5th Grade Links
Class Wikis
Tutorials
Language Arts Research
- Authors
- Character Scrapbook
- Character Trading Cards- teaching character motivation
- Dictionary.com - word games
- Edmodo
- Five Things - song about story elements: setting, plot, characeters, conflict, and theme
- FreeRice.com
- Fun-with-Words.com A Wordplay website
- Gotta Keep Reading - Music video from Ocoee Middle School in Florida. Needs Quicktime. Click here for a free download
- Inference and Conclusion Game
- Internet for Classrooms Language Arts games
- Language Arts Skill Builders (Internet 4 the Classroom)
- Making Words: Martin Luther King Jr. - Making words
- Making Words: Reedy Creek Frogs Word Hunt.notebook
- Manners for Everyone
- Mr. Nussbaum's Collection of Games--Select games of interest. Just know that 1st grade games are listed in red, 2nd grade in orange, 3rd grade in yellow, 4th grade in green, and 5th grade in blue. Have fun!
- PebbleGo! Username: reedycreek Password: (hint: what do we exhibit every day at RCES?)
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- Puzzlemaker - A great place to have students make word searches or crossword puzzles for spelling activites
- Quiddler Daily Puzzle
- Reading Rockets--interviews with well-known children's book authors
- Sheppard Software Collection
- Slime Kids
- Spelling City
- Time For Kids
- Vocabaret - Vocabulary building ice-breakers
- Vocabulary - "Meaning Fall" game from dictionary .com. Definition is provided, you have to guess the word.
- Wall Wisher
- Weekly Reader
- What Should I Read Next? Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers' favorite books (over 65,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next.
- What's the Big Idea?- identifying main idea
- Word P.I. - A word guessing game like Mastermind
Mathematics
Science
- Animals
- Ecosystem Jeopardy - Powerpoint file
- Edheads- http://edheads.org
- Forces of Nature - National Geographic site. Contains information on earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and volcanoes.
- Habitats Game
- Hurricane Formation Song
- Invention Dimension
- Jeopardy for Ecosystems - Powerpoint file
- Landforms - Powerpoint file
- Landforms Jeopardy - Powerpoint file
- Mission Adaptation - travel the world to different locations to capture the native wildlife in photos and collect facts along the way about how they have adapted to their environment.
- Motion and Design Jeopardy - Powerpoint file
- Mr. Nussbaum's Collection of Games--Select games of interest. Just know that 1st grade games are listed in red, 2nd grade in orange, 3rd grade in yellow, 4th grade in green, and 5th grade in blue. Have fun!
- National Geographic Kids
- Planet Science - Features for the Planet Science Under 11s and their teachers, along with links to everything on the site that's suitable for, or relates to, that age group.
- Planet Science Games
- Science Bob
- Science Links
- Science News for Kids
- Sheppard Software Collection
- Simple Machines
- Simple Machines--Dirtmeister Simple Machine Reports
- Simple Machines explained
- Simple Machines Game-- Museum of Science and Industy
- Simple Machines Game--Goldburger to Go!
- Simple Machines--Study Jams
- Simple Machine Resources--Vocabulary games, videos, etc.
Social Studies
- 50 States and Capitals Anamaniacs Song
- 50 States Interesting Facts
- 50 States (map, flags, stats, etc.)
- My Beautiful America video (BEAUTIFUL!)
- Lewis and Clark Cyberhunt
- 50 States Puzzle
- African American History
- American Symbols
- American West
- Benjamin Franklin: Politician and Diplomat
- California Gold Rush
- Census in Schools
- Civil War
- Conflict Resolution: PBS Fantastic Fables
- Conflict Resolution: PBS Its My Life--When Friends Fight
- Colonial Era
- Colonial Williamsburg for Kids
- Colonial Williamsburg Links
- Electoral College - video from Disney Educational ProductionsSave
- Ellis Island - Virtual tour of Ellis Island and the Immigrant Journey
- Explorers
- First Thanksgiving
- First Thanksgiving--You Are the Historian
- Geography Skills
- Go West Young Man - Powerpoint file
- Growth of a Nation--video describing the Westward Expansion after the American Revolution
- Greensboro Four - The three surviving members of the Greensboro Four, Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair, Jr.), Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil participated in an oral history about their bold action that ignited student involvement in the Civil Rights Movement when they staged a sit-in at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 1, 1960.
- Immigration
- Longitude and Latitude video
- Jefferson, Thomas - Thomas Jefferson quiz on history.com
- Master the Roles of the President - *So you think you could be president? Try the challenge to see if you can master the 7 roles that Barack Obama will take on. from Scholastic.com
- Memorial Day Internet Scavenger Hunt
- Mr. Nussbaum's Collection of Games--Select games of interest. Just know that 1st grade games are listed in red, 2nd grade in orange, 3rd grade in yellow, 4th grade in green, and 5th grade in blue. Have fun!
- National Geographic Kids
- NativeTech: Games and Toys of the Native Americans
- Patriot Spy Game
- Presidents Song-Animaniacs
- Revolutionary War
- Sheppard Software Collection
- State Facts for Students - from the United States Census Bureau
- United States History Map - Interactive
- You Are Here - This site uses interactive games and activities to teach kids key consumer concepts.
Sites for EOG review
Miscellaneous
Extension Activities