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Reading:
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This is the address for the
Access Center, which offers Professional Development in
several areas, including reading.
Access Center » Reading |
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This game is fun for
students learning phonics.
Between the Lions . Chicken Stacker PBS Kids |
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This website, created by a
teacher, has downloads to TONS of reading activities, games,
etc. It has great resources for programs like Reading First,
or Literacy First.
Cheryl
Sigmon's Website |
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This website has several
online books that are great for beginning or struggling
readers, because they can click to have the passages read to
them.
Readquarium- Books |
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This website, created by a
literacy coach in Louisville, KY, has several activities
that go along with Scott Foresman's "Reading Street" Series.
This is an EXCELLENT web resource for those of you with this
reading series!!!
Scott
Foresman Reading Activities |
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This is an online free
download of the Writing program that goes with Scott
Foresman's "Reading Street" Series
Scott Foresman Reading Teacher Resources |
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This link goes to a
Teaching Vision page all about reading/writing workshop
TEACHINGVISION.org |
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Starfall is a great website
for any student that is working on reading, phonics,
comprehension, and even letter names and sounds.
Learn to Read at Starfall
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This is the online link for
teachers that use the Harcourt Math program. Once you
choose your grade level, you will have access to several
great math activities, that match perfectly to your lesson
for the day.
Harcourt Math Grade Menu |
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This link is for
interactive geometry flash cards, a great review tool.
http--www.aplusmath.com-cgi-bin-flashcards-geoflash |
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This is a link to an
Acrobat reader file from the state of Illinois. It has been
created for 4th grade, and has some really good practice
multiple choice questions.
http--www.isbe.state.il.us-assessment-pdfs-Grade_4_ISAT_2006_Samples_math.pdf |
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This is an interactive
clock, for use with a projector.
http://www.time-for-time.com/swf/myclox.swf
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This link is to a
collection of websites, specifically to practice elapsed
time.
Math Elapsed Time eThemes eMINTS |
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This website, created by a
teacher, has some really great graphic organizers posted for
download.
Math Graphic Organizers |
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Math Maven's Mysteries is a
math problem solving program created by Scholastic. It is
available for free and would make great math enrichment
activities!Math
Maven's Mysteries Home |
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This website has been
created by the Wright Group, creators of Everyday Math. It
has a download for the morning math messages that go along
with the Everyday Math program.
Math Messages |
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Mathwire is an awesome
website that has fun and interesting math ideas for
students. Some of them are seasonal in nature, and many are
available for download!
Mathwire.com
Resources for Math Teachers |
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This link is for the Utah
State University Library of Virtual Manipulatives. I highly
recommend it for SmartBoard users!
National
Library of Virtual Manipulatives |
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This website has an
interactive activity about place values that is good for
class review.
Place Values |
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One of the BEST math
websites I have found recently! This website has it all,
reviews of concepts, with games to practice skills!!!
Rader's
NUMBERNUT.COM |
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SchoolExpress.com - free lesson plans, free worksheets, free
software, online math, educational store, homeschool |
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This website is just what
it says! Free downloads of customized math worksheets for
practice!
The Math
Worksheet Site.com |
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This website has several
math worksheets, and games available for free use! Excellent
for skill practice!!!3rd
grade Math, and 4th grade Math worksheets, math games |
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Another good math website
find! This website has links to several math-related video
games. Very good for use in the computer lab, classroom, or
at home. The games are very engaging!
Arcademic
Skill Builders Online Educational Video Games |
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This website, created by
the North Carolina Public Schools, has lots of free
downloads of math materials for teachers. They are
very good, definitely worth a look!!!
Grade 3-5 Math Stuff (Awesome!!!) |
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One of my students'
favorite games, this is Multiplication Baseball. This is
very cute, and gives students the option to work at their
level, or try for a challenge!
Batter's Up Baseball Math Game (Multiplication) |
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This website has a game for
comparing decimals, from Harcourt.
Decimal Rainstorm |
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This website has test prep
activities for elapsed time.
Elementary Test Prep Math 4 Test (Grades 4) Elapsed Time |
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This website has test prep
activities for telling time.
Elementary Test Prep Math 4 Test (Grades 4) Time |
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This game has a great
activity for practicing place value.
FunBrain - Place Value Puzzler |
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This is a link to
Gamequarium, with a list of decimal games.
Gamequarium Math Games- Decimal Games |
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This is a link to
Gamequarium, a list of fraction games.Gamequarium
Math Games- Fraction Games |
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This is a link to
Gamequarium, a list of multiplication games.Gamequarium
Multiplication Games |
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Science:
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This is a link to an
interactive activity about the Rock Cycle by Harcourt
Publishing. This activity would be great for use with a
SmartBoard or in a computer lab setting!
