Online Resources for 5th Grade Teachers

 

Social Studies Review Chapter 2

General

http://www.teachers.net/

http://www.factmonster.com/

http://jc-schools.net/ - The BEST website we’ve found!!!!!

http://www.marsbrightideas.com/index.jsp  - Just for fun!

www.unitedstreaming.com

www.studyisland.com - This is a website we have paid to be able to use as a resource for our students for reviewing TCAP skills in Math and Reading.

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html

Reading
  1. Biography Book Report  http://www.everyschool.org/u/vinci/biography/
  2. Reading and Language Arts Lessons - http://unx1.shsu.edu/%7Etxcae/readingless.html  - This website is chocked full of pre-tests, PowerPoint lessons and post-tests covering topics such as
  3. Literature Circles - http://www.litcircles.org/
  4. Author Online! (resource for folktales) - http://www.aaronshep.com/index.html#stories
  5. Magical Fairytale Moments - http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/ridge/wq/savona/index.html  - Have your students write their own fairy tale.
  6. The Realm of Fairy Tales - http://www-ma.beth.k12.pa.us/jhoke/jhwebquest/jhwebquest.htm
  7. Cyberguides - http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy45.html
  8. Internet4Classrooms – Language Arts skills - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_lang.htm
  9. Frank Serafini - http://serafini.nevada.edu/
  10. http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=845
  11. http://www.mce.k12tn.net/units/units_with_books.htm - This website has a list of books and online questions sets for each chapter of the book plus activities.

Math
  1. Mathematics Lessons - http://unx1.shsu.edu/%7Etxcae/lessons.html  - Same website as the Readingand Language Arts, except full of great resources for math.
  2. Math5Live! - http://www.learnalberta.ca/Browse.aspx?View=GradeSubject&Division=2&Grade=5&Subject=Mathematics&SubLang=en
  3. 5th Grade Math Skills – Internet4Classrooms - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_math.htm
  4. http://www.aplusmath.com/
  5. www.aaamath.com
  6. http://www.wcs.edu/fes/gohn/webpage/mathpg.htm - Karen Gohn at Fairview Elementary has made a wonderful list of math websites divided by topic. Thanks for letting us link to you, Karen!

Science
  1. Microscope Quiz - http://www.biologycorner.com/microquiz/index.html#
  2. Cells Alive Internet Lesson - http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/cellsalive.html
  3. The Biology Corner - http://www.biologycorner.com/ - The Biology Corner is a resource site for biology and science teachers. The Lesson Plans section contains classroom activities, labs and worksheets, feel free to change any of these to suit your own classroom needs. The Webquest section contains inquiry based projects that utilize the internet. Internet lessons (also called miniquests) are smaller activities that use one or two science related web sites for the students to explore and answer questions about.
  4. Solar System - http://www2.kinneret.ac.il/bloss/IAS/solarsys/planets.know.htm
  5. Rockhounds - http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index2.html - page on sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks
  6. This Planet Really Rocks - http://library.thinkquest.org/J002289/index.html - another website for rocks
  7. The Heart - http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/biosci.html
  8. Nova Online – Cut to the Heart - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/heartmap.html
  9. Systems of the Body - http://www.imcpl.org/kids/guides/health/circulatorysystem.html
  10. What’s It Like Where You Live? Biomes of the World - http://mbgnet.mobot.org/
  11. Internet4Classrooms – Science Skills - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_science.htm
  12. http://www.mhschool.com/science/2002/teacher/teachres/index.html - Give this website to your students when they lose their Science workbook pages.  The user name and password are both “technology”.
  13. http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0285-FayeCascio/   project for a travel brochure of the human body systems
  14. http://coolschool.k12.or.us/courses/174100/lessons/units/method/ - Scientific Method
  15. Chem4Kids - http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_intro.html

Social Studies
  1. Internet4Classrooms – Social Studies Skills - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_social.htm
  2. http://classroom.jc-schools.net/SS-units/index.html
  3. http://jc-schools.net/PPTs-socst.html

Writing
  1. http://jc-schools.net/write/
  2. http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/wnarrative.htm
  3. Creative Writing Prompts - http://creativewritingprompts.com/