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McGraw Hill

The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Sense of Smell

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site provides information on the olfactory receptors, olfactory epithelium, and olfactory bulb. Detailed drawing supplement the text along with an animation that depicts the movement of molecules through the nose.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems students discover the function of the sensory structures in the human body.
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Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: How to Map Your Sense of Touch

For Students 9th - 10th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This would be...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Remote Sensing

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the importance of radar and satellite sensing in weather forecasting. Well illustrated with useful animations showing how radar and satellite sensing works.
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Read Works

Read Works: Animal Instinct

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about animals that are able to sense a disaster before it happens. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Best Tech Creation Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Check out this list of terrific tools for tech creation that offer a wide variety of engaging end products kids can create, from stories to animations to music to games.
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Sea World Parks & Entertainment

Sea World: Animal Bytes: Gorillas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from SeaWorld/Busch Gardens provides a wealth of information regarding gorillas. Content includes a focus on gorilla habitats and distribution, physical characteristics and special adaptations, senses, behavior, diet,...
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Mind My Education

Mind My Education: The Life of Environments

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This extensive lesson plan covers various topics about how animals interact with their environment. Topics include how animals sense their environment, how environments and organisms change together, and how animals use their senses to...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pet Tech: Animal Training

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Research color awareness in animals. Design a set of experiments to determine if animals see colors by using a computer-based paint program to create specific color characteristics, based on their "gray values".
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Other

Bio Anim

For Students 9th - 10th
BioAnin presents 3-D labeled images of all of the major systems of the human body, for example, the digestive system and the endocrine system. The images are embedded in slideshows. The site also has interactive 3-D models that can be...
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: The Sense of Smell

For Students 9th - 10th
In this animated object, learners trace the olfactory pathway from the nasal cavity to the olfactory cortex.
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Read Works

Read Works: Animal Instinct

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about animals that seem to instinctively know when a natural disaster is about to happen. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
Interactive
Math Slice

Math Slice: Ordering Game

For Students 2nd - 8th
Sequencing skills are the focus of this interactive game. You must be able to put fractions, decimals, whole numbers, and negative numbers in correct order to win and make the train move down the tracks. Immediate feedback given to...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: World's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
MathWorld provides a huge mathematics encyclopedia detailing the concepts of geometry, algebra, calculus, discrete math, number theory, and other math topics--complete with formulas, diagrams, examples, and references for thorough...
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Starfall

Starfall: Feed the Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson focuses on counting the food for three different animals. Students count the pieces of food for each animal and then listen to the numbers counting down to zero as each animal eats.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Marine Mapping

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The marine environment is unique and requires technologies that can use sound to gather information since there is little light underwater. The seafloor is characterized using underwater sound and acoustical systems. Current...
Interactive
NASA

Nasa: Aerial Photography: The Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An animated adventure story, developed by NASA, that helps children understand earth science concepts by using satellite photography and other types of aerial photographs to identify physical features on the surface of the earth. Teaches...
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Other

Boggle's World Esl: Word Searches

For Students 3rd - 8th
A collection of more than 40 printable word search activities designed for ESL students. Searches are organized by level of difficulty (easy, intermediate to difficult) and cover a wide variety of themes, e.g., colors, verbs, the five...
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Other

Science Museum of Minnesota: Low Life Labs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
If you've never seen the "Spring Flamingo," "Kismet," or the "Mobot," try this site. These three are all robots that are part of an exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota. The rest of the site is devoted to all of the ways that...
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Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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PBS

Pbs Nature: Elephants

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Did you know that the elephant is the largest animal in the world? Discover more about where they live, what they eat and how they socialize when you visit this site.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Virtual Inquiry Field Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use inquiry skills to answer their own questions about an area's animals in a natural setting using motion sensing video cameras.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Imagery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the literary technique of imagery to see how sensory language contributes to the meaning and feeling of a poem in this animated video [1:23] from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: One Is One, or Is It?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This animated video explores the basic unit of one and its different meanings depending on place value. [3:55]

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