Science Connections to Peter and the Starcatchers (5th grade)

Geography/Geology

Google Earth: Follow the characters as they travel.
http://earth.google.com/

Degree of confluence project: Students track movement of characters, guess what the places look like and the actually see with the pictures provided.
http://www.confluence.org/

 

Meteorology (Weather)

Meteorology Online Guide: Learn about storms like the storm in Peter and the Starcatchers
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/ (Weather and buoys)

Ecosystems

http://www.mbgnet.net/ Biomes and ecosystems

Ecosystems of our world
http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/ecosystems.htm

Ecosystems, biomes, habitats
http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/habitat/habitat.html

Environmental Biology—Ecosystems
http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/102/ecosystem.html

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/ecosystems.html

Ecosystems—tutorial
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/ecosystems.html&edu=elem

Dolphins

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/l.light/Dolphin%20intelligence%20and%20communication.htm

dolphins (How intelligent do you think dolphins are?)

General Science References

Windows to the Universe
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/