• Cool math games and activities.  Oh and check out that pointer!! http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
• Good higher level math site but a few pop-ups. http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/
• Math Handbook for 3rd Grade (direct from the state website) http://www.pde.state.pa.us/a_and_t/lib/a_and_t/Gr3MathAssessHB2003-04.pdf
• Great site with cool interactive games and other stuff! http://www.multiplication.com/
• All types of multiplication practice pages http://www.aaamath.com/mul.html
• EDM parents page, this will link to a lot of cool and useful things.  The searchable glossary is especially good!  http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/index.shtml
• From the EveryDay Mathematics site.  Here is a copy of all the home letters for third grade!! http://www.wrightgroup.com/index.php/home/everydaymathematics/emsecondupdate/familyletters/46?SID=2146

Language Arts

• Here is Scott-Foresman's website.  It is a great resource for both parents and kids.  Click on the story titles and link to activities for extra practice and some for fun. http://www.sfreading.com/3/index.html
• A neat site with a limited number of kids' writing and artwork! http://www.kidsonlinemagazine.com/
• This is the website of Pamela Jane, an author of several children's books.  She gives kids the story of how she started writing story's and some tips for writing on their own.  Good Stuff! http://www.pamelajane.com/kids.html
• Some fun games with a few kid reviews of popular books http://www.kidsreads.com/
• Check this out parents - making reading fun!! http://www.parentingweb.com/dev_edu/raise_readers.htm
• The best brand name in dictionaries is on the web.  A little easier to use than other dictionary sites but the URL is harder to remember!  http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
• A pretty cool online dictionary that's free without a lot of pop-ups!  There is also a thesaurus function within the site!  http://dictionary.reference.com/

Unit #1 Finding My Place

• Author/Illustrator extraordinaire Mark Teague is profiled here on scholastic's author page http://www.scholastic.com/titles/authors/teague/
• Here is a site discussing all things "Old West" http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/OldWest/oldwest.htm
• The Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming is a great place to take a trip back to the old west! http://www.bbhc.org/home/index.cfm
• Wikipedia's James Marshall entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marshall_(author)
• WOW this is cool!  You can click through and read a bunch of fractured fairy tale.  There is even a way to add your own ideas to the stories, almost like madlibs.  http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/fairytales/ 
• The original "Fractured Fairy Tales" came from the old "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" back in the day.   http://www.brownielocks.com/fracturedfairytales.html
• Here is a really solid list of fractured fairy tale stories. http://www.ci.el-paso.tx.us/kidszone/kidszone_library/booksandreading/booklists/booklistfracturedfairy.htm
• Glossopedia is one of my favorites!  Here is their entry on "Bears", good general information. http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=23&art_nm=Bears
• National Geographic for Kids is awesome.  This link is just the beginning of their listing of all their great animal listings and information.  Use this link as a jumping off point for finding facts and information about all different types of animals, including BEARS!! http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/
• Try this out!!  A how to article on roping and making lassoes and lariats, COOL!! http://inquiry.net/outdoor/spin_rope/index.htm
• Cool site for horse fans here.  http://horsefun.com/
• Suzy Kline's own homepage, though the pictures didn't load for me, it was still pretty cool.  http://www.suzykline.com/
• Here is a good article about germs written for www.kidshealth.com, check it out. http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/germs_prt.htm
• Author of "Allie's Basketball Dream" Barbara E. Barber is a featured author on Harcourt Publishers' website. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/allies_dream/author.html
• Hey Ladies - this one is for all you future ballers out there.  http://www.wnba.com/
• I couldn't leaver out the fellas either, here is a site for you.  http://www.nba.com/
• Here is the NBA/WNBA's "Junior" site.  This is a good one.  http://www.nba.com/jrnba/
• High School All-American, two-time NCAA national player of the year, three-time Gold Medal winner, former WNBA star, and current Women's Head Basketball coach at Temple Univeristy; Dawn Staley is a very accomplished woman.  Here is her "About Me" portion of her own website.  http://www.dawnstaley5.com/about.htm

