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 | Squirrel vs. Bear hibernation - Compare a squirrel's hibernation with a bear's winter sleep. Note: This activity requires Shockwave.
 http://www.whyte.org/bears/zoology/BearSquirrel.htm
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 | Colour Mixer - Use a painter's pallet to mix colours and discover how to make all seven colours from the three primary colours. http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/earlyict/colour_mixer.html
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 | Colour Mixing - Use a painter's pallet to mix the three primary colours in order to make other colours. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/color/color_ii.html
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 | Paint Splat - Help Peep make the colours he needs to paint the fence. Jump on the paint tubes to combine the primary colours. http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/games/paintsplat.html
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| Browser Books: Senses - Read each of the nine books about your senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. http://staff.prairiesouth.ca/~cassidy.kathy/browserbooks/senses.htm
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| Buoyancy Match - While you are in Wonderville, why don't you play Buoyancy Match? Select some items from the forest and compare them to see which ones are floaters and which are sinkers. http://www.wonderville.ca/v1/activities/buoyancymatch/Match3.html
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| Forces of Nature - "Witness the wonder of physical forces and challenge the might and power of the world's strongest man, the amazing Stronginsky!" (site) http://www.wonderville.ca/v1/activities/strongman/strongman.html
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| Fishing With Hailey - Go fishing with Hailey and use floats and sinkers to move the fishing net so that you can catch some fish. http://www.wonderville.ca/v1/activities/fishing/Fishing.html
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| Mystery of the Missing Milk - Help Joe, the dairy farmer, solve the mystery of the mixxing milk. Visit six parts of his farm and collect the facts that you can use to solve the mystery. http://www.wonderville.ca/v1/activities/missingmilk/index.html
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| Exploring Butterflies! - Play some online butterfly games with Rosa. You will learn about their habitats and the effects of climate change on these delicate creatures. http://www.ansp.org/museum/butterflies/new_interactive/butterflies.html
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| Meet the Plant Parts - Make a salad with these plant parts. http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/vegquiz/plantparts.html
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| The Magic School Bus Gets An Earful - "Do you think that you have a good ear for matching up sounds with the things that make them?" Find out by playing this game. http://www.scholastic.ca/magicschoolbus/games/sound/eargame2.htm
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| Oochina on the Farm - Help Oochina solve the puzzle of the fox, the chicken and the bag of grain. http://www.kidspsych.org/farm.html
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| Cbeebies - Home Tweet Home - Help mommy bird and daddy bird to build a nest and feed their babies in this enchanting game. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/greenballoonclub/games/hometweethome/
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| Materials: Keeping Warm - This virtual lab challenges you to insulate a beaker in order to determine the best insulating material.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/materials/keeping_warm/play.shtml
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| Pollen Park - Join Bumbles, the little honey bee as she explores Pollen Park, looking for pollen to take back to the hive. There is some great information about plants and nature. Pay attention, you'll have to help by answering questions. http://www.concer-tina.co.uk/hyper/start.html
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| Match the Leaves (Caillou) - Reinforce colour and shape recognition with this leaf matching game. http://pbskids.org/caillou/games/matching.html
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| Dress Elmo for Fall - Help Elmo get dressed for the cool fall weather. You get to choose what he wears. http://www.sesamestreet.org/game_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=gamePlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p...
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| BBC Bitesize Food Chains - Learn more about food chains and the different types of organisms involved. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/food_chains.shtml
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| Magnazone - Can you help Magnus Magnet classify some different materials? Put each material into the correct category. http://www.primaryonline.co.uk/sitetour/pol/magnet.html
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| Snuffy's Magic Garden - Use your watering can to water Snuffy's magic garden. You'll see some beautiful plants and flowers appear. http://www.sesamestreet.org/game_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=gamePlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p...
