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Online Activities for Students in Grades 4 and 5

The activities listed support the content area curriculum. They can be used by individuals, small groups, or all students in a classroom.

Although District 21 attempts to restrict external links to web sites of appropriate educational content, neither the school or School District 21 is responsible for questionable or controversial content found through links external to this site. 
Just for Fun:    
Gamequarium.com--use the menu at the upper right to choose a category and then select a game KidsHub.org look for homework help, foreign language learning, learning activities, games and puzzles! A Walk Through Time is a web site that will teach students about the history of clocks. It goes from the moon, stars, and planets to the evolution of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or from sundials to time zones!
I SPY the famous series of puzzle books has arrived on the web. This site allows students to work puzzles and to submit a personally designed I SPY document.!

I Love Pasta a site for pasta lovers, providing a glimpse of history, nutritional information, and recipes.

 

 

Jelly Belly (the Official Jelly Belly Company Site) provides the history of the company, demonstrates how jelly beans are made, houses a gallery of artwork made from beans. The site also allows the reader to custom design a bean, and has a catalog of products. Items can be ordered from this site.
Try JigZone and solve an electronic jigsaw puzzle.

Library of Congress: Baseball Cards 1887--1914

 

Vintage Baseball Cards--look for early-era information. The link to the History of Baseball Cards is an interesting link
I Know That!--find many games related to the arts, language, math, science and social studies. The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry--many fantastic displays related to science and technology Dance Mat Typing--four levels of fun!
Brain Food: more than 100 brainteasers for you to solve! Scribbles Art this is a wonderful exploration of art principles using games and interactive pages.


Sudoku
printable game

A New Daily Sudoku found at http://www.dailysudoku.co.uk
/sudoku/kids/

Cube Sudoku at http://www.mathrec.org
/sudoku/cubedoku.html

 

Math    

Tic Tac Toe Squares play this game using math problem to score an X or an O.

Guess the Number Plus solve word problems to reach the correct answer.

My Secret Number

Place Value Puzzler identify the digit in a number that matches the place value requested.

Shape Surveyor: calculate area and perimeter.

Monster Math answer word problems and practice your skills

Power Football score a goal by answering math problems.

Number Cracker what's the next number in the series?

What's the Point? work with a graph

Math Interactive --Finding perimeter and area www.Multiplication.com a wide variety of games to practice mutliplication facts Rainforest Maths--
series of activities for grades K--5

Math Car Racing

One False Move find the correct sequence or lose the treasure

Soccer Shootout work with fractions to score points

Rounding Decimals and Whole Numbers

Measure It! find the length in centimeters or inches.

Geometric Terms do a matching or concentration game

Freepuzzles.com offers 1,000 puzzles in geometry, logic, math, weight and moves, grouped by grade levels. Fun With Numbers is a site of numbers. There are 28,915 odd prime numbers! Did you know that? Find out what the 28,915 odd prime numbers are and all the other fun numbers! Monster Math
answer word problems, try your brain at figuring out some tough problems, find answers to problems you hare having with math--by practicing your skills.
MathFlash for Kids electronic flashcards for practicing math facts. MathStart Online Activity Center is based upon the math concept books from visual learning expert Stuart J. Murphy

Seven Tangram Pieces

The Interactive Tangram Site

Lemonade Larry: sell lemonade and make a profit doing it!

Towers of Hanoi

Tac Tix

Peg Puzzle

 

Mathematics Nrichment: Daisy

Math from King School

3D Tic-Tac-Toe Mathematical Games pencil and paper games Decimal and Whole Number Jeopardy

Angles Game

Star Gazing--identify angles ArithATTACK How many problems can you solve in 60 seconds?
Builder Ted
Decimal Squares Interactive Games Decimal Switch
Math Playground Word Problems, Logic Problems, and Math Games for students in K--6 Skillswise for grades K--12; offers both math and reading activities Count On-- for students in grades K--12; this United Kingdom site offers a wide variety of math activities
Get Smarter! test your knowledge of math and science against those of students around the world.

Fresh Baked Fractions identify the fraction that is not like the rest

Dositey Grade 4 (click tab for 5--8) Dositey

 

Weekly Math Challenges

Brain Teasers solve a math teasers each week and check back the following week to see if you have solved it correctly!

Figure This! Take these math challenges seriously--as serious fun

Aunty Math Every other week, Aunty Math shares her math challenges with you. These are story problems for students in grade K--5.

Elementary Math Problem of the Week by the Math Forum Project.

IMPORTANT: If you are under 13, you must have permission from your parent or teacher to participate in this web project. You will be asked to provide the email address of your parent or teacher when you register. At any time, parents or teachers may request that we remove personal information by writing to removal@mathforum.org or by contacting us via postal mail or telephone (800-756-7823 x80950).

Reading and Writing
Spell Check select a difficulty level and challenge your ability to find the correct spelling,

How to Write a 5 Paragraph Essay

Biography Maker--how to write a wonderful interesting biography
Language Games Vocabulary and Grammar Builders Skillswise for grades K--12; offers both math and reading activities
How Many Words Can You Find?


Word Carnival--An online hangman-formatted game  
Word Searches Find words in organized categories Spelling Practice Punctuation Campground
Science    
Web Wombat Kids ClassMate--variety of science areas

Food Webs--Identify the food chain for three biomes

 
Social Studies

Guess the States and Capitals lets you see the state and see it on a map and try to guess which one it is.

Geospy--National Geographic offers this interactive game to reinforce knowledge of continents, countries, states and provinces (provinces in Canada) in a timed and scored online "spy" game format. Where is that? geography game with five levels of difficulty.
Technology
Computer Basics Matching, Concentration, Word Search, or Flashcards Learn the Terms Part I-- A Hangman Game Learn the Terms Part II--Matching, Concentration, Word Search or Flashcards
 
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