"They say that something as small as a butterfly beating its wings in China can cause a hurricane in America, so maybe we should go to China and kill all the butterflies, just to be safe."  --  Ken Advent.

Curriculum by Marking Period (Science / ISL)

Environmental Science (First Marking Period)

• Make Beliefs Comix - create your own comic strip  NEW!
• Text Book
• CMS Insect Collection
• Create a Rain Forest Refuge - Interactive Module
• Nowhere to Hide - Interactive Natural Selection Activity
• WWT Kid's Zone - Interactive Modules
• Invasive Species as Evolutionary Force  NEW!
• IUCN Red List - Threatened Species NEW!
• National Invasive Species Info Center  NEW!
• Journey North - Wildlife Migration
• Rainforest Ecosystems - Connect the Dots, if you can
• Fun with Food Webs - Complete the food webs
• Classifying Living Things
• pbwiki.com
• Energy Wiki

  Fun Links

• Xtranormal  Text to Movie  NEW!
• What's Your Ecological Footprint?  Take the quiz
• Launchpad Online  Fun game from Science Museum
• Wonderville  Fun game from Science Museum
• Professor XYZ's Lab science games
• CSI Web Adventures  NEW!
• Interactive Tessellations
• Professor XYZ's Lab science games
• NLVM - National Library of Virtual Math Manipulatives
• Science of Music
• PBS Kids - Cyberchase

  Earth's Changing Surface - Weathering, Erosion, Soil (Second Marking Period)

• Text Book
• Earth Science Animations
• Tree of Life - Interactive Cladogram
• Interactive Topographic Map
• Google Maps
• Map Projections
• How Fossils Form
• Mass Movement
• Radioactive Decay

  Chemistry (Third Marking Period)

• Text Book
• Interactive Atom
• Interactive Periodic Table
• The Elements Song - Tom Lehrer
• Periodic Table of Videos NEW!
• Strange Matter - Transform matter into all kinds of stuff
• ChemBalancer - Balance the equations NEW!
• Reversible & Irreversible Changes - Physical and chemical changes
• Solutions & Mixtures - Which items will make solutions when dunked in water

  Astronomy (Fourth Marking Period)

• 6th Grade Class Trip
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• NASA Kids' Club - Space Games NEW!
• Space Mysteries   NEW!
• Greatest Hubble Space Telescope Pictures
• Text Book
• The Noon Day Project - Estimating the circumference of the Earth
• Weather of Other Planets - Study the weather on Mars and Venus
• Galileo's Sunspot Drawings - The rotation of the sun
• The Solar Observatory - Watching the sun 24/7, at all wavelengths
• The Space Place - NASA site, games and more
• Planet Size Comparison
• Robotics at Your Command - Interactive
• Solar and Lunar Eclipse Animations
• Tides