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| Watch it Grow - Pick your plants and watch them grow. http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/NewPlants/activities/watchitgrow.html
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| Grow a Flower - It's your turn to grow a flower. Choose a flower from the garden shop; if you do everything in the right order, your beautiful flower will grow. http://www.starfall.com:80/n/holiday/gardenshop/load.htm?f&n=main
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| What will I be when I grow up? - Can you match the baby animals to the adult animals that they will become? http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/AnimalsTwobyTwo/activities/findtheparent.html
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| Living Things - The Happy Gang leads you through this exploration of creepy crawlies and living things, from barnacles to butterflies. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/wwww/living/index_choice.shtml
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| Dinosphere - Explore Dinosaurs - Learn about dinosaurs through this site from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. http://www.childrensmuseum.org/themuseum/dinosphere/kids/kids_games_level1.html
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| Virtual Worm Tour - This interactive activity enables you to learn more about the characteristics and life of the common earth worm.
http://www.naturewatch.ca/english/wormwatch/virtual_worm/Introduction.htm
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| Underground Adventure: Critter Quiz - "From earwigs to earthworms, there are a lot of amazing creatures that sleep, eat, and even live underground. How much do you know about these critters that inhabit the underground world? Take our Critter Quiz to find out!" (site)
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/undergroundadventure/critters/critterquiz.swf
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| The Water Cycle - Learn exactly how the water cycle works as you interact with this site. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
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| You Dig? - An online digging experience - uncover the dinosaur bones. http://www.scholastic.com/play/Dig.htm
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| Humans and Animals - Test yourself with these questions about animals and humans: senses, movement, habitat, food, life and appearance. Each correct answer helps you uncover a new picture. http://www.activescience-gsk.com/module1/home.html
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| Humans and Animal Habitat - Click on the habitats on the right side of the screen and then answer the questions. Let's see how much you know about these different habitats and which animals there. http://www.activescience-gsk.com/module2/home.html
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| Insect Hunt - Discover insects on land and in a pond. http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/Insects/activities/insecthunt.html
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| What will Bella Wear? - Help Bella Bear decide what to wear. Is it a hot day, rainy day or a cold day? http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/activities/bellawear.asp
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| Sesame Street - Zoe's Silly Seasons - Take a journey through the four seasons and choose the items that don't belong. http://www.sesamestreet.org/game_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=gamePlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p...
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| Make-a-Flake - Use the scissors to cut and create a snowflake online. A tip - use the circles on the scissors to guide your selection, not the scissors themselves. http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/
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| Virtual Snowman - Build a virtual snowman: add hat, eyes, nose, mouth, arms and more. http://www.cyke.com/snowman.swf
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| College of Natural Resources - Features - This site features two fascinating time-lapse movies. Watch a stand of trees change color over the course of three months or a single leaf turn from green to yellow to brown. You can also find foliage pictures of over 100 different trees. http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/fall/biglist_frame.cfm
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| Grow a Garden - Drag and drop items into your garden. Put a fence around them. Watch the garden grow. Print out your picture.
http://www.cyke.com/garden.swf
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| Elmo's Cloud Game - Fill the summer sky with clouds. Click the arrow to make them move.
http://www.sesamestreet.org/game_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=gamePlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p...
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| Pick a Pumpkin - Learn more about the sound a "u" makes as you pick and decorate a pumpkin for the fall harvest. http://www.starfall.com:80/n/holiday/halloween/load.htm?f&n=main
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| Snowflake Factory - Design a snowflake online - choose the number of wedges your snowflake will have, select a hole punch, click in the white wedge and watch the patterns form. http://www.dinosaurdesign.com/SnowflakeFactory.htm
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| Snowflake Designer - Build your own snowflake on this interactive site. You get to choose your own scissor type. http://ww2.unime.it/dipart/i_fismed/wbt/mirror/ExplrSci/dswmedia/snwflak6-adv.htm
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| Dino Sorting - Sort the dinosaurs by size! Roar! http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/dinoSort/dinoSort.htm
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| Dinosaur puzzle - Can you fit the pieces together and build this dinosaur puzzle? If you get the puzzle built properly, there's a great surprise! http://www.cleverisland.com/free_games/dinosaur/index.asp
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| What's Wrong with this Picture? - Identify what is wrong with this picture to show what you know about keeping our water supply clean. http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/kids/whatwrng.html
