Fourth grade links

Fourth Grade Web Links

THIS YEAR'S VISITING AUTHOR: Roger Roth

Author Research


Andrew Clements Website
Anthony Horowitz - Author - Alex Rider - Power of Five
Avi
Bruce Coville Homepage
Bruce Hale, author of Chet Gecko mysteries
Cornelia Funke - Author
David A. Adler author of fiction and nonfiction books
Eoin Colfer - Homepage
Gail Carson Levine
Gary Paulsen
Jack Gantos, author of the Rotten Ralph and Jack Henry series
Jerry Spinelli
Jon Scieszka, author of Time Warp Trio books
Judy Blume
Patricia Reilly Giff
Peg Kehret's Books
Wendelin Van Draanen, author of Sammy Keyes, Shredderman

United States

America's Library Learn about American history and culture. Each of the five sections (Meet Amazing American, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, Join America at Play, and See, Hear, and Sing) contain different learning activities.
Official state web sites
State facts (After you click on the state, look at "ECONOMY" to find out the state's farm products and major industries. Also, look at "LARGEST CITIES.")
Famous people from each state
Tourism information
The History of Pennsylvania's State Capital
Can you identify each state? Play U.S. State Detective (Funschool site)
Can you identify each capital? Play Capital Field Trip (Funschool site)

Red Fox

Information from the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game http://www.state.ak.us/adfg/notebook/furbear/redfox.htm
Basic facts from the Canadian Wildlife Service http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/redfox/redfox.html
Habits, Habitats, and History from the Western North Carolina Nature Center
General information and frequently asked questions from the British Mammal Society
Articles from magazines and newspapers Note: search for "red fox" with quotation marks. There is an EXCELLENT article with facts about the red fox! (This site only works at school.)

Language

Web Tales Brush up on your parts of speech (similar to Mad Libs).

Idiom Dictionary Learn the meanings of dozens of idioms. Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood literally or by the individual meanings of the words. For example, if it's "raining cats and dogs" it means it's raining heavily. Cats and dogs are not actually falling from the sky!

Internet4Classrooms: Math and Literacy The bottom half of this web page has language arts links that include practice with compare/contrast, main idea, author purpose, cause/effect, run on sentences, verbs and more.

Pennsylvania History

Explore PA History Published by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Famous Pennsylvanians

Remember to try World Book Online

General search sites: Biography.com, National Women's Hall of Fame (note: includes Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Marion Anderson, plus others), Distinguished Women Past and Present.

These names are in alphabetical order by their last name:

Louisa May Alcott Links to several sites.

Henry Heinz

Anthony Wayne: Information. See his portrait.

Presidents

President's Day A virtual museum with basic facts about Washington and Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln This site offers the following: take a quiz, view an animation that shows the addition of states to the U.S., view the picture gallery, go on a treasure hunt.

Abraham Lincoln sites Use these to answer questions on the treasure hunt.

President's Day Quiz

Math

AAA Math Great for practicing math concepts covered in third grade.
Create a Graph Make an area, pie, bar or line graph.
Funbrain.com Check out games listed under Numbers at bottom half of web page.
Internet4Classrooms: Math and Literacy Includes practice with basic math concepts, such as graphing, place value, geopmetry, fractions, time, money, Roman numerals and more.
Line Symmetry Learn all about symmetry.
Megamaths Tables Practice multiplication and division. Pick a number and then click on Patterns and Hints. After reading hints, click on the Queen to test your knowledge. Try the Table Tournament and when you're done click on Pick a Number and try the Grid Game and MegaMaze.
Metric Conversion Convert metric units as well as temperatures and measurements from metric to English and vice versa.
Multiplication.com Practice multiplication tables, play math baseball, try online flash cards, etc.
Tools Illumination tools help you learn about equivalent fractions, graphs, spinners and more.
Virtual Manipulatives Use online manipulatives to learn about patterns, graphs, fractions, geometry and more.
Webmath.com Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You decide how many problems, how many tries you get, and how big the numbers in the problems will be.

Dewey

"Do We" Really Know Dewey? A web site about the Dewey Decimal System written by students.

Multimedia tour of the Dewey Decimal Classification System

Biography of Melvil Dewey (or Dui)

Find information on the web by dewey decimal number

Internet

Cyberpigs Media Awareness Network has links to Privacy Playground and Cybersense and Nonsense. These "adventures" highlight important internet issues including personal profiles, surveys, contests, chat rooms and online predators.

Weather

Windward Outsmart the weather in a sailing race and try to travel around the world in 71 days!

Just for fun!

Fact Monster Games and Quizzes Be sure to try Whomp (it's like Boggle)!

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