School of Thought posted this page with Singing Science songs in MP3 format.

I downloaded them all and am burning my favorites to CD. Some of the songs there are great fun. My favorites are “What Makes the Weather”, “Why does the Sun Shine”, and ” Kinetic And Potential Energy”

Most of the others are good for a giggle or two. Some are outright hilarious.

I mentioned a few days ago that David brought a dinosaur kit from the bookstore.

Well, as of today, he’s done all the activities. Included in the box was

• 1 glow in the dark snap-together dinosaur skeleton
• 1 pink grow-and-shrink triceratops
• 1 block of clay with a hidden dinosaur with a pick/scraper and brush to “excavate” it and goggles for eye protection

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Independent Work

Weather Words Wordsearch (PDF)

Games and Activities for Kids at the FEMA website

Wondrous Weather monthly fun-sheet set at LearningPage.com (free registration required).

Lesson Plans

Weather Data - An Educator’s Reference Desk Lesson Plan

Basic Aspects of Winter - An Educator’s Reference Desk Lesson Plan

Cloud Formation

Fun Stuff

How Clouds are Formed - Song in MP3 format

What makes the Weather - Song in MP3 format

Interesting, advanced stuff

Earthquakes in your Backyard — a course taught at UC Berkeley. There are course notes and a full podcast of all the lectures, so you can ‘take’ the whole course. The material starts off pretty basic, and would probably be digestable to interested 9+ year olds.