Fourth Grade Internet,
Lesson Plan and Webquest Sites
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| North Carolina | Rocks and Minerals | Drama, Legends, Folklore, Skits, Plays |
Animals |
Simple Machines | ESL |
| Light Houses | Computer Skills | General Reading |
| Lost Colony | African-Americans | Reading Comprehension |
| North Carolina State Symbols | Native Americans | Shiloh |
| Pirates | Writing and Spelling | |
| Regions | Cherokee Indians | Math |
| River Basins | Lumbee Indians | Fractions |
| Science | Pee Dee Indians | General Math |
| Chemistry, Food | Native Americans in General | Projects for 4th graders |
| Climate | Tuscarora Indians | Searching Help |
| Magnets and Electricity | Language Arts |
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Math - Lesson Plans
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Math - WebQuests
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| Activities from across the Internet | Word Problems Teachers and parent ask for help with word problems. This is a site that can assist! | |
| Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, Dividing and Rounding numbers practice by selecting which category and level. | ||
| Ask Jeeves Math Type in a math related question and Jeeves delivers the answer! | ||
| Bridges to Math Comprehension A good plan to teach measurement. | ||
| Count On Go to the teacher Information section and see the wonderful links to specific areas of the curriculum. | ||
| Education Helper Everything in the world you can imagine to help you with fractions (as well as other parts of the curriculum) is in this site. | ||
| End of Grade Test Help This site is designed by North Carolina Department of Instruction for review and practice for the EOG test. | ||
| End of Grade -Virginia standards are similar to North Carolina's. | ||
| Flashcards! A wonderful site of flashcards for all levels and all subjects! | ||
| Fun Brain Math This is the number one site for Math Games K-8. | ||
| Homework Spot This site helps students and parents. | ||
| Manipulatives for all types of mathematical representations including charts and graphs. | ||
| Math Activities All subjects 3-6 | ||
| Math Cats! This an award-winning site that's so helpful! | ||
| Math Dictionary for Kids | ||
| Math Forum for elementary students | ||
| Measurement - Pro teacher Pro Teacher K-5 math site for all areas of math including measurement. | ||
| Mode Median Mean activities | ||
| Multiplication A site to help with this learning necessity! | ||
| National Library of Virtual Manipulatives As a whole-class demonstration, with small groups, or as individual remediation this site offers an excellent opportunity for teaching/reinforcing/reviewing essential concepts. It would be especially effective for the visual or tactile learner. The site's simple but colorful graphics are especially appealing and striking. | ||
| Order of Operations An
on-line activity to practice the order of operations. |
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| Reading Graphs This site is set up on easy, intermediate and advanced levels so that differentiation is simple to use for students and teachers. It gives great drill and practice with reading co-ordinates!! | ||
| Review for the End-of-Grade | ||
| Spreadsheets - What are they? How do I use them? | ||
| Word Problems This
lesson will teach students how to solve word problems using addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division. Students are shown key words that will help
them determine which operation to use in solving word problems. Students
use information from a candy company Web site to write and solve word problems. |
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| Fractions - Internet Sites | ||
| Comparing Fractions Students simply enter the numerator and denominator of the two fractions they wish to compare and the tool does the rest. It automatically creates side-by-side fraction bar and shows the least common denominator for the two fractions. | ||
| Fraction Bars Applet These online fraction bars let users compare several fractions at one time. A grand visual tool! | ||
| Fraction Four Connecting fractions, decimals and percents. | ||
| No Matter What Shape Your Fractions Are In The use of pattern blocks is ideal for exploring fractions. This site gives further details to develop this idea. | ||
| Pattern Blocks Applet The use of pattern blocks is ideal for exploring fractions. This site gives further details to develop this idea. | ||
| Quia:Equivalent Fractions Connecting fractions, decimals and percents. | ||
| Understanding Fractions The use of pattern blocks is ideal for exploring fractions. This site gives further details to develop this idea. | ||
Reading - Internet Sites
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Reading - Lesson Plans
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Reading - WebQuests
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Drama, Legends,Folklore, Skits, and Plays - Lesson
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Drama, Legends,Folklore, Skits, and Plays - WebQuests
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Helpful
Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore Through examining several
examples of helpful animal tales from around the world, students will
learn about humans living in cooperation with the land and sea and with
the beasts that inhabit them. |
Bringing
Folk tales to Life Web Quest As historians, literary experts, technology
gurus, and storytellers, your task is to bring alive a folktale and to
learn something about a country's culture. |
| Mountains:
A Drama Exploration Students will use creative dramatics to demonstrate
an understanding of three ways a mountain can be formed. |
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| The Way West: A Duet of Plays Students will explore the pioneers’ and settlers’ ways of life through drama and songs. Crossing the prairie, living in a sod house, etc. are just part of what they will discover. | ||
General Reading - Lesson Plans
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General Reading - WebQuests
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| Flashcards! This site includes flashcards for all levels and all subjects. It's wonderful! | A Web questBecause of Winn Dixie Because of Winn-Dixie is a wonderful book by Kate DiCamillo. This Web Quest is designed to help students as they read the book. | |
| Fourth Grade Skills This site has every subject area but we need good comprehension, supporting details etc so badly that I have included it here. | ||
| Pro teacher 1000s of ideas! | ||
| RHL School Not only does this site offer wonderful help on Reading Comprehension but other subjects as well. It’s designed with upper elementary and middle school in mind. | ||
Reading Comprehension - Lesson Plans
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Reading Comprehension - WebQuests
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| Ed Helper - Reading Comprehension Featuring
free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy
for their kids. They include original stories, poems, essays, and articles.
