Jamie Ridgely’s



Jamie Ridgely’s

Web Link Bibliography

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This bibliography page was created on June 6, 2007 to provide teachers and parents with links to activities appropriate for students at the third grade level. The links have been broken up into integrated language arts, math, science and social studies.

Integrated Language Arts

Guys Read – This site is for teachers and parents to use as a reference when finding materials for their son(s) to read. The motivation of this site is to connect guys with books and materials that they will want to read. Jon Scieszka (author of 22 books including the popular Math Curse, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales) noticed there was a need to call boys’ attention to reading. This site features a ‘Guys Pick’ section with a list of books for Young boys, Guys, and Adults. This is a great site with wonderful suggestions to get guys reading.

Date visited – 6/7/07



Historical Fiction – This site contains a bibliography of fiction that is arranged chronologically by the date that the story takes place. This is a very good resource for students and teachers who want to read fiction that takes place during a certain time period. This site could be used to incorporate the unit in Social Studies into Integrated Language Arts.

Date visited – 6/7/07



Kids’ Poetry Page – Students use the mouse to drag and drop words to create their own poems. Students can choose between one of three different backgrounds to create their masterpiece on. This site is fun for creating funny or random poems on the spot. It’s too hard to think of a poem and try to make one because you would go crazy looking through all the letters. This is a great site to just be creative and explore words in writing.

Date visited – 6/6/07



MysteryNet’s Kids Mysteries – This site contains mysteries to solve and scary stories written by other kids. Students read the mystery story, and at the bottom, click on their prediction as to who is guilty. If they guess incorrectly, they are given clues as to why that person is innocent. The site also provides a bar graph of other children’s guesses who participate.

Date visited – 6/6/07



OWL: Online Writing Lab – This site helps students to distinguish between adjectives and adverbs. There are some really great examples to show the difference. Teachers are even provided with a printer friendly version so that it can be handed out as a reference for students to keep in their writing journal. Date visited 6/11/07



The Book Hive – This guide to children’s literature provides a book list of recommendations, and has a section to showcase student stories and activities to enjoy. The activities include coloring pages, a Harry Potter Quiz, a Lemony Snicket Quiz, book checklist and an area to discuss and ask questions about books. The recommended reading list provides a short summary, a place for people to write and post their own review, and recommended reading levels.

Date visited – 6/7/07



Mathematics

Archimedes Laboratory –This page contains puzzles and brain teasers involving geometry. Students can work on solving the puzzle of the month or they can build their own puzzle and let their classmates try to solve it. This site is also good for the history of numbers because it provides information on why numbers are so important, along with examples of some of the earliest forms of counting. Date visited – 6/6/07



Create a Graph – The Kids Zone site allows students to create 5 different online graphs including: bar, line, pie, area and XY graphs. There is even a tutorial on the left to print so teachers and parents can print and hand out. Students get to select the direction, shape and style of their graph, plot data, create labels, and even save or print. This site would be great for students creating a powerpoint or computer presentation who want to include a graph of their data.



Fact Monster: MATH – Fact monster can be used for just about every third grade math unit. The links are numbers, measurements, tables and formulas, factors and fractions, and money. There are online flashcards, money around the world, metric conversions and much more! Date visited – 6/11/07



Geometric Shape Flashcards – This page is a great review before a test. Students are provided with a geometric figure or line segment and asked ‘Which geometry term best describes the shape above?’ Under the picture, there is a dropdown box for students to select the answer they believe to be correct. Students receive immediate feedback as to if they answered correctly and their score is kept on the right. Students an also print their results page to hand in. Date visited – 6/6/07



Inverse Relationship between Multiplication and Division – On this page, students play against the clock to discover the relationship between multiplication and division. There is a description of the relationship with examples at the top. Then the next box down is a timed game. The computer presents a problem like if 10*4= 40 then 40/? = 10. Students have a number line from 1-10 to click the right answer. There are different games students can choose to play such as: how many correct can they get in 60 seconds and how fast can you get 20 more correct answers then wrong answers?

