Grade 3
Curriculum Resources | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 |
| Area of Focus (specific content-cross curricular management etc.) |
Website Address | Website Sponsor | Summary of resources available | Special instructions (sign in / establish account etc.) | Grade level / curricular area connections | Comments |
Math |
Games connect with Everyday Math. This website is outstanding! The website is designed to offer support games for each lesson throughout a unit of Everyday Math! |
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Math |
Games connect with Everyday Math. This website offers games that correlate with Everyday Math lessons! |
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Math |
Games connect with Everyday Math. This website makes worksheets from easy to difficult. There are also interactive flashcards for students to practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. |
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Math |
Skills: addition, comparing, decimals, equations, exponents, geometry, measurement, money, naming numbers, percent, practical math, ratios, subtractions, algebra, counting, division, estimation, fractions, graphs, mental math, multiplication, patterns, place value, properties, statistics. |
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Math |
Great Challenging Word Problems with Visuals |
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Math |
Houghton Mifflin website. Great for test prep and brainteasers |
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Math |
This website offers homework support, tutoring, games and practice in all areas of math |
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Math |
Skills: place value, comparing and ordering numbers, addition, subtraction, rounding and estimation, multiplication facts, division facts, fractions, decimals, measurement-time, metric, geometry roman numerals, sequence and patterns |
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Math |
Skills: geometry, fractions, brainteasers, and other games |
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Math |
This website has numerous games that are all like memory. You have to pair of the shape with its name. There are also magic square games and cross puzzles. |
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Math |
This website offers challenging story problems. You may retrieve past challenges. The only down side to this website is that students may want to submit their answer on-line. |
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Math |
This website allows students to match multiplication problems with the answer. It’s like playing memory only you can see all of the faces of the cards. |
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Math |
This website reviews multiplication facts through a game called Batter’s Up. Boys would particularly like this website! |
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Math |
This website is a worksheet creator. |
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Math |
Strategy games such as chess |
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Math |
This website offers games for the following areas: numbers, measurement, tables and formulas, and money |
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Math |
This website offers games of all types. There is also a 3D Art and Math Gallery that makes connections with art and math. |
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Math |
This website offers math games. |
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Math |
Skills: word problems, area and perimeter, weighing, This website also offers practice of skills through games, tests, review, and logic problems. |
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Children’s literature |
Internet Public Library |
In the youth section of this site, information is divided into: Picture Books, Story Hour, Books & Authors, Fables, and so forth, with each section subdivided further. For example, in the Ask the Author section of Books & Authors, visitors can pose questions to the featured authors, who will later answer them. The Resources for Teachers and Parents section has numerous links to sites about literature and reading. |
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Third and various levels |
One of the sections included “Genres” which highlighted the topic of Poetry. (Forms of poetry, selected poetry e-texts, and a poetry bibliography) |
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Children’s literature |
American Library Association: Association of Library Services to Children |
The ALA is a site that hosts the official homepages for various literature and media awards given by ALA, such as the Newbery Award, Caldecott Award, Batchelder Award, and Coretta Scott King Award. The resource sections are organized for librarians, teachers, and parents. |
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Third and various levels |
One particularly useful and interesting section is the “Cool Sites for Kids: 700+ Great Sites” complied by the ALA’s Children and Technology Committee. |
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Children’s literature |
Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
This site houses a non-circulating collection of nearly all trade books published in the U.S. for the preceding eighteen months, as well as recommended books from previous years and an historic collection. There are reference materials for the study of literature for children and young adults and a special collection of small and alternative press books. |
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Third and various levels |
There are also other links to other resources in the field. |
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Individual author and illustrator sites |
www.geocities.com/Athens/1264/ |
Author or illustrator creators vary |
These sites may include biographical information, photographs, and answer frequently asked questions. Some authors include a schedule of their appearances. Many of these sites anticipate both children and teachers as visitors and will offer activities and material for both audiences. |
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Third and various levels |
Avi- offers audioclips of book passages or personal greetings Arnold, Caroline-author of over 100 informational books about animals and the environment. Includes a list of projects related to her books Brett, Jan-provides nearly 2000 craft projects/updated video and audio greetings Brown, Marc- 1 st site is a publisher-hosted biography. The second is informative and entertaining on the character of Arthur Carle, Eric-“Caterpillar Exchange” is a bulletin board where teachers can share their teaching ideas on ways of integrating the curriculum. Clearly, Beverly-Includes, bio, FAQs, and a guest book. Hamilton, Virginia-Includes a menu list and is very thorough |
