Educational Resources for 6th Grade
Ancient Cultures
Ancient Cultures
- General
- Bibliography
- 4Odyssey OnLine - Explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Make your own discoveries through cool puzzles, games, and worksheets
- Early Man - Tour the cave of Chauvet-Pont-D'Arc and look at cave paintings.
- Mesopotamia
- British Museum: Mesopotamia - Geography, cuneiform script, gods & goddesses, ziggurats...this site has it all!
- Ancient Mesopotamia - A webquest with many good links.
- Egypt
- Ancient Egypt - Go to the Glossary and chose several of the missions.
- Explore the Pyramids - Pick a pyramid and take a look inside!
- Mysteries of the Nile - Explore this PBS Nova site.
- Here's 2 sites on Egyptian Life: Daily Life 1 and Daily Life 2.
- Egyptian Math - Solve the word problems using Egyptian numerals.
- Greece
- The Greeks (PBS) - Explore a timeline and the Acropolis and speak like a Greek!
- Ancient Greece - Check out this website!
- Greek Daily Life - A very comprehensive site.
- BBC's Ancient Greece - Here is a timeline and fun cartoons on Ancient Greece.
- Myths
- Mythography - Explore Roman, Greek & Celtic myths.
- Encyclopedia Mythica - Here's a listing of all the Greek and Roman gods!
- Mythweb - Greek heroes, gods and monsters.
- Greek Mythology - A ThinkQuest site created by kids.
- The Nine Planets - Great spot to start learning about the solar system.
- Planets for Kids - Free astonomy network for kids
- Planet Facts - Fun science and technology for kids
- Kid's Astronomy - Good information on the planets
- NASA: The Moon - This sheet has facts and pictures.
- Space Weather - This site displays a picture of the sun each day.
- Solar Max - Fun site from the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
- The Stanford Solar Center - Be sure to click on Activities!
- SOHO Exploring the Sun - Images and more from the SOHO satellite.
- A+ Country Reports - Search here for flags and country information.
- World Flag Database - Flag facts and more!
- CIA World Factbook - Detailed facts about countries.
- Worldbook - Use Worldbook Encyclopedia through Pioneer for country information.
- CultureGrams - Lots of country info under Pioneer.
- Quick World Maps - If you are looking for world maps, country maps, population maps, country flags... this is the place.
- Encarta's Learning Center - This site allows you to pinpoint your country on a map.
- Universal Currency Converter - How much is $1.00 worth in your country?
- Who's in Charge? - Here's a list of the current world leaders.
- How to Say??? - Learn some words in your country's language.
- NationMaster - Not only full of facts but you can compare countries! Click on individual countries.
- Center for Disease Control - Has a list of health topics.
- Virtual Hospital - Health topics from A-Z
- KidsHealth - Doctor-approved health information about children.
- Virus Photos - This site is called "The Big Picture Book of Viruses".
- Viruses - HowStuffWorks show how viruses work.
- Infection Detection Protection - A wonderful site from the American Museum of Natural History.
- Stalking the Mysterious Microbes - Microbes in the news!
- Microbe Zoo - Learn about microbes in their environment.
- Percussion for Kids - Listen to the rhythms of Stomp!
- Ocean Waves - Waves described as "wiggles"! Good informatio
- French Revolution - A brief overview of this interesting period.
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - Explore the French Revolution
- Book Adventure - Fill in the cool form to find books you might like to read!
- American Poets - Here's a list of poets with their biographies and poems.
- The Westing Heirs - A Webquest based on the novel, The Westing Game.
- Poets.org - Click on Find a Poet to read your favorite.
- Continents and Oceans - Look at this map of the continents and the major oceans. Click on the region links below the map.
- GeoSpy - Play this game of continents and countries.
- Latitude and Longitude - Click each button, read and then take the quiz!
- Latitude: The Science of Sailing the World - Learn how latitude changed maps in the 15th & 16th centuries.
- You can track 3 hurricanes by using longitude and latitude.
- Map Reading Activities - Map reading sheets to print out
- Interactive Math - Check out these virtual manipulatives!
- AAAMath - This site has 6th grade math covered!
- Decimals - Practice converting to different formats.
- Spreadsheet Safari - Let's explore spreadsheets on this Thinkquest, Jr. site!
- A+ Math - Try Matho, Concentration, and Hidden Picture.
- Fun Brain - Let's play some Math Baseball, Power Football or Soccer Shootout!
- Math Journey - Take a trip around the world by answering math problems.
- Math Games - Fun math games gamequarium.com
- Castles for Kids - Details on parts of a castle and its inhabitants.
- Constellations - Constellation charts and mythology.
- Kingdomality - Fill out your Personal Preference Profile and find out your medieval occupation!
- Life in a Castle - Find out what it was really like!
- Middle Ages: Feudal Life - What was it really like then?! This Annenberg site tells all!
- Life in the Middle Ages - This site by 5th & 6th graders covers food, women and weapons as well as castles.
- What Are Castles? - A good general description of castles with a great map.
- Medival Siege - Explore medieval war strategies and how a trebuchet was built.
- King Arthur - A comprehensive site from Brittania.com
- Heraldry Game - Try this on-line game.
- Battles - Agincourt & Crecy
- Antony van Leeuwenhoek - Learn about this 18th century scientist who discovered the existence of bacteria and opened the world of microscopic life to the scientific community. What did Robert Hooke do?
- Virtual Microscopy - Simulate the operation of a real-life microscope! Click on SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy).
- Stalking the Mysterious Microbe - Stalk microbes and read about them in the news. Solve Case #1 - What is a microbe?
- Cells Alive! - A microrganism photo gallery.
- Microbe Zoo - Explore the fascinating world of microbes.
- Infection Detection Protection - Simple information and cool on-line board games about germs.
- MysteryNet Kids Mysteries - Mysteries to read and solve on-line!
- Renaissance - What inspired this age of balance and order? This site is full of information; play with Numbers in Nature or Become a Spice Merchant.
- Renaissance Personalities - Short biographies on several stars of the Renaissance.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti - Learn all about this artist's life.
- Renaissance Art - Michaelanglo, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael: This Thinkquest covers these artists and more!
- The Renaissance - Mr. Dowling has great info and a study guide as well.
- Renaissance Artists - Try this Renaissance Artist word search.
- Renaissance - What inspired this age of balance and order? This site is full of information; play with Numbers in Nature or Become a Spice Merchant.
- Renaissance Personalities - Short biographies on several stars of the Renaissance.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti - Learn all about this artist's life.
- Renaissance Art - Michaelanglo, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael: This Thinkquest covers these artists and more!
- The Renaissance - Mr. Dowling has great info and a study guide as well.
- Renaissance Artists - Try this Renaissance Artist word search.
- World War II - Social Studies for Kids has a list of links for WWII sites.
- Anne Frank House - A Dutch site about Anne Frank (click on English)
- An Auschwitz Alphabet & Auschwitz Virtual Tour
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Tour the museum, visit the student learning site and do the on-line activities.