PUBLIC MARKS with tags district & gr5

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Companion to textbook Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary but still useful for grades 1-6. Hover over the word or definition to hear it read aloud.

BrainPop movie that explains how to write a paragraph. Great for whole class instruction and then let students review individually.

Click to practice addition, substraction, multiplication, and division problems

Interactive math activities for K-6

During the American Revolution - 1776-1783 - frontier forts played an important role. They were a place where colonists could take refuge from British soldiers or hostile Native American patrols. Forts also protected important roads, rivers, or materials needed in the fighting.

Kerpoof is a site designed to inspire creativity among children as they interact with the pictures. They can select a scene and add items to the scene and/or adjust object sizes . The scenes are richly varied, containing fantasy as well as international items. The site promises to change often. You can also find coloring sheets to print and color. You and your students can customize your own scenes, if you join (see classroom use tips). - 7759 In the Classroom: Use these online "scenes" for students to create their own writing prompts. Let students choose (you might want to limited their options to save time)and work individually or create a scene for the whole class on an interactive whiteboard. Then print it out and ask students to tell the story or write the paragraph about the scene. Special ed teachers and speech/language clinicians can use Kerpoof to prompt vocabulary development. Incorporate social studies and science curriculum topics by describing scenes with community workers, careers, farm animals, and more. NO reading required except to select print, save, etc. If you "join" as a teacher, you can save the scenes your class creates and revisit them at a later date. Do NOT allow students to join unless you have parent permission. The information requested is very safe, but it would be simpler to use a whole-class account.

Current news articles for grades k-1, 2-3, 4-7. Use with Clicker 5 or WordTalk for text to spech. Find the article, click the Print button. A new, plain web page will appear. Copy and paste directly into Word or a new Clicker document.

The Lake Champlain Basin Atlas by the Lake Champlain Basin Program contains more than 40 full-color maps about the Lake Champlain Basin, articles about the maps, photographs, and a glossary. Extra resources, such as website links, manuals, and factsheets are also available. This 2004 version is loaded with lots of new information, many revised maps, and a new Students and Educators page!

Be a history detective. Go back in time and investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts, a colonial family from northeastern Connecticut. Collect clues to uncover answers to 7 questions about colonial life in the 1700s. Then prove your skills as a history detective by discovering "What's wrong with this picture?"

Two fun and educational interactive games: Merchants of the Great Exchange and Whose Lunch is it anyway. Numerous handouts for teachers of this unit.

Project idea using Google Sketchup for the colonies unit

Welcome to the Nieman Enhanced Learning Center Blog. Students will have the opportunity to use their blog to write stories and respond to reflection questions. Parents and teachers, be sure to check in often to see how your students are progressing in their writing.

This is a blog created to explore what happens when 5th graders blog and converse about literacies in class and beyond.

These enhanced audio files feature special interviews and photos available only to our Web users. Listen to programs on your computer, or download and listen later on your MP3 player. Lloyd Dobyns is your host as you go "behind the scenes" to meet interpreters, chefs, tradesmen, musicians, historians, curators, and more. New Podcasts are added weekly. (To subscribe, paste this url into your podcast software or RSS reader: http://www.history.org/media/rssfeeds_cw.xml).

History for Kids Hi, I'm Ben, and I'm new to the Kids Zone. I'll guide you through the interactive games and activities in this section. Learn about the tools a cooper uses to make casks in Cooper-ation. In Pardon or Pillory, play a word game and save the colonist from punishment. Thomas Jefferson wrote many letters and so can you with the Colonial Postcard Maker. Do you like horses? The American Cream Horse is part of Colonial Williamsburg's rare breeds program. Have fun in this newest section of the Kids Zone.

You must try to change a given word into another word by changing ONE letter at a time. Example: Change DRY to WET in 6 moves. Every time you change a letter, the new word you make must also make sense! There are hints available both for the position of the letter to change and the definition. This is a solid word play game and appropriate for gr5 and up

In this online activity, a fictional character, Arnold is missing a number of body parts. Students are presented with a body system and a variety of organs. Students drag and drop all the organs that belong in that particular body system to Arnold's body. Once all four systems are complete, a clothed Arnold will appear. Note: if students drag in an organ that doesn't belong, all the organs pop out and students have to start that system over.

Watch this video clip about frozen frogs....

Math resource of video clips devoted to mathematics learning! Students call in to the tv host with a math problem. Together the problem is solved step-by-step.

Find sets of three sharing the same features.

Skills: Converting improper fractions to mixed numbers. Object: Sell as many ice cream cones as possible in three minutes by converting improper fractions to mixed numbers.

Can you fill the customer's order with the right amount of toppings? Choose the Pizza size for the order then add your toppings. Click send to finish!

Lots of Resources for a Creating a Colony geared to fifth grade

A Fifth grade Thinkquest site with information about the colonial homes, chores, fashion, transportation, education, and more. Check out the videos