Mrs. Armentrout
 
Academic Content Standards Guides
Academic Content Standards Guide for parents of children in grade 3.
 
Author websites
Links to websites of childrens authors and illustrators.
List of addresses of authors. Why not send your favorite author a letter.
List of websites for childrens authors.
 
Geometry and Spatial Sense
This site has solid figures which can be rotated and manipulated. Can be used to count faces, edges, and vertices. Teacher lesson plans and questions are also available.
Explore reflection symmetry with online folding, mirror images and checking of understanding. Reading involved makes this grades 3 and higher.
 
Language Arts
This website contains a variety of games for all the different parts of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, prepositional phrases, and adverbs).
 
Language Arts
Interactive proofreading passages. Select a grade level (2-8) and a passage focused on a particular skill. Skills include spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Self checking so students can complete independently.
A variety of spelling/phonics games and activities for different skills are available at this site.
 
Language Arts - Literature
This rich site offers two versions of each fable — traditional and contemporary. They have been delightfully illustrated by students in a University of Massachusetts computer art class.
Listen to some of the Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit stories.
Check out this Web site to find short folktales for students to read. The site contains -- in addition to other stories -- a dozen folktales from around the world. Appropriate for ages 6-12, the tales include student-created illustrations, comprehension questions, and free writing assignments.
 
Literacy - Poetry
Hundreds of poems to read and rate.
Welcome to the Kenn Nesbitt poetry playground, Poetry4kids.com, where you will find lots of funny poems and poetry books for children, games, and journals, plus a rhyming dictionary, funny poetry podcast, and lots more.
Listen to U.S. Children's Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky read one of his poems, then follow his tips and techniques to have some fun with poetry writing!
 
Math
The 24 team game online.
Every Wednesday evening a new brainteaser is added to this site. You can select from non-routine problems for grades 3-4, grades 5-6 or grades 7-8. Can choose to see helpful hints if needed.
 
Math
Fun with numbers!
Use the data given to make a correct line plot.
Website with practice math skills problems for various grade levels. Students answer questions and submit answers for instant feedback.
 
Math - Basic Facts
Add the numbers on the red balloons and then click the green balloon having the right answer.
Find the missing addend.
Timed (one minute) practice with basic facts. Choose which of the four basic operations to practice.
How much does the lemonade cost? Check out your math skills. Use multiplication to find out how much the lemonade costs. Type the answer into the Total Price box and hit total.
Practice math facts using timed tests. Computer will tell you percent correct, and time used to answer facts.
Select 2 factors and an array will be created for those numbers. Helps with multiplication facts.
Select the answer to a subtraction fact (up to 20) to reveal a mystery picture.
Help the monkey save the apples! Click on the basket with the number to give the answer. Keep clicking the basket to add numbers to your answer.
Practice basic subtraction facts. Untimed.
Choose a specific number to subtract or select mixed practice.
 
Math - Data and Probability
Students can create a game spinner with variable sized sectors to look at experimental and theoretical probabilities.
 
Math - Decimals
Compare decimals (tenths, hundredths, thousandths) using symbols. Interactive activity.
 
Math - Fractions
Practice naming fractional parts.
 
Math - Geometry (Primary Grades)
Find basic 2d shapes. Primary Grades. Audio will read text.
 
Math - Geometry and Spatial Sense
This site has solid figures which can be rotated and manipulated. Can be used to count faces, edges, and vertices. Teacher lesson plans and questions are also available.
 
Math - Measurement
Use an online ruler to measure objects in centimeters.
 
Math - Money
Pay the little farmer the exact change and he will say thank you. If you do not pay the little farmer with exact change, he will say uh-oh and you will have to try again.
Drag coins into a container to create the amount of money shown. Amounts can be over $1.00.
Students look at pictures of real coins and enter the total number of cents into the calculator. Excellent to reinforce the names and values of coins. Click on How Many Cents?
 
Math - Number Sense
Online hundred chart. Drag transparent counters to cover numbers. Good for creating number patterns and visualizing patterns of multiples.
Find the even or odd sums to work your way through the maze.
Find the missing numbers to complete the addition fact patterns.
Fill in the missing numbers to complete the subtraction patterns.
Presented in an appealing game format, students try to find a hidden dogbone. They are given a blank hundred chart and must locate a given number of dogbones within an allotted amount of time.
After Okta hides some bubbles under a shell, he then either adds more bubbles or takes some away. Students have to determine how many bubbles are left under the shell.
Follow the directions in these fun activities to practice structuring to five.
Practice structuring to ten with this fun website.
Move a slider along a number line the required number of spaces forward or backward. Fun graphics.
This site explores subtraction through interactive activities.
Drag and drop the number tiles to their correct position on the Venn diagram.
Use a hundred chart to locate numbers and for adding. Grades 1-2.
Find the three addends that make the given sum.
 
