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Saint Joseph School Technology Classes
Mrs. Mary Harshall,  Mrs. Denise Nichols,  Mr. Tom Steele
Technology Classes Grades 1-6

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to the 
3rd Grade 
Tech Page

 

Pumpkin Seed
Project -

pumpkin
  
Thanksgiving Activity - Vote

Christmas


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Language Arts

Science Sites
Abraham Lincoln Animation
Presidents

Thanksgiving

Birthday Activity

Snowman Project


Black History

3rd Grade 
Tech Curriculum

Desert

Computer  Links

Fun Things to Do 

Keyboarding

Winter Fun

Research Sites

Saint Patrick's Day Activities 
  Google

Internet Unit
 
2010
Winter Olympics
rings

Earth Day

Explorers
of North America
My Life TIMELINE

 

 

 

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INTERNET UNIT

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Faux Paw Games
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EARTH DAY

1

Earth Day Quiz
2 5 Ways to Save the Planet
3 Earth Day Recipes - can you find something earth friendly that you might like?
4 Clean up your world
5. Free the Beach - can you clean up the trash
6 Who is Doing it Right?

 

 

 

 

2010 Winter Olympics

1

The story of the olympics
2 Winter Olympic sports
3 My favorite Winter sport - We will VOTE as a class at this site.  the teacher will give you a survey and then SHE will enter the CLASS results
4 Official Web site for the Vancouver Olympics
5. Learn about the olympic Mascots
6 Voice thread for your olympic thoughts
7. Olympic Survey
8. EXCEL document for Olympic favorite

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FUN Things to Do

1

What is your EXACT Age and what day were you born on?
2 Make some paper toys
3 Brain Quest
4 Gamequarium
5. How many of me? Go to this site, enter your name and see how many people in the USA have the same name that you do!

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RESEARCH Sites
1 Awesome Library
2 Kids Click
3 Dibdabdoo

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St. Patrick's Day Activities
1 Lucky charms Cereal Box Activity
2 Pot of Gold Money game
3 Online coloring
4 Alphabetize St. Patrick's day words
5 Results  Overview of our Lucky charms project    Link to MAP
6 Our Lucky Charm Results
7 WHOLE project result - shows the breakdown of all participants (excel)
7. Lucky charms web Site
8. Enter your charmed data HERE
9. Fun Facts
10 How green is your house

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Christmas Activities
PART #2

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#1 Christmas AROUND the WORLD
use this site to find the answers to your Christmas  around the world scavenger hunt.
http://oswego.org/staff/bbuske/christmas_files/frame.htm
World Christmas Traditions - www.portharbor.com/santa

 

#2   Advent calendar -  Find information about different countries and how they celebrate the holiday season.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/calendar/

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#3

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Reindeer Facts - use link #1 and link #2 to read about reindeer.  Then take the QUIZ and see how much much you can remember!
#1 http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/claus/intro.htm
#2 http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/claus/reindeer1.htm
Quiz http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/claus/quiz0.htm

 

#4   Primary Games 
#5   A Christmas Webquest -
#6   A Christmas Match Game
#7   Christmas Concentration
#8   Christmas Fun - money, concentration etc.
#9   Bud's Swap Puzzle

#10     Mrs. Cannon's Page

 

AUSTRALIA
http://www.northpole.net/world.htm
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/australia.html
http://www.santas.net/australianchristmas.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20060215145603/christmas.com/worldview/AU

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AUSTRIA
http://www.aboutaustria.org/culture/christmas_in_austria.htm
http://www.santas.net/austrianchristmas.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20041204073856/christmas.com/worldview/at

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BRAZIL
http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/brazil.html
http://www.santas.net/brazilianchristmas.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20041204011637/christmas.com/worldview/br

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BRITISH
http://www.santas.net/britishchristmas.htm
http://northpole.net/world.htm#BRITAIN
http://www.teachercreated.com/lessons/001215it.shtml
http://www.worldofchristmas.net/christmas-world/great-britain.html
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#England

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CANADA

http://www.worldofchristmas.net/christmas-world/canada.html

http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/canada.html
http://www.santas.net/canadianchristmas.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20051202034420/christmas.com/worldview/CA

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CZECHLOVAKIA
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Czechs
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/checho.html
http://northpole.net/world.htm#CZECH%20REPUBLIC
http://web.archive.org/web/20060403042057/christmas.com/worldview/cz

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DENMARK
http://web.archive.org/web/20041204050314/christmas.com/worldview/dk
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Denmark
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/denmark.html
http://www.santas.net/danishchristmas.htm

