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Animal facts from National Geographic. This portal in an a to z directory making it easier to find animals students need facts on. Also includes size relative to humans or commonly understood items. Includes map of where the animals live.

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This website would be great to use for the animal habitat projects that we did last year in fourth grade. It also has lots of information just on animals where you could use to do animal research for a project.

Nice animal information... some articles include animal sounds and links to videos of the animals in the wild.

Another good portal to access animal information at National Geographic. You can filter animal choices by category (eg birds, bugs, reptiles) or by habitat (eg artic, forest, ocean). Includes colorful pictures, videos, sounds, and facts as well as a printable sheet combining information.

Scratch is a Web 2.0 programming environment for beginners, where kids can use a simple programming syntax to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art, and share their creations on the web. Students use built-in sprites or they can draw their own. Once the student finishes the game or animation, they can publish it online.

BrainPop is a highly-regarded, Flash-based video site that offers an array of movies on all kinds of curricular topics covered during the school year. This particular site provides the framework for a teacher to teach a lesson on animal habitats. Beyond just watching the movie and answering the quiz questions, the educator site gives the objectives, materials, preparation, lesson procedures, vocabulary, and extension activities to do with the students. You will have to create a free educator account to gain access to this page.

Fourth Grade science report project presentation on an animal where the students are integrating technology through the internet and powerpoint. It gives a great timeline of lessons to use step by step and how many class periods it will take to complete. It also hits many technology standards.

BrainPop provides animated movies and follow-up quizzes/activities related to hundreds of curriculum topics in Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art, Music, Health, and Technology. The movies are correlated to the Georgia Performance Standards, so you can select a standard (objective) and search for movies that are related to a specific standard.

On this site are some nice animations and graphs with accompanying explanatory pages related to economic concepts. Some of it is low-tech, but it still helps visualize these things

Though maybe not au courant in terms of technology, this collection of java applets for Physics Education is really neat, with a lot of helpful animations to help explain Physics concepts.

This site provides teachers many teaching points on Georgia's five main habitats as well as the plants and animals that live within each one. While the Habitats Research page is a preporatory page for the in-school "field trips" the company provides, it is still an excellent resource for science instruction (regardless of whether you order the program or not).

These videos, provided by the Apple Learning Interchange, provide a short snippet about a particular topic (in this case, the changes humans cause on animal habitats) and then launch into a multifaceted lesson. Teachers have a purpose, learning activities, resources, and examples of student projects to use to guide them through the provided lessons. Standards are clearly represented through an "Evidence of Learning" section (with rubrics) as well as NETS and 21st Century Learning Skills Alignments sections. Teachers can use many available photos and interviews during the lesson, as well.

NASA site for kids includes games, animations, podcasts, and facts. Also available in Spainish.

Kids Science News Network: Short science videos and lessons to explain science, technology, engineering, Math,and NASA concepts. Newsbreaks are animated for K-2 and 3-5 has real kids in short news break type videos answering questions kids ask.

This is a great interactive site where students can learn more about location and animals in their habitats. Habitats are a big part of the fourth grade curriculum.

Play games and travel through the Web of Life while learning about wildlife and habitat. Kid's Planet by Defenders of Wildlife. Great also for teachers gives units on animals that could be used for habitat studies in fourth grade.