This page contains useful links to various websites for students to continue to practice learning at home. The links are organized by subject. As the content is taught more sites will be added to the Hotlist. Scroll all the way down to see all of the sites.
4th Grade Hotlist of Learning

Science
Weather
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/index.htm
http://schoolscience.rice.edu/duker/winstruments.html
Activity on food chain
http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm
Scroll down to bottom of this website to CREAT A FOOD WEB. Students actually get to make the food web with the sun at its base….pretty cool site!
http://ecokids.earthday.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/index.cfm#
This site also has a small tutorial and then a quick put together a food chain activity
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/energy/sciber/chains.htm
Food chains….asks students to categorize decomposers, producers, etc.
http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm
This site is cool because you choose from 4 biomes and create a food web for each.
Space
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_4th_science.htm
http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/webquests/Planetwq/WebQuest2.html#Introduction
http://intranet.dalton.org/departments/Libraries/MSLIB/4th/astronomy.html
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/gems/GAcorrelation4.html
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad16mar99_1a.htm
http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/tech/k6/4ssites.htm
http://www.toonuniversity.com/free/science-for-kids_a.asp
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm
http://www.quia.com/mc/338580.html
Interactive Game
http://www.noao.edu/education/phases/phases_demo.html
Phases of the moon
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts/moon3.html
Moon Phases
http://www.stardate.org/nightsky/moon/
Moon Phases
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/moon/lunar_phase3.swf
Simulation of moon phases
www.quia.com/rr/182256.html (quiz on Earth's tilt & the seasons)
http://www.quia.com/mc/65887.html (order of the planets)
http://www.shetline.com/java/moonphase/moonphase.html
Moon phases
http://www.sandia.gov/ciim/FSN/experiments/canned-constellations.DOC
Constellations
Math
http://www.swsd.k12.pa.us/~rina_iati/student_resources.htm
http://www.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/edm/4.htm
http://www.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/everydaymath.htm
Estimation
http://www.mrnussbaumgames.com/golfgame/Golf_home.html
Estimator
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Estimator/
Guess the Number
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/guessthenumber.html
“Let’s Go Shopping” – Students estimate by rounding to the nearest dollar
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/LetsGoShopping/default.htm
More or Less Estimator
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/MoreOrLessEstimator/
“Round About” Estimating by Rounding
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/RoundAbout/default.htm
“That’s Right” Estimating
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/ThatsRight/default.htm
Estimation Word Problems
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/socktale2.htm
Rounding and Estimating
http://www.aaamath.com/grade4.html#topic49
Multiplication Interactive Games - http://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/alta/games/multiplication.html
Multiplication/Division
http://www.multiplication.com/
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcard
Decimals
http://www.hbschool.com/activity/con_math/g05c03.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/laddergame.html
http://www.aaamath.com/plc51b-placevalues.html
Language Arts
Nouns
http://www.winslow-schools.com/Language%20Arts%20Web%20Resources%20-%20Grade%2034.doc
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm
Possessive Nouns
(you have to choose 4th grade and then choose the writing sample that says “Possessive nouns in the bottom left-hand corner when you click on it)
http://www.myenglishlessons.net/quizzes/possessives.htm
http://www.wecosoft.com/School/English/nouns3.htm
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objid=WCN6502
http://www.meredith.edu/grammar/plural.htm#Tutorial
http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/grammar/apos.htm
http://www.smccd.net/accounts/sevas/esl/gramcheck/5-08.html
http://www.bettergrammar.org/6.html
Writing
“Said” is dead
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/english/bgfl/dont_use_said/index.htm
Social Studies
Colonial
What is it? Guess the colonial items
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/what_is_it/index.html
Thirteen Original Colonies Matching Activity
http://www.quia.com/cm/71086.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/92541.html
http://www.quia.com/ba/40212.html
http://www.quia.com/hm/182040.html
Matching Colonies to region
http://www.quia.com/cm/71085.html
Another matching activity on the Colonies
http://www.quia.com/mc/67487.html
Colonial Kids
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/index.htm
Life in the Thirteen Colonies
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/perspectives_daily.html
Back in time
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/1492-1763
Georgia History
Southwest
http://inkido.indiana.edu/w310work/romac/swest.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi1.html
http://www.dragonflydream.com/PuebloIndians.html
http://members.aol.com/donnclass/NWIndianlife.html#Longhouse
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports3/northwest.htm
Eastern Woodlands
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h922.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/N/NatvsNA.asp
Plains
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports4/plains.htm
http://inkido.indiana.edu/w310work/romac/plains.html
http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/firstnations/
http://www.texasindians.com/horse.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/alife.html
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/everyday2.htm
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM
