Grade Five Curriculum Related
Sites:
Literacy
| ABCya!
Science
| Yellow Jackie Mystery
Media
| Shelving Game
| National Geographic Kids |
Games
American History
American
Notes-Travels in America 1750-1920 | Animated Atlas | Biographies
from Civil War to the Present | Boundaries
of the Contiguous US from 1650-1900's | America's Story |
Awesome Stories-see Mrs. Smith
for password | Best of History
| Comparative
Costs: The Early 19th Century and Today Lesson | Digital
History | Freedom-A
History of US | Google U.S.
Government Search | Greater
Boston History Project | Growth
of a Nation Animated Atlas Movie | Historic
Maps | History Matters
| Library of Congress | myLOC.gov
| Massachusetts Historical Society
| National Archives | Our
Documents | Picturing
America | Picturing Modern America
| Picture History | Social Studies
Lesson Plans | History in Song
| Songs from American
History | PBS_The Freedom
of Us | Schoolhouse
Rock History Lyrics | Timeline Sites up to 1790
| U. S. Timeline | Digital
History | African
American Migration
Go to bottom of this page for more Primary Source
Sites
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1. How and why were the thirteen colonies founded?
2. Why was there an American Revolution?
3. What freedoms took root during theAmerican
Revolution?
4. What revolutionary
changes are occurring today in our homes, schools, town, state, etc.?
The American Revolution
| American Revolution.org
| America's
Library | American Revolution
| American
Revolution | American
Revolution Links | The
American Revolution | Birth of
a New Nation Links | Book2Web
Readings | Boston
Massacre-Anonymous Account | Boston Tea Party
Essay | Boston
Tea Party | Boston Tea Party
| Dartmouth, The
Boston Tea Party Ship | Choosing
Revolution Field Trip | The
Coming of the American Revolution-Mass History.org | Coming of
Independence | Cornwallis
Describes his Defeat at Yorktown | Early
America | Frontier Forts
| George III's
Letter of loss of America | Highlights
of the AR | Historical
Text Archive | Enslaved
| History
Place | Growth
& Empire | History Central
| Historical
Fiction | Interactive Crossword Puzzle
| A Journey towards Freedom
| Infopedia | Jump Back
in Time PBS Liberty! The
American Revolution |
Interactive Game | Liberty's
Kids | Little
Known Facts | Loyalty
or Liberty? Web Adventure | Maps
& Charts | My
Brother Sam is Dead Cyberguide | Old
Ironsides-ask media specialist for video too | Red,
White & Blue IQ | Reliving
the American Revolution | Revolutionary
America | Spy Letters of the American Revolution
| Timeline
| Timeline
| Timeline
| US History.org | Word Searches |
Virtual Marching Tour | You
Be the Historian
American Revolution Acts
| Stamp Act
| Townsend
Act
American Revolution Battles | Battle
of Bunker Hill | Bunker
Hill | Battle of Saratoga | Battle of Ticonderoga
| Historic Valley Forge
| Valley Forge-Who
Served Here? | Historic Valley Forge
| Valley Forge Natl Park | Diary of a Surgeon
at VF | Diary of a Major
at Yorktown | Named Campaigns |
American Revolution Field Trip | Revolutionary Web
Tour | Web Adventure | The British
are Coming!
American Revolution Hotlists |
Hotlist |
AR Links | Links
| AR Sites
| Links
| Links | Reference
Resources | Research
Resources | Research
& Reference Sources | Sources
& Themes | AR Sites
American Revolution Lessons or Units | 15
Lesson Unit
American Revolution Maps | Maps and Charts
| Maps & Charts
| Rare Maps
American Revolution Films (short) | Early
America Series | Molly
Pitcher | Paul Revere*
| The Shot Heard Round the World*
American Revolution Music | Folk Music |
American Revolutionary Period People | Abigail Adams
| Abigail Adams
| Correspondence
between Abigail & John | John
Adams | John Adams | John Adams |
John Adams |
John
Adams | PBS
on the Adams | John
Adams | Mass Historical Society/Adams
| Sam
Adams | Sam
Adams | Papers of the Winthrops &
Adams Families | Sam
Adams | Ethan
Allan | Ethan Allen
| Amazing Women
| Battlefield
Heroes | Benedict Arnold
| Benedict Arnold
| Crispus Attucks
| Benjamin Banneker
| Benjamin
Banneker | Biographies
| Franklin-Tercentenary
| Ben Franklin | Ben Franklin | Ben
Franklin | The
Electric Franklin | Ben
Franklin | American Epic-Ben
F. | Alexander
Hamilton | John
Hancock | John Hancock |
Patrick Henry | Patrick
Henry | A Day
in the Life of Thomas Jefferson | Jefferson
| | Thomas Jefferson
| Thomas Jefferson Archives
| John Paul Jones
| Henry Knox |
Henry Knox | Henry Knox
| Marquis
de Lafayette | Marquis de Lafayette
| Frances Marion |
Francis Marion
| Thomas Paine | Paul Revere Virtual
Museum | Betsy Ross | Betsy
Ross House | Betsy
Ross | Betsy
Ross | Betsy Ross |
Betsy Ross
Did She or didn't She? | How
