Social Studies Research Sites 
Fifth Grade, Portsmouth, N.H.
  • Biographies of America's Founding Fathers
  • Brief Description of the Boston Tea Party
  • Bounty's Revolution Page:  Links, resources, and graphics on the War for Independence
  • The World of Benjamin Franklin
  • The Betsy Ross Home Page:  Scroll down to find the story of our flag, her life story, tour her house, and learn flag facts.
  • Excellent work of a third grade student on The War of 1812.
  • Lewis and Clark in North Dakota
  • Lewis and Clarks Historical Trail:  Journals, biographies, and a timeline.
  • Check out Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, and Francis Cabot Lowell
  • Cartoons, word games, and trivia about the Industrial Revolution.
  • Interactive History of Slavery from the Black History Museum
  • American Revolution timeline
  • Research area for many subject areas - includes pictures, videos, & audio collections
  • Civil War
  • Kid Zone-many different ideas for students.
  • Valley of Shadow.  Compares Civil War years in different areas.
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  • The American Revolution
  • WWII
  • Historic Valley Forge
  • The Revolutionary War:  Boston in the Classroom.  Created by fifth
    graders
  • Map of the colonies during the Revolutionary War
  • Who is Molly Pitcher?
  • School House Rocks:  the Founding of America.  Lyrics, sound file, video file.
  • American Visionaries:  Frederick Douglass
  • Current events & historical information "On this day..."
  • Early explorations (17th, 18th, 19th, 20th centuries) in America
  • 1492
  • Captain Cook  1771-1780
  • Biographies or travelogies of many explorers & Timeline of exploration 1400-present
  • Native American Conquest
  • Sir Francis Drake
  • Provide searches for students - type in Civil War or Lewis and Clark
  • Civil War
  • American Memories
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    Created by 
    a.manning@portsmouth.k12.nh.us
    5/5/99