5th Grade Curriculum Resource Sites
Harcourt Videos  and United Streaming

English Language Arts

Math

Healthful Living

Science

Social Studies

Technology

Harcourt Reading 

Harcourt Math

 

McGraw-Hill Science

 

 

5th Grade Skills

 Adjectives

Fifth Grade Skill Builders - Interactive Sites

Healthful Living Habits

Interdependence of plants and animals

American Fact Finder

Societal Issues

Adverbs and Prepositions

Ask Dr. Math

My Pyramid for Kids

Events in African-American History Timeline

 

 

Coordinate Grid Game

       

Dositey

Count On

Five a Day the Color Way

Biomes of the World

Chamber of Commerce 

Desktop Publishing

 

Data Analysis & Probability

Dole 5 a Day

 Biomes

50 States

Dance Mat Typing

Noun Explorer

Dositey

Fresh for Kids

Interdependence 

Electoral Votes

Computer Circus

Capitalization and Punctuation

Designer's Challenge

Sunkist Kids

 Facts about the United States
Welcome to Stately Knowledge!

Spreadsheet

Nouns

Fraction Quizzes
1     2    3     4    5

  NCKidScience

 NCKidScience

Infoplease: 50 states

 

Punctuation Campground

Math Manipulatives

 

 Passport to the Rain Forrest: Ecosystem

Income

Multimedia

Pronouns

Math Advantage

 

What's it Like Where you Live?

National Archives

 

Reference Desk

Math Cats

 

 Wild World

Noted Black American Resources

Tele- communication

Research Guide

Mathematics Lessons that are Fun, Fun, Fun!

  Amazing Animals
NEW!

 World Biomes

Presidents

 

 Proof Read

Mean, Median and Mode
Take a Test

 

 Landforms

Puzzled States Game

 

 

The Sentence 

Measurement

 

  Internet Public Library

Quick Facts

  

Earth's LandGames: Puzzles, Quizzes, Trivia
Flashcards/matching game
Grand Canyon Explorer:
Interactive landform map:
Landform Games and Resources:
Mountains, Rivers, Lakes

Sentence Sort

Multiplication Facts

 

Weather

 

Underground Railroad 
National Geographic

Study Guides and Strategies

  Space, Shape and Measurement

 

Crossing the USA 
on the 34th Parallel

U.S. Geography: The States Game

  

Verbs

  Star Glazer Angle

 

Weather (use drop down menu to choose weather)

US Census

 

Reading Tips for Parents

  3D Boxes: Cubes

 

 Weather Quiz

 US Census Bureau - Factfinder: Kids Corner 

 

Subject-Verb Mix-Up

  Math Practice and Quizzes

 

 U.S. Climate at a Glance

White House (Kids)

 

Study Guides and Strategies

  Thinkfinity New!

 

Weather - What Forces Affect Our Weather-

 

 

Subject-Verb Mix-Up

 

 

Franklin's Forecast

 

 

Test Reading 

 

 

All About Clouds

   Wild World

 

Verbs

 

  

Droplet and the Water Cycle

 

 

Test

 

 

Water Science for Schools

 

 

 

 

 

Water Wonders

 

 

 

 

 

NCKidScience

 

 

     

Forces and Motion  

   
     

 NCKidScience  

   
      Simple Machines (use drop down menu to choose simple machines)    

TOP

 

Noted Black American Resources
2008

Crispus Attucks
  1. http://www.africawithin.com/bios/crispus_attucks.htm
  2. http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/people1/a/bio_attucks.htm
  3. http://www.crispusattucks.org/
  4. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0878423.html
  5. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p24.html
  6. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011185/Crispus-Attucks
  7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispus_Attucks

Marian Anderson

  1. http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/ande-mar.htm
  2. http://www.mariananderson.org/site.htm
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson
  4. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/1997/anderson_2-26a.html
  5. http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3688&source_type=A
  6. http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=9
  7. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/andeharm.htm 

Benjamin Bannaker

  1. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/banneker-benjamin.html#bio
  2. http://coestudents.valdosta.edu/irock110/banneker.htm

Mary McLeod Bethune

  1. http://www.nps.gov/mamc/ 
  2. http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/beth-mar.htm 
  3. http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/bethune/ 
  4. http://www.africawithin.com/bios/mary_bethune.htm 
  5. http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/marybethune.html
  6. http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=18

Guion S. Bluford, Jr.

