5th Grade Social Studies Projects

This page contains the projects the GCE 5th graders completed during Social Studies.  They used Chromebooks to complete them!

The 1st project was completed by groups of 4 - 6 students.  They used the Movenote app to present a timeline of the colonial days.  

Click on the links below to view their projects!

Groups of 2 students completed this project using the app Animoto.  Each group researched the causes of the Revolutionary War.  As a class we chose 4 of the causes to concentrate on:  The Stamp Act, The Boston Tea Party, The Boston Massacre, and The 1st Continental Congress.  Each group then used a LiveBinder called The Revolutionary War for 5th Graders and chose at least 2 different links to research their topic.  Once finished, they found pictures and used their information to complete the videos below.  Not only did the students research, but they also worked on finding the main idea and details of each link, compared and contrasts how each link compared the same subject, summarized the causes of the war, worked on paraphrasing their information to fit into the captions, and learned about picture copyrights and how to find which pictures are safe to use on the internet.  

For our next project students researched one of the major battles or events of the Revolutionary War.  They wrorked in pairs to complete the research and then created an Animoto video to help present their information.  Students also working on asking relevant questions and digging deeper into research along with showing the relationship between 2 people, places, events, or concepts from their topic!