Fifth Grade COL Links

* Rumpelstitskin- see fairy tale section - see Rdg Resources- Fairy Tale Versions- R.

The Three Little Pigs - see Fairy Tale section (list on Reading Resources- Fairy Tale Versions- TLP)

* Little Red Riding Hood- fairy tale section - see Rdg. Resources- Fairy Tale Versions- LRRH

* Follow the Trail: A Young Person's Guide to the Great Outdoors- Loy- 796.54 LOY

* A Forest of Stories: Magical Tree Tales from Around the World- Singh- 398.24 SIN

* Reptiles and Insects: Leapin’ Lizard!(2) - Disney (Bill Nye) videorecording- VHS

* Whose Food Is This: A Look at What Animals Eat – Leaves, Bugs, and Nuts – Allen – 591.5 ALL

* Whose House Is This: A Look at Homes – Webs , Nests and Shells - Gregoire - 591.56 GRE

* Cain the Coyote- Tales from the Wild- National Geographic videorecording (VHS)

* Whose Work Is This?: A Look at Things Animals Make – Pearls, Milk, Honey– Allen – 591.5 ALL

* Whose Sound Is This?: A Look at Animal Noises—Chirps, Clicks, and Hoots –Allen – 591.59 ALL

* Butterfly Battle- Magic School Bus chapter book- White- FIC WHI- located in the Magic School Bus section

* Polar Prowl (Really Wild Animal Series) – National Geographic Kids– videorecording – VHS

* Secret Weapons and Great Escapes (Really Wild Animals Series) – National Geographic Kids – videorecording -VHS

* Secret Weapons and Great Escapes – National Geographic Kids – videorecording (Gr. 3-5)

* Special Animal Secrets – National Geographic Kids – videorecording (Gr. K-3)

* Whose Spots Are These?: A Look at Animal Markings – Round, Bright, and Big – Wohlrabe – 591.47 WOH

* Scholastic’s Magic School Bus Gets Eaten – Scholastic videorecording – VHS

* Why Do Bears Sleep All Winter?: A Book about Hibernation – Englar – 599.74 ENG

* Animals Migrating: How, When , Where and Why Animals Migrate – Kanter – 591.56 KAN (gr 2-6)

* The Ben Franklin Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments - Franklin Institute Science Museum Book -507.8 BEN

* Ciencia Magica: Experimentos extranos y asombrosos - Levine and Johnstone -507.8 LEV

Unit V. Westward Expansion	Unit V. Colonial America	V. Fiction- Colonial America	V. Colonial Personalities
V. Inventors/Scientists/Mathematicians	V. Louisiana Purchase	V. Louis and Clark	V. Oregon Trail
Click here to go to Unit VI. A Nation Divided and Re-Established resources

V. Westward Expansion

* Food and Recipes of the Westward Expansion (2 copies) – Erdosh – 641/509 ERD

* U. S. Expansion – Schlessinger – videorecording VHS

* Early America: Expansion and Preserving the Union – Teacher Created Materials – 973 EAR - KIT - PRO area

Westward Expansion

Quest

V. Colonial America

* Prairie School – Avi – E AVI

* Growing Up in Colonial America – Barrett – 973. BAR

* Girls: a history of growing up female in America – Colmas – 305.23 COL

* Nineteenth Century Clothing – Kalman – 391.009 KAL

* The Intermediate Mailbox: April/May 2005- "frontier life: The Little House books"-(Wilder) periodical

My Heroes, my People: African-American and Native Americans in the West – Monceaux – 920.078 MON

* Growing Up in America – Toyntron – 973.5 TOY

The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Classic Stories – Walker

V. Fiction - Colonial America

* Caddie Woodlawn – Brink - FIC BRI

* Dandelions(2 copies) – Bunting – FIC BUN

* Buffalo Hunt – Freedman – 978 FRE

* The Cabin Faced West – Fritz – FIC FRI

* Wagons West! – Gerrard – E GER

* Buffalo Women – Goble – 398.2 GOB

* A Covered Wagon Girl: the diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850 – Hester B HES

* Buffaloes – Johnston – 599.64 JOH

* I’m Sorry, Almira Ann – Kurtz – FIC KUR

* I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project- Lawlor- 920 I W

* Rachel’s Journal: the story of a pioneer girl – Moss – FIC MOS

* Growing Up in America: 1830-1860 - Toynton- 973.5 TOY

* The Deer in the the Wind – Wilder – FIC WIL

* The Little House By the Shore – Wilder – FIC WIL

* The Little House in the Big Woods – Wilder – FIC WIL

* The Little House on the Prairie – Wilder – FIC WIL

V. Colonial Personalities

Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson- a religious reformer – Mangal (2004)

