***TONS of Grammar Games (sorted by skill)***
Extra Goodies & Helpers
Use your F&P reading level to find a just-right-for-you book!
Accelerated Reader Book Finder
NEW!! What Should I Read Next? Type in a title or author of a book you love and find suggestions for an upcoming read!
NJSLA Practice Tests Online
****Extra Reading Street Online Games/ Study Helpers for Each Story****
Writing: TONS of help for every type of writing
*The Sentence Trail 4 types of sentences
Four kinds of sentences (10 questions)
Four kinds of sentences ID (16 questions)
Vocabulary practice games
homographs Jeopardy game
homonym game
vocabulary study stack- pick any of the games at the bottom
cause and effect ice cream game
*Sentence Speedway grammar game
Greeting Card- Design an Invitation! (use the ideas for inspiration, but design your own on Google Classroom)
Independent & Dependent Clauses video 1
Independent & Dependent Clauses video 2
Independent/ Dependent Clause games (all of the ones in the list will practice our skill!)
*TRUE STORY* The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island
Island of the Blue Dolphins--- scroll down the the section labeled "chapters"
*Sentence Sort game
Antonym Games
Antonym Word Frog (select ANTONYM)
questioning game
Kung Fu Panda-Complex Sentences video
Justin Bieber- Baby- Compound Sentences video
Gangham Style- Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences video
vocabulary arcade games
vocabulary study stack
Satchel Paige official website
History.com video: Arrival at Ellis Island
History.com video: Surprising facts about Ellis Island
Transcontinental Railroad info
The Great Railroad Race online activity
Quizziz on Ten Mile Day
grammar- Space Smash, Monster Truck Race, Review Game Zone
vocabulary study stack
PBS resource gallery- videos, photos, media, and docs about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad
The Great Race to Promontory interactive
Westward Expansion -scroll down for games
Westward Expansion Jeopardy- more advanced than our story, but you'll learn a lot
The Great Railroad Race- (note: to go forward, click the "next" button underneath of the trees)
PBS- The Transcontinental Railroad video
Factile Jeopardy- learn some new facts about the Transcontinental Railroad and the people who helped build it
Explore Ocean Life Start here! Partner with Earth Watch and gather some information about dolphins and turtles. Get some information to help with your research.
Life On Discovery The new TV show on the Discovery channel. Check out the mudskippers.
Marine Life Different links about marine life and the adaptations made by some of the marine creatures.
Extreme Science Discover some interesting creatures that live in the deep parts of the ocean. Not your average fish!
Army of Sea Urchins You Tube Video 3:50 from Planet Earth that show sea urchins eating plants.
National Marine Sanctuaries Education Get information on ocean awareness, and many other student friendly information.
Regular & Irregular Plural Nouns Jeopardy
compare and contrast video
More than One (fast forward to 2:52)
Spelling Strategy: Plurals -s, -es (fast forward to 1:57)
Inferring activity
Vocab + Amazing Words Practice
How to Fold the US Flag - sequence practice
Massachusetts 54th Registry- William Carney - info on our main character
Fun Flag Facts + Video tutorial
Time for Kids- "Where the Buffalo Roam"
Rags to Riches- possessive nouns game
Plurals vs Possessives- choose from the different games
Under Sea Explorer- possessive nouns game
*Exploring for Possessives game
inferring practice
unknown words practice
vocab study stack
Vocab Study Stack (many options and games to choose from)
🌟Action & Linking Verb Games, Action Verb Shoot-Out, Magic Carpet Verbs, ID a linking verb, What are Verbs game
Quizziz story questions
Text Structure Review Activities (contains lots of links)
🌟*Verb Power game, Main & Helping Verb online games, Action, Linking, & Helping Verbs Jeopardy
Hubbell Trading Post (video)
Native American Art (scroll down to 'Native American Art Forms' section)
vocab study stack
Navajo weaving how-to (Watch the YouTube read-aloud of Ten Little Rabbits, then scroll down to see how the weaving is done)
National Museum of the American Indian
The Navajo Treaty of 1868 (Why was the Navajo journey home so remarkable?)
