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 Interactive - Learn 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.
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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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