General Links for Everyone

NISD Science Page

Harcourt Science 2000 - resources for the text you currently have.
Harcourt Science - resources for the most current text published. You will find some extra resources for your topics here.

NASA Kids site - games, activities, and more! Check out the other cool NASA sites at the bottom of the page!
NASA Student Site - Internet resources, multimediat resources, and homework help.

Playing With Time - see events that normally happen too fast or too slow to closely observe. Watch time lapsed photography to see these events happen before your eyes! Click "To See and Do" and start exploring!

Biomes and Ecosystems - rainforests, tundra, forests, grasslands, desert, oceans, wetlands, ponds, shorelines, rivers.

Animals Hotlist - sites for animal facts and adaptations, including animals of the rainforest, ocean, tundra, desert, and endangered animals.

Rock Hounds - learn about rock creation, collecting, and more!
Virtual Sand Collection - examine sand from around the world to observe its components!

Weather Wiz Kids - games, safety, experiments, a quiz, jokes, vocabulary, photos, radar, temperature charts, hurricane info, and more!

How Everyday Things Are Made -
a site with descriptions and videos of over 40 manufacturing processes, from jelly beans to chocolate, to motorcycle engines to airplanes, to welding and die processes; these can be a great series of virtual field trips for students!
How Stuff Works - find out how anything and everything is made and/or works!

American Museum of Natural History - Ology Kids Site -
Also check out the American Museum of Natural History main page for more resources.

Fifth Grade

NISD Science Links
Carbon Dioxide/Oxygen Cycle
Matter and Energy
Atoms and Molecules
Severe Weather!
What Causes The Seasons
A Change of Seasons
Molecular Expressions - online activities involving microscopes, light, prisms, reflection/refraction, etc.
Let's Save the Rainforest!
Birthday Moons
Moon Quest
Harcourt Moon Phases - scroll down to ch. 13
Grand Canyon Explorer
Our Changing Earth
Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker

Fourth Grade

NISD Science Links
Electricity
Fossils
Texas Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Detectives

Sea Turtles
Sea Turtles Hotlist	Sea Turtles WebQuest 1
Sea Turtles WebQuest 2

Animal Adaptations
Tools to Aid in an ISS Study - presentation given at the International Space Station Educator's Conference - Internet projects, site lists, and lesson ideas about the ISS, gravity, spaceflight.

Third Grade

NISD Science Links

Solar System
Solar System by Tom Leija	Space - Library Integration Unit
Third Grade Blasts Off!	Space
Let's Explore the 9 Planets!	Solar System Links

Our Changing Earth - Learn about how the earth's crust has changed throughout history! 
Exploring Simple Machines WebQuest
Simple Machines at Edheads.com

Wetlands
Wetlands Hotlist	Wetlands Subject Sampler
Wetlands TreasureHunt	Wetlands SubjectSampler2
Wetlands Webquest1	Wetlands Webquest2

 

Second Grade

NISD Science Links
Matter
Matter and Energy
Water Cycle
Explore the Forest
Forest Habitat and Animals
The Forest Biome
Forest Hotlist
Woodland Animals
Severe Weather!
NASA Kids - The Sun
The Moon Webquest
Phases of the Moon

First Grade

NISD Science Links
Animals of the Desert
Desert Animals Hotlist
Desert Hotlist
Worm World
Living in Space

Kindergarten

NISD Science Links
Pond Critters