The value of the horse in Native American culture
American Indian Removal video
2017 Gathering of Nations Pow Wow video- Chicken
🌟*The Verb Frontier game, Subject-verb mix-up (subject-verb agreement), Verb Viper
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (audio read-aloud)
Paul Revere House – Information about The Midnight Ride, The Freedom Trail, and a biography of Paul Revere
Paul Revere Heritage Project – Facts about the Midnight Ride, The Poem by Longfellow, historical documents that have to do with Paul Revere, landmarks in Boston, pictures, popular myths and much more information
Paul Revere Webquest
Midnight Ride Webquest- (hint: scroll down to the "links" section for lots of info!)
*overview of skills, games, and links
🌟*Subject-Verb Mix-Up game, *Past and Future Match Up game
Famous Inventor Biographies & Facts
Summarizing video
🌟Past Tense, Tense Games (stick to the 'SIMPLE GAMES' for this week's skills), Verb Tense Battleship
History of Perpetual Motion Machines for Kids
Perpetual Motion- The Drinking Bird Explanation of Drinking Bird #2
*Research: The Physics of Perpetual Motion Machines (hint: click on the 'many designs on the internet' link!)
multiple-meaning words: homographs
Main Idea- page with lot of main idea practice activities
Main Idea- for 4th grade, but lots of games to practice the skill
vocabulary study stack- pick any of the games at the bottom
🌟Grammar (scroll down to verb tenses) Link, Kid Heroes Verbs game: past,present, past participle verbs, Principal Parts of Verbs JEOPARDY, Present & Past Participles video
Museum of Science - Explore all the different aspects of Da Vinci through this website specially created for students in 5th grade.
Leonardo Da Vinci Invention – Gives a brief biography and a list of inventions with pictures.
Da Vinci’s Biography, Inventions, and Paintings – Provides a broad range of information about all of the things related to Da Vinci.
Da Vinci the Inventor – A timeline of important events in Da Vinci’s life.
Renaissance Art – History.com, several videos
Italian Renaissance Art – Pictures and brief information about artists of the Renaissance period.
Images from the National Gallery – Previews of different paintings as well as information about some of the artists
Great Minds: Leonardo Da Vinci video
🌟irregular verbs: Match the Memory, irregular verbs: Monkey Isle, *The Verb Ride game, Regular & Irregular Verb game
video: Ancient Egyptian Burial Customs
Make predictions activity
Predict & Set Purpose (part 1 only- there is no 'reading'; fill out recording sheet)
extra info/ research:
PaleoPortal (click on 'PaleoPeople' for interviews with paleontologists)
The Paleontology Portal – Provides options of what you would like to explore as well as some teacher resources for activities to do with students.
Palaeocast – PodCasts by paleontologists about their findings and other topics.
Evolution of Life – Teacher Resource: Activities, extensions, and a few videos that go along with different times in the evolution of our planet with a focus on dinosaurs and fossils.
The Paleontological Society – Teacher Resource: Websites that lead to more information about dinosaurs, paleontology, and activities to do with students.
Enchanted Learning - Dinosaur fact sheets
Dinosaur Facts for Kids - This site has some information written in a kid friendly way about dinosaurs.
Interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates - Watch this interview to gain a better understanding of how an interview is conducted.
Interview with Jackie Chan on Ellen - Watch this interview, it is more informal, but still shows the question and answer format
Furious Frogs antonym game
Inside the Quietest Place On Earth
🌟Troublesome Verbs quizlet, Pop Quiz on Troublesome Verbs
History Brief: Radio in the 1920s
Blues Radio – Free Blues Music
Blues as African American History – Teacher Resource: This lesson enables teachers to use blues music to explore the history of African Americans in the 20th century.
