Grade 5

Colonies Reproductive System Geography

The Constitution

Revolutionary War

The Human Body

Electricity

Reading

Writing

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Grade 5 Resources

Grade 5 Math
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menu/main_page.html?toc_id=5&sort=0&viewer=0

Grade 5 Worksheets
http://www.edhelper.com/math_grade5.htm

ADDING AND SUBTRACTING FRACTIONS:
http://www.orchardproject.org/adding_and_subtracting_fractions.htm
Find 10 word problems for students to learn and practice adding and subtracting fractions.

STRUCTURES AROUND THE WORLD:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/structures/index.html
The Exploratorium collaborated with museums in France
and Italy to build this project. Students explore structures through a series of hands-on activities, involving straws and pins, bamboo poles, clay beams, and newspaper bridges, amongst others.

Colonies

13 original Colonies
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html

Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/

More Colonial America sites......

Reproductive System

 

Reading

 

Writing

A PARAGRAPH A WEEK:
http://www.knownet.net/~ackley/paragraph/par_week_program.html

Find a yearly writing program for upper elementary students of paragraph and/or essay topics. Each topic also includes a checklist for format.

WHAT IS A TOPIC SENTENCE?
http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/longfellow.html

Have your students practice those all-important topic sentences with this activity. They will take a passage and circle the topic sentences, while underlining all sentences that do not belong in the paragraph.

HANDY GUIDE TO WRITING FIVE PARAGRAPHS:
http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/Handyguide.html

In an appealing chart format, here is a summary and guide for upper elementary students on how to write a five paragraph essay.

PEER EDITING CHECKLIST:
http://206.218.128.2/laintech/peer.htm

Sometimes students feel uncertain about editing their peers' writing exercises. This checklist will provide a solid guide to make them feel more comfortable with the procedure, while lending a rubric for their own assignments as well.

PREWRITING FOR PERSONAL NARRATIVES:
http://www.daedalus.com/teach/tens/08_22_98.html

Here are ten activities to organize prewriting skills for personal narrative exercises. Each step provides concrete drills in helping students to succeed with their writing skills.

Electricity

BROWN BAG ELECTRICITY:
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sci/sci72.txt

Students in grades 1-5 will explore electricity with hands-on experiments and activities, and a simple set of materials (prepared beforehand). They will comprehend and be able to illustrate how an electric circuit operates, how to construct simple and parallel circuits, and how to make an electric motor work.

 

More Electricity Links

 

MAGNETIC LEAP FROG:
http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/lessons/l4.hts?id=228& core=3&course_num=3000&std=4
Early elementary students will learn about magnetic attraction as they discover that their paper and magnetic frog did not really leap into the air by magic.

 

MAGNETIC ATTRACTION:
http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/lessons/l4.hts?id=227&core=3&course_num=3000&std=4

Graphing will be a key skill practiced in this activity, whereby students predict which items will be attracted by magnets, and then graph the results.

Math

DaisyMath
http://www.openuniversity.com/
This is a wonderful collection of math interactive math websites for elementary students.

The Math Forum Elementary Problem of the Week
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/elempow/

 

Grade 5 Resources

TEACHING RESOURCES FILE CABINET:
http://home.att.net/~teaching/filecab.htm
Find grade appropriate lessons, blackline masters,
activities, worksheets, and printables across all subjects at this excellent teacher resource site.

SUBJECT AND GRADE RESOURCES:
http://www.ezlink.com/~edu/
Find your class level, the subject you are inter
ested in, and loads of resources to match it.

S.C.O.R.E.
http://www.score.k12.ca.us/
Click on your desired subject (history, science, math,
language arts, social sciences), then your grade level, and find some of the best lessons and resources the web has to offer. Also available are standards, frameworks, and assessments.

5TH GRADE LESSON PLANS:
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/5.htm
A great collection of themed units for fifth grade top
ics, from Core Knowledge.

5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES:
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/fifth.htm

http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/lessons/l3.hts?corearea=4&course_num=6050

FIFTH GRADE MATH:
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/wmstds/math5.shtml

http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/rubrics/math/mathrubs.html

GRADE FIVE ART:
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/artsed/g5arts_ed/index.html

FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE:
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemsci/gr5tcesc.html

http://www.fcps.edu/FlorisES/fifth/gr5sci.htm

FIFTH GRADE CURRICULUM, LESSON PLANS, AND RESOURCES:
http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/lessons/query_lp.hts?grade=5&area=3

http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/lessons/query_lp.hts?grade=5&area=4

http://www.fzschools.org/5th.html

http://www.hillcrestacademy.net/fifth.htm

http://sgucandcs.org/curriculum_5.html

http://www.csanews.org/gr5curriculum.html

5TH GRADE RECOMMENDED BOOK LISTS:
http://www.uen.org/curriculum/html/booksfifthsixth.html

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy45.html
This site with Teacher CyberGuides)