Energy Resoures
This is a Bill Nye Video on Light Energy
This website allows you to test your hearing with Mosquito Ringtones. Can you hear every frequency?
This is a video clip that shows a bowling ball pendulum. What happens to the energy of the ball as it swings?
Kinetic vs Potential Enery - can you tell the difference? This catchy tune will help you remember!
Heat Energy is transferred in may ways. This video shows all three forms of HE transfer - can you idenify them?
This video shows a convection current in action. Can you figure out why the water is moving this way?
This video shows the Heat Energy transfer rap. Get down with this jam!
This clip shows people participating in the Polar Bear Plunge. I wonder why they feel cold - could it be because they are losing Heat Energy?
Weather Resources
This clip shows Bill Nye explaining the wonders of condensation.
Have time for a good movie? Watch this about extreme weather!
See how air pressure effects peeps! What causes them to shrink? Why do they grow?
See how pressure systems move! Watch this college professer's lesson.
How does fog form? What is condensation? Watch this CYBERCHASE clip about the two.
What is the difference between dew point and relative humidity? This video makes the difference easy to see!
The water cycle makes it RAIN, RAIN! This rap details the water cycle process.
This video clip eplans fronts and how they form. Watch the clip up until 3:40.
Why do we see different phases of the moon? Watch this rap to lern this catchy jingle!
Watch this clip about air pressure! Why does the water stay in the cup even when it is turned over?
Do you know your weather vocabulary? Click this link to complete a word search!
Planetary Systems Resources
Intereseted about the moon? This clip shows us the phases and why we see them.
We are a small part of a much bigger picture. This clip shows us what things look like when we leave our atmosphere and venture into the universe.
Watch this video that shows the tides as they move around the Earth. What causes the tides? Why are they moving?
Ever wonder why the moon looks bigger than usual sometimes? This video explains that moon illusion.
This clip shows the moon as it cycles through all 8 of the phases.
Ecosystems Resources
This is a clip of an awesome chain reaction. Can you
create an energy chain for all of the transfers?
This cartoon explains convection
Ever wonder what we look like under an infrared camera? I wonder what the different colors represent.
What's the big difference between temperature and Heat Energy? This cartoon will explain!
Want additional examples of radiation? Watch this cartoon!
This site shows the different moon phases and explains what's really going on as the moon orbits the Earth. Take the quizzes at the end and see if you are a moon master!
What do animals need to survive? Can you create the ideal habitat in this interactive game?
It's symbiosis! Is it good for all, some, or only one? Watch this cartoon and learn the song!
Any and every question you could ever have about the planets is answered here! Explore and see what you can learn!
Who eats who? See if you can create a food chain. Who is the predator, and who is the prey?
This site lets you get practice with producers, consumers, and decomposers. Explore and see how they interact!
Want to learn interesting facts about the planets? This song details any and everything you could ever want to know!
This site allows you to explore the different parts of the water cycle. What happens when the sun comes out?
PlanetQuest has many articles about our universe. Who knows what you could learn from this website!
Look at the planets and compare their sizes.
Learn what causes a solar eclipse! What blocks the Sun? Why don't they occur every month?
Explore the different cloud formations. How are clouds formed? What are their names?
Watch this news broadcast to see how fronts can cause precipitation. Does air need to heat up, or cool?
Watch this video to discover the 7 wonders of the solar system! What will you learn from this video?
Watch this footage of winter in Alaska! How is it different from their summer? Why do you think this happens?
Watch this footage of summer in Alaska! Why is the Sun always out?
Is Pluto a planet? Watch this video and decide for yourself!
Take a closer look at these prehistoric creatures! Are they cute or disgusting? I can't decide!
DCAS Resources
Get a feel for the science DCAS test with this practice test! See what kind of questions they will ask you this May!
Ever wonder what happens to te partsof the space shuttle that are cast off? This article explains how the pieces are recovered.
NASA answers some frequently asked qestions rgarding astonauts and our space program.
Lean the moon phases with this catchy rap!
What causes the seasons? Is it the tilt of the Earth's axis, its revolution around the Sun, or both? What does this mean for the amount of sunlight we recieve?
Ever wonder what it looks like to cry in space?
Recap what you know! Can you recal the function of our circulatory system? What about the 8 characteristics of life?
More examples of animal relationships!
How does a bird's beak help it survive? Watch this clip to see all the different adaptations!
Review what you learned in 8th grade for the big test!
Review what you learned in 7th grade with this watersheds recap. How does pollution spread? What does porous mean?
My Body and Me, Earth History, Electricity, Simple Machines, and Forces & Motion - What do you remember?
Review what you learned in 8th grade - moon phases, heat energy transfer, and the electromagnetic spectrum.
The countdown of the world's deadliest predators! What do they have that allows them to survive?
Solid, liquid, or gas? What is matter?
What is a force? Review your sixth grade knowledge with this activity!
What are the parts of the digestive system? What makes up the circulatory system?
Figure out how weathering occurs, along with what causes erosion.
Deepen your understanding of rock formation, and the history of our Earth's formation
What is the function of our liver? What sorts of
diseases can we develop?
Can you remember the different parts of our digestive system?
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an... octopus. Watch as this octopus blends in with its surroundings.
Sort the organisms according to producer, consumer, etc. Watch as the computer assembles a food web.
Mechanical vs chemical digesion - what's the big difference?
What is a wave? What's the big difference between a mechanical waxe and an EM wave?
Which color has the highest frequency? What are the colors of visible light?
Record all that you know about the electromagnetic spectrum on this graphic organizer!
Which kind of wave is a sound wave? What are the parts of a wave?
What makes a complete circuit?
Can you create a punett square?
See if you can figure out the genetics of this family!
Is it an observation or an inference? See if you can tell the difference with this quiz!
What determines our genes? Why are some of us uglier than others?
Recap what you learned in 6th grade with this game!
Even more practice with punett squares! HOORAY!
Can you identify the forces in this worksheet?
Can't get enough forces? Try these!!
Want to know the details behind what makes a circuit work? Ever wonder what a proton or neutron do? Read this article!
Get to know your body!
Learn how your body functions!
Review the different properties of matter with this worksheet!
How doees your heart function?
How do different traits determine how we look? What makes a gene dominant?
How doees your heart function?
Teach me cell meiosis!
Interested to see an upclose documentary about the horseshoe crab and its uses? Watch this!
What happens when giant pythons come to play?
How would we be affected if the Sun were to disapear? Watch this clip from Morgan Freeman
What adaptations allow animals to be better suited for their enviroment?
Read this article about the steps we are taking to save the horseshoe crabs.
Interested in seeing when the moon with rise and set? Want ot know when the next eclipse will be in our area? Check out this informational site!
How does Tom Hanks transform KE into HE in this clip?
Watch this clip as students recreate the particle model! How do the particles behave as they gain/lose HE?
Watch this clip to see the role friction plays in energy. What would happen without friction?
Watch this clip about sound and light! How do waves carry energy?
Bill Nye talks heat energy transfer! Check it out!
Watch how HE cycles through this convection demo.
What causes the warm water to rise and cold to sink? See if you can figure it out!
Do you know the difference between weather and climate?
Watch this video of condensation forming - what do you think is needed for condensation to form?
Watch as this teacher explains pressure systems using demonstrations!
This clip explains the weather we can expect with each pressure system.
Let's learn about the three main types of clouds!