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Where Would You Settle?

 

How do geography, culture, and economy affect where people live?

 

Bellingham Schools Research Investigation

5th Grade

 

Project Resources

Student teams in their online research investigation will use the following teacher-created resources:

Project Documents

On-line Resources:

World Book Encyclopedia:
Consult the desktop and online versions of World Book for background information.

Proquest articles and Electric Library articles.  These online full-text articles online may be useful.  Check this list in Gathering, Additional Resources section.

Bibliography of Classroom Resources for Colonial Study
http://www.hfmgv.org/education/smartfun/class/colonial/resources.html

Extensive List of Online Colonial Resources:
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm#T

Colonial Occupations List:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/jobs.htm

Room 20’s Colonial Web page
http://www.esd.k12.ca.us/Cadwallader/Room%2020/Colonies/Main.html

13 Colonies
http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/CA/13c.htm

Liberty Perspectives:  Daily Life in the Colonies
See what daily life in the colonies was like.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/perspectives/dailylife.html

Map of the Colonies - From the Rare Map Collection
Look at a map from the colonies
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1640h6.jpg

Find out more about Life in the Middle Colonies
Colonial Kids: A Celebration of Colonial Life

Additional Activities for Colonial America
http://wildcats.lafsd.k12.ca.us/happy_valley/colonial_days

Print Resources:

Textbook
Early United States
.  Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Co, 2002. “Europeans Settle Throughout North America” p. 194-226 and “Life in the British Colonies” p. 228-248.

 

McKenzie, Jamie.  Beyond Technology; questioning, research and the information literate school. FNO Press, 2000.  http://fno.org/books.html

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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Research modules based on use of the Research Cycle, Module Maker, and ideas in Beyond Technology by Jamie McKenzie.