4th

toc

Rainforests

 * United Streaming has tons of videos on Rainforests. Please ask CC and MM's assistant to find videos for you and your class.**


 * Rainforest Lessons**
 * [|People and African Animals]: This lesson asks students to think about the ways that human activities impact African animals and their habitats.
 * [|Rainforests, Raw Materials, and You]


 * Rainforest Websites**
 * [|Enchanted Learning's Rainforest Website]: Good collection of information written in kid-friendly text.
 * [|Missouri Botanical Garden's Biomes of the World]: This resource, from Missouri Botanical Garden, provides information about rainforests, including tropical rainforests found close to the equator and temperate rainforests found along coasts in the temperate zone.
 * [|Rain Forest at Night]: Virtual tour of Borneo's rain forests.
 * [|Video of Great Bear Rainforest]: Video of the only temperate climate rainforest in the world
 * [|Amazon Explorer]: Interactive rainforest adventure
 * [|Rainforest Sounds]

Nouns and Verbs

 * 1) [|Be] - verb usage online quiz
 * 2) [|Complete Verb Phrases] - find the complete verb phrases in the sentence
 * 3) [|Fish Tanks] - Fill a tank with tropical fish using your knowledge of plurals.
 * 4) [|Gorilla Grammar] - identify Parts of Speech - Beginner (nouns and verbs) Advanced ( all parts of speech)
 * 5) [|Grammar Blast] - various online graded activities dealing with 5th grade grammar skills
 * 6) [|Irregular Verbs] - Jeopardy type game for two players
 * 7) [|Linking Verbs] - identify types of verbs in this online quiz
 * 8) [| Plural and Possessive Nouns] - By clicking on a bubble, identify whether the highlighted word is a plural or possessive noun and then click on the "Submit Answer" button.
 * 9) [|Plural Girls]- type the correct plural form of words
 * 10) [|Plural Play] - In this two player tic-tac-toe game students drag words to their correct plural ending
 * 11) [|Power Proofreading] - Choose 4th grade then select; **The Big Cleanup, Memo to Dr. Pett, Wild About Animals, Who's That Character?, E-mail to Lou, Crazy Corn**, or any one of the mixed practice exercises.
 * 12) [|To Be] - present and past tense online quiz
 * 13) [|Verb Phrases] - find the complete verb phrase
 * 14) [|Verb Power] - Students identify underlined words as main verbs, helping verbs or contractions.
 * 15) [|Verb Practice] - many student tasks and online tests practicing verb usage
 * 16) [|Verb Tenses] - identify correct usage of verbs
 * 17) **Practicing past, present & future tenses** - [|Tense Activity 1] | [|Tense Activity 2] | [|Tense Activity 3] (not available 1/22/06)