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| Owl Hangman - Here's your chance to play Owl Hangman! http://kids-learn.org/owlprowl/hangman/hangman.htm
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| Baby Farm Animals - Watch the pictures and listen along to learn about baby farm animals and what they like to do. http://voicethread.com/#q.b82835.i421656
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| Pollinators—Busy doing what? - Check out this great video about pollinators; it's interesting and informative. There's also a link to the Hinterland bumble bee profile. http://tv.hww.ca/video/watch/1
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| The Story of Milk - Take a virtual tour of the milk process, from the cow to your table! http://www.moomilk.com/tours/tour1-1.htm
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| On the Farm - There are several games and activities for you to enjoy at this virtual farm. Move your mouse around to see what you can find! http://www.elc.co.uk/kids/onthefarm.php
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| Harvest Photo-book - Children and their teacher discuss the harvest in this photo album. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=harvest%20book
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| DLTK's Summer Activities - Crafts, recipes, puzzles, worksheets, coloring pages and more. http://www.dltk-holidays.com/summer/index.html
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| Hat Shop - See how well you know your colours as you work at the hat shop. http://www.little-g.com/games/hats.html
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| Feed Gnocchi (Curious George) - Help George feed Gnocchi the cat. Tilt the ramps to make the meatball slide onto Gnocchi's plate. http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/games/feed_gnocchi/feed_gnocchi.html
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| Mix and Paint (Curious George) - Have fun mixing colors and painting with George! Choose a picture to paint by clicking on the green arrows. Click the colored tubes to mix the paint, then drag and click your mouse over the picture to paint it! When you are finished with a color, click on the mixing bowl to empty the bowl of paint. http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/games/mix_and_paint/mix_and_paint.html
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| Sticks and the Seasons - Explore the four seasons by rolling and clicking around with your mouse. You can plant seeds, water flowers, feed fish, and hear bird chirps. http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/bby.html?game=165&
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| Bees and Honey - There are three games to play. Help the bees get nectar, open the flowers and chase the bees through the field. http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/bby.html?game=66&
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| Castle Constructor - Design and print-out an ancient castle. Print it out and have an adult help you built it! http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=68
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| Deaf Planet.com - Visit this site for lots of fun, games and adventures. You can even put together your own science experiments to learn more about gravity, pollen, vibration, leverage, and much, much more! http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=100
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| TVOKids Bird Cam - "Help the Ontario Science Centre track birds at their bird feeder" (site). Also learn tips and other useful information about birds though educational Webcasts. http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=167
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| Club Caterpillar - "You can find all sorts of fun stuff on these pages - and you'll learn a little about butterflies and caterpillars while you play. The buttons below will take you to different puzzles, games, and activities. Give them all a try!" [site] http://www.milkweedcafe.com/ClubCathome.htm
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| Arctic Trivia Challenge - Help the polar bear and show how much you know about Arctic animals. http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/games/white/0,28416,1040327,00.html
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| Frog Exploration - Learn about frogs and do the frog matching activity. http://www.chias.org/online/hoh/exploration.html
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| Where in the World? - Help Mama Mirabelle's animal friends get home. She'll give you some hints to help you out. http://pbskids.org/mamamirabelle/games.html
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| Animal Races - Pick the animal that you think is the fastest and then click go. Did your favourite animal win the race? http://www.cyke.com/race.swf
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| Animal Names - This is a great way to find out if you know the male and female names of animals. Do you know what a Boomer is? http://www.cyke.com/name.swf
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| Egg Sizes - Can you match the eggs to the bird that laid them? http://www.meddybemps.com/easter/eggsizes.html
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| Grouping animals and plants - You can sort three different ways on this website: first sort animals and plants, then sort animals by their legs, and finally, sort animals by the way they move. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=groupinganimals
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| Pumpkin, Pumpkin - Read this great story about how a pumpkin grows and how kids can have fun with big and small pumpkins. http://www.starfall.com:80/n/fiction-nonfiction/pumpkin/load.htm?f
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| A Year in the Life of A Tree - Watch the tree change with each season. http://www.leslietryon.com/apples0901/applegame/applegame1.html
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| Sound and Hearing (BBC) - This interactive activity allows students to learn more about the intensity and mechanism of sound. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/sound_hearing.shtml
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| The Little Rooster - What happens when the little rooster wakes up the farmer every morning? Enjoy this farmyard story. http://www.starfall.com:80/n/folk-tales/little-rooster/load.htm?f