Unit #2 The Whole Wide World

• Here is a great research site for Unit #2's research project on ENDANGERED HABITATS.  http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/Endangered/
• Plants for Kids is a cool site supplying information about members of the plant family using kid-friendly language. http://www.plantsforkids.com/
• Brain Pop rocks!  The great kids site www.brainpop.com, gives some great information about carnivorous plants. http://www.brainpop.com/science/diversityoflife/carnivorousplants/preview.weml
• The kid's encyclopedia www.academickids.com offers some cool information about carnivorous planets.  http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Carnivorous_plants
• Another author page, this site provides some cool images of carnivorous plants.  http://www.sarracenia.com/cp.html
• Author/illustrator, radio personality, humorist Daniel Pinkwater is a unique American voice. Check out his website here. http://www.pinkwater.com/
• Here is a fansite for Daniel Pinkwater.  Some cool extra stuff about the author of "Guys from Space".  http://www.pinkwater.com/pzone/links/terms.html

Unit #3 Getting the Job Done

• Here is a HUGE list of authors and illustrators of children's book.  Most links include the personal WebPages of the authors or illustrators listed. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkBrown/authors.html
• This is a cool site from Illinois with great information and activities about farming and agriculture.  http://www.agr.state.il.us/kidspage/index.html
• Another farming website, this one is a bit more cluttered but still worth a look. Scroll down to see the bit about Emu farming!! http://www.benicia.k12.ca.us/henderson/fawproject.htm
• This is a neat little website from www.kiddyhouse.com all about farm animals.  http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Farm/
• Here is the official "about us" page from The Seeing Eye organization.  It's a great cause and a great site.  http://www.seeingeye.org/aboutUs/default.aspx
• This is the "about us" page for the other major guide dog organization in the U.S. Also a very cool site for a great cause.  http://www.guidedogs.com/site/PageServer?pagename=about_
• Spelling is an important part of language.  One job where spelling is extremely important is being a book editor.  Here is a great website devoted to helping kids become their own editors.  http://www.underdown.org/

Unit #4 From Past to Present

• Check out this HUGE list of folktales from Nigeria.  http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/stories.html
• More African Folktales... http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/africa.html
• Here are a bunch of folktales from all around the world.  http://www.afro.com/children/myths/myths.html
• PBSkids.org is awesome in general but this page specifically is really cool.  Check out the thumb piano!!  You must have the latest Flash player but... http://pbskids.org/africa/
• Check out this Chinese New Year site.  Look for the printable calendar pages.  http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html
• This site comes to us from San Francisco, which has one of the biggest Chinese populations in the US, discuss ways to celebrate the Chinese New Year.  www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/festival/newyear/newyear.html 
• Imagine that PBSkids.org with another great site, this one about the Chinese New Year!  http://pbskids.org/sagwa/games/countdown/index.html
• "Thunder Cake" by Patricia Polacco is one of our stories in this unit, check out Ms. Polacco's site... http://www.patriciapolacco.com/
• Again from Ms. Polacco's website, here is the "Thunder Cake" page.  Lots of stuff to do on this page!!  http://www.patriciapolacco.com/books/thundercake/thundercake_index.html
• Here is just one possible recipe for "Thunder Cake".  http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,166,157172-248194,00.html
• This site offers a short biography of Demi the author of our story "One Grain of Rice".  http://www.bcplonline.org/kidspage/demi.html
• COOL the numbers 1 to 10 in over 5,000 languages!!  http://www.zompist.com/numbers.htm
• Part of g-world a virtual theme park, this page provides several mexican folktales in both spanish and English.  http://www.g-world.org/magictales/

Unit #5 Are We There Yet?