Individual author and illustrator sites |
Author or illustrator creators vary |
These sites may include biographical information, photographs, and answer frequently asked questions. Some authors include a schedule of their appearances. Many of these sites anticipate both children and teachers as visitors and will offer activities and material for both audiences. |
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Third and various levels |
Paulsen, Gary- Interesting, simple and quite personalized. Pilkey,Dav- His style is fun and silly, yet if informative. Plus, it is full of things to do for kids. Polacco, Patricia- This site contains many photographs and lets you sign up for her quarterly newsletter. Rylant, Cynthia-Her writing is personalized and includes a link called a “Personal Greeting,” where she encourages you to write to her. Scieszka, Jon & Lane Smith- Four areas to explore- one area is called Fun Stuff. Stevens, Janet- Includes an interesting feature that shows the layers in her illustrations Wilder, Laura Ingalls- Includes a memorabilia order form and interviews. Wood, Audrey-Entertaining website that is full of all types of information. DePaola, Tomie- Not an official site, but is devoted to him. |
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Book Review Sources & Teaching Ideas |
publishersweekly/reviewsnews.com/ www.bookwire.com/bookwire/ |
Various |
These sites may include bibliographies, essays, reviews, interviews, a variety of columns, highlighted books, information about authors and illustrators, links, editorials, and teaching ideas for integrating books into the curriculum. |
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Third and various levels |
Carol Otis Hurst is a children’s literature specialist/consultant. Fantastic books site by Darcy Pattison is a reviewer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The Hornbook Magazine is a bi-monthly publication on in-depth book reviews, etc. Publisher’s Weekly is intended to publicize books, but interesting information as well. School Library Journal is intended as a companion to the print version of the magazine, School Library Journal. Bookwire Index is a site that links many independent booksellers devoted to children’s books. Book Links is a magazine for teachers, librarians, and parents |
Reading and Language Arts |
KidsKonnect |
This site offers activities for students in the area of Reading and Language Arts. |
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Third and various levels |
Reading-Includes: links to the alphabet, authors, Dr. Seuss, Fairy Tales and creating stories online. Language Arts- Includes: links to figurative language, punctuation, poetry, Write Away, and others. |
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Reading Strategies/Skills |
Education Place |
This site offers activities for students in the area of Reading. |
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Third and various levels |
Kid-friendly site that features a football stadium with these sources to choose from: reading goals, finding a book, pre-season puzzles, players stories, reading tips, writing a book review, kids’ favorite books, and bookmarks. |
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Language/Parts of Speech |
Education Place |
This site offers Wacky Web Tales that allows students to practice the parts of speech. |
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Third and various levels |
This is an on-line site that compares to the ever-popular Mad Libs activity. Some tale titles include: Survival, Simply Delicious, Things that Drive Me Bonkers, Could it Really Happen? Also, What are Friends For? This site also lets students receive parts of speech assistance. |
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Language/Parts of Speech |
PBS Kids |
This site lets students create their own wild and crazy adventure stories by filling in the words that will be created into a story frame. |
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Third and various levels |
This is an on-line site that compares to the ever-popular Mad Libs activity. Some titles include: Lost, Rescue at Sea, and Tale of Discovery |
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Word Study Skills |
www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/ |
Kids’ Lab |
This site lets students practice their word study skills for multiple meaning words. For example: bat, bat, and bat. It provides online interactive practice as well as practice sheets to print |
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Third and various levels |
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Making inferences |
Kids Mystery |
This site lets students select various mysteries titles. They are able to analyze the clues to see if they can solve the case. |
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Third and various levels |
Very student-friendly. |
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Prefixes Games |
www.northcanton.sparco.org/~elem/ www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/ |
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These sites allows students to practice the skill of prefixes in a game-like format. |
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Third and various levels |
The first game has a kid who tries to catch the falling prefixes and needs to avoid the suffixes and root words. The second site allows the student to match the prefix with the definition. It would give you a fraction as to your score. |
Read Write Think Collection |
Read Write Think Collection |
This site offers a variety of instructional tools for teachers. Some subjects include: poetry, graphic organizers, Comic Creator, Doodle Splash, and Word Wizard. These subjects were very thorough. They included an overview, estimated lesson time, theory to practice, objectives, lesson plans, and standards. |
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Third and various levels |
I think children would really enjoy these different tools. Comic Creator offered over twenty lessons across all grade levels. For example, using a comic strip to showcase knowledge of story elements. Doodle Splash was a link for getting children to visualize what they are reading. Then, to create a graphic symbol to match. |
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Reading Strategies/Skills |
Harcourt Trophies |
This site offers students the ability to choose different selections. Some examples are: Theme Center activities, Reading Skills rocket, Authors/Illustrators, and Building Background. |