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FINLAND
http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm
http://northpole.net/world.htm#FINLAND
http://web.archive.org/web/20040804143608/christmas.com/worldview/FI
http://www.santas.net/finnishchristmas.htm
http://virtual.finland.fi/xmas/index.asp?p=1

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FRANCE
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#France
http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/france.html
http://northpole.net/world.htm#FRANCE
http://www.santas.net/frenchchristmas.htm

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GERMANY
http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm
http://northpole.net/world.htm#GERMANY
http://web.archive.org/web/20051125092050/christmas.com/worldview/de
http://www.santas.net/germanchristmas.htm

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GREECE
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/greece.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20051223125121/christmas.com/worldview/gr
http://www.santas.net/greekchristmas.htm

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IRELAND
http://www.northpole.net/world.htm
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/ireland.html
http://www.santas.net/irishchristmas.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20051126011904/christmas.com/worldview/ie

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ITALY
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Italy
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/italy.html
http://northpole.net/world.htm#ITALY
http://web.archive.org/web/20051125055122/christmas.com/worldview/it
http://www.santas.net/italianchristmas.htm

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JAPAN
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Japan
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/japan.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20041204050250/christmas.com/worldview/jp
http://www.santas.net/japanesechristmas.htm

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MEXICO
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Mexico
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/mexico.html
http://northpole.net/world.htm#MEXICO
http://web.archive.org/web/20040603180816/christmas.com/worldview/MX
http://www.santas.net/mexicanchristmas.htm

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NETHERLANDS
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Netherlands
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Netherlands
http://web.archive.org/web/20051126012127/christmas.com/worldview/nl
http://www.santas.net/netherlandschristmas.htm

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NORWAY
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/norway.html
http://northpole.net/world.htm#NORWAY
http://web.archive.org/web/20041204070152/christmas.com/worldview/no
http://www.santas.net/norwegianchristmas.htm

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POLAND
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Poland
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/poland.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20041204074226/christmas.com/worldview/pl
http://www.santas.net/polishchristmas.htm

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RUSSIA
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Russia
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/russia.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20050206233808/christmas.com/worldview/ru
http://www.santas.net/russianchristmas.htm

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SPAIN
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Spain
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/spain.html
http://northpole.net/world.htm#SPAIN
http://web.archive.org/web/20051127014959/christmas.com/worldview/es
http://www.santas.net/spanishchristmas.htm

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SWEDEN
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Sweden
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/sweden.html
http://northpole.net/world.htm#SWEDEN
http://web.archive.org/web/20041204024441/christmas.com/worldview/se
http://www.santas.net/swedishchristmas.htm

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SWITZERLAND
http://www.portharbor.com/santa/xsatrad.php#Switzerland
http://northpole.net/world.htm#SWITZERLAND
http://web.archive.org/web/20041204024602/christmas.com/worldview/ch
http://www.santas.net/swisschristmas.htm

Resources

THAILAND
http://www.thailandlife.com/christmas.html
http://www.thai-blogs.com/index.php?blog=24&title=christmas_in_thailand&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
 
 
WALES
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/wales.html
http://www.santas.net/welshchristmas.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/christmas/sites/content/pages/customs.shtml
 
ISRAEL
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/40903026a/xmas/world/israel.htm
http://www.santas.net/holylandchristmas.htm
http://thehistoryofchristmas.com/traditions/israel.htm

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Math Sites

1

AAA Math - practice your addition facts.  To PLAY: press start.  Click the answer with your mouse.  After you play for awhile, scroll down the page and play COUNTDOWN, Give me TIME or 20 Questions.  

2 Dositey Math - practice all kinds of math and have FUN!
3

Number Stories

4 SPACE FLYER:
Students will progress through the solar system if they advance with their
space vehicles, and they can only do so by correctly answering their
multiplication facts. The level of difficulty does not progress; it is simply an exercise in practicing multiplication facts from 1 to 12 in each case. A multiplication grid is also available as a cool tool if students get stuck on their answers. (3-5)
5 Houghton Mifflin
6 PRIMARY MATH  Web Sites - all activities - K-3
7 SPACE SHUTTLE OPERATIONS:
Choose your operation and difficulty level according to the skill of your
classes. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are all
covered, from easy to medium, to difficult. (1-7)
8 Multiplication Memory game
9 Interactive Multiplication Table
10 Multiplication step by step exercises
11 Math practice sites for 3rd graders
12 Money Match
13 Math is fun
14 Fraction Action
15 Multiplication Video's - you tube
16 Fresh baked Fractions - practice Equivalent fractions

