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A Sampling of How Third Graders Can Make A Difference With Technology
 
 

Literacy Opportunity	Resource to Explore
Documenting Work, Constructing New Knowledge, and Communicating Ideas with  Technology Tools	Kid Pix Studio: Martin Luther King Slide Show, created by 3rd Graders Illustrate the setting of a story, draw by 2nd grader Favorite parts of a story, created by 1st graders Art Extension with King Tut, and Egyptian people colored by 3rd graders Label maps from non-fiction texts, created by 3rd grader Water cycle learning template and student drawing Art Extension for Tiger Slippers, by 3rd graders Inspiration: and Kidspiration Animals in Our Backyard, created by 2nd Graders Living and Non-Living Things Student Work Samples: (by 5th graders) solve a murder mystery,        the earth's interior, summary outline of course's units See templates on the software program HyperStudio: Animal Habitats, created by 3rd Graders Simple Machines, interactive quiz Asia Quest Presentation, created by 3rd Graders  PowerPoint:  Trout Slide Show, designed by third graders Third Grade Class Scrapbook Teacher designed presentations on Bats Netscape Composer (Web Page Design): Nancy Ferguson's Third Grade Web Site Pocantico Elementary School Curriculum Projects West Elementary Internet Projects
Access to Age-Appropriate  and Current  Information	Enchanted Learning: Age-appropriate information, visuals, Little Explorers Dictionary, Rebus Rhymes, Zoom Learning Units, Holiday Activities and Printables for Students
Internet Project Responses to Text (Fiction and Non-Fiction)	Third Grade  Predicting: Sarah, Plain and Tall Point of View: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Summarizing & Adapting: Holidays Around the World (with a followup of their own holidays) Art Extension: The Vingananee and the Tree Toad  Personal Narrative: Sally Salamander Story by third grade student Online Storybooks with Clay Animation Summarizing Research: The United States Project - Study the states, draw a map, write ten facts and publish  Writing How-To Paragraphs
Literature-Based  Internet Activities	SCORE Cyberguides for Third Grade  Charlotte's Web Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor Webquests for Third Graders Colonial Children in America Ancient Egypt for Elementary School Students
Interactive Online  Reading Games	Between The Lions Adventures and Activities from PBS
Children's Author - Related Background & Activities	Eve Bunting Eve Bunting: Authors Online Project Eve Bunting Teacher Resource File: Many links to resources A Talk with Eve Bunting Ann Cameron Ann Cameron's Ideas for Teachers; part of Ann Cameron's Website Randomhouse Ideas for Cameron's Books Chris Van Allsburg Patricia Polacco
Ideas for Using  Software Programs	Early Childhood Technology Literacy Grant: project ideas, training resources, student samples, literacy lesson plans, assessment ideas Thematic Literature Units for Primary Grades: an excellent model of top-quality unit and theme plans for how to integrate good literature with software and Internet links.  Includes specific title recommendations and suggested instructional tips and ideas for each unit.
Efficient Search Engines  for Teachers	Dogpile Northern Light
Safe Searching or Browsing with Children	Yahooligans: use search feature or "browse" through topic-based menus designed and screened for children; websites with pictures, music or video are highlighted first; nice teaching integration ideas Ask Jeeves (just type in a question)  KidsClick (get a suggested reading level for each website)

Literacy Extension Activities

• African Animal Limericks and Tales: written by students with nice photos
• A Report of What We Learned (2nd Grade Tlingit Tribe)  (nice comprehension word links and credit for photo; can use as final summary of K-W-L chart created by students to summarize learning; can publish a series of these throughout the year.  Nice simple format
• A huge list of 3rd grade projects: check out for good ones and link to directly if needed (a few links do not work, but it's still a great resource)
• Build a Virtual Garden Webquest: A very involved webquest that assists third grade students with their creation of a wildflower garden.
• Civil War / Slavery Project Reports
• Chronicling the birth of baby chicks in their classroom and writing advertisements and link to egroups for parent / teacher communication (neat networking idea for teachers)
• Emporer Penguin Activities: (Grade 2) Nice ideas: Bibliography is in print out form with directions for students on what to look for in each book, plus tons of penguin links (also link to Grade 1 Zookeeper Webquest)
• Examples of third grade lesson plans (and student samples) using word processors, Kid Pix drawing tools, and spreadsheets.  (Lessons for other grades available here too).
• Fairy Tale Unit (many mini-units of popular Fairy Tales)
• Illustrations of teachers by third grade students
• Online Claymation Books by third graders
• Thematic Units: lots for grade 3 through grade 5; this is a great resource for ideas and student work samples
• The Important Project by fourth graders

Classroom Web Pages

• Great Project Ideas
• Mrs. Bogucki's Third Grade Class: Ideas for Technology in their classroom, including an online newspaper created by students
• Mrs. Sefero's Third Grade Class: teacher links are good and include some good technology lessons
• Mrs. Davidson's Class: nice grid of real-life activities and connections to Internet
• CFSD Technology Literacy Projects (check out these projects developed by teachers for students from Grade 1 to Grade 5)
• Clow School 3rd Grade Student Contributions (poetry calendars, expository writing, inventions)
• Nancy Ferguson's 3rd Grade Projects (Massachusetts) lots of great work samples; also archive of previous third grade classes (watch progress of teacher and students over the years; some great integration ideas and links too)
• Third Grade Class Homepage with an interesting division between a creation of girl and boy websites
• 3B homepage: great way to communicate with parents (events, photos, weekly letters to parents)
• Third grade teachers at Winston Salem community (links to each classroom with some neat features)
• Carminati School Third grade students: original story Magic School Bus Goes to the Olympis, classroom newsletter, and writing project samples
• KidzPagePoetry for Older Readers

 
• Great Links for Third Grade Topics
• Robert Clow Elementary School Third Grade Class: great links and project ideas for weather, rainforest, Washington D.C., biographies, immigration and matter
• Third Grade Solar System Resources
• Lots of content related good third grade website ideas
• Oswego City Schools Language Arts Links
• Waunakee 3rd Grade Links for Egypt, Insects, Japan, Minerals, Fossils, and the Solar System

Online Interactive Activity Pages for Thid Grade Students

• Discover what interests you at DiscoveryKids.com
• Solve A Mystery at The case.com
• University of Illinois Extension Activities
• Just for Kids: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• Flat Stanley Project
• Spywatch Comic Strip Adventure With Reading for 7-9 year olds; after popular BBC program
• Treasures @ Sea: Exploring the Oceans Through Literature
• Lunaland.com: explore interactive fantasy stories

Teacher Resources

• Texas Bluebonnet Books (1999-2000) (2000-2001) Great third grade books with lots of Internet extensions. "Children's literature provides powerful learning and entertainment opportunities that are catalysts to creativity and research."
• Third Grade Teacher's Q&A from 4-Blocks Literacy Discussion Board
• Thematic Links Grades 3-5 from EdTech Department in Kennessaw, Georgia: what begins as a simple list emerges into an incredible resource for upper elementary teachers
• Dr Amy McClure's website from Ohio Wesleyan Univerisity on Children Literature Activities with students