Simple Machines Activities - Lever - Pulley - Wedge - Edheads is a new non-profit corporation being formed to provide high quality educational experiences on the Internet at no cost to students or teachers.

http://edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/

Simple Machines - An overview of the six basic types of simple machines with pictures and student drawings.

http://www.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles1/finalhome.htm

Simple Machines - Listing of web sites

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/simmach.html

Rube Goldberg’s Inventions - Wacky “simple” machines.

http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/gallery.htm

Simple Machines Web Quest

http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/sthroop/machinequest.htm

Exploring Simple Machines - a 4th grade web quest

http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Machines/Machines.htm

Simple Machines Construction Site - Build things using simple machines.

http://home.earthlink.net/~kandyhig/sm/

Simple Machines - Descriptions of simple machines.

http://www.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html

Teacher Resources - Lesson Plans and Web Site Lists: Simple Machines

http://www.ed.uri.edu:80/SMART96/ELEMSC/SMARTmachines/machine.html

Grade 3 Lessons on Simple Machines

http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemsci/gr3uhesc.html#act3

Simple Machines - 4th grade web quest

http://www.eats.ecsd.net/curricular/webquest/simple_machines/

Elements of Machines

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html

Simple Machines - descriptions and illustrations.

http://www.mikids.com/Smachines.htm

The Essence of Simple Machines - describes and shows simple machines

http://www.cosi.org/onlineExhibits/simpMach/sm1.html

Dirtmeister - Investigate and report on simple machines.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/simple/index.htm

Simple Machines Mousetrap Web Quest - Use simple machines to invent a humane mousetrap.

http://outreach.rice.edu/~dgabby/science/simp_mach/

Simple Machines - Rube Goldberg I - Invent a Rube Goldberg device that uses simple machines. (Web Quest)

http://www.jsd.k12.ak.us/ab/el/simplemachines.html

Salmon Life Cycle - Student report

http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/salmon/report.html

Butterfly Life Cycle printout

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/activities/printouts/lifecycle.shtml

Frog Life Cycle

http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/general/cycle.html

Plant Life Cycle

http://www.arboretum.fullerton.edu/grow/primer/cycle.asp

Cecropia Moth - Life Cycle - Photographs depicting the life cycle of the cecropia moth.

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5479/

Life Cycle of a Mosquito

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/lcycle.htm

The Life Cycles of Animals - An elementary inquiry-based lesson on animal life cycles.

http://www.biopoint.com/gvsu/projectlifecycles.html

Animal Life Cycles - A web quest.

http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/webquest/cycles/

The Life Cycle of Plants

http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants_pt2/

Life Cycle of a Bean Plant

http://www.sparta.k12.il.us/SID/plantunit/growthofbeanseed.htm

The Ant Colony Life Cycle

http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/ants/ant_colony_cycle.html

The Spider Life Cycle

http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/spiders/lesson4.html

Life Cycle of the Butterfly - teacher lesson plan

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/5438.html

The Very Busy Butterfly - A K-3 web quest

http://www.ticg.cps.k12.il.us/Webquests/Science/2/Townsend-Webster-Cather/INDEX.HTM

Land Forms - There are many classifications of land forms , depending on what kind of map a

 person is looking at.

http://www.mcwdn.org/MAPS&GLOBES/LandForms.html

Color Landform Atlas of the United States - Maps include satellite information, 1895 state maps, and links to outside resources.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

Types of Land - Atoll, Bay, Butte, Canyon, Cape, Cliff, Desert, Glacier, Lagoon, Marsh, Mesa, Mountain, Oasis, Peak, Plain, Plateau, Reef, River, Savanna, Swamp, Valley

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/types_of_land_2/

How did the Land forms on the earth get here?

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/dec98/912524830.Es.r.html

Unique Landforms--Earth Science lesson plan (grades K-5) - Students learn about three unique landforms, discover how they evolved over time, and make an interesting visual display about their findings.

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/landforms/

Where Communities are Built  - A Web Quest for 2nd and 3rd Grade.

http://www.rfsd.k12.wi.us/rocky/staff%20pages/Young/pages/WebQuest.html

Students in Ms. Wohlers' Room Learn About Land Forms

http://www.lincoln.dubuque.k12.ia.us/Third%20Grade/2003_2004/LandForms/Wohlers.htm

Landforms - the Faces of the Earth

http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/landforms.htm

Image Gallery of Landforms - Landforms are features that make up the Earth's surface

http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/land/landform/landform.html

Land forms on Topographic Maps - This web page has links to examples of landforms depicted on topographic maps.

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/slaymaker/Archives/Geol10L/landforms.htm

Land forms - First graders will find it exciting finding out about landforms

http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/1994/landform.htm

Land forms - Click on name for map

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/avhrr/gallery/landforms/landforms.html

Land forms Web Quest

http://www.barrow.k12.ga.us/hes/html/landforms.html

Land Forms Picture Gallery

http://geology.about.com/library/bl/images/bllandformindex.htm

Illustrated Land Forms - 2nd grade project

http://www.joannegoodwin.com/technology/2nd/geog2/

Geography: Land forms - These sites are about different types of land forms found around the world.

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000923.shtml

Astronomy

Nine Planets - his website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each planet and the major moons in our solar system.

http://www.nineplanets.org /

Nine Planets Just for Kids - A rework of the Nine Planets site to make it more accessible and understandable for younger students.

http://kids.nineplanets.org /

Welcome to the Planets - This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Nine Planets - A Web Quest

http://www.davidson.k12.nc.us/webquests/planets/planets.htm

The Planets - a comparison with charts and graphs of the 9 planets.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/

The Nine Planets of Our Solar System - a Web Quest

http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/sp2ucs.htm

Windows to the Universe - Resources for students and teachers. Available in both English and Spanish .

http://www.windows.ucar.edu /

BBC - Science and Nature - Space and Solar System - Your travel guide to the Solar System

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/index.shtml

The Interplanetary Travel System

http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/information.html

Welcome to Astrocentral - includes a beginner guide.

http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/index.htm

Your Weight on other Planets - calculates your weight on other plants and starts.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/

Miscellaneous

How Stuff Works - This is an excellent website which has in-depth articles, complete with pictures, animations, Q&A, forums, etc., dealing with - you'll never guess - how stuff works.

http://HowStuffWorks.com

Exploratorium Ten Cool Sites -  has links to many really cool science web sites, more than 10 actually. You can find out info on astronomy, general science, environmental science, science literature, and many other subjects.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html

Flying Turtle Science and Technology Exploring - This fun award winning site explores energy and basic science principles in nature and human technology. The articles are carefully researched, accurate, easy to understand, and in addition to providing good basic explanations, the creative throughout provoking approach helps to generate an interest in science an technology.

http://www.ftexploring.com/

VolcanoWorld  - an outstanding resource for any earth science classroom interested in learning about volcanoes.

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Teacher Resources

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse - has lesson plan ideas for grades K-12, math and science. There is also a section devoted to professional development.

http://www.enc.org/professional/timesavers/lessonplans/

The Explorer - contains various educational resources for science and math teachers. You can browse math and science curricula and also search for a specific topic.

http://unite.ukans.edu/

Science Teacher Stuff - This site a resource of lesson plans in many different areas of science. It is categorized by field of science and has a listing of other sites ranging from individual teacher lesson plans for a specific subject to other search engines dealing with teaching the particular subject.

http://www.scienceteacherstuff.com