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Theme 2 - Getting the Job Done
On the Banks of Plum Creek Horehound Candy Recipe Conflict Resolution Interactive Biographies of All the People Featured within the Story	Surviving Life on the Prairie Build your own Sod House What Life was Like in a Sod House Pioneer Camera Fun with Dung Pioneer Life Thinkquest Pioneers Thinkquest
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World Quiz Over the Story National Cowboy Museum Mildred Pitts Walter Author Website Bill Pickett Biography Cooking on the Prairie Recipes Justin and the Best Biscuits Internet Scavenger Hunt	Home on the Range/Hats Off to the Cowboy Home on the Range Cowboy Hat etiquette Red Steagall
Three Little Cyberpigs Jane Tesh Biography Three Cyberpigs Game Tech Terms for Kids	The Three Little Pigs Revisited Roald Dahl's Three Pigs Poem What are Fractured Fairy Tales? Three Little Pigs Create your own board game of the three pigs
Weaving a California Tradition	Wonder Weaver
Emerald's Eggs Turtle Trouble National Geographic Creature Feature - Leatherback Sea Turtle Leatherback Sea Turtle Crittercam Mission Sea Turtle, Inc. National Geographic Creature Feature - Loggerhead Sea Turtle	Local Governments National Vs State Governments

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Theme 3- Natural Changes

Mimicry and Camouflage

Animals that use Camouflage
Camouflage Field Book Interactive from Harcourt
Write your own Animal Adaptation Report
Seeing Through Camouflage Interactive Game
Animal Adaptation
Printable Activity
Design your own Trickster Butterfly

Lizard, Frogs, and Polliwogs

Douglas Florian Paintings
Meet the Author Douglas Florian
Write Your Own Animal Poem
Camouflage Art Lesson

Mountains

Mountain Maker Earth Shaker
Volcano World
National Geographic-Mount Everest
Animation of the Birth of the Himalayan Mountains
Volcano Internet Field Trip
Mountains: A Drama Exploration

To the Top of the World

Mt. Everest Facts and Quick History
National Geographic Kids

Fire Storm

Jean Craighead George Author Website
Salmon River Whitewater Rafting Experience
Hans Christian Anderson's story of Phoenix Bird
Illustrator Wendell Minor Website
Smoky Bear Forest Fire Information Page

Flame Busters

Protective Firefighter Clothing
Fire Call: A Woodland Firefighter Speaks
Write your own creative article about a fire incident

Theme 4: Imaginiation at Work
So You Want to Be an Inventor? Illustrator David Small Biography & Artwork Inventors Hall of Fame Interactive Technology Timeline Internet Scavenger Hunt over Inventors and Inventions Enchanted Learning Inventors Invention Games	Make a Movie MachineMake your won Phenakistoscope Watch an animation of the Phenakistoscope Create your own flipbook Make your own flipbook
Just Like MeLinks to all the Artists Featured Create Your Own Self-Portrait How do Draw Portraits Andy Warhol: Pop Art	I Am an ArtistPat Lowery Collins Official Website Write Your Own "I Am an Artist" Emotion Poem
Hewitt Anderson's Great Big LifeJerdine Nolen't Official Website Jack and the Beanstalk Mural w/ Story Online Imagine how small you would be in the Anderson house	The Little Fly and the Great MooseJaneen Adil Official Website Scholastic-write your own folktale How to teach Pourquoi tales
Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn't Tell a LieJoe Hayes Biography and More Describe your Apples	Hard CheeseHelen Ward Unit on Fables (pg. 9) Modern Fable Squids will be Squids lesson Four Animated Fables
The Case of the Too-Hot Apple CiderIllustrator Chris Buzelli's Online Gallery MysteryNet's Kids Online Short Mysteries Mystery Writing-Cooperative Groups Scholastic's Writing with Writers Recipe for Hot Apple Cider	Reading a Biography: Sequoyah's Talking LeavesImage of the Cherokee Syllable Alphabet

Theme 5 - A New Home

Because of Winn-Dixie

Student Projects over the book
Kate DiCamillo Official Website
Because of Winn Dixie Webquest
Florida Environmental Photos

Online Clips of the Movie

Library Dogs

Decoding Dog Speak

What is Your Dog and Cat Trying to Tell You?

My Dairy From Here to There

Amada Irma Perez Author Webpage

Photos of Juarez, Mexico El Paso, TX Visitor InformationMexicali, Mexico Visitor InformationSaguaro Cactus Video

Tamales

Cesar Chavez

Webcams on Border Crossing in San Ysidro
Current Stats on Wait Time at Border Crossings

Moving/There's an Orange Tree Out There

Eileen Spinelli Author Poet Webpage
Write a Phone Number Poem

The Cricket in Time Square

George Seldon Biography

Coney Island

Times Square Webcam

Official Website of Times Square
Tucker Mouse's Life Savings Activity
What's Beneath a City Sidewalk
Build Your Own Cricket Cage

Cricket Thermometer

Interactive Cricket Conversion Calculator

Interactive Cricket Rating Temperature Applet

Mangrove Wilderness

Bianca Lavies Author Webpage

Photos and quick information on Mangroves

Mangrove Information,
Maps, Diagrams and More

Wetlands Plant Watercolor Lesson

Food Chain Worksheet

Jack Prelutsky Sings "On a Mangrove Tree"

Mangrove

Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park Photos
Endangered Animal Art Activity

Welcome to Chinatown!

Cultural Information from San Francisco's Chinatown
Grant Avenue Chinatown
360 Degree Image of Grant Avenue
Chinatown Image

Reading Fiction: Amelia's Garden

Comic Strip Planning Sheet

Create your Own Comic Strip on how the Garden was Created

Thank-you to the Principal at FVA for the Story Town links!

Site created and maintained by Cindy Huckaby
fourth grade eMINTS teacher, Fairview Alpha Elementary School.
Created October 12, 2009, and last updated October 12, 2009
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