Literacy

Mysteries

MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries (very cool)
http://kids.mysterynet.com/

Learning with Mysteries
http://www.mysterynet.com/learn/

Suspense Around
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hmll/purple/dark/suspense.html

Writing a Mystery
http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/18may00/activity2.html

http://www.narnia.com/
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/narnia1.html

TeacherView
  link

TeacherVision
  link

ArtsEdge
  link

Comprehension Questions, Post-reading activities
http://www.geocities.com/lisargood/Teaching/lewis.htm

Fighting Ground

Bookfolio for The Fighting Ground
http://www.literatureplace.com/bookfolios/bookfolio.asp?BookfolioID=119

Questions
http://www.kathimitchell.com/fight.htm

Fighting Ground Centers
link

Create a Fighting Ground Poem
http://inquiryunlimited.org/ss_1700s/rev/waris.html

Webquest (not really)
link

http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1280.html

http://www.planetbookclub.com/kids/archive/shiloh/shilohmain.html  

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/shiloh.html  

An Integrated Literature Unit
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lpnew/lesson/1083/suncrestelA12.html

http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lpnew_bin/UI_Metadata/public/1083  

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/shiloh/shiloh.htm

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Inspiration for the Story
http://www.judyblume.com/tales.html

Reading Contract
http://hbogucki.staffnet.com/aemes/resource/contract/tales4th.htm

TeacherView

Downloadable Files
http://www.gigglepotz.com/themes-nothing.htm

Projects
  link

Jeopardy
   link

Adapting as a Play
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cuesheet/pdf/4thgrade.pdf

Science

Landforms

Landforms of the World
http://www.geocities.com/monte7dco/

Landform Dictionary lesson plan
http://www.kamalii.k12.hi.us/Claris/sc_plan_1.htm

Geography Game
http://www.eduplace.com/geonet

Inventors and Inventions

Inventive Genius (TAG Class)
http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/inventor/main.htm  

Rather than create our own Invention Convention from scratch, I have found some ideas on the web.

Houghton Mifflin's Invention Convention
  link

Disney Online  -  Invention Convention
http://disney.go.com/educational/cyberlesson_may00.html  

Invention Planning Ideas
  link

Lessons
  link
http://whyfiles.larc.nasa.gov/docs/guides/guide2b_01.pdf
  link
http://wizard.hprtec.org/builder/worksheet.php3?ID=2452

Forms
link
Some Requirements from Hiteon
http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/hiteon/sciencefair/invention.html
Invention Project
  link

Display Requirements
http://www.elm.maine.edu/assessments/teacher/ic/swork.stm  

Invention Convention WebQuest
  link

Invention Web Resources for Students
http://www.yellow-springs.k12.oh.us/ys-mls/inventio1.htm

The Amazing Rube Goldberg
http://www.geocities.com/MadisonAvenue/Newsstand/7000/
http://rube.iscool.net/

Fun activities for the iBooks

Activities

Inventions (National Geographic)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/inventions/

Fun

Totally Absurd Inventions
http://totallyabsurd.com/absurd.htm

History of Inventions (Timeline)
http://www.cbc4kids.cbc.ca/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html

Innovation Timeline
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/timeline.htm

Zoom Inventors and Inventions
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/

Famous Inventions (About.com)
  link

Weather

Homework Spot
http://www.homeworkspot.com/theme/weather.htm

Weather (USA Today)
link

Franklin's Forecast
http://sln.fi.edu/weather/index.html

Weather Basics (Weather Dude)
http://www.wxdude.com/basics.html

Twister: The Tornado Story
http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/index.html

Glossary of Weather Terms
http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/glossary/

Storm Folklore
http://www.stormfax.com/wxlore.htm
link

Weather Maps
  link

Scholastic Weather Watch
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/

Weather Forecasting Tools
link
extention ideas and projects for at home

Franklin Forecast
http://sln.fi.edu/weather/owc.html

Weather Watch project
http://www.sunshine.co.nz/nz/36/projects/senior1.html

Weather Forecast Machine
link

Weather Webquest

Weather Report Webquest

Hurricane Webquest
link

Weather Webquest
http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/NCTM99/weather.html  

The Cloud Case (Literature - Mystery)
http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/cloudless/index.html

Clouds
http://www.fox8wghp.com/spacious.htm

link  

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html

http://www.heard.org/rain/clouds/clouds_language.pdf

Weather

Literature Connections

CyberGuide - Cloudy witha Chance of Meatballs
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/Cloudy/cloudytg.htm

CyberGuide - Night of the Twisters
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/twist/nighttg.html

Images

Weather Photos
http://weatherpix.com/ 

Classroom Clipart - Weather
http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Weather

Weather Pictures (Yahooligans)
http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Nature/The_Earth/Weather/Weather_Pictures/  

Pictures of Clouds
http://www.fox8wghp.com/spacious.htm  

Clouds

Posters
http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/poster.html

http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/Cloud_ID.html

Bookmarks
http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/bookmarks.html

Social Studies

State Reports

NetState
http://www.netstate.com/states/index.html

States (Enchanted Learning)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/

State Links
link

Virtual Guidebooks (Panoramaic Photos)
http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/GeographicLists/Guidebooks_TOC.html

Oregon

Oregon History in Photos
link

Geography & Maps

Mapping Our Worlds
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=329

USGS - What Do Maps Show
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/mapsshow_lesson1.htm

Postcards from America
http://www.postcardsfrom.com/t1/arcin.html

Postcard Geography
http://pcg.cyberbee.com/

Colonies

American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=411

Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=390

Exploration

Other Worlds:
The Voyage of Columbus
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=322

What Was Columbus Thinking?
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=257

Jamestown Changes
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=269

American Revolution

Voices of the American Revolution
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=423

The Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional?
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=397

The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=401

The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=402

Revolutionary Tea Parties and the Reasons for Revolution
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=398

The Preamble to the Constitution:
How Do You Make a More Perfect Union?
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=233

Declare the Causes:
The Declaration of Independence
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=282

Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=394

Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=413

Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=414

Oh, Say, Can You See
What the Star-Spangled Banner Means?
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=298

American Explorers

On This Day With Lewis and Clark
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=297

Oregon Trail

On the Oregon Trail
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=323

If You Were a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=274

Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=277

Native Americans

Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=347  

Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=324

Then and Now: Life in Early America, 1740 - 1840
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=260

Technology