Soil

After rocks and minerals, the class digs into soil. The Soils 4 Kids website offers information, resources, and interactive games for kids to explore everything they ever wanted to know about soil. Click here to visit the site, or click the images below to learn about soil through game play.

Mass and Liquid Volume

The measurement unit includes telling time, elapsed time, mass and liquid volume. Explore this Prezi to learn more about mass and liquid volume...

Practice your "maths" skills with interactive measurement games. Click the screenshot below, or right here to play.

Elapsed Time Games

Place Value Practice Games

The year begins with place value. Sheppard Software offers fun games for practice. Click the images below to get started.

Latitude and Longitude Games

The first social studies unit of the year is all about geography. ABCya! has a fun game that fits perfectly within the social studies map skills unit. In Treasure Hunt, players use latitude and longitude to find buried treasure. Click the screenshot above, or right here to play.

Explore locations around the world on the Earthguide website using latitude and longitude. Click the image above, or right here to get started.

iCivics

As we explore our democratic heritage, the class will get to know how government works through interactive games at iCivics.org. The site was founded by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and according to the website, "iCivics provides students with the tools they need for active participation and democratic action, and teachers with the materials and support to achieve this. Our free resources include print-and-go lesson plans, award-winning games, and digital interactives." 

Click here to visit the games page, or click the screenshots below to play specific ones (many more are available on the games page).

In Branches of Power, players experience how important compromise becomes when trying to get anything done in Washington DC. Click here to play.

In Lawcraft, players become members of congress from their home states. Learn how bills become laws, and the about the challenging process lawmakers navigate while representing constituents. Click here to join congress and get to work.

Poetry 4 Kids

Kenn Nesbitt writes poetry for children and has a pretty amazing website for young writers. Click here to visit the site, or on the images below to play games related to poetry.

   My Word!

There is also a rhyming dictionary on the website! If you're writing poetry and need to find a rhyming word, click the screenshot below, or right here.

Interactive Games and a Song About Fossils

Did you know that most prehistoric animals did not become fossils? Click the screen shot above to discover the best (and worst) places for fossils to form.

Paleontologists rarely find all of an organism's fossilized bones. Click the picture above to test your paleo puzzling skills, and see how fast you can reconstruct a dinosaur skeleton.

"I Am A Paleontologist"

I love diggin' in the dirt
With just a pick and brush
Finding fossils is my aim
So I'm never in a rush
'Cause the treasures that I seek
Are rare and ancient things
Like Velociraptor's jaw
Or Archaeopteryx's wings

Now all the kids
Who wanna see 'em
Are lining up
At our museum

I am a paleontologist
That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am
I am a paleontologist
That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am

Could it be an herbivore
Crushing plants with rounded teeth
Or ferocious carnivore
Who moves so quickly on its feet
It's like pieces of a puzzle
That I love to try and solve
It's so fun to think about
How a species has evolved

And all the kids
Who wanna see 'em
Can check 'em out
At our museum

I am a paleontologist
That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am
I am a paleontologist
That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am

Is it a T-rex? (I keep digging, digging, digging, digging)
(Digging, digging, digging, digging)
Maybe a Triceratops? (Digging, digging, digging, digging)
(Digging, digging, digging, digging)
Or a Carnotaur? (Digging, digging, digging, digging)
(Digging, digging, digging, digging)
(Digging, digging, digging, digging, diggin')
Pachycephalosaurus?

I am a paleontologist
That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am
I am a paleontologist
That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am
That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am
That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am

Possessive Noun Practice

Practice making nouns possessive with these interactive games from the BBC and beyond. Click a screen shot to get started. 

Pronoun Practice

Magnets and Magnetism

Magnets are fun and useful. England's spy agency is called the MI5, and the BBC offers kids online activities with "M.I. High" spy kids.  Enjoy the activity above, or click here to explore magnets and magnetism online.

Click the map above or right here to find buried treasure with a compass.

Click the image above or right here for a tutorial and interactive game about the relationship between magnets and compasses.

Destroy magnets by connecting opposite poles of the same color in a game somewhat similar to Tetris. Click the screenshot above or right here to play.

How much do you know about magnets? Answer all questions correctly to win this Rags to Riches game. Click the image above or right here to begin.

Possessive Noun Practice Games