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Resources for a study in 3 or 4th grade

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Look at how the soil varies in its composition

Includes an e-book, lesson, and teacher guide

Lesson available in English, Arabic, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish

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Elementary GLOBE is designed to introduce students in grades K-4 to the study of Earth system science. Each module includes a science-based fictional storybook, three learning activities and teacher's notes with a glossary of relevant scientific terminology. GLOBE strives to provide translations of materials in the official U.N. languages.

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Resources for a study in 1st grade

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Resources for a study in 5th grade

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Movie about types of fossils

Free site with ads. (Movie plays through Youtube so not sure if it would work for students at school)

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Dinosaurs for kids explores the fascinating, super-sized world of the dinosaurs. This collection of movies, games, interactives, and profile pages offers kids the opportunity to learn about their favorite dinosaurs, as well as the environment in which they lived. Through colorful animations and interactive pages, the viewer is introduced to such varied concepts as the Earth's geological timeline, fossils, evolution, and more.
Some DinoMight Highlights:

Movies: DinoMight includes three short Flash movies, each of which addresses a different concept. The Dino Movie gives an overview of what the dinosaurs were, and how they differed from other reptiles; the Extinction Movie describes one theory behind dinosaur extinction, and how the event paved the way for mammals and birds to dominate the Earth; the Fossil Movie describes the fossilization process, and the different kinds of fossils Archeologists study to learn about dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Profiles: DinoMight offers profiles on the eleven most famous and extreme dinosaurs that ever existed. Each profile offers a description of the creature, and information graphics that show its size, location in the world, and claim to fame.

Games: DinoMight features nine animated Flash games to reinforce the concepts presented on the site.

These fascinating dinosaurs lived in an equally strange and exciting world that was very different than our own. Please enjoy exploring the world of the dinosaurs, and let us know if you have any suggestions for this or any other sections of www.sheppardsoftware.com.

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Sheppard Software's Dinosaurs: fossils activities and games

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K & 1 students would enjoy looking for animals with the flashlight.

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In this HTML5 game, modeled after flashlight tag, children can play with Peep anywhere! Can you help Peep find his friends in the dark?

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Dutch artist photographs homemade clouds indoors.

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Storyline to help students make own folg.

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SYNOPSIS

In this physical science unit on the particulate nature of matter, students explore the phenomenon of fog with the goal of designing and building an affordable and safe fog machine. The goal motivates students to figure out more about natural fog through a series of investigations related to weather data and properties of air and water. Their discoveries help them develop particle-level concepts related to temperature, thermal energy, and phase changes. These understandings help students explain how natural and artificial fog are formed and how these explanations inform their engineering designs.

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How Can We Make Our Own Fog? - Next Generation Science Storylines

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In this physical science unit on the particulate nature of matter, students explore the phenomenon of fog with the goal of designing and building an affordable and safe fog machine. The goal motivates students to figure out more about natural fog through a series of investigations related to weather data and properties of air and water.

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Interesting photo of a meandering river. The included video should be shared at the conclusion of the unit to help answer the questions about why do rivers curve. Grade 4

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Description: A meandering river is a great example of a phenomenon of water changing the shape of land. When it is surrounded by steep rock a river rarely curves but when it open up in large valleys it will weave back and forth. Water on the outside of the river will travel faster and erode the land more quickly. Eventually it will curve too much and lose speed. A stream table can be used to model a meandering river.

Web Resource: Meander - Wikipedia

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Why Do Rivers Curve - The Wonder of Science

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Description: A meandering river is a great example of a phenomenon of water changing the shape of land. When it is surrounded by steep rock a river rarely curves but when it open up in large valleys it will weave back and forth.

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UAE building a mountain to increase rainfall

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UAE building a mountain to increase rainfall

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Would building a mountain in UEA bring them more rain? Students look at how mountains change weather and climate zones.

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Description: The UAE is exploring the idea of building a mountain to increase rainfall in the area. The government has already used cloud seeding in the area to increase rainfall and is currently exploring a mega-project to build a mountain. This could be used as an anchoring phenomenon in a unit on weather and climate. The design solution would mimic the role of mountains in affecting climates around the world.

Web Resource: Independent - UAE to Build 'Fake" Mountain

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UAE Building a Mountain to Increase Rainfall - The Wonder of Science

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Description: The UAE is exploring the idea of building a mountain to increase rainfall in the area. The government has already used cloud seeding in the area to increase rainfall and is currently exploring a mega-project to build a mountain. This could be used as an anchoring phenomenon in

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Students will determine what objects allow light to pass through.

