Every Friday I’ll send you a wonderful website that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.
Age:
3rd-5th
Topic:
Landforms
Review:
If you want to spice up a unit on landforms, have students look into surviving these unique natural habitats. To get out with their lives, they’ll have to understand the flora and fauna, dangers and helpers. Here are some websites they can visit to improve their survival toolkit:
In the Jungle
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survival/wilderness/jungle-survival.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_2242569_survive-rainforest.html
In the Desert
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survival/wilderness/desert-survival.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/man-vs-wild-moab-desert.html
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/28208-man-vs-wild-moab-desert-canyon-obstacle-video.htm
In the Mountains
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/10-ways-to-survive-a-snowstorm.htm
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30814-about-avalanche-school-video.htm
In the Prairies
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/manvswild/game/game.html
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/7202-survival-zone-predators-in-the-savanna-video.htm
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/7200-survival-zone-mosquitoes-in-the-savanna-video.htm
In the Ocean
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/how-to-survive-a-shipwreck1.htm
In the Rivers
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/man-vs-wild-raging-rapids.html
Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, , the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is the author/editor of over one hundred resources on integrating tech into education, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, adjunct professor in technology-in-education, a columnist for TeachHUB, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, monthly contributor to Today’s Author and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. You can find her book at her publisher’s website, Structured Learning.