B.R. Became Famous | Peter Salem
| Deborah Sampson
| People
of the Revolutionary War | Martha
Washington | Phillis
Wheatley | Women of the
AR | see below for George Washington
American Revolution Timelines
| Continental Congress &
Constitution Timeline
American Revolution Treasure
Hunts | Scavenger
Hunt | Revolutionary
War Scavenger Hunt | Internet Scavenger Hunt |
American Revolution WebQuests | Loyalty
or Liberty? | Washington,
Philadelphia & Boston WebQuest | Founding
of the 13 Original Colonies WebQuest | The Battle of the Battlefields
Webquest | The Road to Independence
| A Revolutionary WebQuest
Boston Massacre | Archiving Early
America | A.R. Persuaders | John
Adams & the Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
| Tea Party
Colonies | 13 Colonies Map | 13
Originals | The Original
13 States | Primary Sources
| Quakers
| 13 Colonies
WebQuest
Declaration of Independence
| Charters of
Freedom | Declaring
Independence | Declaration of Independence
User's Guide | Drafting the Documents
| Timetable | Text
| Declaration
& Your Rights Lesson | New System
of Government | User's Guide to the
Declaration of Independence | Jefferson's
Account & The Signers & a Tour of Graff House
French
& Indian Wars | French
& Indian War | You Can't Have
Our Money, King George WebQuest | French & Indian
War | French &
Indian Wars | French & Indian War
George Washington | The Life of George Washington
| George Washington Papers
| The Papers of GW | Geo
Wash Picture Gallery | Valley Forge | Bio | The Real Face
Of... | GW Bio | Geo.
Wash: A National Treasure | Rediscovering
George Washington | The Writings
of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources | Meet
George Washington |
Middle Passage What was the Middle
Passage? | The Middle Passage | The Middle Passage
U.S.
GOVERNMENT
1. What is government?
2. How do the three branches of government
protect democracy?
3.
How has our government evolved and how does it continue to evolve?
4. What are the rights and responsibilities
between the individual, various groups, and the government?
Articles
of Confederation | The Articles of Confederation
| Articles
of Confederation | Articles
of Confederation Lesson Plan | Articles
of Confederation
Bill of Rights |
Charters
of Freedom | Bill of Rights Primary
Sources | The
Bill of Rights | Bill of Rights Institute | Nat'l
Costitution Center
Branches of the Government
| Branches of the
Govt | Branches
of Govt Webquest | The Three
Branches of Govt Webquest | Branches
of the Government
Congress | Congress for Kids
| CongressLink | Learn
about Congress: Interactive Learning Modules | Thomas
(Congress) | Congress.org | Early
Congresses |Congressional
Pictorial Index | Congresspedia
Constitution | NARA
| Charters
of Freedom | Teaching
w/ Documents: U.S. Constitution Workshop | The
Constitution | The
Constitution | The
Constitution | The
Creation of the Constitution | Our
Documents | National
Constitution Center | Constitution
Lesson Plan | We the People | Internet Scavenger
Hunt | Constitution
Day | US Constitution.net | Page
1 | 2 | 3
| Glossary
| Lesson
Plans | Lesson
Plans | Class
Constitution Lesson | Lesson
Planning Article | Resources
| Interactive US Constitution
| | National Constitution Center:
Interactive Constitution | Archiving
Early America |
Declaration of Independence |
Declaration
of Independence | Declaration
of Independence | Founding.com see also above under "American Revolution"
House of Representatives | House of Representatives | Office
of the Clerk-Kids in the House
Laws | How Laws are Made
|
President | Executive
Branch | Presidential Papers |
White House | White
House for Kids | The
American Presidency-Teacher Materials | see also "Current Events" page under President's Day
in Feb.
Senate | U.S.
Senate | Contacting Senators
Supreme Court | The
History of the Supreme Court | Twelve Milestone Cases
| US Supreme Court | Supreme
Court Washington Post
U.S. Government |
Ben's Guide to Government | DirectgovKids
| Kids.gov | Govt Primer | Dept. of Justice
| Kids Democracy Projecy | PBS Election
Headquarters | US Treasury
| How Does the Government
Affect Me? | US Legislative Branch
| Electoral
College | Outline of American
Government | Equal Rights Amendment
| USA.Gov | FirstGov
for Kids | US
Symbols Lesson | US Capitol Virtual Tour |
Type of Government
Game | Civics Online | Leaders
Lesson Plan | PBS Kids Democracy Project
| Student
Research Links | Informational & Research
Sites | Milestone
Documents | This Nation |
WESTWARD
MOVEMENT
1. Why did people move west?
2. How did weather and seasons affect
the pioneers' travels?
3.
What events led to the expansion and growth of the United States?
