TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hanging Around
Students learn about weight by building a spring scale and observing how it responds to objects with different masses.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Disassemble a Click Pen
In this activity students will disassemble and analyze a click pen. By performing such reverse engineering by analyzing the interactions between parts, students gain a better understanding of how this every day item works
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Groundwater Aquifers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The features of aquifers and the water table.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Groundwater Aquifers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The features of aquifers and the water table.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Songs and Poems
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
Read Works
Read Works: In Flight
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about monarch butterflies during all four seasons. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: "The Echoing Green"
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by William Blake about spring. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: It Is Apple Season
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about apple trees during each of the four seasons. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in determining the author's purpose.
Read Works
Read Works: The Sounds Spring Brings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes Students read spring and its sounds and sensory imagery. A question sheet is...
Read Works
Read Works: Spring
[Free Registration/Login Required] Four three-lined poems describing the spring season. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Spring
[Free Registration/Login Required] One Haiku and three additional three-lined poems about spring. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: A Fawn in the Forest
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the life of a baby deer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: April Showers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about rain, thunderstorms, and rainbows in the spring. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Notes on the Seasons
This resource consists of guided notes that are designed to be filled out by students. Designed for the purpose as being a study tools, teachers may also distribute blank copies of these guided notes and have them serve as stand-alone...
NASA
Nasa Star Child: A Song for All Seasons
After listening to excerpts from four of the violin concertos from "The Four Seasons" by Italian composer and violinist, Antonio Vivaldi, decide which excerpt was meant to go with which season, and also decide where the earth would be in...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Early Spring Outdoor Investigation Mystery
Students will use their observation skills to determine what happened in photographs provided.
BBC
Bbc: Science & Nature: Springwatch
There are a variety of links about spring to choose from including animal home videos, bird songs, and a live animal web cam.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Energy From Elastic Graph
Students must find how much energy has been added to a spring by looking at the Force vs. Spring Length graph.
Other
My Physics Lab: Double Spring
Experiment with two springs that are connected to a wall to see what happens to the oscillation when you change the masses, spring stiffnesses, spring lengths or damping. Students can also change the starting position. Site includes...
Other
My Physics Lab: Single Spring
Experiment with a spring that is connected to a wall to see what happens to the oscillation when you change the mass, spring stiffness, or damping. Students can also change the starting position. Site includes equations to help students...
Davidson College
Davidson College: Hooke's Law
This site provides a java applet that lets you manipulate this experiment and evaluate the results. Good way to help you understand Hooke's Law of elasticity.
PBS
Pbs: Why Do We Have Seasons?
A student-directed tutorial showing all aspects of seasons, including Earth's tilt position in relation to the sun, photos of typical weather during that season, and some informational text to support the visuals.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Calculating Elastic Potential Energy
Practice calculating the elastic potential energy stored in a spring.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Hooke's Law?
Learn about elasticity and how to determine the force exerted by a spring.