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Grade Five
Good General Web Sites

E Themes
General Sites

Language Arts

Read Write and Think

Reading Strategies

Comprehension Strategies

Mathematics

Investigations Math

Illuminations

Science

First Quarter
Different strategies are needed to view living organisms.
Microworlds
Microscopes
Gems-Net
Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope
Cells
Bug Scope


Second Quarter
Human Body
My Body - Shockwave Version
Human Anatomy
Health (First Gov)

Third Quarter
*Floating and Sinking*
Gems-Net
Variables affect the buoyancy of an object.
Objects appear to weigh less when they are submerged.
The amount of water an object displaces is related to the object's volume.
Salt water vs Fresh Water. The buoyancy varies with the density of the liquid.

Fourth Quarter
Astronomy
ZOOM ASTRONOMY
Space
All About Space
NASA
NASA for Kids
Mars Quest
Yahooligans! - Science and Nature:Astronomy and Space

Social Studies
American History

First Quarter: Colonial American
Colonial Times
Colonial America
EyeWitness To The Eighteenth Century
1620
Early Times

Second Quarter: American Revolution
American Revolution
Teaching American History

Third Quarter Native Americans and the Civil War
EyeWitness To The American Civil War
CivilWar@Smithsonian
Native Americans

Fourth Quarter Immigration
Immigration Links

Grade Five