This site allows teachers and students to create and practice vocabulary flashcards. A set of flashcards has been created for the Populations and Ecosystems Unit.
This site provides students with a visual of the water cycle. Students are able to click on part of the to read more about it. A water cycle quiz, word search, and poem is available for students to access too.
This site, provided by the Environmental Protection Agency , is full of interactive games filled with vocabulary and facts for students to access about the Water Cycle.
Since students will be learning about the environment throughout the Populations and Ecosystems unit, this is a great way to get students involved. This site provides students with ideas and ways they can help the environment.
This site allows students to take a quiz to determine what they know about animal adaptations.
Through this site, students can read about the different biomes and and ecosystems of the world. This site provides real pictures of biomes and ecosystems. The photographs really illustrate what the different biomes and ecosystems are like for the students.
Brain Pop provides a movie and quiz to help students learn about food chains. There are also links to different ecosystems.
On this website, students are able to create their own Meadow, Arctic, and Pond Food Webs by placing pictures of different organisms in the correct place to illustrate the energy flow of that particular food web.
This site provides students with more information concerning biomes and ecosystems. There are more photographs. The best part of this website are the panorama views of ecosystems. The students can take a 360 degree look at the different ecosystems.
The online owl pellet dissection is a wonderful resource for schools and students who are unable to access owl pellets for students to dissect. There is written information, visuals, and a virtual owl pellet dissection available on this site.