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Harriet Tubman

Virtual field trip
Take a trip on the Underground Railroad! Take notes!
Underground Railroad
Click on the quilt squares to learn about the Underground Railroad

Resources

Online Dictionary
A great free online dictionary that you can use any time to find the meaning of a word that you don’t understand.
Writer's Notebook
Super site for all my awesome writers!
Spelling City
Enter your Words to Learn, and get games to help learn them!
Story Mapping!
Make your own story maps with this cool resource!
Make a Timeline!
Put the main events of each chapter on a timeline. Choose Event for Unit of Measure. Print it when you're done! Cool!

Mrs. Harper

Mrs. Harper's Language Arts Blog
Read and comment on our thoughts about the books we are reading.

Jigsaw Jones Mysteries

Author's Blog!
Read James Preller's blog about all of the Mystery series.
Mystery Cube
After you finish reading the book, fill the cube with the elements of your mystery. Ask for a worksheet to help you plan!

Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg's Homepage
Many different activities that go with his wonderful books!
Questions & Answers
Click to learn more about the author and how he gets his ideas!
Video Interviews with Chris Van Allsburg
Watch short videos about his life and many of his books.
VoiceThread:Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Listen to ideas from another class about the book.

The Long Winter

Timeline
See the big events in the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Little House Books
Learn about the characters of the Little House series.
Frontier Girl
Learn more about the life and times of the author.
Quizlet Vocabulary Games
Check out this cool way to learn!
Quizlet Vocabulary Games: Set 2
Practice our words from chapters 9-10!
Quizlet Vocabulary Games: Set 3
Practice our words from chapters 11-14!
Quizlet Vocabulary Games: Set 4
Practice our words from chapters 15-17!

Stone Fox

ThinkQuest Stone Fox
Links to questions for each chapter, plus Samoyeds and more!
Interactive Fun
Puzzles, games, quizzes about Stone Fox!
Iditarod Video
Watch this video about a real 1,000 mile sled dog race.
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 1
Practice your skills with these cool activities for Ch. 1-8!
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 2
Practice with the words from Chapters 5-8!

Prairie Cat

Buffalo fuel
Learn more about the way pioneers depended on the buffalo.
Pioneer Diaries
Read what people who traveled the Oregon trail wrote about their journeys.
Video: The Lost State
Watch this video to see how the US map might have been very different!
Quizlet Vocabulary Games, Set 1
Check out this cool way to learn!
Quizlet Vocabulary Games: Set 2
Practice our words from the last part of the book!

Stuart Little

Chapter Quizzes and Activities
Take the quizzes after each chapter. Print them and put them in your folder. Then you can go back and click on Activities.
Quizlet for Chapters 1 and 2
Play the games to learn your words! Download the iReview app to use on iPod touch, too!
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 2
Practice with vocabulary words from the book!
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 3
Practice with vocabulary words from the book!
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 4
Play this game to learn even more about good eating!

The Fairy Rebel

Video clips of the author
Go after you finish Chapter 2.
Official Lynne Reid Banks website
After you finish Chapter 3, click on Biography. Click on Interview to read an interview she had with herself.
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 1
Practice with the words from Chapters 1-6
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 2
Practice with more words from the book!
Hear the author read
Go after you have read Chapter 5. You can follow along in your book!
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 3
Practice with more words from the book!

Chocolate Fever

Robert Kimmel Smith's website
Scroll down the page to learn more about the author. You can also click on the Books link at the top left corner of the page to
Chocolate Car!
See a chocolate car made with 1800 pounds of Belgian chocolate! WOW!!
Chocolate word games
Click on Concentration!
The History of Chocolate
Henry Green is not the only person who loves chocolate. Millions of people around the world love the taste of chocolate. What
Chocolate Jigsaw Puzzle
Can you complete the puzzle?
Quizlet Cards, set 1
Practice these words from the beginning 7 chapters of the book.
Quizlet Cards, set 2
Become an expert on these words from the end of the book!

Animal Friends

Elephant & Dog: Best Friends
Watch the video of Tarra and Bella! Learn about the elephant sanctuary.

The Chocolate Touch

Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 1
Practice with the words from Chapters 1-3
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 2
Practice with the words from Chapters 4 & 5
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 3
Practice with more words from the book!
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 4
Practice with words from the end of the book!

Top Secret

Make the Plant Grow!
Click the Grow button and see if you can grow the plant to its full healthy height.
Why Leaves Change Colors
See a video and learn more about why leaves are green and why they change colors!
Plants and Light
Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click to see a video of seedlings growing toward the light.
Econopolis
Learn more about how our economy works.

