Anna Holmgreen's List: Science

Welcome to EekoWorld!

EekoWorld (Environmental Education for Kids Online) features an engaging and interactive format that invites children to explore, experiment, and collaborate as they learn about conservation and the environment. The primary goals of EekoWorld are the following:

* Introduce children to the basic elements of ecosystems
* Foster an increased awareness of pollution producers
* Display the effects of pollution on plants and animals, as well as the land, air and water
* Examine both local and global conservation acts
* Encourage collaboration and community efforts to improve the environment

We invite you to check out our Teacher's Guide to EekoWorld and Family Guide to EekoWorld for more information about how you will be able to use EekoWorld in the classroom and with your children at home!

Food Chain Game

This site describes how to get started and gives ideas for projects. There is also resources for parents and science fair coordinators.

Topics, Ideas, Resources and Sample Projects
For Primary, Elementary, Middle and High School Students and Teachers

Links to sites with animal adaptations.

Biomes and Ecosystems

Helping you use the Internet effectively...
This is one of my favorite sites. Click on "Grade Level Help" or "Links for K-12" for different interactive sites. Also resources for teachers.

Science fair resources

KIds can combine parts of animals to make a new one of their own. Try putting a raccoon head on a chicken for instance. THere are also animal related games and activities.

Build a food chain

Play a game and match animals with the correct adaptation.

A nature and conservation science show created and hosted by a nine year old.

Sumanas develops animated tutorials in a variety of formats for many scientific disciplines. Click on the subject headings below to view samples of our animations. Also, don't forget to visit our Science in Focus section for animations that explain science topics that are in the news.

Eco Kids is a website with a great collection of ecologically focused games and activities. Students can complete interactives on wildlife, climate change, energy, the North, water, waste, land use, and more. I was hunting down a good interactive for students to learn and practice the food chain. Build a Food Chain has students order the elements of a food chain. Along the way, students learn why each animal within a food chain is so important. In addition to learning the basics of a food chain, students will learn about bioaccumulation.

The BBC has excellent educational games, activities, and resources. The BBC Science Clips are a collection of science related activities and games for students who are 5 to 11 years old. Students can grow virtual plants, experiment with pushes and pulls, hearing and sound, forces and movement, electricity, rocks and soils, simple machines, light, solids and liquids, friction, habitats, life cycles, changing states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes, forces, and much more. The site is organized well, by age group, and has several activities at each level.

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's learning center has a nice library of animations demonstrating various biology concepts. Some of the concepts covered in the animations library include DNA restriction and transformation, DNA arrays, and model organisms. The animations can be viewed online or downloaded

Rader's Physics 4 Kids is part of a series of Rader's 4 Kids lessons about science. Physics 4 Kids takes students on tours of different sub-topics of physics. After each stop on the tour there is a quiz that students can take to test their understanding of each topic. Along with text and image information there are some short videos about different physics concepts along the tour.

Who Pooped? is an interactive game in which students learn about various animals by guessing which animal created which pile of poop. Believe it or not, there is actually some good information about the animals that follows each round of guessing who created which poop.

A collection of videos and animations of cell biology processes. Most are QuickTime format. Includes Movies of Cells, Cellular Calcium, Molecular Methods, Molecular Movies and a miscellaneous category.