Grade 5
Language Arts
Bud, Not Buddy Background Information
- Great Depression Pictures
- Hoovervilles During the Great Depression
- The American Experience: Riding the Rails
- America on the Move: Pullman Porter
- Christopher Paul Curtis Biography
Chinese New Year
Math
- NCTM Illuminations Factor Game
- Pan Balance Shapes
- Tessellations – Make your own tessellation by editing a triangle, rectangle, or hexagon.
- Product Game – Practice factors and multiples.
- Concentration – Match numbers, shapes, fractions, or multiplication facts to equivalent representations.
- Deep Sea Duel – Select multiple cards that add to the target number.
- Cube Nets – Identify which nets can fold to make a cube.
- Cubes – Explore volume by filling a box with cubes, rows of cubes, or layers of cubes.
- Isometric Drawing Tool – Create designs by drawing 3-D shapes with cubes.
Fractions
- Interactive Fraction Wall
- Multiply Fractions by Whole Numbers – Video lesson
- Thinking Blocks – Model and solve word problems.
- Multiplying Fractions Millionaire Game
- Fraction Game – Work with relationships among fractions and ways of combining fractions.
- Fraction Model – Manipulate fractions and see decimal and percent equivalents.
Coordinates
Science
Birds
- All About Birds – Online guide to birds and bird watching
- Bird Sounds – Cornell Lab of Ornithology sound library
- Bird Videos – Backyard bird videos
- Bird Videos from Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Journey North: Robins
- San Diego Zoo Animal Bytes: Birds
- Skull Site: Bird Skull Collection
Environment
- Acid Rain Students Site
- AirNow for Kids – Air quality index information
- Down the Drain – Learn how much water you use
- EPA Climate Change Kids Site
- EPA Student Center
- EPA Environmental Kids Club
- EPA Environmental Kids Club: Air
- EPA Student Center: Air
- EPA Recycle City
Solar System
- NASA Solar System Exploration
- Sun Trek – Learn about the Sun and its effect on Earth.
- StarChild: Solar System
- Amazing Space
- StarDate
- McDonald Observatory
Seasons
Optics
Social Studies
Revolutionary War
- The American Revolution Battles – Information about battles in chronological order
- Battles of the American Revolution
- American Revolution Battle Resources
- History Central: Major Battles of the Revolutionary War
- The Patriot Resource: Battles of the American Revolution
- The American Revolutionary War: Timeline of Major Events
Constitutional Convention
Keyboarding Practice
Remember to keep your fingers on home row when you practice: asdf jkl;
Images
Copyright-Friendly Collections
- Photos for Class – Age-appropriate images with automatic Creative Commons citation
- Pics4Learning – Image collection donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers