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Grade 5  
Unit 3: Imagine That!
Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon
by David Williams

Internet Connection Activity
Stringed Instruments    Cross Curricular
The Strings
Connect to this link:
http://datadragon.com/education/instruments/strings.shtml


  1. Click on the instruments to hear what they sound like.

  2. Which instrument did you enjoy the most? Why?

  3. Click on the right arrow to see and hear more instruments.

  4. Did you hear another instrument you like even more?

  5. Name seven instruments you listened to.

Some Guitar History
Connect to this link:
http://www.albany.net/~dowland/gtrhstry.html


  1. Read about the beginnings of this stringed instrument.

  2. What was the parent instrument to the guitar?

  3. Read the timeline at the bottom of the page.

  4. Make an eight-point timeline of the guitar.


Internet Connection Activity
Growing Wheat    Find Out More
Wheatmania!
Connect to this link:
http://www.wheatmania.com


  1. Click on All About Wheat.

  2. Click on the links under Planting and Growing Wheat. Read the information.

  3. Click on Harvesting Wheat and Wheat Uses and Products. Read the information.

  4. Write a brief summary of what wheat goes through before we are able to use or eat it.

Adopt a Wheat Field
Connect to this link:
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/pr_aawf


  1. Read about this important crop.

  2. Click the single arrows at the bottom of each page to continue.

  3. You can click a photo to see it enlarged. Then click the Back arrow.


Internet Connection Activity
Historical Events and Figures    Leveled Books
The Alamo
Connect to this link:
http://thealamo.org/


  1. Read the introduction.

  2. For a time line of events related to the battle of the Alamo, click The Alamo in 1836.

  3. At the bottom of the page, roll your mouse over the map for details of the layout of the mission during the siege.

  4. Click the Back arrow and The Alamo's Historic Past for another account of the battle.

Marco Polo
Connect to this link:
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Marco/get.html


  1. Click on Marco Polo. Read about this Medieval European Traveler.

  2. Click Next to read on.

  3. Summarize four facts about Marco Polo.