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Mrs. Houghton, Grade 5



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temporary link to AR
Accelerated Reader

Learn how to use Word processing programs
Mrs. Sterling's Word Pad

Colonial Williamsburg - electronic field trips 
login is tualatinvalley, you must enter the password I gave you (shh)

Colonial Williamsburg

How the Brain works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/brain.htm

Brain info
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000135.html

BBC's kids' info about brains
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/kids/brain.shtml

Harcourt school e-labs
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2002/grade_5

Read letters from a Pilgrim girl or Wampanoag boy
Visit the Pilgrim village or the Wampanoag village
Thanksgiving virtual field trips

National Geographic
Click on GeoBee link for today's quiz
You can also choose yesterday's quiz
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/

National Geographic videos
cities and countries
news
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/

Sound - hearing frequencies of animals
Lots more choices than our science book
http://www.lsu.edu/deafness/HearingRange.html

Kids Bible Info
questions answered, stories, fun stuff
http://www.kidsbibleinfo.com/lessons

Make your own "Wanted" Poster
http://www.glassgiant.com/wanted/

Pirates NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pirates/

National Science Foundation - Pirates
http://whyfiles.org/036pirates/

Capt. Dave's Treasure

A research-based game
http://dcls.org/pirate/

Thinkquest is full of pirate information
try the biographies
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110360/history.htm

Nez Perce National Historical Park

Site for Nez Perce Trail used by Joseph and his band as they fled the soldiers.
http://nezpercetrail.net/

Our textbook chap 1
World Studies: Asia and the Pacific  (East Asia)

our textbook chap 2
World Studies: Asia and the Pacific  (Southwest Asia)

Try out the 10 questions on today's quiz.
Enter a name and choose the level of difficulty
Geo Bee Quiz

data base about historic bridges all over the U.S.
Look up by "category", then click on "facts" for all the info you need.
Thanks, Calvin, for finding this
Historic Bridges of the U.S.

Bridges listed alphabetically
You can scroll down to look for specific types
Bridge Mapper

This lists all the different types of bridges on the Willamette River and has
good descriptions and explanations of how they work.
Multnomah County's Bridges

Click on the 6 choices they looked at. They've decided against the last 3, but
the first 3 are still in the running. Which one do you think would be best for
a new Sellwood Bridge here in Portland? Extra credit if you write a letter
explaining your choice.
Sellwood Bridge Alternatives

Talk about TORSION!  Click on the "Play" button to see short video(maybe 4
minutes)
Video of Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Building Big Labs

Super Bridge

make puzzles, crosswords on discovery education's site
Discovery's Puzzlemaker

log in with your login and password
IF you get permission to use your parents' email address, put it in and they
will be notified that you are using this program

Discovery Education

Trailer for Born to be Wild
http://www.omsi.edu/sites/all/FTP/files/OMNIMAX/borntobewild.swf

Meet the orangutans who starred in the movie, "Born to be Wild"
Orangutan Foundation

Meet the elephants from the movie, "Born to be Wild"
David Sheldrick Wildlife trust

Create a Character from a book; draw a portrait and write 10 things about this
character
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/

Historical record of Amos Fortune
Historical Society of Cheshire County, NH

Answer the questions by clicking on web links and finding information about
Harriet Tubman. EXTRA CREDIT social studies or reading
Harriet Tubman web search


Google

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