NASA for kids
KidsAstronomy.com
by NASA 
See the current moon phase and when the next full moon will occur. Click Explore to travel to each of the planets.
Teacher's Guide available.
Drag and drop the correct phase to complete the calendar.
Follow up with the Lunar Cycle Calendar (print and cut). Click the Go To Lunar Cycle button to print phases of the moon. To see illustrations of terms click Go to Moon Phases, and then Go to Main Phases. Move the cursor over illustrations to see the terms.
Tutorial Mode offers information on constellations.
Rainforest, Desert, Ponds & Lakes, and more.
by Sheppard Software
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Shedds Aquarium
Smithsonian Education
http://www.epa.gov/kids/ 
All about recycling and games and activities. 
Read facts. Classroom activities. Renewable and Non-renewable sources.
McGraw Hill Science 
Exploring the Secret Life of Trees and Dr.
Arbor Talks Trees Listen and explore trees with Pierre. Dr. Arbor's Tree Glossary, State Tree Gallery, All-Star River Explorers, and Let's Talk About Insects are also available.
Cool Science for Curious Kids 
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago 
Plant parts, butterflies, microscopes, yucky stuff in air, and more.
Children's Butterfly Site Life cycle illustrations, coloring pages, and more.
Animals, Farming, Nutrition, and much more.
K-2 Math Newsbreaks - short videos including "What's a Graph" and "What is One Half". Click Captioned to read along.
Travel in K-Sub 1 to observe sea life. Animals A to Z, Geo World offering a world climate map, and Dino Island.
Birds, Insects, Mammals, Reptiles, Endangered Species, and other categories.
Drag & drop the animal to its habitat. Listen for "Thank you!" if you are correct. It will give a hint if you are incorrect.
Click an animal to select it. (Penguins available) You can listen to its sound. Click the animal in several places to learn more about it.
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games and facts on fossils Interactive information about rocks, fossils and other topics. Be sure to try the Mystery of the Floating Rock.
Be sure to try "Rubber Eggs & Funny Bones"!
Grades K-6. Click an activity and read more about it. Experiments and/or activities follow. Microscopes - How to Use It (found in the 6th Grade section).
Grades K-6. E-Word Games, Crossword Puzzles, Discover Simulations, and more. Human Body Systems crossword. How Bats Use Sound - Discover Simulation. Energy Sources and Motion - Discover Simulation to see how fast animals can run. Select the tortoise and hare and add a human. Who do you predict will win the race?
Learn about the Solar System, tour Mars, gravity and inertia, etc. Be sure to see the Virtual Globe - try Alaska... is it dark there now?
Click the squares to find matching animals. Good information is given in the right frame when you find a match.
Lots of dino info here! Specific dinosaurs are found on the Dinosaur Information Pages . Need a good place to start - click "All About Dinosaurs" in the left frame. Try the illustrated, interactive quiz.
Listen to pronunciation. Clip art offered. Be sure to see the "If Dinosaurs Could Talk" section.
See actual dinosaur eggs and read about the work of paleontologists. Be sure to see Baby Louie.
All About DinosaursBegins with a background. Click an object, and then click on the background to place it there.
Listen. Choose a tool depending on how deeply the bones are buried. Drag & drop if you need to move rocks.
Life cycle, anatomy, and much more.
See what happens inside an egg. Click each day to see more.
See Day 6 to learn about genetics and determining genotype probability with the Punnett Square. Follow-up with Punnett Square lesson straight from Bikini Bottom ! (A.K.A Science Spot)
Bikini Bottom Genetics worksheet, Adopt an Insect , Snickers Science & Plate Tectonics - delicious!
Use the Interactives drop down menu to select Grades 1 or 2 to find Squish the Fish. Have your headset on, listen and follow along to learn about life underwater.
Information and quiz. How many hearts does Herman have?
Play Monster Bugs, explore an Internet bug hunt, or read Ms. Frizzle's answers to kids' questions about bugs.
Click the blue arrows until you unscramble the picture. Read more about that insect below the picture. Click "Nature Puzzles & Fun" at the bottom of the page for more animal and nature activities.
Most Wanted Bug Mugs and more.
