Third
Grade Internet, Lesson Plan and Webquest Sites
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| China | Computer Skills | Light |
| Government/Economics | Pioneer Life | Plants |
| Math | Reading Comprehension | Soil |
| Presidents of the US | Using Kidspiration Activities | Writing |
| Sun, Earth, Moon Relations/Effects | Help With Searching | The Human Body |
| Projects | ESL | |
Math Lesson Plans
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Math Webquests
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| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 Forum for elementary students | ||
Multiplication A site to help with this learning necessity!
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| 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 | ||
| Word Problems Every teacher and every parent begs, "My kids need help with word problems!" Here is a site that helps! | ||
Science Internet Sites
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Science Lesson Plans
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Science Webquests
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Light - Lesson Plans
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Light - WebQuests
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 - Lesson Plans
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Plants - Webquests
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| 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. | |
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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. | |
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2: Vegetative Characters Most items have a visual link to show the
student a picture of the part. |
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| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
Soil - Lesson Plans
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Soil - Webquests
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Sun/Earth/Moon and Their Relationships and
Effects on Each Other - Lesson Plans
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Sun/Earth/Moon and Their Relationships and
Effects on Each Other - Webquests
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| A Satellite's Centrifugal Force Satellites stay in orbit using two forces: the force of gravity and centrifugal force. | 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. |
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. | |
| 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 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
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Social Studies - Lesson Plans
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Social Studies - Webquests
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China - Lesson Plans
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China - Webquests
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| 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. | China Your job is to design a travel brochure that provides people interested in traveling to China with more information. |
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Government - Lesson Plans
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Government - Webquests
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| 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 |
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| 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. | ||
| 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 - Lesson Plans
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Pioneer Life - Webquests
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| 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 | ||
Presidents of the United States
of America - Lesson Plans
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Presidents of the United States
of America - Webquests
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| Cyber Slouth Kids: The American Presidents All the Presidents are listed and they are linked to 118 sites. | Presidents Not a
webquest - just a place with lots of support!! |
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| 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. | ||
| 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
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Reading - Lesson
Plans
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Reading - Webquests
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| Contractions Students
learn how to recognize and use common contractions. Students learn how
to spell contractions and what they mean. |
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. | 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. |
| End of Grade Test Help This site is designed by North Carolina Department of Instruction for review and practice for the EOG test. | Elementary Reading This site is so valuable and full of wonderful information that you can not overlook it! | |
| 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 - Lesson Plans
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Writing - Webquest
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| 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. | ||
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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
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| Character and Technology | ||
| Computer Skills We'll grow in terms and actions as we learn about how to use technology. | ||
| 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 | ||
| Safety Cyberethics | ||
| Safety Using Computers | ||
| Parts of a Spreadsheet | Spreadsheet Connection 1st Friends Spreadsheet
Connection 2nd Ice Cream |
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| Web: Animated 1. Connecting to the Internet 2. How the Web works 3. How search engines work. | ||
| Word Processing 2 Proof Reading | ||
| Word Processing 1 Language Arts activities using copy and save functions. | ||
| Works Cited by a Third Grade student - What should be cited by a 3rd grade student. | ||
| Research e-sheet activities | ||
| Projects | ||
| 3rd Grade Projects from Cresthaven Elementary in Maryland. | ||
| The Human Body - Interactive | The Human Body - Lesson Plans | The Human Body
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| Heart Quiz | Muscles and Bones - Activities to help students understand. | |
| Nova's Cut to the Heart | ||
| The Big Story on Bones | ||
| Heart Drawing Worksheet | ||
| Virtual Human Body | ||
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