SLEUTh Academy

Happy Spring!
The science lab is currently featured on the BECON TV show Broward School Beat broadcast often until mid-April on Channel 19 cable and Channel 63 DirectTV/Dish/U-verse.  Several classes were filmed doing experiments and making movies back in December.  The schedule is available at becon.tv.
Welcome kindergartners and first graders to Science Lab special!
Kindergartners are exploring [...]

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There are a plethora of links on the right side of every page.  They are sorted by topic, listed alphabetically, and then alphabetical within each category.  EXPLORE!
Some specific activities to accompany our laboratory activities:
2nd grade:
A Walk through the Forest
Virtual Microscope
3rd grade:
Simple Machines
Insulators and Conductors Review
Heat Energy Game
4th grade:  Visit the Earth and Space game [...]

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Did you know there are TONS of great science websites you can visit that reinforce what we do in science lab?  I’ve listed and sorted them into categories on the right side of the page.  If you know of some I missed, please send them to me in a COMMENT (just click on the word [...]

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Happy Vernal Equinox! Spring officially starts at 8:07 PM tonight. All over the globe everyone has 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we will have more than 12 hours of daylight until June and the Summer Solstice — have fun with it!
Everyone has been [...]

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At the BBC website there are a ton of interactive games and quizzes for all ages. This one is an especially good review of the shadow lesson that Kindergarten and first graders are doing in science lab. Try the activity and the online quiz at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/light_shadows.shtml
and here is one for 2nd – 5th [...]

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Here are some great sites for online games – some of these are repeats from other posts, but they are so good they deserve to be mentioned again (and AJ was looking for them). There are lots more, search for GAMES in the category list on the right and everywhere I mention games on [...]

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Kindergartners through 3rd graders will be learning all about variables and controls using Galileo’s pendulum experiments. Galileo was an amazing scientist who lived from 1564-1642 (that is a LONG time ago). Because of his astronomy work mapping the sky (he invented one of the first telescopes) a table is named for him [...]

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We have started our new unit I’m calling “Travel, Transportation, and Time”. In this unit we will address all the standards in force and motion and energy while relating them to our place in space (Earth and space sciences). I will be adding links here to great games and videos that are available [...]

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After several requests, here it is. Go to www.froguts.com and try out the free demo dissections (click “demos” in the upper right hand corner). Also for those who really like dissections, go to www.edheads.org and try out virtual knee surgery (and other activities/games too – try out the simple machines game). Have [...]

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I just found this great site for weather information and games.  This site is part of a larger site of FLASH interactive games on science from the British Broadcasting Company (BBC).  Try these out and especially try out the clouds activity and game!   Click on About Weather

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