Fifth Grade Web Links

Frequently used tools:

  1. Reference Sources:   Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus Online, AskOxford.com, Roget's Thesaurus
  2. Search engines (help you to find information on any topic): Ask for Kids, Yahoo!Kids, KidsClick
  3. The Big 6 Problem Solving Strategy (helps you with research assignments)
  4. Click here to learn how to write a bibliography, or try EasyBib.com.
  5. Crossword Puzzle Maker and Puzzlemaker

Language and Reading     (return to top of page)

Math     (return to top of page)

Internet Safety    (return to top of page)

Jo Fool or Jo Cool A Canadian website that teaches students how to surf safely.

The Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and the First Thanksgiving    (return to top of page)

You Are the Historian Investigating the First Thanksgiving Plimoth Plantation's site lets you use primary sources to learn facts about the "First Thanksgiving."

The First Thanksgiving Scholastic's site has information about:

  1. The Mayflower: Explore the Mayflower's nooks and crannies and experience what life was like at sea in 1620.
  2. Daily Life of the Pilgrims and Wampanoag
  3. The Thanksgiving Feast

Caleb Johnson's Mayflower Web Caleb (who had nine ancestors on the Mayflower!) includes many excellent documents, descriptions and drawings.

Pilgrim Hall Museum See paintings and read original documents about the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving. Includes a list of the names of people at the "First Thanksgiving"!

For fun try the First Thanksgiving Web Quest or Thanksgiving Games!

Maya   (return to top of page)

Maya Civilization Map
Ancient Mesoamerica
Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fall?
Picture of Chichen Itza rain forest area
Mayan ruins in Chichen Itza

Explorers   (return to top of page)

Sites with links to information:

Sites with information:

Videos:
Keep in mind that some of these videos show actors and reenactments - film crews did not travel with the explorers! You do not have to watch the entire video. It may be helpful to just watch the segments that concern the explorer you are researching.

  1. Early Explorers Includes information about Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, John Cabot, and Ferdinand Magellan.
  2. French Explorers Includes information about Marquette, Jolliet, and La Salle
  3. Spanish Explorers Includes information about Ponce de Leon, de Soto, Coronado.
  4. Viking Explorers Includes information about Leif Ericson.
  5. Conquest of the Americas Includes information about Cortes and Pizarro.
  6. New World Explored Includes information about Jacques Cartier, Hernando De Soto, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain.

Videos about specific explorers:

  1. Christopher Columbus Animated video provides a lot of information!
  2. Christopher Columbus Non-animated video.
  3. Samuel de Champlain
  4. Henry Hudson
  5. Ferdinand Magellan

United States of America   (return to top of page)

  1. America's Library Learn about American history and culture. Each of the five sections (Meet Amazing American, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, Join America at Play, and See, Hear, and Sing) contain different learning activities.
  2. Distance between capital cities
  3. Official state web sites
  4. State facts (After you click on the state, look at "ECONOMY" to find out the state's farm products and major industries. Also, look at "LARGEST CITIES.")
  5. Famous people from each state
  6. Tourism information
  7. The History of Pennsylvania's State Capital

How to Find a Good Book   (return to top of page)

  1. Read about our visiting author, Roger Roth and his good books. 
  2. Just for kids who love books This site, published by an elementary school librarian, posts reviews written by KIDS and provides links to information about authors. (If you are a Captain Underpants fan, click on the third Dav Pilkey site to go to Dav's home page!)
  3. BookHive The Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina publishes book reviews for kids up to age twelve written by librarians and categorized by topic.
  4. BookAdventure Find books by grade level and subject
  5. Database of Award Winning Children's Literature Created by a librarian, this database lets you search for exactly the kind of book you want to read!
  6. Commercial sites that provide professional reviews and reviews written by customers are fun to browse. Try Amazon.com's Children's Books and Barnes and Noble's Children's Books.
  7. Kidsreads.com: Great reads for kids 6-12. Read about new books, series books, classics, award winners, and more! 
  8. For fun: Match author's names with books they've written or highlight author's names in an online word search.
  9. Find out if the book you want is available at a public library:

Art Mystery Solve the mystery of the unknown painting!  (return to top of page)

Authors   (return to top of page)

General search sites:

Specific author sites:

African-Americans    (return to top of page)

General search sites:

Tornadoes and Weather   (return to top of page)

Women's History   (return to top of page)
  1. Biographies and more!
  2. National Women's Hall of Fame

Space    (return to top of page)

  1. Cosmic Quest Learn about our solar system and how to design a space station.
  2. How much would you weigh on another planet?  How old would you be?  (Try this site if the first does not work.)
  3. Asto-Venture: Search for and design a habitable planet Wear headphones or turn the speakers on to listen to directions on this NASA site.

Colonial History and Revolutionary War  (return to top of page)

  1. Jamestown Online Adventure
  2. The World of Benjamin Franklin
  3. Betsy Ross Homepage
  4. Virtual Tour of Philadelphia
  5. Ben's Guide to U.S. Government: Liberty Bell
  6. Liberty Bell Virtual Museum FAQs
  7. Liberty Bell Virtual Museum Home
  8. Liberty Bell Triviata (with quiz at the bottom of the page)
  9. Liberty Bell's 1915 U.S. Tour to the Panama Pacific International Exposition (World's Fair)
  10. Lewis and Clark Expedition

Patriots

Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips Three free sample trips are available. (Descriptions are from the Educational Web Adventure page: http://www.eduweb.com/adventure.html) 

You be the historian The Smithsonian Institution asks you to analyze items found by archeologists to determine what life was like for the Springer family who lived 200 years ago.

Underground Railroad   (return to top of page)

National Geographic Online Presents The Underground Railroad This site lets you pretend you are a slave escaping to freedom and asks you to make decisions along the way.

Dewey   (return to top of page)

"Do We" Really Know Dewey? A web site about the Dewey Decimal System written by students (if this site is not working, use this link)

Multimedia tour of the Dewey Decimal Classification System

Biography of Melvil Dewey (or Dui)

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