5th Grade 2nd 9 Weeks Social Studies – Cobb Digital Library (CDL) Pathfinder
Essential Question: How did American’s way of life change at the turn of the 20 th Century? How did the U.S. involvement in World War I, the Jazz Age, and
the Great Depression affect American lives?
Standard: 5T3b - Research and Information Fluency
Directions: 1) Log on to Cobb Digital Library (CDL) and click on “Databases” for Encyclopedia, Periodical, Website and Book. Click on “eBooks”
for eBook. 2) Follow the directions under each type of resource in the areas below. 3) Locate the resource on each database. 4) Have your
teacher and/or peer initial the box in the area you completed. 5) Once you have located all four resources in each category, initial and date in
the box provided. 6) Count each resource you were able to locate and complete the Information Literacy Rubric. 7) Turn this packet in to your
teacher by December 13. 2013.
I.
A Changing Nation
A. Industrialization
Name of
Source:
Teacher/Peer
Initials
Encyclopedia
Periodical
Website
Book or eBook
World Book
Student>Open
Now>Industrial
Revolution>Click
on the article
“Industrial
Revolution”
Searchasaurus>Open
Now>Industrial
Revolution>Magazines>
Click on the article “The
Industrial Age (18771910)”
netTrekker>Open
Now>Industrial
Revolution>BrainPOP:
Industrial
Revolution>Play
Movie
eBooks>Search
Bar:
industry>Henry
Ford: pioneer of
modern
industry>Click
Search>Open Now
Initial and Date Here
When Completed
B. Westward Expansion
Name of
Source:
Teacher/Peer
Initials
Encyclopedia
Periodical
Website
Book or eBook
Galileo Kids>Open
Now>BritannicaSchool
Elementary>Westward
Expansion>United
States HistoryWestward
Expansion>Growth of
the Nation>Movement
to the West
Kids InfoBits>Open
Now>Westward
Expansion>American
Westward
Expansion>View>Magazines
>Heading West
Destiny>Open
Now>Westward
Expansion>Web
Sites>WebPath Express Growth of a
Nation>Choose a
decade (between 1880 –
1910) from the timeline
at the bottom. Years
that states joined the
U.S.
eBooks>west>
Johnny
Appleseed by
Andrea
Smith>Open Now
Initial and
Date Here
When
Completed
C. Globalization
Name of
Source:
Teacher/Peer
Initials
Encyclopedia
Periodical
Website
Book or eBook
Student
Resources in
Context>Open
Now>Panama
Canal>Reference
for Panama
Canal>Panama
Canal (UXL Ency
of U.S. History,
2009)
Searchasaurus>Open
Now>Spanish American
War>Magazines>Panama’s
Canal>Begin from the 3rd
paragraph.
Destiny>Open
Now>Theodore
Roosevelt>Web
Sites>The
Expedition Act
was Passed
February 11,
1903>Page 3.
Databases>PebbleGo
Biographies>Open
Now>William
McKinley>Introduction>Life’s
Work>Later
Years>Contributions
PebbleGo
Biographies>Theodore
Roosevelt>Life’s Work
Initial and
Date Here
When
Completed
D. Emigration Reasons
Name of
Source:
Teacher/Pe
er
Initials
Encyclopedia
Periodical
Website
Book or eBook
Galileo Kids>Open
Now>SIRS
Discoverer>America
1900>Migration of
People
Compton’s by
Britannica Aug. 1,
2011: Migration of
People>The United
States section.
Kids InfoBits>Open
Now>emigration>Emi
gration and
Immigration>View>M
agazines>”Where in
the world did we
come from”
netTrekker>Open
Now>immigration
>History Happens:
Ellis Island:
Immigration
Island
Databases>Searchasaurus
>Open Now>Emigration>A
Country of Newcomers,
Immigration (Mason
Crest). 2007, p.8 -17.>Click
on PDF Full Text
Initial and Date
Here When
Completed
E. Specialization improves the standard of living
Name of
Source:
Teacher/Peer
Initials
Encyclopedia
Periodical
Website
Book or eBook
World Book
Inventions and
Discoveries>Open
Now>Assembly
Line>The Assembly
Line (Industry and
Manufacturing).
Searchasaurus>Open
Now>Assembly
Line>”A Driving
Force for Progress”
Cobblestone, Mar
2007.
netTrekker>Open
Now>assembly
line>Spartacus
Educational: Mass
Production
eBooks>Henry
Ford>Henry Ford:
Pioneer of Modern
Industry by Greg
Roza>Open Now
Initial and Date
Here When
Completed
II.
World War I
Name of
Source:
Teacher/Peer
Initials
Encyclopedia
Periodical
Website
Book or eBook
World Book
Student>Open
Now>World War
I>World War I
(1914-1918)
Student Resources
in Context>Open
Now>World War I
(Gale Encyclopedia
of U.S. History,
2009)
netTrekker>Open
Now>World War
I>BrainPOP: World
War I>Click to play
the movie.
Databases>Destiny>Open
Now>World War I>World
War I: The Great War by
A.J.Scopino, Jr.
Initial and Date
Here When
Completed
III.
Jazz Age
Name of
Source:
Teacher/Peer
Initials
Encyclopedia
Periodical
Website
Book or eBook
World Book
Student>Open
Now>1920>Roaring
Twenties
Searchasaurus>Open
Now>Roaring
20’s>”1921-1931:
The Roaring 20’s” by
Stephen Michaud.
Boy’s Life March
2001.>PDF Full Text.
netTrekker>Open
Now>jazz
age>America’s
Story: Great War &
Jazz Age (19141928)
Databases>Pebble
Go
Biographies>Open
Now>Musicians and
Entertainers>Louis
Armstrong>Early
Work>Life’s Work
Initial and Date
Here When
Completed
IV.
Great Depression
Name of
Source:
Teacher/Peer
Initials
Encyclopedia
Periodical
Website
Book or eBook
Searchasaurus>Open
Now>Encyclopedia
tab>Great
Depression>See
UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
History>Contents>The
Great Depression,
Funk & Wagnall’s
New World
Encyclopedia
Galileo
Elementary>Open
Now>SIRS
Discoverer>Great
Depression>Magazines
Tab>The Great
Depression and the
Dusty Thirties, Crinkles
Nov/Dec 2000.
Galileo
Elementary>Open
Now>SIRS Discoverer
Webfind>Great
Depression>WebFind
Sites Tab>Labor
Unions During the
Great Depression
and New Deal
Databases>Destiny>Open
Now>Great
Depression>The Great
Depression by Michael
Burgan
Initial and
Date Here
When
Completed