Third Grade Curriculum-Related Internet Links

Third Grade

Curriculum-Related Internet Links

Social Studies

Indians || The Presidents || India || Explorers

Science

Solar System || Inventors and Inventions || Butterflies || Trees || Plants || Simple Machines || Human Body || Codes

Online activities from Sheppard software

National Geographic Kids

SOCIAL STUDIES

Indians

Northeast || Southeast || Southwest || Plains || Northwest

		Index of Native American Nations on the Internet Encyclopedia of North American Indians (from Houghton Mifflin) Native American Facts for Kids The First Americans (from Germantown, Illinois Elementary School) Native American Tribes (from Minnesota State University at Mankato) Native American Indian Tribes and Languages
Chinook, Huron, Navajo, Nez Perce, Seminole, Sioux, and Ute tribes (from National Heritage Academics) Native American Homes from AAANativeArts.com	Great Chiefs & Leaders

Culture Areas and the Locations of Tribes with Illustrated Clothing

Indians of the Northeast

Table listing major Native American groups of the Northeast culture area
(from Encarta.msn.com)

Northeast Culture Area map (from Encarta.msn.com)

(from Minnesota State University at Mankato)
Delaware Huron Micmac Oneida

Cayuga

Seneca-Cayuga Tribe

Delaware Tribe

First Americans: Dine, Muscogee, Tlingit, Lakota, Iroquois

Narragansett Tribe

Pennacook Indians

Mohawk Nation

Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk and Tuscarora Nations

Wampanoag History


Abenaki	Algonquins	Algonquins	Delawares
Iroquois	Micmac	Mohegan	Mohican
Munsee	Nanticoke	Passamaquoddy	Penobscot
Powhatan	Shawnee	Wabanaki	Wampanoag

(from Native American Facts for Kids)

Iroquois History

Tuscarora

Abenaki History

Abenaki Nation

Eastern Woodlands Indians

Homes of the Past - Archeology of an Iroquoian Longhouse

Animals of the Eastern Woodlands

Animals of the Forest
(from Enchanted Learning)

Indians of the Southeast

Seminole, Cherokee, the Chickasaw and the Creek

Click on the map for information about Southeast Indians.

(from Minnesota State University at Mankato)
Seminole Cherokee Chickasaw Creek Choctaw Natchez

Information about Seminole Chickees

Sequoyah and the Cherokee Syllabary
	Monthly Issues
	(Cherokee for "Hello") Cherokee Syllabary and Sounds English/Cherokee Word List Cherokee Font Key Strokes

Wild Rice and the Ojibwe People Video
from

Indians of the Plains

Map showing distribution of Plains Indians from Smithsonian Institute (also here)
Plains Indians Information Links		"Build a Prairie", research prairie plant and animal life in the Field Guide, "Experience the Prairie" with QuickTime movies, and MORE
(from Minnesota State University at Mankato) Arapaho Blackfoot Comanche Cree Kansa Kiowa Omaha Pawnee
Plains Native Americans from Orchard School in Indianapolis, Indiana More Plains Tribe Information from archeolink.com		When at the site, click on "Our History."
	http://www.sd4history.com/Unit3/buffalouses.htm http://www.nps.gov/archive/home/buffalo_store.html	Stories from a buffalo hide painting (from Smithsonian Institution)

Indians of the Southwest


Information about the Indians of the Southwest	Information about Southwest Tribes

Great info. on the desert
	Desert Animal Links from Arthur Elementary School in Arthur, Illinois
	Southwest Native Americans from Orchard School in Indianapolis, Indiana
Natural History of the Sonoran Desert from	Sonoran Desert Animals from

Indians of the Northwest

from Orchard School in Indianapolis, Indiana	Northwest Culture (from Germantown, IL school)
Northwest Indians	American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection (original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures
	Northwest Indians (by 1st graders in Texas)
Information about Northwest Indian Tribes (from Minnesota State University at Mankato) Bella Coola Chinook Copper Eskimo Eyak Haida Klamath Kwakuitl Modoc Nootka Yorok
Bella Coola (by 5th & 6th graders at Avonlea School in Canada) Bella Coola Language	Chilkat
Chinook	Coast Salish
Haida (by 5th & 6th graders at Avonlea School in Canada) Haida Language	Inuit (by 5th & 6th graders at Avonlea School in Canada) Inuit Language
Inuit
Klamath	Kwakuitl Kwakuitl Language
Makah Makah Language	Nootka Tribe Nootka Language
	Tlingit Tribe Photos Tlingit Language
Tsimshian (by 5th & 6th graders at Avonlea School in Canada)	Tsimshian Language

Explorers

Explorers	Kate Marsden

Zoom Explorers from EnchantedLearning

The Presidents

Meet the Presidents - whitehouse.gov site
POTUS: Presidents of the United States - from Internet Public Library
The Presidents of the United States - whitehouse.gov site

Meet the Presidents - from Pocantico Hills School in NY

Create your own word search at Puzzlemaker.com!

Presidents of the United States Hangman

SCIENCE

The Solar System

The Nine Planets for Kids!
	NASA Kids Games, Art & Stories, Activities, Kids' Club!!
A NASA web site	A NASA web site	Views of the Solar System