Alamo | The
Alamo | Alamo History | Alamo | Remember
the Alamo
Donner Party | Donner Party-John Sutter sends
Help | The
Donner Party
Ghost Towns | Ghost Town Gallery | Ghost Towns of NE Washington
Gold Rush | All About the Gold Rush
| The Gold Rush | Gold
Rush Sites | Women
of the Gold Rush | California
Gold Rush | Gold Rush
| Gold Rush Lessons
| Gold Rush! California's Untold
Stories | Discovery
by Sutter | Gold Fever
Jefferson | Monticello
Lewis
& Clark/Oregon Trail | Discovering
Lewis & Clark: Louisiana Purchase | Lewis
& Clark | The
Oregon Trail | Bicentennial
Exhibition | Follow in the Footsteps of Lewis
& Clark | Louis & Clark PBS | Go West with Lewis & Clark
| Historic
Steps of Lewis & Clark | Oregon Trail | Oregon Trail WebQuest |
Emigrant Road-Oregon Trail Adventure
| Lewis & Clark Lessons
| Discovering Lewis & Clark
| Oregon Trail Lesson
| Field Trip | Lewis
& Clark | Lewis
& Clark as Naturalists | Lewis &
Clark's Historic Trail | Jefferson's West | Lewis & Clark
Online | Maps
& Resources | Time
Magazine L & C Bicentennial | Nat Geo L & C
| More Online
Resources
Louisiana Purchase | Discovering
Lewis & Clark: Louisiana Purchase | Legislative
Timeline | Treaty
| Louisiana
Purchase |
Trail of Tears |
Transcontinental Railroad
| Transcontinental Railroad
| Transcontinental RR Photographic Museum &
Game | Transcontinental
RR Lesson
Webquests | Adventure
Into the Unknown: A Webquest on the L & C Expedition | Wagons
West-Oregon Trail | The
Oregon Trail
Westward Movement | Growth
of a Nation | Legends of America
Photos | Go
West | The American West | Awesome
Stories-see Mrs. Smith for password | The
West | Conestoga Wagon
| Dakota Experience
| Frontier House |
Old West Links | Wagons on the Trail West
| Davy Crockett (Alamo)
| The Journey of the Core of Discovery
| Western Expansion
& Reform | Pony Express | The
West | Westward Movement
| Western Expansion-Africans
in America | Barbed Wire | Barbed Wire |
American Buffalo | Pioneers
ThinkQuest | Historic
Atlas Resources | Homestead Act
of 1862 | The Move
West Links | The Old West |
Our Nation
Expands | Pioneers & Westward
Expansion | Westward Expansion |
Westward Expansion Thematic
Unit | Frontier House | Westward
We Go Unit | US Territorial
Maps | The Westward
Movement Lessons | The Canadian West | Westward Expansion
| The West
| 1850 Pioneer Farm
| The First American
West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 | Trails to Utah & the
Pacific | Utah Digital Newspapers from 19th
century | Western
Trails An Online Journey using Primary Sources
Women
of the West | Annie Oakley
| Women
Pioneers | Women Pioneers
in California | Famous Cowgirls
see also Grade 4 Native American Sites
CIVIL
WAR
1. What caused the Civil War?
2. How could both the North and South
claim to be justified in fighting the war?
3. How can an individual influence the course of history?
4. Is civil unrest occurring today
in our country and the world?
Civil War | A Civil War Soldier in
the Wild Cat Regiment | A Nation Divided |
A War Gone Deadly
| American Civil War Homepage
| Beyond
Face Value | Blue & Gray for Boys & Girls
| Boston History | Boys
in the Civil War | Child
Soldiers | Civil War
| Civil War | The Civil
War | Civil War @ Smithsonian
| Civil War Chronology
| Civil War.com | Civil
War.com-Search Site | Civil War.com
| Civil
War Food | Food
| Civil War Generals
| The Civil War Homepage | The
Civil War | Civil War Lesson Plan
| Civil War Literature
| Civil War Web
Unit | Home of the American Civil
War | Civil War Collection
| Civil War
& Govt. Jeopardy | The Civil War for Kids
| Civil War Link
| Civil War Images
| Civil
War Scavenger Hunt | Civil War Traveler | Civil War Treasure Hunt
| Coloring
Pages | The Coming
of the Civil War | Fort
Pickens & the Outbreak of the Civil War | Fort
Sumter | The Gettysburg Address | Jump Back
in Time | Guthrie
Civil War Letters | Letters
Home from an Iowa Soldier | Letters of Calvin
