for Kids: Rainbows and the Electromagnetic Spectrum"
What are visible light waves?
Draw and label a representation of a light wave
Draw and label a representation of a light wave
How is a rainbow formed?
Type "How do rainbows form?" in the search box.
How is a rainbow formed?
How is a rainbow formed?
How is a rainbow formed?
How is a rainbow formed?
Name the colors of the visible spectrum.
Name the colors of the visible spectrum.
How does wavelength determine the color we see of light?
How does wavelength determine the color we see of light?
How does light travel?
How does light travel?
How does light travel?
How does light travel?
How are reflection and refraction similar and different?
How are reflection and refraction similar and different?
How are reflection and refraction similar and different?
Light Terms
Light Terms
Light Terms
Light Terms
How light acts when it hits an object
Look for the section "How Light Behaves"
#13 YouTube "Bill Nye the Science Guy S01E16 Light and Color"

SOL 5.4 Matter

SOL 5.4 c,d Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures Webquest

SOL 5.5 Cells and Organisms

SOL 5.5b Classification of Vertebrates & Invertebrates WebQuest

Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Critter Catalog
Use this website to link to the information for the webquest.

SOL 5.6 Oceans

SOL 5.6c New Type of Hermit Crab Uses Walking Coral
SOL 5.6c Giant Sea Snail May Save the Great Barrier Reef
SOL 5.6a,b,c Earth's Deepest Abyss
SOL 5.6c YouTube "The Swimming Sea Cucumber"
The Ocean Video
Stormy Seas Video
Oceans Vocabulary
SOL 5.6 Oceans Vocabulary
Oceans Virtual Field Trip
Ocean Regions
Ocean Zones
Features of the Ocean Floor Video
Touring the Ocean Bottom Video
National Geographic -- Drain the Ocean Video
Mid Ocean Ridges, Volcanoes, and the Arctic Video
Oceans Vocabulary
Bill Nye -- Deep Currents
650 Million Years in Under 2 Minutes Video
SOL Teacher Resources
SOLPass Oceans
Oceans
Ocean Currents Activity
Ocean Features
Under the Sea Webquest
Google Maps
The Ocean Floor Diagram
Ocean Topography
Plankton Video
Ocean Floor Diagram
Ocean Currents Song Video
Deep Sea Animals
NOAA Into the Deep Lesson
The Ocean Floor Diagram #3
Bill Nye Ocean Currents
The Ocean Floor Revealed Video
Wild Kratts: Up the Ocean Food Chain Video
Ocean resources
Why is the Ocean Salty?
Marine Food Webs
Expedition Crew Spots Unusual Animal
SOL 5.6 All About Oceans and Seas
SOL 5.6 Currents
SOL 5.6 Ocean Currents
SOL 5.6 Water on the Move
SOL 5.6 YouTube "The Ocean Floor Revealed"
SOL 5.6a YouTube "Features of the Ocean Basin"
SOL 5.6 YouTube "Arctic Food Chain"
SOL 5.6 The 27 Deadliest Ocean Creatures
SOl 5.6 Strange Ocean Creatures from the Midnight Zone (Trench)
Deep in the Marianna trench -- the midnight zone at its deepest!
SOL 5.6a YouTube "National Geographic - Drain The Ocean (Part One)"
Mapping the Ocean Floor
SOL 5.6b YouTube "Warm Air Rises - Cold Water Sinks, Warm Water Rises"
SOL 5.6a,b,c BrainPop, Jr. "Ocean Habitats"
login kiptopeke password bpop
SOL 5.6c Organisms that live in each ocean zone
Great for foldable -- make sure you change the word "midnight" in the url to twilight and sunlit for organisms found in zones
SOL 5.6c YouTube Sharks Food Chain Video
SOL 5.6 The Ocean's Coolest but Creepiest Creatures
Not on an SOL test, but pretty cool!

SOL 5.7 Earth Cycles, Patterns, and Change

Good SOL Review Videos / Activities

SOL 4.8 Moon Phases -- Mr. Lee
SOL 4.8 BrainPop "Moon Phases"
Remember the login -- kiptopeke, bpop
StudyJams "The Moon"
Please go through the slides!
SOL 4.8 YouTube "Phases of the Moon | Science Video for Kids"
Make sure you understand that 1/2 the sun is always lit, but our view changes due to the rotation of EARTH!
SOL 5.4 YouTube "Atoms, elements, compounds & mixtures explained."
Pay close attention. This is a good explanation to a difficult concept!
BrainPop Atoms
Remember the login -- kiptopeke, bpop
SOL 5.1 YouTube "Inferences and Observations"
Remember: predictions always happen in the FUTURE (what will or may happen!!!!)!
SOL 5.4 YouTube "Bill Nye The Science Guy Atoms & Molecules "
SOL 5.4 YouTube "BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY - PHASES OF MATTER "
SOL4.1/5.1 YouTube "The Scientific Method Rap"
SOL 4.6 YouTube "Bill Nye The Science Guy S05E16 Storms"
SOL 5.5 YouTube "Cells Cells - Parts of the Cell Rap "
SOL 5.5 YouTube "Cell Rap"
For Virginia!
SOL 5.5 YouTube "Learning About Vertebrates and Invertebrates"
SOL 4.8 YouTube "Bill Nye Explains the Seasons"
SOL 4.3 YouTube "Schoolhose Rock Electricity"
SOL 4.5 YouTube "Introduction to Habitat and Niche"
Fun video!
SOL 4.5 YouTube "The Magic School Bus E18 Butterfly And The Bog Beast"
SOL 5.5 YouTube "The Magic Schoolbus Goes Cellular"
SOL 4.2 Motion
A cool video about objects falling in a vacuum!
SOL 5.7 YouTube "Bill Nye -- Rock Cycle"
SOL 5.7 YouTube "Mr. Parr -- The Rock Cycle Song"
SOL 4.7 YouTube "Planet Rap"