5th+Grade+SCIENCE

  **__Systems, Structures, and Processes: Earth Systems (5.5AB)__**
 * __ EARTH SCIENCE __**

[|Earth Cycles] This website helps students understand cycles and their importance in the continued functioning of life on Earth.

 * __Lunar Cycle (5.6A)__**

[|Lunar Cycle Challenge] This is a game that helps test student’s knowledge and understanding of the lunar cycle.
====[|Moonlight Madness] A higher-level activity for those who have mastered the lunar cycle. Tests a student's knowledge of gibbous and crescent moons as well as their order.====


 * __Water, Carbon, and Nitrogen Cycles (5.6B)__**

[|Water Education Foundation] An informative site about water, the water cycle, and water conservation.

 * __Changes to Land (5.11A/5.12A)__**

[|Erosion- Investigate the Facts] A simple text explanation of erosion and weathering.

[|What on Earth Made This?] A picture-based investigation of what made eight unique structures around the world.
====[|Interactive Rock Cycle] An excellent look at the physical processes that form and erode rock====

[|How Old is that Rock?] A text explanation of relative and absolute dating techniques.
====[|What Stories do Rocks Tell?] An animation showing how rock layers form. The site also explains relative dating with a picture of an actual rock layer.====

[|Tree Cookie Investigation] Play a detective game to determine growing conditions of trees by looking at their tree rings.

 * __Natural Resources (5.11C)__**

[|Coal Formation] This website shows an animation of coal formation.

[|Energy Quiz] An energy-related quiz.

 * __Resource Formation (5.12B)__**

[|Coal Formation Animation] An animation showing how coal is formed, extracted, and used.

[|Energy Quiz] A interactive quiz on fossil fuels with detailed answer explanations.
====[|The Energy Story- Fossil Fuels] A text-based explanation on the formation of oil, natural gas, and coal. It also includes historical data and information on their uses.====

[|Mineral Formation Animation] Two animations depicting how minerals form.

 * __Earth and Moon (5.12C)__**

[|Earth & Moon Interactive!] This is a really fun website that has the students learn all about the moon and the Earth by becoming an alien and flying to each place to gather data.

[|The Moon- Zoom Astronomy] A wealth of information on the moon.
====[|Earth's Moon- Our Favorite Satellite] A site with information about the moon, including a program to calculate your weight on the moon!====

[|Moon Formation] An animation showing one theory about how the moon formed.

 * __Gravity (5.12D)__**

[|From Apples to Orbits] Tons of information on gravity and some activities to try.

[|Gravity Launch] Launch your rockets using the different settings and how the force of gravity can effect the pull on Earth.
====[|Sir Isaac Newton] This site features a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, the scientist who discovered gravity and developed the Laws of Motion. It includes crosswords, word finds and more puzzles.====

[|Kids Science Experiments - Gravity] Easy gravity experiments with easy to find materials. Great for group classroom activities.
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 * __Systems, Structures, and Processes: Interdependency (5.5AB)__**

[|Pond Food Web] A website where the students build a pond food web to examine the relationships among organisms. ====[|Chain Reaction] A flash-based site that has the user build a food chain and then remove one part of it to see what happens.==== ====[|Antarctic Food Web] Animals and plants are listed according to their place on the food chain and then a web is formed for the student. A more challenging exercise.==== ====[|Symbiotic Relationships In The Rainforest]This website explains the interdependence and complex symbiotic relationships in a rain forest setting. Text-heavy, but it also does a good job explaining interdependency.====


 * __Life Cycles (5.6C)__**

[|Life Cycle of Butterflies and Moths] Information on life cycle of butterflies and moths; also has diagram of butterfly’s anatomy.

[|Tree Life Cycle] An animated life cycle of a tree, from seed to adult.
====[|The Life Cycle of Flowering Plants] An activity where the student must place the correct labels and descriptions on the flowering plant life cycle.====


 * __Adaptation (5.9ABC)__**

[|Physical Adaptation] A site that explains physical adaptations and compares traits across several species. ====[|Form & Function] Interactive activities created on the Lincoln Park Zoo web site that look at adaptations of animals to meet their needs.==== ====[|Desert- Plant Adaptations] This website introduces students to the adaptations plants must have to survive in the desert.====

[|Animal Adaptations] This web activity helps students identify adaptations for different animals.

