Websites+for+5-E+lesson

=Interactive Technology for Inquiry Lessons=

Sites you have found to be most helpful with elementary science LESSONS and the Virginia SOLs. Participants will enter their site URL, SOL, site description, and additional information to explain what types of science lessons are there and why this site made their top five list. Put your first name and last initial in the last box with your main reasons for recommending. Add what information you think best helps others determine if this site will fit their needs for science lessons. Descriptors like: 'have to pay' 'or join'; or has hands-on activities, or fully developed lessons - with evaluation tools; etc. are most helpful.


 * **Site Name** || **URL** || **Description** || **Why recommended** ||
 * GEMS - Great Explorations in Math & Science || [] || Multiple science lessons, guides, activities, videos, Teacher guides or Handbooks are well worth the price - loaded with lessons and activities. || True Inquiry activities, Great resources; kits. You have to pay for books &/or materials, but they are excellent & supported by research. Some schools have membership which allows access to materials. ||
 * AIMS - Activities Integrating Math & Science || [] ||  || Site like GEMS - multi[ple hands-on activitiesthat must be purchased, but they are exellent and aligned by grade & SOL. ||
 * STC - Science, TEchnology and Children || []

[] || Listing of books for STC. Excellent resources for students(also come with Tteacher Guide.) ||  ||

since it is based on measuring objects and looking at graphs. it gets children talking how they measure things. || Children can physically measure items in their classroom and include outside items. Playing with the online interactive learning games, the children will learn what to measure and to measure it. || Good for student teacher interaction and quizzes and tests. It gets children talking to others, student to student teaching. || Adding to the knowledge that children already have. I would let the kids explore first to put their hands on it and thereafter, I would fill in the blanks where problems are. || Test chlidren on how to measure things. I would place children in groups and have them measure the lenght of a wooded dowl or the width of their desk. || Great for graphics and self-evaluation. || Good for student teacher interaction and quizzes and tests. It gets children talking to others, student to student teaching. || Extend Adding to the knowledge that children already have. I would let the kids explore first to put their hands on it and thereafter, I would fill in the blanks where problems are. || Evaluate Test chlidren on how to measure things. I would place children in groups and have them measure the lenght of a wooded dowl or the width of their desk. || Why you recommend Great for graphics and self-evaluation. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2.1 || [] || Great for questions and inquiry
 * 2.1 || [] || Spark some interest in the lesson. Children can feel creative and do good ivestigation || Let them get their hands dirty. This self-learning is great for interactive hands-on learning; students place like objects with their kind and fiddle with it until it becomes familiar. ||  || Explain