5th Grader's Hot Internet Sites 5th Grader's Hot Internet Sites
Updated August 7, 2008
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Enchanted Learning sites from home!
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Enchanted Learning
Asset's Recipes and Snacks - Use the Recipes when you want a tutorial to help learn a new computer program or application.
AIMS Review Site
Houghton Mifflin Math Test Practice
Math Facts - You can practice online or print out sheets. You select the numbers.
Basic Facts Practice - Detailed scoring available.
Math Fax Flashcards - MathFax Flashcards help you to realize that the "facts task" is not as difficult as you once might have imagined.
A+ Math Flash Cards - You can even create some flash cards for printing at this site! Ranges from addition and counting money to algebra and geometry.
Quia Math Page - a treasure trove of more than thirty math activities &emdash each of which includes flashcards and a Concentration-style matching game. Topics range from basic addition to rounding to algebra terminology.
Inventors Museum - Best Inventors Site
Homework SOS This is a large collection of sites to help you find information for your specific homework assignment. Go to the General Homework Reference Sites, OR choose a topic from the broad subject areas below and then choose a specific site:
Dictionaries, Thesauri, Acronyms, Almanacs
Kids Hub - Kids Hub is an online interactive learning center. It includes educational games, puzzles, quizzes, spelling activities, and subject guides. The site is free, requires no registration, and contains no advertisements.
BrainPOP - Short animated movies explain how things work
Fact Monster - Useful homework resource. In the summer, this is a boredom-buster for curious kids.
Funology.com - This is one of the few sites that explains how to make Alka-Seltzer rockets as well as nachos along with magic tricks, puzzles, jokes & brain teasers
50 States - Lists all 50 states and gives lots of information for each state
States Information - Good facts and also includes links to other sites
A-Z Geography - From Discovery School
KidsClick! - Developed by librarians, this site has no advertising and results can be organized by grade level.
How Stuff Works - This site is fascinating and informative for both children and parents. It's fun to learn how things work and why! Excellent resource for science projects and/or reports
Inventor Resources - Benefiting from over 4400 hours of research, this is the most comprehensive Web-based resource about invention available for children..
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - Branches of Government, How Laws are Made, U.S. Government web sites for Children, and more.
I Can Do That Cells - Explains plants & animal cells
POTUS - Presidents of the United States - Gives you other internet sites and also lists some interesting facts at the very end of information for each President
The United States Presidents - Biographical information made available by students doing a ThinkQuest project.
American Presidents - C-Span Life Portraits using Real Player video and audio
Grolier Online - The American Presidency. Be sure to check out the quick facts link at the bottom of each biography.
The American President - Presidential Biographies
American Presidents - PBS Biographies
Composers - Music
Classical Net - Composer biographies and links to sites about the composer
Composers Biographies - Includes photos and music selections when available
Composers Biographies - Includes music by the composer
Key Composers that Define America - A PBS Site
Jazz Biographies - A PBS Site - includes photos and music samples
Oregon Trail & Westward Expansion
Oregon Trail - Oregon Trail Home Page
Three Island Crossing - Where the travelers crossed the Snake River
Trail of Tears - Removal of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma
Images of the American West - Select images from the National Archives
Civil War
American Civil War Homepage - Many links to sites about the Civil War including images
Follow the Drinking Gord - Pictures from the story & the words to the song
Images of the Civil War - Select images from the National Archives
Revolutionary War Web Quest - Offers Key people, battles, events in timeline format, occupations
Birth of a Nation - People, Places, Photos and Maps, Timeline of Events- A great site!
The Price They Paid - Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Liberty High tea in Boston Harbor - A sample newspaper with links to other information about the Revolution
Historical Figures of the Revolution
Liberty's Kids - PBS companion website
His Majesty's Troops - Shows pictures of uniforms, troops, weapons, camp life, etc.
American Colonies
Colonial America - Links for K-12 Education
Education World - Lots of links and ideas for teaching about the American Colonies
Creating a Colony in a new Land - Provides many links to Colonial Information by categories - Lots of Pictures
Historical Almanack Colonial Williamsburg's online Historical Almanack, where you can sample the depth of resources Colonial Williamsburg has to offer.
Colonies - Shows all three colonial areas. This site was done by 5th grade students.
Time for Kids - Time magazine for students
New York Times News Summary For Students
Space, Planets, & ConstellationsSolar System Trading Cards - Learn about objects that make up the solar system
Hubble Space Telescope - Space Pictures
Hubble Site - Photos
Explorers
European Explorers - Organized by important explorers by country - Good for Elementary Students
European Voyages of Exploration - 15th & 16th Century explorers and their influence
The Age of Exploration Timeline - Includes information on explorers by timeline
Enchanged Learning Web Page on Explorers - Lots of Maps - Click on the Time Line you are interested in exploring or on the alphabet for a particular explorer
Explorers Websites - Lots of links
Early Native AmericansNative Americans - Content was researched and written by PBS Online.
First Nations Histories - Information on early Native American Tribes
Indian Villages - A Photo Journal
Science - Microscopes
Electron Microscopes - Shows how an electron microscope works.
Electron Microscope Images - Provides images made from electron microscopes.
