SOME GOOD SCIENCE SITES 

ANIMALS:

• The San Diego Zoo: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/visitor_info.html- an excellent site for animal studies - good pictures

• The Animal Alphabet: http://www.nps.gov/yell/kidstuff/Alphabet/index.htm – primary animals web site but has links to more intermediate sites. Also has a colouring book to print and an online colouring book.
  

• Enchanted Learning (Zoom School) Animal Information: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/ - Click on the animal category or the letter that the animal name begins with and find loads of information about your chosen animal with black and white printout diagrams that you can colour.
  
  
• Kratt's creatures: http://www.pbs.org/kratts/index.shtml - this is a fun site with some neat games for the kids.
  
  
• The Switcheroo Zoo: http://www.switcheroozoo.com/- This is a really fun site for kids. You can switch the heads, bodies and legs from different animals to other animals. There is a little bit of animal information and there is an Educators' Resource section with information and lesson plans on how to use this with your class.

• Wildlife Search: http://www.wildlifesearch.com/ - This is a great place to begin your search for information on animals. Here you will be able to click on an animal and it will bring you to links with more information about the animal.

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BC ANIMALS:

• B.C. Animal Aventure: http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/wilderness/animals/animal_introhtml - BC wildlife site-Here you will find information about all the animals in BC. Information is brief and to the point.
  
  
• Vancouver Island Marmot Site: http://www.marmots.org/ - This is very fun site with all you need to know about Marmots.
  
  
• Wildlife Program (BC Government): http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/wld/ - There is lots of information here about animals in BC.
  
  
• Ducks Unlimited Puddler Page:http://www.greenwing.org/greenwings/home2.htm - A cute page about ducks for kids with games.
  
  
• Kermode or Spirit Bear: http://www.spiritbearyouth.org/
  
  
• Bears in BC: http://www.bearsinbc.com/
  
  
• BC Frogwatch program: http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/wld/frogwatch/index.htm
  
  
• North American animals trivia: http://www.fonz.org/fun/sealdayquiz/beavertrivia.htm - This site has some activities for kids but also has lots of information about animals.

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CHEMISTRY:

• Chem for Kids: http://www.chem4kids.com/elements/index.html

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ENERGY:

• B.C. Hydro Involvement in Education: http://eww.bchydro.bc.ca/education/index.html - Here teachers k-12 can get ideas and worksheets for their energy unit. Also posted are contests and grants. In the Environment section there is lots of information and a game in which students would have to pretend to control a hydroelectric dam.
  
  
• EnergyEd Activities: http://www.energyed.ergon.com.au/energyed/activiti.htm - This is an excellent source of information about different types of energy. Learn about the types of energy, participate in activities and take on-line quizes (ages 4-12).

• Roofus' Solar and Efficient Neighborhood: http://www.eren.doe.gov/roofus/ - Here students can learn about how energy is used in their home and how they could make their homes more energy efficient.

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GENERAL STUDIES:

• CBC 4 Kids: http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/the-lab/default.html - The Laboratory. This site is great for lesson ideas, experiments and information.
  
  

• Discoverynews.com: Here you can get up to date information about what is happening in the science world today. You can search by topic to find out what's happening in your area of interest. There is lots of information here.

• Discoverykids.com: Look at the Yucky category to find Icky Experiments, Your gross and Cool Body and more. You can also explore by subject here for the latest science information.
  

• Lab Car: http://www.kineticcity.com/old/lab/HCHO/hchoarchive.html - These are some cool experiments in many different science topics for school or home.
  

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HUMAN BODY (SCIENCE):

• Kids Health:http://kidshealth.org/kid/ – Covers the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems and the muscles, the ear and the eye.

• A Look Inside the Human Body: - Covers main body systems.

• The Tour of the Human Body: http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5777/cir1.htm

• Comparative anatomy: http://www.sk.lung.ca/content.cfm/compare - This site compares the Respiratory systems of different categories of animals with humans.
  
• Nova Online: A Map of the Human Heart: Students can look at a moving diagram of the flow of blood through the human heart. There is also more information about the heart and heart trouble here.
  
• http://www.sk.lung.ca/education/student/smoking/smoking1.html – This site deals with why not to smoke.
  
  
• Click here to go to a locally developed lesson on the Respiratory and Circulatory Systems.
  
  
• Click here to go to a locally developed lesson on the Digestive System.
  

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NATURAL RESOURCES:

• Click here to go to locally developed lessons on Natural Resources.

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NUTRITION:

• http://www.dole5aday.com/ - An excellent site to use when teaching nutrition. With lesson plans.

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OCEAN POLLUTION:

• http://www.silent-oceans.org/intro/intro.html – This is a site about Ocean Noise Pollution.
  
  
• http://www.oceansconservation.com/newenglish/htmdocs/kids.htm –Here you will find a wonderful colouring/activity book to download and print.
  
  
• http://www.ec.gc.ca/envpriorities/cleanwater_e.htm – Environment Canada. Information about water pollution.
  
  
• Oil, Water and Chocolate Mousse: http://www.ec.gc.ca/chocolate/en/ - This is another Environment Canada site that deals with water pollution. This one is specifically about oil spills.
  
  
• Marine Debris: http://www.ec.gc.ca/marine/debris/homeeng.htm – Read the introduction and click on Educational. Here you will find lots of information for kids about what marine debris (plastics, etc..) does to marine life and what they can do to help. There are also crossword puzzles and other games that you can print out. Here you will also find maps of where debris is found and a map showing how Canadian debris ended up in Scotland.
  
  
• http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/pollution/water.html – Another Environment Canada page. Here you can find information about the different types of pollution that affect the ocean and water systems.
  
  
• Marine Pollution One: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_pollution1.html – . From here you can learn about the different types of pollution that threaten our oceans.
  
  
• http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_oil_pollution.html – Statistics and information about oil pollution.
  
  
• http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/debris/debris1.htm – More information on marine debris with a neat colouring book.
  
  
• Keep it Clean: http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/clncoast/clean.htm – Information on how to protect our oceans.
  
  
• Ocean Pollution: http://www.jp.kids-commons.net/vc96/vc-13/ocean_pollution/ocean1.html – Here you will find information and statistics about different types of pollution.

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SPACE AND EARTH:

• Earth Science Lessons: volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/lesson.html - This is an excellent site for teachers (Grades 5-8) to check out when starting an Earth Science unit. Lots of excellent resources here.
  
  
• Rock Doctor: The Earth's Interior: http://www.cobweb.net/~bug2/rock7.htm - Learn about the layers of the earth with colorful diagrams.
  

• Click here to go to a page of good space links with locally developed lessons
  
  

• Star Broker - This is a WebQuest for Grade 7 astronomy with added resources and a sheet for recording information.

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WEATHER:

• http://athena.wednet.edu – Athena (oceans, earth, weather and space) with worksheets

• http://www.weatherunderground.com/global/stations/71938.html – Weather forecasts (use Comox instead of Courtenay)

• http://ca.weather.yahoo.com/north_america/Canada/ - Yahoo Weather: Weather forecasts in Canada-can also search the rest of the world here
  
  

• Temperature and Climate links (Global Warming)

• Temperature Variation by Location - Links to temperature, latitude and longitude of various cities.

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WEBQUESTS:

These are Treasure/ Scavenger Hunts to use as Internet projects and also tasks for students to take on. They are very well written, include all the links and seem very useful:

http://olp.swlauriersb.qc.ca/webquest/cia.htm -This site is Canadian

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

http://www.public.usit.net/llcave/internetprojectlinks.html

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