They a re most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school years. |
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| End of Grade Test Help This site is designed by North Carolina Department of Instruction for review and practice for the EOG test. | ||
| More from Ed Helper Click on Grade 4 to 5. | ||
| Reading Comprehension from the University of Connecticut - You'll also find useful web sites that students can visit to practice their use of comprehension strategies with fiction and non-fiction texts at a variety of reading levels. | ||
| Review for the End-of-Grade | ||
Shiloh - Lesson Plans
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Shiloh - WebQuests
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| Pro teacher - Shiloh Four sites that will assist you with teaching the novel, Shiloh. | ||
Science - Internet Sites
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Science - Lesson Plans
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Science - Web quests
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Magnets & Electricity- Lesson Plans
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Magnets & Electricity- WebQuests
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| Electricity Compares and contrasts static and current electricity. | What
Makes Earth A Magnetic Force? In this Science Update, you will learn
about a big mystery still unsolved by science, even though the subject
is right beneath our feet. |
WebQuest on Electricity This
web quest will help students to investigate electricity in many different
ways. They will get the chance to visit many interesting sites on the
web and write about what they have learned. They will also get the chance
to build models and present their findings to their classmates. |
| Explore Science Electricity, Magnetism, Circuits, etc | Renewable Energy Sources Students will investigate a variety of renewable energy resources, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of each. | |
| Interactive Sites for Science 4th Grade | ||
| What is Static Electricity? This site has so much for students from well written information to several suggested activities. | ||
| Windows to the Universe - is a wonderful science site which covers beginners through advanced students. Look under Teacher's Resources and click on Beginner or Intermediate or Advanced to see what's available. Students may select English or Spanish! | ||
Marine Life - Lesson Plans
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Marine Life - WebQuests
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| Biomes of the World: What's It Like Where You Live? In the Biomes section, you can learn about rain forest, tundra, taiga, desert, temperate, and grasslands. In the Freshwater section, students will find information on rivers and streams, ponds and lakes, and wetlands; and in the Marine section, you'll learn about shorelines, temperate oceans, and tropical oceans. Students view illustrations and diagrams. | Do you need to identify a fish? Check out this site, Florida's Fish Identification | Marine World Web QuestStudents will create a brochure for the animal/plant that they have chosen and through their presentation, they will try to persuade their classmates to vote for their candidate for Marine Life Subject of the Year. |
| Fish Adaptation Speaks for itself. | How a Blue Crab Changes as it Grows In this lesson students will be exploring the Blue Crab Archives web site. It is important to have them understand that animals go through changes as they grow. | Marine Life WebQuest This activity is for grades 3 through 6 and is intended to be a resource and a guide for on going learning in the area of marine life. |
| Life on the Rocky Shore This site describes ocean life in tide pools, the animals living there and the tides affecting them. Animal photos are followed by a narrative and a table which includes diet, color, size, life cycle, predators, types and relatives of each for easy viewing. | Marine Reserves Ever declining numbers of marine plants and fish are sending ecologists scrambling for better ways to protect the oceans. Some have suggested that marine reserves are the answer. This Science Update looks at the unexpected impact marine reserves have on their surroundings. | My Tidal Pool! My Home Your class will take a field trip to a tide pool. You will be looking at its ecosystem as well as its preservation. Before the trip, examine the inhabitants of the various tidal zones by research as well as surfing the web. Take the trip to increase your knowledge and verify your findings. Design a poster report to summarize and explain the tidal ecosystem.