Shedd-The Civil War in Florida: Letters of a New Hampshire Soldier |
Civil War
Treasures | Civil War |
The Historical NY Times-Civil War Years
| Massachusetts 54th
| Monitor Virtual
Tour | USS Monitor | The
19th Century World | Timeline | US
Civil War Center | US Colored Troops | The Valley
of the Shadow | Civil War Maps
| Civil War Photos
| Civil War History | Personal Journal
Lesson | Soldiers & Sailors System Database
| Timeline | Women
during the Civil War | ar
| Civil War Unit | Resources
| USS Monitor
Abraham Lincoln | The Lincoln Log: A Daily Chronology
of the Life of AL | One
Life | Lincoln Online
| Abraham Lincoln
| Abraham Lincoln Timeline
| Abraham Lincoln
Quotes | Abe Lincoln
Treasure Hunt | Gettysburg
Address | The Time
of the Lincolns | Abraham Lincoln Pages
@ LC | Abraham Lincoln
| Brief
Biography | Abraham
& Mary Todd Lincoln | Assassination
| Ford's Theatre
Civil War Battles | Animations
of Key Battles | Antietam/Sharpsburg
| Antietam | Antietam
| Antietam |
Antietam | Appomattox
| Appomattox | Appomattox
Cout House Official Records & Battle Description | Appomattox
Court House NPS | Appomatox/Lee's
Last Campaign | Atlanta
Campaign | Atlanta
| Atlanta | Chancellorsville
| Chattanooga
| Chattanooga
| Chickamauga
| Civil
War Battles | Civil
War Battles by State | Civil
War Battles by State | 1st
Bull Run/Manassas | Fort
Donelson | Fort
Donelson | Fort
Sumter | Fort
Sumter | Fort Sumter
| Fredericksburg
| Fredericksburg | Fredericksburg
| Fredericksburg
| Gettysburg
| Gettysburg Camp
Life | Gettysburg | Gettysburg
| Gettysburg |
Gettysburg | Gettysburg
| Gettysburg
| Gettysburg
| Hampton
Roads (Monitor & Virginia) |
Manassas-2nd Bull Run | Manassas
2 | Mobile
Bay | Mobile
Bay | Mobile
Bay | Nashville
| Nashville
| New Orleans
| Peninsular Campaign
| Petersburg
| Petersburg
| Petersburg
| Petersburg |
Red River
| Red
River | Shiloh
| Shiloh | Vicksburg
| Vicksburg
| Vicksburg | Battles | Virtual Tours of Battle
Sites| Battle
Map
Civil War Links | Civil War Info &
Links | Civil War Resources
| Civil War Links | Civil
War Sites | American Civil
War Homepage | Civil
War for Kids
Civil War Maps | Hargrett Rare
Map Collection | Library
of Congress
Civil War People | African-American
Freedom Fighters | Alice
Williamson | Amazing Women | John
Brown | John
Brown | Jefferson
Davis | Jefferson Davis
| Frederick Douglass
| Frederick
Douglass | Joshua
Dunbar | Sarah
Emma Edmonds | Sarah
Emma Edmonds | Charlotte
Forten | William
Lloyd Garrison | Nathaniel Gordon
| Ulysses S. Grant | Ulysses
S. Grant | Robert
E. Lee | Robert
E. Lee | Robert
E. Lee | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Harriet Tubman
| Harriet
Tubman | Harriet
Tubman | Harriet Tubman
| Harriet Tubman
| Harriet
Tubman Lessons | Mary
Edwards Walker | Alice
Williamson Diary | Civil War Biographies | Civil
War Generals | Generals | Civil
War Leaders | Civil
War Women | Civil
War Women-Primary Sources on the Internet
Civil War Poetry, Music & Photographs |
Civil War Photographs:
Mathew B. Brady/bio note | Photos
| Photographs | Photographs
| Photos | Photos
| Pictures
| Civil
War Treasures from NY AmMem Project | Civil War @ Smithsonian Pictures & Info
| Civil War Music | Music
| Music | Gettysburg
Camp Life | Historical
image Collection
Civil War Webquests | A Nation
Divided | While
Battles Raged
Hunley Submarine | The
Hunley | Hunley | Hunley
History
Reconstruction | Reconstruction PBS |
Reconstruction
| Online
Movie | State by
State Census Data 1860 & 1870 | Teacher's
Guide | 40 Acres
& a Mule | Plantations
in Ruins | America's
first black legislators elected | Northerners
travel south to seek opportunities | First public
schools open in the south | Slave
to sharecropper | The Negro
Question | White Men Unite
Slavery | Slaves
and the Courts | Emancipation
Proclamation | Emancipation
| Emancipation
Proclamation | 13th Amendment
| Lincoln Papers-Eman.
