5th Grade Resources

                                                                           Social Studies Inquiry Features Sources

 

5.1 Early Peoples of the Americas

Supporting Question 1 Supporting Question 2 Supporting Question 3
How and why did the first humans migrate?  How did elements of geography i.e. location,climate,resources, impact human populations?  How did early people develop shared cultures with customs, beliefs, values and language?
https://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=land+bridge

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-human-migration-13561/?no-ist

http://www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us/videos/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us-the-earliest-humans




















 		 http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/native-american-cultures/videos/the-first-americans

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/encyclopedia/north-america-human-geography/

http://humanorigins.si.edu/research/climate-research/effects

Extension: How culture and experience influences people’s perceptions of places and regions.

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/standards/national-geography-standards/6/?ar_a=1

BOOKS

Early Humans (Eyewitness Books/DK Publishing ISBN 9780756610678 ) 

Kid InfoBits­ Archaeology (Published by Gale http://www.ouboces.org/SchoolSrvcs/libra ry_services/slsdatabase_links.cfm 

Archaeology (Eyewitness Books/DK Publishing ISBN 9780789458650 )

North American Culture Groups 

http://education.nationalgeographic. com/photo/native­american­cultures /

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/encyclopedia/north-america-human-geography/		 North American Culture Groups 

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/photo/native-american-cultures/

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/encyclopedia/north-america-human-geography/

Canadian Culture Groups

http://ocean.si.edu/category/native-people

Caribbean Culture Groups

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/what-became-of-the-taino-73824867/

http://clacs.as.nyu.edu/page/People














 

 
























 

Hurricane Katrina Project
 


http://www.vickiblackwell.com/Katrina/index.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/specials/2005/hurricane_katrina/default.stm

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/explore/nworld/hurricane_katrina.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hurricanekatrinatimeline.html