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1.  Visit this site, find some clip art that you like, copy and paste it into a WORD document.  (Remember: you should have WORD opened first.)
2. Read the story of Sammy the Turkey Snake .  When you are done open Kid Pix and illustrate a part of the story.
3. What are you Grateful For? Follow this link and choose what you are most thankful for.  You will need to scroll down the page a little bit and you will see it on your RIGHT. When you click on the word VOTE it will bring up a BAR graph showing what the most favorite item is.  On your worksheet write the item with the most votes and the one with the least votes.
4.  Thanksgiving  Quiz See how much you  know about Thanksgiving.   Take the quiz and then give your score to your teacher.
5. Visit this site and choose any of the activities.  
6. Use this link to create a graph that shows the favorite foods that were served in your class

7. Thanksgiving SLIDER

8.  Thanksgiving Games and Activities
9.  Turkey Anagrams
10.  Online Thanksgiving CROSSWORD PUZZLE

11.  Turkey Tales - fill in the blank stories, cute ABC poems, can you find a food for each letter

12.  Thank you certificates
13.  Thanksgiving
14.  Rainbow Magic Thanksgiving Activities

15.  Thanksgiving TIC TAC TOE

    16 pilgrims.gif (3163 bytes)vote for what you are most thankful for

Thanksgiving ONLINE WORD SEARCH

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Pumpkin3.wmf (10380 bytes)Fall ActivitiesPumpkin3.wmf (10380 bytes)

1

 Rupp's-How much do pumpkins weigh?

2 IRENEleafbutton.gif (1124 bytes)Fall Leaves Puzzle        
3

IRENEleafbutton.gif (1124 bytes)Fall Leaf

4

Pick a costume  Another Costume site

5 Cascade Puzzle
6

Christopher Columbus

7

Pumpkin Facts

8 Fall Online games
9 Online Halloween word search
10 Animated Fall puzzles
11. Carve a Pumpkin

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Presidents   Resources

1. President Facts 2. POTUS 
3. Presidential Portraits - click here to see what each president looked like. 4. Presidential Trivia Game
5. Presidential Trivia 6. Presidential Information from the WHITE HOUSE
7Presidential facts -for kids 8President Information
9. Each presidents legacy- 9. American History Timeline
10. Mt. Rushmore Puzzle Challenge 11. Presidential fact file
12. Presidential facts 13. Use this site to capture a coloring picture of your president

George Washington   Resources

1. Slide show about George Washington's life -
click on the Next button at the bottom of the
slide to move to the next slide

2. Biography of George Washington
3. Facts about Washington- no pictures
4. Internet Treasure Hunt
5. George Washington Portrait for Kids
6. Washington biography
7. http://www.pocanticohills.org/washington/washington.htm

Lincoln   Resources

1.   Slide show about Abraham Lincoln's life-click on the Next button at the bottom of the
slide to move to the next slide

2. Overview of Lincoln's life- this is a good place to find pictures of Lincoln and the 
people in his life. You can also find a picture of the Emancipation Proclamation on this site. 
Click the brown links to see these pictures.

3. Biography of Abraham Lincoln

4Quick facts about Lincoln

5. Abe Lincoln Time line

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KEYBOARDING UNIT

1

Nimble Finger

2 Activity #1
Practice the Home Keys - choose English regular keyboard and then lesson and 2
3

Activity #2
 another practice site

4

Practice finding letters Super Hyper Spider Typer

5

Special Keys

6 Alpha Attack Keyboarding game
7

Keyboard Puzzle

8 Bubbles Typing Game
9 Keyboard Triathalon
10 Learn the keys
11 Meteor Typing  - can select the keys to practice.
12 Spacebar Invaders
13 Save the Sailboat Race
14 The FROGS are off their diet and eating the keys Can you help save the keys?
15 Martian City Defender
15 Spelling Dictator

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Snowman Project

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1.   http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/christmas/snowman2/buildme.htm

2   http://www.dreamingamerica.com/snow/frosty.html

3   http://www.castlearcana.com/christmas/snowman/

4. http://akidsheart.com/holidays/christms/snowman.htm

5. http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/build_a_snowman.html

6.  http://www.cyke.com/snowman.swf

GO HERE to view the results of our
WINTERWONDERLAND snowman project

 

 

Adjective Practice
Can you identify the adjective? Grammar Blast - find the adjective what is an adjective - Grammar Rock , read the words to the adjective song
Click here to see a list of adjectives that you can use as you write Match the Adjective and the Noun Drag the adjective
Adjective Movie    

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Social Studies

1

http://www.kids.gov/

2

Fun State facts

3

Ben Franklin Activity #1,    #2       #3     #4
    a.   Sayings    b. More sayings

4

Science  Videos

5 .

