ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT

SCIENCE

Structure of Organisms

• Worm World
• Plant Parts Salad
• Square of Life (CIESE Collaborative Project)*
• Creature World -PBS site
• ZooNet
• Where Do All the Animals Live?- Web Quest

• Where Do Butterflies Come From?
• Butterflies at the Field Museum
• Butterflies Online
• Life Cycles- Frogs, butterflies, and more
• Mealworm Journal-Teacher created site

• Classifying Critters
• Animal Classification-Lesson for Grades 3-5

• States of Matter
• A Day in the Life of an Ice Cube*
• The Amazing Water Trick- An Exploratorium Activity
• Matter- Tutorial for Grade 4

• Fast, Faster, Fastest
• Forces and Motion- Beginners' Activities

• Energy and Science Projects
• The Energy Story

• EPA Water Site for Kids
• Wonderful World of Weather (CIESE Real Time Data Project)
• Earthquakes for Kids (USGS site)

• Find Out Why- All about the Sun  NSF site
• Earth and Moon Viewer
• Amazing Space
• Solar System Tutor

• Ranger Rick
• Habitats of the World
• The Wild Ones
• Celebrate Earth Day Every Day
• Data Collection Activities

• The Math Forum- Elementary Arithmetic Resources
• A+ Math-Interactive games and puzzles
• Finding the Mean, Median, and Mode -Lessons and challenge exercises
• AAA Math-Interactive practice
• Math Enrichment for Primary Grades

• Community Geometry - Grades 3 and up
• Tri-Straws-modeling geometric shapes

• How to Read a Thermometer
• Teaching Time- Franklin Institute site
• Measure It- Practice activities from FunBrain

• Exploring Data - K-4 site
• Mighty m&m Math Project
• Line Plots and Graphing with m&m's

• Rolling Number Cubes

Problem Solving

• Interactive Problems and Printable Worksheets- Grades 3-4
• Math Stories - Grades 3-4
• Elementary Problem of the Week- Math Forum site
• Eduplace BrainTeasers
• Harcourt E-Lab

Reading and Writing Directions

• The Process Essay
• The Monster Exchange-Collaborative Project*
• Writing Science- K-4
• Making an Origami Butterfly

Using and Interpreting Figurative Language

• Personification- Lesson from Scholastic
• Paint by Idioms- FunBrain interactive site

Writing with Picture and Literature Prompts

• Writing Prompts and Printable Worksheets- Grades 3-4
• Comic Strip Writing Prompts
• Cyberguides to Children's Literature
• Pet of the Day
• Eduplace:Bright Ideas for Writing
• Children of Yesteryear- Using primary source materials
• The Whole World is My Neighbor- Collaborative project*
• ZuZu Mystery Story

• Skills and Strategies- Comprehensive site from Scholastic
• Grammar Blast
• Grammar Gorillas

Sites that Publish Student Work Online

• Kids' Online Magazine
• Mrs. Henrikson's Poetry Pages
• Story Book
• Amazon Books
• ZuZu
• MidLink Magazine
• Kid News
• Wacky Web Tales - For Grade 3 and up
• Poetry Pals

NOTE: Most collaborative  projects run for a specific time period once or twice a year. Check the individual sites for timelines.