Health & Safety - Heat & Light - Map Skills - Sci-ber Text - South America
COMMUNITY
1. Photos of Rural Towns in America
2. Photos of Country Roads - These are photographs of country roads that show the open spaces outside the city.
3. Community - Read what a community if made up of and why communities are important. There are additional community links listed in the left sidebar.
4. Teach Now!: Communities - An excellent teacher resource page! Topics include Community Roles, Communities Long Ago, Communities Near and Far. Each topic includes links to additional resources for that topic.
5. Kids and Community - This site for kids is developed by America's city planners. Explore how you create communities, how you live in them, and how you change them.
6. What's My Job? - Match people with their job descriptions.
7. Community Field trip: Awesome Places to Visit - Take a picture tour or animated tour to places in the community.
8. Community Club - Learn About Neighborhood Workers - Click on a worker to learn about his or her job. From Scholastic.
9. Animal Communities - Click on the pictures to find out about an animal community in Africa. Think about how animal communities are like your community. Think about how are they different.
10. Build a Neighborhood - Create your own neighborhood by dragging the pictures where you want them.
11. BBC: What? Where? When? Why?: Buildings: An interactive site that teaches about different buildings within a community and what takes place inside them.
12. Looking After Each Other - A community is a very important place where people do their jobs and look after each other. Worksheets are used for follow up activities.
13. Lesson: How Governments Help People - An excellent lesson, but not interactive.
14. Lesson: Culture and Civilization: What is a Civilization?
15. Lesson: Culture and Civilization: What is a Culture?
16. Cultural Groups - Interactive Quiz
17. Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - Click on a link to learn about different aspects of our government. Includes a game page with printable and interactive games.
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EARTH & MOON
1. Earth and Moon Viewer - Students can view various images of the Earth and the Moon.
2. Earth From Space - NASA space shuttle earth observations.
3. How the Earth Moves Around the Sun
4. Sun, Earth and Moon in Motion - This online animation illustrates how the sun, earth and moon move in space.
5. Earth, Moon and Sun - An interactive site from the BBC that allows students to investigate movement of the earth and moon around the sun. A simple quiz is available.
6. Rise and Set Times for the Sun and Moon - To find today's rise and set times for the sun and moon anywhere in the continental U.S., click on the map at the desired location.
7. Phases of the Moon - A very good diagram and a listing of the phases in order.
8. Wonderville: The Phases of the Moon - This is one of the best animations for explaining moon phases. (from the Science Alberta Foundation)
9. Enchanted Learning: Phases of the Moon
10. Inside the Moon - What does the inside of the moon look like?
11. Astronomy: Our Place in Space - From the American Museum of Natural History. Don't miss this awesome site!
12. The Earth in Space: Vocabulary Word Games - Click on Grade 3, then scroll down to Unit D: the Earth in Space. Select chapter 8, 9, or 10. Choose eWord Game, the crossword puzzle, or the word find.
13. As the Earth Turns - The student knows that night and day are caused by the rotation of the Earth. Includes audio lesson.
14. Harcourt School: Phases of the Moon
15. Find-A-Word Puzzles from iKnowthat.com - Click on Page 3, then click on "Our Earth," or on "The Moon."
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Kids Astronomy - Play astronomy games, learn about the solar system or deep space, or learn about different forms or space exploration!
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ECONOMICS
1. Goods and Services? - Online interactive lesson.
2. Delivering the Goods - In this lesson you will learn about the difference between the producers of goods and services.
3. Goods - Online activity. Best viewed in Internet Explorer.
4. Goods Quiz - Online and interactive. Best viewed in Internet Explorer.
5. Mystery Workers - Drag the worker to the service he or she performs in the community.
6. Consumers -
An interactive slide show on consumers with a short quiz at the end.
7. Producers - An interactive slide show on producers with a short quiz at the end.
8. Products and Their Producers - Drag each producer to the product he or she has created.
9. Simple Simon Met a Pie-Man - Producers and consumers slide show.
10. Simple Simon Met a Pie-Man Quiz - Follow up to above slide show.
11. Where People First Settled - Interactive quiz.
12. Lesson: Natural Resources Help Communities Grow
13. Using Natural Resources - Comprehension questions that can be used for whole-class instruction. Not interactive.
14. Basic Third Grade Economics Quiz - Quiz is interactive and can be taken multiple times. Sixty-five questions in all!
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ENVIRONMENT
1. Living vs. Non-Living Quiz - This quiz is based on the information about the six characteristics of living things. For each of the following determine if it is a living or a non-living organism. Clicking on the answer allows you to check your answers. Good luck!
