School Vault: Recent Episodes
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School Vault is intended to be a storage area for our work and for giving easy access to Internet resources for students, teachers and parents. I hope you find something interesting, if not useful, to you. .......................Mrs. D. Smith,
Dike Newell School, Bath, Maine......................
States of Matter animation
Four States of Matter
Chem4Kids.com
WhyFiles
Scholastic
Enchanted Learning
Tech Topics - States of Matter
Study Jams Matter Video
Science NetLinks gr.4 Matter
States of Matter teacher resource
Changing States of Matter interactive (in Celsius)
Successlink Experiments
Science Experiment - Log for Melting Ice Cream
From DNS Library:
Why Am I Different? Norma Simon
How Are You Peeling! Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers
The Way I Feel, Janan Cain
People, Peter Spier
Feelings, Aliki
Whoever You Are, Mem Fox
Sense Suspense: A Guessing Game for the Five Senses, Bruce MacMillan
To Be a Kid, Maya Ajmera and John D. Evanko
All About Me links:
It's All About Me From American Academy at Castle Pines, Colorado.
The All About Me lesson
All About Me slideshows
Scholastic's About Me Unit Plan integrating math.
Printable pages from Scholastic
Enchanted Learning's All About Me pages to print
Kids' AOL All About Me
Out on a Limb, an online guide to getting along. Conflict resolution.
PBS site: Arthur's About Face
All About Me lesson
Starfall's All About Me - reading online interactive
Teacher Vision printable Daily Writing Prompt
Citizenship, Rules
Come Play with Me, lesson for Grade One
Rules All Around quiz
On Jan. 20, 2009, CNN will have 4 live streams to cover the inauguration, so that those who do not have access to a TV will be able to see the swearing in ceremony live.
It will also be available for viewing on the Fox News and MSNBC websites.
Comics as Literacy
Edutopia Article - A New Literary Hero: Comics Make for Colorful Learning
Have some fun writing your own stories in comic strip format.
Here are some links to some versatile comic strip creators.
Charlotte's Web Comic Strip Charlotte's Web Characters and props are used
Make Beliefs Comix A variety of characters, 2, 3 or 4 panel comics
Read Write Think Comic Creator
Garfield Comic Creator
Kabam Comic Creator Help the Bam Bunch through stressful situations and create your own comic.
Boys' Life Comic Creator Characters, backgrounds and objects to use in your comic.
Comic Creator at Surfwell Island A Disney character comic creator
MES English.com Free resources for teachers of young learners. All of the resources are designed to be versatile and useful in many K-6 classrooms. There are free flashcards, worksheets , phonics cards, ESL games printable certificates and printable stickers ready for printing.
http://www.djtswebs.com/animalresource.htm
Beaver:
1. Montana Trappers Association
Harbor Seal:
1. Sea World
2. Animal Bytes
3. Coastal Research and Education
4. Enchanted Learning
Herring Gull:
1. USGS
2. Project Puffin
3. RSPB
Lobster:
1. Enchanted Learning
2. The Lobsterman's Page
3. All About Lobsters
4. eNature.com
Lynx:
1. Fact Guru
2. Montana Trappers Association
Porcupine:
1. BC Adventure
2. Enchanted Learning
3. Bear Tracker
4. Nature.ca
Puffins:
1. Project Puffins
2. Enchanted Learning
3. MaineBirding.net
4. Nature.ca
Raccoons:
1. BC Adventure
2. Enchanted Learning
3. Bear Tracker
4. The Big Zoo
5. Montana Trappers Association
Red Fox:
1. Fact Guru
2. Enchanted Learning
3. BC Adventure
4. Nature.ca
5. Animal Diversity Web
6. Montana Trappers Association
Red Squirrel:
1. Nature.ca
2. Nature Works
3. Nature of New England
4. Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources
Skunk:
1. Enchanted Learning
2. Nature of New England
3. Eduscapes
4. Project Wildlife
5. Montana Trappers
Spring Peeper:
1. Northern Spring Peeper
2. eNature.com
3. Watersheds.org
White Tailed Deer:
1. Nature Works
2. Animal Diversity Web
3. Life Tracks
Wild Turkey:
1. Kidzone
2. Enchanted Learning
3. Critter Corner
4. USGS
5. Nature of New England
Wolf:
1. Maine Wolf Coalition
2. National Wildlife Federation
Wood Duck:
1. USGS
2. NSC University
Maine Wolf Coalition
Here are a few more of the volcanoes done this winter by third graders.
Students drew volcanoes in sequence using Windows Paint, saving them as bitmaps. Then they brought the images into Windows Movie Maker and added sounds of volcanoes and music clips found online at:
http://www.freesfx.co.uk/
http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/
http://music-for-video.com/free-sound-effects-for-video-makers.html
http://www.pdsounds.org/
Other free sound effects may be found at:
Absolute Sound Effects Archive
SoundBoard
Have some fun writing your own stories in comic strip format.
Here are some links to some versatile comic strip creators.
Charlotte's Web Comic Strip Charlotte's Web Characters and props are used
Make Beliefs Comix A variety of characters, 2, 3 or 4 panel comics
Read Write Think Comic Creator
Garfield Comic Creator
Kabam Comic Creator Help the Bam Bunch through stressful situations and create your own comic.