A Short History of the Blues – Pictures of important people and happenings that created the blues.
Music History of the Blues – Historical timeline of how the Blues came to be.
Blues Music History – The history of the Blues written in a student friendly format.
Ray Charles: Georgia on my Mind – You Tube Video 3:00
Aretha Franklin: I Say a Little Prayer – You Tube Video 4:00
Shake A Tail Feather - You Tube Video clip from Blues Brothers 3:16
🌟Prepositions: Game, ,Jeopardy, Brainpop prepositions, Battleship
Prefix Games (for center)
TIME: A Brief History of Special Effects (slideshow)
How Special Effects Artists Work
Special Effects Before and After
Special Effects in Movies – The Revolution of Special Effects in Movies
How Stuff Works Special Effects – Information on how special effects are added to movies, and how a blue screen works.
AMC Visual Effects Timeline – Film milestones in special effects over the years.
Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration – You Tube Video 5:00
Best Visual Effects in Movies – YouTube Video 3:30
Alice in Wonderland Behind the Scenes – YouTube Video 3:00 – shows characters acting in front of the green screen
Dirty Jobs: Special Effects – Video 1:30 – Mike makes a mask to be used in a movie
Create Your Civilization's Alphabet/ Communication (directions)- Complete on a piece of white computer paper and turn in when completed.
"What is civilization?" (video clipper-helper)
Weslandia- read aloud to you WITH story illustrations :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leLfa2FTin8
Hula dance YouTube 3:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rtOqQw0Id0
Polka dance YouTube 3:44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3CyNlGfl0E
Waltz YouTube 4:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwuN_OdP05M
Ballet, an entire performance, 2:00:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4KSLUzv3sQ
Karate YouTube 8:49
Animal Adaptations (research ideas)
video: Camel, giraffe, and penguin adaptations
Teacher Resource – Animal Adaptation
Investigate and Report on Animal Adaptations (Scholastic) – Provides steps students should take, a teacher resource guide and student examples.
Animal Adaptations – Give some examples of the adaptations that animals have made over the course of thousands and thousands of years.
Animal Adaptations: You Tube Video – 2:30 video that goes over some adaptations camels, giraffes, and penguins have made over time.
10 Ways Life Has Adapted to Its Environments – Digestion, seed dispersal, bodily protection, acquired resistance, avoiding the sun, tool use, surviving with little oxygen, camouflage, surviving the cold, and sensory specialization.
Really Wild Animals: Island Magic: You Tube Video – 24:00 National Geographic - Kids will journey to islands around the world to discover how animals have
adapted to their unique environments
Andrew Zimmern Eating Tarantulas - 5:18 YouTube - Andrew visits a village and investigates fried tarantulas. This goes with Time for Kids October 26, 2012 Vol. 3 No. 7 Edible Insects
Insect Chef - Time for Kids video of chef Julian Medina from New York City. Goes with the TFK story Good Enought to Eat from the October 26, 2012 issue.
How Animals DO That: Part 1 - 7:00 YouTube - Animal adaptations Discovery Channel
How Animals DO That: Part 2 - 7:00 YouTube - Animal adaptations Discovery Channel
How Animals DO That: Part 3 - 7:00 YouTube - Animal adaptations Discovery Channel
How Animals DO That: Part 4 - 7:00 YouTube - Animal adaptations Discovery Channel
How Animals DO That: Part 5 - 8:00 YouTube - Animal adaptations Discovery Channel
How Animals DO That: Part 6 - 5:00 YouTube - Animal adaptations Discovery Channel
How Animals DO That: Part 7 - 5:47 YouTube - Animal adaptations Discovery Channel
Animal Weapons: Episode 1 - Chemical Warfare - 42:17 YouTube - Animal adaptations
Animal Weapons: Episode 3 - Armed to the Teeth - 44:07 YouTube - Animal adaptations
Animal Weapons: Episode 4 - Dash to Clash - 44:46 YouTube - Animal adaptations
2012 US Men’s Gymnastics Team Tribute: You Tube Video – 5:00
2004 Olympics, Carly Patterson – Floor Exercise: You Tube Video 3:30
2012 Highlights from Olympic Qualification – You Tube Video 9:00 – women’s’ balance beam, uneven bars and floor exercises.