Date visited – 6/6/07



Stanley Park Chase – This site, created by the Willoughby Elementary School, is an online story book about Dexter the dog who buried is goodies in Stanley Park. Students have to complete the multiplication problems on each page to continue on in the story. This site is great for math, ILA and social studies because it is a book that contains facts about wildlife and the environment in Stanley Park. My only complaint is that when you get a wrong answer, you have to go back to the beginning of the book, therefore, this might not be the best activity for the whole group (unless everyone did it together) because students will be in all different places in the story.

Date visited – 6/6/07



Science

Exploring the Planets – This site has almost everything you would need to know about the planets. This site would go great with a research activity to be done in the computer lab. The site goes into the discovery of planets, the tools used to observe/explore them, comparing the planets (atmospheres, volcanoes, impact, wind and water/ice), exploring comets and an individual page on each planet. Pluto is listed, but it is listed as ‘Pluto and other Dwarf planets’. My only complaint about the site is that the reading level seems a little too sophisticated for 3rd graders, though the site is recommended for grades 3-6.

Date visited – 6/7/07



Flights of Inspiration – This website looks at some of the challenges of flight starting with the Wright brothers to the transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown. There are activities for science teachers to use that are aimed at students aged 10 to 14. The site can easily be adapted for those of different ages because the site is set up into outlines with small bits of reading, and if you click on those links, it provides you with much more detailed information. The site helps students to understand more about forces in flight involving lift, weight, thrust and drag.

Date visited – 6/7/07



NASA Kids: The Space Place – This site has an abundance of fun facts, activities, projects, games and animations involving the solar system. I really found the Teachers Corner to be helpful because it provides really neat print-outs and over 40 hands-on activities for the classroom. My other favorite feature is the Space Place Quiz Show. Children can play along in this game show type quiz to see how much they really know about their home planet! There is a lot on this site, so if a teacher is going to take his or her class to the media center for the activity, the specific page with the activity should already be brought up on the screen so save time.

Date visited – 6/7/07



The Imagination Factory – This site offers tons of creative ways to recycle by making art. This would be great to use during Earth Day celebrations when teaching about recycling. There are even links to a 9-11 activity, Firefighter activities and more. What a great way to teach recycling and tap into students’ artistic side as well.

Date visited – 6/10/07



WWF Virtual Wildlife Games – Students can play interactive wildlife games and learn about endangered species, wild places and global challenges. There is also a WWF online Action Kit with activities to learn about how to save wildlife. There are links with information on endangered species, e-cards and photos. My favorite link is the WildFinder. It’s a map-driven, database of more than 26,000 species that allows students to explore where species live.

Date visited – 6/7/07



Social Studies

CyberSchoolBus Human Rights Moduel – This site has a really neat project and will give students a sense of purpose and importance. The site has an interactive declaration. Teachers who are participating in the project need to send an e-mail to register for it. Then students are taught about Human Rights and gets into specifics about rights in your community and how they came about. The project ends with what you and your students could be or are doing for human rights. After that, teachers can submit a report which will be included in the final global atlas of student actions.

Date visited – 6/10/07



Inauguration – This web site provides all the information on inauguration including, how it’s important to U.S. History, the government, and democratic process. The site includes activities for students and lessons for teachers. There is even a presidential quiz, facts and photos about the current president and his cabinet, and video of previous inaugurations.

Date visited – 6/10/07



Inside the White House – I think that kids will like the link ‘Wild Times at the White House’ with a timeline of children who were in the White House and crazy things they did. There are maps and pictures of the White House and its neighborhood. The ‘learn more’ link takes you to and educational guide for teachers with activities. The resources page takes you to other web sites featuring past presidents. Date visited – 6/10/07



MKL Web: A Teacher’s Guide to Martin Luther King Jr. – This site is a bibliography containing comprehensive MLK Sites, speeches & quotes, biographies, chronologies, & analysis, books, videos, museums, photos, images, audio on CD, and other miscellaneous links for using Martin Luther King Jr. in the classroom. Date visited – 6/10/07



Way Back. Stand Up For Your Rights – This site is about three important issues including women's right to vote (through the stories of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony), religious freedom (with the trial of Anne Hutchinson) and the battle for civil rights focusing on desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Students can read interviews and learn about first hand accounts. There is also a section which highlights the importance of voting. After exploring the site, there is a game to test your civil rights brainpower.

Date visited – 6/11/07



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