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Earth Materials
http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/Central/Curriculum/ELEMENTARY/SCIENCE/grade4_earth_materials/grade4_earth_materials.htm
A list of sites for rocks, minerals, soil, earthquakes and volcanoes

Earthquake Research Module
http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/Central/Curriculum/ELEMENTARY/SCIENCE/earthquakes/earthquake_research_module.htm
Students are guided through the Research Cycle as they explore the essential question, "How can people best try to overcome the forces of nature?" This research module is based on the Research Cycle designed by Jamie MacKenzie. For more information, please visit his web page.

Simple Machines
http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/Central/Curriculum/ELEMENTARY/SCIENCE/grade4_simple_machines/simple_machines.htm
a list of sites of simple machines and inventors.

Electricity and Magnetism
http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/Central/Curriculum/ELEMENTARY/SCIENCE/grade_four_elecmag/elec_magnetism.htm
a list of sites of electricity and magnetism ideas.

Scholastic Leveled Readers
http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do

Eve Bunting
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-bunting-eve.asp
A kidsread site with info on Eve Bunting.

Lynne Cherry
http://www.lynnecherry.com/
The official Lynne Cherry site.

Frindle Website:
http://www.frindle.com/
Andrew Clements answers questions about the book, Frindle.

Roald Dahl
http://www.roalddahl.com/
Official website on Roald Dahl and his many books.

Jon Sciesza
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~aec8484/biography.html

E.B.White
http://www.harperchildrens.com/authorintro/index.asp?authorid=10499
E.B. White's official homepage with info on books and the author himself.

Laura Ingalls Wilder
http://www.lauraingallswilder.com/default.asp
Info on Laura Ingalls Wilder's life and her books.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
There are three levels, Sentence Level, Paragraph Level and Essay Level all of which identify and describe the structure of the English language and standard English conventions. Curriculum standard 4

The Internet Public Library, Youth Division
The collection of the Youth Division of the Internet Public Library is developed for children ages 4-11, their parents, teachers, and anyone else interested in the literature and information directed to and about children. This is an excellent site for students (and teachers) to obtain information from a variety of media.

Myths and Legends
maintained by Christopher B. Siren. This site is so rich in different cultures' myths and legends your head will spin. A wonderful source for almost any myth or narrative from different cultures, times and geographic regions you can imagine or want.

The Media Awareness Network
originates in Canada but is perfectly suited to our United States culture as well. It provides information and analysis of the media culture and shares ideas and resources on how electronic media modifies our culture.

Monster Exchange Project
is a unique activity that has students writing descriptive paragraphs. There is a related site for an excellent curriculum article and other links about this project found at the next link.

Why, Why, Why
is a curriculum article/lesson plan that focuses on non-fiction materials The Why Files is a massive collection of non-fiction articles from the University of Wisconsin that is sited in the above article and is an excellent electronic media source to use along with the books recommended in the article or available through your media specialist.

Everyday Math Messages
http://www.wrightgroup.com/index.php/home/everydaymathematics/emsecondupdate/mathmessages/50
Listed by grade level, the messages download as a file onto your computer.

Everyday Math Family Letters
http://www.wrightgroup.com/index.php/home/everydaymathematics/emsecondupdate/familyletters/46
Letters download as a pdf file onto your computer after choosing your grade level.

Everyday Math Main Page/
The main page with choices for parent links, teacher links or student homework help.

Change Maker
is an interactive site that allows students practice in working with whole numbers, fractions and decimals by making change. There are four levels of difficulty and five types of currency available.

Math Baseball
allows students to compute using addition, subtraction, multipication, division or all in an interactive game format of baseball. There are four levels of difficulty.

Number Patterns
students can explore nine different number patterns including Pascal's Triangle and Fibonacci Sequence.

Geometry Page
has 16 activites and 2 pieces of software available for download. This site is specifically geared to elementary school.

Tesselation Tutorials
by Suzanne Alejandre are tutorials and templates for making your own tesselations.

Tangrams
is a series of lessons by Tom Scavo. This unit is designed for grades 4 through 6. It uses tangrams to compute the area of polygons without formulas. In the process of doing so, the terms congruent and similar are introduced.

