Global Horizons
Red Bank Elementary, Lexington, SC
Fifth Grade Social Studies:
U.S. Studies 1865 to the Present
Reconstruction
Standards: 5-1.1, 5-1.2, 5-1.3,
5-1.4

Reconstruction, 1861-1877
 Quia Review

Books:
A Band of Angels: Deborah Hopkinson
United Streaming Video: "American Civil War: The Reconstruction"

SC Social Studies
Standards

Mrs. Foxworth's Bookmarks

Transcontinental
Railroad
Standards: 5-2.1, 5-3.1, 5-3.2, 5-3.3, 5-3.5
Central Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad
Theodore Judah
Driving the Last Spike
Internet Scavenger Hunt pdf
Books:
Coolies by Yin
Railroad Fever by Monica Halpern
Video:
"The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad"
Poem:
"A Letter to China" by Kun-Yang Lin

Pioneers on the Plains
Standards: 5-2.1 , 5-2.2
Sod House Pictures
Sod House Text

Nebraska Timeline
Cause and Effect Quia
Railroad/Pioneer Quia Review
Books:
Dandelions by Eve Bunting
Angels in the Dust by Margot Raven
My Prairie Year by Brett Harvey
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Pioneer Girl by Andrea Warren

Original Page
Guided Inquiry Page
Cowboys and Miners
Standards: 5-2.4 Provide examples of conflict and cooperation between occupational and ethnic groups in the West, including miners, ranchers, and cowboys; Native Americans and Mexican Americans.
A Cowboy in Dodge
Join a Cattle Drive
People of the Old West
Chisholm Trail
Chisholm Trail Heritage Center
Books:
Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin' Cowboy by Andrea Pinkney
Cowboys of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
Cowboy ABC by Chris Demarest
Poem:
"A Matter of Life or...Death" by Jake Kahn
California Gold Rush
Discovery of Gold by Sutter
California's Untold Stories
The Gold Rush
Gold Rush - PBS Kids
Poem:
"A Gold Miner's Tale" by Frank Wexler

Project:
"Conflict in the West"
Conflict in the West
Standards: 5-2.4, 5-2.5, 5-2.6
Chief Joseph
Red Cloud
George Custer
Native American Links
Trail of Tears Scavenger Hunt
Quia Rags to Riches
Conflict in the West Quia
Inventors Change the
World
Standards: 5-3.1, 5-3.2

Research Sites
Quia Review, Lesson 4.1
The Rise of Big Business

New Americans
Standards: 5-1.3, 5-1.5, 5-2.4, 5-3.3, 5-3.4

Angel Island Pictures
Angel Island - 5 W's
Ellis Island Registry Search
Ellis Island Webquest
Ellis Island Web Hunt
A Day in the Life
Immigration (Scholastic)
A Boy's Life Questions
Citizenship Quiz
Voting Fun Citizenship Quiz
Quia Popups
Jacob Lawrence - Art
Books:
Streets of Gold by Rosemary Wells
Journey to Ellis Island by Carol Bierman
I Was Dreaming to Come to America selected by Veronica Lawlor
Coming to America by Betsy Maestro
Videos:
"Across the Sea of Time"
"Immigration to the U.S."

Labor/Cities

Standards: 5-3.3, 5-3.5
Samuel Gompers
Homestead Strike
Lewis Hines's Photos

Discrimination