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1. Alien Assembly - What do aliens look like? You decide. Use the parts to build your very own alien.
2. Build a Dinosaur - [reading skills required] interactive game from Scholastic.com using parts of several dinosaurs - students can click and put the parts together to create a dinosaur that really existed, or create an imaginary dinosaur of their own
3. 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.
4. Exploring Parts and Wholes - To explore how parts of something are related to the whole thing. (from Science NetLinks)
5. Find My Legs - Help the spider find its legs by clicking on the right set of legs. After finishing the spider you will have another animal to help.
6. Jigsaw Puzzle - drag each piece to its spot and place it there
   1. Printable version of a puzzle - students draw a picture on a puzzle template
7. Make a Monster - this Sesame Street game lets you make any kind of monster you like
8. Ready, Set, Let's Dough! It's a Matter of System - To allow students to discover that everyday substances are composed of parts that make a unique whole. ( from Science NetLinks)

1. Base 10 Blocks - uses units blocks, tens blocks, and hundreds blocks
2. Building Block Game - click a shape, drag it to the black line and build with the blocks
3. Building Blocks - click a shape and move it to the white space
4. Make an Alien - drag parts to make a friend for Lecky the alien
5. Styrofoam Building Blocks - kids make their own building blocks

1. Find the Living things in this interactive quiz from the BBC
2. Living and Nonliving - A lesson plan that is five activities in one inquiry
3. Living vs Non-Living Quiz - This quiz is based on the information about the six characteristics of living things. For each of the following determine if it is a living or a non-living organism. Clicking on the answer allows you to check your answers. Good luck!
4. Living or Non-Living? - use this BBC quiz to classify things as animal or non living
5. Ourselves - use this BBC site to investigate living and non-living
   1. Take a Quiz - after the Ourselves activity, try the short quiz
6. Plants and Animals in the Local Environment - collect all of the living things in the environment pictured
7. Worksheet for classifying living and non living things

1. Amazing Animal Senses - let your students compare animal senses to human senses
2. Christmas Bear and his Five Senses - Students teach Christmas Bear how to use his five senses to learn about his surroundings. (Author - Sandi King)
3. Five Senses - A very complete online unit plan (bilingual - Spanish) that integrates all subject areas based around learning the 5 senses.
4. Five Senses and Four Seasons Quilt - Students will help make a Five Senses and Four Seasons quilt and cinquain poem.
5. Learning to Look - five activities in one, introducing students to sensory investigation
6. Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World - reading level is too high for your students, but this site is packed full of great information for their teacher
7. Teaching Children About the Five Senses - from Nibbles ... Ideas for Families presented by University of Illinois Extension
8. The Senses - experiments and activities for kindergarten and above
9. Touching - presented by The Franklin Institute
10. Your Tongue - full of good information to help a teacher plan a unit

1. Plants and Animals: Same/Different - lesson plan designed for 1st grade

1. Critter Craze - introduces the concepts of basic needs, grouping, and habitats (Author - Laurie Ayers)
2. Health and Growth - keep Ben healthy by providing him with what he needs
3. Helping Plants Grow Well - can you make the plant grow to its full height?
4. Growing Plants - give water to the plants in this interactive game from the BBC
5. Basic Needs of Living Things - students guess the mystery animal from the clues about their basic needs

1. Growing Plants - a BBC interactive site, students try to make the plant grow to its full height
2. Helping Plants Grow Well - can you make the plant grow to its full height?

1. Baby Animals - An Online Story Picture Book For Young Children. Adult animals are named, but are not shown.
2. Baby Animals Crossword Puzzle - Click on each box to type letters into the crossword puzzle. (use this as a follow up activity after studying baby animals)
3. 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.
4. Gallery of Young and Adult Animals -
5. Match Parents With Babies - Springboard Magazine's All About Babies page has a matching quiz (names not pictures) at the bottom of the page.
6. What Will I Be When I Grow Up? - a baby animal and three adult animals are shown, students must select the matching adult

1. Match Animals to their Habitat - select one of the twelve habitats at Animal Universe and choose animals that live in that habitat (select Maybe Later on the registration screen)

1. Critter Craze - This lesson introduces the concepts of basic needs, grouping, and habitats. (Author - Laurie Ayers)
2. The Great Habitat Match-Up - click and drag each of five animals to their correct habitat in this Magic School bus activity
3. The Farm - [Reading skills required] Visit several areas of the farm and notice the different types of things which live there. This is an excellent beginning site that teaches your students about the farm in addition to practicing beginning computer skills such as clicking once and using arrow keys.

1. Explore Animal Homes - from Springboard Magazine
2. Snuffy's Safari (Sesame Street) - travel to one of three environments and search for animals that live there using Snuffy's binoculars.
3. 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.

