Bunny Biography Project

Scientist biography sites:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/science/grade4_nl.html

 http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Scients.htm

 http://www.extremescience.com/GalleryofScientists.htm

 http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/summary.shtml

Famous Texans biography sites:

http://www.nisd.net/helotes/weblessons/famous%20texans/famous%20texans.htm

 http://www.lsjunction.com/people/people.htm

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Texas

 http://www.ricardoisd.us/famoustexans.htm

 http://www.famoustexans.com/

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

http://www.factmonster.com/atlas/caribbean.html

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/central_america_ref02.jpg

http://bird.miamisci.org/oceans/coralreef/introcoralreef/beginning/

http://www.mbgnet.net/salt/coral/indexfr.htm

Research sites for Viking l and ll:

http://imaginemars.jpl.nasa.gov/info/

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/martian_meteorite_000830.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/mars/weblinks.shtml

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/mars/index.shtml

Water Cycle:

For Water cycle computer activity:

Round & Round It Goes! The Water Cycle

Other water cycle sites:

http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/sun/mysteries.swf

http://www.brainpop.com/science/weatherandclimate/watercycle/mysteries.swf

Ocean Tides Web Quest

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Water/ocean.html

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/motion/tides1.htm

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/

FOSSILS:

For "Getting into the Fossil Record" web quest:

Getting Into the Fossil Record

Who Is Sue?

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/whosue.html

How do fossils form?

http://www.rom.on.ca/quiz/fossil/fosform.html

Friesenhahn Cave

http://www.concordia.edu/html/faculty/meissner/fries_home.htm

Fill 'Er Up Activity

Illuminations Cubes

Interactive Geoboard

E-Example 4.2.2 Investigating the Concepts of Triangle and Properties of Polygons

For those of you wanting to make play doh like we used for our moving plate models, here is the recipe:

Mix:    2 C flour

            1 C salt

            4 teaspoons cream of tartar                                

            4 tablespoons of cooking oil

Add:    2 cups water and mix well

Cook over medium heat ,stirring until mixture forms a ball

Jan. 04

Weather Power Point
As a culmination to our weather unit, you will be researching and designing a power point presentation about a weather-related event.  Please select a weather event from the approved list.  Using the Internet sites below, research the information required for your slide show.  In addition to the sites listed below, you may search other sites .

Hurricanes:

http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/index.html

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/index.html

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/intro.shtml

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/weather/storms.html

Tornadoes:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/tornado.htm

http://www.tornadoproject.com/

http://www.wildwildweather.com/

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/weather/storms.html

Thunderstorm

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageplanet/03deadlyskies/01lforms/indexmid.html

http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/weather/index.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wgraph0.htm

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/weather/storms.html

Global Warming

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/specialreports/hotplanet/index.html

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wgraph0.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wgraph0.htm

El Nino

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wgraph0.htm

Hail Storm

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wds9.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wgraph0.htm

http://www.chaseday.com/hail.htm

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap09/more_hail.html

Monarch Butterflies Web Quest:

Use the sites below to find the answers to your butterfly questions. Don't forget to check out my pictures pages to see how our caterpillar is changing!

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/species/Monarch.shtml

http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Cycle.htm

http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/monarch.html

http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/butterflies/monarch/

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarch_butterfly.htm

http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Migration.htm

http://www.pgmonarchs.org/fomc.html

Ecology Web Sites:

Desert

http://muirmaid.home.sprynet.com/desert.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/fieldtrp/science/deserts.htm

http://www.desertusa.com/life.html

Coral Reef

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/index.htm

http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/paccoral/pacreef.htm

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/coral-reef.html

Artic

http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/biodome/e2-coll/emp.htm

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/tundra/

http://www.blm.gov/education/00_resources/articles/alaskas_cold_desert/article.html

Rainforest

http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/TropicalForests/forasecotf.html

http://toucansam.kelloggs.ca/eng/contents.htm

http://www.ran.org/kids_action/index.html

http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/main.html

Rock On!

Use the following web sites to answer the questions.  Be sure to use complete sentences!

For questions 1 - 4:

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/usgsnps/pltec/pltec1.html

For questions 5 - 8:

http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/explorer/topic_rocks.htm

For questions 9 - 10:

R&M Homepage

For a really cool site:

http--volcano.und.nodak.edu-vwdocs-vwlessons-lessons-Rocks-Rocks1.html

http://geology.wr.usgs.gov/docs/usgsnps/pltec1.html

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5008

http://www.fiedu/fellows/payton/rocks/expert/index.html

Biodiversity is the rich variety of life on Earth

Welcome to the Dzangha Sangha

Bio-Benefits

Saving Species

Going Going…Gone-

What Do You Know-

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