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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 | Whale Discovery - Let's go aboard the Discovery, a marine research vessel, to learn more about whales. Visit all five areas of the ship - there are some great activities and images in here.  http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/publications/whales-kids-interactive/ | |||
| Salmon Sally's Upstream Sprint - This interactive site describes all of the challenges that salmon encountering when trying to swim upstream. Note: You have to click the "Sally" button on the bottom of the screen. http://www.ran.org/fileadmin/materials/education/sally/ | |||
| Build a Beast - Reconstruct the skeleton of a prehistoric creature. Be quick, you're being timed! http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/beasts/build/jigsaw.html | |||
| Exploring Butterflies! - Play some online butterfly games with Rosa. You will learn about their habitats and the effects of climate change on these delicate creatures. http://www.ansp.org/museum/butterflies/new_interactive/butterflies.html | |||
| KidsWing: All about owl pellets, dissection - What is an owl pellet? What is inside a pellet? How do pellets form? There are several different virtual pellets on this page for you to dissect. http://www.kidwings.com/owlpellets/index.htm | |||
| Build a Skeleton - Drag and drop parts of a skeleton to complete the animal. You will be challenged with a variety of animals. http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001873 | |||
| Food Chains - In this interactive, learn about food chains. Then there are three different habitats where food chains are constructed from a few of the organisms found there. Drag and drop items into each food chain. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=foodchains | |||
| Poacher Peril - "Welcome to Poacher Peril, the nail-biting new game that puts you in the position of an endangered animal and challenges you to pit your wits against a dastardly poacher." (site) You must download this game in order to play. http://gowild.wwf.org.uk/games/poacherperil/index.asp | |||
| The Life Cycle of Butterflies - Enjoy this whiteboard animation that shows the life cycle of a butterfly. | |||
| Bears - Zoology Zone - This site is all about bears. It describes what bears are, their eating habits, how they sound, along with the differences between grizzlies and black bears. The concept of hibernation is also discussed. http://www.whyte.org/bears/zoology/index.html | |||
| Creature Feature: Snowy Owl - Check out this great feature about snowy owls. It has facts, photos, video and a map of their northern habitat. http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Snowy-owl | |||
| Burrowing Owl videos - Check out these close-up videos of burrowing owls. You'll find videos of adults and their chicks at the nest as well some very detailed videos of individual adults. http://www.naturefootage.com/stockfootage/Burrowing_Owl | |||
| Hinterland Who's Who: Great Horned Owl - Visit this profile page about the Great Horned Owl to learn more about its habitat, feeding, breeding and conservation concerns. http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=42 | |||
| Great Horned Owl videos - Here are some videos of great horned owls. The videos are relatively short, but there are some close-up shots of chicks and adults, showing distinct owl features. http://www.naturefootage.com/stockfootage/Great_Horned_Owl | |||
| Egg and Spawn Race (ARKive Education) - Explore the life cycle of the salmon in this activity. http://www.arkiveeducation.org/games_egg.html | |||
| Grow Up (ARKive Education) - Play this game to see animals growing up. Race against the clock to match the parts of the creatures in each of the four ecosystems! http://www.arkiveeducation.org/games_grow.html | |||
| Underground Adventure: Critter Quiz - "From earwigs to earthworms, there are a lot of amazing creatures that sleep, eat, and even live underground. How much do you know about these critters that inhabit the underground world? Take our Critter Quiz to find out!" (site)
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/undergroundadventure/critters/critterquiz.swf | |||
| Classifying Critters - This game is a challenge as you determine which animals belong together.
