3rd Grade Earth Science Websites
Websites for 3rd Grade Earth Science
Weather and Climate
These websites support the NGSS standards at this grade level and are labeled by the type of website that it is (Student or Teacher Background, Student Online Activities, Teacher Activities, Student or Teacher Videos).
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| Resource Link | Abstract | Website Types |
|---|---|---|
| Challenger Center for Space Science Education | Using space exploration as a theme, the Challenger Center web site offers a large searchable database of hands-on lessons related to the solar system and earth sciences, as well as podcasts, webcasts and interdisciplinary design challenges to do in your classroom. | Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities |
| Climate Change Education.Org | Portal Web Site Dedicated to: Global Warming Education, Climate Change Education, Science, Solutions -- Resources Directory | Student Background;Teacher Background |
| Cool the Earth | Cool The Earth is a ready-to-run program that educates K-8 students and their families about global warming and inspires them to take simple actions to reduce their carbon emissions. The program is successful because it’s fun and empowering for the kids, and their enthusiasm is contagious! Includes assemblies, website tools, lesson plans | Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| GLOBE | GLOBE encourages students to utilize on-line data to help answer questions about how the environment around them works. Through investigation projects students do science, learning the importance of creating hypotheses, analyzing data, drawing conclusions and reporting their results. | Student Online Activities;Teacher Background |
| ISS EarthKam | Middle-school educator can register for the ISS EarthKAM Community, but all educators can take advantage of the map images and resources online. ISS EarthKAM is a NASA-sponsored program that provides stunning, high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. The Students page contains a Resources link that allows kids to learn about the International Space Station, Orbital Mechanics, Maps, the Space Shuttle, and Weather, and the Challengers link provides an opportunity to test the knowledge learned. Other links on the page include activities such as games and quizzes, as well as all information needed to get your own school involved in the mission. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Background |
| Kid's Earth Science Enterprise | Kids can learn about earth, land, water, and natural hazards and learn how NASA studies these different topics. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Background |
| National Atlas | This is a site that contains all kinds of data in map form. Geology, history, biology, political boundaries, environment, climate. You can print some maps yourself, order others, and use many online. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| National Geographic Education | Engage with National Geographic Explorers and transform learning experiences through live events, free maps, videos, interactives, and other resources. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration-Education Resources | NOAA's many educational activities are distributed across the agency. This site has been designed to help students, teachers, librarians and the general public access the many educational activities, publications, and booklets that have been produced about weather and ocean. Links to educational websites divided into K-5, 6-12 and teachers. | Teacher Background |
| Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids | This website is designed for elementary school students to look at weather forecasts, astronomy and backyard animals. You can easily switch between locations to look at other areas of the country. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| Paso Partners Bilingual Instruction | The resource is designed to help elementary school teachers organize their classrooms and instructional activities in order to increase achievement of Hispanic primary-grade children whose first language is not English. The guides offer a curriculum plan, instructional strategies and activities, suggested teacher and student materials, and assessment procedures. Bilingual lessons on Five Senses, Spiders, Dinosaurs, Plants & Seeds, Human Body, Health, Oceans, Weather, Matter, Sun & Stars, Sound, Simple Machines. | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| Practical Uses of Math and Science (PUMAS) | The PUMAS examples are aimed primarily at helping pre-college teachers enrich their presentation of topics in math and science. You may find a number of examples that relate to your area of interest, perhaps written in different styles, and possibly taking different approaches to the material. There may also be comments/lesson plans filed with some of the examples, written by previous users. Use these examples as a resource -- Select, adapt, recontextualize, and present the material to your students in a way that you judge will best meet your students' needs, abilities, and interests. | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| Scholastic: Study Jams | This short animated video clips are nice introductions or reviews to different science topics. Each general area has about 10 supporting videos. *Plants, *Animals, *Human Body, *Ecosystems, * Landforms, Rocks and Minerals *Weather, Climate *Solar System *Matter *Force and Motion *Energy, Light and Sound (includes electricity and magnetism) *Scientific Inquiry | Student Background;Student Videos |
| School Garden Curriculum | This site from the University of Georgia Extension has a series of lessons geared towards Ecosystems in the Garden for 4th grade. | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| Science for Kids - Geography | The Geography page on Science for Kids has games, experiments, images, videos, facts, lessons and activities on subjects such as weather, volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, fossils For videos go to http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/earth.html | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Student Videos;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| The Weather Dude | Welcome to the weather page especially for kids, parents and teachers from weather forecaster Nick Walker. Explains that weather changes daily and seasonally, affecting us all. Great links to other kids weather sites. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| WatchKnowLearn.org | This website has free educational videos on all topics (including science) for all age levels. There is specifically a section for younger learners. | Student Background;Student Videos;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| Web Weather for Kids | Award-winning online site features webweather for kids: learning, activities, and news. Resource list at the end of each activity and teachers tips! Talks about the ingredients for making weather: temperature, volume, pressure, density. Combine ingredients in the troposphere, mix thoroughly, and you will have weather! | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| Windows to the Universe | Extensive website of all areas of earth science. Lots of nice images. Games, worksheets and puzzles. Some real data on atmospheric science. You can use the free version with advertizements scrolling at top or sgn up for membership with no advertizements | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |