Simple Machines
- Simple Machines for Kids: http://www.gmbservices.ca/Visits/SimpleMachines.htm
- Pulleys, Gears and Simple Machines videos: http://www.neok12.com/Simple-Machines.htm
- Definitions and Examples of Simple Machines: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002079F/sub3.htm
- More Definitions and Examples of Simple Machines: http://atlantis.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles1/finalhome.htm
- Science for Kids! Simple Machines: http://www.historyforkids.org/scienceforkids/physics/machines/index.htm
- Background Information about Simple Machines: http://canadaonline.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&zTi=1&sdn=canadaonline&cdn=newsissues&tm=6&gps=99_224_1003_599&f=10&tt=14&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http3A//www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/schoolzone/Info_Simple_Machines2.cfm
Interactive Games and Activities
- EdHeads: Simple Machines in your House: http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/
- Interactive Simple Machines Games: http://www.2learn.ca/kids/science/listsciG4.asp?ID2=47
Plant Growth and Changes
- Fun Facts about FUNGI: http://herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/FunFacts/factindx1.htm
- The Science of Gardening: http://www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/index.html
- The Great Plant Escape (bulbs): http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/case5/index.html
Animal Life Cycles
- Alberta's Wild Species Facts (Alberta Government Sustainable Resource Development): http://www.srd.alberta.ca/BioDiversityStewardship/WildSpecies/Default.aspx
- Insects of Alberta: http://www.insectsofalberta.com/butterflies.htm
Butterfly Life Cycles
Monarch Butterfly Interactive Life Cycle: http://askabiologist.asu.edu/research/monarchs/life3.html
Rocks and Minerals
- "This Planet Really Rocks": http://library.thinkquest.org/J002289/index.html
- Rock Hounds: http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/index2.html
Rock Cycle Websites:
- http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0602/es0602page02.cfm
- http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/index.html
- http://www.moorlandschool.co.uk/earth/rockcycle.htm
- http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/K12/K_12.html
- http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/rocks/cycle/index.htm
- http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/create/index.html
- http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index2.html
- http://www.beyondbooks.com/ear82/7.asp
- http://www.eos.ubc.ca/courses/eosc221/rock_cycle/rockcycle.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/chemistry/rock_cycle_intro.shtml
- http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/TableofContents.html
Waste in Our World
- Worm World (worms and vermicomposting): http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/worm/index.html
- Glossary of Waste Key Words and Definitions: http://mmem.spschools.org/grade4science/waste/wasteglossary2.html
- Sort It Out!!: http://www.sortitout.ca/
Hearing and Sound
- Hearing and the Ear: http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/ears.html
- "How Animals Hear" Task: http://www.blackgold.ab.ca/ict/Division1/Animalhearing3/index.htm