1. Day and Night Experiment - help students understand what makes day and night
2. Daytime and Nighttime - What would the sky look like at the given hour of the day?
3. Using Excel as a Graphic Organizer to make a Venn Diagram - step by step instructions on how to make a Venn diagram
4. Use Excel to make a Venn Diagram - using MS Office 2007 to make a Venn diagram
5. Venn Diagram - two circle, three circle, and instructions to make your own - can be used with any version of MS Excel
6. Venn Diagram - Classtools has an online 3-circle Venn diagram
7. Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer - template to print from Read Write Think
8. Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer - this version has lines drawn in the circles for text to be written on
9. Venn Diagram Worksheet Maker - from Teachnology
10. What Makes Day and Night - simple explanation

1. Phases of the Moon - short lesson on phases with several links to follow
2. The Night Sky Live - best as a whole class activity - click on an asterisk on the map to see the night sky live from someplace around the world.

1. Living and Nonliving - A lesson plan that is five activities in one inquiry
2. Living vs Non-Living Quiz - This quiz is based on the information about the six characteristics of living things. For each of the following determine if it is a living or a non-living organism. Clicking on the answer allows you to check your answers. Good luck!
3. Living or Non-Living? - use this BBC quiz to classify things as animal or non living
4. Find the Living things in this interactive quiz from the BBC
5. Worksheet for classifying living and non living things

1. Grouping and Describing - let students try sorting toys and labeling materials before they try to sort natural or manmade materials

1. Dressing for the Weather
   1. Dress a Bear for the Weather - careful, he's fussy! (this activity asks students to make a judgment about weather based on a thermometer) this also works well for math
   2. Dress Elmo for Fall (Sesame Street) - Help Elmo dress for the weaFall.
   3. Help Bella the Bear Decide What to Wear - Help Bella the Bear make decisions about which clothing would be appropriate for the weather conditions.
   4. 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.
2. Eye on the Sky - the scientist (your student) is asked to enter weather observations. Based on the entries, a summary of conditions is compiled
3. Seasonal Changes - description of the four seasons including several links to follow
4. 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.

1. How to Make a Paper Chain - from Wiki How
2. How to Make a Victorian Paper Chain - history and directions for a children's Christmas decoration
3. How to Weave a Paper Chain - this one is a bit more complicated than simply making paper loops
4. Paper Chain - from Family Fun.com
5. A Paper Chain for Edgar and Andrew - a delightful story which includes instructions for making a chain

1. Packing for the Park - group various objects using their physical characteristics (Author - Sandi King)
2. Select which items give out light - a BBC activity followed by an interactive quiz
3. Sorting and Using Materials - determine whether items are waterproof or not with this BBC activity which is followed by an interactive quiz

1. Change It - drag different solid or liquid objects into the freezer or oven to see what happens
   1. Solids and Liquids - find out how can you change a liquid into a solid or a solid into a liquid
2. Sort Household Items - solid, liquid, or gas

1. Investigation 2: Thermometers - lesson plan designed for a higher grade, but the activity can be adapted for your kindergarten classroom
2. Make your own thermometer - from experiments and engineering activities
3. Making an Air Thermometer - an experiment your students could perform under your direct supervision

1. Thermometer / Temperature worksheets - a large number (over 100) of blank thermometer to print - from Worksheet Genius ["for teachers who can't afford therapy"]
   1. Design your own Thermometer worksheet
2. Thermometer Worksheet - seven temperatures are given (as numbers) students color in the temperature on a blank thermometer
3. Thermometer Worksheet - seven temperatures are given (as words) students color in the temperature on a blank thermometer

1. The Greenhouse Effect in a Jar - lesson plan for a class experiment involving jars, thermometers and a light to shine on the jar, or a sunny area in the classroom

1. Balance and Motion - build your own roller coaster and find out how things balance and how things move

1. Boxing Weigh In - drag boxers to a scale and measure their weight, use a digital display to see kg or lbs or
2. Platform Scales Addition - weigh several items and find the sum in hundredths of a gram or
3. Platform Scales Subtraction - weigh several items and find the difference in hundredths of a gram or
4. Using a Platform Scale - practice using scales like the one in a doctor's office, five Gregs will drop on the scale, waiting to be weighed, see how quickly you can weigh them or

1. Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab - experiments sorted by category
2. The Science Explorer - an exploratorium-at-home book
3. Science Kids at Home - free ideas for children's science experiments
4. Weird Science - lots of experiments from Fun-ology
5. Zoom Science - mix hot science with your cool idea, lots of suggestions for planning simple science investigations

1. Use Graphs to Answer Questions - (whole class activity to be used with projection) This Saxon math site uses pictographs or tally marks in the form of check marks. Graphs are sometimes repeated with new questions. Be careful!

1. Deliver a Message - Create a way to deliver a message
2. Fatty Foods - Which foods are higher in fat content?
3. Puff-mobile - Design a car and blow on it to make it move!
4. Young Engineer's Club - hundreds of exciting games, activities, and science experiments posted by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

1. Centimeters - to nearest whole number (from FunBrain)
2. Inches - to nearest whole number (from FunBrain)
3. Platform Scales Addition - weigh several items and find the sum in hundredths of a gram or
4. Platform Scales Subtraction - weigh several items and find the difference in hundredths of a gram or
5. Using a Platform Scale - practice using scales like the one in a doctor's office, five Gregs will drop on the scale, waiting to be weighed, see how quickly you can weigh them or