The world wide web offers so much information about topics discussed in 5th grade.  The following topics are covered throughout 5th grade and the links under each heading provide wonderful information to enhance student's knowledge.  The links are also a super resource for research projects done within the classroom.  Please allow your children to browse this information. 

Interactive Constitution

History 

Slavery and Civil War

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/cwar.htm

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/civilwarpage.htm

African-American History 

Harriet Tubman

Slave Routes / interactive route map /Routes & Landmarks

Life and Songs in Slavery

The Emancipation Proclamation

 Lewis and Clark

http://www.history.com/videos/lewis--clark-expedition-charts-new-territory#lewis--clark-expedition-charts-new-territory 

http://www.learner.org/interactives/historymap/states_louisiana.html 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/ 

The Louisiana Purchase

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/louisianapurchase.htm

http://www.history.com/search?search-field=westward+expansion - Westward Expansion Trails

http://americanhistory.pppst.com/westernexpansion.html - Westward Expansion

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/frontierlife/essay3.html - Life on the Trail

http://www.naschools.net/teachers/scott2/scott2.htm - Pioneer Life

http://library.thinkquest.org/6400/ - Westward Travelers

Links for the Gold Rush:

http://museumca.org/goldrush/

http://www.history.com/search?search-field=Gold+rush

http://www.history.com/topics/gold-rush-of-1849

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/funfacts.html

http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/sfeature/game.html

http://www.historichwy49.com/goldrush.html

http://www.jcs-group.com/oldwest/towns.html

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ghosttowns.html

 Railroads and Pony Express

http://www.frontiertrails.com/oldwest/oregontrail.htm

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/fi/First_Transcontinental_Railroad_(North_America)

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rail.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/iron/index.html

http://www.history.com/search?search-field=Transcontinental+Railroad&x=22&y=17

http://www.eriecanal.org/

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/eriecanal/ec_links.shtml

http://www.xphomestation.com/

http://www.nps.gov/poex/index.htm

http://www.history.com/search?search-field=pony+express

Sacajawea and Native Americans

http://www.lemhi-shoshone.com/sacajawea.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110325/timeline.htm

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3771.html

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/sitting_bull/

http://www.history.com/search?search-field=Sitting+Bull&x=15&y=9

Trail of Tears.com/cherokee/history.html

http://www.powersource

Wild West Cowboys

http://www.thewildwest.org/cowboys/wildwestcowboyfacts

http://www.the-wild-west.co.uk/cowboys.htm

http://www.the-wild-west.co.uk/justice.htm

http://www.over-land.com/westpers4.html

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4807

People of the Westward Expansion

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/

 http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/people/c/crockett/

http://www.historycolorado.org/

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/socialstudies/american-history/daniel-boone/

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1848

http://www.primermagazine.com/2010/learn/great-men-youve-never-heard-of-john-chapman

http://www.historyonthenet.com/American_West/mountain_men.htm

http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/hubs/mountain_men_trapers_fur_traders/mountain_men_trapers_fur_traders.html

Free Blacks

http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/free_blacks/free.blacks.south.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmscientists1.html

http://www.sojournertruth.org/History/Default.htm

http://www.history.com/search?search-field=Frederick+Douglass

http://usa.usembassy.de/history-civilwar.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4narr4.html