4th Grade

Click here to learn how every day life was effected during the American Revolution.

Click here and learn what a revolution is and what happened when America fought to rule itself.

Click here to learn about Daily Life during Colonial times. This site will also help you to learn much more on the background of the Revolution.

Learn about life in the colonies before the American Revolution.

Have a look into the real Jamestown.

Learn a bit about the history of kites.

Read about the history of kite flying in Korea.

See what games are popular in Korea.

Click here to watch kite flying "live."

The Chinese culture has contributed many items that make our lives today easier and better. Here's a "Top 10 List" of Chinese inventions that we use all the time today.

Paddleboats, cross bows, stirrups plus the iron plough - some of the most high-tech inventions of their time.

The "Wooden Ox' (known to us as the wheelbarrow); the world's first conveyor belt (the chain pump); the Grand Canal (also called the aquatic version of the Great Wall); canal pound locks - agriculture and engineering with water are yet more areas the Chinese created useful inventions.

Games invented in ancient China:Was the game of golf was played in China before Scotland? Does the game of chess have origins in an older Chinese game of fortune telling? Were kites just used for fun with the family in ancient China or did they have a different use?

Click here and learn about America through the ages. Learn facts and more from the Colonial period through Modern times.

Click here to learn about WW II information (written for kids 1939-1945). You will view primary sources, timelines, and much more.

Click here to learn more details about what was happening during WWII. See a lot of pictures from that time.

Click here to take a tour of what tenements and more looked like in NYC during the 1920's.

An army of more than eight thousand soldiers made of terra cotta, a baked reddish clay, is buried fifteen to twenty feet beneath the earth not far from the tomb pyramid where Emperor Qin is believed to be buried along with riches of his dynasty....read on to learn more.

What do you get when you have a few farmers in ancient China digging for water wells? One of the world's most amazing archeological discoveries!

Putting together the clay army puzzle: an entire army of life-size terra cotta soldiers and horses, underground for more than 2,000 years - this video gives a good idea of just how big this find was.

Follow in the footsteps of a slave as they went through the Underground Railroad.

Click here to read a child's first hand account about the ending of the Civil War. This is considered a Primary Source document.

Read about the Civil War through the eyes of the people living during the time.

Watch this Brain Pop video to learn more about how and why people moved west in the 1800's.

Click here to read background on the Westward Expansion and well as many more important time periods in history.

Click here to read all about China in Ancient Times.

Click here to see asian ceramics if you are reading the Single Shard.

Click here to find out real details behind the events that happen in the Single Shard.

Learn about the original inhabitants of the Americas through fun videos and games on BrainPOP.

The fur trade was one of the earliest and most important industries in North America - learn more about how traders and trappers explored much of North America in search of fur.