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Mr. McKinney's5th and 6th GradeScience Classes |
5th GradeChapter 5 Ecosystems |
6th GradeChapter 18 Vertebrates |
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The Five Classes of VertebratesHere's a nice place to begin, with good definitions and some nice pictures.The Tree of Life Project - VertebratesThe Tree of Life pages are full of click points. You can follow any of classes of vertebrates. There are a lot of good pics, too.Biology4Kids - VertebratesThis is a very nice looking website with excellent pictures and descriptions. Just follow the "next" links at the bottom or try a quiz.WebQuest - Classes of VertebratesWebQuest sites are always good. This one has skeletons of the different vertebrates and a lot of good links at the bottom.
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5th Grade Science
Chapter 12 Properties and Structure of Matter
Build
Atoms Yourself
This is
from the Exporing Earth website. It helps you understand how atoms are formed
from protons, neutrons, and electrons. If you have time, check out the rest of
the website. It's a good one!!!
The Element Project
Here are some versions of
the Periodic Table that will help you with your research:
Chemical
Elements.com
This
table includes the arrangement of electrons in each shell. If you click on your
element, you'll find most of what you need.
The Photographic
Periodic Table
This table has photographs of the elements and a lot of
information about how we use them and how we get them.
ChemiCool
This page has a lot
of good information, but the coolest parts are the videos. Check out the video
showing the diosal of 22000 pounds of sodium in a lake after World War II.
This site has a lot of information about the uses and forms of elements.
Here's a copy of the worksheet if you need an extra one.
This is a very nice presentation of the basic ideas of matter and its properties. Follow the hyperlinks for more information.
Properties of Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Here are a set of cartoons and animations that cover the entire subject of states of matter. Use the "Main Menu" button at the bottom to go to the next section.
This is a virtual lab to let you practice measurements and density calculation. Use the formula d=m/v and your calculator to find the densities of nine common items.
The Interactive Physics Modules
This site has a good density lab, too, along with some other virtual lab activities.
From Harcourt Schools, this is a neat little interactive animation that shows how particles move in each state and how adding energy changes their motion.
Electricity
Use these links to improve your understanding of electricity, circuits, and electromagnetism:
This page is a step-by-step instruction module. Use the arrows at the bottom of each page to move through the lessons.
The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits
This site is a lot more fun and you can still learn something!
And here's another way to learn about electricity!
From the NDT laboratories, this is a very deep explanation of almost everything electrical. Use the menu on the right to pick the areas you need to study.
From the Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education,
University of Illinois, here are several interactives relating to Ohm's
Law, the basic law for electricity. Experiment with different combinations
to make the light come on. Then scroll down to work with series and
parallel circuits.
Chapter 14 Newton's Laws
NEWTON on the Discovery Channel
Here's a neat little activity that summarizes Newton's Laws and has a quiz at the end.
This site is a lot more complicated because it has a lot of hands-on computer activities.
This is a great site sent to us from our colleagues at Valley Charter School. There are LOADS of links to activities that will help you understand Newton's ideas.
Here's a game of collisions, based on Newton's Laws.
5th Grade Science Cells and Classification
This is a nice page with cells broken down to their parts.
This may the be best site on the New for studying cells.
To use this site, make sure you're following the "next" buttons at the bottom.
This is an excellent interactive page on parts of the cell. Clicking on a part will tell you much more about what it does.
This is the official website for our textbook. It has reviews for each lesson, crossword puzzlesl, and links to other related sites.
Classification of Living Things
Here are some pages to help you understand scientific classification.
Here’s a classification game for you. Read the category at the top of the page, and then click on each animal that fits in the category. To check your score, click on “Go”.
Here’s some practice in using dichotomous keys to identify organisms.
You could use this key to identify trees around your home!
The whole idea on one page!
GRAVITY
These links will help you understand the nature and effects of gravity. The "games" are actually very accurate examples of the effects of gravity and Newton's Laws on spacecraft.
Lunar Lander
This actually a very accrurate activity involving gravity and force.
Experiment with the thrust of your rocket and its launch angle to hit various targets.
Follow the directions. Complete your worksheet for
all the items, Then mess around with the density of the liquid in the tank
by moving the slider to the left or right.
6th Grade
Chapter 4 Atoms, Elements, and the Periodic Table
The first part of this website is a good review of Sections 1 and 2 of our books. After that, you can go as deep into this area as you want.
