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Grade 4 Resources


Social Studies

        Social Studies Textbook Online

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Tree Identification:

Dichotomus Keys - watch for clues to help you identify types of trees

EEK- Enviornmental Education for Kids provides another dichotomus key utilizing descriptions and line drawings.

What tree is that? -You can identify most trees by studying their leaves, seeds, and fruit. This animation will help you learn to identify these characteristics and take a “step-by-step” approach to arrive at the name of your tree

Plants

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The Biology of Plants - provides reading material on plant life cycle, plant parts, pollination, seeds, etc.

BBC - Interactive BBC activity on plant parts

The great plant escape - Unlock the amazing

mysteries of plant life!

National Parks :

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National Park Service - learn more about your park

National Park Service - check out the statistics about your national park

Skippy

National Park Interactive Puzzles


Climb Mountains

Fact Monster

 

Rocks and Minerals

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Learner.org Rock Cycles

Rock Identification Link 1 and Rock Identification Link 2- Learn about different kinds of rocks!

Foss Web -  Rock Activities, rock data base, teaching hints and videos

Rock Comparison - compare the different types of rocks

Geology Lab Rock Types - view samples of the different types and see animation of
formation

Minerals in your Home - Learn about minerals that are found in your own home!

Exploring The Environment -Learn about the rock cycle

BBC Schools - Learn about rocks and soil

Visualize Rock formation!

View rocks from a Satellite!

Sedimentary rock animation

How sediments are deposited

Metamorphic rock animation

Rock Hounds - Get your hard hats on and let's go digging for some fun and facts about rocks!

This Planet Really Rocks!  A thinkquest all about rocks and minerals.

Learn about Properties of Rocks!

Descriptions of Properties of Rocks!

Discover Properties of Rocks through Interactive Testing!

The Rock Cycle - Learn about the rock cycle on this interactive website!

Measurement:

FunBrain Measure It!

The Ruler Game

Area & Perimeter - Help the M-G6Spy Team measure the area and perimeter of a house!

Area & Perimeter Interactive Game

Shodor Interactive Area and Perimeter Game

Canada:


Canada's Treasure Trek

Canada Geography Game - come to the computer lab and improve our knowledge of Canadian geography!

Enchanted Learning

username:  SU (upper case)

password: rocks

Basic facts on Canada

Flags, Crests and Official Symbols

Info Please

Canadian provinces population data

Canadian province flags AND much more


Government of Canada

The World Fact Book

Tour of Canada

Interactive Map of Canada

Fact Monster has info on each province:

* Alberta
* British Columbia
* Manitoba
* New Brunswick
* Newfoundland
* Nova Scotia
* Nunavut
* Ontario
* Prince Edward Island
* Quebec
* Saskatchewan
* Northwest Territories
* Yukon Territory

Phonics practice:


BBC

Surfnet

Mexico:


Mexico Fast Facts - General Information about Mexico!

Travel to Mexico! - Travel information & history facts.

Mexico biodiversity

Mexico - World Fact Book

Mexico Topics

Animals of Mexico

Food in Mexico - Common foods and tortilla recipe!

Facts + Food in Mexico - Nice facts about Mexico, plus link on the left for information on food!

Clothing of Mexico

Holidays of Mexico

Holiday Dates and Descriptions

Dates of Holidays, and links to more information

About.com information on Holidays in Mexico

Spanish Dictionary

MesoAmerican Ball Game - Learn how ancient Mexican tribes played ball!

MCAS:


MCAS Practice - This site is designed to provide practice MCAS tests for 4th grade students in English, Math, Language Arts, and Science & Technology.

Vocabulary:


Free Rice - improve your vocabulary and the state of world hunger one word at a time!

 

Spelling:


Sitton Spelling and Word Skills

Math:


Math Worksheets for subtraction/addition with a variable

Timed Multiplication Test

Interactive Math Games - Facts practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division; coordinate graphing; fractions; time; math reasoning and more in fun game format!  (includes Powerlines.)

 

Computer Parts:

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Computer Parts  InteractiveLearn how all the parts of the computer work together!

