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Arabella
Arabella
Matthew's grandfather lived on an island. Wherever he went, he went by boat - a small red boat with a wild white sail.
One long summer, Mathew said goodbye, his mother said be careful, and he sailed off to the island in Grandpa's boat.
The boat skipped through the waves like a dolphin leaping, the sails lifting like a seagull's wings.
'How do you steer?' Matthew asked.
'By the feel of the wind,' Grandpa said.
They sailed on till they saw the island... and the curve of the beach... and the wharf and the window of Grandpa's house.(Excerpt)
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Anchoring and MooringNautical knots
The ability to select the correct knot for a particular purpose and to be able to tie it in a variety of situations and with different materials is an essential skill for any sailor.
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Go-alongs about Oceans
A Jason-1 Oceanic Adventure - Voyage on the High Seas - Designed for children ages 9-13, this game offers a fun, learning opportunity for the entire family. In addition to being a game, it is an eye-catching poster showing continents, oceans and all of the major ocean currents. On the reverse, there are black and white educational activities designed to be reproduced directly from the poster for use in the classroom. (T,A)
Alaska Sea Life Center - Offers an unrivaled, up-close and personal experience with Gulf of Alaska marine wildlife. Witness a 2000+ pound Steller sea lion gliding past underwater viewing windows, puffins diving in a carefully crafted naturalistic habitat, and harbor seals resting on rocky beaches. Alaskan king crab, sea stars, and the Giant Pacific octopus also await you, as well as a whole variety of intertidal creatures and deep sea fishes. (Y, M, O, T)
Bridge - Sea Grant Ocean Sciences Education Center. The best marine education materials available on the Web. (Y, M, O, T)
Continents and Oceans Online Quiz - Test your geography knowledge of continents and oceans (Y, M, O, T)
Darling Marine Center - The marine laboratory of the University of Maine and the site of world renowned marine research. (Y, M, O, T)
EPA Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds Kids' Page - These are sites with information about water. (Y)
Exploring Nature Educational Resource - An award-winning website with natural science content and materials for educators, students, and parents. Free non-member entrance and a Member entrance. Students can use the animal databases to research animal reports, complete homework assignments, and find pictures of their favorite animals. Librarians, classroom teachers, and homeschoolers can use Exploring Nature to develop lesson plans for units on animals (mammals, birds, insects, spiders, sharks, fish, amphibians, reptiles, etc.), plants (wildflowers, trees, cacti, etc.), biomes (forests, deserts, oceans, polar regions, rain forests, wetlands, the tundra, etc.), adaptations (structure and function), farm animals, life cycles, food webs, ecology, the human body, genetics, space and the environment. (Y, M, O, T)
International Year of the Ocean - Kids and Teacher Corner (Y, M)
Marine Biology: The Living Oceans - Ology - American Museum of Natural History. Science-rich
Website for Kids (Y, M, O, T)
Marine Biology: The Living Oceans - From Ology - American Museum of Natural History. (Y, M, O, T)
Marine Photobank - Marine Photobank is a free resource of ocean imagery that highlights pressing ocean issues and includes accompanying downloadable Photo Stories. Some subjects covered are Marine Pollution and Trash, Fishing Methods, and Reefs in Peril/Coral Bleaching. (Y, M, O, T)
MGBnet - What is it like where you live? - The MBGnet project is a series of videos about terrestrial biomes and aquatic habitats called What's It Like Where You Live?. The MBGnet website was based on these videos and gives additional information about the ecosystems. (Y, M)
National Marine Mammal Laboratory - (NMML) conducts research on marine mammals important to the mission of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with particular attention to issues related to marine mammals off the coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. (Y, M, O, T)
National Park Service - Explore Nature - Water Resources - Comprehensive resource off all NPS properties dealing with water. Includes Water Resources Webcams, USGS Water Quality Partnership, Implementing the National Park Service Ocean Park Stewardship Action Plan and more! (Y, M, O, T)
Ocean Fun! - The “Thank You Ocean” campaign was designed to instill in Californians a sense of personal connection and responsibility to our ocean and coast. ThankYouOcean.Org provides access to everything ocean in California including how to learn about and where to experience the ocean, the impacts of daily decisions on ocean life, ocean conservation issues, and what to do to help the ocean. (Y)
Partnership for the Delaware Estuary - Hi, kids! Do you know what an Estuary is? It's where the river meets the sea! Take it from me, it's an exciting and beautiful place to live. That's why we should all work together to protect places like the Delaware Estuary.
