Duplication | Inquiry Unlimited | Looney Lobster | U.S. history Grade 5 resources
Periods of U.S. History and Geography - and lyrics of the USA

A look at Boston: her history and geography

Connect your classroom strategies and themes to the STANDARDS NCSS :

10 thematic strands - culture | time, continuity, and change| people, places, and environment | individual development and identity | individuals, groups, and institutions | power, authority, and governance | production, distribution, and consumption | science, technology, and society | global connections | civic ideals and practice

Ancient Cultures of the Americas - Ice Age; Beringia; Paleo-Indians ;
Clovis people; Mound builders;
Native American literature , Native American index and linguistic groups ( Native American 1600s books ); Mesoamerica (Aztecs, Mayans) [ calendars ]


Historical Documents and timelines and Presidents of the United States
from early colonial history to the present

Colonial history to the American Revolution - settling the colonies
to the periods of Revolution
[passenger list * activity | Peopling *
North America | Original colonial simulation | Early 1700s timeline |
Colonial settlers 1600s books |
Native American 1600s books]



Boston * and Massachusetts * history from colonial times

Revolutionary Period, 1775-1789
- causes, battles [ Primary and
secondary source resources | Simulated
town meeting | Applied Revolutionary Period activities | Later 1700s timeline | Letters from Looney Lobster | Student-generated colonial writings]


History of individual states + lyrics -
History of: Northeastern ; Southern ; South Central ; No. Central ; Western ; Great Basin - through the years

History of the North American native peoples linguistically or using our cultural index


Washington - Buchanan (1789-1860)
Life, Domestic, International [Applied Westward Expansion classroom project | Applied Abolitionism project |
Underground Railroad books | Student-created slave narratives | Books on slave contributions | frontier trails ]


North America (Canada, USA, Mexico) - Maps of the USA -

Travel (Geography)
in the USA + lyrics - Geography of: Northeastern ; Southeastern ; South Central and Gulf ; No. Central ; Western ; Great Basin and Pacific


Civil War History
Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865

Our Global World
Europe | Asia * | Africa * | North America * | South America * | Other Areas *

Reconstruction Period *,
1865-1900

Life, Domestic, International

[Johnson - McKinley - Sp. Am. War]

Biography *
Databases; global heads of state; presidents * and first ladies; politicians; explorers; scientists; artists; athletes; authors

1901 to 1933 resources
Life, Domestic, International
[T. Roosevelt and World War I]

Labor movement
railroads, factories, women in workplace [ textile mills student-created narrative *, strikes *]

World War II period * (1933-1953)
of F.D. Roosevelt and Truman

Transportation history *
Air, ground, rail, water (385), Pony Express * | steamboats * | transcontinental railroad * | early explorations *

1953 - 2002 *
Life, Domestic, International

Travel *
Flags, tourism, calendars * domain of * geography [map * study, environmental * regions, map * reading (910)


[Page was located at Lee School in boston.k12.ma.us| Boston area * and global links | USA timelines * | Revolutionary * period ]
Copyright © 1997 Marjorie Duby. Last modified: February 25, 2017.