Science - Rock Cycle |
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This website is part of the
Woodlands Junior School Science Zone. It has links to
several topics and interactive games and activities for each
theme.
Science Revision - Games and Activities
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Teachnology's list of
Science Sites for use with students.
Science Sites To Use With Students
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Harcourt Publishers Science
Book Webpage,
Science Up Close Grade 4
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This website is from
National Geographic and is a great resource for use with
fossils and rocks and mineral themes.
Sea Monsters A Prehistoric Adventure Movie - Virtual Dig -
National Geographic |
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This website is one of my
student's favorites for demonstrating seed dispersal
(Especially the bird...kids are gross that way!). If you
click "Main Menu" it will give you other options regarding
the Life Cycle of Plants.
Seed Dispersal |
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This is one of my absolute
favorite webquests! The students can type their answers
rather than write them, and then print them out. A
great activity for the computer lab!!!
Soil Webquest |
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This website has a unit for
reducing, reusing, and recycling.
Waste Not, Want Not |
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This link is from the
Flashcard Exchange and contains 4th grade vocabulary from
the Harcourt Series lesson about Ecosystems.
4th Grade Ecosystem Vocabulary
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Information about
volcanoes, eruptions, etc. can be found by clicking this
link.
Annenberg Media Exhibits -- Volcanoes - Judging Hazards
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This link has lots of
information about moon phases.
ASP The Moon It's Just a Phase It's Going Through...
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This website has lots of
information about astronomy for both kids and teachers.
Astronomy For Kids -
KidsAstronomy.com |
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I love, love, love this
website from the BBC, it has "Science Clips" for tons of
subjects. The clips have an interactive demonstration, and a
quiz that follows each lesson.
BBC - Schools Science Clips - Ages 8-9
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This website has lots of
information about plants, including growth, plant parts,
photosynthesis, seed dispersal and more!!!
Biology of Plants
Introduction |
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This website would be a
cool reference to give students for a science fair project.
It helps students see how to build their solar system to
scale. It would also be a good activity for students to
complete as a group for a measurement connection.
Build a Solar System |
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This website has a game all
about the food chain where students have to put the steps of
the food chain in order.
Chain Reaction - Build a Food Chain
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This is another web
activity that I really love! It is an interactive game,
great for the smartboard that covers all sorts of weather
skills from temperature to fronts.
Edheads - Weather Activities
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This web link has lots of
cool life science websites that students may like to
explore.
Exploratorium Ten Cool Sites Life Sciences
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This website links to the
South Salem 4th grade webpage, and has several pre-made
powerpoints for science topics available for download.
Fourth Grade PowerPoints
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Social Studies & Practical Living:
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Learn to Be Healthy is a
website that targets kids and teens and discusses ways to
stay healthy. Topics include tobacco, exercise, nutrition,
and many others.
Learn To Be Healthy - For Educators
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The Junior Diabetes
Research Foundation has lots of information about Diabetes.
This website can be a good resource for students with
diabetes, or students that are doing research about the
disease.
More Ways to Help - JDRF Kids Online
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The Plimoth Plantation
website features information about the Plimoth Colony and
the first Thanksgiving celebration.
Plimoth Plantation,
Plymouth MA |
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The Harlan County School
System created multiple choice questions for Practical
Living and Vocational Studies. You can find them here.
Practical Living-Vocational Studies
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Writing:
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This links to the Clark
County Schools Literacy website, which has lots of great
information, organizers, and samples for writing.
CCPS
Literacy Site |
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The Crazy Libs website is
great fun for students and a great way to review and
reinforce students learning of the parts of speech.
Crazy Libs
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This website has links to
poetry forms for students to use. Many of these turn out
really great and are a great starting point to get students
into writing their own poetry!
ETTC's new and improved Poetry Forms
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This website has lots of
poems written by and for kids!
Fizzy
Funny Fuzzy Poetry For Kids Welcome!
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The grammar games on this
website are a great review of skills.
Grammar Games |
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This activity from Houghton
Mifflin English is a fun game to review proofreading skills
with your students.
Power Proofreading |
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Get your students
published! The Student Treasures company will take your
students artwork and writings, bind them in a book and give
you one for your classroom. It also gives students' parents
an opportunity to purchase the books for a reasonable price.
Student Treasures
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This website is also along
the lines of a "Mad Lib". Students can practice using parts
of speech to tell a wacky story using this website.
Wacky Web Tales
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This website is AWESOME for
writing! It has several posters and lessons for writing that
are very well done! Welcome
to Teaching That Makes Sense!
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Spelling:
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This is the greatest
spelling website I have personally ever found! It will test
your students, let them practice their words with games, and
even teach them how to spell words.
Go to Spelling City!
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