Standard+F+Life+and+Environmental+Science


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 * Each resource will include a title, link to the resource, a short description of the resource, and grade level(s)**.

Alex Irreplaceable Wildlife Irreplaceable: Wildlife in a Warming World. (2011). [] Grades 8-12 This home page shows the face of the impact that Global Warming is having on wildlife: the polar bear. The site speaks to the importance of polar bears and also how their habitat is being affected. Links are provided to other animal species that are being affected.
 * F.8.9 Explain how some of the changes on the earth are contributing to changes in the balance of life and affecting the survival or population growth of certain species**

Toni Eckmayer Title: Excite: Excellence in curriculum innovation through teaching epidemiology and the science of public health Link: [|Excite] This website contains reference materials and a collection of teachings compiled by the CDC to introduce and excite students about the knowledge and skills used by public health professionals. The information presented includes topics in the life sciences, epidemiology, mathematics, and health education. Links lead to sites on such related topics as diseases in pets and career profiles. (Grades K-12)

Becca Standard F Kids Biology: Human Biology [|Kids Biology] This website offers an inside look at the human body for kids. It starts with a bare outline of the human body, as you roll over the topics of the human body, the illustration fills in with a picture of the topics—skeletal, muscular, digestive system, etc. Kids then click on the topic and they would like to explore and are brought to an easy to read explanation of the way that system in the human body works. The explanations are not too complicated, but do require the children to be able to read them on their own: grades 2-6.

Katie Standard F (F.4.3 Illustrate* the different ways that organisms grow through life stages and survive to produce new members of their type) Title: Life Cycles of Organisms [|Learning the Life Cycle] This site provides links to different web sites as well as different interactive web lessons that have to do with the life cycle of various organisms. Links include life cycles of plants, insects and other organisms. Grades: 2 - 4

Title: Wanted: A New Home for Frog Link:[|Wanted: A New Home for Frog] This particular page on the website, ecokids.ca, addresses how frogs can be the first indicator of when an environment may be out of balance. The site provides a quiz activity to see if you already know shat a frog needs to live in a balanced environment and why frogs are disappearing. Lots of activities. (Grade K-5)

Title – Discovery Kids - The Yuckiest Site on the Internet – Yucky Roach World Link to resource - [] Description of resource – This is a portion of the Discovery Kids website. It deals with yucky things like bugs, worms, and bodily functions. The section I chose deals with Roaches. It has a “Day in the Life” of a roach character and it even goes into his nighttime routine, when he is more active and actually gets something to eat. This is a fund way for younger students to learn about living things and how they interact with their environment, where they find food and shelter and what things they are afraid of and work to avoid. Range of appropriate grade levels – 2nd – 4th Linda Chappetto

Jessica Title: KidsDo Ecology Link: [|Kids do Ecology] This website is all about ecology, the world biomes, marine mammals and much more. On this website students can find out more information about different places on the Earth and different animals and plants and how they are important to each other. They can learn more about the scientific method and science data. There are also ideas for projects and more links from this webpage. (Grades K-8)

Standard: F.4.1 Discover* how each organism meets its basic needs for water, nutrients, protection, and energy* in order to survive Title: What Do Bees Do in Winter? Link: What do bees do in winter? Description: This site has a video showing students how a group of bees live in the winter. It also tells the students how they survive the winter, fun facts and has an activity of how to make homemade bird feeders with using honey. Grade: K-4

Science, Standard F: Science, Life and Environmental (F.4.1.) Aquarium Habitats [|Nat Geo Xpeditions - Aquarium Habitat] This resource asks students to consider what the basic needs are for marine animals. Students compare and contrast aquarium habitats with natural habitats in the wild and are asked to think critically about how well marine animals fare in captivity versus the wild. During the course of this lesson, students get to explore web links for aquariums and aquatic nature preserves to see firsthand the differences between them. Finally, students use knowledge gained from their research and answers to questions they have posed throughout that research to decide how they would create their own aquariums. As an extension, students could even draw or create a model of their aquariums. Grades 3-4

Title: Bird Baths [|Bird Baths] In this lesson, students explore the causes and effects of oil spills. The website includes an experiment to help students see how oil affects birds, links to videos, worksheets, and suggestions for extending the learning to local ecological issues. Grades: 3-5