Must apply and schedule your session to participate and use the scanning microscope to view your very own specimen. Check out some amazing pictures shown on the web site, especially the bee's eyeball under Microscope and then Basics . Whoa!
Pest Detective, Pest Rangers, and Name that Pest. Check out Amazing Pests to learn what fleas have in common with Superman.
Names of animal babies, male, female, and groups.
Several animal guessing games. Click the clue you want - "where do I live", "what do I eat"...
Read about endangered species, biodiversity, Earth Day, etc.
Free registration - quick and easy. Select a country on the map, choose an animal, and listen to information.
Click the Info tab above the question or the one above the animal to read about it.
Antarctic, Desert, the Sea, Tropical Rainforest, Temperate Pond and others.
Select the narrated broadband version. Listen and use bar graphs to help make decisions as you tour China's Shen Bao Reserve. Can you spot a Rhesus Monkey in the forest? Why do they always make me hungry?
Other adventures offered including A Walk in the Forest with Dirt Detectives. Compare soil samples to the pH chart.
Design a Panda Habitat .
Plus other bird information, printable worksheets, and online quizzes. Teachers see the Teacher Materials section for helpful print-outs. Click Just For Fun to Reassemble a Red Squirrel.
Color a Fish - learn about different kinds of fish, print coloring pages, and take online quizzes.
Marine
Life Tour - Magic School Bus
Other Guided Tours offered including Space, Body,
Insects, Earth, and more.
Click "Kids" to get to the activities including Name That Bug. Teachers , material available under the Teacher section.
Yucky, but good to know!
Begin reading Case #1.
Click an object to read a bit about it. Then click one of the disposal methods. Try a few, and then click the "How I Did" button.
Read and follow along with activities. A Fact Sheet and online Quiz follow. Magnets & Springs , Forces in Action, and others.
Additional activities found here organized by age.
Electricity. Learn how a power plant works and how much electricity household appliances use in the Energy Use Looker Upper .
Read and watch short videos along the way.
Electricity. The Amazing Electricity maze is found in the Fun section.
Terrific info plus printable pages.
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NASA Kids' Earth After clicking to play, be sure to click NASA's Observatorium Hydrologic Cycle .
Terrific water cycle information in the Big Story, "Protecting the World's Water". Additional topics offered including What Happens to Nature in Winter. Click underlined words or use the glossary tool for help with words you don't understand
Figure wind chills in the Temperature section. Weather Experiments has quick and easy experiments you can actually do in lab. Bring supplies.
Move your cursor over images along the top to see topics including Tornadoes, Floods, Earthquakes, etc. Learn what to do before, during, and after.
Tons of good weather info here. Try clicking Links for Students, Weather Basics for chapter lessons, and Meteorology A to Z to learn weather terms.
Click the correct word to complete sentences about weather.
Weather, atmosphere, climate, and other topics. Click the picture of Bart for the easier to read version. Click the picture of Mr. Burns for the more technical version.
Excellent interactive reading for Grades 2-8 in the Cadet section; Expert Section - Grades 6-12.
Teachers, click The Teacher's Lounge for some interesting ideas.
Photos of cloud types. Click photos to learn more. Can you find the Elephant Cumulus?
Check out the video to learn what cloud names mean.
A Teacher's Page offers more material.
Amazing actual photos of tornadoes, clouds, severe weather etc. from a storm chaser's adventures.
Choose state, county, date, and type of storm. What storms have occurred during your lifetime or the year you were born? Have tornadoes caused any damage in your area?
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 covering several topics.
Read All About the Rainforest. Click Where are the Rainforests.
Explorasaurus will help you learn about things like the water cycle and the atmosphere. Click the Student Entrance button to get started.
Animals and environments.
Animal Bytes, Animal Sounds Library, and more.
Christmas Tree Worm shown in the Ocean Realm - Reef Life section. Constellations, including listening to pronunciation, can be found under Pictures in the Sky.
Pictured on coral.
California Coasts contains information on how sea life changes through the seasons.
Click Science Lab to explore volcanoes, the body, solar system, etc.
SciMan says, "Are you ready to test your science smarts? I'm thinking of something that has to do with science, and it's up to you to figure out what it is. I'll give you four clues to help you research. The fewer clues you need to find the right answer, the smarter a science sleuth you are!" Topics include Plants, Animals, Space, Human Systems and more. Recommended for Grades 4-8.