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| Pictures of Inter tidal Animals with descriptions of them and where they live in their natural environment. |
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| Tide Pools This gives an overview and then supplies wonderful links! One has a virtual tour that sets up all you could ever want kids to know about tidal pools; Life at the Edge of the Sea: Virtual Tide Pools | ||
| Virtual Tide Pools The NATURE Virtual Tide Pool allows you to interact with one of the natural world's most fascinating places: that square of water where the ocean meets the land. The animals that live in this environment range from soft-bodied nudibranchs to hard-shelled crabs to the birds, bears, and seals that come to feed at the water's edge. | ||
River Basins - Lesson Plans
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River Basins - WebQuests
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| Forest and Water Quality in North
Carolina |
North Carolina Online Bibliography - Major
River Basins |
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| Project Wet | ||
| Stream Watch | ||
| River Basins in North Carolina | ||
| North Carolina Fisheries | ||
| North Carolina Coastal Fishing | ||
| North Carolina Audubon Society | ||
| Water Resources of North Carolina | ||
Rocks and Minerals -Lesson Plans
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Rocks and Minerals - WebQuests
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| Pro Teacher A good source of information on rocks and minerals. | Rocks,
Minerals, and Mining This "Theme Page" has links to curricular
and instructional resources related to the study of rocks, minerals,
and mining. |
Rock Hounds Web quest - By using the resources on this web-based activity, students will gain an understanding of the rock cycle including how sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks form. |
| Rocks and Minerals Link This is obviously a perfect site if you want information on Rocks and Minerals for elementary students. | GeoFind Crossword Puzzle This is an interactive puzzle taking a simple list of geology words and hiding them. You can do it online or print it out! | |
| Rocks and Minerals (Again) One more great source if you're looking for information on rocks and minerals. | Interactive
Science Tutor Another crossword puzzle using rocks and minerals
vocabulary. |
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| Rocks
and Minerals This site could be all you need to teach students about
rocks and minerals. There's a lot of interactivity available if you want
to use it! |
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| Climate - Internet | Climate - Lesson Plans | Climate - WebQuests |
| State Climate Office of North Carolina | ||
| North Carolina Climate and Weather | ||
Simple Machines - Lesson Plans
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Simple Machines - WebQuest
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| 4-H Site: Farm Machinery Information to help you tie farm machinery to simple machines. | Farming and Technology Farming and Technology worksheet. | |
| Simple Machines A wonderful site! | Technology Designs An outline of Technology Design. | |
| Simple Machines A good site for students and teachers (background provided) | ||
| Teachers' Site There are several fun activities at this site for students to learn how simple machines work. | ||
Reptiles - Internet Sites
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Reptiles - Lesson Plans
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Reptiles - WebQuests
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| Amphibians and Reptiles of North Carolina | Reptile and Amphibian Research Center | A WebQuest on Animals |
| Reptiles and Amphibians of Cool Springs | ||
| Snakes of the Savannah River Site | ||
| Science Interactive Lessons for Mulitple Topics | ||
Social Studies - Internet
Sites
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Social Studies - Lesson Plans
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Social Studies - WebQuests
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NC Lighthouses - Lesson Plans
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NC Lighthouses - WebQuest
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| Home Town Locator Cities, Towns & ZIP Codes, Physical & Cultural Features of North Carolina Counties | Absolute
and Relative Locations The social studies in many of North Carolina's schools is taught through the five themes of geography: location, place, movement, human-environmental interaction, and region. You are going to complete several tasks and activities that will help you to better understand the definition of location. |
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| National Park Service: Inventory of Lighthouse for North Carolina | Carolina
Clips WebQuest Take a tour of your state by exploring Carolina Clips. Choose Waterfalls, Raleigh, or Lighthouses to begin your quest. |
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| North Carolina Lighthouses Many of the descriptions and much of the photography in this collection of North Carolina Lighthouses have been provided by The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society. The * beside the name of a lighthouse indicates Lighthouse Society notes have been included in the description. | North Carolina Lighthouses WebQuest The lighthouses of the Outer Banks are an important part of North Carolina's coastline and are a source of great beauty for our state. Join us as we explore the lighthouses and learn more about their history. |
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| Pictures of
the North Carolina lighthouses |
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| Visit North Carolina Explore North Carolina. What to do, Where to Stay, Where to go etc features are all there. | ||
African Americans - Lesson Plans
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African - Americans - WebQuest
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| Black History Form A-Z AA Kulture Zone is a kid friendly place to examine the topic of African Americans. Very nice! | Scholastic: Top Ten African American Scientists At its usual standard; very nice. | |
| Why Study Black Inventors? This is a slide show full of wonderful information about Black inventors in the United States and in North Carolina. | ||
| American Natives Internet Sites | American Natives - Lesson Plans | American Natives - WebQuest |
To
the teachers of Native Americans - You
must read this list of "Dos and Don'ts" if you teach Native
Americans.