2. BBC: Living or Non-Living? - Animated quiz from the BBC Schools.
3. Find the Living Things - Another animated quiz from BBC Schools.
4. Living Things in Their Environment Vocabulary Games - Click on Grade 3, then look for Unit B, Chapter 4 or 5: Choose eWord Game, crossword puzzle, or word find.
5. How Living Things Function Vocabulary Games - Click on Grade 3, then look for Unit A, Chapter 1, 2, or 3. Choose eWord Game, crossword puzzle, or word find.
6. Is It Alive? - View various photos and decided if the object is living, non-living, or dead.
7. Living and Non-Living Things - This online resource for students and teachers describes seven characteristics of living things.
8. The Open Door Website: Living and Non-Living Things Quiz - Test your knowledge about the difference between living and non-living things.
9. Habitat Vocabulary Matchup - Choose matching game, concentration game, or the word search.
10. Habitats and Adaptations Matchup - A self-check quiz from Quia. Click "Submit Answers" to have quiz scored.
11. CyberZoo: Your Key to the Biomes - Select a biome to explore.
12. Discovery School: Make it a Habitat - Choose a biome to explore.
13. Biomes of North America - This Utah site has a color-coded map of the different biomes in North America. Click on the links to read more about each type.
14. Utah's Biomes - The state of Utah is a very unique place to live. As you travel through this tour, you will be aware of the beauty that surrounds you in four distinct biomes. Each of these biomes will be displayed and described as well as the plants and animals that live there.
15. Utah's Wetlands Pictures - Click on each photo to see a larger version and find out more about what type of wetland is shown.
16. Wetlands: More Than Just a Swamp - Scroll down to complete the crossword puzzle on wetlands.
17. The Desert Biome - Desert biomes can be classified according to several characteristics. Learn about each one at this site.
18. Desert Animals and Wildlife - It is a miracle that life can survive in the extreme conditions of the desert. Learn about reptiles, mammals, birds, fish and amphibians that have adapted and, in fact, thrive in the harsh desert ecosystems.
19. National Geographic: Welcome to the Fantastic Forest - Here you’ll encounter a variety of habitats—places perfectly suited for particular plants and animals. These are important parts of the forest—and our environment. Think of them as pieces of a global jigsaw puzzle.
20. The Virtual Zoo: Habitats & Biomes - Click on a habitat or biome to learn more about it!
21. Habitats - An interactive practice on classifying plants and animals found in different habitats. From BBC Schools.
22. Animal Universe - Match animals and their habitats. From iKnowthat.com. Click on a habitat to learn about. Then click on the cards to learn about the animals that live in that habitat. The more you play, the more cards you have!
23. iKnowthat.com: Whaddaya Know? Quiz Show - Click on Whaddaya Know Quiz Show, then select Animal Habitats.
24. Whaddaya Know? Quiz: Animal Habitats - Choose "Animal Habitats" or "Arctic Tundra" on page 1.
25. Lesson on Deserts - Lesson followed by interactive quiz.
26. Lesson on Grasslands - Lesson and interactive quiz.
27. Rainforests Lesson and Interactive Quiz
28. Woodlands Lesson and Interactive Quiz
29. Tundra Lesson - When you hear the word tundra, do you know what that means? The region called the tundra is a cold fascinating place. Read this interesting lesson and try the interactive quiz.
30. Environment of South Africa Interactive Game - Match definitions with the word.
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FORCE & MOTION
1. Forces & Movement - Animated and interactive (and fun) lesson from BBC Schools.
2. Forces: Gravity & Friction - Watch the movie, fill out the online worksheet, then take the online test!
3. Discovery Channel: Build Your Own Coaster - Click on a track icon and drag it to connect with the existing track. Keep adding pieces until your ride is complete.
4. Forces in Action - An animated and interactive lesson.
5. Our Place in Space: What Does Gravity Do? - An animated explanation of the force of gravity.
6. Friction - An interactive and animated lesson on friction from the BBC. Includes audio.
7. Primary Games: Gravity - Guide the lunar lander through each mission.
8. EdHeads: Simple Machines - Visit the tool shed to learn about compound machines. Visit the house to learn about simple machines.
