Three Names
A child's great-grandfather reminisces about the times he and his dog Three Names went to school on prairie roads in a wagon pulled by horses.
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Online Units and Resources for Three Names
Three Names
(Grade 3) (T)
Three Names Past/Present Chart
(Y)
Cultural Awareness
Scroll down for links to FIAR book resources (Y)
Go-alongs about Frontier life
A Celebration of Prairie Life - Interdisciplinary unit for 4th graders. Integrating the Arts Into the Classroom (Y)
Activities to Go With the Little House on the Prairie Book Series - (Y, M, O, T)
Colonial Living (3rd grade, Remedial 4th and 5th Grade) - Collaborative theme unit for students to explore the people, places, and events of life in the early settlements and colonies of the United States of America (Y)
Go West Across America with lewis & Clark - Wild rivers. Rugged mountains. An unknown continent to explore. This great American expedition will face them all. And they need your help on this incredible adventure. From National Geographic Kids. (Y,M)
Pioneer Life with Laura - A Social Studies and Language Arts unit that can be used in conjunction with a westward expansion study; from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. (Y, M, O, T)
Teacher's CyberGuide to Little House in the Big Woods - This supplemental unit provides resources for students in third grade to focus on life in the frontier times with an emphasis on student writing (Y)
The American West - Learn about pioneers, cowboys, Indians, the Alamo, Buffalo Bill, and more.
(Could tie in with FIAR vol. 4 title Cowboy Charlie)
(Y,M)
The Pony Express - Here is a series of fun activities for use in studying the Pony Express. First is an article with comprehension questions. There is also a puzzle, a drawing activity, and some other hands-on, high-interest fun. (Y)
There's No Place Like Home - Lesson plans from National Geographic online; uses My First Little House Books or Little House series (Y)
Welcome to Pioneer Town - This site utilizes Macromedia Flash (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Weather
A Guide to Snowflakes - (Y, M, O, T)
Bentley Snow Crystal Collection - A digital library providing a high-quality collection of stunning, un-retouched images of Wilson A. Bentley’s original glass slide photographs of snow crystals. (Y, M, O, T)
Bibliography of Materials to AccompanySnowflake Bentley - (Y)
EasyFunSchool Weather Unit - Activity, ideas, resources, and many links to weather websites (Y, M, O, T)
Google Earth - Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. (Y, M, O, T)
Guide to Snowflake Bentley - pdf file from Weston Wood productions. grades 1-3 and 4-5 (Y)
Make a snowflake - "Make an amazing snowflake from real crystal (borax). This is a beautiful project (and also demonstrates some basic principles of chemistry)."
(Y,M)
Making paper Snowflake - (Y)
Natural Disasters - 4th and 5th Grade (Y,M)
Savage Seas - Use a wave simulator and explore tsunamis, freak wanes, and trade winds (Y,M)
Snow Flakes - hexagonal symmetry - (Y, M, O, T)
SnowCrystals.com - Every winter I am again amazed at snowflakes. This intriguing site from a physics professor at Caltech is full of images of beautifully intricate designs found in snow and gives you insight into the science behind them. Pick up some snowflake wallpaper for your computer while you are there. (Y, M, O, T)
Weather watch - in-depth teaching resources from Scholastic.com (Y, M, O, T)
Weather Wiz Kids® - Hi everybody! I’m Meteorologist Crystal Wicker . I'm a television meteorologist for the ABC affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana. I designed this website especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. It’s also a wonderful educational website for teachers and parents that gives them the right tools they need to explain the different types of weather to children. (Y)
Go-alongs about Music
Appalachian Riddle Song - Capture your students' attention with this lesson focusing on “The Riddle Song” to show the pentatonic scale and Appalachian culture. (Y, M)
Children's Music Archive - Familiar children's music (Y, M, O, T)
Didjeridoo - From the Aboriginal Australia Art & Culture Centre in Alice Springs. (Y, M, O, T)
Hotchalk.com - HotChalk is a learning environment for K-12 teachers, students and parents that includes a learning management system (LMS), a rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans, premium digital content like NBC News video, and professional development for teachers in a Web-based environment. Available through any Internet browser, the HotChalk Learning Environment is an easy to use system and brings teachers, students and parents together to improve education. (Y, M, O, T)
Ideas for teaching music - Includes links to some wonderful Music toys and games, recommended books about Music, and some links to other useful Music sites. (Y,M)
Making Musical Instruments - Carol Raedy, a musician and educator from Charlotte, NC, has put instructions online for making simple musical Using common household items you can guide your students to make a banjo, bass, dulcimer, drum, rainstick, and thumb piano. Thanks to Iris B. fo (Y, M, O, T)
Paul Taylor Didjeridoo - (Y, M, O, T)
Popular Songs in American History - If your student loves music, he will love learning these songs and their place in history. My kids have enjoyed learning songs like Wait for the Wagon and Yankee Doodle Dandy and this site offers not just the songs, but the background, lyrics, and relate (Y, M, O, T)
The Sound Site - The Sound Site is part of the Sound Project, a partnership between the Science Museum and the Minnesota Orchestra. The site's purpose is to present activities, discussions and multimedia explorations about sound, both from a scientific and artistic perspective. (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Water cycle
Water Conservation Resource for Educators - This web site has been designed to enable teachers to easily access water conservation resources. This resource includes access to free information, articles, water conservation units, lesson plans, experiments, book list, slideshow, and activities to help facilitate instruction of the concept of water. All the lesson plans are geared for K-6, however most can be adapted to fit a specific level of instruction. (Y)
Water Cycle Poster - Have students make their own water cycle poster to involve them and help them to retain more of their knowledge about the water cycle. (Y,M)