Weather
Temperature
Humidity
Earth's Atmosphere
Water Cycle
Groundwater
Clouds
Wind

edheads: weather
create a weather forecast
predict the weather

Weather Tools
Make Weather Instruments
Build Your Own Weather Instruments
Making Your Own Weather Tools
Make a Weather Station
Simple Weather Measurements
Boys Life: Make Your Own Weather Instruments
Make Your Own Barometer I
Make Your Own Barometer II
Make an Anemometer
Make a Windsock
Make a thermometer

Temperature
How a thermometer works

Weather Fronts
Weather Fronts and Air Masses


Clouds

Cloud Watching Project
Cloud Poem by M. Doherty Clouds by M. Doherty


Hurricanes
FEMA information site

Lessons about hurricanes

CNN.com hurricane specials


Climate
EPA kids Climate Change
EPA kids Climate and Weather Newsroom
Adventures in Climate Change

 

Virtual Owl Dissection

Picture of a mole, mole, mole

Picture of a shrew, shrew, shrew, shrew

Picture of a vole, meadow vole

Picture and sound of a field mouse, field mouse What are the other names for a field mouse?

Picture of a rat, rat, rat

What a food web looks like

Another example of a food web
 

Penguins Around the World

Glacier

Blubber...a great insulator!

Blubber Glove

Mapping Antarctica
Label the following locations:
-the point of highest elevation
-the point of lowest elevation
-the South Pole
-McMurdo Station
-the Weddell Sea
-Cape Crozier
-the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
-the Ross Ice Shelf
-the Indian Ocean
-the Pacific Ocean
-the Atlantic Ocean
-and the Transantarctic Mountains.

Picture of Antarctica from space

Global Warming Facts and Our Future

Lesson on "Comparing the Continents"

Lesson on "What Do People Know About the Arctic and Antarctic?"

Lesson from Discovery-Antarctica

The Antarctic Treaty
What is the Antarctic Treaty? Go to Antarctic Treaty.
Partnership 1  Research the origin of the treaty.  When was it signed? What countries were responsible for its development? Why was it necessary?

Each of the other partnerships read one of the treaty’s 14 articles. What conditions does it refer to? Why was it necessary? What is its importance?

Once your group has completed your research, you will  each give a brief presentation to the rest of the class.

Then as a group, we will discuss:  Have its goals been achieved? Is it too restrictive? Is it restrictive enough? Are there other articles that students believe should have been included in the treaty?

You Wouldn't Want to Be A Polar Explorer!

 

Polar Bears

What is a Biome? 

Wetland Ecosystem  Take a virtual tour of the Kildeer Wetlands and find out about bogs, marshes, and swamps. You can visit the "Marsh" and "Swamp" links on the left to read about these wetlands. Includes photo tours of these habitats.

America's Wetlands; What are Wetlands?  Read to find out what they are and how extremely important this ecosystem is to our world.

The following sites are about food chains and food webs. Includes examples of webs and chains with animals from various biomes. Learn about consumers, producers, prey, predators, herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores.

Food Chains and Webs This site shows a food pyramid and explains food chains and webs through an online game.

Food Chains  An ecosystem is a living community which depends on each member and its surrounding environment. The living part of an ecosystem is sometimes called a food chain. Includes an easy to follow diagram of a food chain.

Food Chain Fish This brief article talks about the important role fish play in most food chains.

Brain POP:  The Food Chain

Habitat and Habitat Loss go here for activities to learn more about this concept.

Biodiversity Click on a colored area of the map to learn more about that particular ecosystem.

Introducing Foreign Species  Follow Iz and Auggie as they discover the downside to introducing animals and plants from one ecosystem into another. Help them solve the problem by playing the game. Click on the red arrow to begin.

Underground Adventure  This exhibit from the Field Museum in Chicago examines the underground ecosystem of soil. Feel what it's like to be 1 1/2 inches tall and meet the many animals that live in dirt. Make sure to click "show the hotspots" so you get all the information.

What is a herbivore?

What is a carnivore?

What is an omnivore?

What is a decomposer?

Cooperative Lesson: Creating a Food Web

Chain Reaction  This interactive tutorial teaches about food chains and what happens if one part of the chain is gone.

Adventures of Herman the Worm

Good Buddies  A research project to learn about parasites, symbiosis, and other interdependent relationships of plants and animals. Worksheet

eNature  Visit the archives and find out all sorts of things about animals and nature.

Kids Gardening

Bembo's Zoo  Alphabet book of animals and their sounds

Exploratorium:  Frogs

All About Frogs for Kids and Teachers

Frogland!

Kid Zone:Frogs

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Frogs and Toads Photographs and Calls

The Froggy Page

The Somewhat Amusing World of Frogs

Prepared Slides for Plants and Animals  Can also find virtual pond critters here.

Sounds of Animals

Bug Fun  Go here to learn all sorts of things about bugs!

Spiders

Enchanted Learning: Digestive System

Innerbody.com: Digestive System

Body Systems for the Whiteboard

*Digestive System Unit Objectives

The Real Deal on the Digestive System

My Body

Human Anatomy

WebQuest The Gross and Yucky Stuff of the  Digestive System  
A WebQuest worth looking into!

Digestive System Sites

Another digestive system site

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet

Explore the Human Body

Medtropolis  Learn the body parts in English or Spanish

Another Human Body Site

Human Body and Mind Interactive site

Cells Alive!  Go here to learn about different types of cells and what they look like.

What are Germs?

Plastic Fork Diaries  a site that engages and educates kids about issues related to food (origins, preparation, nutrition, and more) through an ongoing tale of lunch and life at a mythical middle school.

