grade5

toc =Grade 5=

**Language Arts**
Grade Level Skills - Language Arts [|Spelling City]

**Math**
[|Think Math! Grade 5] Grade Level Skills Math - Grade 5


 * Math Manipulatives**
 * 1) [|Gr. 3-5 Interactive Math (NLVM)]
 * 2) [|Gr. K-5 Illuminations (NCTM)]
 * 3) [|Shodor Interactivate]

Bird House
Brief Description: Students research a native New England bird and create a bird house. (created by David Vitale-Wolff) Objective: Instructional Activities: Students use books and web sites to research birds: young, feeding, habitats, Students draft, revise, and add information to templates. Students print, cut out, and construct bird house.

Resources Web sites: [|All About Birds]: Your online guide to birds and bird watching [|Birds] - Celebrate urban birds [|Birds] - basic fact sheets for common birds (including cool food chain info) - Scroll down past trees, fish, reptiles, and amphibians to find birds [|Bird Sounds] - The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Can search sounds by species [|Bird Videos] - Watch bird videos of your favorite backyard birds [|Bird Videos from Cornell Lab of Ornithology] [|Journey North]: Robins [|National Aviary] - Nation's premier bird zoo [|San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes]: Birds [|Skull Site:] Bird Skull Collection

Bird House templates

Bird Field Guide
Brief Description: As a culminating activity for the Bird Unit, students invent a bird and then create a page for a field guide. (Created by Cheryl Klausner)

Objective: Instructional Activities:

Resources


 * Solar System**

Planet Book
Brief Description: Students create a non-fiction book about a planet. (Created by Cheryl Klausner) Objective: Instructional Activities: Students already have learned about features of non-fiction text. Students research a specific planet using books and web sites. Students create a book with features of non-fiction text.

Resources Web sites [|Planet WebQuest] [|NASA: Solar System Exploration] [|Sun trek]- Take a journey into space and find out more about the Sun and its effect on the Earth

Planet book template
 * Podcasts using GarageBand

Colonies

 * Suggested Resources
 * Lessons

War for Independence

 * Suggested Resources
 * Lessons

Constitution

 * Suggested Resources
 * Lessons

Founding Fathers

 * Suggested Resources
 * Lessons

Principles of American Democracy

 * Suggested Resources
 * Lessons

Suffrage

 * Suggested Resources
 * Lessons

Territorial Expansion

 * Suggested Resources
 * Lessons

Battles of the American Revolution
Brief Description: Students work in small groups to create a multimedia presentation about a battle in the American Revolution. (Created by Cheryl Klausner)

**Technology**

 * 1) Dance Mat Typing
 * 2) Peter's Online Typing Lessons
 * 3) Power Typing Typing Lessons
 * 4) [|Typeonline.co.uk]
 * 5) Touch Typing Website
 * 6) Growing With Technology - Grade 5

 From freetypinggame.net :
 * 1) Typing Lessons
 * 2) Typing Tests