To learn more, check out this website. These activities are lots of fun and they are sure to quench your thirst for knowledge! (Each of the activities on this Web page is a PDF file.) (Y, M)
Savage Seas - Use a wave simulator and explore tsunamis, freak wanes, and trade winds (Y,M)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography - One of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for marine science research, graduate training, and public service in the world. Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography encompasses physical, chemical, biological, geological, and geophysical studies of the oceans. (Y, M, O, T)
Sea Life Poetry - Using Internet resources listed with the lesson plan, students explore oceans and sea life and learn to transform thoughts into different forms of poetry. Good way to integrate language arts into an ocean unit study. (Y,M)
Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA) - Contains a treasure trove of aquatic science resources for K-12 teachers and students. SEA brings the Philippines to life for your students with fact sheets and multimedia interactives based on the Wild Reef exhibit at Shedd Aquarium. (Y, M, O, T)
Steller sea lions research - Laboratory for Applied Biotelemetry & Biotechnology at the Department of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University Galveston (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
The Grave of the Titanic - Trace the Titanic's route, plot wreckage coordinates on a map, use percentages to calculate lifeboat capacity and more. (Y,M)
The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor - Activities and web resources developed as part of the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) Project, funded by the California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP). Students will learn to read and write informational material. They will learn to list facts, and write a simple informational paragraph. This will be done within the fun and exciting trip through the ocean visiting the animals and plants along the way. Grade 3 (Y)
Tour of Park Geology - Shoreline Geology - The National Park Service has 97 coastal park units including National Seashores, Lakeshores, Recreational Areas, Memorials and Monuments. These coastal parks contain more than 7,300 miles of shoreline, and a wide diversity of geological, biological, and cultural resources. (Y, M, O, T)
Treasures @ Sea - Exploring the ocean through literature (Y)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - WHOI is the world's largest private, nonprofit ocean research, engineering and education organization. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Go-alongs about Seasons
A Guide to Snowflakes - (Y, M, O, T)
Apples - From atozteacherstuff.com (Y,M)
Bentley Snow Crystal Collection - A digital library providing a high-quality collection of stunning, un-retouched images of Wilson A. Bentley’s original glass slide photographs of snow crystals. (Y, M, O, T)
Haiku - Grade Levels: 3 - 6. Students learn the syllable structure and mood of haiku poems by comparing the serenity of the autumn months with the peaceful rhythms of haiku poetry. (Y)
Just In Time - Activities, Print Materials, and lesson plans for telling time, as well as calendars and seasons. (Y,M)
Making paper Snowflake - Get flaky with a snowflake for all seasons. (Y)
October Theme - ABC Teach - (Y, M, O, T)
Winter Activities and Lesson Plans - Iditarod - From The Teacher's Corner.net (Y)
Go-alongs about Astronomy
A Solar System Coloring Book--Beginner - The source of this material is Windows to the Universe, at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). (Y)
A Trip Through Our Solar System An Internet Scavenger Hunt - You have been selected by the National Space Travel Institute to take a high-speed voyage through our solar system. Your journey will begin on our star, the Sun. This fantastic round-trip voyage will take you all the way to Pluto and back again! You have been asked to find the answers to some interesting questions along the way. Click on the underlined blue links to find the answers.
Good luck...and have a great trip! (Y, M)
A Trip Through the Solar System - PPT presentation from Mrs. Frederick’s
6th Grade Class in 2004
(Y, M)
Amazing Space - Web-based space activities for classroom use. This site is full of excellent lesson plans and activities, but be aware this site does present the Big Bang Theory in an understated way. (Y, M, O, T)
Apollo 11 - NASA has put together a commemorative Apollo mission section of their site to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing of Apollo 11. Start with the flash video on the linked page, then looking around the site. Click on the "to NASA's Apollo site" link below the video, you will find the main Apollo page. From there, check out the Google Moon exploration of the lunar landing site, the onboard audio from the ship (you can either listen to the hours of transmission or download a pdf transcript), see the restored videos of the moon walk, view the image gallery, and more. (Y, M, O, T)
Apollo 11 Story - On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body. Get the Apollo 11 story from launch to splashdown. (Y,M)
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. (Y, M, O, T)
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
(Y, M, O, T)
Astronomy: Our Place in Space - From Ology - American Museum of Natural History. (Y, M, O, T)
Auroras - Find out more about the mysterious phenomenon also called the Northern Lights. Beautiful photography and a teacher's guide with a few ideas for using the site in the classroom.
