Welcome to Science Connections 5!

  All new additions and individually linked benchmarks found at:

http://scramsfirst.tripod.com/ (please bookmark new location)


 

Teachers links to TAKS INFORMATION
www.digitalcurriculum.com          visit with your librarian or stcp if you don't already have an account

Interactive Student and Teacher Activities by TEKS and Subject Area


Humble Student Proficiencies Lesson Plan Idea Bank

Rubric Website


GeoSpy        A GREAT game to locate states, continents within a time limit!

Magic Schoolbus Science site

Our first contribution cover several web quests related to environment, space, and living things.

Mystery Class integrates math, social studies, and science concepts as students search for 10 classrooms hidden somewhere in the world. Teacher must be registered (free) with Journey North for class to submit a guess to the contest. (for help getting started with this project, be sure to read the link to Teacher Tips.) Resources to solve this mystery.

http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/treehouse.html

HEALTH and Safety

Classification

Classification of Animals     A quick, easy review of characteristics
Scanning Electron Microscope       animal, vegetable, mineral game at one lever

EcoSystems

EPA Watershed Fact sheets
Slide Show of Arctic Wildlife
Earth day Information
Recipe for a Rain forest
Tropical Rain forest Strata     click on the levels to find
Virtual Wildlife/Wild Places
Butterflies of America
Live from Antarctica

Light and Other Forms of Energy

Auroras and Aurora Live!

Inventing using Pneumatics

Renewable Energy Sources

Solar Energy
Wind Energy
Biomass
Geothermal
HydroElectric
Hydrogen Energy
Ocean Energy
Learn some surprising things about light, shadows and images

What causes a light bulb to glow?

The Atoms Family Check out this link!

Proton Don

Energy Links

Hydropower

Electricity

Basics of Electricity
Electrical Emergencies
Shock Blocker Game      Prevent a shock being conducted to a child.
Electricity Safety
Energizer Batteries Website
Theater of Electricity

Fossil Fuels

Magnetic Force http://www.clipartconnection.co/gotd2002_10_15.gif

How strong is your magnet?      Lesson plan
What are electromagnets?
Making an electromagnet     uses common easily obtained supplies.
Strange Attractor      An activity that explores the interaction of magnetic fields
 

Enrichment Information

How Stuff Works   For those of us who are curious about how everything works!
Designed for 8th graders by their Science Teacher

Pollution and Recycling

Air Junk

Recycle City

Earth Day Grocery Sack Project     Earth Day will be April 22, 2003

 

Weather

Cloud Classification     pictures of various cloud types

Helpful Links

(other subjects and some for Science)
Teks Tool kit and Clarifying Activities for Math

State Supported Site with Grade Specific Science Suggestions           scroll down for your grade level

Space Day May 1
Vocabulary Enrichment with puzzles and games

English Spanish Dictionary

Links for Current Month

Literature Circles

A poetry writing site, where kids' work can be put online

Math Advantage

Exploring Geometric Solids and Their Properties

Math Goodiescrossword puzzles, wordsearch puzzles to learn concepts

Having fun with Baseball Statistics   Lesson plan and support materials
Create worksheets for your class

Visual Glossary of Math Terms

Flash Cards  a great way to practice facts!

Arithmattack      How many problems can you solve in 60 seconds?

USMint games about money

Using Tangrams to teach about area without formulas

Developing Spatial-visualization Intelligence with a Heart Puzzle
Measurement Resources
Writing Measurement Riddles
ICE CREAM          A problem solving game, hurry before the ice cream cones melt!
 

Science TEKS Tool kit

The Stock Market Game

ESL activities
Proverbs, Idioms, Scrambled Sentence, Many Things
Native Americans

Explorers
American Presidents

www.50states.com

America's Story

Spelling Activities and Games

In an attempt to share good resources with each other, Fifth grade teachers in Humble ISD are invited to submit web quests, links for our curriculum hot list, and teaching ideas for other fifth grade teachers and their students to use. If you would like further information about adding a resource to this website, please contact the webmaster.  Although the main focus of these pages will be Science, there are a number of  links to other useful topics.