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Fifth Grade Page

Updated November 28, 2007

American History:

New Sites in Nov. 2007:

13 Originals - Founding the American Colonies

Colonial Williamsburg History Explorer

Salem Witch Museum

Elementary OSLIS

OSLIS student research tools!

Documents of Democracy Webquest:

Learn about the great documents of our country

American Revolution and Declaration of Independence Sites:

New January 8th: Liberty, the American Revolution

Freedom - great site with audio, photos, video, and more.

A Revolutionary Webquest - new Feb 27, 2006

The History Place - American Revolution - great sites here.

Prelude to American Revolution - what happened in the 13 years leading up to the revolution

Liberty - The American Revolution

Chronicles of the American Revolution

The American Revolution

The Declaration of Independence - includes a photograph of the Declaration.

The back side of the Declaration of Independence - see what's there.

The Declaration of Independence - a history. Click on the links for information.

COLONIAL TRADES:


http://www.hvrsd.k12.nj.us/stonybrook/home/colonialtrades.html

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/forestoakms/site%20pages/Academics/Social%20Studies/Colonisl%20Times/index.html

Founding the 13 original American Colonies
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html

Colonial Economy 1600-1750
http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?id=13942&external=http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/market_to_market/&original=

Colonial Thinkquest- "Celebrating Life in the 1700s" by kids
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/

Excellent Resource- "Creating a Colony in The New Land"- links to daily life and general Colonial information:
http://www.coollessons.org/colony.htm

Page with Mulitiple Links to Colonial Information
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/coloniz.html

Colonial Newspaper Project (has some good links)
http://www.loelem.santacruz.k12.ca.us/classrooms/library/webquest.htm

Colonial Williiamsburg Site
http://www.history.org/

Colonial Families and day to day life:

The Daggetts - a Colonial Family

You be the Historian - a great site where you use clues to learn about a family that lived in colonial times.

Colonial Soap Making - It's History and Techniques - learn how they made soap!

General Information Sites:

The Colonial Period - incredible selection of colonial history sites!!!

Colonial times - many subjects covered!

Teacher Idea Site:

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - a good site for teachers to get ideas on teaching about colonial history.

Biographies and Maps:

Colonial Hall - Biographies of America's Founding Fathers

Rare Map Collection - Colonial America: Maps dating back to 1625!

Refugee Information:

Ancestry

Ancestry Research - use the password you were given in school. Thanks!

High Desert Website created by OES 5th Graders:

State Reports:

Maps on Us - Map all the destinations on your itinerary! Click on "Routes" and then enter your destinations, and create a map for your route. You will also have exact driving directions and miles. Total driving time will also be listed.

Mapquest - Get exact driving directions between any two points on your itinerary. You also get a map, and total driving time.

Projected State Populations, by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995-2025

Practice for the States test - this includes state name, capital, and state code.

Take a sample States test - this will give you automatic scoring!

Welcome to Puerto Rico - excellent information

Puerto Rico Links - many Puerto Rico related links

State Report Information - Links provided by Multnomah County Library

50 States and Capitals - provides information about each of the fifty states and their capitals, including information such as state bird, flag, motto, flower, nickname, population, geology, legistlators and more.

Geology

Geological Survey Home Page - includes "Ask a Geologist" and "Latest Earthquake Information"
A Geologist's Lifetime Field List - this presents a fine list of places for travelors to visit for geological events.
Rock Hounds - a GREAT site for students to learn about geology!!!
Earthquake ABC - a child's view of earthquakes.
International Earthquake Information Center - lots of earthquake info
Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries - links to mining, earthquakes, landslides and other geologic info for Oregonians.
Savage Earth - neat looking site! Learn the science behind volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis.Animations illustrate these!
Geologylink - geology in the news, virtual classroom, virtual field trips.

Hanukkah

Not Just for Kids: Hanukkah

Celebrate with Joi 

Country Report Sites


Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, the Destination - great site about Melbourne including a slideshow with sound!

Dewey Decimal System at the Middletown Thrall Library

Fiction or Fact?

Science Fiction or Fact? new 11/17/99

Space Art

Good Sites from Students December 2001:

SSI Space Art Gallery - good site found by students

Novaspace Galleries

Glass Nebula - way cool looking site!

The Space Art of Gary Tonge - another cool site!

Ladies of the Lake by Kim Poor - a neat image.

Space-art.co.uk - by Mark A. Garlick - some fine pictures here!

Space Art on the Web - links to several good sites.

NASA Kids - this is a great site for kids!

Space Art Home Page - Space Educator's Handbook - another wonderful looking site!

NASA Arts Gallery

Space Art - a collection of artworks about space and the final frontier

Hobbyspace Space Art - seeing above and beyond.

Alex Michael Bonnici's Space Exploration Page - tons of links and a cool photo on the homepage.

Tharsis Gallery

The Astronomical Image Library

Pages From Last year:

The History of Space Art - new site from Mrs. Carrithers 11/27/1. Note the good links to more space art at the end of this page.

Links for Space Art (new 11/30/99)

IAAA - International Association of Astronomical Artists - Space Art (new 11/30/99)

JSC's Earth from Space

Terra Server

GOES weather images

GLOBE

GVGALACTIC VISIONS SPACE ART

Solar System:

Welcome to the Solar System - Excellent pictures and information.

Solar System - wonderful site with great info and pictures - worth giving your students a tour.

Views of the Solar System - A profound site containing not only photos of the heavenly bodies but also information. It also has excellent space history and the people involved in space exploration.

Position of the planets - this site give you the current position of the planets

The 9 Planets - excellent site with wonderful photographs.

Solar System Planets - some good descriptions and interesting, sometimes fanciful pictures.

NASA Observatorium image gallery - many great photographs of the planets, moon, universe, spacecraft, spaceflight, artwork and aeronautics.

Exploring the Planets - another site for great pictures and information.

Hologlobe - Colorful and clear graphics display the planets and the earth and its atmosphere. See how El Nino effects the earth, where the earth's tectonic plates are located, and what the earth's vegetation cycle is.
Exploring the Planets - Lots of information about the planets and other space goodies.

Homework Center - Astronomy and Space - This wonderful site from the Multnomal Library has tons of solar system and other links - top notch!!!!!

 

Weather from USA Today

 

Current Events:

Kids Corner - news on a child's level plus many age appropriate sites on MANY subjects.

KidNews Home Page - this is a highly interactive site in which children are invited to write news and a variety of other ideas. Children can find penpals through this site. It also has a teacher section.

Weather/Astronomy - much information about weather and astronomy.

Tomorrow's Morning