Third Grade Internet, Lesson Plan and Webquest Sites
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China Computer Skills ESL
Government/Economics * Larson's Math correlated with Trailblazers -a must! Click on your grade level. Light
Math Pioneer Life Plants
Presidents of the US Reading Comprehension Soil
 Sun, Earth, Moon Relations/Effects Using Kidspiration Activities Writing
Projects Help With Searching The Human Body
Math Internet Sites
Math Lesson Plans
Math Webquests
AAAMath A wondeful site for students to practice math concepts! Larson' Math Correlated with Trailblazers Click on third grade. Wonderful resourse!  
Activities from across the Internet Math Alberta Interactive Sites  
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!    
Count On Go to the teacher Information section and see the wonderful links to specific areas of the curriculum.    
Counting Money Interactive 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.    
FlashCard Exchange! A site with every level and every subject from Pre-K to Adults.    
FunBrain Math This is the number one site for Math Games K-8.    
Handling Data Includes Probability, Mode, Mean and Medium and Interpreting data    
Homework Spot This site helps students and parents.    
Johnnie's Math Page a collection of K-8 interactive math activeties. This is great for individual or group activities!    
Manipulatives for all types of mathematical representations including charts and graphs.    
Math Cats! This an award-winning site that's so helpful!    
Math Forum for elementary students    

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.    
Review for Assessment on the EOG Click on Online Assessment, click on North Carolina on the map,and click on your grade level to review.    
Review for End-of-Grade    
Telling Time Interactive    
Word Problems Every teacher and every parent begs, "My kids need help with word problems!" Here is a site that helps!    
Science Internet Sites
Science Lesson Plans
Science Webquests
Light - Internet Sites
Light - Lesson Plans
Light - WebQuests
A Sundial Template A template to make a sundial is located at this site.   Light Savanger Hunt Through this Internet scavenger hunt, you will learn some interesting things about what light is and how it works.
Fish Tank Optics You will learn about light waves and see how they travel by following this plan. Light moves in waves, which can bounce off of or go through materials.
 
Interactive Light Site You’ve got to go here and try the links! This is a wonderful place for students to interact with the computer to learn.    
Interactive Sites for Science 3rd Grade    
Plants - Internet Sites
Plants - Lesson Plans
Plants - Webquests
Adventures of Herman I know Herman isn't a plant but we couldn't have them without him.This colorful site reminds that without worms, our soil would be very poor. Worms are important, and Herman will tell you about the history of the worm, his anatomy, where he lives, and what he eats. Assessment Strategies for Plant Growth and Development Here you can find resources to refine your existing evaluation and assessment methods, as well as research new techniques.  
Build a Prarie The prairie is one of North America's great ecosystems and a vital habitat for many plants and animals. Over 98% of the prairie has been lost in the past 150 years—but some people are trying to bring it back, hectare by hectare.
CalPhotos Access any of the 25,888 images of plants located within this database. There is no charge to use the site, and it seems that reproduction of these images for educational purposes is permitted.  
Lab 2: Vegetative Characters Most items have a visual link to show the student a picture of the part.


   
Lab 3: Reproductive Characters This site covers the reproductive parts of flowering plants--flowers, fruits, and seeds. This lesson can be divided into two parts: Basic Concepts and Dissection Exercise. Most of this material is linked to images.    
Plant-Parts-Salads An activity in which students must identify different food items that could go in a salad by parts. At the end of the activity, clicking on suggestions on editable parts will carry the student to a nice chart that defines the parts of plants and gives examples of each.
   
The Great Plant Escape Help Detective LePlant solve the mysteries of plant life! This would be a great site to explore with your class to enhance your plant studies. Learn about plant parts and growth; soil and nutrients; seeds and germination; flowers; and bulbs.    
Why do Plants Have Flowers? Using a fun narrative style and great illustrations, this page explains the mechanism and importance of pollination for plant reproduction. The technical vocabulary is well explained, and this page can be useful for kids and adults alike.    
Soil - Internet Sites
Soil - Lesson Plans
Soil - Webquests
Sun/Earth/Moon and Their Relationships and Effects on Each Other - Internet Sites
Sun/Earth/Moon and Their Relationships and Effects on Each Other - Lesson Plans
Sun/Earth/Moon and Their Relationships and Effects on Each Other - Webquests
A Satellite's Centrifugal Force Satellites stay in orbit using two forces: the force of gravity and centrifugal force. Common Essential Learnings In this unit, Art education activities are used to develop the student's concept of the Earth and Moon's relationship to that of the Sun, their concept of seasons, and their concept of day and night. Moon Quest Webquest Open and scroll down to see Moon Quest. To explain everything that existed in their world, our ancestors made up stories and tales about gods and goddesses and told these tales to one another and to their children.

