SCIENCE  CURRICULUM STANDARDS FROM THE TN CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
GRADES 3-5
GOAL: To enable students to demonstrate the processes of science by posing questions and investigating
phenomena through language, methods and instruments of science.
THEME: 1.1 OBSERVING - The senses are used to develop an awareness of an event or object and the
properties thereof.
Tennessee Standard 1.1a - Observing is a process used to develop an awareness of the surrounding
environment.
Benchmarks:
3-5
Awareness of our surroundings is a result of individual observations and prior knowledge.

Web Pages for Students:

Crazy for Composting

• Internet project "web quest"
• Composting
• This is an internet project (web quest) for students
• Using this web quest, students are asked to create a book.  The purpose of the book is to educate future classes on composting. Students are asked to research, answer questions by following various internet links and read books on composting.

Welcome to Recycle City

• Internet Project
• Recycle City
• This internet resource is designed for use by both educators and students.
• See here how the people of Dump town turned their backward town around into Recycle City. This is a great interactive site that gets your students on the computer and using the internet. The students can learn with partners and work through activities, play the game and tour Recycle City.  Teachers can create lessons on the environment and have their students work individually or in groups.

• Internet Teaching Tool
• Filamentality
• This site is for both educators and students
• Filamentality blends  learning goals with many  resources available on the Web. Filamentality does so by guiding you through the completed  instructional design process.  It helps you pick a topic, provides Web searching tips, lets you use fill-in-the-blanks to gather good Internet sites, guides you with interactive pages that help you shape your ideas around whatever specific goal you have.

Designing an ecologically sound city

• Ecological City
• This is a lesson plan for educators.
• This lesson helps make students aware of the need to respect their environment, and its natural resources. The students are asked to apply that knowledge in this lesson. The goal of the lesson is to develop an "ecologically sound" city. This lesson helps students take a more proactive approach to saving the environment. In this lesson the students will design an ecologically sound city and participate in group activities.

• Lesson Plans
• Recycle
• This site is designed for educators
• Lesson Plans for Recycling Unit
• What better way to show students the power of recycling than to set up a recycling center of your own.  Using this lesson the students will recycle their own paper for reuse by completing a writing assignment on the newly recycled paper.

• Internet Teaching Tool
• Track star
• This site is designed for educators
• With track star you can create a track "web page "that includes web sites annotations and a rubric all centered around one specific topic.  Using track star educators can also research various topics and find lesson plans and units to use in the classroom.

• Specialized Search Tool
• Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Activities
• This site is designed for educators
• With edhelper you can do almost anything a teacher could want to.  The teacher can locate countless lesson plans, numerous activities, helpful downloads, and also locate any additional web sites in case you could not find what you were looking for on this web site.

Web sites for Students and Parents

Yahooligans

• Reference Tool
• Children Search
• This is a search engine for students and parents.
• This is a search engine designed for children.  At this site students can be linked to various web sites.  The search engine is organized into categories.  These categories include news, sports, games, chat rooms, and all subject areas.  This site is user friendly and extremely valuable when teaching students to research on the internet.

Web pages for Educators, Students, & Parents

Encyclopedia Britannica

• Reference Tool
• Encyclopedia
• This site is designed for educators, students, and parents.
• The encyclopedia is a valuable research tool.  Now encyclopedia Britannica has brought this reference tool on the internet.  Students and educators can search for specific topics and subjects.  Students can also investigate current events, world and travel, sports, and other content areas.  There are also resources for teachers and parents.  All the conveniences of a encyclopedia at your fingertips.

Searchopolis

• Specialized Search Tool
• Search
• This site is for students, educators, and parents.
• Searchopolis is s deep web database that allows you to research a variety of topics.  The web site is setup so that you can go to particular subject areas such as language arts, science, math, and social studies.  After choosing science you are given sub categories to choose from. You will find environmental science as one of the sub topics.  These sub categories take you to site previews and then give you the option to go to the actual site itself.  There are reference tools at this site all with the options to preview.