The HelloKids.com website has a section on kid craft and activities ideas with video and tutorials on how to do these crafts. Students can learn to make masks, crafts for birthdays, great looking and tasty foods, Mother's day crafts and many other categories of crafts and activities.
On the HelloKids.com website, they have a really neat section for art in which a teacher can show a video or each step to drawing famous characters like Tinker Bell and Minions.
This is an interactive digital glacier lab that will help students understand what glaciers are, what some of the formations and deposits look like, and will have students explore how glaciers grow and shrink, and how scientists go about discovering glacial movement speeds over time as well as finding out how scientists come up with the numbers of how long glaciers will last at current rates. Students will actually be the scientist discovering the rate of speed as they build their own interactive glacier using Phet. You will need computers that can run Java.
In this Earth Science Earthquake activity, students will explore the USGS current earthquake website. Students will understand what is to be found on the USGS Earthquake website. They will discover how many earthquakes have occurred recently. Students will gain an understanding of what the Mercalli Intensity Scale is used for. Students will discover the 5 largest recent earthquakes that have occurred around the world. They will gain a better understanding of geography as well by using maps and map scales to determine distances from an earthquake epicenter.