Math - Patterns and Algebra
Complete the patterns using colors and shapes.
Can you help Digit open the safe? To do it youll need to crack the patterns.
Function table. Find the rule.
Investigate the relationship between input and output values.
Help Mr. Cracker obtain the secret code before the insidious Prof. Soup catches him by guessing what number comes next in a series of numbers.
 
Math - Place Value
Place the beads in the correct place to match the question asked. Need to know place value, odd and even, largest, smallest, etc.
Mathc the base ten blocks to the correct number on the pieces of moving fruit. Three levels of play/
 
Math - Time
Read the time in words, then stop the clock when the hands are in the matching position.
Practice finding elapsed time given a starting time and an ending time.
Create a face for Smiley Clock by telling the correct time. Tell time by picking one from three choices. The clock gains eyes, nose, mouth and hair if you select the correct time.You must scroll down the page to find the game.
Drag the 5 digital times to the correct analogue clock, the press STOP THE CLOCK to record your time.
 
Poetry
More poetry for children of all ages.
 
Reading
List of about 60 authors who have actually replied to student letters. Includes Christopher, Cleary, Giff, Naylor, Polacco, Prelutsky, VanAllsburg, etc.
Site contains hundreds of student written book reviews. Reviews are screened for appropriate language and content but are posted as is, so may contain mechanical errors. Have your class submit a review as an interactive writing lesson.
Click on CREATURE FEATURE and read about different types of animals.
Click on NEWS and read about This Week in Sports. Excellent for Middle to Advanced Readers.
Click on Kids -> Animals A to Z to read about many different animals.
 
Reading - Audio Books
Read the mysteries and solve them online.
 
Research Tools
This is a tool that aids students in creating organizers.
A useful search engine for children doing research.
 
Science
An easy to use, on-line book about butterflies. Can start at a basic level on each topic and progress to more advanced information.
Read facts and information about earthworms. Reading level: grades 3-4
 
Science
Explore a virtual city to see many places and ways to recycle. Great for an ecology unit.
 
Science - Animal Adaptations
How fast can you match up animals' adaptations? Are you ready to find out? Play this game to test yourself.
This site is about how animals survive in their environment. Click on a certain species for more information.
This site tells about physical and behavioral adaptations of aoubt 25 different animals. Read about adaptations that help them obtain food, keep warm, defend themselves, or hide from predators.
Many animals have developed remarkable defenses to keep from being eaten. Read about a variety of animals and their methods of defense.
How do animals meet their needs for oxygen, climate, food, water, and shelter? Play this game to learn.
Select an animal. In the description for each animal its adaptations are described.
Learn about bats and their adaptations.
Learn about bats and their adaptations.
Printable page. Match bird beak to type of food.
Did you ever wonder why there are so many types of bird beaks or bills? The most important function of a bird bill is feeding, and it is shaped according to what a bird eats. Look at these pictures of different shaped beaks.
Interactive activity to locate camouflaged animals in different habitats.
Read and learn about 2-6 different animals from each continent.
Trick them! Startle them! Warn them! What adaptations do insects, including butterflies, have for protecting themselves?
Read about the adaptations of 30 different animals. Includes drawings and other information about each animal.
What is animal adaptation and how are animals adapted to where they live? Click on Investigate the Facts.
Select an exhibit area from the tour list. Then use the pulldown menu with the list of animals to choose one. You will be able to read a fact sheet about the animal you picked which includes its adaptations.
Guess the animal and reveal the picture based on clues about its adaptations.
Different species of birds have different beaks, wings, tails, and feet, allowing them to live in different habitats. By looking at the beaks of the birds below, can you tell what they are likely to eat?
Look at pictures of skeletons and bones to see adaptations.
Anything that helps an organism survive in its environment is an adaptation.  It also refers to the ability of living things to adjust to different conditions within their environments.  Click on the hyperlinks to read about some adaptations that animals use to survive.
 
Science - Animals
Animals of the World (Grades 2-4 Must type in the name of the animal) See how few clues you need to guess the animal in the picture - mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians and fish categories
Match the baby animal to the adult it will become.
National Geographic site to learn about 30 different animals.
Click on the map, hear about a creature, and then decide if it's a real animal or not! Guessing and deductive reasoning.
Read and learn about 2-6 different animals from each continent.
Online field guides have information about a wide variety of animals. Select the group, then the animal you'd ike to learn about.
Home page of Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Learn about benefits of insects, their anatomy, and classification criteria. Includes audio of all text.
 
Science - Animals - Endangered
Print the page. In the picture , can you find 11 Ohio endangered species? Circle or color each animal when you find it. You may have to look close!
 
Science - Animals - Habitats
Explore the plants, animals and weather in forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, and tundra biomes'
Print out a copy of a wetland habitat scene and another page with animals that live in such a habitat. Cut out animals and paste in appropriate place in habitat.
 
Science - Animals - Ohio
Links to pictures and information about fish of Ohio.
 