Kids' Health Problems

The Fitness Files

Web:  www.springfieldmo.gov/recycling

Web:  www.springfieldmo.gov/cee

Web:  www.springfieldmo.gov/showmeyards

Web:  www.springfieldmo.gov/stormwater

Web:  http://www.ozarksenvironment.com

City Utilities of Springfield
Springfield Recycling
Choose Environmental Excellence  
Show Me Yards  
Stormwater Services
Ozarks Environment

Science Teachers of Missouri

National Project Learning Tree

Missouri Environmental Education Association (MEEA)

Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Missouri Stream Teams

Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources

University of Missouri Extension--Household
 Hazardous Waste Project

Dickerson Park Zoo

Greater Ozark Audubon Society

James River Basin Partnership

Missouri Environmental Education Association (MEEA)

Wildlife Online
 

Animoto: scenes from earthquakes

Earthquake Unit Objectives/Study Guide

Teacher Tube: Continental Drift, Pangea, types of plate boundaries: transforming, convergent, divergent, rifts, ocean trenches and more

Teachers Domain (Mrs. J needs to sign in to get these lessons.

Pangaea

Continental Drift  a demonstration

Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker (PBS) Plate tectonics animations

Earth Floor: Plate Tectonics  plate boundaries, divergent, convergent and transform

USGS Earthquakes for Kids

Videos
Shock Waves: One Hundred Years after the 1906 Earthquake
This 2006 USGS film (nominated for an Emmy award) shows the century of progress that science and engineering have made since the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Includes dramatic historical footage, reenactments, colorful animations, and interviews with earthquake experts. (46 minutes).

 The Living Rock: the Earth's Continental Crust
This beautiful film is a global tour of geologic processes narrated by many USGS scientists. In addition to the imagery, the movie includes advanced computer-generated animations.  tectonic plates, continental shelf, rift, continent, friction, core, mantle, crust of the earth. (1 hour)

Divergent boundary 

Convergent boundary animation

Transform boundary animation

Interactive plates map-demo of types of faults-divergent, convergent and transforming

 Faults

Animated Guide: Earthquakes ( hypocenter is the same as focus point)

Earthquake Facts and Follies

USGS: Latest Quake Info
Explore these links for maps, seismograms, and earthquake photographs.


New Madrid Earthquake

Missouri: New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-12

Eyewitness Account: George Crist (Primary source)

USGS: 15 Largest Earthquakes
Read a list of the 15 largest earthquakes in the United States with links to brief descriptions of the quakes. New Madrid is number two.

USGS: New Madrid Earthquakes (Primary source)
View these photographs that show the results of the New Madrid earthquake.

New Madrid Earthquakes 1975-1995
Look at maps showing the earthquakes along the New Madrid fault from 1975 to 1995.

Latest Earthquakes

Earthquakes for Kids

Earthquake Map: IRIS

How are mountains formed?

Types of Mountains

Safety


Missouri Earthquake Preparedness

Safety Tips and Preparing for earthquake

Get Ready: Get a Kit, Make a Plan, Be Informed.

FEMA Get Ready Kids
 

Volcanoes

Volcano Unit Objectives and Study Guide

Volcano Hotlist

Types of Volcanoes

Animated Guide for volcanoes

Time-lapse photos of Mt. St. Helen, 2005  demonstrates how volcanoes are "living earth".

What's Your Rock?  Use these sites to classify the rock(s) you brought in to class.

Rock Key 1

Identifying Rocks

Rock and Mineral Pictures

Rock Gallery

Rock Database

Schoolyard Geology

Minerals

What are minerals used for?

Common Minerals and Their Uses in Everyday Life

Birthstones

Fast Facts about Rocks and Minerals

Minerals are everywhere in our lives!

Rock and Mineral Quiz

Mineral Information Institute Minerals by Rock Types (Photos)

Minerals and Rocks Objective/Study Guide

Moh's Hardness Scale

Rocks On Your Face!

Rocks and Minerals PPT overview

Rocks and Weathering  view before and after

Rocks

Identifying Types of Rocks You Tube eHow video

The Rock Cycle

The Rock Cycle
     Types of Rocks
     How Rocks Change
     Rock Cycle Diagram

Rock Cycle Review

Animated Rock Cycle

Rock Cycle Song 

Dr. Loopy's Igneous Rocks 

     Types of Igneous Rocks: Pictures

How Sedimentary Rocks are Formed

Dr. Loopy's Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rock

     Types of Sedimentary Rocks: Pictures

How Metamorphic Rocks are Formed

     Types of Metamorphic Rocks: Pictures

Odd Rock Formations

Trunk Full of Rocks: WebQuest for learning about sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks

Fossils

Fossils Now and Then

Fossils for Kids

Fossils Tools

Soil

Soil Q & A

Soil Safari

All About Soil

Dig it! The Secrets of Soil

Layers of Soils

Name that Soil

WebQuest: To Dig or Not to Dig

Underground Adventure

Worms

Weather

Weather Watch  You can learn lots of things about the weather and even change the weather!

Virtual Caves  From the comfort of your keyboard, browse the wonders of the underground! As a caver and photographer for over 30 years, I've collected images from caves all over the world. This site tells the story of caves in words and pictures: what's in them and how it got there. Because caves are so diverse, I've split them into four underground realms. Grab three sources of light, a helmet, some sturdy boots, and your mouse, and have fun exploring - there LOTS to see!

National Parks Geology: see 3D photos after making some 3D glasses

Making rock candy

Resources for Rocks and Minerals