Week 6 Physical Science Concept Links
Solar System Exploration: Planets This is a great interective teaching tool that would work well with a webquest.
http://nineplanets.org/tour/ Awesome interactive tour!!
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/saturn/moons.htm Great information on planets and moons of the solar system. (Has many distractions for kids.) Has a make a solar system feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16zeA-c-3vw Video on origins of solar systems. 20 min.
Jen,
ReplyDeleteGreat research on this topic. I really like the nineplanets website. I just started teach astronomy this year and this site will be great for the students to use and manipulate. I really like having others help me find great resources like these because time is so tight. Youtube is also a fantastic place to go to look for videos on just about everything. I tend to use it from time to time but I really have to search for good stuff.
Thanks for you time spent sharing these with us.
Mark G.
Jen,
ReplyDeleteWhat a great list of sites. I am in the middle of my astronomy unit and the next piece of information I need to give my students is about the characteristics and properties of the Sun, as well as the role it plays on events on earth. I will definitely be using the Kids Astronomy page to have my students research information about the sun. Thank you for all your work.
I was looking at your earlier posts and noticed that you do the cheek cells lab. That one is so much fun. Especially when they see all the spit on the slide. Which do you find works better Methyl Blue or Phenyl Red? Have you looked at the cool interactive site called CellsAlive? I use it to teach cells, mitosis and meosis.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the supportive comments! I am glad you like them. My favorite thing to use my blog for is easy links to use in my classroom.
ReplyDeleteMy district block blogs so if I want to gleen any info I have to copy/paste info onto an email and send it to my school address. it sucks.
ReplyDeleteWow, Wick ed, so you can't access professional blogs, either? What a helpful tool they can be! The email thing really slows you down. I use iodine stain for the cheek cells. I have not tried the others. Iodine can be inconsistent. Some students get great results, others can't find the nucleus. I LOVE CellsAlive! I would like to use it for mitosis in the next week or so, but we don't have enough computers to go around. :(
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