3rd Grade Learning Activities
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Art and Music:
Instrument Lab
Try out your favorite instruments here.
Mr. Picasso Head
Use this cool digital tool that allows users to create their own masterpieces using famous features drawn by the famous artist Pablo Picasso.
NGAKids Art Zone
This website from the National Gallery of Art has fifteen different digital interactives that let you create art online.
Try out your favorite instruments here.
Mr. Picasso Head
Use this cool digital tool that allows users to create their own masterpieces using famous features drawn by the famous artist Pablo Picasso.
NGAKids Art Zone
This website from the National Gallery of Art has fifteen different digital interactives that let you create art online.
Keyboarding:
Alphabet Rain
Makes keyboarding practice fun!
Barracuda Typing
Help barracuda keep its river clean. Type words into the box as they appear floating down the river. Barracuda will knock them out.
Dance Mat Typing
Practice your keyboarding skills the fun way!
Makes keyboarding practice fun!
Barracuda Typing
Help barracuda keep its river clean. Type words into the box as they appear floating down the river. Barracuda will knock them out.
Dance Mat Typing
Practice your keyboarding skills the fun way!
Language Arts:
Arcademic Skill Builder Games
This website has free reading and math games for different grade levels.
Biographies @ Ducksters
You can find kid-friendly biographies of inventors, explorers, world leaders, authors and other famous people here.
Biographies @ Mr. Nussbaum
Read more biographies of famous people at Mr. Nussbaum's website.
Coconut Vowels
Can you figure out what letter is missing and make a word before the coconut drops and cracks?
Furious Frogs
Here's a multi-player game. Can your frog catch more flies? Help it with your skills with synonyms and antonyms.
SlimeKids Games
Practicing your grammar, punctuation and spelling skills has never been so fun!
Word Frog
Help the frog catch the flies by using your skills identifying synonyms, antonyms and homonyms.
This website has free reading and math games for different grade levels.
Biographies @ Ducksters
You can find kid-friendly biographies of inventors, explorers, world leaders, authors and other famous people here.
Biographies @ Mr. Nussbaum
Read more biographies of famous people at Mr. Nussbaum's website.
Coconut Vowels
Can you figure out what letter is missing and make a word before the coconut drops and cracks?
Furious Frogs
Here's a multi-player game. Can your frog catch more flies? Help it with your skills with synonyms and antonyms.
SlimeKids Games
Practicing your grammar, punctuation and spelling skills has never been so fun!
Word Frog
Help the frog catch the flies by using your skills identifying synonyms, antonyms and homonyms.
Math:
Cool Math 4 Kids
You won't believe how much fun it can be to practice math concepts!
Demolition Division
Don't crash! Get your division facts straight!
Fraction Concentration
Match the fraction to the picture model.
Greg Tang Math
Try these puzzlers to test your skills.
Multiplication.com
This website makes practicing your facts fun!
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Use these interactives to help you practice different math concepts.
Perimeter
Learn all about the concept of perimeter with Adam Ant.
Perimeter and Area Duel Game
Pick your pirate and duel to find out who is the best at identifying areas and perimeters!
Probability
Play with the random ball picking machine and see what happens, how likely are you to get a blue ball? How about the red balls? Experiment and see what you can learn about the math topic of probability.
Probability - Why Can't I Win?
Can you figure out if the game is fair or not, based on probability?
You won't believe how much fun it can be to practice math concepts!
Demolition Division
Don't crash! Get your division facts straight!
Fraction Concentration
Match the fraction to the picture model.
Greg Tang Math
Try these puzzlers to test your skills.
Multiplication.com
This website makes practicing your facts fun!
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Use these interactives to help you practice different math concepts.
Perimeter
Learn all about the concept of perimeter with Adam Ant.
Perimeter and Area Duel Game
Pick your pirate and duel to find out who is the best at identifying areas and perimeters!
Probability
Play with the random ball picking machine and see what happens, how likely are you to get a blue ball? How about the red balls? Experiment and see what you can learn about the math topic of probability.
Probability - Why Can't I Win?
Can you figure out if the game is fair or not, based on probability?
Puzzles and Problem-solving:
ABCya
You will find learning games, activities and puzzles at this website.
Kids Math Online
Give your brain a workout with these problem solving games and interactive activities. Help a frog jump stones, measure water with limited resources, get people safely across a bridge and more. If you get stuck, try thinking outside the square, sometimes it pays to step back and look at a problem from a different point of view.
Order in the Library
Do you know how books are arranged in the library? Test your skills at correctly shelving the virtual books and earn your library assistant certificates.
