Here are some great websites to help you out during your study of Balance and Motion. Be sure to explore the sites identified as student-friendly before you send your students there.
Student Friendly Sites
The Crayfish Corner
This site has detailed information about crayfish including a few crayfish jokes.
Crayfish Photo Gallery
This site is full of crayfish pictures from all over the United States. Students can see how crayfish differ in size and color.
All About Snails
This site has everything you have ever wanted to know about snails. Very kid-friendly, excellent question and answer section, facts, and activities.
All About Snails (different than the one above)
You can learn facts about the life cycle of snails. There are also crafts, games, and much more on this kid and teacher friendly site.
Structure of Life
This site may spell structures wrong in its address, but it is full of activities for kids to learn about plants. There are links to other valuable sites to explore why plants have flowers and you can play a "solve the case" game to see why plants are an important part of our lives.
FOSS's Structure of Life
This is a site of the FOSS kit makers. Different classrooms have submitted movies to watch. There is a list of more web sites, books, and games to play.
Teacher Friendly Sites
Crayfish
This site contains more detailed information about crayfish for teacher's to use as a reference.
Snails and Slugs
This site shows and discusses the differences between snails and slugs. Good reference site for teachers to use to answer that unknown question.
All About Snails
You can learn facts about the life cycle of snails. There are also crafts, games, and much more on this kid and teacher friendly site.
Welcome to the Wonders of Our World
The WOW site is full of Science units that range from insects to Electricity. There is a plants unit that has experiments, explanations, resources, and references listed very clearly for easier understanding and teaching.
FOSS's Structure of Life
This is a site of the FOSS kit makers. Different classrooms have submitted movies to watch. There is a list of more web sites, books, and games to play.