Churchill Science

Where do living things get their energy? Can you figure out if the living thing:

-Makes its own food (producer)
-Eats to survive (consumer)
-Breaks down dead stuff (decomposer)

Click the picture to play!

Click here to play!

This is a fun game for young children to learn about life cycles. 225 played this game in science class!

It’s the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Click on the picture to visit wechoosethemoon.org, an interactive website that is tracking the mission as though it were happening right now. It features audio, photos, and videos.

After June 20th, the site will stay up and you will be able to click through the entire mission from start to finish.

How long would it take to take a car to Mars? What about an airplane to the moon? Click the picture to find out!

Find “alien life” here on Earth and learn about where we might find similar life on planets and moons out in our solar system!

221 played this game on Friday… we collected all 12 cards with no problem! So we moved on to something a bit more challenging…

If you want to make this game more challenging for yourself, try filling them in in reverse order, or from the middle out…

Hopefully we’ll be posting more solar system games soon!

Click on the picture to play the game!

Want to explore Mars? You don’t need to build a multimillion dollar satellite or send a rover. Instead all you need is a web browser and Google Mars:

Click on the image to try!

Also, if you have the latest version of Google Earth on your computer, you can access Google Mars in 3D! Highly recommended!

A baby mammoth was recently discovered mummified in ice. Here’s a video clip explaining the discovery:

To explore the mammoth discovery, click on the picture:

Here are some of the planets that Cluster B created using Planet 10. To make your own planets, click on these photos!

Ruby’s Astro Planet

Chloe’s Planet

Ruby and Chloe – what happened to your planets? Did they succeed?

Click here to explore the kelp forests of Monterey Bay!

Create your own planet with Planet 10!
221 did, and look what happened… Click on the picture to play the game!

Update: 222 won on the very first try! How did they do it???

Once you’ve made your planet, give it a name and launch it into our solar system. Watch the left side of the screen to see what your planet’s fate is!

If you take a screenshot of your planet, we’ll post it here!

Good luck!

By popular request…

In this game, you get to be the Sun. You can “fire” small, medium, or large solar winds at the Earth and watch as the Earth’s magnetic field produces an aurora in response. Then click “Evaluate” to find out what your solar winds did to the Earth.

Bored at home on this unexpected day off? Why not make your own wild weather?

Explore an interactive map of the Moon with Google Moon! Click the picture to try it!

Click on the picture to see Antarctica’s history in action!

Here’s another interactive about the same topic!