5th Grade Resources
Summer Reading List
Make sure you read the Requirements Letter.
Please don’t print out the whole list. Let’s keep it GREEN! :)
Information Literacy
Language Arts
Science
Social Studies
CHINESE CHARACTERS AND CULTURES WEB LINKS
- Chinese/English Dictionary
- Yellow Bridge Chinese-English Dictionary
- Get a Chinese Name
- Chinese Character Dictionary
- Western-Chinese Calendar Converter
SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA DURING THE BRONZE AGE
WEB LINKS
- Mesopotamia Page from the British Museum
- Explore the Royal Tombs of UR
- Ur in the Age of Hammurabi
- Nippur: One of the World’s First Cities (PBS)
- Art of the First Citites (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- A People is Born: 3800 – 586 BCE (PBS)
- Mesopotamia, 8000 – 2000 B.C. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Near East (Emory College)
EGYPT WEB LINKS
- Ancient Egypt
- Acient Egypt: Science and Technology
- At the Tomb of Tutankhamen — National Geographic
- Clickable Mummy
- Duke Papyrus Archive
- Egypt: Land of Eternity
- Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World
- Egypt’s Golden Empire
- Eternal Egypt
- An Introduction to the History and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt
- King Tut One
- Mark Millmore’s Ancient Egypt
- Pyramids: The Inside Story — PBS/NOVA
- Treasures of the Sunken City
