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Hi All,
I'm taking an internet class and one of our assignments was to find internet resources for our content area and I thought who better share it with than this group. Let me know if you find any of these helpful.
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Tabitha,
What a great compilation of resources you have put together. I will definitely see if I can adapt some of the plate tectonics and Earth axis sites to my fourth graders to help with our work in Earth sciences. Thank you for the great resource. I will let you know how it goes.
Ryan
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One of my all time favorite websites that has some science, amongst other areas, is www.EducationCity.com. This site has a very minimal fee per student but the activites are outstanding. Activities are by grade level and subject area. It also keeps track of the students points, much like our points are tracked here. Students recieve "awards" and strive to reach their goals. My students are sometimes given specific activites to work on. Other times they are allowed to choose their own activities, either way they are using learning and having a good time.
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Educationcity.com looks like a great website. I plan on talking to our school's tech coordinator about it. It would be great to get a school subscription. Thanks for the referral.
I know I have mentioned it in previous forums, but our school uses Discovery Education, www.discoveryed.com. You must have a subscription to use it, but it has videos, articles, games, and labs that students can access. My favorite tool is being able to assign my students homework over their breaks and communicate with them through email.
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Arleen, thank you for mentioning EducationCity! My school has access to it and I completely forgot about the science activities! I have been using the math tests and activities during after school tutoring. My students are going to love the interactive activities. I can't wait to get online and include EducationCity in my plans for teaching science standards this year. Thank you for posting!
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Tabitha, Khan Academy was used by my students' 4th grade teachers. I'm so glad you posted your spreadsheet with the link. I am getting so excited about the lessons that I can create with your resources. Thank you so much! I used Illuminations before, but I didn't know there was a resource for graphing. That will be great in integrated math and science lessons. Thank you again for sharing your resources with us!
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Hi Tabitha,
Thanks for the resources. I am doing a unit on rocks with my fourth graders as we study how weathering and slow processes shape the Earth's surface. I love http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/index.html, the site you listed! It's really thorough and interesting. I will definitely use it with my kids for this lesson. NASA also has some great interactives on this topic. I took a Project Inspire class that focused on using Thinkfinity in the classroom and was glad to see you list so many of their great resources as well. Thanks for sharing!
Paula
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Mark Francek sens out a list of his favorite websites each week. Here is the list for this week
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I was reading other threads in the Evaluation and Assessment forum and came across a great website, http://www.exploratorium.edu/who/educators/, that Amanda Kirk recommended. It has great resources for a navigation unit, basing most of it on the polynesian explorers. There was also an online planetarium available for the students to explore. I am very impressed and plan to utilize this website often.
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Tabitha,
Thanks for the list of great sites! I especially like the one about plate tectonics. This is such a hard concept to grasp for fourth graders, so videos really help them to visualize how it actually happens. I also like how that website has information about how the Hawaiian Islands were formed. It ties into Earth science and our Social Studies standards here in Hawaii!
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