9. Inventor's Toolbox: Simple Machines - See descriptions of very early simple machines, then link to the Gadget Anatomy page and compare the early simple machines with some modern ones.
10. Find-A-Word Puzzles from iKnowthat.com - Choose page 3, then click on "Simple Machines."
11. Forces and Motion Vocabulary Word Games - Click Grade 3, then scroll down to Unit F, Chapter 15: Force and Motion. Choose eWord Game, the crossword puzzle or word find.
12. How Can We Move Our Principal? - Learn about the six types of simple machines.
13. Simple and Complex Machines - Choose student lab #1, 2, or 3.
14. Simple Machine Column Match Game
15. Simple Machines Made Simple - An easy to read lesson activity.
16. Harcourt School: Simple Machines
17. How Stuff Words: Simple Machines - Simple explanations of the types of simple machines, plus great photos of examples of each.
18. Edheads: The Odd Machine - Learn how forces and simple machines can work together.
19. Levers & Pulleys - Get the clown to perform by adjusting the machines in this contraption.
20. Tinker Bell - Use your engineering skills and simple machines to get a ball into a cup.
21. Park Puzzler - Join Engineering Savi as she explores Puzzle Park for gears, levels and wheels. Put together puzzles of your favorite carnival rides!
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HEALTH & SAFETY
1. PBS Kids: It's My Life: Beat the Bully - There are good ways and bad ways to deal with bullies. You win the race when you know the best ways.
2. Go, Go, Diego! - Help Diego make it to the park before the storm hits. Discover the healthy answers hangman style. From PBS Kids.
3. PBS Kids: It's My Life - Whatever problem you're dealing with, believe it or not, other kids and teens have gone through the same thing. Here at It's My Life, you can read informative articles, share your stories, play games and activities, take quizzes and polls, watch video clips, and more!
4. Mortifying Monday - Choose your own adventure for your own Mortifying Monday.
5. School Daze Crazy Maze - Can you get to your middle school class on time and avoid detention?
6. Test Your Tobacco and Alcohol I.Q.
7. Human Body Quiz Game - What do you know about the muscles and bones of the human body? Take this quiz and figure it out.
8. It's My Life: Sidewalk to the Future - Decorate a square that describes who you and your family are. Look at squares created by people all over the United States and the world.
9. Pyramid Power Game - Sort through foods and put them on the correct part of the pyramid.
10. Food Pyramid Match-Up - Match the food to the correct food group.
11. Kids' Real Life Food Pyramid Planner - This interactive site allows you to see if what you are eating meets the daily recommended servings of the five food groups. Choose food items and then have your choices analyzed.
12. Kidnetic - Great site with 2 Fitness Challenges including a scavenger hunt, sit ups, jumping jacks and stair stepping. Lots of wet-head, or sweaty games. Fun, interactive game about different organs of the body, what they do and how to feed them. Healthy recipes are also available.
13. Grab a Grape - You pick four categories for the game. Grab a Grape will show you a board with three answers for each category you choose. Answers are worth one, two or three points. Choose an answer by clicking with the mouse.
14. Don't Buy It: Advertising Tricks - You have been hired by Don't Buy It, Inc. as our Ad Detective. Examine the pictures and find where the ads are hidden. Some are obvious but, some are not. Use your Ad Detective skills to find out where companies place their ads and why.
15. Don't Buy It: Buying Smart: Is the Price Right? - What's the most expensive ingredient in a bottle of water? How much money does a rock star get from a new hit CD? You'll never guess.
16. Don't Buy It: What's in My Shopping Bag? - Read the small print. You'll never believe what's inside!
17. It's My Life: You're in Charge - Both parents are out of the house. What do you do if the doorbell or the phone rings, or if little brother gets hurt?
18. Conquer Castle Disease - Answer the questions to find your way out of Castle Disease into the Garden of Good Health.
19. Food Safety Mobile - Find out ways to prepare food to be safe and keep it safe.
20. The Prevention Convention - Want to avoid infectious diseases? These kids have some smart advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
21. Levels of Pressure/Ways to Resist Pressure - Worksheet of examples for people to combat pressure to do something.
22. It's My Life: Trouble in Alonbrea - Relationships with friends can be tricky. How do you handle trouble with your friends?
23. It's My Life: Videos - Dealing With Death; Dealing With Divorce; Sibling Rivalry; Time Management; Gossip & Rumors; Dealing With Anger; Depression; Cheating; Crushes; Kids React to 9-1-1; The 9-1-1 Stuffy Fund; Smoking PSA; When Friends Fight; Bullies; Embarrassing Moments; Home Alone.