Fact Practice
> choose football teams and rumble down the field by identifying math facts.
 * 1) [|All in the Family] - Students multiply and divide fact families that have the number 7. (Author - Sandi King)
 * 2) [|Ambleweb Times Table Tester] – practice multiplication facts on one of three levels; **Easier, Harder,** or **Megahard**.
 * 3) [|Animal Legs] - Students use repeated addition as a strategy to solve multiplication story problems. (Author - Sandi King)
 * 4) [|Are You a Math Magician?] - Two levels of practice with several operations are available; addition, subtraction, **multiplication** or division. Mixed practice is also available; addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, or a mix of all four. Select the level appropriate for this spi. [|Multiplication game] also available
 * 5) [|Arithmetic Four] - (A game like Connect Four) A pair of students must answer arithmetic questions (addition, subtraction, **multiplication**, division) to earn a piece to place on the board. Parameters: time limit, difficulty level, types of questions
 * 6) [|Checking Division] - Students learn that multiplication is the inverse operation of division. (Author - Sandi King)
 * 7) [|Check It Out] - Students uses manipulatives to divide by 6. (Author - Sandi King)
 * 8) [|Count the Goodies] - This multiplication activity from Harcourt School’s Mighty Math Calculating Crew asks you to multiply using **regrouping**. Three problems at a time are presented.
 * 9) [|Draggable Math] - Keep your numbers in the correct column with this game!
 * 10) [|Explore the Multiplication Table with Math Cats] – an interactive hundreds chart
 * 11) [|Fact Families] - Students learn about multiplication and division fact families. (Author - Jackie Russell)
 * 12) [|FlashCards] - timed game, practice facts, type answers
 * 13) [|Groups Of Dogs] - Students use arrays to understand the meaning of multiplication. (Author - Sandi King)
 * 14) [|Mad Math Minutes] - (//This page opens in a new window. When you finish **Mad Math Minutes**, close the window to return to i4c.//) This is a great way to practice basic math skills in addition, subtraction, **multiplication**, and division. You pick the number of and types of problems that you want to practice. You may also choose the largest number used in a problem as well as the number of terms (numbers) used
 * 15) [|Math Fries] - Students have to eat French Fries that have math problems on them that equal a certain number displayed on top of the screen.
 * 16) [|Math Mastery] - select operation and practice your facts
 * 17) [|Mathematics Problem Solving Index] - choose the operation and solve the problem.
 * 18) [|Multiplication Hidden Picture] - Identify the answer to the problem to uncover a hidden picture underneath.
 * 19) [|Minute Math] - select type and level of problems to give students practice in addition, subtraction, **multiplication**, or division
 * 20) [|Multiplication]- Table Shooter- Fly the plane and shoot the target that has the answer. Earplugs recommended. Can select which fact family to study.
 * 21) [|Multiplication Mystery] – drag the product to the correct place on a 9 x 9 grid
 * 22) [|Multiflyer]- A fun way to study multiplication facts. Earphones are suggested! They will ask you to join, but it is free online. Just click, No thank you to continue.
 * 23) [|Multiplication Flash Card Game] - a timed 30-second game
 * 24) [|Nine Pattern] - Students explore patterns while multiplying and dividing by 9. (Author - Kaye Maddox)
 * 25) [|Number Cop] - select multiples of some number (2-9), click on **Start** then use the left and right arrows to move the police car to intercept only multiples of that number.
 * 26) [|Rabbits] - Students recall multiplication facts using a hundreds chart. (Author - Kaye Maddox)
 * 27) [|Save the Clown fish] - Help the clown fish escape the shark by answering fifteen single digit multiplication problems before missing three.
 * 28) [|Speed Grid: Multiplication] - Students answer the question set by clicking on two numbers that complete the sentence. You set the number of questions (2 to 99) and the time limit (1 to 10)
 * 29) [|Spinning Wheels] - Students learn multiplication facts. (Author - Kaye Maddox)
 * 30) [|Sum Sense (Multiplication)] - Students practice single digit multiplication by dragging numbers to complete the sentence.
 * 31) [|Tackle Math Ball] - learn your math facts a fun way. This is a game in which students
 * 1) **Times Table Practice**
 * 2) [|Multiplication Generator] - pick the fact family you wish to review.
 * 3) [|Multiplication Number Sense] - Understand multiplication by using this grid.
 * 4) [|Quick Flash]- practice times table facts here
 * 5) [|Time Tables Emporium] - Have fun practicing your multiplication tables. Simply look at the MENU bar to the left and click on a times table you wish to practice and try and keep up with the flashcards! Excellent for a quick competition for the whole class!
 * 6) [|Times Table Grid] - students are asked to locate the product of two single-digit numbers
 * 7) [|Times Table Grid II] - students are given a sample product and asked where to locate it on a 10x10 grid
 * 8) [|Multiplication Tables] - Practice individual sets of fact by numeral.
 * 9) [|Tools for Times Tables]- Site to help students learn their facts.
 * 10) [|Worksheet Generator] - Constructs a set of simple arithmetic problems. You can choose the number of problems presented, as well as the types of questions asked

Wagons
There is lots of stuff on [|United Streaming]!