Computer Parts Worksheet - Test your knowlege of various common computer and technology parts!  Look at Mrs. Cannon's Lab for all kinds of computer parts information!

 

Continents:


US Feature Map puzzle

 

Pangea animation   - watch the animation of how the locations of continents and islands have changed over the past 150 million years!

 

Pangea puzzle - This interactive puzzle allows you to move and rotate the continents around to the desired location.   View the outline of the ancient continent of Pangea or the Modern Day location of the continents.

 


Name the continent

 

Properties of Materials:

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Properties of Materials -  Learn about experiments that make the properties of solids, liquids, and gases change.

Weather:


WeatherBug! - Go to WeatherBug.com.   A great site filled with information about weather in Groton, Ma.

Weather Research Sites:

Weather Whiz Kids

WebWeather

Weather Watch by Scholastic

(No Thunderstorm information.)

FEMA Kids Information

(Thunderstorm & other storm Information.)

Enchanted Learning- weather related definitions!

Dunstable Weather Forecast - Click on the TOMORROW button for the forecast of your assigned day. Refer to the DAY and NIGHT chart for your forecast data.

The Weather Channel - Current Surface map.

Weather Watch - check out the weather maker!

Weather Eye - can you forecast the weather?

Warm Front - Cold Front

Edheads - predict the weather and more!

Tree House Weather Kids - Learn all about rock n' roll weather, clouds, air pressure and wind!

Weather Ready Severe Weather Challenge - play this Weather Channel game!

Simple Machines:



Simple and Compound Machines Activity 1

Simple and Compound Machines Activity 2

Simple Machine Test


Edheads  - Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!

Leonardo’s Mysterious Machines  - from Boston Science Museum

Center of Science and Industry - Learn about simple machines, find them, and put them to work!

Simple Machines Learning site - from University of Houston

Move the Principal!  Help a class decide how to use simple machines to move their injured Principal around school.

DirtMeister Investigates Simple Machines -

Follow DirtMeister as he investigates and reports on these questions: What are simple machines and where can you find them? Simple machines help you move things more easily, and you can find them everywhere!

Properties of Materials - Learn about properties of different materials and take the quiz!

Park World - Using your knowledge of forces and simple machines, make sure the park is safe!

Inventors:


Enchanted Learning Inventors

About.com Inventors - Links to Invention/Inventor sites.

CBC Kids: History on Invention - A timeline of inventions, designed for young researchers.

Think Quest Junior: Greatest Inventors and Inventions - A website created by 6 elementary students in Highland Park, Illinois!

 

Lemelson Inventors - Various links to Inventors, Inventions, and activities.

Invention at Play - From the Lemelson enter for the Study of Invention and Innovation.

Lemelson-MIT inventor archive- A comprehensive website of inventors written for college students and adults. (The articles can be difficult to understand!)

 

Regions:


State Identification activities

State Research Site

Enchanted Learning Maps

Enchanted Learning

America's Library

Grolier - View various maps

               Click on the atlas button

               Click on North America

               Click on United States
               Use toolbar on the top to choose

               the type of map:
                    Agriculture
                    Population density
                    Precipitation
                    Temperature
                    Geology

 


50 States - Everything you ever wanted to know about each state of the US!


Internet Public Library - Learn about the capital, size, major industries, historic sites, points of interest and population of your state

National Park Service - Be a travel agent and learn about the National Parks in your state

Fact Monster - Learn many facts about the states of your region including famous people

GeoNet Game - Play a fun game testing your knowledge of the United States or World!

 

Landforms:



Interactive Features Map - Place the mountains, lakes and land features on the United States Map!

Interactive US Map  -   Drag the states to their proper place on the map!  Also option to test your knowledge of the capitals!

US Feature Map - Try and locate US Rivers, Mountains, Lakes, and Landforms!

Enchanted Learning - Landforms


Peakware Photo Gallery - learn about mountains

National Geographic/BrainPOP - mountain movie

National Geographic/BrainPOP - movie on glaciers


Grasslands and Grassland Animals 

Build a Prairie 


Deserts and Desert Animals 

Desert Life in the American Southwest

 

 
 

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