Social Studies - 5th Grade

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5th Grade:Culture
  1. Holidays from around the world: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/holidays-sampler-around-world
  2. Why Christmas: http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/


Economics
  1. Mad Money Game: http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/games/mad_money_flash.html
  2. Credit Card Simulator - a game to see if you can handle a credit card
  3. The Random Ball-Picking Machine - experiment with a random generator at a BBC site to collect data to make decisions about probability
  4. Interpreting Data - multiple-choice quiz from Glencoe
  5. Reading Charts and Graphs - In this lesson you will: read bar graphs, pie charts, and grid charts, review percentages in pie charts and, compare types of information shown in different kinds of charts
  6. Play Ball - collect data to put on a picture graph
  7. The 20's and 30's - a Quia quiz about life and economics in the 20's and 30'
Geography
  1. Continent Quiz - ten multiple choice question
  2. Continents and Oceans - a quiz from Quia
  3. Continents and Oceans Quiz - scroll down to find the continent that matches the number
  4. Interactive U. S. Geography Activities - an index of five geography quizzes which includes a quiz on rivers and lakes
  5. Interactive World Map Scavenger Hunt - Scroll down to see questions
  6. World Continents and Oceans - a quiz
  7. World Continents and Oceans Games - Learn the world's continents and oceans with these five games
  8. Animated Map - human population growth through history
  9. World Map/Atlas
  10. Find your Longitude - interactive game. Use internet explorer.
  11. Latitude and longitude - online quiz
  12. Interactive U. S. Geography Activities - How well do you know the states of the United States?
  13. States Interactive Web Games -Learn the locations, capitals, abbreviations and over 500 important facts about our 50 states
  14. Climographs of Selected U.S. Cities
  15. U.S. Climate at a Glance - from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina

Governance and Civics
  1. What's It All About? - an Introduction to the First Amendment
  2. Bill of Rights - Purpose of Bill of Rights
  3. Constitution - Purpose of Constitution
  4. Declaration of Independence - purpose of the document
  5. Ben’s Guide: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
  6. Ben’s Guide Games: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/games

History
  1. Seeing Time (Using timelines as a resource) - gives students a chance to refine and extend their ability to construct, read, analyze, and draw conclusions from timelines
  2. The Civil War - The Valley of the Shadow - The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War.
  3. The South During the Civil War - An Overview
  4. The North During the Civil War - An Overview
  5. Civil War Biographies - Many names and info on people during the Civil War
  6. Civil War for kids - short biographies of Civil War leaders, images of other leaders, links to other Civil War Sites
  7. Important People from the Civil War Era - links to allow students to complete a history research project
  8. America on the Move: 1876-2000 - explores the role of transportation in America's history (drag the timeline to see different time periods)
  9. American History Timeline: 1780-2010 - very complete, although not interactive
  10. Historical and Cultural Context - Use your sleuthing skills to figure out when and where an historical event took place by examining some primary sources and using an educated guess to pinpoint them on a map and timeline
  11. Seeing Time (Using timelines as a resource) - gives students a chance to refine and extend their ability to construct, read, analyze, and draw conclusions from timelines
  12. Postwar United States - from the Library of Congress
  13. World War II: Before the War - a retrospective in 20 parts(preview photos for age appropriateness, some photos may not be appropriate)
  14. World War II: After the War - a retrospective in 20 parts(preview photos for age appropriateness, some photos may not be appropriate)
  15. Dust Bowl Timeline - (from PBS) 20th Century hardships
  16. Housing on the Prairie - Interactive quiz about building housing on the prairie
  17. Characteristics of primary and secondary resources - lesson and exercise
  18. Historical and Cultural Context - Use your sleuthing skills to figure out when and where an historical event took place by examining some primary sources and using an educated guess to pinpoint them on a map and timeline
  19. You be the Historian - Learn about life in the late 1700s based on the evidence presented in the activity