Science - Gr. 3 Online Interactives
| | | Rocks and Minerals | | | Building with a Variety of Materials | | | Testing Materials and Designs | | | Hearing and Sound | | | Animal Life Cycles | | |
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 | BBC: Rocks and Soils - Investigate the difference between rocks and soils.
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/rocks_soils_fs.shtml | |||
| OZ Fossils Pitfall Game - "Somewhere, buried beneath the layers of this ancient cave floor,lie the bones of pre-historic beasts. You, the palaeontologist, must locate hidden fossils with your xray tool and carefully excavate the beastly bones. But beware fossils are very fragile."[site]
http://www.abc.net.au/science/ozfossil/megafauna/game/pitfallgame.htm#game | |||
| Petroleum Play - This interactive kids site encourages you to learn more about the petroleum industry in Alberta. Online games, colouring pages, and a teacher's guide are all available. http://www.eubkidzone.gov.ab.ca/petroleumplay.html | |||
| Rock Hounds - Follow Rocky the Rock Hound as he takes you through the process of how rocks form. Identify the different types of minerals that belong to the three major rock groups. http://fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/rocks/index2.html | |||
| The Rock Cycle - Move your magnifying glass over each rock to examine its properties, then move your mouse over each part of the rock cycle to find out how different types of rocks are formed. http://www.mcgrawhill.ca/school/applets/bcscience7/rock//index.htm | |||
| The Learning Zone: Mineral Mix and Match - How well do you know the properties of minerals? Try this interactive game to test your knowledge. http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/minerals/usage/games/set01.htm | |||
| Rockin' Rock Grower - In this interactive activity, you get to grow different types of virtual crystals. http://www.scholastic.com/play/grower.htm | |||
| Rock Cycle - In these activities, you will learn about rocks, start a virtual rock collection and then be quizzed about what you know. Good luck! http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/ | |||
| National Geographic: Rock Stars - How well do you know rocks? Try this 10 question quiz and find out. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0711/games/game_intro.html | |||
| Mining for Minerals - In this word search activity, you are asked to find the names of different minerals. http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/minerals/games/search/index.html | |||
| Sedimentary, My Dear Watson - Play this true and false game to find out how much you really know about minerals. http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/minerals/games/true-false/index.html | |||
| Minerals in Your House - This activity helps you understand where different types of minerals are found in your house, from your bedroom to the bathrooom to the living room to the kitchen. http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/K12/uses/uses.html | |||
| The Learning Zone: How We Use Minerals - In this interactive game, match the object to the mineral. http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/minerals/usage/games/display1.htm | |||
| Canadian Geographic Kids Atlas Online: Rocks - This interactive site from Canadian Geographic provides you with videos, images, games, wordsearch puzzles, and a quiz on rocks in Canada. Don't miss the mapping activity as well. http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/cgKidsAtlas/rock.asp | |||
| Geo Mysteries with Rex the Dino Detective - Solve three mysteries about rocks and minerals with Rex.
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/geomysteries/mysteries.html | |||
| Name that Rock! - A student-made site that provides you with 7 pictures - you try and guess the type of rock.
http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/facegame3.htm | |||
| Earth Materials (Fossweb) - In this activity, explore types of rock and and learn about Moh's hardness scale in the game. http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/EarthMaterials/index.html | |||
| Strange Matter: A Rock is Not Boring - A scientist explains in a video why rocks rock!
http://www.strangematterexhibit.com/popup.html?asset=processing_panel&page=boring | |||