2012 Olympic Gymnastics Teams: Men and Women – You Tube Video 5:30 – Beam, uneven bars, high bar, and parallel bars.
2008 Beijing Men’s Olympic Rings – You Tube Video 9:00
7 Professional Athletes that Overcame Disablities - Short on how each athlete overcame a disablity to go on and compete in a professional sport.
🌟*Pick a Path negatives game
TIME: Skunks and their Smelly Spray
Youtube Clip--- Titanic Leaving for the First Time
National Geographic for Kids: Would YOU have survived??
Titanic's Menu - notice how the menu changes for each class of people
🌟Create a Sentence Adjective Games (scroll down to the bottom for games), Spider Adjectives Game
BBC- The Rise & Fall of the Titanic
video: The Sinking of the Titanic
teacherTube: Titanic
Teacher Resources – Another teacher’s classroom page with games and other resources
Titanic INC – Stories, artifacts and information.
Below are educational resources from the RMS Titanic INC site above.
Resources
For elementary school students there are several excellent historical fiction books available such as White Star Line: A dog on the Titanic, Dear America's Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, and Magic Tree House: Tonight on the Titanic.
THe Website ocean explorer
Ocean Explorer leads you to comprehensive lesson plans for grades 5-6, 7-8, and 9-12 revolving around the science of ocean exploration such as marine archaeology and bio-deterioration.
THE PASSENGER LISTS on encyclopedia titanica
Encyclopedia-Titanica.org can be used for a large variety of statistical, graphing and database assignments. For example, what percentage of first-class passengers survived, as compared to second or third? What was the ratio of men to women on the Ship? What was their ratio for survival? See chart with these numbers.
TITANIC commercial cargo manifest
Titanic-Whitestarships.com has the cargo manifest that originally appeared in newspapers soon after the sinking. This list is an excellent source for math problems.
THe Website Anderson, Kill, & Olick: Estate of Hans Jensen vs. The White Star Line
www.andersonkill.com/titanic/home.htm features a mock trial in which a victim's family sues the White Star shipping company for negligence.
VOICES from the titanic
http://www.create.cett.msstate.edu/create/classroom/lplan_view.asp?articleID=67 you will find examples of a Titanic-related language arts activity for upper grades. There are also many existing lesson plans online to coordinate with well-known Titanic-related stories, such as Walter Lord's A Night to Remember.
A&E and national geographic
Both A&E and National Geographic have study guides available to coordinate with their Titanic documentaries: Biography.comwww.aetv.com/class and National Geographic Xpeditions www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
History on the Net – Information about the Titanic including the layout, a list of passengers and crew, reasons why the Titanic sank, why people thought it was unsinkable, and much more.
Deep Sea Footage of Titanic – YouTube video 2:00
Robert Ballard: Restoring the Titanic – YouTube video 21:00 National Geographic. The entire video discussing the exploration of the Titanic. The below clip is part of this video.
Titanic’s Graveyard – YouTube video 2:30 National Geographic. An explorer shows images of underwater exploration and also discusses how the site is a graveyard and needs to be respected as so.
Technology Opens Titanic’s secrets – YouTube video 3:00 – Discusses Jason Jr. and Alvin and how that technology helped discover some of the Titanic’s secrets.
Stories from Titanic Survivors – ThinkQuest Stories of Titanic survivors
Survivor Stories – A short passage and a Video (6 min.) of stories of survivors told verbatim
Titanic Survivors – Stories and videos of stories from passengers who survived. Also, demographics, passenger lists, pictures, newspaper articles can be found on this page.
