Blue Web' N

From the library of applications Blue Web' N, I got some web pages to use with my sixth grade learners who are in Health and Sciences.
The first two belong to the field of Health and PhysicalEducation
www.reconstructors.rice.edu and is called The Reconstructors. All the students who want to pursue medicine, biology, and chemestry at university will entertain themselves and use their knowledge of these areas to solve mysteries from the past. The mysteries can be additional activities students can do at home or in the computer labs if available, and a second activity could be that students individually or in pairs can create their own mystery providing all the clues and elements necessary to solve it. Then all participants exchange their mysteries and solve them.
www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ The BBC Science Human Body page provides a wonderful source for authentic readings. Students can choose texts and tests on topics they are interested in and use the reading skills they have been learning to identify the vocabulary related to the topic of the text, the topic sentences and supporting ideas, and after that provide their own quizzes on the text. Another excellent activity is to have students print a copy of the chosen text, cut it up in sections and put the pieces in envelopes. Students exchange envelopes and try to order the text again by using cohesion, syntax, and meaning clues.
The last selection belongs to Science
http://explore.cornell.edu/science.cfm This magazine is devoted to Beetle Science. Students can read an article from the magazine and draw the insect with all its features, or make a spider web or a diagram to organize the information provided by the text. Students can also read some of the headlines of articles and the titles of books reviews and then make predictions on the possible content. Then check their predictions by reading the article or the review.