 * __Inherited Traits and Learned Characteristics (5.10AB)__**

[|Heredity and Traits] A good website packed with knowledge, including a great picture slide show on inherited traits in humans.

[|Dog Breeding] An interactive website that allows the user to mate two dogs to determine the desired characteristics of the offspring.
====[|Instinct or Environment?] A text-based website that explores inherited vs. learned characteristics and has a short quiz at the end.==== ====[|A Nature and Nuture Walk in Mendel Park] An interactive website where the user travels through a park and tries to identify whether traits of the people he meets are inherited or learned.====


 * __ PHYSICAL SCIENCE __**


 * __Systems, Structures, and Processes: Force and Motion (5.5AB)__**

[|BBC Science Clips: Forces in Action] In this interactive game, students are able to explore, measure, and analyze the concept of force by manipulating a car toy in an obstacle course.


 * __Classifying Matter (5.7A)__**

[|States of Matter] An interactive website where students can see what the molecules of a solid, liquid, and gas look like. ====[|BBC Science Clips: Magnets and Springs] This is an interactive game that students can play to see what types of objects are attracted to magnets and investigate springs.==== ====[|BBC Science Clips: Changing States] This is an interactive game that students can play to test different types of objects and see how they can change states of matter by applying energy.====

[|Keeping Warm] An interactive website where students can test which material insulates the best.
====[|Chemistry For Kids: The States of Matter] This is a site that provides text based information on matter and how matter changes states. Students can also go further by looking at physical and chemical changes.====


 * __Mixtures and Solutions (5.7BC)__**

[|Harcourt: Separating Mixtures] Here students can use their prior knowledge to separate common mixtures such as salt and water and a salad. Students create a table of their findings and how they sorted each substance.

[|Reversible and Irreversible Changes] An interactive website that explores solutions.
====[|Chemistry for Kids: Mixtures and Solutions] This is a site that provides text based information on mixtures and solutions. Students can also go further by studying how to separate mixtures and solutions as well.====


 * __Boiling, Melting, and Freezing Points (5.7D)__**

[|Harcourt: Boiling and Melting Points] Here students can explore how different types of matter change states by the application of energy. ====[|BBC Science Clips: Solids and Liquids] Students have access to an interactive game where they can apply heat to several different objects to see how they not only can change physical state but also how they behave==== ====[|Boil Water with Shockwave!] A site where the user can boil water and see the effects of manipulating the amount of water, the heating temperature, and the starting temperature.====

[|Snow Crystals.com] Lots and lots of information about snowflakes and snow crystals!

 * __Forms of Energy (5.8A)__**

[|Energy Kid’s Page] This is a website where students can study all about energy, from how it is formed to how it is used.

[|The Energy Story] A comprehensive look at energy in our world.
====[|Energy Quest] This website allows students to learn all about the different forms of energy from reading about energy to looking at science projects that deal with energy. The site was created by the California Energy Commission, but it's difficult to use.====


 * __Light (5.8B)__**

[|BBC Science Clips: Light and Shadow] This website introduces students to light by having them put objects in front of light to see the shadow that it creates.

[|Physics for Kids: Light] This website helps student read and understand more about the concept of light. Some of the reading is above grade level.
[|BBC Science Clips: Circuits and Conductors] In this interactive game, students use their knowledge of electricity to see how electricity can flow through several circuit set ups as well as test to see which types of material conduct electricity.
 * __Electricity (5.8C)__**

[|Electricity and Magnetism] An interactive site where students can create and manipulate an electromagnet.
====[|Physics for Kids: Electricity] This website helps student read and understand more about the concept of electricity. Some of the reading is above grade level.====

[|How Shocking!] A great animated and interactive story of Ben Franklin and his discovery of electricity.

 * __Sound (5.8D)__**

[|Sources of Sound] An interactive tutorial that explicitly explains how sounds are created and how they travel.

