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Additional Resources:
5th Grade:Culture
Economics
Governance and Civics
History
5th Grade:Culture
- Holidays from around the world: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/holidays-sampler-around-world
- Why Christmas: http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/
Economics
- Mad Money Game: http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/games/mad_money_flash.html
- Credit Card Simulator - a game to see if you can handle a credit card
- The Random Ball-Picking Machine - experiment with a random generator at a BBC site to collect data to make decisions about probability
- Interpreting Data - multiple-choice quiz from Glencoe
- 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
- Play Ball - collect data to put on a picture graph
- The 20's and 30's - a Quia quiz about life and economics in the 20's and 30'
- Continent Quiz - ten multiple choice question
- Continents and Oceans - a quiz from Quia
- Continents and Oceans Quiz - scroll down to find the continent that matches the number
- Interactive U. S. Geography Activities - an index of five geography quizzes which includes a quiz on rivers and lakes
- Interactive World Map Scavenger Hunt - Scroll down to see questions
- World Continents and Oceans - a quiz
- World Continents and Oceans Games - Learn the world's continents and oceans with these five games
- Animated Map - human population growth through history
- World Map/Atlas
- Find your Longitude - interactive game. Use internet explorer.
- Latitude and longitude - online quiz
- Interactive U. S. Geography Activities - How well do you know the states of the United States?
- States Interactive Web Games -Learn the locations, capitals, abbreviations and over 500 important facts about our 50 states
- Climographs of Selected U.S. Cities
- U.S. Climate at a Glance - from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina
Governance and Civics
- What's It All About? - an Introduction to the First Amendment
- Bill of Rights - Purpose of Bill of Rights
- Constitution - Purpose of Constitution
- Declaration of Independence - purpose of the document
- Ben’s Guide: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
- Ben’s Guide Games: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/games
History
- 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
- 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.
- The South During the Civil War - An Overview
- The North During the Civil War - An Overview
- Civil War Biographies - Many names and info on people during the Civil War
- Civil War for kids - short biographies of Civil War leaders, images of other leaders, links to other Civil War Sites
- Important People from the Civil War Era - links to allow students to complete a history research project
- America on the Move: 1876-2000 - explores the role of transportation in America's history (drag the timeline to see different time periods)
- American History Timeline: 1780-2010 - very complete, although not interactive
- 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
- 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
- Postwar United States - from the Library of Congress
- World War II: Before the War - a retrospective in 20 parts(preview photos for age appropriateness, some photos may not be appropriate)
- World War II: After the War - a retrospective in 20 parts(preview photos for age appropriateness, some photos may not be appropriate)
- Dust Bowl Timeline - (from PBS) 20th Century hardships
- Housing on the Prairie - Interactive quiz about building housing on the prairie
- Characteristics of primary and secondary resources - lesson and exercise
- 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
- You be the Historian - Learn about life in the late 1700s based on the evidence presented in the activity