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HARCOURT SOCIAL STUDIES – THE UNITED STATES

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SCOTT FORESMAN SOCIAL STUDIES - THE UNITED STATES

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From "My Library" click on the teacher edition next to the picture. Now when you select a unit you will see a much more detailed set of lesson plans.

Branches of Government WebQuest – Also contains many useful  links. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webbranchessh.h

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/government/index.html

BrainPop www.brainpop.com– animated movies explain many math, science, technology and other concepts

http://www.howstuffworks.com/ - machines

Awarded one of the TOP 100 EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES, and one of the four best Geography sites, by EduSource.com and Looksmart in their review of over 750,000 sites http://www.postcardsfrom.com/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/about/index.htmlThis is a history of the United States as the unfolding, inspiring story of human liberties aspired to and won.

MarcoPolohttp://www.marcopolo-education.org/index.aspx

National Geographic  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/siteindex/index.html#history

ONLINE METRIC CONVERTER:http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/conversions.html

States of the United States

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/social_geography.htm

All of the resources listed on the right are at the above link.

1. Coast to Coast - students try to complete a cross-country road trip by answering questions about the states. The questions are hard, but students quickly learn interesting facts about the states. When they make it to Hawaii, there is a surprise.
2. Fifty States index gives links of interest for each state. You can find out what a state bird or flower is, for example, but a link will also show you the bird or flower. This looks good for projects on any of the states.
3. Interactive U. S. Geography Activities
   1. How well do you know the states of the United States?
   2. Do you know the names of the state capitals?
   3. Can you locate these major cities? (this one is very hard)
   4. Can you find the major rivers and lakes?
   5. How well do you know the major land features in the United States?
4. NetState - an excellent site will all kinds of data about each state!
5. US Counties - Capitol Impact provides an index of state pages. At each state page you will see a map linking to information about the counties of that state.
6. United States of America - geography and history
7. US States - States web games; locate states, name states and more
8. US State Images from 30 Second Topographic Data
9. US Puzzle for younger students - place the states where they belong. The name of each state is given to help place them.
10. Where in the USA - students choose from three categories (u.s. capitals, cities, or landmarks) and have two minutes to answer as many as they can.

5th Grade Testing

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/osa/sam/det1551-05.pdf  Elementary-Level social Studies Test -November 2005 Edition, Booklet 1 (Objective and onstructed-Response Questions)Booklet 2 (Document-Based Question)

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/dbq/ssindex.html Historical Records: what, why, where and how. A brief course on using historical records in the classroom

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ssg5.cfm  Oswego 5^th grade test prep center

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/5thSocSt.htm  Internet 4 classrooms 5^th grade social studies skills

Sites to use Daily

Assign students as “Daily Reporter” and have them get daily, morning information from the Internet!

This Day In History - http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

Cool Word of the Day - http://www.edu.yorku.ca/wotd/

Weather - http://www.weather.com/weather/local/11790

New York Times Learning Network Designed for Grades 3 and up. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

Fake Out vocabulary game by Education Place - http://www.eduplace.com/fakeout/