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Resources last updated on 6\26\03

Senses

Exploritorium: seeing
http://www.exploratorium.edu/seeing/exhibits/index.html

Living Color
http://www.amonline.net.au/colour/
Is color just light? Or is it what we see when our brain and eyes respond to light? From the Australian Museum Online

B-eye: The world through the eyes of a bee
http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html
See the world through the eyes of a honey bee. 

Sight vs. Sound Reflexes
http://www.explorescience.com/activities/Activity_page.cfm?ActivityID=38
 See how fast your sight and sound reflexes are! 

Senses- Science & Nature Net links for Kids
http://kidscience.about.com/kids/kidscience/msub27.htm
This is basically a consolidated search guide for kids to use.

Seeing Color
http://ls.la.asu.edu/askabiologist/research/seecolor/
This site on color vision is designed for K-12 students and includes a sample color blindness test using two of the Ishihara charts along with brief explanations about color blindness. Included are links to Sir Isaac Newton and a chart on common animals and the colors they see. Developed by the Research Topics section of the Ask a Biologist site at Arizona State University.

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Animals: Farm, Snails, Earthworms, Silkworms, Tadpoles  

Using Live Insects in Elementary Classrooms for Early Lessons in Life 
http://insected.arl.arizona.edu/uli.htm
This site, created by the Center for Insect Science Education Outreach  at the University of Arizona, is online curriculum and resources developed to support K-3 teachers interested in moving from a traditional textbook-driven curriculum to a more integrated, hands on, inquiry approach. This site contains  twenty integrated lessons with science and math activities that use live insects. Lessons are available in Spanish and are aligned with National Science Education Standards(NSES).

Feeding Earthworms
http://www.oldgrowth.org/compost/wormfaq.html#not_fed

Cheap and Easy Worm Bin
http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/Easywormbin.htm

First Grades Explore Worms
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/w/worms/worms/worms.html

Herman the Worm
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/

FrogLand!
http://allaboutfrogs.org/froglnd.shtml

Greenheye's Farm
http://www.greenheyes.com/
Join Philip Smallwood and his family for a virtual tour of his farm in Cheshire, England.

Animals on the Farm
http://mason.gmu.edu/~cregier/farmanim/farmanim.htm
First find four animals on the farm. See what they look like, and find out why the farmer raises them. Then, pick your favorite farm animal. Draw a picture of it, and write about it. 

The Adventures of Herman
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/index.html
Squirmin' Herman the Worm teaches students all about worms and how to make their own worm bin in this new interactive curriculum.

The Whole Frog Project
http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/Whole.Frog/Whole.Frog.html
Virtual frog dissection online.

Know Your Frogs
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/nature/frogident.htm
Use the information on these pages to help you identify Wisconsin's frogs by their markings and their call.

The Ultimate Frog Site: Picture Gallery
http://lindsayloo.homestead.com/picturegallery.html
All of the frog pictures you will ever need.

Frog Games
http://www.big.or.jp/~frog/index/map/future.html
and
http://www.alles.or.jp/~mameo/kaeru/Ura.html
Nothing scientific here but fun anyway. 

Cool Frog Photos
http://allaboutfrogs.org/gallery/photos/index.htmlyou

Worm World
http://www.yucky.com/worm/
Get all the dirt on worms including a video of baby worms being born and a worm heartbeat. 

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Chick Hatching  

Hatching Ducks
http://www.webone.com.au/~greggles/duckpond/dp02_3.html

Hatching Eggs in the Classroom
http://www.gamebird.com/classroom.html

Emu Chick Hatching
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/emu/picture.htm

Golden Egg Farms
http://www.goldeneggs.com.au/

Museum of Science and Industry: Chick Hatching
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/chick/index.html

Incubation and Embryology
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/eggs/index.html
Free online course through the University of Illinois. Includes video, pictures, etc.

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Exploring : Fabrics, Dying, Weaving, Paper making

A Lesson to Dye For
http://www1.umn.edu/ships/scimath/dyes1.htm#PlantColor  
This unit introduces students to plant dyes and their history and highlights invesitgative skills as they explore variables in their own plant dyeing. Intended for HS but the experiments are interesting and good info for teachers. 

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