Educational Resources for 5th Grade
Who Discovered America?
- Chinese 1421 - Did the Chinese discover America in this year?
- Chinese Map - Article from BBC News
- Vikings World Book - Encyclopedia article
- Vikings North Atlantic Saga - Smithsonian Website
- Columbus: An Ongoing Voyage - Library of Congress exhibit
- Who Really Discovered America - a good variety of links
- Video 1 - Animal adaptation
- Video 2 - Animal adaptation
- UEN Animal Adaptation - This Website covers a variety of animals with many good questions to respond to.
- Thinkquest - more good information on animal adaptation.
- Eco Kids - How fast can you match up animals' adaptations?
- Camouflage Filed Book
- Dan's Wild, Wild Weather Page - What a great site!
- Forces of Nature - Click on your topic and look at the photos.
- Earthquakes for Kids - A fun, fact-filled page. Look at Latest Quakes!
- Hurricanes - Learn how hurricanes happen.
- JamesQuest - Explore Jamestown, Virginia.
- History of Jamestown - Read the history and click on the links.
- Mayflower History - Look at the passenger list of the Mayflower.
- Colonial Williamsburg - Here is the official site.
- Loyalty or Liberty? - You discover secrets in Williamsburg. Which side are you going to tell?!
- LIBERTY! The American Revolution - PBS has great resources, a timeline and even a game.
- The Nation Splits - A ThinkQuest by 5th graders exploring the causes and effects of the Civil War.
- The Civil War for Kids - Here is a time line, biographies and maps created by 3rd, 4th & 5th graders.
- Civil War - BrainPop has a movie and a quiz for you!
- Age of Exploration - Take this UEN Virtual Tour of early European explorers in the Americas.
- Explorer List - A good place to start for brief biographies of explorers.
- Discovers Web - What a list of explorer resources!
- Grimm Brothers - Choose your tale!
- Grimm Fairy Tales - Read about the real Grimm Brothers.
- Fairy Tale Quiz - Be sure to read the fairy tales FIR
- Interactive Math - Check out these virtual manipulatives!
- A+ Math - Try Matho, Concentration, and Hidden Picture.
- Fun Brain - Let's play some Math Baseball, Power Football or Soccer Shootout!
- AAA Math - Here's 5th grade math!
- Math Journey - Take a trip around the world by answering math problems.
- Teach R Kids Math - Try Division, Multiplication, Fractions ...anything you need to work on!
- Geometry Vocabulary - Try this UEN Tour of geometry.
- Games -Fun from gamequarium.com.
- Science Companion - Here are links for your science lessons.
- Chemical Elements - Click on this interactive periodic table!
- Fault Blocks - Click to make the fault blocks move!
- Fault Pressure - HowStuffWorks shows the pressures on rock layers that cause faults.
- Electricity - A site for some hands on electricity information.
- Juneteenth Pictorial - An explanation of the Middle Passage.
- Understanding Slavery - Explore this site from Discovery School.
- The Underground Railroad - Experience travelling on the Underground Railroad.
- Free At Last - A ThinkQuest project created by 5th graders on slavery and the civil rights movement in the US.
- Stately Knowledge - The Internet Public Library will give you basic facts on your state and other great links!
- Factmonster:50 States - This site has it all! Info for each state and famous natives, too.
- State Facts & Symbols - Enchanted Learning makes state facts fun.
- CultureGrams - Lots of state info under Pioneer.
- State Folktales - Read a folktale from your state!
- Puzzle - On-line wordsearch puzzles for all 50 states.
- Place the States - Put the states on the US maps.
- Ben's Guide to US Government - Ben Franklin explains all parts of our government.
- US Flag - Here is a picture gallery of our flag.
- Earth's Changing Surface - Click on this title under Level Five and complete your worksheet.
- Chemical Weathering - Try using this to figure it out!