Google Lesson Plans: Click on "Explorers Research", "10 Things About Me" or "Graphs Review" to use the online guide. Click other projects to request a Preview.
Cyber Safety: The Cyber Safety page provides access to Cyber Safety Pledges and age appropriate videos. There is also a Cyber Safety Presentation.
STEM: Use the STEM page, Scratch and TinkerCAD. Enrichment Websites: Best sites for Math, Science, Social Studies and Language.
Once students are on the Online Resource Center page for their grade, they simply need to click on the name of the lesson to access the handout, projects template, sample, and links to the recommended websites. There are more technology integration lessons and projects available for each 5th grade than students will be able to complete in a school year.
Fifth grade students continue to practice proper keyboarding using the intermediate lessons in Typing.com. Students continue to use expand their skills in using the Google search engine to find facts and collect images. Student presentations and word processing projects become more complex. Students review the proper letter format and they learn to use tables. The notion of giving credit to the source of information - proper citation - is reviewed and stressed. Students review and expand upon their spreadsheet skills as they learn to use spreadsheets to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They review the creation of charts with more demanding research requirements. Students learn to use Google Drawings to create timelines. Fifth grade students continue to the learn the basics on Computer Aided Design using TinkerCAD.
Fifth grade students use specific math, language arts, social studies, science and STEM games during curriculum skills enrichment time. They will also learn simple programming and practice their coding skills during the Hour of Code which is a worldwide event held during the first week of December each year. In addition to the Hour of Code students learn a progression of coding and programming skills by accessing tutorials from our STEM Page. The STEM page provides links to programming tutorials for Beginners up to Advanced Level. There are also direct links to Scratch.