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Math Skills K-3
Internet Resources
Teacher Street Classroom Software Collections include curriculum Project
Cards. To integrate the Internet with these projects using our carefully
selected, educational site links, click on the curriculum Project Card that you
are using.
 Project
Card Internet Resources
The Tabletop™ Jr.
Project Card Resources
Put on Your Thinking Caps
Mystery Suitcases
The Graph Club Project Card Resources®
What Planet Are You From?
We’ve Got the Beat
Thinkin’ Things Project Card Resources®
Music Through Your Peers
Fripple Shape-Up
Make-A-Flash Project Card Resources
It’s
in the Cards
In Addition to Concentration
Mighty Math™
Carnival Countdown Project Card Resources™
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Bumper Shapes
The Tabletop™ Jr. Project Card:
Put on Your Thinking Caps
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/
issues00/jul00/hats.html
Get inspired to make paper bag hats! This site has some truly amazing examples!
http://www.theparentsite.com/family/paperhats.htm
Simple, step-by-step instructions on how to make a hat from newspaper. Very
kid-friendly site.
http://www.openflame.com/harrypotter/sorting_hat.html
Ask the Harry Potter Sorting Hat which House you belong to! Also includes the
lyrics to the Hat Sorting song.
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The Tabletop Jr. Project Card:
Mystery Suitcases
http://www.aaamath.com/add26a1-add02.html#section2
Sharpen up addition skills with this addition quiz site. Set the quiz to timer,
extra time for correct answers, or see how fast you can solve 20 problems.
http://www.childcare.net/crafttip2.html#garden
This site gives clear instructions for making an eggshell garden. Link the
garden to the lesson by reversing the process; going from components to an end
result. See what happens when all the components are in place and watch the
result or answer grow!
http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/edition11/games-section.htm
Check out children's games from other cultures around the world. What do the
games have in common? Are there common parts to all games?
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The Graph Club Project Card:
What Planet Are You From?
http://www.neopets.com
Use this site to create virtual pets. Site prompts user to give pets attributes
(color, disposition, shape, etc.). Player must feed pet and earn food by playing
games.
Get a graph of the population of any country. Site also predicts future
population (try the “dynamic” output option). Graph can be seen in table format
as well.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html
Do you want to believe? Monitor the cosmos for extraterrestrials! Download a
screen saver graph from the Arecibo Radio Telescope, in Puerto Rico and join the
search!
http://www.seti.org/science/setiathome.html
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The Graph Club Project Card:
We’ve Got the Beat
Get a guided animated tour of the circulatory system (requires Shockwave Player
plug-in [free download at www.shockwave.com]).
http://www.health-alliance.com/anatomycontrol.html
Fluoroscopy (x-ray) movie of a breathing human chest!
http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/rademo/flodiaph.html
Articles, features, and games related to exercise and health for kids.
http://www.kidshealth.org
The world’s largest exercise class for children.
http://www.projectaces.com/
Information on physical fitness for teachers and students. Find out how to
take the President’s Challenge!
http://www.fitness.gov
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Thinkin’ Things
Project Card:
Music Through Your Peers
Learn about Hawaiian percussion instruments and get some ideas for making your
own percussion instruments.
http://www.ifccsa.org/hawainst.html
A site dedicated to the history of percussion! Includes pictures of instruments
and little know facts about them.
http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/instruments/
percussion.htm#rhythmic
Make your own coffee can drum! Very clear instructions!
http://www.dsokids.com/1/kidsbeatact1.html
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Thinkin’ Things
Project Card:
Fripple Shape-Up
Make peanut butter Playdough Fripples! Use M&Ms for eyes, candy corn for mouths,
and Sweet Tart halves for ears!
http://www.childcare.net/crafttip2.html#peanutbutter
Have groups name their Fripple and set up a free email account for him/her/it!
You’ll likely need to help each group set up the account. Once you set up the
accounts, use them for a plethora activities, including sending and answering
e-postcards!
http://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_register
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Make-A-Flash Project
Card:
It’s in the Cards
This site features children's card games with playing rules.
http://www.bright.net/~mile505/Childrens/Children.html
Lists rules and information about card and tile games from all parts of the
world.
http://www.pagat.com/
The history of playing cards!
http://thehouseofcards.com/card_history.html
This FAQ site about playing cards is a collection of information on all
aspects of playing-cards.
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/playing-cards/faq.html
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Make-A-Flash
Project Card:
In Addition to Concentration
Have students test their addition accumen by playing this 30 second on-line
game.
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/addition-fc.htm
Variations on the ole classic card game War, including addition and subtraction
War. Site has complete rules.
http://www.pagat.com/invented/war_vars.html#addition
Kid-appropriate joke-of-the-day site, many using addition (“what do you get when
you cross x and y” type jokes).
http://www.kidskiosk.org/joke/index.html
Broaden the
idea of addition by cooking (add 2 tsp. of vanillia, etc.) and doubling or
tripling recipe size! This site features fun recipes for kids.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/6597/recipes.htm
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Mighty Math Carnival
Countdown Project Card:
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
A geometric shape puzzle your students can solve, color, and print. Also
features a “shapes review” page with names of basic shapes and drawings.
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Patterns/
This site features several games with shapes, including the scintillating Shape
Walk! Also features links to other elementary level shape activities.
http://www.limestone.on.ca/ibuild/lancarea/games.html
Very fun children's Tetris/Space Invaders-like shape game.
http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/jumpstart/kindergarten-
v2/demo/content/eng/demo.html
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Mighty Math Carnival
Countdown Project Card:
Bumper Shapes
Play on-line bumper cars! Game is set up for single or multi-players up to four
(requires Shockwave plug-in [www.shockwave.com to get it free]).
http://www.neopets.com/games/bumpercars.phtml
Clever button sorting game that allows user to ask questions about button
attributes ‘til he/she finds the right button.
http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/patterns/buttons/
A shape identification and sorting activity.
http://www.sd43.bc.ca/etip/wq_m_shape_space/
wq_grk1_m_geometry.html
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