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Fourth Grade Favorites

Art

At A. Pintura, Art Detective,  a detective style story helps kids explore the art world.

Snowflake Maker  Cut and design virtual paper snowflakes.

 

Games

ABCya!- Word puzzles, keyboarding practice,connect the dots, math games and much more

.Class Brain - Mental Madness puzzles, board games, role-playing games, all types of educational games!

Disney.com - The official Disney site

FunBrain- educational games in a variety of subject areas for 4th grade.

 Nick.com - fun games from the popular TV network.

 

GOAL

The Art of Crime Detection

 

Homework Helpers

B.J. Pinchback's Homework Helper is a powerful feature of Discovery School's Student Channel.  It lists over 625 educational sites on the web.  The Student Channel also offers favorites such as a dictionary, thesaurus, and puzzle maker.

Internet Public Library- one of our favorite sites, has a youth division which offers links to 12 different subjects areas.  Great for research and reports!

Kid Friendly Search Engines-  find great web sites fro your school topics by using these kid friendly search sites.

 

Keyboarding

Dance Mat Typing -Colorful and tuneful introduction to touch typing - do all 12 levels and become a top typist.

Glencoe's Online Keyboarding-  16 lessons with video clips, even printable score sheets.

Hannah Montana-Jamming with Hannah-  Your typing skills  with the space bar bar and Z, X, C, and V keys will allow you to jam as a drummer or on a keyboard.

Super Hyper Spider Typer  Save Berry the spider from hungry lizards with words on their backs by typing words quickly

 

Math

ABCya!- addition, subtraction, money, keyboarding practice, identifying computer parts, connect the dots, fractions and much more.

Play some "Cool Math Games" at this site including the classic simulation game Lemonade Stand.

Math Maven Mysteries- test math skills by solving a variety of mysteries- choose from a variety of skills and difficulty levels.

Math Playground is a math learning site for students in grades K-6.  It features a large collection of word problems, math games, and logic puzzles.

Math Maven Mysteries- test math skills by solving a variety of mysteries- choose from a variety of skills and difficulty levels.

Multiflyer Students progress through the solar system by correctly answering their multiplication facts from 1 to 12.  A multiplication grid is also available as a cool tool

Skill Builders- 4th Grade  Math -  find many web sites  that reinforce math skills from computation to general grade level reviews.

 

Reading

Bookhive This is an excellent place to look for reviews of current titles in more than 20 categories.

GameGoo : Learning that Sticks - Try the Advanced section to practice spelling, word types, etc.

I Spy - Play games based on the I Spy series of books.

JustKidsgames- site with educational games about reading, math, science.

Skill Builders- 4th Grade Language Arts-  scroll down under math to find many web sites  that reinforce skills from author's purpose to online standardized tests from other states.

 

Science

Alien Attack- Learn about light as you stop evil aliens from blowing up the world.

Astro Adventures- learn about the solar system  as you save  yourself from disaster on the Redstone Space shuttle- super interactive introduction.

In Search of Knowing the Trail- Explore the rain forest in this interactive simulation.

Make A Robot- Build and test a robot at the Iwaswonderingthat.org site. Also try Gorilla Quest.

Parkworld Plot  investigate the science of forces while you save Parkworld and its rides.

Silicon Spies-  Stop Dr. Volt from plunging Silicon City into darkness.

Zathura  Some  cool space games from the movie based on the Chris Van Allsburg book.

 

Social Studies

Visit the Jigsaw Puzzle Zone and try to assemble their USA  puzzle.  Hint:  You can choose the number of shapes --- Can you do 48?

Place the States-  test your knowledge. Can you drag the states to their correct location on the map ?

United States Map Game  How fast can you drag the state names  to the correct location ?

 

 

 

 

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