Whale Watcher
Another great online activity from Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures. Try to get pictures of the whales in different settings while avoiding the dangers the whales face. Nice live video footage of the whales to use as the “shots” you get. Whale Watcher
Read MorePredator Protector
An interesting twist, this is a game on a PBS site, Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures. The idea is to protect the sharks while they travel to a safe place where they can live and eat in peace. Teaches about the sharks and the dangers they face in a world that fears them. Predator Protector
Read MoreBBC – Science & Nature – Mammal Games
One more really good BBC link. These games are about mammals. And I would make a really lousy chimp because I had trouble remembering how to respond to the different chimps. It’s a little complicated. I’d take notes and use a cheat sheet as I went through, but you don’t have time to check it. [...]
Read MoreBBC – Science & Nature – Sea Life Games
Another extremely cool BBC site. This one is strictly about sea life. All sorts of things to do. I’ll warn you that matching the young critters with their parents is tough. I had trouble doing that in Tank Turmoil. And Friend of Foe didn’t work out too well for me at first. Matching up which [...]
Read MoreBBC – Science & Nature – Prehistoric Life Games
This site I had trouble deciding where to list. I ended up creating two categories for it, just because it’s true focus is the prehistoric period, but most of it is about the organisms of the period. The BBC has way too much stuff sometimes. Sorting through it all gets a bit overwhelming, but well [...]
Read MoreSpace – Games and Quizzes
I find myself picking sites apart, finding the best of what’s there. It makes life easier in the long run because it limits search time, but for now, I get lost in all of the fun things there are to do. This space site is another part of the BBC. From here, you can locate [...]
Read MoreHuman Body and Mind – Interactive Body
In sorting through sites, I find good stuff, not so good stuff, and GREAT STUFF! This is a great page that has links for all sorts of interactives with the human body. There’s anatomy as well as some insight into how the brain works. Very interesting. Most of them I’ve worked through or I wouldn’t [...]
Read MoreEdheads
This site has several interactive activities. The best ones in my opinion are the Simple Machines and Odd Machine. The Weather activity is interesting. I’m not a big fan of the virtual surgeries, but they are definitely a learning experience. New one is a virtual crime scene. Kinda cool! But a little tough. It’s physics [...]
Read MoreJefferson Science Lab Vocabulary Hangman, etc
Though I’m not typically a big fan of some word game sites, this one’s actually pretty good. They have a variety of word banks to choose from with the option of sending them your word list that they’ll add for you. I haven’t tried that yet, but I might, just to see how they do. [...]
Read MoreThe Learning Zone
This is a British site from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. They’re cute, quick little things which may seem a little young in some respects, but can be a little tough. Among the topics covered are the rock cycle, fossils, minerals, animals and insects. They also have a game page called the “funstuff.” [...]
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