Science for Kindergarten

Here is your science blog. I hope you find something here that you can use.
Here is a link back to your math blog. http://mckteacher.blogspot.com/

Thanks for everything you do!
Tina

Just for you!

Foss web
http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/

GREAT STIE!
http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/index.shtml

Everyday math
http://www.mrsd.org/~mtcaesar/EverydayMathKind.htm

KinderSite: MASSIVE LIST
http://www.kindersite.org/Directory/DirectoryFrame.htm
Fingerplays galore!http://www.geocities.com/teachingwithheart/fingerplays.html

http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Dolch.html/
massive list

Roy the Zebra - interactive game for students; capitalize the first letter using the looking glass without waking up Zara. Four levels of this game. Great for whole class interactive lesson

Letter Bugs - collect the individual letters to create a whole word

Sight Words - Use this pre-primer dolch word list to practice sight words. Click on the word and hear what it is.

StoryTime- Stories with Dolch words are read to student. Students can go back and reread the stories themselves. Stories can also be printed out for more reinforcement of words

Animal Muddle - Listen to Foxy Dancer's animal rhyme at The Little Animals Activity Centre

The Three Billy Goats Gruff - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.

The Three Bears - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.

The Mouse and the Lion - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.

Country Mouse and City Mouse - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
Frog Jump - Click on the flower to hear a sound. Listen to the flashing lily pads and click on the one that matches the flower. If you click the right lily pad, the frog will jump one step closer to his home. The closer the frog gets to home, the quicker the sounds play.
Loosey Goosey Rhymes - Loosey Goosey letters keep falling off the words. Try to guess what letters are missing

Animals:

Squish the Fish - [Reading skills required] Help Squish travel out across the reef to find his lunch. He needs to find friends who will help him hide from his nemesis, Big Tooth Blob. Learn about shape, color, and behavioral adaptations for survival

Snuffy's Safari (Sesame Street) - [this link opens on a new page] travel to one of three environments and search for animals that live there using Sunffy's binoculars

Critter Craze - [this link opens on a new page] This lesson introduces the concepts of basic needs, grouping, and habitats. (Author - Laurie Ayers

Digger and the Gang - Animal Park
Guess Who I Am?
Science Made Simple How do animals spend the winter? Check out this site and find out

Farm Animal Sounds Please take your students here to explore the sounds and pictures of farm animals!

Life in the Sea
http://www.kidport.com/GradeK/Science/SeaLife.htm

Animal Homes
http://www.kidport.com/Grade1/Science/AnimalHomes.htm /AnimalHomes.htm

Watch Monarch Butterflies movies from eggs to Adult

Chick Life Cycle Pictures Pictures for each day

Farm Animals versus Jungle Animals-Drag the animals to the correct habitat PowerPoint

Nonliving Drag pictures to the living or non-living box

Match Animals to their Habitats Game Drag the animal to the correct picture of where the animal lives

Kritter Craze Beacon Webquest. Learn about basic needs and habitats through pictures

Baby Animal Videos - (posted by the San Diego Zoo) Click on an animal in the list to begin the video. While the emphasis is on the baby, you also see the parent

Build Your Own Caterpillar - [reading skills required] Build a caterpillar with the tools for surviving in its environment. Look at the environment and then choose the parts that will help your caterpillar have the best chance for survival

Find the Living things in this interactive quiz from the BBC
The Great Habitat Match-Up - click and drag each of five animals to their correct habitat in this Magic Schoolbus activity

Web Cams

Webcams is the section where we offer webcam links as an aid to teachers and students alike. They bring the topic alive and allow students to experience things they may not be able to view in their city.

Penguin Cam - Splash Zone Exhibit
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_splash/splash_cam.asp
Monterey Bay Aquarium website with live viewing of penguins.

Kelp Forest Cam
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_kelp/kelp_cam.asp
From the sheltering canopy to the haven of the holdfast, the kelp forest nourishes and protects animals of all kinds. Monterey Bay Aquarium

Animal Cams
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/webcams/
Links to a variety of 16 animal cams provided by the Smithsonian National Zoological Park,

San Diego Zoo Web Cams
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/videos/index.html
Live video streaming for polar bears, apes, elephants and pandas.

Tiger Homes
http://www.tigerhomes.org/animal/cams.cfm
Web cams for tigers, lions, lemurs, cougars and leopards

TryScience Live Cams
http://tryscience.org/livecams/live_cams.html Live cams to Torango Zoo in Sydney Australia (see Chimpanzees and Giraffes), Children's Science Museum in Tokyo, Japan (see a giant bubble machine), Mid-Hudson Children's Museum in New York (see the river and surrounding area),USS Blueback at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) (nuclear submarine)

United States National Parks Webcams (*recommended site)http://www.leonardsworlds.com/info/parks.htm Links to webcams located in 25 U.S. National Parks

Fishview-Cam
http://www.fisheyeview.com/FVCam.html A living reef aquarium featuring corals, invertebrates and tropical fish with live images and video, archived images, time-lapse movies and more located in Coral Gables

Volcano Webcamshttp://www.leonardsworlds.com/info/volcano.htm
Links to volcano webcams around the world

Live Deformed Frog Cam
http://freddo.pca.state.mn.us/frogcam2.html You're viewing live frogs cared for by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. See how pollution has altered the bodies of frogs.

Jellyfish Cam
http://www.aquarium.org/jellies/jellycam.htm Oregon Coast Aquarium jelly cam

First Science
http://www.firstscience.com/site/webcams.asp 22 Nature and Science Webcam Links

Bear Cam
www.zoo.org/bearcan/cam.html Woodland Park Zoo’s two grizzly bears are brothers named Keema andDenali and are 12 years old (2006). The brothers arrived here from Washington State University in 1994. WSU maintains a small population of grizzlies in order to conduct long-term studies on bear nutrition.

Natural History Museum - Naturecamshttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/kids-only/naturecams/index.html Webcams for ants and beetles

Dr. Z Dental Camhttp://www.pearlywhites.com/dentcam.html Provides the community at large with an insight into the workings of the dental office

Carnegie Science Center
http://tryscience.org/livecams/pri_cam_popup.html?cscuw
Take a look into the undersea world in our 2000-gallon coral reef system. Representing four zones of the reef, you can spot colorful fish, unique corals, strange invertebrates, and underwater plant life.

Canton Animal Hospital
http://www.cantonanimalhospital.com/
WEBCAM OBSERVATORYPlease join us in our live hospital observatory to view in-progress procedures, and animals under treatment and recovering

Seasons/Weather/Temperature

Interactive Thermometer - use this interactive thermometer to calculate difference in temperature

Seasonal Changes Lesson Plans From Scholastic - The activities in this theme unit take advantage of opportunities for students to practice observation and description skills, as well as extending students' experience into other curricular areas, such as language arts and art

Weather - Help Bobingo dress for the weather. First you help him dress for winter weather and then you help him dress for a day at the beach

Sort/Classify/Senses

Science for Kindergarten

Monday, March 30, 2009

Welcome Teachers!

Just for you!

Animals:

Web Cams

Plants

Webquest for Kindergarten

Seasons/Weather/Temperature

Sort/Classify/Senses