- Smithfield Elementary
- ELMO
- Grade 4
ELMO Grade 4
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Unit
Search Term
Books
Online Resource Path
Discovery Education Videos
Vertebrate Animals Name of animal Go to your Library's Webpage. Click on the magnifying glass. Enter your search term. Run a subject search. Go to Grolier Online. Go to Amazing Animals. Enter your animal's name.
The best POWER Library resource for your report is Searchasaurus.
Click on the video title to view contents. Once video loads you may click on segments to view only information about your animal.
Animals Around Us: Amphibians
Animals Around Us: Fish
Animals Around Us: Birds
Animals Around Us: Mammals
Animals Around Us: ReptileUnit
Search Term
Books
Online Resource Path
Discovery Education Videos
State Reports The full name of your state Go to your Library's Webpage. Click on the magnifying glass. Enter your search term. Run a subject search. Go to Grolier Online. Enter your state name fact box. (Pennsylvania fact box.)
Two good POWER Library resources are: Facts for Learning. Enter state name fast facts. (Pennsylvania fast facts) There is good information about famous people/ economy. Also state symbols are here.
Kids Search. Enter the state name and push state/province button in toolbar. This gives a history timeline of your state.
A great online source is found at IPL Kidspace: Stately Knowledge. Just click on your state on the map, go to OFFICIAL STATE LINKS. Look for KIDS PAGE.
Click on the video title to view contents. Once video loads you may click on segments to view only information about the geography of your state/region. It's the next best thing to going there on vacation.
US Geography: From Sea to Shining Sea: The Country Evolves
US Geography: From Sea to Shining Sea: New England Region
US Geography: From Sea to Shining Sea: Middle Atlantic Region
US Geography: From Sea to Shining Sea: Midwest and Great Plains Region
US Geography: From Sea to Shining Sea: Mountain West Region
US Geography: From Sea to Shining Sea: Pacific West Region
Unit
Search Term
Books
Online Resource Path
Discovery Education
Storms
Enter the name of the storm you are studying (i.e. hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, blizzards.)
Go to your Library's Webpage. Click on the magnifying glass. Enter your search term. Run a subject and keyword search. Go to Grolier Online.
Enter storm name. Click on Table of Contents to see if the information you need is there. Info about how storms form, characteristics of storms, classifications of storms, warning/watches, and preparing for storms are inside each article.
There are great pictures to the right hand side of each article .
In the New Book of Knowledge (NBK) select Facts at a Glance and the Features box on the top of the article for good scales, safety tips.
Great online web resources for storms are as follows:
Weather Watch Activities: This website from Scholastic is excellent to track clouds, experiment with weather tools, explore climate conditions and forecast weather.
Weather Watch Severe Weather: This website shows severe weather and natural disasters, volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, winter storms, and tornadoes.
Kids Weather Maker: This website allows kids to make their own severe thunderstorms while applying atmospheric conditions.
Web Weather For Kids: This award-winning website is designed by middle school students and contains accurate information about storm types and how to simulate them in the classroom.Weather Proverbs: This website contains excellent references to weather proverbs (old wive's tales) and the truth/fiction behind them.
Dan's Wild Wild Weather: Contains info from a Chief Meterorologist about radar, forecasting, satellites, clouds, and storm types. Excellent experiments listed.
National Weather Service Lightning Safety: This contains a cool lightning safety powerpoint that is interactive.
Bay Kid's Weather Page: Weather jokes, myths, and recipes to simulate storms. Completed in 1998, some broken links, but still worth it!
Sky Diary Kidstorm: Tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes, storm chasing, causes of storms, measurement, and safety information listed.
Disaster Preparedness Coloring Book: Created by the American Red Cross, this contains good information for safety in all types of storm situations.
Clouds: Plymouth State University Meteorology Program: Cloud Boutique:
Explanations and detailed pics of some basic cloud formations.Carl Wozniak Clouds:
A science teacher's excellent website on types of clouds with pictures and a glossary.
Click on the video title to view contents.
The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm.
Weather Smart: Hurricanes
Weather Smart: Winter and Snow
Weather Smart: Tornadoes
Weather Smart: Wind, Fronts, and Storms
Weather Smart: Thunderstorms
Flash to Bang (Lightning)
Weather Smart: Forecasting Weather, weather instruments
TEAMS: Folklore and Wisdom about Weather
Hands on Weather: How to Make Weather Instruments.
Meteorology: Tools and Prediction of the weather
Difference Between Tornadoes and Hurricanes
Formation of Storms