Science - Grade 2 

Information on Space http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html 

Plant Properties and Life Cycles

• Soil Science Basics - http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/globe/basics.htm

• SK Worm Answers Your Questions About Soil and Stuff - http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/education/squirm/skworm.html

• Underground Adventure - discover the rich world of soil and the tiny creatures who call it home. Check out all the videos, photos, and experiments. There's a virtual terrarium too! In English or Spanish.  GREAT SPOT!  http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ua/

•  Kids and Conservation – soil, water, wildlife - http://www.clarkswcd.org/Kids/KidsHome.htm

• The World of Soil
• FOSS Website - An excellent website!
• Biology of Plants - An excellent website! Play games, watch video clips, view animated diagrams, and sing songs to learn about plant parts, photosynthesis, pollination, seed dispersal, and plant adaptations. From the Missouri Botanical Garden.
• Cool Science: Plant Parts - Match plants to the names of the plant parts in a salad that includes delicious stems, leaves, fruit, flowers, and roots.
• Enchanted Learning (teacher/student activities to make) - Enchanted Learning offers a wonderful collection of nursery rhymes, crafts, coloring pages, and science background about plants, appropriate for K–3 plant scientists.
• Kidsgardening (Teacher site) - The National Gardening Association provides parents and educators with ideas, resources, and information.  Check here for grants for school garden projects.
• *The Great Plant Escape - Help Detective Leplant and his partners unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life.  Sponsored by the University of Illinois Extension Program.
• Sunflower Germination - This movie show sunflower seeds beginning to grow.
• Narcissus Flowers - See narcissus flowers grow in the spring.

Physical Changes of Matter

Chem 4 Kids
What is Matter?
3 States of Matter
Phases of Matter
Pod's Mission - an interactive "Hotter of Colder" game
Solids, Liquids and Gases - A great interactive website! Check it out!
Solids, Liquids and Gases - An interesting video! Don't miss it! Click on the blue screen at the bottom of the page when you get to the link.
States of Matter - Your science place in Cyberspace!
States of Matter Activity - Another interesting video. Check it out!
What is Matter? - You might want to try this experiment.

Trees

• Fantastic Forest - Walk through this interactive forest and discover the importance of plants and animals in this environment.
• Educational in Nature - Topics include:   A Forest is..., Birds & Forests, From the Forest, and the Forester's Job.   Created by Georgia-Pacific.
• Rainforest Action Network
• BrainPOP:   Rainforest Movie - Download a movie and learn all about the rainforest.   Take the online quiz.
• The Rain Bird Rain Forest Curriculum for K-8 - Lesson ideas for teaching the rainforest.
• The Rainforest:   People, Animals, and Facts

Penguins

• The Penguin Page
• Pete & Barb's Penguin Pages - Excellent detailed notes on the different species, threats, breeding.

• Adelie Penguin - Good Information on Adelie penguins and links to the other sixteen species of penguins.
• Penguins, Penguins, Penguins!! - A page with penguin pictures, and interesting penguin facts.

Australian Animals

• Australian A-Z Animal Archive

Snowflakes

SnowCrystals.com - What a great site that teaches about snowflakes.

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:58:01 -0500