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What about writing your own creature feature? |
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Grade Students Celebrate Clifford's Birthday The last week in August Join the fun at these websites |
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| Follow the directions and design a robot. What would you like it to do? | Make a Robot! |
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| Use the mouse to move the mailbox and catch the letters. The mailbox must match the color of the envelope! | The Post Office Game! |
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How about Making a New Year's Resolution?
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Selected Sites from Zwolle Elementary School |
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RESEARCH SITES |
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1. Zoom School |
Choose "Earth" from the list at the left or select one of its subtopics. | . |
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2. PlanetPals.com |
Fast Facts. See links at end of page for additional information about the earth and its 7 Wonders lists. | . | X | . | |
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3. NASA |
ABC online book with photos to copy/download | X |
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4. NASA |
Online video storybooks (no audio) Click at lower right to turn the page. Click here for the Earth Story! |
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5.The Nine (8) Planets |
Extremely difficult reading level but "hard to find" information | . | . | XX | |
6. Windows to the Universe |
Many subtopics regarding Earth. 3 Grade level bands. Link set as "Beginner". | X | . | X | |
7. Starchild |
Information about sun, moon, planets, comets. 2 reading levels | . | X | . | |
8. Views of the Solar System |
Information and links to movies and photos about the Earth | X | . | X | |
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Drawings by primary students support information about earth's geology and geography. | X | |||
| 10. Questions about the Universe | Universe |
Hard to answer questions from kids about forces in the universe | . | . | .X |
| 11. Kids Astronomy | Universe |
Discusses the planets, moons, astroids, and comets/ | X | ||
| 12. Kids Astronomy | Constellations |
Examine a star map, play a constellation game or examine the phases of the moon. | X | ||
| 13. American Museum of Natural History: OLOGY | Universe |
Offers many activities for parents and children about the nature of the universe. (Very Challenging) | X | ||
| 14.We Choose the Moon | Space Travel |
Video on the choice to enter the race to reach the moon. | X | ||
Games and Stories |
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| 1. NASA | The Space Place | Games | |||
| 2. NASA | Wild Weather Game | Your weather research blimp will explore Earth and its weather. With luck, skill, and strategy, you will race other weather research blimps to be first to travel all the way around the world and win the game. You can play with your friends, or by yourself with a computer opponent. | . | . | X |
| 3. Play Kids Games.com | Launch a Space Shuttle | Solve Math Problems: choose addition or subtraction | |||
| 4. Kaboose | Little Rocket Man | Say hello to Little Rocketman, an intrepid astronaut who's out to save his girlfriend from the evil robot. This fun space arcade game can be a good intro to angle geometry as well. Use MOUSE to aim and CLICK to FLY. Hit SPACEBAR to apply AIR BRAKES. | |||
| 5. Kaboose | Space Patrol | Save a doomed planet with Space Patrol. This space game sees kids answering True or False questions to learn about outer space as they defend a planet from asteroids | |||
| 6. Jill Bechtold Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona | Create a Planet | Answer five questions and have the website create the weather and climate based on your ideas. | X | ||
| 7. At Home Astronomy | 10 Activities from At Home Astronomy | This site offers parents the opportunity to extend the classroom learning by providing directions to 10 activities that families might enjoy doing together. | X | ||
| 8. Space Theme at Kaboose | Space puzzles, games, crafts | The site offers a variety of puzzles, games, and crafts including coloring pages. | X | ||
| 9. Astronomy for Kids | Coloring, games, puzzles | Astronomy topics with activities listed in the left column. | X | ||
| 10. Write a Weather Story | Writing | A mad lib format where students must write a noun, verb, adjective, adverb and then the story is created. | X | ||
| 11. What Would You Take to Space? | Reading | Panels of student writing suggesting what they might take into space. | X | ||
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| 1. PDF file | Posted Photos | This PDF file contains color photos of several planets. Students will need help downloading these. | |||
Celebrate Arbor Day!
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Trees Are Terrific! learn about how important trees are to all of us. My First Garden learn how to plan, and grow a flower of vegetable garden National Arbor Day Foundation Site Play Tree-vial Pursuit or Who Wants to be Tree-llionaire.
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| Dragons and Dinosaurs! | Additional Research Sites |
Ghosts of the Castle--learn about medival castles, who lived there, and why they vanished into history! Dragon Tales: read a story/have it read, color a series of dragon characters, listen to dragon tunes, play some dragon games, illustrate a story, participate in a dragon hunt and more. May need adult assistance as the tasks can be quite complex. The Dragon Theme Page--video clips of Chinese Dragrons, dot to dot activities, coloring book pages and more. (Adult assistance and monitoring is useful as the site is quite complex.) The Serene Dragon--dragon research sites
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The Legend of the Persian Carpet by Tomie DePaola: |
Patterns in Oriental Rugs careful mathematical planning goes into these beautiful rugs Rug Gallery Take a look at some of these lovely rugs. |
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Make a Bear--A Shockwave activity The History of the Teddy Bear |
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Visit the following zoo Websites and copy/paste one image into your document. Add text to the pages that begins "I went to the zoo and saw one hundred animals. Add one or two sentences with facts about the animal. A full first grade class may be able to find 100 different animals! (from Connected Newsletter Dec. 2004-Jan. 2005. Classroom Connect.)
Teacher Materials Polar Bear International:Powerpoint for K--4 |
Post a large map of the United States for children to see. With the class locate your state and mark your city/town. Refer tothescale of miles on the mpa and mark a 100 mile radius around your town. List the states, major towns, and cities that appear inside the circle as well as rivers, lakes, and landforms. Use Yahooligans to find information about a few of these places and add a photo to the map displayed.
National Atlas of the United States Provide students with several bags of jelly beans and clear plastic cups. View the Jelly Bean website and then distribute the jelly beans and cups to ten groups. Have students count jelly beans into 10 sets of 10. How many sets of jelly beans will fit in one cup? Ask students to fill the cups with one hundred jelly beans. Display two emphy gallon milk cartons. Will att ten sets of 100 jelly beans fit in one container? Will two be needed? Check their theories by pouring the jelly beans into the containers. Then students can calculate the cost of 100 jelly beans and estimate the cost of filling up a wheelbarrow and a truck with jelly beans as shown on the website. |
Additional Sites for 100th Day Activities Celebrate the 100th Day in 100 Ways 100th Day of School Activities
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Books with a 100th Day Theme Harris, Trudy. 100 DAys of School Munoz, Ryan, Pam. One Hundred is a Family Well, Rosemary. Emily's First Hundred Days of School Medearis, Angela Shelf. The Hundredth Day of School Slate, Joseph. Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten |
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| 1. Read "Spot's Windy Day" an online story | |
2 View .Modern Japanese Kites 3.Look at these kites! Kites of Birds |
Read with an adult partner about the History of Kites |
| 4. Kites from Around the World More kites to help you design your own. | Kite
Safety Kites can pose a danger. Watch out for these possible
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5.Kites from India (This commercial site has many ads). |
Flying Colors: This Riverdeep site has information about kite construction, flying, and safety. There are also links to videos and photos. |
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Additional Teaching Materials
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