Fourth Grade Web Links

Reference Sources:  World Book Online and SIRS articles

Search engines: Ask Jeeves for Kids, Yahooligans, KidsClick  Image search: google.com

VISITING AUTHOR: TEDD ARNOLD

  1. Author Research
  2. United States
  3. Red Fox
  4. Language
  5. Pennsylvania History
  6. Famous Pennsylvanians
  7. Presidents
  8. Math
  9. Dewey
  10. Internet
  11. Just for fun

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

  1. 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.
  2. Official state web sites
  3. 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.")
  4. Famous people from each state
  5. Tourism information
  6. The History of Pennsylvania's State Capital
  7. Funschool Map Games Play "U.S. State Detective" and "Capital Field Trip." See how quickly you can match states and capitals to an outline map of the United States!

Red Fox

Language

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

Word Play Learn about oxymorons, anagrams, similes and more!

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 SIRS and 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, Ask Jeeves for Kids.

These names are in alphabetical order by their last name:

Louisa May Alcott Links to several sites.

Henry Heinz This information is from the Heinz company site.

John Wanamaker   Brief information.

Anthony Wayne:  A short biography. Try this site for more 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

  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. Funbrain.com Check out games listed under Numbers at bottom half of web page.
  4. Internet4Classrooms: Math and Literacy Includes practice with basic math concepts, such as graphing, place value, geopmetry, fractions, time, money, Roman numerals and more.
  5. Line Symmetry Learn all about symmetry.
  6. 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.
  7. Metric Conversion Convert metric units as well as temperatures and measurements from metric to English and vice versa.
  8. Multiplication.com Practice multiplication tables, play math baseball, try online flash cards, etc.
  9. Tools Illumination tools help you learn about equivalent fractions, graphs, spinners and more.
  10. Virtual Manipulatives Use online manipulatives to learn about patterns, graphs, fractions, geometry and more.
  11. 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 (if this site is not working, use this link)

Multimedia tour of the Dewey Decimal Classification System

Biography of Melvil Dewey (or Dui)

Dewel Decimal Numbers (by tens)

Find information on the web by dewey decimal number

Internet

Internet Safety Game for Kids Click on the game at the bottom of the page.

Just for fun!

Are you a Harry Potter fan? The news is that the fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, may be on sale as early as this spring. At 38 chapters it will be the longest one yet! While you're waiting, check out these sites...

Warner Brothers' official Harry Potter site Answer questions and be sorted into one of Hogwarts houses!

Harry Potter wizard challenge  See how many trivia questions you can answer correctly before you make three mistakes!

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

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