National Geographic in Space

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/ActionGames/Plutos-secret

This site offers games, videos and articles about space. It is an interactive program where you can either play at level 2-5 grades, 6-8 grades, or higher. As you click on each planet, the student learns interesting facts geared to their reading level. Articles include "Is Pluto No Longer a Planet? and The Planet Song. There are even web links to moon exploration and stars.

Arty the Astronaut

http://www.3pounds.com/artyastro/

Take off for fun and adventure with Arty, the part-time astronaut. Nice animation guides you through this site as you learn about the solar system, and play online games and activities. Interesting facts flash across the computer screen ( a new fact each day). The phase of the moon for the day is found in the bottom right hand corner. This site also includes a printable teacher's guide that looks awesome to use in the classroom in conjunction with this website and a lesson about the planets.

Galaxies Galore, Games and More

http://amazing-space.stscl.edu/resources/explorations/galaxies-galore/

This site is designed for elementary students to use their observational, pattern recognition, and classification skills to learn about galaxies. In these activities students will become acquainted with the structure of their home galaxy, learn the location of the solar system in the Milky Way galaxy, and identify the three main types of galaxies: spiral, elliptical and irregular.

Welcome to the Planets

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Welcome to the Planets is an outstanding resource for teachers wishing to incorporate planetary studies into their curriculum. This website includes colored pictures of the planets and access to information on their masses, densities, revolution and rotation periods, mean temperatures, atmospheric components, etc. Also, there are colored pictures of space exploration vehicles with information on their structures, assemblies, orbiting information, and dates of deployments. Included within this website is a glossary of terms.

Solar System Fun

www.nasascience.nasa.gov/kids/kids-solar-system

Kids can have fun learning and exploring the world around them. This site contains information for students to learn about the nine planets with games and activities. They can be a citizen scientist to improve Martian maps, take part in research tasks, and assist Mars science teams studying data about the Red Planet. Nine other games and activities introduce students to astronomers, size of planets, and making paper models of their favorite spacecraft.

Rocks and Minerals

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/rocks.html

This website is broken into five domains: research/informational sites, online lesson plans, online activities, offline lesson plans, and offline activities. My favorite site was the rock cycle song which I used in my 1st grade earth science lesson plan.

WeatherOnline!

http://www.weatheronline.com

This site is a good informational site for students to use in researching concepts in weather or as supplementary material for a weather unit. The main areas of this site are Tropical Weather, Local Weather, Expert Weather, Weather Tools, Weather Q & A, and Weatherboy Online. The two areas that would be most informative for students are the Local Weather and Weatherboy Online. The Local Weather allows students to get weather information from any area in the US. The information includes 4 day forecasts, satellite images, precipitation and radar images. Also there is an area called Dr. Dewpoint, where questions can be answered. Weather boy is an animated character that explains concepts of weather and the how's and why's of weather.