You will find learning games, activities and puzzles at this website.
Kids Math Online
Give your brain a workout with these problem solving games and interactive activities. Help a frog jump stones, measure water with limited resources, get people safely across a bridge and more. If you get stuck, try thinking outside the square, sometimes it pays to step back and look at a problem from a different point of view.
Order in the Library
Do you know how books are arranged in the library? Test your skills at correctly shelving the virtual books and earn your library assistant certificates.
Science:
A to Z Animals
This website might not have every animal known to man, but it comes close. And they are all in alphabetical order, so if you need some quick information about bandicoots or capybaras, check this site out.
Animals @ Animal Planet
This site is loaded with information and photographs of all types of animals, from arachnids to zebras.
Animals @ National Geographic
You'll find plenty of information about your favorite animals here and photographs, too!
Animals @ The National Zoo
The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has over 2,000 animals. Learn about many of them here.
Animals @ SeaWorld
You can find in-depth information, quick facts and audio files of animal sounds here.
Animal Fact Guide
At Animal Fact Guide, you can learn about interesting and endangered animals from around the world.
Forces in Motion
Learn about forces in action as you experiment how gradients, weights, motion and resistance affect the movement of various objects with this fun science activity.
Friction
Learn about friction as you experiment how the movement of vehicles responds to different surfaces and levels of resistance in this great friction game for kids. Which surface slows a vehicle down more - vinyl, wood, carpet or ice?
Herman the Worm
Learn all about earthworms including their life cycle, anatomy and history.
Matter
Check out this BBC Science Clips activities on the properties of different materials.
Matter - Solids and Liquids
How does matter change? Check out this BBC Science Clips animated activity.
Matter - Changing States
Test your knowledge about the three states of matter.
Matter - Gases around us
More about matter -- it's everywhere!
Matter - Reversible and Irreversible Changes
When you change matter is it always a permanent change? Or can it go back to its previous state?
Simple Machines @ Museum of Science and Industry
Help Twitch get where he needs to go and do his work by using simple machines.
This website might not have every animal known to man, but it comes close. And they are all in alphabetical order, so if you need some quick information about bandicoots or capybaras, check this site out.
Animals @ Animal Planet
This site is loaded with information and photographs of all types of animals, from arachnids to zebras.
Animals @ National Geographic
You'll find plenty of information about your favorite animals here and photographs, too!
Animals @ The National Zoo
The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has over 2,000 animals. Learn about many of them here.
Animals @ SeaWorld
You can find in-depth information, quick facts and audio files of animal sounds here.
Animal Fact Guide
At Animal Fact Guide, you can learn about interesting and endangered animals from around the world.
Forces in Motion
Learn about forces in action as you experiment how gradients, weights, motion and resistance affect the movement of various objects with this fun science activity.
Friction
Learn about friction as you experiment how the movement of vehicles responds to different surfaces and levels of resistance in this great friction game for kids. Which surface slows a vehicle down more - vinyl, wood, carpet or ice?
Herman the Worm
Learn all about earthworms including their life cycle, anatomy and history.
Matter
Check out this BBC Science Clips activities on the properties of different materials.
Matter - Solids and Liquids
How does matter change? Check out this BBC Science Clips animated activity.
Matter - Changing States
Test your knowledge about the three states of matter.
Matter - Gases around us
More about matter -- it's everywhere!
Matter - Reversible and Irreversible Changes
When you change matter is it always a permanent change? Or can it go back to its previous state?
Simple Machines @ Museum of Science and Industry
Help Twitch get where he needs to go and do his work by using simple machines.
Social Studies:
Ben's Guide to Government
Learn about the three different branches of our government with Ben Franklin.
Chicago Landmarks and Attractions
You'll find information on the most popular landmarks and attractions in Chicago here.
Chicago History
Find out what an amazing place Chicago is at this website from the Chicago Historical Society.
Chicago Landmarks
This official website from the City of Chicago has an alphabetical listing of buildings designated as "official" landmarks.
Chicago Skyscrapers
You'll find basic facts about all those tall buildings that create the amazing Chicago skyline.
Chicago Go There Guide
Another guide with information about the different attractions and landmarks in Chicago.
Congress for Kids
Learning about the federal government doesn't have to be boring. Congress for Kids gives you access to interactive, fun-filled experiences designed to help you learn ab out our federal government and how its actions affect you.
CultureGrams
Learn about the United States and the world with this student-friendly database.
Native American Tribes by State Map
Here's an interactive which will help you discover where different tribes lived or currently live in the United States.
Native American Tribes
This website is written by Native Americans for students and answers many questions that students have about Native American culture.