Several topics of information offered including butterflies, space, trees & seeds, ice & snow.
Interactive Labs and Challenges.
Find out what's inside a floppy disk?
Click any of the topics in the chart to read interesting ideas and try an experiment off-line. Check out the one titled "How to Make a Flashlight Shine Brighter".
Click to enter the Land of CYKE, and then click the Castle. Inside the castle click the Health Hut to learn about the heart and the brain.
Very interesting information. Read and follow the steps given above the picture. Pictures are not real, but still probably not for the squeamish. Move your mouse over items to see what they are.
Brain basics. Sensory systems, the spinal cord, etc.
Click each category to see how that works in your body. How does your ear work? In the Everyday Illnesses and Injuries read What to Do if You Have the Flu, Chickenpox, and bug bites.
This site explains and illustrates how and why we see colors. Some broken links and images when checked.
Click Play a Game and then Visiting the Dental Hygienist for an interactive picture.
Listen and click along to learn what to expect when you see the dentist with Visit the Dentist With Marty. See an animation showing how to properly brush and floss. Also try Dudley's Movies, To Tell the Tooth, and more .
Read and try the "eggsperiment" to see how brushing can help protect your teeth.
Click Bones to begin. Drag the bones to the correct spot on the body outline. Read about each one you place. Click the arrows to select a different bone. Don't drag bones into the shaded section. Other sections include Electricity, Solids & Liquids.
Click the skeleton to go to the lab, and then the Body Zone. Click any area to learn more. A button for a labeled diagram of the skeleton is available at the bottom of the activity.
Take a good look at the skeleton. Then put it back together again.
Broken
links when checked. Option
from Vicki Blackwell . Additional cyberhunts - click here for many other topics including Migrating Monarchs* .
Headset on, listen, and read to know what system Arnold wants you to complete. Drag the organs that make up that part of the body. Arnold will speak when you find them all. Click the Learn More button to read about the systems.
Watch and listen as you learn about the body. Click the Activity Page button for quizzes, word finds, and printable worksheets. Notice the Stop and Play buttons below the video; show on the large TV/projection monitor, and stop for discussion or questions.
Do you wash your hands after going to the bathroom? Find out why that's important. Search the Archive section for podcasts.
Bacteria In The Cafeteria - click a section of the small cafeteria picture to zoom in and locate the blue stars. Click blue stars for questions. Answer correctly to reveal part of the riddle. Click the question box to make it disappear each time.
How Lou Got The Flu - another one to try.
Click here for an Energy section. Energy & Fossil Fuel plus other topics. Try the Fossil Fuel Eco Stat .
Petroleum - learn how it's formed, how it's drilled, petroleum products, and more.
Periodic Table of Elements - Choose Tutorial (answers are given), Click on the Symbol (Easy), or Name the Element (Hard). Spelling counts!
Drag the symbol to the correct element.
The Science & Math Game. The questions are real, but the money isn't.
Click Elementary, Middle School, or High School. Then choose a topic. Read the problems and answer if you can. Fun information along the way on some.
Including baseballs, bats, and gloves (Volumes 1 and 2).
Click on Scientific Slugger and read. Be sure to click on How Far Can You Hit One at the bottom of the page to continue. Fun and interesting shockwave activities on the main page also.
Science behind the news and some interactive exhibits including Hit a Home Run.
Teacher's Guide available.
Microsoft Education offers, A View From the Top , a lesson plan including Famous Places by TerraServer , which can be used along with Amelia's adventures.
Stuck on Tracks, Looping the Loop, and Up & Down are offered in the age 7-9 section. Other sections for 5-7 and 9-11 available along with English and Math sections.
Click Chapter 1 to begin. Read the Hints page. Click the speech bubbles after reading carefully to advance. Access the Field Guide and Ace's Big Notebook of Fun by clicking buttons at the bottom of the page.
Read carefully. Print the worksheet offered to help you complete the activity.
Sneeze! An Interactive Mystery.
Read how natural disasters are formed and then create your own. Topics include tornado, volcano, hurricane, and earthquake.
Science Snacks - instructions for experiments. Listen carefully and try to match Nature Sounds or try other Listening Activities and Online Activities and Experiments .
