Tuesday, March 22, 2011

USGS Science Resources For Primary Grades (K-6)

USGS Science Resources for K-6 has a great list of activities and resources for many science topics, all geared towards grades K-6.  The activities have icons next to their links indicating what type of activity it is. Towards the bottom are volcano resources, including live web cams of active volcanoes. 
Resource Symbols
lesson plans - Contains complete teaching module
classroom activities - Contains structured classroom activities (labs, etc.)
WWW resources - WWW-resource useful for computer lab activities or getting images
cost items - Has costs for supplies beyond basic printing or on-line viewing              

How Volcanoes Work

How Volcanoes Work  is a very information rich web site.  It has a great deal of links that are broken down into different stages of a volcanoes life.  Another great thing about this website is that many of the pictures belong to governmental organizations so their use for education is considered public domain.  The site also has a site idex, making locating information very easy and great diagrams with labels.