Birthday Moons Students become familiar with lunar phases by locating and then graphing the Moon phase of their own birthdays.


  New Moon, Why Did You Leave So Soon If you look at the sky every night for a month, you will notice that the moon's shape is constantly changing. How does the moon's shape change? Take this journey with us to find out!
Sky Path: Studying the Movement of Celestial Objects By using these activities, K-4 students will have the concrete experiences of observing, organizing, comparing, and describing the movement of objects that they observe in the sky.   The Moons Many Faces The purpose of this space journey is to learn about the moon phases and to find out what the moon is made of.
The Moon Another brief explanation of some basic knowledge about the moon. There are four activities also available.    
The Sun A few brief paragraphs about the sun and some on-line information from two other sites.The first has printed information, a movie, and a song about the sun. The second is setup so you can choose Beginner and have games and information available.    
Windows to the Universe - is a wonderful science site which covers beginners through advanced students. Look under Tearcher's Resources and click on Beginner or Intermediate or Advanced to see what's available. Students may select English or Spanish!    
Social Studies - Internet Sites
Social Studies - Lesson Plans
Social Studies - Webquests
China - Internet Sites
China - Lesson Plans
China - Webquests
Chinese New Year A brief explantion of the Chinese New Year is available here as well as other topics. You may return to their home page to learn more about China and the Chinese culture and customs.   A Webquest on China for Elementary Students Using the Internet, you will investigate a specific subject area of the country and it's culture. You and your partner will collect notes and pictures that will be used to create Power Point presentation.

    China Your job is to design a travel brochure that provides people interested in traveling to China with more information.
Government - Internet Sites
Government - Lesson Plans
Government - Webquests
Economic Glossary This is an economic glossary for young students. It's very good! Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Have You Any Goods? Can You Make "Cents" of Ecomonics?Through this webquest you will learn just how economics affects your life daily.
Famous Economists This is where you’ll find famous economists including a complete list of the Economic Sciences winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. A short summary of what each did to win is included. Car Shopping Economics: An Exciting Entrepreneur Experience Congratulations! You have been approved for a new business loan. First, there are many fun tasks you need to complete in order to get your business under way. HAVE FUN!!
Kids Economics Poster Site A place to order economic posters and other aids. Making Cents out of Centimes

 
Spend Money for the Town and Why Students have to spend money for the town and explain why they made their decisions. Music, Maestro, Please: Show Business and the Factors of Production

 
Who Pays for City Hall? Who Pays for City Hall is a simple explanation that we pay for our parks etc. It also has a link to a scramble game of community resources. Students have to get each scrambled word unscrambled correctly to go on. I like it! Economic Spotter: Lewis and Clark's Expedition Faces Scarcity

 
  Economic Spotter: Money in Revolutionary Times

 
  Economic Spotter: Supply and Demand at the Gold Rush

 
  Economic Spotter: Trade in Colonial History

 
  "Economics makes Cents" UNIT for third graders
 
  Free Ride  
  Lemon Squeeze: The Lemonade Stand  
  Managing Three Branches of Governments Balancing Three Branches at Once: Our System of Checks and Balances. This is a web site lesson plan worth looking at. When you go to the site you discover several links that may be helpful.  
  Montgomery County Public Schools: Economics and Geography Lessons: Abuela’s Weave by Omar  
  Montgomery County Public Schools: Economics and Geography Lessons: Bananas-From Manolo to Margie by George Ancona  
  Montgomery County Public Schools: Economics and Geography Lessons: Get Growing by Candace Savage  
  Supply and Demand  
  Xpeditions: From Boomtown to Ghost Town National Geographic  
  Xpeditions: “On the Road Again: Moving People, Products, and Ideas National Geographic  
  Xpeditions: Where Do Your Belonging Come From? National Geographic  
Pioneer Life - Internet Sites
Pioneer Life - Lesson Plans
Pioneer Life - Webquests
Pioneers - Scavenger Hunt   Pioneer Life Webquest Easier - Pioneers are the people who are the first to enter and settle a region. Pioneers faced many hardships and dangers as they struggled to build new lives away from the civilization they had known in the East
    Laura Ingles Do you know the true story of the Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family? This Webquest will provide you with the opportunity to learn more about the author's fascinating experiences.
Presidents of the United States of America - Internet Sites
Presidents of the United States of America - Lesson Plans
Presidents of the United States of America - Webquests
American Presidents: Life Portraits This web site, created for the television series, contains a complete video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, plus these additional resources: • Biographical facts • Key events of each presidency • Presidential places • Reference material   Presidents Not a webquest - just a place with lots of support!!
Cyber Slouth Kids: The American Presidents All the Presidents are listed and they are linked to 118 sites.    
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies of the United States: 1789 to Present The Library of Congress has extensive resources for the study of the United States presidents and first ladies. The selected images include at least one likeness of each of the forty-one presidents and most of the first ladies.