Here's another Jefferson Labs page with more information that you will need, but you might like to know it anyway.
Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
This is a video from Assignment Discovery that does a good job of explaining what elements, compounds and mixtures are, and how they are different.
From PhET at the University of Colorado, click on the "Run Now" button, and start building molecules of different compounds. When you've made a molecule, don't forget to click on the 3D button to see you molecule.
Chapter 8 Waves
The Physics Department – Waves
The Soundry
The World
of Color
Chapter 12 Atmosphere in Motion
JetStream
NOAA's National Weather Service
Coriolis Force and Noninertial Effects
This page has an odd name, but it is a series of animations showing how
the motions of objects (including air) are affected by the Earth's rotation.
(Use the GIF selections.)
Here are some great animations that demontrate the Coriolis effect and
global winds.
Why do we have seasons?
Here’s a pretty simple explanation from NASA’s SciJinks page.
Click on “View” to watch a cartoon that explains day/night and seasons.
Be sure to click “Show Earth Profile” for a close-up view of the Earth
showing sunlight concentrations during the year.
At this site, you can change the tilt of the earth to see how things would
be different if we were tilted differently.
Learning About the Phases of the Moon
Here’s a neat site to show you the moon’s phase for each day of the month!
This is a really good animation that shows why we see the phases of the
moon. Just click “Play” and watch the box on the left.
And when you've learned all that stuff, spend some time here to explore the universe.
One of the most beautiful sites about space and the Universe. More stuff than you could see in a month!
Motion, Newton's Laws, and Machines
Two-dimensional
collisions
Use
the slider to change the mass of the green ball or the red ball, and see how
this affects motion.
Molecules in Motion
This
is a Java applet that lets you change the mass, temperature, and number of
molecules in two containers and watch the results on the molecules'
movements.
The Funderstanding Roller
Coaster
You can change the hill and loop shapes, speed, mass,
and even gravity and friction to change how the coaster will
move.
Fear of
Physics
What
happens when two things collide. You can crash different vehicles into
each other at different speeds, and see how the energy transfers change
their motions.
NEWTON on the Discovery Channel
Here's a neat little activity that summarizes Newton's Laws and has a quiz at the end.
This site is a lot more complicated because it has a lot of hands-on computer activities.
Here's a game of collisions, based on Newton's Laws.
Simple Machines
Here's a game from NASA that requires you to work with several simple machines tobuild a pyramid. You'll have to figure out the Mechanical Advantage to finish the job.
Explore the house to find simple machines. Then visit the Tool Shed to combine simple machines into compound machines.
Interesting Stuff
These sites don't really have much to do with our lessons, but they're really cool.
A Kid's Guide to Life Sciences: The Human Body Systems
Here's a great site for all the future doctors and nurses and anyone who has ever wondered how the body systems operate. Lots of good graphics, videos, and information. A BIG SHOUTOUT and thanks to the kids at afterskoolkids.org for recomending this site to us.
Doctoral Information - The Online Virtual Human Body
This is an amazing collections of sites about the human body. You're going to enjoy learning about things you'd never thught of.
For "Mexico Day", here's a Mexican site on biodiversity. Mexico
is one of the top 4 nations in regard to the number of differents species
that are native.
Secret Worlds: The Universe Within
From the Optical Microscopy Division of the National High Magnetic Field
Laboratory, a joint venture of The Florida State University, the University
of Florida, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This is a simple
exercise about the powers of 10. You can let it run automatically
or select "manual" to click through a step at a time. Each image
is only 10 time larger or smaller.
Medtropolis.com presents the Virtual Body. Click on "English" and begin exploring body systems or assemble a skeleton. If you're at home, plug in your headphones or turn up your speakers, because a lot of this site has narration. If you don't have sound, you'll just have to read it yourself.
The Jet Propulsion Lab at CalTech is the home page for the U.S. space program. There are thousands of pages here on the history, current mission, and future plans for the space program. Plus, loads of pictures and info on the Solar System, our galaxy, and the Universe, and some interesting games and interactives, too.
kids.gov - The U.S. Government portal for kids
A whole lot of good stuff for science, social studies, art, and much more.
This is a cool site from New Zealand.
Select one of the topics in the box at the left and find dozens of activities and games related to Earth and space.