First Nine Weeks

I. Social Studies

  A. Webquests
    REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES

    1. Company Expansion: US Regions
          2. Investigation of the Regions: US Webquest
          3. Regions of the United States Webquest
         

          IMMIGRATION
     1. Immigration packets
         

        THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT
     1. The Three Branches of Government
          2. Kids.Gov. - The official Government site for kids

        AMERICAN HISTORY
     1. American History Idol-This is also a good website for cause and effect

   B.  Games and Activities
    REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
     1. http://usa.usembassy.de/travel-regions.htm
          2. http://www.yourchildlearns.com/united-states-map-puzzle.htm -              Put the states on the map
          3. http://www.yourchildlearns.com/world-map-puzzle.htm-                            Put the continents on the map
          4. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/find.html-                                 Find the latitude and longitude
        5. http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html-                                                Find landforms and states

         IMMIGRATION
     1. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm                 Read the stories of children who have immigrated to the US
        2. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/photo_album/photo_album.html              Photo Albums of immigrants
        3. http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/immigration/index-flash.html             The history of Ellis Island