Third Grade Web Links

Reference Sources:  World Book Online and SIRS articles
Search engines (help you to find information on any topic): Ask Kids, Yahooligans, KidsClick
Mrs. Savchuck's Portaportal links (for Guest Access the guest name is Savchuck )

VISITING AUTHOR: Roger Roth

Ancient Egypt

Guardian's Ancient Egypt Kid Connection Learn about mummies, build a pyramid, take a quiz and more!

Animals

Rainforest Animals

  1. Animal photos Be sure to spell the name of your animal correctly!
  2. Use Searchasaurus (a Power Library database) to find information and photos.

Ants

  1. Stranger than Fiction Interesting ant facts.
  2. Ant Structure
  3. Gakken's Photo Encyclopedia: Ants Many facts and photos are available on this site.

Bats 

  1. Bat and Skeleton Halloween Scavenger Hunt Learn interesting facts about bats and skeletons.

Endangered Animals

  1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service An “endangered” species is one that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. This site has information on endangered animals in the U.S.
  2. Endangered Species Causes, interesting facts, links to organizations trying to help these species.
  3. KidsPlanet  List with links to facts about 50 endangered animals.

Braille

Braille Bug Learn about Louis Braille, who invented braille at age 12. Find out what your name looks like written in braille. Decode secret messages!

Colonial America

Colonial Williamsburg Trades Information from Colonial Williamsburg

Old Sturbridge Village: Shoe Shop, Printing Office, Cooper Shop, Village Store, Blacksmith Shop, Potter, Farm

Colonial Trades Information written by students of Forest Oak Middle School in Gaithersburg, MD.

Colonial House PBS site. Check out "would you have survived" and "dress me up."

Government

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids

Greek Myths

Iditarod

  1. Anchorage Daily News Find out the latest Iditarod news from this newspaper's site!
  2. Dogsled.com This site provides "all the adventure, none of the frostbite!" Check out the interactive trail map.
  3. Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race The official site of "the last great race."
  4. Scholastic's Iditarod: Race Across Alaska Click on "Activities" to take a quiz, vote on whether sled dogs are treated well, be a musher, and submit questions for a March 18th chat with mushers Cali, Tessa, and Jeff King!
  5. Dog Days in Alaska: a Rookie Team Gets Ready for the Iditarod Read a diary about one team's experience in 1998. Be sure to click on "meet the dogs." Which one is your favorite?
  6. Women of the Iditarod Learn about four women who raced in the Iditarod, including Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the race in 1985. (Note: this site was written in 1997.)

Language and Literature

  1. Aesop's Fables Over 650 fables, 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and several Grimms Fairy Tales are in this online, indexed collection!
  2. Brave Irene quiz
  3. Fact Monster Games and Quizzes Be sure to try Whomp (it's like Boggle)!
  4. Flat Stanley Project  Students make a paper Flat Stanley and mail it, along with a blank journal, to someone on the "List of Participants." The recipient treats the visiting Stanley as a guest and takes it places. After a few weeks Stanley is mailed back with a completed journal and perhaps some photographs, post cards, and souvenirs. Having your class on the list means others might send a Stanley to you, too!
  5. Idioms:
    1. 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!
    2. American Idioms The idiom appears in blue type, the meaning of the idiom appears in pink type.
    3. Test your idiom knowledge! Click on #1 for the first quiz, then continue.
  6. Internet4Classrooms: Math and Literacy The bottom half of this web page has language arts links that include practice with compare/contrast, main idea, story elements, synonyms/homonyms, contractions and more.
  7. Kidsreads.com Great reads for kids 6-12. Read about new books, series books, classics, award winners, and more!
  8. Synonyms Synonyms are words that have similar meanings. Try the online games.
  9. Virtual tour of Philadelphia After reading Patricia Reilly Giff's book, Let's Go Philadelphia, see some of the interesting sights the characters visited!

Math

  1. AAA Math Great for practicing math concepts covered in third grade.
  2. Create a Graph Make an area, pie, bar or line graph.
  3. Fraction Model SEE what a fraction looks like!
  4. Funbrain.com Check out games listed under Numbers at bottom half of web page.
  5. Illuminations Activities NCTM tools include a spinner, fraction models, graphs, balancing tools, shape tools and more.
  6. Internet4Classrooms: Math and Literacy Includes practice with basic math concepts, such as graphing, money, fractions, time, symmetry and more.
  7. Line Symmetry Learn all about symmetry.
  8. Mathlibs Math help, lessons, and fun questions.
  9. Metric Conversion Convert metric units as well as temperatures and measurements from metric to English and vice versa.
  10. Multiplication.com Practice multiplication tables, play math baseball, try online flash cards, etc.
  11. Toon University Online Math Games
  12. Virtual Manipulatives Use online manipulatives to learn about patterns, graphs, fractions, geometry and more.
  13. 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.

Native Americans

First Americans This site provides information about the history and current way of life of five tribes from different areas of the country (the Tlingit, Dine, Lakota, Muscogee and Iroquois). Also, stereotypes are addressed and activities are available.

Eskimos This encyclopedia article has some basic information. Also search SIRS for an excellent article called "Eating Like an Eskimo."

Eskimo clothing This site shows and describes what an Eskimo dancer would wear.

Rainforests

Enchanted Learning Click on "Rainforests" in the "Click Below for Great Kids' Pages!" column.

Rocks and Minerals

Mineralogy 4 Kids Learn about the rock cycle, mineral properties and all about crystals.

Snow

  1. Electron Microscopy Unit Snow Page  See snow crystals REALLY up close and three dimensionally on this site by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture!
  2. Snow Crystals "This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes, and how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures appear, quite literally, out of thin air." (quote from the site)
  3. Wilson A. Bentley: The Snowflake Man All about the man who was the first person to photograph a single snow crystal in 1885!

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