Kindergarten Plants A: Learning to Look investigation ENCHANTED LEARNING: PLANTS Benchmark #1: Describe basic needs of living things. (Plants need soil, sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide) SECTION ONE: WHAT DOES A PLANT NEED? A: What do plants need to grow? A: Plants and Water A: Will seeds germinate in the cold? Benchmark #1: Understand how related plants and animals have similar characteristics. (life cycles) SECTION TWO: GROW PLANTS A: Compare ways to germinate seeds TB: Life Cycle of Plants SECTION THREE: PARTS OF A PLANT A: What Parts are There to a Plant? A: Look at Those Leaves! A: Grade One Lesson A: Build a box that shows roots A: Examine Your Roots A: Rotocopter SB: Roots SB: Stems SB: Leaves SB: Flowers SB: Fruits Pumpkin Activities A: Language, Math, Science, and more A: Observations of Pumpkins

Great Plant Escape - Case 1 Room to Grow Temperature Light Water Air Nutrients Time Great Plant Escape - Case 2 Components of Soil Soil Types What is Soil? Nutrients from the Soil Soil for Gardening Indoors Composting Great Plant Escape - Case 3 All About Seeds Seed Structure Germination Non-Flowering Plants Soil Activities TB: Soil Science Basics TB: Soil at the root of it all School Gardens School Gardens Craft Activities Make a classroom terrarium Flower Frames Flower Pot Pen Holder Painted Flowerpot Pop Up Flower Garden Card Flower Crown

Coloring pages for each month's flower January - carnations February - violets March - daffodils April - daisies May - lily of the valley June - roses July - larkspur August - gladiola September - aster October - calendula November - chrysanthemum December - poinsettia Coloring Pages for Vegetables Language Connections Bank of words for an alphabet book K-2 Literature List Daffodil Poetry Pumpkin Poems and Songs LINKING TO LITERATURE About Janet Stevens the author Draw the bear step by step Math Activities Sort Seeds Social Studies Where does food come from? Very capable students Flower anatomy printout

First Grade Weather Weather Anywhere A WEATHER PAGE BY FIRST GRADERS Benchmark #1: Identify daily and seasonal weather changes. SECTION ONE: WATER A: Water Cycle Investigation A: Water cycle in a mayonaise jar A: Visible Water Vapor A: Make a rain gauge A: Evaporation Experiment A: Dew and frost? TB: Cool Clouds for "Kids" of All Ages D: Water cycle D, SB: Enchanted Learning: Water Cycle SECTION TWO: HEAT MAKES AIR MOVE A: Four Part Lesson on Heat and Shadow A: Parachuting Pinwheel A: Make a thermometer A: Heat melts candy A: Color and heat A: Color reflects heat A: Heat reflected from a playground TB: About Heat and Temperature SECTION THREE MEASURING WEATHER A: Air Pressure A: Make a wind vane

Benchmark #2: Describe patterns of seasonal weather. SECTION FOUR: PUT IT TOGETHER A: Coloring Books to Download A: Thematic Unit on Weather TB: Weather in a nutshell Ask an Expert Ask a Hurricane Hunter Ask a Scientist Archive Ask a NASA scientist climate archive Craft Activities from Enchantedlearning.com Study Patterns in Snowflakes Handprint rainbow Rainbow streamer Rainbow mobile Snowman Necklace Language Activities Seasons and weather books Local Weather from NOAA Astoria Aurora Baker City Brookings Burns Corvallis The Dalles Eugene Klamath Falls

More Local Weather from NOAA La Grande Lakeview McMinnville Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pendleton Portland Roseburg LINKING TO LITERATURE Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Make a Pamphlet Describe Clouds Technology and Literacy Lesson Plans to Consider Math Activities Graph evaporating puddles Dishes of water Snacks Rainbow in a cup Weather Snacks Weather Snacks from Mrs. Bee Rainbow Pizza Very capable students See a Raindrop Make a Tornado Tornado in a Jar

Rock Hounds
How Rocks Form
What is a Mineral?
Rock and the Rock Cycle
Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
Metamorphic Rock

Mineral Games
  Sedimentary, My Dear Watson
  Knowledge Nuggets
  Mining for Minerals Interactive
  Mining for Minerals Printable
 
 

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Key for science links: A = Activity D = Diagram or Illustration used by teacher or students TB = Teacher Background SB = Student Background (adapt for additional reading for students) I = Interactive Web Site L = List of Links to other sites NEW = Link Added This School Year

Fourth Grade Earth Change ANIMATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Earth Views Parts of the Earth Sedimentary rock forming Metamorphic rock forming Observe how sediments are deposited Observe the effects of mechanical weathering Examine a landscape formed by erosion. Observe one place at many scales Eight ways to view Mt. Shasta in California SECTION ONE: STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH A: STUDENT GENERATED MODELS D, SB: The Four Layers D, SB: The Crust D, SB: The Lithosphere D, SB: The Mantle D, SB: The Outer Core D, SB: The Inner Core Plate Tectonics TB: Plate Tectonics TB: Plate Tectonics D, TB: Plate Tectonics and People SECTION TWO: ROCKS AND MINERALS Soil in the News B: Soil Science Basics Stupid Page of Rocks Benchmark #2: Identify causes of surface changes. SECTION THREE: EARTH CHANGE Earthquakes D, SB: Recent Earthquakes D, TB: 8-30 DAYS OF ACTIVITY D: MAP OF RECENT EARTHQUAKES D SB: EARTHWEEK - DIARY OF A PLANET L: Earthquake Web Sites D, SB: Plate Tectonics Tutorial D, SB: Earthquakes Tutorial D, TB: How we find the location of Earthquakes Earthquake Information from How Stuff Works TB: Intro to How Earthquakes Work TB: Shaking Ground TB: Sliding Plates TB: Faults TB: Making Waves TB: Pinpointing the Earthquake's Origin TB: Rating Magnitude and Intensity TB: Dealing with Earthquakes