The Penderwicks

Read-aloud selection of chapter 1
Enjoy this podcast of the family's car trip!
Military school
See what a military school would be like for Jeffrey. Do you think he'd like it?
Quizlet for Chapters 1-3
Play the games to learn your words! Download the iReview app to use on iPod touch, too!
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 2
Practice with the words from Chapters 4-7!
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 3
Play this game to learn even more words!
Quizlet Vocabulary Cards, Set 4
Play this game to learn even more words!
Quizlet vocabulary, Set 5
Practice with more great words!

Math

Place Value

Match the word name to the numeral!
Can you make the puzzle appear?
Identify number in place value to 100s place
Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click to tell the number in different place values.
Finding Place Values
Scroll to the bottom. Choose the correct number for each place value.
Place Value Puzzlers
Choose Easy Place Value for a fun way to practice!
Cookie Dough Spell the Number Day
Fun to practice word names and standard numerals.
Place Value Party
Challenge! Can you match the value of the candles on two cakes?
Video Lesson & Games
Super lesson & games to practice your skills!
Genius Boxing
Super leveled game: test your skills with >,<,= as you box against the genius!

Telling Time

Hour and Half Hour

Stop the Clock #1
Practice to the half hour
Count Us In
Game to match digital & analogue times to hour.
Stop the Clock: Words!
Stop the Clock matching word names for time with clock faces
Read the Clock
Choose Random, Level 1 to start, then move up as you improve!

Tell Time to 5 minute Intervals

Stop the Clock #3
Stop the Clock to 5 minutes

Tell Time to the Minute

Stop the Clock #4
Stop the Clock to the Minute

Counting and Ordering

Spooky Sequences up by 10s
Enter the digits to show the missing number.
Spooky Sequences back by 10s
Enter the digits to show the missing number.
Spooky Sequences back by 10s
Enter the digits to show the missing number.
Spooky Sequences: 3 digit
Enter the digits to show the missing number.

Number Sense

Even or Odd?
Scroll to the bottom to test your skills with even and odd numbers!
Doubles and Halves Bingo
Awesome way to practice your skills!
Ghost Blasters (Odd)
Awesome game: blast the Odd ghosts!
Ghost Blasters (Even)
Blast the Even ghosts!
Near Doubles Machine
Challenging! How many clicks will you take to reach the number?
Guess My Number
Do one step problems to test your skills!
Doubles & Halves: Dartboard
You can play two levels of difficulty with this fun game.

Addition and Subtraction

Math Magic!
Click to test your skills with addition!
Tower Climber
Practice your facts with this cool game!

Data and Graphs

Data Picking
Click on each student to collect data and create a Frequency Table
Brainpop Jr: Tally Charts & Bar Graphs!
Watch this new video and take the quiz. User name: victorps Password: Newark
Interactivate
Create graphs with this cool website. Challenging!

Geometry

2D Shapes

Trapezoid
See how two sides of a trapezoid always remain parallel
Shapes game
A game for 2 players like Tic-Tac-Toe
Hexagon
See how opposite sides of a hexagon always remain parallel.
Rhombus
See how the sides of a rhombus always stay the same length.

Symmetry

Symmetry Video Lesson
Watch this video to learn more about symmetry in our world!
Challenge! Can you find all the lines of symmetry?
Test your skills on these shapes!
Lots of links about symmetry!
Explore all these activities to become a Symmetry Expert!

Congruent and Similar Shapes

Animated Definition of Congruent Figures
What are congruent figures?
Definition of Similar Figures
What are similar figures?
Congruent Shapes Game
Find shapes that are congruent.
Congruent Rectangles Game
Great practice with congruent rectangles! Lots to do here with Rikki Rectangle.
Challenge: Make Congruent Triangles
Create congruent triangles with lines.
Challenge: Can You Pick the Right Shapes?
Can you tell which congruent shapes fit exactly around a point?
Congruent or Similar?
Can you tell which shapes are congruent or similar?

Slides, Flips and Turns

If the Key Fits
Click to test your skill as a Robot Guru. Scroll down to
Icy Slides, Flips and Turns
This is a fun way to review the ways shapes can move.

Fractions

Many Fraction Games
Super site! Scroll down to do these games: Fractions-Parts of a Whole, Fractions-Naming, Fractions-Visualizing, and Fraction Pie
Concentration
Fun!
Fractions as Parts of Shapes
Can you fill in the numerator and denominator to match the shaded parts of shapes?
Shade in the pieces
Shade in the correct number of pieces to equal a fraction.
Parts of groups
Work with fractions as parts of groups.
Test your skills with Fractions!
Play this cool game to build better fractions skills!
Quizlet fractions!
Build your skills with this cool site that we used in class!

