OUR CHANGING PLANET Y4
Collected Resources for Year 4
Favorite Webpages:
Top Two Online Resources
http://www.pkearthandspace.com/
Oddizzi:
Other online resources:
Kidrex:
Sweetsearch:
Fuse:
https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/primary/pages/Default.aspx
Geography4Kids:
Here are some useful sites:
STOP DISASTERS GAME: http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/home.html
Flocabulary: The Layers of Life (login/password needed): http://www.flocabulary.com/weather/
FAVORITE SITES:
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/forces-of-nature/
Storm Chasers- National Geographic Movie:
http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/about.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/volcano/index.shtml
http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00758/en/disaster/earthquake.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/
Weather Wiz Kids:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-earthquake.htm
Volcanoes on Map: interactive:
Animated guide to volcanoes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7533964.stm
Earth Structure:
http://www.geography4kids.com/files/earth_intro.html
Organizations that Help:
http://www.shelterbox.org/news.php?id=614
Erosion: What is a butte? From Wonderopolis:
http://wonderopolis.org/?post_type=wonder&s=erosion&x=0&y=0
Climate: Polar Ice Cap from Wonderopolis:
http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-is-a-polar-ice-cap/
Earthquake: What is it? from Wonderopolis:
http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-is-an-earthquake/
Avalanche: http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-causes-an-avalanche/
eBook: http://thestylinglibrarian.com/2015/01/28/styling-librarian-whatever-wednesday-action-and-help/
Legends, folktales, tall tales, fables...
Chinese Fables:
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/chinese-fables/load.htm?f
Folktales:
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/folk-tales/load.htm?f
Tumblebooks - search for Fables, audiobook and picture book available online: http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp
Internet Public Library where there are folktales, books right there ready to read: (good books ready to read in dual languages):
Great folktales-
http://en.childrenslibrary.org
http://www.worldoftales.com/folktales.html
Fables:
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/read_db.pl?subgenre_display=2&genre=children&search_field=subgenre&search_for=fables&order_by=author_last,title&page=1&type_ind=stories
Tall Tales- John Henry- not a book but pretty well done video: https://vimeo.com/59767453
FABLES
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php
MYTHS & LEGENDS
http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/
FOLK TALES & FABLES (HIGHER LEVEL)
Science Experiment Ideas
Science Experiments:
http://www.earthsciweek.org/forteachers/2011/ChocolateRockCycle_Feb_cont.html
(Chocolate Rock Cycle)
http://www.earthsciweek.org/forteachers/eqmac_cont.html
(Earthquake Machine)
http://www.earthsciweek.org/forteachers/geoage_cont.htm
(Geologic Age)
http://www.earthsciweek.org/forteachers/geotime_cont.html
(Geologic Time/Scale)
http://www.earthsciweek.org/forteachers/geotime_cont.html
(Plate Techtonics)
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/archive/xpeditions/lessons/04/g35/bowerformed.html?ar_a=1
(How are Islands Formed?)