5th+Grade+Finds


 * Teacher Requested Sites & Resources for 5th Grade:

Social Studies:** >
 * **Early US History up to Civil War**:
 * **American History early migration to civil war**: @http://civilwarstudies.org/tours.shtm - Offers picture tours of a fort (with actors portraying residents) as well as John Wilkes Booth’s escape route
 * **American History at the Smithsonian:** @http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html - Site offers video, photographs and in-depth discussion of several aspects of Civil War
 * **History Globe--Early Jamestown:** http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/ - Game that allows user to make decisions about starting a new colony
 * **History.org Role Play of Early Williamsburg:** @http://www.history.org/history/teaching/dayinthelife/interact_role.cfm - Role play game between players in 1774 Williamsburg
 * **Animated Atlas:** @http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html - Offers video of a US map with corresponding narration
 * **National Geographic Interactive Game on Lewis & Clark:** @http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/west/
 * **I****ndustrial Revolution**
 * @http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/start.asp?Game=28 – Interactive game on Industrial Revolution
 * @http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/timeline1.html - American timeline of Industrial Revolution
 * **Cotton Gin**
 * @http://www.eliwhitney.org/museum/eli-whitney/cotton-gin - Museum home for Cotton gin inventor – has animated patent
 * @http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/docs.htm?docid=3408 – USDA site explaining cotton gin
 * **Industry **
 * @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/timeline_text.html - technology timeline


 * **Slavery**
 * @http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/freedom/index.html - links to original documents and history/character information to offer experience
 * @http://www.c-span.org/antietam/narratives.asp - recordings of former slaves
 * @http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/narratives/overview.htm - text and audio of former slaves
 * @http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/ - National Geographic interactive site
 * @http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/index.htm - Underground Railroad interactive journey


 * **Native American Impact**
 * @http://www.native-languages.org/state-names.htm - Native American’s impact on state names (other links from home page)
 * @http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-timeline.html - Native American timeline
 * @http://www.smithsoniansource.org/content/dbqs/westwardexpansion/impact_westward_expansion.pdf - documents related to western effects on Native Americans
 * @http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110072/navigation/native_american_chart.htm - Chart on original Native Americans
 * @http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-cultures - resources/videos on Native American Cultures, with ability to search further from this page

**Math Sites:** [] - Divide a whole figure into fractions **Science Sites:** Jeopardy game – for concepts
 * [] - Rename a fraction into an equivalent fraction
 * [] - 4 levels of difficulty for finding equivalent fractions
 * [] – A matching game – choose between decimals, fractions, and percentages
 * [] - find equivalent fractions
 * [] - Add ice cream to a cone with mixed fraction orders – also uses money
 * [] - the game gets progressively harder
 * [] - fit shapes into a given area
 * Science – (My notes---still looking for additional sites)animal adaptations for survival, body system, nonrenewable resources, forms of energy
 * [] - Examples of how different animals adapt
 * [] - Information about the different “coverings” that animals have to help them adapt to their environment
 * [] - Click on a body part for movies, quizzes, articles, word finds, and activities
 * [] - timeline of how long it takes for trash to decompose
 * [] – Interactive site about energy
 * Other Requests:**
 * [] - Create own Jeopardy game
 * [] - math jeopardy
 * [] - multiple jeopardy subjects


 * Centers for word study – build vocabulary, scrabble squares, (4 computer stations)**
 * [] - Merriam-Webster online games
 * Exploratory sites on Edutainment**
 * Analogies, base words, prefixes, suffixes, patterns of words content, vowel, latin origins of words, parts of speech – mad libs activity, read write think**
 * [] - mad libs junior
 * [] - grammar games