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| Be the Artist! - "Figuring out what dinosaurs looked like is a unique blend of science and art." In this activity, you can decide what the dinosaurs look like, including the colour and texture of their skin. Have fun! http://www.nature.ca:80/discover/exf/bthrtst/index_e.cfm
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| Ideas and Inventions (Fossweb) - This interactive activity helps kids learn more about the concept of colours. http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/IdeasandInventions/index.html
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| Living and Non-Living Things - See if you can make the right choices. Identify living and non-living things and label the correct body parts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/ourselves.shtml
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| Mixing Colours - Drag red, blue, and green balls and mix the colours together. http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/scizone/games/adding/default.asp
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| I-Spy - Use clues to select the right animal. http://www.kidspsych.org/ispy.html
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| Predator and Prey: you colour the scene - Chose a predator or a prey, a background and start experimenting with various colours and shading to get the best camouflage for your animal. http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/beasts/hide/hide.html
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| Pond and Woodland Habitats - Collect 8 living things from the woods and the pond. Keep going and you can build woodland and pond food chains. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/habitats.shtml
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| Animal Adaptations - Choose how animals adapt. http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/climate/adaptations/index.cfm
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| Monster Bugs Game - Learn about insects while building them with bug parts![needs Shockwave] http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/bugs/index.htm#
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| Billie Bear's Online Word Search - Here's a word search game, all about the dinosaur age. http://www.billybear4kids.com/dinosaurs/search/dinos.html
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| Thirstin's Word Scramble Game - Learn more about water and its uses by unscrambling the mystery word in the following sentences. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_wordscramble.html
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| Animals and their Babies - Match the animals with their babies in this online activity.
http://www.manythings.org/wbg/animal_babies-mw.html
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| Magnets and Springs - Learn about the differences between these two devices. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/magnets_springs.shtml
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| Wonderville - Building a Tipi - In this Wonderville activity, you help build a tipi!
http://www.wonderville.ca/v1/activities/tipi/tipi.html
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| Spash Zone: Build a Boat - Assemble the sailboat from the parts provided. Learn all about what each part does, as you build this sailboat. http://www.nmmc.co.uk/downloads/boat_game.swf
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| Carmine's Introduction to Color - This interactive site teaches younger students about the concept of color. http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/color1/color1.html
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| Smithsonian: Seal Puzzle - Move the pieces together to build a puzzle picture of a seal. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/weblet.cfm?url=/Audiences/Fun/JigsawPuzzles/ocean_life.swf
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| Animal Riddles - Use the clues to guess the animals. http://www.meddybemps.com/riddles/index.html
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| Sound Match Game - Match the sounds with the pictures. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/flash/sounds.html
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| Solids and Liquids (BBC) - Heat up some chocolate and see what happens. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/solid_liquids.shtml
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| Solids and Liquids (FossWeb) - Change solids to liquid and back [Click on "Change It" in the blue box on the left]. http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/SolidsandLiquids/index.html
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| Buoyancy Brainteasers - Test how much you know about buoyancy and displacement by answering these fun brainteasers. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lasalle/buoyancy.html
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| Bones - An Exhibit Inside You - Choose from 6 different games about bones--including two which ask questions about specific animals. http://www.childrensmuseum.org/special_exhibits/bones/kids_mazeGame.htm
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| Build a Bridge (NOVA Online) - Use this game to pick the best bridge for each location. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/build.html
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| Computer Crayons - What happens when you subtract colours. Try this crayon game. http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/scizone/games/subtracting/default.asp
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| Worms - All about worms - songs, experiments and more! http://www.thinkingfountain.org/w/worms/worms/worms.html
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| Helping Plants Grow Well - Add water and food, then watch them grow. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/plants_grow.shtml
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| Parts of a Plant - Match the parts to the plant. http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/c1m1app.html
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| Working on the Food Chain - Learn about animals and the food chain. http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/storybooks/foodchain.html
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