Anne Hutchinson – Raum – (2005)

Anne Hutchinson website

Anne Hutchinson biography

Annie Oakley

* Bull’s-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley – Macy – B OAK

* Annie Oakley – Wukovitz – B OAK

Roger Williams

* Finding Providence: the story of Roger Williams – Avi – B WIL

* Roger Williams and Rhode Island – Schlessinger videorecording VHS

V. Industrial Revolution

* The Industrial Revolution – Collins – 330.973 COL

* Nineteenth Century Inventions – Noonan – 920 NOO

V. Inventors/Scientist/Mathematicians

Benjamin Banneker	George Washington Carver	Thomas Alva Edison
Henry Ford	Benjamin Franklin	Robert Fulton
Hollerith	Eli Whitney	Cyrus McCormick

Benjamin Banneker

* What Are You Figuring Now? A Story about Benjamin Banneker – Ferris – B BAN

* Dear Benjamin Banneker – Pinkney - B BAN

George Washington Carver

* George Washington Carver: the Peanut Scientist – McKissack – B CAR

* A Pocketful of Goobers: a story about George Washington Carver – Mitchell – B CAR

* George Washington Carver – Nicholson – B CAR

* George Washington Carver – Rustad – B CAR

* America’s Top Ten Monuments – Stone – 973 STO

Thomas Alva Edison

* A Picture Book of Thomas A. Edison – Adler - B EDI

* The Edison Mystery – Gutman – FIC GUT

* The Wizard of Sound: a story about Thomas Edison – Mitchell – B EDI

* Thomas Edison and the Electric Light – Nest Entertainment videorecording (VHS)

* Thomas Edison – Nirgiotis – B EDI

* Thomas Edison and Electricity – Parker – B EDI

* Thomas Edison – Shaefer – B EDI

Henry Ford

* We’ll Race You, Henry: a story about Henry Ford – Mitchell – B FOR

* Henry Ford – Schaefer – B FOR

Benjamin Franklin

* A Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin – Adler – B FRA

* The Hatmaker’s Sign: a story (2 copies) - Fleming – E FLE

* Jean Fritz – Six Revolutionary Figures – Fritz videorecording (VHS)

* Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution! – Fritz videorecording (VHS)

* What’s the Big Idea, Benjamin Franklin? – Fritz videorecording (VHS)

* The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin – Giblin – B FRA

* Ben Franklin and Electricity – Parker – B FRA

* Benjamin Franklin – Rustad – B FRA

* Benjamin Franklin: scientist and inventor – Nest Entertainment videorecording (VHS)

Robert Fulton

* A Head Full of Notions: a story about Robert Fulton – Bowen – B FUL

* Robert Fulton: from Submarine to Steamboat – Kroll – B FUL

* Robert Fulton – Schaefer – B FUL

Hollerith

Computing History Museum website

Hollerith biography

Cyrus McCormick (mechanical reaper)

Shendandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center

Cyrus McCormick Biography

Eli Whitney

* Eli Whitney, Great Inventor – Latham – B WHI

V. Manifest Destiny

Steve Kregel PowerPoint Presentation

Manifest Destiny

James Polk (1845-1849)

National Park Service: The Presidents of the United States

James Polk biography

V. Louisiana Purchase

* La Salle – Sieur de la Salle – Nardo – B LAS

* The Louisiana Purchase – Sakurai – 973.4 SAK

Click here to go to the Teacher Resources Page: Presidents/Thomas Jefferson

V. Lewis and Clark

* York’s Adventures with Lewis and Clark: African American’s past in the great expeditions - Blumbert – B YOR

* The Back of Beyond: A Story about Lewis and Clark – Bowen – 917.804 BOW

* Cooking on the Lewis and Clark Expedition – Gunderson – 641.597 GUN

* Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the World with Lewis and Clark – Karwoski – FIC KAR

* Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West – Kroll – 917.804 KRO

* The Journal of Augustus Pelletier: the Lewis and Clark Expedition – Lasky – FIC LAS

* Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale – Myers – FIC MYE

* Lewis and Clark – National Geographic KIT -located in video area

* The Lewis and Clark Expedition – Quiri – 917.804 QUI

* Lewis and Clark – Santella – 917.804 SAN

* How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark – Schanzer – 917.804 SCH

* The Captain's Dog: My journey with Lewis and Clark’s Tribe- Smith – FIC SMI

V. Gold Rush

* The California Gold Rush – Stein – 979.4 STE

* The Klondike Gold Rush – Walsh – 971.9 WAL

V. Oregon Trail

* The Oregon Trail – Fisher – 979.4 FIS

* Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: Oregon Trail Dairy of Hattie Campbell – Gregory – FIC GRE

* Oregon Trail Cooking – Gunderson – 394.109 GUN

* Roughing It on the Oregon Trail – Stanley – E STA

* The Oregon Trail – Stein – 978 STE

V. Immigration/Migration

* Immigrants - Sandler- 304.8 SAN

* Immigration to the United States – Schlessinger – 325.73 IMM videorecording (VHS)

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Unit VI: A Nation Divided and Re-Established

VI. Civil War	VI. Civil War: Fiction	VI. Constitution
VI. Presidents Book List	VI. Biographies	VI. National Celebrations

VI. Civil War

Gay Miller's Literature Connections

Using Picture Books to Teach About the Civil War

* Blockade-runners and Ironclads: naval action in the Civil War – Black – 973.7 BLA

* Slaves to Soldiers: African-American fighting men in the Civil War – Black – 973.7 BLA

* Women on the Front: their changing roles in the Civil War – Blashfield – 973.7 BLA

* The Battle of Gettysburg – Burgan – 973.7 BUR

* When the Cruel War Is Over: the Civil War Home Front – Damon – 973.7 DAM

* Civil War Cooking: the Confederacy – Dosier – 641.597 DOS

* Food and Recipes of the Civil War(2 copies) – Endosh – 641.597 END

* The Mailbox: Intermediate:Dec./Jan. 2001- "Civil War"-periodical

* Civil War on Sunday – Osborne – FIC OSB

* Children of the Civil War – Ransom – 973.708 RAN

* Civil War – Sandler – 973.7 SAN

* Charley Waters Goes to Gettysburg – Sinnott – 973.7 SIN

* Children During the American Civil War – Wroble – 973.7 WRO

VI. Civil War – Fiction

* Abraham’s Battle: a novel of Gettysburg – Banks – FIC BAN

* The Red Badge of Courage – Crane – FIC CRA

* When Will this Cruel War Be Over?: the Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson – Denenberg – FIC DEN

* Bull Run – Fleischman – FIC FLE

* Promises to the Dead – Hahn – FIC HAN

* A Light in the Storm: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin – Hesse – FIC HES

* Watcher in the Piney Woods – Jones – FIC JON

* Rifles for Watie – Keith – FIC KEI (RL 7.1)

* The War Within: a novel of the Civil War – Matas – FIC MAT

* The Journal of James Edmond Pease: a Civil War Union Soldier – Murphy – FIC MUR

* My Brother’s Keeper: Virginia’s Diary – Osborne – FIC OSB

* Silent Thunder: a civil war story – Pinkney – FIC PIN

* Pink and Say (2 copies) – Polacco – FIC POL

* Pink and Say – Polacco-videorecording (VHS)

* Pink y Say – Polacco – FIC POL

* Addy Learns a Lesson: a school story – Porter – FIC POR

* Changes for Addy: a Christmas Story – Porter – FIC POR

* Amelia’s War – Rinaldi – FIC RIN

VI. Constitution

* The U. S. Constitution – Allen – 342.7302 ALL

* Bill of Rights – Burgan – 342.73 BUR

* The Bill of Rights – Burgan – 342.73 BUR

* Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution – Fritz – 342.73

* Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution – Fritz –videorecording (VHS)

* United States Constitution – Goldhil Video – 342.73 UNI

* United States Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments – Goldhil Video – 342.73 UNI

* The Intermediate Mailbox- June/July 2005- "constitution" - periodical

* The Constitution – Prolman – 342.73 PRO

* The Bill of Rights – Quiri – 323.097 QUI

* The Constitution – Quiri – 973.3 QUI

* Equal Rights for All – Schlessinger – 323 EQU

* United States Constitution – Schlessinger videorecording (VHS)

* Bill of Rights – Stein – 347.73 STE

* The Constitution – Stein – 973.3 STE

Bill of Rights website

Bill of Rights

VI. Presidents Book List

Alpha order by order of Presidency:

