Interactive Games
Desktop Activities
Desktop games are a great way to stimulate interest and motivate kids. Here you will find links to an assortment of interactive games and activities from the Internet for use in your classroom. They cover all of this season's topics and can be used in a computer lab, on an interactive whiteboard, or on individual computer systems. There are a variety of skill levels in these activities.
Flash, Java, Shockwave, Quicktime or other interactive plug-ins may be required. Each individual site will advise you as to the needs, as necessary.
Below you will find Desktop games and activities related to Sports Physiology, Skeleton, The Moon, Flight, Geology, Predators, Animal Migration, Idaho Ecosystems, and Butterflies.
Notebook 10
If you currently use Notebook 10 by Smart Technologies or another interactive whiteboard you will be able to download the game for Butterflies, marked with a 
to your system. If you do not have this software in your classroom, then you will not be able to access those specific activities. Due to the large size of this file, it is recommended that you select "Save" if prompted and then save the file to your personal computer or local network drive for future use.
Many of the activities shared here can be used on an interactive whiteboard or on a personal computer. But several activities are really better for use on the interactive whiteboard such as the one labeled as such for Butterflies.
Sports Physiology Activities
How the body works quiz (with answer key)
Click here
Kidshealth muscles video for your interactive whiteboard
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Food Pyramid Game
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Exploratorium has a huge list of activities based on the science of sports. Visit here.
Click here
Skeleton Activities
Put Mr. Bones back together
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Drag the bones to their correct location
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Bones Yatzee
Click here
Youtube skeleton video - Skeletal System Structures and Functions
Includes puzzles, vocabulary games, and a skeletal diagram to label.
Click here
Moon
Activities
Earth, Sun and Moon
game
Click here
Moonbase Alpha – from NASA – create your own community on the moon*.
Click here
Moon phases interactive – here you can place the phases in order
Click here
Flight
Activities
An interactive glider simulation
Click here
Paper airplane simulator – build and throw your paper airplane right on your whiteboard
Click here
From Scholastic – build your own airplane and find out if it can fly
Click here
Geology
Activities
A rock cycle game to play online.
Click here
Match up these geology terms with their definitions – a matching game online.
Click here
Geology trivia quiz.
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Live volcano cams – visit one or all
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Interactive Rabbits and Wolves game
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Where’s Waldo? Camouflage interactive
Click here
Learn about and compare the features of predator and prey.
Click here
Animal Adaptations interactive game
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Choose from a huge list of PowerPoints on animal migration and hibernation.
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Follow the gray whales and track their migration.
Click here
Mission Migration – from the Audubon society.
Click here
Idaho Ecosystem
Activities
Create your own pond online.
Click here
Build a prairie (grassland)
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Online games with Roly J. Robot - choose from six, but Wild Wetlands will really teach how to conserve our wetland habitats.
Click here
A Walk in the Forest – a study of forest soil
Click here
Butterfly
Activities
Butterfly or Moth – can you identify these correctly ?
Try this drag and drop activity on your whiteboard.
All about the life cycle.
Click here
Four butterfly activities to do with your class on their individual computers or on your whiteboard.
Click here
Games from
other Seasons
2010-2011
Gravity, CSI, Owls, The Brain, Force and Motion, Earthquakes, Snakes, Exoplanets, and Urban Wildlife.
2009 - 2010
Astronomy, Body Waste, Chemistry, Food chain, Geology, Migration,Nutrition, Rivers, and Salmon