Science - Earth and Space
Calendar view of the moon for each day of the month.
Click on the green arrow to watch the moon revolve around the earth and see what the moon looks like at each phase.
Select the year, month, date, time and time zone to see a virtual picture of the phase of the moon.
 
Science - Light
Interactive website to explore which objects give off light.
Interactive site to explore location and length of shadows.
 
Science - Plants
Explore the trees, plants, animals and insects in a woodland environment. Audio will read all text. Excellent closeup pictures. Shows seasonal changes of the environment.
Learn about the parts of a plant.
At this site you will learn all about plants - how they grow and what the different parts of a plant are. Learn how a seed travels, what bees do for plants, and about plant and animal relationships. This site offers a lot of great information about plants as well as some interesting activities.
Learn about the parts of a tree and why trees are important to us. Interactive and entertaining.
Have fun learning about why trees are important.
Identify a tree by using leaves, fruits, or names. Continue clicking on the image that best resembles your sample, until you identify the tree. Requires actual leaves to identify.
Read a story about how plants are pollinated and look at the parts of a flower. Grade 4.
 
Science - Sound
Interactive activity to explore changing the pitch of sounds.
Follow the numbers, click on the partially filled bottles to create familiar tunes. Do you know why the bottles have different pitches?
Explore how sounds are made and sort sounds from quiet to loud.
 
Science Weather
Drawings of cloud types and explanations of cloud formation.
Short video clip about weather instruments. Grades K-2
What causes snow? What do snowflakes look like?
Animation of water cycle. Cllck on Get This File - View Online.
Type in your zip code and get the weather forecast for your town.
 
Second Grade Skills
This interactive site has skill specific activities for second graders.
 
Social Studies - Economics
Take a closer look at the American ten dollar bill. Examine the different parts such as the protrait, signatures, legqal tender wording, value and decorations.
Fun facts about our currency
Pictures of coins from around the world
Read a story about a mouse from the country who visits the city. After reading, students will make a cost/benefit chart to show the differences between costs and benefits. Lesson includes two interactive drag-and-drop activities.
Click on the country whose currency you wish to see
Drag and drop online activity to help students distinguish between goods and services.
Click on interactive activity and activity for online interactive activities for students.
Short movie clip of the Earth viewed from space
In this lesson, students have an online activity that teaches them about providers of goods and services.
Compare our coins with a coin found here. How are they alike? How are they different?
 
Social Studies - Government
Learn about your city government and services.
Incudes Arlington National Cemetery, Jefferson, Washington, and Lincoln Memorials, Mt. Rushmore and others.
Learn about Governor Strickland and the cabinet that help make good laws for our state.
Includes the Flag, Bald Eagle, Independence Hall, Liberty Bell, Stautue of Liberty and the White House.
2nd Grade Mini Webquest for government/citizenship unit
Explore the kids section to find out about our countrys president.
 
Social Studies - History
Students and teachers may be surprised to learn what the harvest celebration of 1621 was really like! Students use the skills that historians use to discover the facts and misconceptions about The First Thanksgiving. Interactive activities help students understand how the Wampanoag lived and gave thanks and virtually tour the Plymouth Colony to learn how the colonists prepared for the celebration.
 A timeline of Dr. Martin Luther King created by elementary students including a quiz and word searches.
Primary site to compare past and present. Grades 1-2.
 
Social Studies - Inventors
Seven forgotten inventions. Includes the gas mask of Garrett Morgan, an Ohioan.
Use the scroll bar at the bottom to scroll sideways and read a short description of each invention. Arrnaged in a timeline beginning about 7900 BC to 1995. Grade 3+
Search by inventor, invention, black inventor or women inventors. Also has a timelind of inventions. Gr. 3-4
To find out more about daily life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, look at the everyday things shown below. Try to guess what each one is and how it was used. After you have made your guess, click on the picture to find out.
Brief biographies with links to more information. Search alphabetically, by time period, category, or country. Gr. 3+
 
Social Studies - Maps
Can you find your school? Your street and house? Use the arrow keys to move the view in a different direction. On the left is a zoom tool that permits you to zoom in closer on the map area.
This interactive adventure engages children in a story-based scenario that shows overhead views. Good introduction to understanding og map views.
This teaching packet from The U.S. Geological Survey is appropriate for grades K-3. Students will learn basic concepts for visualizing objects from different perspectives and how to understand and use maps.
For printable outline maps, select a state, region, or continent from the dropdown menus.
Create a map of any city or get city to city driving directions.
Input your address and a destination to get a map and driving directions
 
Social Studies - Ohio History
Learn about objects that were used in 20th century Ohio but are rarely seen now. Includes hoola hoop, typewriter, outhouse and more. New one added each month.
 
Social Studies - Solon
Solon ethnicity data from 200 census.
 
Word Study - Within Word
Ten vowel patterns, (some r-controlled). Given a word with a blank in the middle, select missing vowel pattern. Picture clue also provided.