Boys' Life Comic Creator Characters, backgrounds and objects to use in your comic.
Comic Creator at Surfwell Island A Disney character comic creator
Webrangers: Visit National Parks around the country and earn Certificates. Sign up or just visit.
Three difficulty levels from ages 6 to 13+.
Study Jams States of Matter: Animation video from Scholastic that talks about the three states of matter and what matter is.
Here are some links to various biomes of the world.
MBGNet
Blue Planet Biomes
Earth Floor Biomes
Biomes of Earth
Enchanted Learning - Biomes
The Wild Classroom - Biomes
Some fifth grades are communicating with Colegio America in Callao, Peru, so I've included some links to more information about Peru.
Lima Easy - Welcome to Lima weather and climate, animals, history, festivals, etc.
Machu Pichu pictures and information
Enjoy Peru - El Callao near Lima, where the school is located
Colegio America the school's website
Two older websites where we learned about their school through a stuffed animal exchange
Moose on the Loose 2003-04 and Moose on the Loose 2004-05
Here are some interesting links to Earth Day activities and information:
Tox Town
FunSchool Earth Day
Earth Day Clean Up Your World
Food Chain
Women in American History
Famous People Links
History Link
First Ladies of the USA
Famous Figures in Black History
Biographies of Famous African-Americans
Famous Firsts by African Americans
The Water Cycle
The Water Cycle
Water Cycle Diagram
Drippy the Raindrop - to the mountains and back
Drippy the Raindrop - the land of snow and ice
Tom Snyder - Is there water in the air?
Tom Snyder - Water Cycle Song
Giving Water a Second Chance
Earth Cycles - Water Cycle
Water Cycle
Zoom Astronomy- Water Cycle
EPA Water Cycle
Ecolinks - Water Cycle
The Water Cycle Explorer
The Water Cycle
Kidzone Water Cycle
Water Facts of Life
Water, Water Everywhere
Water Goes Around
Readers' Theater Script: Water Cycle Adventure - a play
Fact Matching
Word Scramble
Make a Water Cycle Wheel
Water:A Never-Ending Story - teacher module
ProTeacher Directory - teacher plans
Biomes and Ecosystems
The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook Learn the principles of aeronautics and even some sign language
Aviation History Online Museum
Royal Air Force Museum
AV Kids Games a memory game, puzzles, put the parts of a plane together.
How Does an Airplane Fly?
The Oregon Trail
New Perspectives on the West a PBS site with timeline
Albert Bierstadt Artist and traveler
Trails of Hope Biographies of settlers in 1800"s
Links to some of the texts
Pioneer Life Web Center
Famous Pioneers of Iowa
Famouse Pioneers, Frontiersmen, Mountainmen and Fur Traders
Famous American Pioneers
US Timeline
Westward Expansion
Santa Fe Trail Association
National Road Historical Timeline
Famous Mainers - just a listing, no information
Secretary of State's Kids Page
Famous People - List of sites. Joshua Chamberlain site does not link.
Imagine Maine - List of sites to famous people from Maine
MeLiving.com - short description and picture of some famous Mainers
Maine Memory Network - scroll down and search here
Famous People from Maine - list of links
Stuff About States - a list of people, click on and go to a list of links for them
Search terms to use: famous maine people or put in your person's name
Abbie Burgess Sites
Abbie Burgess Grant - Matinicus Rock Light -USA Lights - Bangor Daily News
John Ford Sites
John Ford
John Ford, Answers.com
John Ford, BNet
John Ford, Who2
Samantha Smith Sites
Samantha Smith, The Eighties Club
Samantha Smith.info
Samantha Smith, Wikipedia
Samantha Smith, Can Do
Joan Benoit Samuelson Sites
Joan Benoit Samuelson, Wikipedia
Joan Benoit Samuelson, UMAugusta
Joan Benoit Samuelson, Suite101
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wikipedia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Biography and Works
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Maine Historical Society
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stephen King
Stephen King, Illiterarty
Stephen King, Shop
Stephen King, Books and Writers
Stephen King, Biography
Stephen King, Bio
Stephen King, Biography
E.B. White
E.B White
E.B. White, Houghton Mifflin
E.B. White, Today in Literature
Click here:
for Secretary of State's Kids' Page for information about Industry in Maine.
Potato Planting
Potato Processing
Burning the Blueberry Fields
Lobstering
Woodsmen and River Drivers
Read a comic. Go to Sticky Burr.
Make a comic. Go to Comic Creator or MakeBeliefsComix.
Here is A volcano animation made by a third grader. More will be posted as time permits!
Midnight Rider: A Paul Revere Virtual Museum
Pictures and narration of Paul Revere's ride.
Poem: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.
Boston Massacre: Paul Revere's Engraving
Paul Revere's Account of the Midnight Ride
Paul Revere's Other Ride
Paul Revere Biography
Paul Revere's House
American Revolution
The Making of America
The Making of America: Biographies
The History Place
The American Revolution
The American Revolution
Liberty! The American Revolution-PBS
The American Revolution Lessons
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