Week of September September 27-October 4: Extensions

 This week, our Shared Text profiles cave explorer and microbiologist Hazel Barton. Learn more about microbiology and biology careers with these extensions!

Microbiology for Kids: This page, from the American Museum of Natural History, explores the topic of microbiology. Play a game about bacteria in the cafeteria, learn about your microbiome, and more!

Echo Explorers: Bats use echolocation to find their way in dark places. Rescue some bats (kind of) and try your hand at echolocation with this Cyberchase game.

Karst Topography and Mammoth Cave: Watch a video about Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and learn about karst topography.

The Plural Girls: Practice identifying singular and plural nouns with this game. (Remember, don't click on the ads!)

Week of September 20-27: Shared Text Extensions

 This week, we're reading about cave zones! Expand your learning with the activities below.

Virtual Tour: Carlsbad Caverns

Take a virtual tour of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico at this site.

Cave Ecology website

Learn more about caves with the videos on this site.

Cave Species Interactive

Click "Launch" to start the activity.

Sortify: Nouns

Classify nouns with this BrainPop game.

Shared Text Extensions: Week of September 13-20

 This week, we are learning about extremophiles! Extend your learning with these activities.

Membean: -man

Membean is a website that teaches you about word roots. Visit this website and listen to the podcast.

Membean: -phil

Learn about the root -phil by listening to the podcast and reading the words with this root.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: Dive and Discover!

Learn more about hydrothermal vents at this website.

NASA Our World

Watch the video to learn more about extremophiles!

Capitalization and Punctuation Game

Practice capitalization and punctuation with this game.