24. Keeping Healthy - An interactive and animated lesson that teaches the effects different levels of activity have on the heart. Includes audio.
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HEAT & LIGHT
1. Keeping Warm - An interactive and animated lesson on heat. Includes audio.
2. NASA - How We Depend on the Sun
3. Heat, Temperature and Light Vocabulary Word Games - Click Grade 3, then scroll down to Unit F, Chapter 14: Heat, Temperature & Light. Choose eWord Game, the crossword puzzle or word find.
4. Light - Try the fact sheet, worksheet, and test.
5. Quia Quiz: Light
6. Light & Shadows - An animated and interactive lesson on light and shadows from BBC Schools. Includes audio.
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MAP SKILLS
1. Compass Rose - Drive the car to the park using the compass.
2. Can You Read a Map? - Use the map the answer the questions, then click on "check." Try this activity several times. There are 34 questions in all!
3. Where is Japan? - Students use the four cardinal directions to find real places on a map.
4. Use a Roadmap and Mileage Table - Pick a state and use the Map Key.
5. Find Latitude and Longitude - Interactive activity to find the latitude and longitude of selected points on a globe.
6. Map Adventures - Teachers can view the Teacher's Guide Page for accompanying materials. Students will learn basic concepts for visualizing objects from different perspectives and how to understand and use maps. The lessons center on a story about a little girl named Nikki who visits an imaginary amusement park. Nikki goes up in an unplanned balloon ride that gives her, and the students, different views of the park.
7. Maps, Maps, Maps! - An index to map lessons and map quizzes.
8. Climate Map - Check out the climates of the world!
9. EduPlace: The GeoNet Game - Choose a category and answer map questions.
10. World Quiz - Label continents and oceans with this interactive quiz.
11. Lesson: Map Vocabulary - Read the vocabulary words below and their definitions. Then play a map vocabulary matching game to show how much you learned!
12. Locating Continents and Oceans: An Introduction
13. Continents and Oceans Game - An interactive matching game.
14. Lesson: Locating Continents and Oceans: Hemispheres - Lesson followed by interactive practice.
15. Locating Continents and Oceans Using Parallels and Meridians - Lesson followed by interactive practice.
16. Lesson: Reading Maps - Interactive lesson on reading political maps, followed by interactive practice.
17. Interactive Map Skills Quiz
18. Reading a Map Lesson - Lesson followed by the above map skills quiz.
19. Map Vocabulary Matching Game
20. iKnowthat.com: Oceans and Continents Map Matching Game
21. Continents and Oceans Map Quiz - Quiz is interactive and can be taken multiple times. Contains 32 questions in all!
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SCI-BER TEXT: From the Utah State Office of Education
This online textbook is based on the Utah State Office of Education curriculum for learning science in the 3th grade. Sci-ber text includes scientific information, activities and labs which are fun and interesting. You can do many of these activities at home. Some require other people to assist you.
Please remember to follow all safety instructions!
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SOUTH AMERICA
1. Greatest Places: Amazon Page - Explore various aspects of the Amazon River Basin.
2. Play Amazon Explorer - What mysteries does Amazonia hold? That's just what scientists at the American Museum of Natural History want you, Sam Smith, find out. If you're ready to explore the wilds of the Amazon jungle, journey on, adventurer! Requires Flash 4 to play. If you don't have Flash 4, click here to download.
3. Photo Gallery -From the Peace Corps site, photos of land, people, and culture from six South American countries.
4. iKnowthat.com: Label Maps - Choose South America, then match the name and place on the map.
5. South America Temperate Zone Map
6. GeoNet - An interactive geography game. Choose the map the South America.
7. FunBrain: Where is That? - Choose South America, then select your level of play.
8. Amazon Interactive - These online games will help you learn more about the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
9. Kid Explorers - Take this interactive journey through the South American rainforest!
10. Orinoco Online - Tour the remote Venezuelan Amazon and meet the people who live there on this innovative site. Offers a superb collection of objects, photos, videos, and a cool interactive map. Also in Spanish and Portuguese.
11. Yahooligans: Countries of South America Index
12. Big Myth: Inca - Learn about Incan creation and culture and meet the gods and goddesses that make up the Incan pantheon. You can also try exercises to see how much you have learned!
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