 
Presidents of the US: The White House The President biographies presented here are from the book The Presidents of the United States of America written by Frank Freidel and Hugh S. Sidey (contributing author), published by the White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society.    
Teach-nology: The Web Portal For Students Everything from hands-on activities, lesson plans, inteactive activites to webquests is here. If you teach the Presidents of the United States, you must check this out!    
The Internet Public Library In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site.    
Reading - Internet Sites
Reading - Lesson Plans
Reading - Webquests
Comprehension - Internet Sites
   
Comprehension Stategies - A marvelous interactive site where selections are read, questions are asked, worksheets are available for print and so on. A Child Becomes a Reader - K-3 Proven ideas from research for parents but it is worth the teacher's while to read! It tells you what to look for in the K-3 classrooms and where a student should be at the end of each grade (K-3) in reading.  
Contractions Students learn how to recognize and use common contractions. Students learn how to spell contractions and what they mean.
   
End of Grade Test Help This site is designed by North Carolina Department of Instruction for review and practice for the EOG test. Reading Workshop for teachers! you must go through this tutorial if you teach reading! Fairy Tales Page Students click on the Process link to read directions and to print out worksheets. They then click on the Resources link to checkout exactly what's neede and provided to accomplish the tasks. It's very good on a third to fourth grade level.
Island Christmas - Stories read to students from David Weale's collections from Prince Edward Island. Elementary Reading This site is so valuable and full of wonderful information that you can not overlook it!  
Manatee County's Reading, Writing, Math and Social Studies online practice pages, printable worksheets, and other resources.Very good quality.
   
Review for Assessment on the EOG Click on Online Assessment, click on North Carolina on the map,and click on your grade level to review. Third Grade Skills - this is an interactive site for all subject areas in the the third grade. There are fabulous activities here.  
Review for the End-of-Grade    
Writing - Internet Sites
Writing - Lesson Plans
Writing - Webquest
Cursive Writing A to Z dotted practice, cursive, D'Nealian letters to color, flashcards, manuscript.    
Making Sentences Discover how to make sentences through this resource. In addition to a factsheet 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.    
Narrative Prompts A list of 21 writing prompts with more under construction    
Story Writing with Arthur Developed for students in grades 1-3, this guide provides a wealth of reading comprehension and writing activities. Students work first to understand the elements of a story, and then are encouraged to create original ARTHUR stories based on their own experiences. This guide has received rave reviews from teachers across the country    
The Text Mapping Project This introduction to Textmapping 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.    
Wacky Webtales - 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.    
Works Cited for Third Grade Students - What should be cited by a 3rd grade student.    
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.
   
ESL Kidstuff -ESL & EFL children's resources for English teachers and parents. Over 1,000 flashcard images, hundreds of worksheets, crafts, games, jobs and lots more.
   
Kidspiration - Internet Activities    
Kidspiration activites and lesson plans for all grade levels.These help students learn to organize information by using mapping. Just click on "Download Kidspiration Activity File" to make the assignment work.    
Computer Skills - Interactive Computer Skills - Lesson Plans
Computer Skills - Webquests
Character and Technology    
Computer Skills We'll grow in terms and actions as we learn about how to use technology.    
Computer Skills, Keyboarding and Safety on the Internet 3-6    
Contractions Students learn how to recognize and use common contractions. Students learn how to spell contractions and what they mean.    
Databases from DPI for instructional activities and data manipulation.    
Name the Parts of a Spreadsheet    
Networked Computers Benefits of a network.    
Networked vs. Stand-Alone Computers    
Parts of a Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet Connection 1st Friends

Spreadsheet Connection 2nd Ice Cream

Spreadsheet Connection 3rd Attendance

Spreadsheet Connection 4th Rockets

Spreadsheet Connection 5th Weather

Spreadsheet Connection 6th Population

 
Web: Animated 1. Connecting to the Internet 2. How the Web works 3. How search engines work.    
Works Cited by a Third Grade student - What should be cited by a 3rd grade student.    
Projects    
3rd Grade Projects from Cresthaven Elementary in Maryland.    
The Human Body - Interactive The Human Body - Lesson Plans
The Human Body - WebQuests
Heart Quiz Muscles and Bones - Activities to help students understand.  
Nova's Cut to the Heart    
The Big Story on Bones    
The Human Organ Game    
Heart Drawing Worksheet    
Virtual Human Body    
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