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Digital
History is a web site created by professors a the University of
Houston designed to support the teaching of American history for K-12
students; the site includes an online textbook, annotated historical
documents, and over 70 inquiry-based interactive modules. I have started
you on their Native American page.
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Catawba Indians - Lesson Plans
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Catawba Indians - WebQuests
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| Asheville Information Site Another history of Catawba | Native
Americans in a Natural World In this Web Quest, you will read and
learn about four Native American tribes from different parts of the United
States: North, South, East, and West. |
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| Catawba Native American History Catawba Native Americans: A Family History | Native
Americans in North Carolina Native American languages, cultures and
contributions to our state have been and continue to be significant.
Through the activities associated with this web quest, you will learn
much about these early settlers of our state. |
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| Mavericks A history of the Tuscarora | ||
| Cherokee - Lesson Plans | Cherokee - WebQuests | |
| Cherokee Indians Very thorough and interesting! | ||
| Cherokee Literature Cherokee Literature as you scroll down as well as the quotes from Indians who lived during the time of the Trail of Tears. | ||
| Historic Cherokee The Cherokee Official Site. | ||
Lumbee - Lesson Plans
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Lumbee - WebQuests
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| Lumbee River Pathways A good Lumbee Indians history site. | ||
| Lumbee Indians.Net A
Lumbee Indian site maintained by a Lumbee Indian. |
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| Lumbee Voices: North Carolina's Lumbee Indians in Literature, Art, and Music This is a great site created by Appalachian State University. | ||
| Native Americans in North Carolina Wonderful site on all North Carolina Indians It has incredible links to get to all other tribes. | ||
| Native Languages of the Americas Native Languages of the Americas: Lumbee (Croatan, Cheraw, Pamlico, Carolina Algonquian) | ||
Pee Dee Indian - Lesson Plans
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Pee Dee Indian - WebQuests
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| Anson County They mention the Pee Dees in an article. | ||
| Richmond County Site Richmond County mentions the Pee Dees. | ||
Tuscarora Indians - Lesson Plans
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Tuscarora Indians - WebQuests
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| Encyclopedia of American Indians | ||
| Jones County This site offers a good history of the Tuscarora Indians. | ||
| Mavericks Our Tuscarora Neighbors | ||
| Tuscaroras This
is a copy of the treaty made with the Tuscarora Indians. |
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Pirates - Lesson Plans
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Pirates - WebQuests
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| Avast Ye Mateys! Students fill in the blanks to answer questions about Blackbeard! If they don't know the answers, students click on a highlighted word which will connect them to an internet site that contains the information. Their work is printable so the teacher can collect. | ||
| Background on Blackbeard National Geographic article on Blackbeard: A Day in the Life of a Pirate. | Pirate Adventures While on this adventure you with two other students will create a WANTED AD for a pirate you have learned about through your research. | |
| Beaufort, North Carolina's
Blackbeard Site Scroll to the bottom of the screen to click on the
pirate ship to learn of their historic visitor, Blackbeard, and the recovery of his ship in the Beaufort inlet. |
Pirates
and Shipwrecks You are about to enter the world of shipwrecks and
pirates! You will be going out on the high seas to deliver cargo to Cuba,
and your very lives depend on making good choices. Piracy was a big problem
in the early shipping industry, as well as the hazards of sailing. Come
aboard and sail with us! |
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| Blackbeard This site offers a good history plus facts sheets on Blackbeard, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, etc…. | ||
| Ocracoke Island This site is actually a gift shop on Ocracoke Island but it offers pirate materials for sale and Internet links to pirate information. | ||
| Pirates: Fact and Legend This is called the Pirate Store but it has wonderful bibliographies of all the most famous pirates. | ||
| Pirates of the Bahamas | ||
| Pirates of the Caribbean This is a thorough and good site! Start looking and go deeper and deeper. Child appropriate for research. | ||
| Pirates of the Spanish Main This site has something for everyone! There's a section just for kids too! | ||
| Pirates: Facts and Legends | ||
| The New Pirate Museum This is the pirate museum of New England’s pirate educational activities web site. | ||
| Ben's Government is the United States' site for general historic information for K-Adult levels. Check it out! | ||
| The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers a growing variety of resources to assist teachers and students. The Institute has pioneered new models of history schools and programs, with proven success in improving academic achievement. It offers professional development opportunities for educators, provides documents and exercises for classroom use, and encourages excellence in student writing with essay prizes. | ||
