Social Studies Articles

• Five Themes of Geography
• Location or Place
• How to Read a Compass
• Degrees on a Compass

Continental Drift

• Continental Drift – Fact or Fiction?
• Continental Drift – Closer to an answer
• Recycling
• Plate Tectonics

• Time Zones
  What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?
• Surprising Geographical Facts

Describing the World

• World Hemispheres
• World Continents

• Antarctica Facts
• Animals in Antarctica
• Early Explorers in Antarctica
• Antarctic Climate and Weather

• How Money Began
  From Bartering to Money
• How Writing Began
  From Hieroglyphics to the Internet
• Colonies – An Overview
• Colonies – Reasons for Colonization
• Community Helpers
• Flags at Half Mast
  Learn why flags are hung at half mast

Native Americans

• An Overview
• The Major Groups
• The Effects of Colonization

• Pilgrims and Technology

• The Big Dipper
  Road to freedom
• Harriet Tubman
• Patricia S Cowings
• Sidney Poitier

• Joan of Arc
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Valentina Tereshkova
• Harriet Tubman
• Patricia S Cowings

The Great Pyramid at Giza

• The Outside
• The Inside
• The Sphinx – Guardian of the Tombs
• Mummification – Why did the Egyptians make mummies?
• How Mummies Were Made
• Papyrus – How it was made
• Hieroglyphics – How Writing Began

Three Kingdoms

• Hatshepsut ~ The queen who became a king

• Akhnaton ~ Rebel or visionary?

• Tutankhamun ~ why was he important?

The Great Pyramid at Giza

• The Outside
• The Inside
• The Sphinx – Guardian of the Tombs

• Stonehenge
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Please read first: Note to Parents

• World Coming Together

• Cultures
• Guy Fawkes Day
• St Martins Day
• Thanksgiving
• Some Christmas Traditions
• Hannukah
• Kwanzaa
• Eid Al Fitr

• Origami
• Paper lanterns
• When is a Pancake not a Pancake?