  1. http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level2/guion_bluford.html
  2. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/astronauts/bluford.html
  3. http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/bluford_guion.htm 
  4. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/bluford-gs.html 
  5. http://www.nauts.com/bios/nasa/bluford.html  (caution, may be under construction)

James Brown

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown
  2. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113768/bio
  3. http://www.godfatherofsoul.com/message/   (quote)
  4. http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=56
  5. http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/25/james.brown.obit.ap/index.html

Ralph Bunche

  1. http://www.pbs.org/ralphbunche/
  2. http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1950/bunche-bio.html
  3. http://www.ralphbunche.com/
  4. http://www.thepeacemission.com/ralph-bunche.htm

*United Streaming (Introduction), (Ralph Bunche: A Lifetime of Achievements) and (Spokesman for Peace, Justice, and Equality)

George Washington Carver

  1. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa041897.htm 
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver
  3. http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/carver_g.htm
  4. http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/30.html
  5. http://www.nps.gov/gwca/
  6. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/c/carver.shtml  (scroll down the page)
  7. http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/EXPLORE/inventions/carver_georgew.html

Bessie Coleman

  1. http://www.rootsweb.com/~txecm/bessie_coleman.htm
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman
  3. http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Coleman/EX11.htm
  4. http://pbskids.org/wayback/flight/feature_barn.html
  5. http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Coleman_Bessie.htmlhttp://www.bessiecoleman.com/ 
  6. http://www.ninety-nines.org/coleman.html 
  7. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX02.html 
  8. http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/coleman_b.htm 
  9. http://www.edwardsly.com/colemanb.htm

*United Streaming (Bessie Coleman and Lola Brown)

Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

  1. http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/topics/afam/davis.htm
  2. http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/AfricanAm2003/srdavis.html 
  3. http://multirace.org/firstday/stamp21.htm 
  4. http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/983/Benjamin_O_Davis_Sr

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.

  1. http://www.fatherryan.org/blackmilitary/davis_jr.htm
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.
  3. http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/davis.htm
  4. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/bodavisjr.htm
  5. http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0814785.html
  6. http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1726/Military_pioneer_Benjamin_O_Davis_Jr 
  7. http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5173 
  8. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1070 

Dean Dixon

  1. http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1773/Dean_Dixon_a_world_renowned_conductor
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Dixon
  3. http://www.classicalcdreview.com/dixon.html
  4. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772721,00.html

Fredrick Douglass

  1. http://www.nps.gov/frdo/freddoug.html
  2. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
  3. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/douglass
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
  5. http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html
  6. http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc/notePublicFigures.htm#Douglass 

*United Streaming  (Abolitionists)– first part stop video after Truth

Charles Richard Drew

  1. http://www.toptags.com/aama/bio/men/cdrew.htm 
  2. http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/charles_drew.html 
  3. http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/charlesdrew.html 
  4. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/drew.htm 

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

  1. http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc/noteWriters.htm#Dunbar 
  2. http://www.dunbarsite.org/ 
  3. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/dunbar.htm
  4. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dunbar/life.htm  

Poem*

Duke Ellington

  1. http://www.dukeellington.com/ 
  2. http://www.redhotjazz.com/duke.html 
  3. http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc/dukeEllington.htm 
  4. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/ellington 

*United Streaming (Duke Ellington: One of the Few African Americans to Play Carnegie Hall)

Althea Gibson

  1. http://www.altheagibson.com/biographical.htm
  2. http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014035.html
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althea_Gibson
  4. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_gibson_althea.htm 
  5. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0820765.html 
  6. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul06.html 
  7. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_gibson_1.html 

*United Streaming (Sports; National Tennis Finals) and (Sports and Games)

