Fourth Grade Students learn key facts about our country's 50 states as well as WA state . Another site for state information can be found at the King County Library Kid's Help section. They learn mountain ranges, major cities and tourist attractions. Students are also learning about the rain forest . At the following site you can explore the native people, animals and plants of the tropical rainforest .
Students can learn about rainforest plants .
They can also learn about the various animals of the area. Fifth Grade Students research explorers and do a unit on their significat travels and contirbutions. Explorers such as Ferdinand Magellan , Hernando Cortez , and Pizarro are studied. In another unit beginning in February students will be doing projects in astronomy using daily news on astronomy from Yahooligans, the NASA site on Yahooligans , the daily updated NASA site , a site from the Space Telescope Institute and a site that shows space web-based activities for students. Sixth Grade Sixth graders study the ancient civiliations of the Mayans and Incas .