Challenge Theme Books- Grade 5
Theme 1- Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms by Patricia
Lauber
- Focused Web Page:
Internet Projects
Internet Links:
Hurricane
Web Quest
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Education World - Lesson Planning: Hurricanes Spark a Storm of Classroom Activity!
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Hurricane
Field Trip
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Gander
Academy's Hurricane Resources on the World Wide Web
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National
Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center
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Hurricane
Hunters - 53rd WRS
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Miami
Museum of Science-Hurricane Main Menu
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Other weather sites can be found on Language Arts
Anthology- Grade 5
focused web page.
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Theme 2- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- Focused Web Page:
Internet Links:
SCORE:
Island of the Blue Dolphins-Teacher Guide
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Welcome
to Chumash Indian Life/The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
Department!
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Home
Alone- Island of the Blue Dolphins Quest
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Explore
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Theme 3- Guns for General Washington by Seymour Reit
- Focused Web Page:
Voices of the Revolution
- Midnight Rider-Virtual Museum Hall 5
- Web links for American Revolution
Internet Links:
Paul Revere's Ride Poem
Midnight Rider Virtual Museum
- American Revolution and Colonies
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Theme 4- Where the Flame Trees Bloom by Alma Flor Ada
- Focused Web Page:
Internet Links:
- Cuba Web Quest
- Cuba Reefs
- Cuban History
Culturally Diverse Families Unit
-
Alma
Flor Ada
Theme 5- High Elk's Treasure by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
- Focused Web Page:
- High Elk's Treasure
- Native American Lore
- Horse Sense
Internet Links:
High Elk's Treasure Study Guide.pdf
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Native
American Authors: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
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Houghton
Mifflin Reading: Authors and Illustrators
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Theme 6- To the Top of the World: Adventure with Arctic Wolves by
Jim Brandenburg
- Focused Web Page:
- To Drill or Not to Drill
Just Don't Sit There
- Endangered Animals
- Grizzly Bear Family Album
- Jim Brandenburg
- Satellite Tracking
Internet Links:
Jim
Brandenburg
-
SchoolWorld
Endangered Species Project: Arctic Wolf
-
Gander
Academy's Endangered Species Resources on the World Wide Web
-
Endangered
Species Field Trip Intro
- ARCTIC ANIMALS - polar bear, caribou, musk ox, wolverine, arctic fox, lemming, ground squirrel, Ermine, hare, whales, seal, walrus
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What's
the Story on Oil Spills?
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Superfund
for Kids