A student will need to know the name of an author from Harcourt. I used Beck as my password and typed in my school and state. |
Third and Harcourt Reading Series |
Building Background- Pepita Talks Twice offered a Spanish flashcards website so children could familiarize themselves with the selection. Nate the Great offered a sequencing activity. This would be very helpful for students. |
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Social Studies - Economics |
"Welcome to Econopolis" interactive game |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 3 - "Communities at Work" |
interactive game using primary and intermediate economic terms |
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Economics |
glossary of economic terms with visuals |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 3 - "Communities at Work" |
site explains numerous economic terms.......needs and wants, industry, goods and services, supply and demand, has a great glossary |
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Social Studies -Economics |
game for students |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 3 - Communities at Work |
interactive game, HotShot, where students have fun creating a business and learn economics at the same time |
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Social Studies -Geography |
www.enchantedlearning.com/ |
glossary for students |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, |
site has illustrated glossary of landforms and bodies of water--good to copy and use as student reference sheet |
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Social Studies -Holidays/Culture |
text, songs, illustrations on grade level regarding holidays and celebrations |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 4 "Many Cultures, One Country" |
site has explanations of holidays and celebrations |
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Social Studies - Illinois |
www.clow.ipsd.org/schoolbag 4 social- |
text and illustrations, photos |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, All units |
Lists of Illinois facts with good links to other Illinois sites |
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Social Studies - Immigration |
Photographs to view |
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Social Studies text, Our Communities , Unit 2-Communities Have History |
Great source for circa 1900 photos of Ellis Island and immigrants |
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Social Studies - Immigration |
text and illustrations, photos |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 2 - "Communities Have History" |
tour of Ellis Island with photos |
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Social Studies - Immigration |
text and illustrations, photos |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 2 - "Communities Have History" |
tour of Ellis Island with photos developed by students |
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Social Studies - Inventions |
interactive game |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 3 - "Communities at Work" |
interactive game on inventors and inventions |
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Social Studies - Jamestown, Virginia |
interactive game for students |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communities Unit 2 - "Communities have History" |
interactive game, with audio, about surviving in Jamestown, Virginia; engaging and informative |
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Social Studies - Jamestown, Virginia |
text with photos |
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Social Studies text, Our Communities - Unit 2 "Communities have History" |
text and photos of Jamestown site |
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Social Studies - Native Americans |
text and illustrations, photos |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 2 - "Communities Have History" |
grade friendly text covering all five Indian cultures, shelters, legends, work |
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Social Studies - Native Americans |
text and illustrations, photos |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 2 - "Communities Have History" |
grade friendly text covering all five Indian cultures, shelters, legends, work |
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Social Studies - Rural Life/Farm |
text for students |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 3- "Communities at Work" |
games, trivia, milk production and milk factories |
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Social Studies - Rural Life/Farm |
text and photos for students |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 1- "People Build Communities" |
a child's telling of daily life on a dairy farm |
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Social Studies - Rural life |
text for students |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 1- "People Build Communities" and Unit 3 "Communities at Work" |
Teaches students about the farm as a business |
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Social Studies - Rural Life/Farm |
text and photos for students |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 1- "People Build Communities" |
a child's telling of daily life on a dairy farm |
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Social Studies - Rural life |
text for students |
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Soc. St. text, Our Communites, Unit 1- "People Build Communities" and Unit 3 "Communities at Work" |
Teaches students about the farm as a business |
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Social Studies - U.S. Government |
information resource for students, links to government sites suitable for elementary students, site links for parents and teachers |
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Social Studies text, Our Communities , Unit 4, Chapter 8, Lesson 2 - U.S. Government |
Attractive presentation for third graders which teaches about historical documents, branches of the U.S. government, how laws are made, the election process and more. |
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Social Studies |
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U.S.Government prepared site for use with introduction to Our Communities text, "Celebrate Freedom". |
Site contains grade-appropriate text and excellent pictures, on U.S. symbols, oaths, songs, major Washington D.C. government buildings, statures, and memorials. |
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Social Studies - Westward Movement |
www.library.thinkquest.org/640/ |
text and photos |
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Social Studies text, Our Communities, Unit 2, " Westward Movement" |
excellent information on pioneer travel |