Favorite+Student+Links


 * Mrs. Barber’s Favorite Student Links **

**Computer Lab Favorites** Grades: K-5: From Scholastic -use these interactive, self-contained activities to introduce a topic or enliven your lab time. **BBC Kids - Sustainable Development - Ecosystem** Grades 2-5: Create your own ecosystem in the interactive site by choosing the correct trees, animals, and insects**.** **BBC Kids - Sustainable Development**  Grades 2-5: What would need to make a farm run properly? What makes an ideal tourist spot? Find out here with an interactive site in learning about sustainable developments. **Biodiversity 911** Grades 3-9: A well developed site that allows you to learn about forests, soil, wildlife, and more when studying biodiversity and ecosystems. This site has a lot to offer teachers and students. **The BioDaVersity Code** Grades: 3-12: Flash based video that uses the theme and storyline of //The DaVinci Code// to discuss and analyze the impact humans are having on "The Web of Life." **SwitcherZoo** Grades: 2-8: This is an interactive site where you design your own online animal habitat, create new species of animals, and explore wonderful resources about animals and where they live. **KBears Ocean Study** Grades: 1-5: Here you will find great pictures and wonderful facts for your first adventure in studying ocean animals. **Ed Heads - Force and Simple Machines** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: 3-8: Learn how forces and simple machines can work together to create The Odd Machine! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Ed Heads - Simple and Compound Machines** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: 3-8: Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**BBC Schools - Physical Processes** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: K-5: This site contains exciting activities for://Forces//, //Earth, Sun and Moon//, //Circuits, Sound, Magnetism//, //Light//, and much much more! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Ed Heads - Joints and Bones** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: 4-12: Take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a total knee replacement surgery. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**MEDtropolis** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: 5-12: Explore the human brain, heart, digestive tract, and skeleton. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Kids Health - My Body** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: 2-6: This is a fun site that explores interesting facts about the human body. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Interactive Biology** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: K-12: The site provides available educational resources at a variety of levels that uses interactive activities. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**BBC Schools - Physical Processes** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: K-5: This site contains activities for://Forces//, //Earth, Sun and Moon//, //Circuits, Sound, Magnetism//, //Light//, and much much more! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**National Geographic Kids** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: K-5: This is an interactive site that contains information, videos, activities, games and more! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Exploratorium - Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: 2-12: The Exploratorium is a collage of 650 interactive exhibits in science, art, and human perception. Students can explore any of these subject: light color, sound, music, motion, animal behavior, electricity, heat and temperature, language, patterns, hearing, touch, vision, waves and weather. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Computer Lab Favorites** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: K-5: From Scholastic -use these interactive, self-contained activities to introduce a topic or enliven your lab time. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**BBC Schools - Characteristics of Solids, Liquids, and Gases** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: K-5: This is an exciting site that contains activities for //Gases, Solids and Liquids, Rocks and Soils, Characteristics of Materials,// and much much more! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Ed Heads - Weather Center** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: 2-8: Learn how to report and predict the weather at the underground W.H.E.D. weather caves! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Computer Lab Favorites** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grades: K-5: From Scholastic -use these interactive, self-contained activities to introduce a topic or enliven your lab time <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Plimoth Plantation**Grades: 2-8: An interactive site investigating the First Thanksgiving. Students can learn on their own or can be led by teacher. Definitely check this one out!
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Science **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ecosystems **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Bones, Joints, Skeletal System **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Physical Processes **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Solids, Liquids, Gases **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Social Studies **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**American Memory - Library of Congress**Grades: K-12: A site that has access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps and sheet music that document the American Experience.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**The Underground Railroad**Grades: K-12: Follow Harriet Tubman on this interactive journey with authentic activities to help provide an emotional and historical perspective of slavery. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Bio-Cube**Grades: 2-8: Use Bio-Cube to summarize a biography or autobiography using this Flash application. Once you fill in the information for all 6 sides, print it out, cut, and tape - and you have a BIO-CUBE!!!! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Statetris - Map Games**Grades: 4-12: Statetris is an interesting game mixing aspects of the popular game 'Tetris' and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location. Fun, challenging and educational!" <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Family Vacation**Grades 2-6: This is a great place to reinforce or introduce map skills. Students will need to know cardinal directions and how to read a grid map. Travel by land or sea for your next family vacation! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Island Adventure**Grades 2-4: Help Kimo, the taxi driver, find faster routes around the island by reading a map key (or legend). Match the symbols on the map with those in the key and you'll earn big tips! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**BBC - See you See me!**Grades: 2-5: This is a colorful, interactive, and fun site providing skills for map reading and understanding landscapes. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Explore a Pyramid**Grades 2-5: Use your state of the art robot and map skills to look for clues so you can drive your way through an ancient pyramid. Get ready for hieroglyphs, mummies, and secret chambers as your continue on your adventure!!!! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Find the Sunken Treasure**Grades 2-5: Grid Map skills are needed when finding what's buried on the ocean floor. Use a water jet to blast sunken treasure out of hiding! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Net State - State Facts**Grades: 2-12: Informational site about state facts with lots of different categories.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Maps **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">State Facts **