Equivalent Fractions

Find Four Equivalent Fractions
Fill in the correct numerator or denominator
Challenge: Match the equivalent fractions
Can you tell which fractions are equivalent?
Find the equivalent fraction
Scroll to make the pieces on a square equivalent.
Color the equivalent fractions
Divide a shape to create and color equivalent parts.
Game for 2 players
Use Safari to view this website on a Mac computer.
Equivalent Fraction Fireworks
Click to launch the equivalent fraction fireworks.
Organize the Potions
Match equivalent fractions and organize the potions.
Gazillion Fraction games
Try these different fraction activities!

Science

Fish

Monterey Bay Aquarium
Learn about tropical fish. Click on the game: What do I like for lunch?
Brainpop
Watch a video and take a pop quiz.

Water Cycle

Brainpop Water Cycle
Log in with User name: vcsint, Password: secob. Watch a movie and more.
Evaporation and Condensation slideshow
We watched this in class! See water evaporate and condense again.
New! Brainpop Jr Water Cycle!
User name: victorps Password: newark Watch this new video and take the quiz. User name: victorps Password: Newark
Solid, Liquid and Gas
Watch these short videos to learn more about the states of matter
Are you a Water Cycle expert?
Choose the correct answer for each blank!
Thirstin's Water Cycle
Click to see different parts of the Water Cycle!
Animated Diagram of the Water Cycle
Click the links to see the Water Cycle in action!
How Much Do You Know About Water?
Take this quiz to see if you are a Water Expert!
Changing States of Water
Can you label the different parts of the process as water changes states?
What's Wrong with This Picture?
Can you spot the things that might harm our water?

Buoyancy

Buoyancy Basics
Facts and pictures about buoyancy
Sink or Float Brainpop Jr.
Remember User name (victorps) & password (newark) for this great site!

Amphibians

Brainpop
Watch a video, take a pop quiz and see an experiment. Remember our login
Metamorphosis
Watch a bullfrog change from tadpole to adult.
CGEE: Frog Science Corner
Learn all about frogs on this site
Belize Zoo: Red Eyed Tree Frog
Video, audio and facts about this interesting frog
Frogwatch USA
Learn how people are trying to protect frogs around the country
Frogs for Kids
Learn how students were the first to discover some deformed frogs.
Froggy Page
Have fun with frogs
Brainpop Jr: Frogs
Learn all about our friends the frogs!

Reptiles

Brainpop
Remember our log in code and go here to view a movie & do cool activities.
Tree Boa video
Search for Reptiles to see a clip of Austin Stevens high in the rainforest canopy with a tree boa.
eField trip: Everglades
Visit reptiles and amphibians in the Everglades
Lizards and the Komodo King
Explore by exhibit to learn about these interesting animals.
Nile Crocodiles
Learn all about these large reptiles
Animal Games
This is a fun way to learn about animals.
Shedd Aquarium
Explore by animal
Animal Planet
Animals: A to Zoo
Brainpop Jr: Classifying Animals
How do scientists decide what class an animal is in?

Simple Machines

Find the Simple Machines
Can you find the simple machines all around us?
Flying Pigs
See animated examples of simple machines
Animated worksheets!
See examples of machines in motion

Health

My Pyramid

My Pyramid Blast Off game
Reach Planet Power by fueling your rocket with food & physical activity!
Brainpop, Jr. Food Pyramidnew
Remember User name (victorps) & password (newark) for this great site!
Are you a Nutrition Expert?
Click to play Tasty Tunes, Monster Nutrition or others.
Nutrition Exploration Game
Play this game to learn even more about good eating!
Explore the Pyramid!
Learn about the pyramid, and take a quiz!
My Pyramid Game
You will have lots of fun playing this game!

Skeletal System

Brainpop, Jr: Bones
Remember User name (victorps) & password (newark) for this great site!
Skeleton Shakedown
Can you put the skeleton together? (Need Adobe Shockwave Full Installed.)
Build a Skeleton
Can you build the skeleton? Click start game to begin.
Skeleton with Brainpop
This is more challenging, but still a great place to learn. User name: vcsint Password: secob
Brainpop: Joints
Learn about the different types of joints. Take the quiz and print your score!

Muscular System

Your Muscles
Learn about your muscles, and click on the picture to see even more!
Movie: The Muscular System
Super Scientist! Watch to learn more advanced information about your muscles.