[|BBC Science Clips: Changing Sounds] An interactive website investigating sound, pitch, and loudness.
====[|Kitchen Sink-O-Pation]An interactive website that investigates sounds produced in a kitchen and instruments and/or creatures that can mimic the sound.==== ====[|A Visual Look at Sound] A nice visual example of the sound of clapping hands traveling though the air. Be sure to click on the "Maybe Later" button in the bottom, right corner to get to the activity.====


 * __Nutrition__**

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Safety Forces and Motion 
 * 1)  Design a Roller Coaster - Try your hand at designing your own roller coaster. You will be building a conceptual coaster using the physics concepts that are used to design real coasters. You won't need to compute any formulas.
 * 2)  Forms of Energy - this page concentrates on potential and kinetic energy


 * __ADDITIONAL SKILLS TO REVIEW__**

[|BBC Schools – Living Things] This website allows students to differentiate between living and non-living things using an interactive format. ====[|Living Things: Families] This website produced by the Franklin Institute provides information on families of plants and animals based on their characteristics.====
 * __Plant and Animal Characteristics (2.9A)__**

[|Characteristics of Plants] A brief review of the common characteristics of plants.
====[|Animal perfectus: Animal characteristics] TEACHER RESOURCE: Help students create an imaginary creature using their knowledge of animal features and characteristics. PDF Form.====

[|Food Chains and Webs] An informational website regarding food chains and webs.
[|National Geographic: Forces of Nature] This website shows images of different types of forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and glaciers as well as descriptions of each one. ====[|Glaciers Online: Glaciers of the American West] This website helps students understand all about the glaciers that exist in and around western North America.====
 * __Earth Forces (3.6B)__**


 * __Habitats and Ecosystems (3.8AB)__**

[|BBC Science Clips: Habitats] An interactive website that looks at a forest/pond habitat and the food chains within it.

[|Pond Food Web] An interactive pond food web where students can manipulate the abundance of organisms to view the effects.
====[|Build an Online Habitat] An interactive site that allows students to manipulate biomes, animals, plants, and precipitation in order to create a 100% compatible habitat!====


 * __Environmental Changes (3.8CD)__**

[|Pond Food Web] An interactive pond food web where students can manipulate the abundance of organisms to view the effects. ====[|Habitats] An interactive habitat site where the student can place animals into the appropriate habitat and see the threats facing them in that environment.====

[|Niche] A site describing a niche and gives some examples of some organisms and their niches.
====[|Wildlife and Global Warming] This website is sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation. It has great information about global warming and how it affects wildlife as well as activities.====

[|What Kinds of Natural Resources Does Nature Provide?] This site helps students navigate through the variety of natural resources and energy sources that nature provides. It also talks about how renewable resources can eventually become nonrenewable.
 * __Earth Materials (3.11A)__**

[|The Groundwater Story] A three minute video animation on the importance of groundwater and how to protect it.
====[|Soil Conservation] A site that explores soil's importance in our world and why we must conserve it. It also gives instructions for a hands-on activity to demonstrate how little topsoil there is.====


 * __Planets (3.11C)__**

[|Interactive Solar System Facts] This is a site where students can click on the spaceship to learn more about each individual planet and the Sun.
====[|Solar System Jigsaw Game] In this interactive activity, students use their knowledge of the order of the planets to build a jigsaw puzzle with the planets in the correct order starting with the planet closest to the Sun.==== ====[|Distance between planets] A cool animation showing the relative distances between planets.====

[|Order the Planets] A matching game where students match the planet name to its position from the sun.
[|The Interior of the Sun] Shows the different layers of the sun when you move your mouse over them (Internet Explorer only).
 * __The Sun's Characteristics (3.11D)__**

[|Astronomy.com- The Sun] A brief explanation of the sun and its characteristics.
====[|Ask an Astronomer! The Sun!] This is a web page that gives simple and easy to understand answers to a variety of questions about the sun.====

[|EdHeads Weather] This website is a place where students can predict weather patterns and fronts. ====[|Interactive Weather Maker] This website from Scholastic helps students understand how changes in weather occur by creating conditions that simulate different weather patterns.====
 * __Patterns of Change: Weather (4.6A)__**

[|Weather and the Sky] A site that explores what changes in the sky between day and night.
[|Earth's Oceans] An introduction to the ocean and how it affects the land around it.
 * __Oceans and Land (4.11B)__**

[|What is Coastal Erosion?] This is an illustrated website that explains how coastal erosion occurs.
[|How Wind is Created] This is a webpage that explains how uneven heating creates wind. Works best in Internet Explorer.
 * __The Sun's Energy (4.11C)__**