5th Grade Links
Throughout the year we use many sites to help us with our school work. Click on the links below to see some of the pages that we use every day to help us learn.
Current Events | Social Studies | Science | Math | Reading | Writing | Authors
Current Events and News
- CNN Election Center
- OneThing - Learn how you can do just one thing to help out the environment!
- NoodleBib - An online MLA citations website.
- Time For Kids - News by kids, for kids.
- Nettrekker - An excellent search engine.
- National Geographic Explorer - We use the paper magazine in class as well.
- Scholastic News
- Weekly Reader
- Kids Newsroom
- New York Times Learning Connection - Articles written by kids, for kids.
- News Hour - Breaking stories for kids presented by PBS.
- Weekly Reader - Find great news and some fun quizzes too!
- Brain Pop - Educational videos online.
- Chess Lessons
- Chess Game
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Social Studies
- Liberty Kids Webquest
- United States Geography - Test your map skills here with many challenging and fun games.
- Colonial Williamsburg - Check out the tour of Colonial Williamsburg. You can visit many of the buildings.
- Ben's Guide to Government
- Geography 4 Kids
- National Constitution Center
- Boston Freedom Trail - The official site.
- Boston Freedom Trail - This site has good links to many different site on the trail.
- Boston Freedom Trail - Wikipedia
- Boston Freedom Trail - An interactive map.
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Map Games - Test your own geography knowledge.
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Science Websites
Electricity and Magnetism
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Ben Franklin Biography - ThinkQuest
- Magnets - KidsKonnect
- Circuits and Conductors - An online activity
- Changing Circuits - An online activity
Magnet and Electricity Experiments
The Eye and Vision
Earth Sun and Moon
- Earth Sun and Moon - An online activity
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Math Sites
- AAA Math
- Coordinate Practice - A great way to practice.
- Pennies Website - A great way to think about huge numbers.
- My Math Trailblazers - A site made by Math Trailblazers to help you out with homework.
- West Hartford Town Math Site - This site has some great support for math.
- A Plus Math
- NCTM Illuminations
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM)
- M3 Project (A UConn Math Research Program)
- Math Trailblazers
- PBS Kids Math
- Natural Math
- Cool Math
- Dositey
- Fun Brain - Math Baseball
- That Quiz
- Rainforest Math
- Get Smarter
- Webmath
- Battleship
- The Factor Game
- Daily Sudoku
- Interactive Math Puzzles
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Reading Websites
- Google Translate - Don't now what a word means in a foreign language? Type it here and let Google translate it for you.
- Word Reference - This is a dictionary that will help you translate from English to French, Spanish, and Italian. It will also go from those languages back to English.
- UConn's Literacy Web - Find anything you want to know about reading here!
- Internet 4 Classrooms - This site has many excellent links to support different reading and writing skills.
- TV 411 - A great interactive site that helps support the core subjects.
- English-Zone.com - This site has many great activities and quizzes that build reading and writing skills.
- Kim's Korner - A great grammar website
- Biography 4 Kids - This great site has many biographies that are written for kids.
- Fake Out - An online version of Balderdash. Good luck!
- American Girl - Some great reading fun that connects with the magazine.
- Guys Read - Book suggestions just for the gents.
- Online Stories - Several great books to read. Pick one and flip through.
- Dositey - Language Arts activities.
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Writing Websites
- Kenn Nesbitt's Online Rhyming Dictionary - A great writing resource.
- Noodle Bib - A wonderful tool that helps kids write their own works cited page.
- MLA Formatting
- APA Formatting
- Poets.org
- Giggle Poetry
- Sentence Starters - Need a new idea. Go to a month and try one out.
- Writing Ideas - Stuck? Try one of these.
- Writing Prompts - These are a ton of fun to try out.
- Dictionary.com - You can use an online thesaurus here too.
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Author Websites
- Avi
- Sharon Creech
- Roald Dahl
- Kate DiCamillo
- Jeanne DuPrau
- Brian Jacques
- Gary Paulsen
- J.K. Rowling
- Shel Silverstein