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Earth Science & Geography |
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Rocks
and Minerals Web Quest Earth
Science Web Quest Living
in a Tropical Rainforest The
Tropical Rainforest Deserts
of the World ExplorA-Pond Rocks
& Minerals Detectives Map
Adventures This internet project lets classrooms around the world participate in a data collection of one square meter of life in their school yard. Students report the data to the site, use lesson plans to build a research project, and collaborate/connect with other participating classrooms. Corresponding lesson plans are available under "Teacher Area". |
NASA Quest Mars Millennium Project Mars
Quest Third grade students are asked to locate three different kinds of clouds, create a cloud catalog, and write brief descriptions of each. In lieu of the first weather link, use the following site: http://seaborg.nmu.edu/clouds/types.html The
Moon's Many Faces
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Global
Warming Team
Adventure Sun
& Temperature Matter and
the Get
the Job Done with Simple Machines Students define terms of pulley, wheel, axle, lever, inclined plane, and screw, and understand and appreciate how simple machines assist us everyday. They then get a chance to invent their own machine
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Animals |
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Animals Forever Elementary students conduct research on a select group of furry creatures to determine how best to take care of the animals at the Indianapolis Zoo. A nine page printable workbook guides research, with students creating a presentation to unify and showcase their efforts. |
Animal
Life Cycle Student teams will research and record information on the life cycles of mosquitoes, frogs, ladybugs, flies, and butterflies in order to make a final informed presentation to their class, along with a comic strip-type illustration of their animal's life cycle. |
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Vertebrates
WebQuest Dataforms should be printed out for students to collect and record their research on five animals (included). Groups will be comparing and contrasting their information to determine exactly why certain animals share the vertebrate classification, and then differentiate their selections distinctly from all other animals. |
Perfectly
Penguins A Primary Webquest Another
Penquin WebQuest |
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In
Search of Stellaluna's Family BatQuest - Elementary Grades |
Creepy
Crawly Insects Choose from a preying mantis, a dragonfly, butterfly, or cockroach to find habitats and shared physical characteristics of insects. |
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Save
the Animals Elementary Grades |
Where
Do All the Animals Live? Primary Grades |
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The
Journey of the Butterfly Intermediate & Middle School Grades |
Barnyard
Friends Primary Grades |
| Insect WebQuest |
Animals
of the Rainforest Elementary Grades |
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Australian
Animals Elementary Grades |
Sea
Animals Elementary Grades |
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The Southwest Animal
Zoo Project While populating a new exhibit with indigenous animals, students must first consider habitat, captive space requirements, design, diversity, and appeal factors. They must map out their exhibits using grids, cost budget with spreadsheets, complete habitat worksheets, and finally design their exhibits with their group and present it to the class. Excellent integration of technology. |
Frogs
http://allaboutfrogs.org/info/species/index.html |
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Gone
Fishy! Students are challenged to consider the food chain as they fill a 100 gallon aquarium with plants and animals. They will create a model exhibit and give a presentation on their results, with no less than four levels of the food chain involved. |
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Weather |
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Watchers This primary weather webquest explores weather and climate patterns around the globe introducing maps, clouds, weather terms, basic geography, and the awareness of how weather affects everyday lives. |
Weather
WebQuest Each sub-topic includes its own student worksheet, with selected resources tailored and linked to each question. Topics for this fifth grade science webquest include the water cycle, clouds, local weather, weather patterns across the United States, and climates. Students will create spreadsheets to graph their data, as well as work collaboratively on presentations to illustrate cloud formations. |
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Fourth
Grade Weather Trip |
Severe
Weather WebQuest Student research the background factors contributing to and supporting severe weather conditions, while categorizing and choosing one severe weather type to present in a multimedia report. |
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Wild
About Weather |
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Weather (Grades 3-8) Students will decide which factors are best for ideal weather patterns. They will then select five cities across the United States (or choose around the world) from which to collect and graph data. They will choose one of those cities as the best weather location, charting their data and presenting it for display as a poster. |
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the Eye of the Storm Which can cause greater damage, a tornado or a hurricane? Pose this question to 4th through 8th grade students before they begin this weather webquest, where they will assume roles to collect and provide information on both types of severe weather. With a collection of data, student groups will create a presentation and debate their findings. |
Wild
Weather Wow... no less than the National Geographic has hired your students to investigate, photograph, and report on tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and tornadoes around the world. They are interested in finding out if these natural but often disastrous events can be predicted, what some common myths surrounding these phenomena are, what conditions prompt their occurrences, and what safety precautions might be taken. Results should be formulated in to a group multimedia presentation. |