(Y, M, O, T)
Blast Off Boutique - The Space Shuttle EMU (extravehicular mobility unit) is like a space ship for one person! It is made up of nineteen separate parts. Each part has a special job to do in keeping astronauts safe and healthy while they work outside their spacecraft. Can you match the description with the correct EMU part? Once you have made your decision, type the letter from the picture next to the clue which you think best describes the part. (Y)
Blast off! Explore the solar system online - Look through telescopes to see what's happening in space (Y, M, O, T)
Exploring Planets in the Classroom - This hands on activity guide will use concrete examples to introduce scientific concepts involving space. "More than 25 hands-on science activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring Earth, the planets, geology and space sciences. (Y, M, O, T)
Google Earth - Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. (Y, M, O, T)
Interplanetary Virtual Tour - This is an awesome collection of almost 100 pages of photos and information that can be explored systematically through the tour or overviewed through the "Express Tour". The images of the planets and their satellites will entertain the youngest students (Y, M, O, T)
Journey Through the Solar System - Welcome to our ThinkQuest Junior project. Sit back and relax as we show you incredible pictures from around our solar system. We also have interviews from two highly respected sources. Dr. Kevin Baines, astronomer from NASA/JPL, and Dr. Eleanor Helin, astronomer from NASA/JPL. She is a member of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Team. (Y)
Kennedy Space Center Educator Resources - The NASA Educator Resource Center (ERC) at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex provides expertise and facilities to help educators access and utilize science, mathematics, and technology instructional products. These products are based on NASA's unique mission and are aligned with the national and state standards. The educational resources available include videos, slides, lesson plans, publications and lunar & meteorite samples. (Y, M, O, T)
Make a comet tail - Activity for space unit. (Y,M) (Y,M)
Nasa News for Kids - Science fun, Games, Art & Stories, Activities and Kids club. (Y, M, O, T)
Nasa Quest - Connection K-12 classrooms with people, research and science through mission based interactions and activities. (Y, M, O, T)
NASA Teaching Materials - Extensive database of downloadable educational materials searchable by subject, grade level and product type (Y, M, O, T)
National Science Foundation - NSF - Where discoveries begin. (Y, M, O, T)
OLogy - OLogy means "the study of." And here on the American Museum of Natural History's OLogy Web site, you can study and explore many cool OLogies. What's your favorite OLogy? If you're fascinated by spiders, then you're into ARACHNOLOGY. If you erupt with joy for volcanoes, then VOLCANOLOGY is your thing. If you're completely wowed by planets and stars, then you love ASTRONOMY. (Y M)
Our Trip Through the Solar System - PPT presentation from Arthur T. Cummings School 2006 (Y)
Outer Space Crafts - Great hands on crafts for younger students studying space. (Y,M)
Soaring Through Our Solar System - Reading Comprehension worksheets for solar system unit. (Grades 2-4) (Y)
Solar System Wordsearch - From ABC.teach (Y, M, O, T)
Space Agriculture in the Classroom - Inspiring kids to stay close to the earth and reach for the stars! (Y, M, O, T)
Space Kids - Space science for kids! (Y M)
Space Science Institute - The Space Science Institute (SSI) is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation formed in 1992. Our purpose is to create and maintain an environment where scientific research and education programs can flourish in an integrated fashion. (Y, M, O, T)
Space Shuttle Launch Simulation - From NASA; this simulation requires students to complete pre-launch steps in order to actually launch the space shuttle. If an error message occurs, the all systems will shut down and the student must restart the launch process. Good practice for real life. (Y, M, O, T)
Space Weather Center - With games, Activities and E-Cards. (Y, M, O, T)
SpaceWeather.com - For the skywatchers among us, SpaceWeather.com is a wonderful site for predicting space events such as meteor showers, auroras (northern lights), falling asteroids, and more. (Y, M, O, T)
Star Journey - This site from National Geographic contains star charts, start attractions, and views from the Hubble telescope. (Y, M, O, T)
StarChild - Developed by two middle school science teachers for NASA, StarChild is a learning center for young astronomers with information, movies, and songs about astronomy. The site has two levels, one for elementary and one for middle school grades. It has sections for our solar system and the universe as well as a space stuff area where students can find information about astronauts, telescopes, space travel history, and more. (Y M)
Styrofoam Planets - You guessed it: make styrofoam planets. (Y,M)
The Aurora Page - A source for Information, links and images about the "Northern Lights" on-line since the Web began (Y, M, O, T)
The Space Place - Come on in and check out our games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology. (Y)
The virtual sun - The Sun is our nearest star. Because of that, we can study it better than any other star. And when you do that, you see that the Sun isn't as boring as it may look from earth! In the following `Trip through the Sun' you'll see flames on the Sun larger than ten earths, winds going 1000 mph, and you'll see how the earth eventually will be scorched by the dying Sun. The duration of this journey is about 20 minutes. It shows spectacular images and MPEG animations of solar flares, sun spots, magnetic fields and solar eclipses, and explains a lot about the science of the sun and the influence it has on the solar system. (Y, M, O, T)
Trip Through the Solar System - Language Arts Grade Level - 1 (Y)
Websites for Blast Off Program - here are lots of fascinating, fun ways to explore space through cyberspace! Take a look at some of these stellar web sites! Some are just fun games to play. Some help you learn more about space. (Y)
WorldWide Telescope - Immerse yourself in a seamless beautiful environment!!! WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky. (Y, M, O, T)
Zoom Astronomy - a comprehensive on-line site about space and astronomy (Y)