Unit #6 Imagination.kids

Science

• THE k'nex Homepage - great site with pictures of kids who were successful builders with these great educational tools.  http://www.knex.com/
• This is a super PBS Bridge site with lot of good information for 3rd graders.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/
• Another PBS site about bridges, may be better than the first!  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/
• A more detailed and complicated bridge site but still has cool stuff.  http://travel.howstuffworks.com/bridge.htm
• A rocks and minerals slide show, very neat.   http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Slideindex.html 
• A more complex rocks and minerals site http://www.canadianrockhound.com/junior/index.html
• Cool site, check it out!! http://www.nasakids.com/
• Some more detailed rock descriptions http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/RocksandMinerals/igneous.html
• Here is a site which provides a good encyclopedia for rocks and minerals http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/rocks.htm
• Be dazzled be the "beauty" of this site http://www.rocks-and-minerals.com/
• Predicts sun rises and sunsets for almost any town in the USA http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html#forma
• Crystal Cave Site http://www.crystalcavepa.com/index.html
• Great Valley Nature Center http://www.gvnc.org/
• Create a Habitat site.  Ties in with our environmental trip to the Lower Perkiomen Park.  http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/createhabitat.cfm 

Social Studies

• Imagine that, a 3rd grade Native American Project on the web! http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/intro.html
• Another cool Native American site http://indian-kids-r.us/index.html
• YO!! This Native American site is really good, check it out! http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/index.htm
• All kinds of information on the 7 continents!! http://www.ri.net/schools/Central_Falls/v/218/t7con.html
• Print out maps of the 7 continents and countries around the world.  Not to mention every country's flag you can think of!! http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/continents/
• National Geographic's Lewis and Clark site.  Click the animated picture and take a journey as a member of Lewis and Clark famous expedition. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/
• A great PBS feature by Ken Burns (director of other PBS documentaries - Baseball and The Civil War) on Lewis and Clark is due out soon.  Here is the PBS site on the film.  http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
• The Smithsonian's version of the Lewis and Clark website; very worthwhile.  http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/
• The guide for this site is Philly's own Ben Franklin.  He shows you the 3 branches of government. http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/government/branches.html
• Awesome Geography quiz!! You can quiz yourself on the continents or any country.  It takes a long time to load but its worth it! Try to beat you best score. http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/worldquiz.html 
• Check out this cool little map quiz!! http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf
• This site provides several good resources including some pictures for a few of the landforms we study this year.  http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/landforms.htm
• Check this site out!!  There are some very cool geography games and information! http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/Landforms/
• Great landform site.  These definitions have pictures with them - awesome!!  http://www.geocities.com/monte7dco/index.htm
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PSSA - Pennsylvania System of School Assessment

• PSSA Practice Actual Pennsylvania Department of Education Page (PDE); gives a few reading and math activities to practice http://www.pastatestandards.org/gradelevel/3/index.htm
• This is a Pennsylvania State Educators Association article discussing the different ways to practice for the PSSA http://www.psea.org/article.cfm?SID=334
• A schedule of testing for the PSSA; again from the PDE website! http://www.pde.state.pa.us/a_and_t/cwp/view.asp?A=106&Q=80062

Project Links

• PA Trees for Unit #2 Project in Reading www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/commontr
• Endangered Habitats/Species http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/Endangered/

Other Links

• Spring-Ford Area School District Homepage  http://www.spring-ford.net/net/
• Jon's Puzzles Page http://www.thepotters.com/puzzles/kids.html
• Steven Courtney http://www.stevencourtney.com/
• World Almanac for Kids - Great for Research or FUN! http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/index.html
• One of the coolest free kids' sites on the internet http://www.funbrain.com/
• Fact Monster is almost like fun brain but not as interactive.  Still very cool! http://www.factmonster.com/index.html
• A resource for field trip information useful for both parents and teachers - updates seem slow but still worth a visit... http://www.fieldtrip.com/pa/index_pa.htm
• Sleeper Cabins on Major Airline

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