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Living Things of the Desert

Elf Owl Gila Woodpecker Road Runner
Gambel's Quail Red-Tailed Hawk Sidewinder
Collared Lizard Horned Lizard Desert Tortoise
Gila Monster Jack Rabbit Long- Nosed Bat
Kangaroo Rat Pocket Mouse Coyote
Tarantula Hawk Fire Ants Tarantula
Woodhouse Toad Scorpion Prairie Dogs
Gray Fox Gray Wolf Bobcat
  Western Banded Gecko Chuckwallas

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BIRTHDAY ACTIVITY

 

1. On this Day    http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/archive.html
2. Jump Back in time:  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb
3. This day in History - http://www.historychannel.com/historychannel/thisday
4. What is in a name? -Visit this site to find out what your name means               http://www.enlightenedsoftware.com/babynames/searcher.asp

5.  http://dmarie.com/timecap/step1.asp - Visit this site to find out what songs were popular,etc during the year that you were born.

6. Compare what you find at the site above with this Baby Names site. See if the information is the      same. Then put that information in your TITLE box.

7. Check out this site too for names if you cannot find them at either #4 or #5
    www.homepager.com/names

8. WHAT HAPPENED ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN?
http//www.union.k12.ia.us/ukhs/WebQuest/birthday.htm

9. Who famous was born on your birthday?
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/birthdays.html

Extra Activities - Check out the Yahoo People Search web page to see if your phone number and/or address are listed.
Are there other people who have the same name as you?  How many?   Others with the same last name? 

 

 

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BLACK History PROJECT

Find the name of the person that you are assigned and click on his/her name.  Read the information and write 3-5 interesting facts on the cards that you have been given

George Washington Carver Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth Benjamin Banneker Frederick Douglass
Wilma Rudolph Thurgood Marshall W.E.B. Dubois Mary McLeod Bethune Jan Matzeliger
Granville Woods Garrett Morgan Martin Luther Linkg Jr. Rosa Parks Ruby Bridges
Medgar Evers Jackie Robinson Frederick Jones Jesse Owens Maya Angelou
Crispus Attucks Shirley Chisholm Absalom Jones Booker T. Washington Elijah McCoy
Guion  Bluford Mae Jemison      

 

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Language Arts

1.

Practice PLURALS with the Plural Girls

2 Practice using past and present tense verbs with To BEE or NOTTOBEE
3 Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal.
4 Create some clever Wacky Tales, by entering your own words.
5 Play an on line version of MEMORY
6 Creating a Play - http://www.kids-space.org/HPT/1a/11a.html - great practice and then students can see it enacted.
7 Words to the Grammar Rocks Songs
8 Parts of Speech help
9 Spelling Time    4/5/07
10 EVERGLADES SPELLING RACE:
Select an animal to represent you in this spelling game and the race is on. Your students will fill in the missing letters of the chosen spelling word. They will win the race and proceed to subsequent levels if they can get all of the answers completed by the time the timer has run out. (3-5)
11 Spin and Spell
12 Make a Word
13 Read some HINK PINKS

14

Your Own Story

15 Grammar Videos
16 Jumble Kids
17 Story Maker - Create your own story and publish it
18 Learn to do research step by step - presented in space travel format
19 Adjective Movie
20 Grammar Blast - Practice Adjective and Adverbs
21 Pick It - Find the Adjective
22 Identifying Adjectives
23 Adjective Game
24 build a Sentance

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COMPUTER WORK
1  Inside of a Computer
2 Visit Alphy and participate in 7 adventures that teach you about the world wide web.
3 . Input, Output Devices
4.  How a Computer works -
5. Fact Monster How a Computer Works
6. Another site to discover information about the inside parts of the computer

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Pumpkin Seed Project 2009
a Project by Jennifer Wagner

The main objective of this project is to reinforce our math estimation skills as well as our computer skills.  Another objective is to participate in a global project that would remove the four walls of our lab and let us "talk" with and share with other students in other states and perhaps even other countries. We will use VOICE THREAD to do this and if we can find a partner classroom to SKYPE with we will do that as well.

3A - enter your seed count and estimation results here
3B - enter your seed count and estimation results here


Seed results for all the participants - located in the 3rd grade student templates)
Voice thread  - go here to view our pictures and comment
PHOTO Gallery -
for the seed project