1st

* George Washington’s Teeth – Chandra – 973.4 CHA

* Mount Vernon – Collins – 975.5 COL

* George Washington’s Breakfast – Fritz – FIC FRI

* George Washington’s Teeth – Fritz – B WAS

* Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution – Fritz – 342.73 FRI

* Shhh! We’re Writing the Constitution – Fritz videorecording VHS

* George Washington: First president of the U. S. - Kent - B WAS

* What Was Cooking in Martha Washington’s Presidential Mansion? – Larkin – 441.3 LAR

* Learning about Leadership from the Life of George Washington – Mosher – B WAS

* Revolutionary War on Wednesday – Osborne – E OSB (housed in FIC)

* Crossing the Delaware – Peacock – 973.3 PEA

* George Washington – Schaefer – B WAS

* John, Paul, George, and Ben – Smith – E SMI

* George Washington – Nest Entertainment – B WAS

* Young George Washington: America’s first president – Woods- PRO B WAS

2nd

* John Adams: Second President of the U. S. – Brill – B ADA

* What Was Cooking in Abigail Adams’ White House? – Larkin – 641.3 LAR

* Remember the Ladies: a story about Abigail Adams – Ferris - B ADA

3rd

* A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson – Adler – B JEF

* Monticello – Fisher – 973.4 FIS

* A Big Cheese for the White House – Fleming – E FLE

* The Hatmaker’s Sign: a story – Fleming – E FLE

* Thomas Jefferson: a picture book biography – Giblin - B JEF

* Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the United States – Hargrove – B JEF

* The Louisiana Purchase – Sakurai – 973.4 SAK

* Thomas Jefferson- Voice of Liberty – Santella – B JEF

* American Independence – Schlessinger –videorecording (VHS)

* The Minstrel’s Melody – Tate – FIC TAT

* Early America – Teacher Created Materials - KIT

* A Personal Tour of Monticello – Young – 975.5 YOU

4th

* James Madison: Fourth President of the United States – Clinton –B MAD

* What Was Cooking in Dolley Madison’s White House? – Larkin – 641.3 LAR

* James and Dolley Madison and their Times – Quackenbush – 920 QUA

5th

James Monroe

6th

* John Quincy Adams: Our Sixth President of the United States – Souter –B ADA

* John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States – Kent – B KEN

7th

* Andrew Jackson – Osinski – B JAC

* Andrew Jackson: pioneer and president – Parlin – B JAC

8th

* Martin Van Buren, Eighth President of the United States – Hargrove – B VAN

9th

* William Henry Harrison: Ninth President of the United States – Fitz-Gerald – B HAR

10th

* John Tyler: Tenth President of the United States – Lillegard – B TYL

11th

National Park Service: The Presidents of the United States

James Polk biography

Manifest Destiny

Steve Kregel PowerPoint Presentation

Manifest Destiny

12th

* Zachary Taylor: Twelfth President of the United States – Kent – B TAY

13th

* Millard Fillmore: Thirteenth President of the United States – Casey – B FIL

14th

* Franklin Pierce: Fourteenth President of the United States – Simon – B PIE

15th

* James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States – Brill – B BUC

16th

* A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln – Adler – B KEN

* Abraham Lincoln and Me – Borden – E BOR

*Abe Lincoln’s Hat – Brimner – B LIN

* Abraham Lincoln: 16^th President of the United States – Hargrove – B LIN

* Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington, 1837-1865 – Harness – B LIN

* The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln – January – 973.709 JAN

* The Lincoln-Douglas Debates – January – 973.709 JAN

* What Was Cooking in Mary Todd Lincoln’s White House? – Larkin – 641.3 LAR

* The Gettysburg Address – Lincoln – 973.7 LIN

* President’s Day – MacMillan – 973.4 MAC

* Presidents’ Day – Marx – 394.261 MAR

* Learning about Honesty from the Life of Abraham Lincoln – Mosher – B LIN

* The Long Road to Gettysburg – Murphy – 973.7 MUR

* President Abraham Lincoln – Nest Entertainment – B LIN -videorecording (VHS)

* Mary Todd Lincoln, 1818-1882 – Santow – B LIN

* Abraham Lincoln – Schaefer – B LIN

* Abraham Lincoln – Schlessinger – B LIN -videorecording (VHS)

* Equal Rights for All – Schlessinger – 323 EQU -videorecording (VHS)

