Grouping and Changing Materials
Under science 6-7 at the BBC Schools Science Clips site, you’ll find this little jewel. Nice for working on those physical properties and sorting materials or classification. Grouping and Changing Materials
Read MoreNorth American Mammals
“North American Mammals is a bilingual, English-Spanish website that portrays more than 400 of our native species through photographs, watercolor paintings, illustrations, range maps, and concisely written vignettes. Other features include custom field guides created from an interactive map, mammal searches across the continent, by ecoregions, state, national park, or precise location, and a family [...]
Read MoreThe Secret of the Bones
Go through, step by step, and determine the classification down to family for the bones shown. The only problem I had with it was that if you click on the camera to view their examples, the window opened, but sometimes, it would take you to a different page. Then you had to click the back [...]
Read MoreAlien Taxonomy
We created dichotomous keys with these little fellas. I didn’t worry about the names for them and just put letters on them. For my kids, that was enough, but it’s a really neat activity either way you go. Alien Taxonomy
Read MorePamishan Creatures
These little guys show up in several places online, sometimes in the same activity, sometime in a different one. This is the easier of the activities. When I find the other one again, I’ll list it. This is just reading a dichotomous key. Pamishan Creatures
Read MoreTaxonomy
This one would be a little tough without alot of guidance for middle school, but I’ve seen some classes who could do it. I can see where it would draw on different strengths of the kids in the group. I also can see where it would probably be a good idea to do the drawings [...]
Read MoreDichotomous Key
I’ve seen some much more complicated versions of this, but for my classes to start with, this was perfect. A couple of them they really had to think about, which was good. If it had been too easy, it wouldn’t teach them anything. Dichotomous Key
Read MoreBiology for Kids
This site has a little bit of everything. They cover almost every topic for biology that you can think of. The best thing about it that each topic – like each organelle of a cell – is pretty much contained on one page. So if you want to talk about only certain organelles, you can [...]
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