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- "Multicellular organisms may have specialized
systems that perform functions that serve the needs
of the organism."
- Bats
"The Only Flying Mammal!" A thematic
resource for teachers and students.
- Explorer's
Club Plants and Animals
This site has information on water, air, plants,
animals, pollution, and recycling. It also
has student activities.
- Fresh
Water Fish
Great site for students to identify different
fresh water fish. There are hundreds of pictures
of different fish. Each picture is labeled with
a common and scientific name.
- Interactive
Frog Dissection
Using multimedia and other technologies, students
can virtually dissect a frog by following along
with the step-by-step directions. The "Quick Time"
videos do a good job of illustrating the process.
- Kidport
Science
Upon arriving at this home page, click the appropriate
grade and then science. Students can choose
one of four organ systems and identify the different
parts (skeleton, heart, muscles). This site
will enhance students vocabulary.
- Neuroscience
for Kids
The smell of a flower - The memory of a walk in
the park - The pain of stepping on a nail. These
experiences are made possible by the 3 pounds
of tissue in our heads...the BRAIN!! Neuroscience
for Kids has been created for all students and
teacherswho would like to learn about the nervous
system.
- Operation
Heart Transplant
This interactive site allows students to be a
"cardiologist" and perform a heart transplant.
"Shockwave" software is needed to perform this
task.
- Student
Oceanography Site
This site is about marine life and conservation.
It has games for students to play and lots of
information about marine life.
- The
Heart: An Online Exploration
This site gives a tour of the circulatory
system. Detailed information as well as pictures
and videos make this site a good resource.
- The
Living skeleton
The Living Skeleton has x-ray images of human
skeletons with descriptions and images. For example,
students can see a picture of a normal arm bone
and then a fractured arm bone, they can also see
images of the fractured arm after the surgery
to fix it.
- Using
Live Insects in Classrooms
This online version of lessons was created from
a collaboration of teachers and scientists from
Arizona and Massachusetts and the staff from the
Center for Insect Science. Roughly two hundred
teachers in Arizona, Massachusetts, Missouri,
and Mississippi pilot tested the lessons in their
classrooms.
- Virtual
Frog Dissection Kit
This award-winning interactive program is
part of the "Whole Frog" project. You can interactively
dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, make
movies, and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game.
The interactive Web pages are available in a number
of languages.
- Water
Critter Key
This website gives students the chance to work
with dichotomous keys. Students choose an
aquatic animal from the game board. They
then answer the questions to determine the identity
of their animal by its physical characteristics.
- "All animals, including humans, are consumers
that meet their energy by eating other organisms or
their products. Consumers break down the structures
of the organisms they eat to make the materials they
need to grow and function. Decomposers, including
bacteria and fungi, use dead organisms or their products
to meet their energy needs."
- Energy
Pyramid, Phytoplankton, and Food Chain
Show how phytoplankton flow through the food
chain as a energy source. The site also has other
links for this benchmark.
- Food
Chains and Food Webs
Outstanding!
This web site contains background information
and graphics regarding food chains and food webs.
Students can construct a possible food web on-line
which is printable. The "chain reaction activity"
is interactive also. Once students have placed
the objects in order the food chain becomes animated.
Finally, students are asked to remove the frog
to see how the population in a food chain affects
other populations (animated).
- Life
Science Connections
This award winning web site is both teacher and
student friendly. It is filled with information
and activities about frogs frogs frogs!!!!.
- Population
Ecology
This site talks about the basics of symbiosis,
competition, mutualism, predator-prey relationships.
It gives examples and pictures in some of the
links.
- The
Flow of Energy Through Plants and Animals
Students can investigate how energy flows
through living organisms. A description
of food chains is given and examples are visually
illustrated through hand drawn charts. A
variety of links are available on food chains,
energy flow, and photosynthesis. Unfamiliar
vocabulary words are defined at the click of a
button.
- The
Science of Aging
This site introduces students to the concept of
aging and how scientists study human aging.
- "Following fertilization, cell division
produces a small cluster of cells that then differentiate
by appearance and function to form the basic tissue
of an embryo."
- Cell-Tissue-Body
Explorer Interactive Animated Atlas
This site is a teacher resource site that provides
information on many different human body cells.
Pictures, definitions of cell parts, and quizzes
are available for each cell chosen.
- Cytographics
There are many videos showing cells.
The best for this benchmark is called "Three eggs
of the African Toad." This video clip shows a
single cell dividing until it becomes a tadpole.
Great example that "living things are made of
cells."
- Mitosis
Is Cell Division New
This interactive site allows students to learn
about the phrases of mitosis and their features.
- "Cells carry out the many functions
needed to sustain life. They grow and divide thereby
producing more cells. Food is used to provide energy
for the work that cells do and as a source of molecular
building blocks from which needed materials are assembled."
- Build
A Cell New
Outstanding!
This is a wonderful site for learning about the
makeup of cells.
- Cell
Division Genetic Consequences
This is a good site for the students to learn
or review the basics of mitosis and meiosis. This
interactive site allows students to view images
in order to determine which stage of mitosis/meiosis
is occuring.
- Function
of Cells in Organisms
Describes how living organisms are made of cells,
uses plant cells as an example. Has other
information and links that don't apply to the
expectation. This site offers beautiful
graphics and numerous links to plant and animal
physiology. Easy to read and clear, concise information
- I
Can Do That
A
fun tour about cells guided by cartoon cells.
Students will enjoy the funny names given to the
different types of cells as well as the interactions
among cells as they learn about bacteria, animal,
and plant cells. Good diagrams.
- Interactive
Diagrams: Cell Structure
Great source for students to interact with
basic plant and animal cells.
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" Plants are producers; they use the energy from
light to make sugar molecules from the atoms of carbon
dioxide and water. Plants use these sugars along with
minerals from the soil to form fats, proteins, and
carbohydrates. These products can be used immediately,
incorporated into the plant’s cells as the plant
grows, or stored for later use."
- Photosynthesis
- Light Reactions (Forest Biology Virginia Tech)
Outstanding!
Interactive animation for photosynthesis. Diagrams
are labeled. Narration for animated movie at end
of site.
- The
Great Plant Escape
Students take a journey with an interactive
detective into the world of plants to find clues,
perform experiments, and solve problems that will
solve various cases pertaining to plants. Extension
activities and quizzes are available.
- The
Flow of Energy Through Plants and Animals
Students can investigate how energy flows
through living organisms. A description
of food chains is given and examples are visually
illustrated through hand drawn charts. A
variety of links are available on food chains,
energy flow, and photosynthesis. Unfamiliar
vocabulary words are defined at the click of a
button.
- The
Life Cycle of a Plant
This site is a movie about the Life Cycle of Plants.
Click on "View Flash Movie" and it will begin.
- Yummy
Plant Parts
Lesson Plan Students will:1. Understand
the structure and function of roots, stems, and
leaves. 2. Identify the parts of a plant
by looking at an entire plant or a part of a plant.
3. Understand the importance of plants for animals’
(humans’) existence.
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