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/critters/critters.html | |||
| Migration Hopscotch - Can you guide a family of birds to its southern home? Each species of bird has a different strategy to stay alive. Can you get your bird to its home safely? http://www.aviary.org/curric/hopscotch.htm | |||
| Rags to Riches: Food Chain - Play this game about the food chain and see if you can win the (imaginary) $1,000,000! http://www.quia.com/rr/53234.html | |||
| Mission: Migration - This is a challenging online game where you get to control a migrating flock of birds. You will have to control their flight and choose safe landing spots for resting and feeding. http://www.audubon.org/educate/kids/mission_migration.html | |||
| Peregrine Falcon - bird banding - This links to images and audio description of an expedition to put leg bands on four peregrine falcon chicks. http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/ss-peregrine-falcons/index.html | |||
| Welcome Back, Bald Eagles - This is a "listen and read" book about bald eagles and how they were brought back to the rivers and streams of the United States. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/listen_read_18/bald-eagles.asp | |||
| TVOKids Bird Cam - "Help the Ontario Science Centre track birds at their bird feeder" (site). Also learn tips and other useful information about birds though educational Webcasts. http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=167 | |||
| Arctic Trivia Challenge - Help the polar bear and show how much you know about Arctic animals. http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/games/white/0,28416,1040327,00.html | |||
| Adult and Baby Animals - How much do you know about baby animals? There are pictures of animals and babies as well as a couple of sorting games on this site. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=YoungAnimals | |||
| Penguin Parade - How well do you know penguins? Visit this site and take the quiz. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0511/games/game_intro.html | |||
| Frog Calls (Diversity Web) - This site allows visitors to listen to a variety of different frog calls. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/topics/frogCalls.html | |||
| National Geographic Crittercam: Virtual Antarctica - Learn more about the creatures and life systems of Antarctica through this virtual expedition.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/crittercam/antarctica/ | |||
| Polar Puzzles - Choose your polar picture puzzle; you can even choose how many pieces the puzzle will be. After you've built your puzzles, click on the link at the bottom of the page to learn more about Earth's polar regions. http://www.windows.ucar.edu:80/games/puzzle/polar_puzzle.html | |||
| Biology4Kids Quiz: Amphibians - Test your knowledge of amphibians with this online quiz. http://www.biology4kids.com/extras/quiz_vertamphib/index.html | |||
| Animal Names - This is a great way to find out if you know the male and female names of animals. Do you know what a Boomer is? | |||
| Egg Sizes - Can you match the eggs to the bird that laid them? http://www.meddybemps.com/easter/eggsizes.html | |||
| Young Animals Crossword - Do you like crossword puzzles? Test your knowledge of baby animals with this puzzle. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/animals-crossword/picturegrid.html | |||
| MARE's Build a Fish - Choose a habitat for your fish and then choose how your fish's head, body and tail will look. Finally, choose the color of your fish and check out its survival rate. Did your fish survive or go belly up? http://sv.berkeley.edu/showcase/flash/fish.html | |||
| Smithsonian: Hummingbird's Nest Puzzle - See if you can put this puzzle of a hummingbird's nest back together! http://nationalzoo.si.edu/weblet.cfm?url=/Audiences/Fun/JigsawPuzzles/hummingbirds. | |||
| This Old Habitat - This game reinforces the concept of interactions --students will need to draw from what they have already learned about plant/plant, plant/animal, and animal/animal relationships in order to do well in the game.
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/thisoldhabitat/interactive.html | |||
| Smithsonian Kids Farm - "Most of the food we eat every day comes from farms. Take a virtual visit and see how taking care of animals takes time, dedication, and knowledge." [site introduction] http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/KidsFarm/default.cfm | |||
| Conservation Central: Design a Panda Habitat - "Try your hand at designing a new giant panda habitat for Mei Xiang and Tian Tian. See if you can balance the needs of the pandas, visitors, and staff!" [site introduction] http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral/design/daph_broadband.htm | |||
| BBC: Creature Close-Up - Select from one of 12 creatures, watch the videos, listen to the sounds and learn lots! http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/reallywild/wildfile/ | |||
| Structures of Life (Fossweb) - Try building the life cycles of various animals with this drag and drop activity.
http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/StructuresofLife/index.html | |||
