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5th Grade Social Studies Fair Packet 2019 2020

This document provides information about a 5th grade social studies fair project at Stone Mountain Elementary School. It includes a timeline of due dates for assignments related to completing a research paper and display board on an approved topic from US history. It lists topics students can choose from and requests parent support in helping their child meet the deadlines.

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5th Grade Social Studies Fair Packet 2019 2020

This document provides information about a 5th grade social studies fair project at Stone Mountain Elementary School. It includes a timeline of due dates for assignments related to completing a research paper and display board on an approved topic from US history. It lists topics students can choose from and requests parent support in helping their child meet the deadlines.

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Fifth Grade Social Studies Fair Project

Dear Parents,
Your fifth grade student will be participating in an interdisciplinary collaborative Social
Studies Fair Research Project this year. The Social Studies, Writing, and Library teachers will be
working together to assist your student with this research project. All students will be required
to complete a 600-word research paper and display board, a 3-D visual is optional. We have
attached a timeline giving specific deadlines they will need to meet to guide them through the
research process. We are asking for students to follow the timeline and use the assignments given
to help them develop their project. These assignments will be graded and are considered an
important part of the research process.
There will be a school fair to determine the students who will compete in the DeKalb
County Social Studies Fair. All students will receive a project grade in social studies for
completion of this assignment.
We have also attached a list of topics from which the students are to choose for their
research project. These topics are covered in the fifth grade social studies standards and will help
to improve the students’ understanding of those standards. Students will need to identify their
topic and research question. We are asking each student to return their topic choice form to
Mr. Bryant by Friday, October 18, 2019. Students will receive a complete packet with all
requirements on Tuesday, September 10th to be kept in a pocket folder designated for their Social
Studies Fair Project only. We request your support in helping your child meet his/her deadlines
as we work through the project. Again, thanks for your support as the home and school work
together!

Sincerely,

Mr. Brian M. Bryant


5th Grade Social Studies Teacher
Stone Mountain Elementary School
Stone Mountain Elementary School
5th Grade Social Studies Fair Project
Due Dates
Turn in topic and question Friday, October 18, 2019
List of five or more resources (S.S) Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Notecards due (L.A.) Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Thesis Statement and Bibliography Monday, November 4, 2019
Outline Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Rough Monday, November 11, 2019
Abstract Friday, November 15, 2019
Project Due (paper & display board, optional 3-D Wednesday, November 20, 2019
visual)

School Fair Thursday, November 21, 2019


DeKalb County Fair (Participants Saturday, December 7, 2019
Only)
Social Studies Fair Topics
Directions: Choose one of the topics below and pose a question for your research.
Make sure that your question is neither too narrow nor too broad. (See selecting
a topic.) Return the form to your teacher by Friday, October 18, 2019.
Cattle trails in the late 19th century
Black Cowboys
Great Western Cattle Trail
Chisholm Trail.
Wright brothers (flight)
George Washington Carver
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Spanish-American War
Building of the Panama Canal.
Immigration in the late 19th Century
Lusitania
Reasons for U.S. involvement in World War I
Impact of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919
Jazz Age
Louis Armstrong
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Babe Ruth

Henry Ford (automobile)


Charles Lindbergh (transatlantic flight)
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
New Deal
Civilian Conservation Corps
Works Progress Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Duke Ellington
Margaret Mitchell
Jesse Owens
Pearl Harbor
Iwo Jima, D-Day
VE and VJ Days
Holocaust
Changing role of women during World War II (Rosie the Riveter)
Changing role of African Americans during World War II
Tuskegee Airmen
United Nations
Eleanor Roosevelt
Role of Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, Hirohito, Truman, Mussolini and Hitler during
World War II
United States attempt to stop the spread of communism
Iron Curtain
Joseph McCarthy
Nikita Khrushchev
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Jim Crow laws and practices
Civil Rights movement
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Thurgood Marshall
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cesar Chavez
Rosa Parks
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its impact
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and its impact
Television technologies (1950 – 1975)
Space exploration
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Ronald Reagan
September 11, 2001 and its impact on American life
Impact of the personal computer and the Internet on American life

Social Studies Fair Project Research Guide (http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/ )–

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