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Students can explore water, sound, and light waves.

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Students use a simulation to explore geology and tectonic plate boundaries.

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The article explains tricks of the trade of making sound effects and invites students to make their own.

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Do you know what a light sounds like? What about the of a Tyrannosaurus Rex? If you've seen the Star Wars or Jurassic Park films, then you probably answered those questions with a loud "Yes!"

Now think about it for a moment. Are light sabers real? Do T. Rexes still roam Earth? Nope! They only exist and live on in movies. So how do we know what they sound like?

Thanks to sound designers and sound effects engineers, our favorite movies, television shows, and radio programs come to life with the sounds of things that aren't even real! It just makes sense. If you're going to make a movie about things that aren't real or no longer exist, you're going to have to create the sounds you think they made.

Of course, sound effects are also used in movies and television shows featuring real people and things that do exist. Sometimes it can be hard to record the sounds that things make in the real world.

For example, a door closing might make only a small sound. If the plot requires that you notice a door closing, though, a sound effect may be recorded that the sound of a door closing or makes it sound a particular way.

Sound effects have been around for a long, long time. In fact, they've been around since the earliest days of radio. Early radio programs often featured productions . People relied on their ears instead of their eyes to receive the story from the radio. Good sound effects were necessary to tell a story in a lively, way.

Today, big-budget movies have taken sound effects to a whole new level. With sound systems in many theaters, movies have become a feast for the ears, as well as the eyes.

But how do they make those sounds? Let's take a look at some sounds you may be familiar with and the sometimes-surprising way they are created!

The blasts in Star Wars aren't from the future, and they didn't get their start as computer-generated synthesizer sounds either. A sound created them by hitting tightly-strung metal wires with a hammer!

And those dinosaurs in Jurassic Park? They're not real dinosaurs obviously. No one really knows what dinosaurs sounded like, so sound designers had to come up with sounds that people might believe would come out of such ferocious creatures.

The result? The T. Rex's "voice" was a combination of sounds from various real animals by computer technology. Its breathing? That's a whale! Its roar? That came from lions, alligators, tigers, and elephants. Its grunt? That's a koala bear!

As you can see, sound effects can come from a wide variety of sources. They often have nothing to do with the real - or fake or imaginary - animal or object being . With a little imagination and some computer trickery, our ears can be treated to sounds we never imagined we'd hear!

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We think today's Wonder of the Day sounds like a great idea!

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Experiment with making waves

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First, make a single pulse: Have your partner hold one end of the phone cord or attach it firmly in place at about waist height. Stretch the cord so it's about 12 ft (4 m) from you to your partner, and then jerk the hand holding the cord to the right about one hand-span and immediately back again to set a traveling pulse in motion. Notice that a rightward pulse travels down the cord, but a leftward pulse returns after bouncing off the far end of the cord.

If you have trouble seeing that the pulse is reversed when it is reflected, set the cord on the ground and stretch it to about 12 ft (4 m). Mark a straight line on the ground under the cord using masking tape. The direction of motion of the pulses will be much more visible when compared to the reference tape.

If it isn't there already, set the cord on the ground and stretch it to 12 ft (4 m). Place an empty paper or plastic foam cup next to the center of the cord. Once again, send a single pulse down the cord, making sure you move your hand to the side the cup is on when you make the pulse. It should hit the cup and knock it over.

Now make two pulses and add them together: This time, both you and your partner will set pulses in motion.

Keep the cord on the ground as it was before, stretched between you and your partner. Then set up the cup again at the center of the stretched cord. First, you and your partner should both send waves down the cord. Both pulses should be toward the side the cup is on. Notice that when the pulses meet in the middle, you end up with an even bigger wave that knocks down the cup. Carefully time your pulses so that they both arrive at the center of the cord at the same time.

Set up the cup again.

This time, you and your partner should send waves through the cord in opposite directions: While you send a pulse on the same side as the cup, have your partner send an identical pulse on the side away from the cup. The pulses will arrive at the center at the same time. The rightward pulse will add to the leftward pulse and cancel it out. The sum of the waves will be zero. The waves will miss the cup, and the cup will remain standing.

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First, make a single pulse: Have your partner hold one end of the phone cord or attach it firmly in place at about waist height. Stretch the cord so it's about 12 ft (4 m) from you to your partner, and then jerk the hand holding the cord to the right about one hand-span and immediately back again to set a traveling pulse in motion.