Social Studies - 5th Grade

• Age of Exploration Webquest
  Students research explorers of America in order to understand their reasons for exploration (i.e. economic, religious, political, adventure) as well as the outcomes of their exploration.
• American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
  After completing these activities, students will be able to: identify the original thirteen British colonies on a map; understand how physical geography affected settlement; understand how settlers' backgrounds influenced their values, priorities, and daily lives; examine artifacts and make inferences about the people and the historical periods that they represent; imagine typical daily life for different families in colonial America in the late 1700s; write a letter from the viewpoint of someone who lived in a different time and place.
• Colonial America (1492-1763) - Jump Back in Time
  Learn about Colonial America and influential leaders of that time.
• Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images
  This American Memory, a Library of Congress project, includes pictures of The North American Indians.
• Explorers
  The Enchanted Learning features and alphabetical listing of the explorers. Click on the appropriate letter of the alphabet to find an explorer.
• Explorers of the Millennium
  This Thinkquest library website is a of links that lists many explorers and their accomplishments.
• Harvest Ceremony: Beyond the Thanksgiving Myth
  This lesson assists teachers in preparing lessons about the first Thanksgiving. The study guide includes information on which Native peoples met the first European immigrants in 1621, the harvest celebration, the Wampanoag today, the importance of corn, and instructions on how to make Johnny cakes.
• MapMaker
  Hundreds of maps of the world made for printing and copying.
• Mr. Nussbaum.com
  Find eleven historic explorers' maps of their routes.
• The First Thanksgiving: Daily Life
  Compares and contrasts lifestyles of Native Americans and colonists.
• What Was Columbus Thinking?
  With this lesson students will understand the purposes of Columbus's voyages, the change in those purposes over time, the native peoples encountered, and the results of Columbus's voyages.
• Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World
  This website "introduces you to some of the great explorers that filled in the map with lands that were previously unknown to Europeans. You will learn about why they sailed, where they sailed, what they found, and how they treated each other and the people that they met."
• You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving
  An interactive site that helps students correct misconceptions of the role of Native Americans in Plymouth.