Frederick Gregory

  1. http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc/notePublicFigures.htm#Gregory
  2. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/astronauts/gregory.html
  3. http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/gregory_bio.html
  4. http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/gregory_frederick.htm

Matthew Henson

  1. http://www.unmuseum.org/henson.htm
  2. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0110_030113_henson.html
  3. http://www.matthewhenson.org/
  4. http://www.matthewhenson.com/matt2.htmhttp://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/henson.htm
  5. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/h/henson.shtml 
  6. http://www.matthewhenson.com/
  7. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/photogalleries/henson/ 
  8. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0823407.html  

Langston Hughes

  1. http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html 
  2. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/hughes
  3. http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/hughes_l.htm
  4. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/hughes.html 
  5. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83 

Mae C. Jemison

  1. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/jemison-mc.html
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison 
  3. http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542378 
  4. http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/jemison_m.htm
  5. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/j/jemison.shtml (scroll down)
  6. http://www.africanamericans.com/MaeJemison.htm
  7. http://quest.nasa.gov/women/TODTWD/jemison.bio.html
  8. http://space.about.com/cs/formerastronauts/a/jemisonbio.htm
  9. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775690.html
  10. http://www.chemheritage.org/women_chemistry/career/jemison.html 
James W. Johnson
  1. http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/jameswjohnson/James_Weldon_Johnson.htm
  2. http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=294 
  3. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/72
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Weldon_Johnson
John H. Johnson
  1. http://www.nathanielturner.com/johnhjohnson.htm
  2.  http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9043860/John-H-Johnson
  3. http://www.johnsonpublishing.com/assembled/about_johnson_biography.html
  4. http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1047&category=mediaMakers
  5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Johnson
Barbara Jordon
  1. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=j000266
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Jordan

Fredrick M. Jones

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_M._Jones
  2. http://www.thetech.org/nmot/detail.cfm?ID=80&
  3. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=217
  4. http://experts.about.com/e/f/fr/frederick_m._jones.htm (scroll down)
  5. http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/jones.html
  6. http://www.bkfk.com/inventors/jones-fredrick.asp

Coretta Scott King

  1. http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/king_c_s.htm
  2. http://www.thekingcenter.org/csk/bio.html
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King
  4. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kin1bio-1
  5. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5180053  (audio available)
  6. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1154673,00.html

Martin Luther King Jr.

  1. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html 
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
  3. http://www.thekingcenter.org/mlk/
  4. http://www.martinlutherking.org/
  5. http://www.nps.gov/malu/

Mary Eliza Mahoney

  1. http://womenshistory.about.com/mahome.htm
  2. http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=103 
  3. http://www.nathanielturner.com/maryelizamahoney.htm 
  4. http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/mahoney-me.html
  5. http://www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/Mahoney.cfm
  6. http://www.ana.org/hof/mahome.htm 
  7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Eliza_Mahoney
  8. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/partners/early/e_pioneers_mahoney.html

Thurgood Marshall

 

  1. http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall
  3. http://www.landmarkcases.org/brown/marshall.html
  4. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0831961.html
  5. http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc/notePublicFigures.htm#Marshall 

*United Streaming (Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka , Kansas ) and (African-Americans on 
the Supreme Court: Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas
)

Jan Matzeliger

  1. http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/janmatzeliger.html
  2. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi522.htm 
  3. http://www.inventions.org/culture/african/matzeliger.html

Garrett Morgan

  1. http://education.dot.gov/aboutmorgan.html
  2. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgas_mask.htm
  3. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/garret-morgan/index.asp
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Morgan
  5. http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/garrettmorgan.html
  6. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/education/gamorgan.htm 
  7. http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids/safeschool/morgan2.html
  8. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/garret-morgan/index.asp
  9. http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1522/Garrett_Morgan_inventor 

Satchel Paige

  1. http://www.satchelpaige.com/
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satchel_Paige
  3. http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/paige_satchel.htm
  4. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/satchel_paige.html (quotes)
  5. http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/players/Paige.html

Rosa Parks

  1. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
  2. http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/
  3. http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks