Science - Gr. 5 Online Interactives
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 | Electricity All Around Us: Visualizing Electromagnetic Fields - Explore the features of an electromagnetic field. Learn about polarity and strength.  http://science5.greenlearning.ca/C-activity1.php | ||
| The Hobby Shop - Move your mouse over the shop and select from Chemistry, the Microscope Lab or Rockets to find an actvity. Have fun as you learn about the science of aerodynamics (Rockets), electricity and chemical change. http://www.knowitall.org/hobbyshop/siteAgentMain.html | ||
| Energy and the Environment - What is Energy? - Learn what energy is, the different kinds of energy, how it is stored, transferred and used in this interactive. | ||
| Energy and the Environment - How is Electricity Made? - Learn about the ways in which we can generate electrical energy. Test things along the way. You get to build a wind turbine in this interactive. | ||
| BBC Bitesize: Circuits and Conductors - This interactive has you experiment with different materials to see which ones are conductors of electricity | ||
| BBC: Using Electricity - Learn more about electricity through this activity that allows the user to swap out different parts of an electrical circuit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/electricity_fs.shtml | ||
| BBC: Changing Circuits - Create a circuit to light two light bulbs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/changing_circuits_fs.shtml | ||
| BBC: Pod's Mission - Circuit Builder - Pull wires, bulbs or cells into your circuit and then test it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/podsmission/electricity/ | ||
| Who Can Resist? - Build a circuit and test different materials to see if they conduct electricity. http://www.epcor.ca/sse/wires/game.html | ||
| The BlobZ Guide to Electrical Circuits - Up to 5 students can use this site at the same time - it has lots of activities and animations. http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/guide.html | ||
| Electric Circuits - This activity allows you to investigate simple circuits by dragging circuit components into place to make a working circuit. The activities form an introduction to practical work exploring circuits. YOu have the opportunity to experiment with switches to control components in order to find out that... http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/learnpremium/electric_circuits/Introduction/defaul | ||
| Electric Circuits - Electric Circuits is an interactive e-learning website. It is designed to teach elementary students the basic concepts of electrical energy and electric circuits. Six different activities are included. http://www.hyperstaffs.info/work/physics/child/main.html | ||
| Electrical Safety World - Electrical Safety World explores the dangers of electicity with 3 different games that focus on safe behaviour around electrical devices. | ||
| Electricity Smarts - This animated [FLASH] EPCOR student site gives you good information about electricity and safety. Join Shorty & Surge as they help you get "electricity smarts"! It includes an interactive quiz. http://www.epcor.ca/Electricity%20Smarts/ | ||
| Sunsite, Funsite - Learn more about solar energy, chemical energy, photovoltaics, and solar thermal. http://www.tucsonelectric.com/community/educationalservices/solar/frameset.htm | ||
| Electricity and Circuits - This is a great activity for learning about electricity and circuits. Create your player and do all six experiments before completing the quiz. http://www.learningcircuits.co.uk:80/flashmain.htm | ||
| Electricity all around us - Here are some fun activities to go along with the grade five science unit about electricity. For example, use the interactive scene to learn about the electricity that surrounds us everyday. http://science5.greenlearning.ca:80/ | ||
| Ronaldo vs ElectroViper - "Help Ronaldo defeat the evil ElectroVipers who have taken over the light factory, and rescue the low-energy light bulbs!" [site introduction]
http://managenergy.net/kidscorner/games/electroviper/electroviper.html | ||
| Silicon Spies - "Dr. Volt is about to pull the plug on Silicon City and plunge it into darkness.
Investigate the science of electricity in a secret mission to save the city...
" [site introduction] http://www.engineeringinteract.org/resources/siliconspies.htm | ||
| Magnetism & Electricity (Fossweb) - In this interactive activity, you can learn more about magnets by experimenting with how these objects work. http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/MagnetismandElectricity/index.html | ||
| Electricity and Magnetism - Electromagnetic Forces (BBC Physics) - This page describes field lines round a magnet, a magnetic field round a wire, and magnetic field for wires made into a coil. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/physics/electricity/electromagneticforces | ||