Proc. | African American Perspectives
| Africans in America/The
Civil War | The Atlantic Slave Trade and
Slave Life in the Americas:
| Jim
Crowe Laws | A Visual Record
| Encyclopedia
of Slavery | Frederick Douglass Papers |
From Slavery
to Freedom-African-American Pamphlet Collection | Lest We Forget-The Triumph over
Slavery | Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)
| Mum Bett | Mum
Bett | Slave Narratives |
Slave Narrative
Examples collected by Benjamin Drew, Boston abolitionist | Slave
Narratives-Reasons For | Slave
Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project | Oral Interviews from
Federal Writers' Project | Slave Narrative Links
| Slave Narratives |
Slaves & the Courts | Slavery
in America | Slavery
| Slave Accounts
| Emancipation
| Life as a
Slave WebQuest | Harriet
Tubman | Understanding Slavery
| Enslaved Electronic Field Trip
(under Sample field trips) | Slavery Images | Sojourner
Truth | Voices from the
Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (audio) | Booker
T. Washington
Underground Railroad | Aboard
the U.R. | National Underground
Railroad Freedom Center | National Geographic Underground
RR Journey | Underground
RR Site | UR Poem | UR Field Trip
| Signs in Stitches &
Songs | UR WebQuest | Headbone Derby | UR
Awesome Stories
WebQuests
| WebQuest
| WebQuest
| WebQuest |
WebQuest
Immigration | American
Immigration Overview | America:
The Great Melting Pot | American
Immigration Overview | American Architecture
1800's | American Family Immigration
History Center | Americans
in the Raw Photos | American
Memory Immigration | Ancestry
Database | Changing
Face of America | Children's Books on Immigration
| Citizenship Quiz | Coming to America
ThinkQuest | Faraway Home | From One
Life to Another | Glossary of Immigration Term
| Great American Potluck
| Grout Museum Excursion-students
in grades 4-8 are transformed into historians as they explore primary source
photographs, letters and artifacts related to the themes of immigration and
agriculture-based industrialization in the heartland | Guide to Immigration Records
& Ships Passenger Lists | History
of European Immigration | The Immigrant Journey
| Immigration
| The Immigration Experience
| Immigration to the U.S.,
1789-1930 (Harvard site) | Immigrant
Experience Lesson Plan | Immigration
Introduction AmMem | Immigrant
Experience Pathway | The Immigrant
Experience Web Quest | Immigration
to the US | Immigration Interviews
| Immigration
Links | Immigration: Stories
of Yesterday & Today | Immigration History & Resource Center
| Immigration
Museum Online | Immigration:Research,
Organize & Present | Immigration & Naturalization
Service | Immigration: Stories
of Yesterday & Today | Immigration
to the US ThinkQuest | Immigration Treasure Hunt | In America | In Search of the
American Dream | The Irish in American:
Long Journey Home | Irish Immigration Center | Liberty State Park |
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
| Mosaic
of Immigrants to American: Foundation of a Multicultural Society | The
New Americans | Operation
Immigration | The
Tenement Museum | Timeline of Immigration
| Turn
of the Century America in Photographs | Turn of Century Photos
| US Historical Census Data Browser
Child Labor | The Story of
My Cotton Dress
Chinese Immigration | Angel Island Immigration Station
| Angel Island.com | Angel
Island Immigration Station | Becoming
American: The Chinese Experience (PBS) | The Chinese in
California | Gold Mountain Chinese
Immigration Webquest | Angel Island
Lesson Plan | Chinese Immigration to San Francisco
Ellis Island | Ellis Island | Ellis
Island Passenger Arrivals | Ellis
Island:Gateway to America ThinkQuest | Ellis Island Photographs
| Ellis Island Online
Exhibit | Find an Ancestor at Ellis Island
| Immigration
& Ellis Island | Immigration Station | Historic Overview | Ellis
Island Unit | Ellis Island Wall of
Honor | Ellis Island Images
| WebQuest |
WebQuest
| WebQuest
| WebQuest
Erie Canal | Homepage| Museum
| Journey Through History
| A Brief History |
Canal History | Ohio &
Erie Canal Lesson
Industrial Revolution | Wake
Up America Webisode-7 segments | Rise
of Industrial America 1876-1900 | Ancient Inventions
| Child Labor
in America | Info
Page | Cotton Times (British ID)
| Eli Whitney | Eli
Whitney Museum & Workshop | Great Inventors
of the Industrial Rev.Online Unit | Great Inventor's Quiz
| Hargreave's Spinning
Jenny | History
of Invention | Industrial
Revolution | Industrial Revolution
| Industrial Revolution Information
| Industrial
Revolution | Industrial
Revolution Links | Inside an American
Factory | Inventors
& Inventions | Invention
Resources | Inventor's Workshop
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
| Industrial
Revolution Links | Women
in the Industrial Revolution | Industrial
Supremacy | Idea Finder | Samuel Slater | Textile Industry
| Watt's Rotary
Steam Engine | 1900 Farm | What in the World
is That? Ingenious Inventions Throughout History | Chinese
Inventions Unit
Labor | Child Labor | Child Labor
in America | History Curriculum
Mills | Lowell Factory Rules from the
Handbook-1848 | Independent Mill Girl Letter-(search
for the document) | The Story of
My Cotton Dress | Account
of a Visitor to Lowell-1836 | Lowell National Historic Park | Mary Paul
Letters | Questions
to Ponder About Lowell Mill Girls | Samuel Slater | Timetable
of the Lowell Mills | The
Textile System | Building
America's Industrial Revolution: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts-Teaching
with Historic Places Lesson Plan
Pictures | John
Kay's Flying Shuttle | Young
Girl in Factory I | II |
III
| Children
in Factory | Boys in
Mill | Girls in
Mill
Transportation and Travel | Crossword
Puzzle
Webquests | Invention of the Millenium Webquest
| Industrial
Revolution WebQuest
Jim Crow History | Emmett Till
Old
Sturbridge Village Field Trip Homepage
Weight & Mass | Do you Weigh more
on a Carpet?
