Grade Five

Grade Five

General Nutrition Sites you may wish to visit.

http://www.dietitians.ca/
Mr. Gentle's favorite.

http://www.sfu.ca/~jfremont/consumer.html
Here is a nutrition ring with many web sites including ask a dietician.*

5-1-03 Describe the types of nutrients in foods and their function in maintaining a healthy body.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/category-foods.htm
How stuff works site answers many questions about foods and related appliances.*

Nebraska Articles on Nutrition on-line
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/Foods/

http://nutrition.about.com/health/nutrition/mbody.htm
Everything you want to know about nutrition and more.

http://www.dole5aday.com/
Find out about nutrients in foods.

5-1-04 Evaluate a daily menu plan and suggest changes to make it align more closely with Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating.

http://www.nms.on.ca/canada.htm
All about Canada's Food Guide.*

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/nutrition/pube/foodguid/foodguide.html
Visual of Canada's Food Guide.*

http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/Teacher_Res/HealthPE/Other/foodguide.html
Another visual with more info.*

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/nutrition/pube/foodguid/index.html
Using Canada's Food Guide.*

http://www.nms.on.ca/elementa.htm
Elementary Student Links.*

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/nutrition/pube/foodguid/eguide4.html
Healthy Eating Scorecard from the Guide.*

http://www.sfu.ca/~jfremont/lesson1.html
Discussion of some of the guidelines.*

http://www.kidshealth.org/misc_pages/mybody_SW.html
Kid's Health My Body- Shockwave version can go to all parts.*

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/index.html
This is the main page for kid's health.*

In the body systems below if a site has ** the site will cover many body systems not just one.

5-1-06 Identify the major components of the digestive system and describe its role in the human body.

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/digest_noSW.html
Click on the arrows at the bottom to go to the next section.**

http://www.imcpl.org/kids_body.htm
Contains info on all the major body systems including the digestive system.**

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/body.htm
Gander Academy has links to many sites on the body systems.**

5-1-07 Identify the major components of the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems, and describe the role of each system in the human body.

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5777/tour.htm
This site contains the 3 systems above as well as others. Easy to read.**

http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/Greenway/leahy/00-01/bodysystems/brochure.htm
This site was done as a project by students.

5-1-08 Identify skin as the major component of the integumentary system, and describe its role in protecting and supporting the human body.

http://www.myschoolonline.com/page/0,1871,10443-144139-11-6676,00.html
The functions of skin.

http://www.brainpop.com/health/integumentary/skin/index.weml
I found this site worked better with Netscape. It is all kinds of topics besides skin. Takes a long time to load.**

5-1-09 Identify components of the human body's defenses against infections, and describe their role in defending the body against infection.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/immune-system.htm
How stuff works site.

5-1-10 Identify the major components of the respiratory and circulatory systems, and describe the role of each system in the human body.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/
Check out the map of the heart.

http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/amcgann/body/respiratory.html
A Look Inside the Human Body-The Respiratory System**

http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000138.html
Yuckiest site on the Internet?**

http://www.msms.doe.k12.ms.us/biology/anatomy/circulatory/circulatory.html
Takes forever to load.

http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/amcgann/body/circulatory.html
A Look inside the Human Body Again

5-1-11 Describe how the human body gets rid of waste.

http://www.borg.com/~lubehawk/hexcrsys.htm
Explains metabolism

5-1-12 Give examples of how systems of the human body work together.

http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/systems/systems.html
Franklin Institute Online: Human Body Systems**

http://www.imcpl.lib.in.us/nov_ind.htm
Science Fact File.

http://bart.northnet.com.au/~amcgann/A%20Look%20Inside%20the%20Human%20Body%20%20website/Index.html
A Look inside the Human Body

5-4-01 Use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of weather.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/longterm/reference.htm
Link to a weather glossary.*

5-4-07 Identify and describe components of public weather reports from a variety of sources.

http://weather.ec.gc.ca/index_e.shtml
Environment Canada- can find current conditions and long range forecasts here. Also good is the FAQs.*

http://www.explorezone.com/weather/index.htm
Excellent site with a wide variety of weather info. good for 5-4-18 also.*

5-4-09 Provide examples of severe weather forecasts, and describe preparations for ensuring personal safety during severe weather and related natural disasters.

http://www.stormchaser.com
This page has links at the top the various disaster relief agencies as well as links to current severe weather warnings.*

Hurricanes:

http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/
Canadian Hurricane Center*

http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/kids.html
Kids portion of above site gives great explanations including a hurricane glossary.*

http://hurricanes.noaa.gov/prepare/title_basics.htm
Hurricane Basics-Tells what is a hurricane.*

http://www.weather.com/weather_center/special_reports/hurricanes/index.html
Hurricanes:The Eye of the Storm.*

Blizzard:
http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/winter/blizzard.html
Blizzard information.*

Hail:

http://www.chaseday.com/hailstones.htm
Pictures of hailstones, takes a while to load but good pictures.*

Tornadoes:

http://www.weather.com/weather_center/tornado/inside/about.html
Excellent site about tornadoes.*

http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/tornado_main1.html
Tornadoes.*

Thunderstorms:

http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/thunder/form.html
Thunderstorm information.*

5-4-10 Investigate various ways of predicting weather, and evaluate their usefulness.

http://www.cmc.ec.gc.ca/climate/normals/MANW004.HTM
Winnipeg Climate Normals*

5-4-14 Explain how clouds form, and relate cloud formation and precipitation to the water cycle.

5-4-15 Identify and describe common cloud formations.

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/home.rxml
Clouds and precipitation

http://www.chitambo.com/
Cloud Images and information.*

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html
Cloud Gallery and information.*

5-4-18 Recognize that climates around the world are ever changing, and identify possible explanations.

http://www.explorezone.com/weather/index.htm