* Presidents’ Day – Schlessinger – 394.26 -videorecording (VHS)

* When Abraham Talked to Trees - Van Steenwyk – B LIN

17th

* Andrew Jackson: Seventeenth President of the United States – Kent – B KEN

* Andrew Jackson – Osinski – B JAC

* Andrew Jackson: pioneer and president – Parlin – B JAC

18th

* Ulysses S. Grant: Eighteenth President of the United States – Kent – B KEN

What Was Cooking in Julia Grant’s White House? – Larkin – 641.3 LAR

19th

* Rutherford B. Hayes – Nineteenth President of the United States – Kent – B HAY

20th

* James Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States – Lillegard – B GAR

21st

* Chester Arthur: Twenty-First President of the United States – Simon – B ART

22nd

* Grover Cleveland: Twenty-Second and Twenty-Fourth President – Kent –B CLE

23rd

* Benjamin Harrison – Twenty-Third President of the United States– Clinton –B HAR

(22nd) and 24th

* Grover Cleveland: Twenty-Second and Twenty-Fourth President – Kent –B CLE

25th

* William McKinley: Twenty-Fifth President of the United States – Kent – B MCK

26th

^{* Young Teddy
Roosevelt}^{– Harness – B ROO}

* A Tree in the White House – Hines – E HIN

* Kids Discover- Vol. 15, Issue 9- Teddy Roosevelt- periodical

* Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty –Sixth President of the United States – Kent –B ROO

* What Was Cooking in Edith Roosevelt’s White House Kitchen? – Larkin- 641.3 LAR

27th

* William Howard Taft – Twenty-Seventh President of the United States–Casey- B TAF

28th

* Woodrow Wilson: Twenty-Eighth President of the United States – Osinski - B WIK

29th

* Warren Harding: Twenty-ninth President of the United States - Wade-B HAR

30th

* Calvin Coolidge: Thirtieth President of the United States- Kent- B COO

31st

Herbert Hoover

32nd

* A Christmas Tree in the White House- Hines- E HIN

* The Children's Atlas of the 20th Century- Howarth- REF 911 HOW

* Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty- Second President of the United States- Osinski- B ROO

33rd

* Harry S. Truman- Hargrove- B HAR

34th

* Dwight David Eisenhower: a man called Ike, 1890-1969- Darby- B EIS

* Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 1896-1979- Sinnott- B EIS

35th

* A Picture Book of John F. Kennedy- Adler- B KEN

* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: woman of courage- Anderson- B ONA

* The Story Behind the Story: JFK (computer assisted instruction) -CAI 364.1 JFK- AV

* Kennedy Assasinated! The World Mourns: A Reporter's Story- Hampton- B KEN

* The Assasination of John F. Kennedy- Stein- 973.922 STE

* John F. Kennedy, The Making of a Leader- Time For Kids- B KEN

* John F. Kennedy- The Making of a Leader- Upadhyah- B KEN

36th

* Lyndon B. Johnson: Thirty-Sixth President of the United States- Hargrove- B JOH

* Claudia Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson, 1912- Horwitz- B JOH

* Lady Bird Johnson: Making Our Neighborhood Beautiful- Simon- B JOH

37th

* Richard Nixon, the Thirty-Seventh President of the United States- Lillegard- B NIX

38th

* Elizabeth Bloomer Ford, 1918 (Betty)- Santow- B FOR

* Gerald Ford, Thirty-Eighth President of the United States- Sipiera- B FOR

39th

* Jimmy Carter, Thirty-Ninth President of the United States- Wate- B CAR

40th

* Ronald Reagan, Fortieth President of the United States - Casey- B REA

* The Reagan

Internet Pubic Library Kidspace	The Fisherman and His Wife
Ongoing Tales for the Family	The Fisherman and His Wife

VII. Terrestrial Environments	VIII. Plant Adaptations
IX. Animal Adaptations	Science Fair Resources

AIMS Erosion Activity	Agent Erosion
Bill Nye Experiment	Rocks and Soil: Eat 'Em Up
The Rock Cycle Website	The Rock Cycle

PowerMedia Plus streaming video	The Fisherman and His Wife -English
	The Fisherman and His Wife -Spanish

Plant Parts Websites	The Great Plant Escape
	El Gran Escape de la Planta

Science Fair Websites	Cyber Fair
	The Ultimate Science Fair Resource

Food Chains Websites	Fish Food Game
	Food Chains