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Mr. Short's Links for learning!!
Just click on the description to visit the desired site.

Science Chapter 4 Study Guide, click here. This is a PowerPoint file.

To access Mr. Short's presentation and assignment instructions at school click on the following link. \\intranet\mrshort

Great Games for learning!!!

Quia 
Bug Splat
Keep the bugs off your windshield by correctly adding and subtracting fractions with Bug Splat.

Viking Quest
Viking Quest is a simulation of Viking life around 793 AD

Batter's Up Baseball
Batter's Up Baseball
is a challenging multiplication practice game of baseball played in classrooms before computers.

Tangram Game
Tangram Game
Create pictures from geometric figures

Thesaurus Tangle
Thesaurus Tangle
Find alternate meanings to words using scrabble type of interface

Frogs and ladders
Frogs and Ladders is a number ordering game which challenges the player to place random numbers in order. Prediction and probability are keys to this game.

 

 
Math:

Math Mysteries - Problem Solving Click Here

Fraction Centers, Computer Activites (To be used with the in class centers)
Computer Challenges Links:
Mystery Picture Click Here
FunBrain Click Here
Who Wants Pizza? Click Here
Fraction Slideshow Click Here

Equivalent Fractions Activity

Factorization Activity Click Here (Must have Java installed to play)

On Line Flash Cards Click Here

Want to play one of the Hottest Math Games??!!  Try Sudoku

Finding Equal Fractions Click Here

Math activities and games Click Here

 Math Activities Want to go on a Math Webquest? Click Here. 

Have you ever wanted to convert metric measurement to standard measurement?  Click on the link for the conversion that you would like.
Temperature  Length/Distance  Weight

Lemonade Stand

Kids Graphing Page

Social Studies:
American revolution discovery kids  black inventors National Geographic Kids  Liberty’s Kids 

Learn about Ohio’s History Information about each State Maps  State Maps U.S. Map/States Biographies of Great African-Americans

Language Arts:
Madlibs Spelling Activities  Writing Activities Reading Activities and Resources BookReviews Bookworm Spelling Game  Make Your Own Crossword Puzzle 

   

Science:

Thermal Energy Games

Interactive science and engineering

How to make.... Science Activites


This link will give you information for graphing the climate.(look for the climographs) 

 More on Biomes and what lives there  World Biomes

Kids Graphing Page

Biome Video Clips.
Tundra  Taiga  Grassland  Deciduous Forest  Tropical Rain Forest  Desert

Want to go on a Science Webquest? Click Here

Prairie Ecology Internet Activity by Cindy O'Hora Click Here

Planetary Distances Click Here

Science Scavenger Hunts

Solar System Scavenger Hunt         Prairie Ecosystem Scavenger Hunt

Inventors and Inventions Scavanger Hunt   Light Scavenger Hunt 

Solar System Webquest

Planet Webquest

Another Solar System Webquest

Sun Earth and Moon Webquest

Technology:
CyberSmart Technology Kids Graphing Page Online Resources, all subject areas 
Top 100 Educational Games

Making a PowerPoint Time-line

Keyboarding Practice

 

On-line resource for all subject area practice and lessons. Click Here!

WebQuests:
Sign of the Beaver Webquest My Side of the Mountain Webquest 
Internet Scavenger Hunts Endangered Animals Webquest
Number the Stars Webquest

Book Report Guidelines
My Side of the Mountain/Sign of the Beaver Book Report Guidelines

Research Sites:
INFOhio Research Site TCR Connections Fact Monster

World Events 1900-1999
World Events 2000-2004
Any Day In History

Test Prep Center

English as a Second Language Activities
Activities for ESL Students
Interesting Things for ESL Students

About The Author:

John Reynolds Gardiner   (1)  (2)  (3)

 

Elizabeth George Speare

 

Jean Craighead George  (1)  (2)

 

R.L. Stine
HarperCollins Publishers
Author mail
7th Floor
10 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
J.K. Rowling
c/o Bloomsbury Publishing
36 Soho Square
London W1D 3QY
UK
   
       

 

  Biome Information  World Biomes  Earth Floor Biomes  How to put a Science Fair project together

Math Resources For Everyone!

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How many of you can say..."My teacher rides a Harley?"

I would like to welcome you to my site feel free to veture about.  If you notice a link that does not work please let me know, and if you have a recomendation please forward to me and I will add it to the links.  

I am Mr. Short and I teach 5th grade math and science.  The students also have Mr. Garnai for Social Studies and Math, Mrs Barcelo for Reading and Mr Krause for Reading. 

My wife and I enjoy spending our free time with our two daughters and riding our Harley through the backroads of Southern Ohio.  I am a US Army veteran and retired from the Ohio Army National Guard.  I have an undergraduate degree from Wilmington College and master's degree in Educational Technology from Walden University.  If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me.

phone: 937-283-7739

How many of you can say..."My teacher rides a Harley?"

I would like to welcome you to my site feel free to veture about.  If you notice a link that does not work please let me know, and if you have a recomendation please forward to me and I will add it to the links.  

I am Mr. Short and I teach 5th grade math and science.  The students also have Mr. Garnai for Social Studies and Math, Mrs Barcelo for Reading and Mr Krause for Reading. 

My wife and I enjoy spending our free time with our two daughters and riding our Harley through the backroads of Southern Ohio.  I am a US Army veteran and retired from the Ohio Army National Guard.  I have an undergraduate degree from Wilmington College and master's degree in Educational Technology from Walden University.  If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me.

phone: 937-283-7739
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 "I can't," Is not part of our vocabulary in Math!!  If you can't, you never will, so let's all try!!

 "I can't," Is not part of our vocabulary in Math!!  If you can't, you never will, so let's all try!!

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Ohio Treasure Chest

Science Webquest
Sun, Moon, & Earth Webqeust
Use the links below for the following Questions. (Link on Webquest does not work)

 

 

Fractions

Fresh baked fractions

Equivalent fractions

Adding fractions

Compare fractions/Percents

Math Problem Solving

Matching Equivalent Fractions

Fraction Match

Bowling For Fractions

 Measurement

Reading a Ruler, metric/customary

On-Line Measurement Lessons

Measurement tutorial/lessons/drill and practice

Measurement Units Quiz

Ohio Treasure Chest

Science Webquest
Sun, Moon, & Earth Webqeust
Use the links below for the following Questions. (Link on Webquest does not work)

 

 

Fractions

Fresh baked fractions

Equivalent fractions

Adding fractions

Compare fractions/Percents

Math Problem Solving

Matching Equivalent Fractions

Fraction Match

Bowling For Fractions

 Measurement

Reading a Ruler, metric/customary

On-Line Measurement Lessons

Measurement tutorial/lessons/drill and practice

Measurement Units Quiz

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