Matter | AntiMatter | Chem4Kids | DK Matter | Matter WebQuest Matter | Matter WebQuest | Phases of Matter | Properties of Matter | What is a Solid, a liquid and a gas? | What is Matter? | What is Matter? | What's the Matter? | Solids
Mapping
| Find Your Longitude
| Lat/Long Position Finder
| Lat/Long
Map Match Game | Latitude & Longitude Confluence
Project | Xpedition
Hall Globe Projector
| Introduction to Maps
| Location, Distance
& Direction | Latitude
& Longitude Lesson | Look-Up Latitude &
Longitude | Lost at Sea; The Search for Longitude
| Mathematics of Cartography
| Online Map Creation | Compass
Rose | Compass Rose
| Maps of Ancient Earth |
Early Navigation Methods
| Create a Compass | Create
an Astrolabe | Create
a Quadrant | Geography
Jeopardy | Terraserver
| Equator, Prime Meridian
& Tropics | The Four Hemispheres
| What Makes
a Good Map? | International Dateline
| Latitude & Longitude
| Map Links & Skills
| Parts of
a Map | Map
Scale | How a Compass Works
| Points of the Compass
| Compass
Rose Printout | The History
of Navigation | I Can Navigate!
Game | Map Projections
| Map Projections
| Map
Projections | Map
Projections | Map Projections
| Columbus & Navigation | How to Use a Compass
| Measure
the Earth with Shadows | How Far is
it? | Distance
Calculator |
Cornell's
Digital Earth | Great
Circle Calculator | see also "Reference" page
under atlas
Journalism | Create Your Own Newspaper | Introducing Students to Newspapers | Create a Classroom Newspaper | Classroom Newspaper Template | Newsinary | Neuseum| The Historical NY Times-Civil War Years | Lesson Plan | Create Your Own News | Current Events Lesson Plans | NY Times Learning Network | Pencil News | Kids Newsroom | Scholastic News | CNN for Students | USA Today Lessons see also "Reference" page under "Media"
Scientific Method | Questions & Answers
SIMPLE
MACHINES
1. How do simple machines and how
do they make work easier?
2.
How can simple machines combine to make more complex machines?
3. How did simple machines evolve to influence the Industrial
Revolution and my way of life?
4.
How do Newton's Laws, #1 and #2 apply to simple machines?
Inclined Plane | Inclined Plane Worksheet
| Inclined Plane Movie |
Inventions | Cyber Telephone Museum | The
Elements of Machines | Gadget
Anatomy | Hall
of Fame Inventor Profiles | Inventions
| Inventor's Workshop
Lesson | Museum of Ancient
Inventions | Museum
of Ancient Inventions | Inventor's Toolbox
| Beyond
2000 Predictions | Rube Goldberg
| Rube Goldberg Invention Convention | US
Patent & Trademark Office | US
Patent & Trademark Office Kid's Page
Levers | Levers
|
Newton's Laws | Newton's Three
Laws
Pulleys | Pulleys | Pulley
Pulls |
Screw | The
Screw
Simple Machines | Animations
| Dirtmeister's Science
Reporter's Simple Machines | Edheads
| Franklin Institute | Gadget Anatomy
| How Stuff Works | inQuiry
Almanac | Marvelous Machines |
Professor Beaker's Learning
Labs | Simple
Machine WebQuest | Simple Machine
Thinkquest | Simple
Machine Lesson | Simple Machine Sites |
Simple Machine Sites |
Simple Machines
| Simple Machine Experiments
| Machines
| Investigate
& Report on Simple Machines | Simple Machine Activities
| SmartBoard Activities
| Lesson
Plans & Activities |
ROCKETS AND MOVING OBJECTS
1. How is a rocket affected by Newton's third Law of
Motion?
2. How does flight
affect our lives now and how will it affect us in the future?
Flight
| Milestones of
Flight
Paper airplanes | Paper
Airplane Lesson to demonstrate Bernoulli's Principle | Build
the Best Paper Airplane in the World | Paper
Airplane Web Quest | Paper
Airplanes & the Methods of Science
| Fun Paper Airplanes to download
| Links |
Rockets & Moving
Objects | Airplanes
| Be a Spacecraft Engineer
| Beginner's
Guide to Rockets | Beginner's Guide
to Model Aeronautics | Beginners Guide to
Propulsion | Human
Space Flight | Gravity &
Newton | Lesson
Plans for Teaching Flight | Newton's Three
Laws | Falling
Bodies | Fly Rockets | Goddard
| Math Space
Odyssey | Model Rockets.us | Momentum
| Multistage Rockets
| NASA Quest | Rocket Web Sites
| Model Rockets
| Rocketry for Educators
| Project Apollo
| Space Shuttle
Scavenger Hunt | How
Space Shuttles Work | Space Shuttle Countdown
| Satellite Tracking
| International Space
Station | Newton World | Space
Shuttle History | The Wonders
of Flight | Flight School
| Forces in Flight |
Forces
of Flight | Flight
Curriculum Unit | Forces & Motion
| Airplanes | Space Shuttle
Designs | Battle of the X-Planes
| Timeline of Rocket
History | von Braun
| Water
rockets | Wright Brothers
INVERTEBRATES
AND VERTEBRATES
1. How do animals differ
from each other?
