Social Studies

We are working on our third unit called "European Settlement and Colonial America".  We are learning about the history of the birth of our nation.  For the next several weeks we will be taking a close look at the three separate regions of the original 13 colonies.  We are focusing on the geography, history, economics, government/civics and culture of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.  Below you will find links to help sites as we study each unit this year.

The following topics are part of our 5th grade social studies curriculum:

Early Americans | European Explorers | European Settlement & Colonial America | American Revolution | American Government

Early Americans

        Research Sites
            http://www.firstpeople.us/
            http://www.native-languages.org/home.htm
            http://www.americanindians.com/
            http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm
            http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAnations.html
            http://www.crystalinks.com/nativeamer.html
            Food and Culture Encyclopedia

        Native American Legends
            http://www.ewebtribe.com/NACulture/stories.htm
              http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legends-C.html
                 http://opossumsally.homestead.com/NAL.html 
              http://www.bigisland.com/~stony/loreindx.html
                

        Recipes
            Native Tech Recipes
               Native America Recipes
            The Wild West: Native Americans
            Great Basin (Navada) Food Information
 

Explorers

You can use the following sights for more information about the explorers of the Americas.

Explorer Webquest

Enchanted Learning

The Vikings PBS

The Vikings Time Magazine

Viking Voyage Simulation

 

Colonial Settlement

        English Settlements - The Lost Colony of Roanoke
                                                                The Lost Colony: Roanoke Island, NC
                        New England Colonies
                                The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 - Informational site
                                Salem Witch Trials - Simulation
                                Salem Witch Trials Jeopardy
 

http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/CA/13c1.htm

                        Middle Colonies

                        Southern Colonies 
                                         Jamestown - Simulation

        Other Colonial Life Project Sites

Kid Info

http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Colonial_Life.html

Colonial Life

http://mcgee.berlinschools.org/Library/colonial_life.htm

Colonization

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/life.cfm

Colonial Williamsburg

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/coloniz.html

Slavery and Indentured Servitude

Africans in America

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awlaw3/slavery.html

http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC063208/Slaver%20In%20Colonial%20Times.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr5.html

http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/african/aahdr.cfm

Crime and Punishment in Colonial America

http://www.essortment.com/all/colonialpunishm_rkzt.htm

http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs341a,0,6305726.story

Education of Children

http://www.stratfordhall.org/ed-boysgirls.html

American Revolution

        PowerPoint Project Planning Sheet

        A Timeline of the American Revolution

American Government

    The Michigan Senate Kids Page