ACTIVITIES TO PREPARE OUR STUDENTS 

FOR THE ISAT TEST

Grades 3, 4 and 5

January-March 2002

 
Grade 3 Math Grade 4 Social Studies Grade 5 Math
Grade 3 Reading

Grade 4 Science

 Grade 5 Reading
Writing Teachers

Math Activities for Grade 3

Basket Math: Whole Number Addition FunBrain's: One False Move FunBrain's Operation Order 
Brain Teasers FunBrain's Cookie Dough  FunBrain's Soccer Shootout
Spacey Math at Learning Planet FunBrain's Measure It  FunBrain's Number Cracker
Math Mayhem at Learning Planet FunBrain's What's the Point FunBrain's Change Maker
Rounding Numbers FunBrain's Guess the Number FunBrain's Math Baseball
FunBrain's Line Jumper FunBrain's Power Football Harcourt Math 3 Activities
FunBrain's Place Value Puzzler FunBrain's Shape Surveyor Multimedia Math Glossary
Kids Bank Math Maven's Mysteries Max's Math Adventures
ISAT Math Sample Test

Reading Activities for Grade 3

Time Magazine Big Edition FunBrain's What's the Word? FunBrain's The Plural Girls 

FunBrain's Word Confusion 

 FunBrain's Word Turtle Word Search  Harcourt Brace Social Studies Informational Articles
FunBrain's 2 Bee or Not 2 Bee  Clifford's Interactive Storybooks
ISAT Rdg. Sample Test 1 ISAT Rdg.Sample Test 2  

Social Studies and Science Activities for Grade 4

Where is that? --Identify the State or Country Lonely Planet--Destinations Harcourt Brace Social Studies Activities
Time Magazine World Report United States Facts and Statistics Harcourt Science Activities
Stay Afloat: Science or Social Studies Categories Math Hunt Social Studies and Science Simple Machines
Erosion Magic School Bus Games Learn About Friction
Animal Adaptions ISAT Sample Science Test ISAT Sample Social Studies Test

Math Activities for Grade 5

Brain Teasers Spacey Math at Learning Planet Kids Bank
Rounding Numbers FunBrain's What's the Point FunBrain's Line Jumper
FunBrain's One False Move

FunBrain's Guess the Number

 FunBrain's Soccer Shootout
FunBrain's Cookie Dough

FunBrain's Power Football

 FunBrain's Number Cracker
FunBrain's Measure It FunBrain's Shape Surveyor FunBrain's Change Maker
FunBrain's Operation Order Game FunBrain's Place Value Puzzler FunBrain's Math Baseball
Figure This: Math Challenges for the Whole Family Harcourt Math 5 Activities Harcourt Math 4 Activities
Multimedia Math Glossary Math Mayhem at Learning Planet Math Hunt
Math Maven's Mysteries ISAT Math Sample Test

Reading Activities for Grade 5

Heads Up: World Leader Memory Match Game at Time for Kids FunBrain'sWord Confusion

FunBrain's The Plural Girls Game

Headline Deadline at Time for Kids FunBrain's Word Turtle Word Search Games FunBrain's Paint by Idioms
FunBrain's 2 Bee or Not 2 Bee

FunBrain's Rooting Out Words

 Harcourt Brace Social Studies Informational Stories
ISAT Rdg. Sample Test 1 ISAT Rdg.Sample Test 2

Writing Activities

Story Writing Prompts with Pictures Links for Writers Multimedia Grammar Dictionary

ISAT Help for Teachers and Students

ISAT Sample Tests 

http://tp1.clearlearning.com/ISBE/

ISAT Assessment Information

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/isat/default.html

Grade 3 and Grade 5 Math Word Lists

http://www.isbe.net/assessment/math.htm

Rubrics

http://ilsi.isbe.net/vision/rubric_links.asp

ISAT Reading helps for Teachers

http://www.isbe.net/assessment/ISATreading.htm

The following sites were recommended by Joan Barrett.

http://www.stclair.k12.il.us/
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
http://www.connectedteacher.com/lessonPlans/lessonPlans.asp
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/index.html

Check these out for possible activities or lessons that match your students' needs:

http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/refdesk.htm

http://www.geocities.com/mazzajoe/websitepage.htm

http://backpack.ipsd.org/clow/thirdgrade.htm

http://www.jersey100.k12.il.us/edsites.htm

http://www.london.d21.k12.il.us/about/prefeatsites.html

http://www.sd161.org/EducationSites.html

http://www.staunton.macoupin.k12.il.us/isbeonline.htm

http://www.iste.org/L&L/archive/vol29/no4/resources.html

http://www.ncme.org/news/newsdetail.ace?ID=40&ArchView=y

http://www.mckendree.edu/edu-tech/resources.html

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/learn-technology/technopages/OLIR/Desrpresource.htm

http://www.ncte.org/lists/ncte-talk/dec2000/msg00269.html

http://www.lbelem.lfc.edu/central/thirdhot.html

http://www.ezl.com/~gkoprivica/ForTeachersMostly.html

http://www.shiloh.stclair.k12.il.us/stewart/3S%20CLASSROOM%20WEB%20SITES.htm

http://www.shiloh.stclair.k12.il.us/stewart/3S%20CLASSROOM%20WEB%20SITES.htm

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/index5.html

http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/nhs/nicole/events/teacher.htm

http://www.rochester3a.sangamon.k12.il.us/administration/job_vacancies.htm

http://www.millstadt.stclair.k12.il.us/dist/staff/rahn/indexcr.htm

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/Assessment/Web%20Sites.html

http://home.rochester.rr.com/stmonica/links.htm

http://ourkidsfirst.homestead.com/files/main.html

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/Assessment/ISAT.html

http://www.mikids.com/3-6.html

http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/tr/geosiite.html

 

Activities compiled by Carol Meyer

January 18, 2002

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