Survivors of the Titanic Collection – Audio collections of stories as told by survivors. 13 stories in all ranging from 23 minutes to 3 minutes
What Do Astronauts Eat In Space?
5 Foods Astronauts CAN'T Eat In Space
🌟Demonstrative Adjectives- this, that, these, those - click on the different games
Talk with an Astronaut Jeopardy
International Space Station (ISS) info
Heavens Above - Check out what you can see in the sky tonight.
Astronaut Dan Burbank Conducts Satellite Interviews – YouTube video 55:00 May be good to watch brief clips. Interview only shows the one astronaut.
Returning Station Resident Talks of Returning Home – YouTube video 12:00
TED Ed: The Brilliance of Bioluminescence
🌟Comparative & Superlative Adjectives Game
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Interactive Earth - Learn more about the Earth's layers, tectonic plates and how they move.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Rocks - This is a student-created site about the rocks and minerals that make up the earth's surface and layers. Includes information about the uses of these various rocks.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Different Sites - These sites contain information about the layers of the earth. Also includes animated graphics, interactive, audio, games and quizzes about earth's layers. There are also links to eThemes Resources on Rocks and Minerals, Earth's Spheres, and Geology.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Glaciers - History of Illinois glacier and the different parts of a glacier.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - How rocks are formed - Check out the cycle of a rock. Do you know how the different types of rocks are formed?
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Geomysteries - Click on Geomysteries to explore geographical mysteries, a geologic timeline and find some quick facts and answers about rocks and fossils.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Geo Gallery - Geology museum. Check out pictures of different rocks and minerals.
Check out current science issues or you can search for other science topics or issues that interest you! Have fun!
Journey to the Center of the Earth - National Science Resources Center - The National Science Resources Center (NSRC) was established in 1985 by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academies. Its mission is to improve the learning and teaching of science for all students in the United States and throughout the world.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Earthquakes - Learn more about earthquakes today and in the past.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Virtual Earthquake
Ghost Towns - Legends of America - Find the definition of a ghost town, learn about the ethics in a
ghost town, and search for ghost towns by states.
Ghost Towns - National Geographic - National Geographic Traveler Magazine lists different famous
ghost towns and shows some pictures.
Ghost Towns - Gold Rush - Learn more about the gold rush and important facts
Ghost Towns - Way Back in the Gold Rush - Different links to learn more about the gold rush.
Ghost Towns - California Gold Rush - What created the gold rush? Who rushed to California? What does the football team the San Francisco 49ers have to do with the gold rush?
Colorado History - Ghost towns from Colorado
Ghost Towns - PBS Gold Rush - Read about people and events of the gold rush. Check out a map and the timeline of the gold rush.
Gold Rush History Links – Links to stories from the discovery of gold, pioneer routes, the ways of the West and the Donner party.
Pioneer Women – A story of what life was like for a woman. Related Links on the side provide other stories and also gold rush chronology.
crossword puzzle
Remember the Children: Daniel's Story- the Museum’s primary exhibition program for young people and their families. The exhibition tells the story of one family’s experiences during the Holocaust from the perspective of a boy growing up in Nazi Germany.
The Real-Life Story Behind Number the Stars
Number the Stars BINGO!
Number the Stars Webquest: De Frie Danske
research information on the Holocaust
Music of the Ghetto & Camps
Concentration camp pics @ Birkenau and Auschwitz
Auschwitz Concentration Camp: the basics (really interesting read)
The Holocaust Center main exhibits
What Jewish people had to go through during the Holocaust
Number the Stars resources (scroll down until you see the book title, 4th from the bottom)
All about breed: facts, dog owner's guide
Shiloh word search
Lemonade Stand math
Read this passage to better understand dyslexia.
TED Talk: Having a Growth Mindset
Teacher- Student Activities w/ Objectives
Jeopardy- ch 1-41