You can find webquests on [|San Diego State's Webquest Page]. I found all of the webquests below by running searches on "wagon" and "westward."
 * 1) [|Wagons Ho!]
 * 2) [|Wagons West]
 * 3) [|Journey to Nebraska Territory]
 * 4) [|Westward Expansion]
 * 5) [| Westward Expansion 2]
 * 6) [|Road to California]
 * 7) [|Who wants to be a pioneer?]

Map Skills
General Map Skills
 * 1) [|A Map For All Reasons] - students identify the function of various parts of a map
 * 2) [|Are We There Yet?] - students answer ten questions by reading information from maps
 * 3) [|Interactive map] of the various types of features on the Earth's surface
 * 4) [|Label Maps at iKnowThat.com] - //**Note**//: this link takes you to an index of activities. To work on this **SPI**, select any of the five entries in the **Physical Features** section, click on the green **Maybe Later** button to go to the activity, and then select either **Puzzle** or **Labels** to begin.
 * 5) [|What’s On a Map?] - eight questions about using various parts of a map
 * 6) [|Geographical Features] - Quia game
 * 7) [|Map Reading] - EnchantedLearning - activities for learning map reading.

Identify US Bodies of Water
 * 1) [|Identify Major U.S. Rivers] - after two incorrect answers, the river or body of water blinks red [[image:interactive_arrow.gif width="13" height="7" align="absmiddle"]]

Identify States
 * 1) [|Blank (almost) Map of the States] - This map from enchanted learning has the first initial of each state labeled on the state outline.
 * 2) [|GeoSpy] - select the States and Provinces game, then click on United States to begin to identify the states.
 * 3) [|Interactive U. S. Geography Activities] - How well do you know the **states** of the United States?
 * 4) [|Map Race from Alfy] - work against time to place all 50 states in their proper location
 * 5) [|Puzzle Maps Geography Game] – From the United States section select; **All States, Northeastern States, Southern States, Midwest and Great Plains States, and Mountain and Pacific States**. As students drag the state images to the correct position a fact about the state is displayed and an animation is displayed typical of the state. Click on "**Maybe Later**," to go to the game. Each game has a "Read it to Me" button. [[image:1smspkr.gif width="26" height="19" align="absmiddle"]]You can find similar activities at [|Label Maps] or [|Clue Maps]
 * 6) [|States Interactive Web Games] -Learn the locations, capitals, abbreviations and over 500 important facts about our 50 states.

Latitude and Longitude >
 * 1) [|Anchors Aweigh : Longitude Mapping Game] - The King of England has ordered you to travel around the world to test your longitude skills. Are you ready for the challenge?
 * 2) [|Are We There Yet?] - students answer ten questions by reading information from maps
 * 3) [[image:1smallapple.gif width="24" height="22" align="absmiddle"]] Go to [|Enchanted Learning Software's Search page] and enter latitude and longitude. You will find dozens of printable pages.
 * 4) [|Find your Longitude] - Interactive game
 * 5) [|Label the Latitude and Longitude] - a world map from Enchanted Learning ([|answers])
 * 6) [|Latitude and Longitude] - Introduction
 * 7) [|Latitude and longitude] - online Quiz
 * 8) [|Latitude and Longitude Printout Glossary] - to be used with a world map
 * 9) [|Look up the latitude and longitude of states in the U.S.]
 * 10) [|Map and Globe Quiz] - Test your knowledge on identifying the parts of a map and a globe.
 * 11) [|A Map For All Reasons] - students identify the function of various parts of a map
 * 12) [|Map Skills Quiz] - Online quiz to test knowledge of reading maps
 * 13) [|USA Latitude and Longitude Activity] - from Enchanted Learning
 * 14) [|What do Maps Show] - Several activities are presented to assist in teaching the concepts of reading maps.
 * 15) [|What’s On a Map?] - eight questions about using various parts of a map
 * 16) [|World Latitude and Longitude Outline Map] - from Enchanted Learning
 * 17) [|World map to use in latitude & longitude study] - [|World Latitude and Longitude Activity] to go with the map
 * 18) [|Blank U. S. Map] - This map could be used with a list of latitude and longitude values for U. S. Cities.