| Lost Colony - Internet Sites | Lost Colony - Lesson Plans
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Lost Colony - WebQuests
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| How Do You Loose a Colony? This is a great source of information on theories. There are printable games and online games available as well. It's easy to use! | ||
| Regions of North Carolina- Internet Sites | Regions of North Carolina - Lesson Plans | Regions of North Carolina - WebQuests |
| Guilford County WebQuests for regions, geography, land forms, and Carolina Clips | ||
Writing - Lesson Plans
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Writing - WebQuests
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| Grammar Bytes -
Find detailed definitions of common grammar terms--everything from abstract
nouns to verbs! |
Give Your Writing a "Kiss". Students learn the different steps involved in the writing process and relate the process to a Hershey Kiss. | |
| Making Sentences Discover how to make sentences through this resource. In addition to a fact sheet and worksheets, this site provides three games and three quizzes to test your skills. When you finish with this site, you can easily move on to other writing skill pages. | ||
| Merriam-Webster OnLine The "Dictionary" people offer so much word related information, as you would expect, that it's an essential to broaden your vocabulary and word sense! | ||
| Paragraph a Week: A Year Long Writing Program Outstanding web site with more than 80 paragraph topics. The topics correspond seasonally and they slowly develop all of the skills necessary to write effective paragraphs. While it is designed for a fifth or sixth grade class, most of the assignments could be used at many other grade levels. A parent letter and writing evaluation form are also included. | ||
The Text Mapping Project This introduction to Text mapping provides instruction for using it in the classroom for reading comprehension instruction. Teachers can explore how to make a scroll of text and mark it to help students understand structure and content. |
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Writing Skills WebQuest Students, place yourselves in the role of teacher. In order to help your class ace their next writing assignment, you will search the Internet to find any helpful information or activities that can give them the academic boost they need! |
| Wacky Web tales - Students enter certain parts of speech and the computer creates a wacky story from their selection. A fun way to brush up on their knowledge of parts of speech. Help is available online. | ||
| ESL - Internet | ESL - Lesson Plans | ESL - WebQuests |
| English
Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes You can study
a set of words, then choose a game. Instead of studying the word list
first, you can choose which game you want to play, then choose the set
of words. |
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| ESL Kidstuff -ESL & EFL
children's resources for English teachers and parents. Over 1,000 flashcards
images, hundreds of worksheets, crafts, games, jobs and lots more. |
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| Computer Skills - Interactive | Computer Skills - Lesson Plans | Computer Skills
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| Character and Technology | ||
| Computer Skills We'll grow in terms and actions as we learn about how to use technology. | ||
| Databases from DPI for instructional activities and data manipulation. | ||
| Name the Parts of a Spreadsheet | Spreadsheet
Connection 1st Ice Cream |
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| Networked Computers Benefits of a network. | ||
| Networked vs. Stand-Alone Computers | ||
| Parts of a Spreadsheet | ||
| Research on the Webb A UK site designed with elementary age students in mind. | ||
| Safety Cyberethics | ||
| Safety Using Computers | ||
| Web at a Glance Step by step understanding of the web. It takes 10 minutes and has a 5 minute test at the end. | ||
| Web: Animated 1. Connecting to the Internet 2. How the Web works 3. How search engines work. | ||
| Word Processing Language Arts activities using copy and save functions. | ||
| Word Introduction and/or Review | ||
| Word Problems This lesson will teach students how to solve word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students are shown key words that will help them determine which operation to use in solving word problems. Students use information from a candy company Web site to write and solve word problems. | ||
| Word Processing | Editing | |
| Works Cited for Fourth Grade Students - What should be cited by a 4th grade student. | ||
| Food Chemistry - Internet | Food Chemistry - Lesson Plans | Food Chemistry
WebQuests |
| Rate Your Plate An interactive game where you choose the items for your plate and you receive the results in calories, nutrients etc. | ||
| Projects and Searching | Searching Lessons |
Searching WebQuests |
| 4th Grade Projects from Cresthaven Elementary in Maryland including Chesapeake Bay Critters, Biomes of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Underground Railroad, Native Americans, Women's Picture History Challenge, Gem Study, Fables, Tour of Ellis Island | Searching
MiniQuest - A
mini-lesson to help with references |
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