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    Fifth Grade Study:

    Harriet Tubman's 
    Underground
    Railroad
    Web Sites for Students
    Online Resources
    Resources for Teachers

     
    Web Sites for Students 
    Interactive Websites 
    • National Geographic Online: The Underground Railroad
    • Headbone Interactive Research Derby: Escape To Freedom
    • Escape to Freedom: A Webquest on the Underground Railroad 
    • Follow the Drinking Gourd 
      • lyrics and translation 
      • history and online song 
      • latitude chart directions
    • The Underground Railroad Webquest (Plainfield)
    • Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad
    • Addy's Escape to Freedom: American Girls Interactive Story
    		 Student Projects From Other Schools
    • Never Again: Students Explore the Slavery Experience (fifth grade extension to school textbook)
    • Virtual Underground Railroad Quilt: Class Project by fifth graders (lots of topics)
    • Pocantico Hills School Grade 2 Website about Harriet Tubman
    • Slavery Today in Sudan: A fifth grade class investigates slavery today

     
    Online Sources of Information
    Harriet Tubman
    • The Trail of A Legend: good article, but links don't work
    • Spectrum Biography of Harriet Tubman
    • Very detailed sequential biography of Harriet Tubman
    • Example of student writing in 1st person about Harriet Tubman
    • Harriet Tubman: Moses of the Civil War (readable article)
    • The Harriet Tubman Home
    • Harriet Tubman Images and discussion points (Jacob Lawrence artist information)
    • Yahooligans Harriet Tubman websites and photos
    Other Leaders of Anti-Slavery 
    • Levi Coffin, (Levi Coffin House) the unofficial president of the Underground Railroad
    • List of National Geographic Hall of Fame
    • Alphabetical index of people
    		 Slave Stories:
    • Slave Posters
    • Slave Narratives
    • Family Histories
    • Excerpts from Slave Narratives
    • Remembering Slavery: Those Who Survived to Tell Their Stories
    The Underground Railroad
    • Interesting Facts and Links about The Underground Railroad  (nice map)
    • Facts about The Underground Railroad from Rochester, New York
    • Slaves leaving from North Carolina

      • The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

     
    Resources for Teachers
    Background for Teachers
    • Understanding Slavery: Discovery School (Background for teachers, witness a slave auction)
    • Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register Travel Itinerary
    • Mississippi River Heritage Corridor
    • Our Shared History: The Underground Railroad (Background resources)
    • Directory of Railroad Operators
    • ArtsEdge List of Web Sites
    		 Lessons and Units
    • * K-12 Teaching and Learning Center Guide for Harriet Tubman
    • Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit from ArtsEdge and MarcoPolo: 5 lessons
    • Enslaved in Colonial Williamsburg (Grade 5-12 Unit Activity Plans and Research guide for students)
    • Language and Runaway Slave Ads Lesson Plan
    • Harriet Tubman Research Webquest

    5th Grade Project Menu

    This page was created by Julie Coiro, March, 2001