2. How
does an animal's structure help it to survive?
3. How does a change in the environment affect an animal
species?
Invertebrates
| Alien Stingers | AquaFacts
| Invertebrates-use
the search box | Invertebrates-scroll
down to see the invertebrates | Invertebrates-click on animals, then invertebrates
under "Science" | Invertebrates | Invertebrates
| Invertebrates | Invertebrates
| Jellies | Crustaceans
| Marine Flatworms
| Jellies | Hermit
Crabs | Horseshoe Crabs
| Corals
| Scorpions | Myriad
World of Invertebrates | Junglewalk-see
Invertebrates on lower left side of page | Octopus | Picture
Guide to Marine Invertebrates | Marine Snails Webquest
| Scorpions
| The Virtual Ocean
| The Echinoids (Sea Urchins)
| Snails | Snails
& Slugs | Squids
| Bucket Buddies Online
Project | Earthworms
| Reef Life | Fossils-scroll
down to Invertebrate Fossils at bottom of page |
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute-click on "animal"
Vertebrates
| Intro to the Vertebrates
| Vertebrate Animals Hotlist
| Vertebrate
Index |
Webquests | Vertebrates WebQuest
| Exploring the Environment-Coral Reef Module
WEATHER
1. What causes weather?
2. How does weather affect your life and the lives of
people in all parts of the world?
Weather
Glossary | How Stuff Works
| What is Weather?
|
Weather | Edheads
| SciJinks Weather Laboratory
| Atmospheric
Pressure | Climatologist's
Toolbox | Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment
| Infoplease Facts
| National Severe Storms Laboratory |
Reading Weather
Maps | Satellite images of Weather
| Weather Topics | Weather
or Not | Doppler Sites
| Weather Dude | NASA
Investigating Weather | Storm Chasing | Weather
Center | World Climate | Weather
Maps | Biomes | World
Weather | US Climate Map
| Weather Almanac |
Snow | Weather
Averages & Records | Weather Encyclopedia
| Extreme
Weather & Climate Events | Radar
Forecasting | Weather Cams | Weather
Wiz Kids | Wild Weather | Dan's
Wild Wild Weather |
Clouds | Cloud Boutique |
Cloud Unit | Cloud Webquest |
Home-made Clouds | How are Clouds Named?
| WeatherWizKids | Dan's
Wild Wild Weather
Current Weather | Accuweather |
CNN Weather by Zip Code
| Needham
| USAToday Weather
| Live Weather Images
| World Weather
| World Climate.com
| The Weather Channel
| Wunderground
| Weather Bonk-live
Cams
Cyclones Definition
Drought | Drought
Information | Drought
Monitor | Paleoclimatology
El Nino | El
Nino |
El Nino/La Nina
Flooding | Infoplease
Facts | Storm
Encyclopedia-scroll down to Flooding topics | WeatherWizKids
Forecasts | USA Today Forecast
| Intellicast
| Franklin's
Forecast
Global Warming | Climate Classroom
| Cool
Cities |
Hurricanes | Hurricanes
| Hurricanes | Hurricanes
| Hurricanes | Hurricanes,
Typhoons & Tropical Cyclones | Hurricane Field Trip
| Hurricane Hunters | Hurricane
Names | Hurricane Warnings
| Tracking a Hurricane
| Inside a
Hurricane | Understanding
Hurricanes Lesson | Kidstorm | WeatherWizKidsAccuweather
Tracker | Infoplease Facts
| Storm
Encyclopedia-scroll down to Hurricane topics | Dan's
Wild Wild Weather
Lessons | Making a Weather
Station | Weather Activities
| Bay Kids Weather
Page | Severe
Weather Unit | Weather
Gone Wild Thinkquest |
Weather Watch Interactive Project w/ other classrooms
| Edheads
| Weather
Classroom | Measuring the Rainfall
| What's
the Weather? Experiments |
Weather Forces
| Weather Eye Lessons
| Weather
Scope: An Investigative Study of Weather & Climate
Lightning | Thunder & Lightning
| Lightning & Thunder cont'd
| WeatherWizKids
| Dan's Wild Wild Weather
Nor'easters | Definition
| How Stuff Works
| Storm Encyclopedia
| Storm-E
Thunderstorms | Infoplease
Facts
| Storm Encyclopedia-scroll
down to thunderstorm topics
Tornadoes | WeatherWizKids
| FEMA Tornadoes | The
Tornado Project | Kidstorm | Twister | NOAA
Tornadoes | Tornado Safety |
Infoplease Facts
| Storm Encyclopedia-scroll
down to Tornado topics
Weather Webquests | Cyberbee Weather Watch | Weather | In the Eye of the
Storm WebQuest | Hurricane WebQuest
| Hurricane
WebQuest | Wonderful
World of Weather
Wind Chill |
Wind
Chill Factor | Wind Chill | All about Wind
Chill
Primary Sources
Norman
B. Leventhal Map Center |
online access to the 200,00 maps & 5,00 atlases at
the Boston Public Library, zoom in to inspect details of early maps
By state from
the Library of Congress
Ancestry.com | Four centuries and over 90 million
war records from NARA dating from Jamestown through the Viet Nam War, 37 million
images, Civil War pension records and more. Also, immigration records, census
data and birth, marriage and death records.
The Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History | The Gilder Lehrman
Institute offers a growing variety of resources to assist teachers and students.
The Institute has pioneered new models of history schools and programs, with
proven success in improving academic achievement. It offers professional development
opportunities for educators, provides documents and exercises for classroom
use, and encourages excellence in student writing with essay prizes.
Immigration
to the U.S., 1789-1930 (Harvard site) | Harvard University's Open Collections
Program has launched " Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930,"
a web-based collection of approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets, 6,000 photographs,
200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections selected
from Harvard's library, archives and museums. The collection is available to
Internet users everywhere. By incorporating diaries, biographies and other writings
capturing diverse experiences, the collected material provides a window into
the lives of ordinary immigrants. In addition to thousands of items now accessible,
the collection includes contextual information on immigration and quantitative
data.
History Websites
by period
Massachusetts Digitized
Primary Source Collections | he documentary heritage of Massachusetts is
essentially intact from its founding, and much rich information and documentation
exists. Throughout the Commonwealth, repositories house irreplaceable collections
of books and private and public documents that serve as a rich resource for
researchers involved in local, state, regional, national, and international
studies. Library staffs in public and academic libraries and in other repositories
have long collected materials that document their immediate and adjoining locales
as well as focusing on specific collecting areas. Although much of this material
is monographs and pamphlets, a significant portion is manuscript material (personal
and organizational papers), photographs, posters, ticket stubs, broadsides,
etc.
Stages of a
Historical Research Project This would be useful to give students at the
planning stage of a research assignment.
The History Lab Build your own
lessons with primary sources at this interactive site.
History Toolkit
This links on this site are useful for specifics such as graveyards, deeds,
diaries, oral histories etc.
Historical Google Videos approximately
250 video clips that are about 10 minutes in lengththat have been made available
from NARA (National Archives) and they can be played directly online through
your computer
Primary Sources
Lesson Framework This site has good criteria for selection of primary sources
to be used such as reading level, ideas for lessons and assessments.
Smithsonian
Source Resources for Teaching American History The site is divided into
three main sections: Teaching with Primary Sources, Historical Topics, and Primary
Sources. Five teaching strategies for using primary sources in the classroom,
such as Jigsaw and Graphic Organizers, are featured in the first section. The
historical topics include: Civil Rights, Colonial America, Native American Society,
Transportation, Invention, and Westward Expansion. Each topic includes several
lesson plans that are organized by grade level and use primary documents to
engage students in learning history. The teacher-developed, standards-based
lesson plans include links to the documents, vocabulary, activities, assessments,
handouts, and extension activities. Also included is a thematic video to go
along with each topic and DBQs (Documents and Questions) that can be used independently
of the lesson plan.
NARA Great analysis
worksheets available on this site!
NARA Teaching
with Documents Lesson plans by era
MassMoments.org | Digital
Commonwealth |
Maryland
Historical Society Great analysis worksheets available on this site!
OpenVault provides online access to
unique and historically important content produced by public television station
WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains
video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews
for purchase, and resource management tools.
PrimarySourceLearning | Helping
educators quickly find and use primary sources related to specific curriculum
standards with Best Instructional Practices for all subjects.
How to Read a
200-year old Document and other FAQs Good write-up and explanations for
students about primary sources.
American Journeys-Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration & Settlement | American Memory Collection Finder Search | American Memory Activities to become Familiar | America's Freedom Documents | Core Documents of U.S. Democracy | Cornell's Making of America Digital Library of Primary Sources | Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents | Antebellum-Reconstruction Periods Primary Documents | Civil War Images | Digital Treasures Central Massachusetts | Documenting the American South | Early America | History First Hand (Using Primary Resources) | How to Use Primary Sources | Living History Farms | Making of America | NARA Digital Classroom | Past Portal-Colonial Williamsburg's Portal to American History | Primary Sources on the Web | Primary Sources on the Web | Repositories of Primary Sources | Social Issues Digital Collection (NW US) | Turn of the Centuries Exhibit | Understanding Primary Sources Lesson: The Erie Canal | US & World History Primary Sources on the Web | US Historical Documents | Our Documents | Primary Source Investigation-Children of Yesteryear | Photo Gallery-Children of Yesteryear | Primary Sources on the Web | Primary Source | Memorial Hall Museum-American Centuries Views from New England | NPS Teaching with Historic Places | Picturing Modern America | Repositories of Primary Sources | The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources | Primary Source Learning: Discover, Learn, and Teach with Historical Documents* |