The Five Themes of Geography (Teacher Resource)
http://www2.una.edu/geography/statedepted/themes.html
Well explained definitons of the 5 themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions.

National Geographic Xpeditions (Teacher Resource)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/index.html
Lesson plans addressing the National Geographic standards for each grade level. Also includes activities for students.

Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/
A great resource for viewing the world in different ways from space.

Earth's rotation
http://www.ncsu.edu/scivis/lessons/earthinspace3d/earth2.html
Short movie clip showing the earth's rotation around its axis and around the sun.

The World Clock - Time Zones
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Lists the times and days of many cities around the world.

Information about the United States
http://www.theodora.com/wfb/united_states_geography.html
Compiled from the CIA world factbook. Lists climate, terrain, boundaries, and natural resources.

North America Map
http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/namerica.htm
Clickable map of North America. Shows state and country boundaries, names of cities and information about these states.

National Atlas
http://nationalatlas.gov/index.html
Click on "Customize your own maps for printing and viewing". Students can use this resource to create all kinds of interactive maps.

Longitudes and Latitudes
http://www.realestate3d.com/gps/latlong.htm
Lists the longitudes and latitudes of many cities in the United States.

Colorland Form Atlas of the United States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
provides shaded relief maps, county maps, black and white maps, satellite images and 1895 maps for each state.

Maps - PDF files of outline maps
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/usa.html
Downloadable maps

Regional Climate Maps of the United States
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/usa.shtml
Students can get information created on a map of the United States - weekly, monthly, every 3 months, yearly for total precipitation and average temperature

1992 Agricultural Map of the United States
http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/census92/atlas92/html/
Can select crops and see a map of the United States to see where they are grown.

State Web Games
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
Students can engage in this interactive to learn where the states are located.

U.S. Climate at a Glance
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html
An interactive site where students can find the climate for any region of the United States over a requested time period.

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies website
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmss05/bkd/index.html
Contains interactive maps and other information related to the Houghton Mifflin textbook.

Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/us.html
Includes a multitude of facts for the United States.

50 States and Capitals
http://www.50states.com/
A good jumping point to locate information about America's fifty states and capitals.

States & Regions
http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/States.html
Lesson Plans & Activities for Kids & Teachers

Weather Eye
http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/climate/climate.html
Lists climate information for different regions of the United States.

The Mill Girls
http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/Central/Curriculum/ELEMENTARY/SOCIALSTUDIES/millgirls/titlepage_millgirls.htm
A web-guided exploration which may also be used in grades 4-7, includes teacher lesson plan and several student
activities with rubrics.

Friends of the Quabbin
http://www.foquabbin.org/
Information about the flooding of the Quabbin Reservoir

To Equip an Expedition
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/idx_equ.html
List of supplies taken on the expedition.

Lewis and Clark - Control of Lands
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/01/lewis_map_4.html
Shows a map of the control of lands in 1803.

Lewis and Clark - American Explorers
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/l/lewisandclark.shtml
Provides easy to understand information for kids.

What to Pack
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/lewis_clark/quiz/index.asp
Online quiz about Lewis and Clark

National Geographic - Lewis and Clark
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/
Students can go on a simulated journey planning where they will go and what they will take.

Corps of Discovery Profiles
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Activities&Kids/CorpsProfiles/CorpsProfiles.htm
Profiles of the people who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their journey.

The Journey of Lewis and Clark
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
Interactive journey log - shows segments of the journey and what was discovered.

Journals of Lewis and Clark
http://www.time.com/time/2002/lewis_clark/webguide.html
Explore some of the primary source journals of Lewis and Clark. See the journals in their own handwriting and with their drawings.

Supply and Demand at the Gold Rush
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM328
Very kid friendly explanation of supply and demand. Links to websites and an online activity is included.

Supply and Demand
http://library.thinkquest.org/3901/liz/liz.htm
Nice explanation with a short quiz. Students have to read a graph to answer the questions.

Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html
Library and Archives Canada

The Factbook of Canada
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ca.html
Contains information about geography, people, government, economy and transportation.

Maps of Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference
Contains many different types of reference maps for Canada.

Mexico for Kids
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_kids.html
Kid friendly website containing information about Mexico's history and government.

Mexico- CIA factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mx.html
Up to date facts from the CIA factbook on all aspects of Mexico.