ENCHANTED LEARNING: VOLCANO Volcanoes A: Baking Soda Volcano chemistry A: Lava Lesson Plans A: Mt. St. Helens Living Lab: Volcanoes A: Play Dough Volcano Model A: Paper and Cardboard Volcanoes A: Clay Models of Volcanoes A: Explosive Volcano Model A: Paper Volcano Model A: Cascade Range Volcanoes A: Build Your Own Stratovolcano (PDF) A: Watch these Volcano Videos B: Earthquakes for Kids Links L: Volcano Web Sites D, SB: Mt Mazama and Crater Lake D, TB: Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes TB: Volcanic Landforms D, SB: FAQ's about Volcanoes SB: More FAQ's about Volcanoes TB: Classifying Volcanoes TB: Shield Volcanoes TB: Strato Volcanoes D, TB: Types of volcanos D, TB: Volcano Maps and Graphics D, SB: Cascade Range Volcano Links D: Pictures of Volcanoes L: Volcano Observatories D, SB: The "Why Files" on volcanoes Erosion by Wind A: Wind Erosion D. TB: Problem of Wind Erosion TB: Arches National Monument TB: Wind Erosion Control TB: Preventing Wind Erosion Erosion by Water A: Dig This! Erosion Investigation TB: Grand Canyon information TB: Introduction to Water Erosion Control TB: Soil Erosion TB: Types of Erosion Ask an Expert Meet a Volcano Scientist USGS Ask an Expert Ask a Volcanologist Archive Ask an Oregon Hydrologist Ask an Earth Scientist

Careers Famous Earth Scientists How to become a volcanologist Crafts Recipes for clay Health Tsunamis Health and Safety Volcano Health and Safety Language Arts Glossary of Terms LINKING TO LITERATURE From Mrs. White's Fifth Grade Teacher CyberGuide: Hill of Fire by Thomas P. Lewis Science in Your Life What if a volcano erupts? What if there's an ash fall? What if there's a flood? Social Studies State Fossil: Metasequoia Soil and Society Day of the Black Blizzard Today in Earthquake history Map of Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest Map of Earthquakes in California and Nevada Spanish Resources Earthquake Preparedness Topographic Maps A; Cardboard Maps of Volcanoes D: Shaded Map of Oregon D: Color Relief Map of Oregon D: Color Relief Map with County Lines A GEOLOGIC PRIMER ENCHANTED LEARNING: GEOLOGY   Very Capable Students Build Your Own Stratovolcano (pdf)

Fifth Grade Astronomy ANIMATIONS Earth Views Parts of the Earth Observe solar eclipses. Observe a lunar eclipse. Examine the phases of the moon from Earth and space. Benchmark #2: Describe the Earth's place in the solar system and the patterns of movement of objects within the solar system using pictorial models. SECTION ONE: THE SUN A: Day and Night A: Make a Sun Clock A: Five Sundials to Make TB: Fact Sheet D, TB: Solar Eclipse Animations SECTION TWO: THE MOON Everything you wanted to know about the moon : The Moon Investigation D: CURRENT PHASE I: See the Moon in Action D, TB: Phases of the Moon D, TB: Phases of the Moon TB: Fact Sheet D, TB: NASA's Eclipse page TB: Eclipses from the Exploratorium SB: Why Eclipses Happen D: Phases of the Moon animation SECTION THREE: THE PLANETS Mercury A: Invent an Alien TB: Fact Sheet D: Images of Mercury D, SB: EnchantedLearning.com TB: Mariner 10 goes to Mercury TB: About the Mariner 10 Probe Venus Air and Space Museum-Probes Air and Space Museum-Orbiters TB: Magellan Mission TB: Timeline of Exploration Missions TB: Magellan TB: Pioneer Venus TB: Galileo TB: Vega 1 TB: Vega 2 TB: Venera TB: Mariner 10 TB: Mariner 5 TB: Mariner 2 TB: Fact Sheet D: Images of Venus D, SB: EnchantedLearning.com Earth A: Postcards/Brochures from Space TB: Fact Sheet D: Images of Earth D, SB: EnchantedLearning.com D: Views of Earth and moon at any time Mars A: Invent a Flag A: Create a Martian colony A: Live from Mars A: Mission to Mars TB: Fact Sheet D: Images of Mars SB: EnchantedLearning.com D: Mission Mars from CNN Jupiter A: Why Keep It Neat? A: Lunar Garbage Men A: Pie in the Skylab TB: Fact Sheet TB: Rings Fact Sheet D: Images of Jupiter D, SB: EnchantedLearning.com TB: All about the Space Station Saturn A: History of Space Suits A: Why Astronauts Need Suits A: Space Suits to Patches (pdf) TB: Why Wear a Spacesuit? TB: The Space Suit TB: Fact Sheet TB: Satellite Fact Sheet TB: Rings Fact Sheet D: Images of Saturn SB: How Space Suits Work TB: Future space suits D, SB: EnchantedLearning.com

Uranus Air and Space Museum-Rovers : Fact Sheet TB: