FIFTH GRADE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES:
Grammar Blast - A variety of activities from Houghton Mifflin.
Quia Parts of Speech - Quiz over nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
CNN stories - Read current news stories and answer questions
related to vocabulary in context, comprehension, drawing
conclusions. Excellent!
Scholastic Online
Spelling City - Type your own list in (or sign in with your teacher's
information), and practice and play games! Turn on your sound!
Suffixes, Prefixes, and Roots - Excellent instruction and practice for
these skills.
Subjects and Predicates - Practice finding simple and complete
subjects and predicates in this fun "Rags to Riches" game.
Power Proofreading - An interactive site with several stories to
practice proofreading skills, broken down by skill area.
Language
Arts
Puzzlemaker - Create crosswords, word searches, and more with
your own vocabulary or spelling words.
Harcourt Reading Series Online Activities - You must have the
password to enter the "Program Users" section, but it is worth it!
Parents, you will need to get the password from your child's
teacher. LOADS of cool activities.
Instant Poetry Forms - Choose your poetry form from the list of
links provided. Then just add words to make the poem your own.
Letter Generator - Use this tool to write a business letter or friendly
letter. Prints from the site!
Wordle - Create a word cloud at the Create page.
Word Frog- Practice with antonyms and synonyms
Verb Viper - Select correct verb tenses
Word Invasion- Parts of Speech activities
Jan Brett's World
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Scholastic Activity
Read Write Think Cube Creator
Funbrain Measurement - Practice measurement in centimeters or inches.
Math Playground - A huge site with lots of interactive math activities.
AAA Math - Online practice with many different math skills.
Quia Math Journey - Choose the type of addition, subtraction,
multiplication, or division you need to practice, then start your journey!
A+ Math - More practice with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and
division.
A Maths Dictionary For Kids- An animated, interactive dictionary that
explains over 600 mathematical concepts
mr. nussbaum draggable division
The Ruler Game
Math
Mr. Nussbaum's Place Value Pirates
Study Jams- Great Introduction to skills
Multiples Game
Pumpkin Multiples
Factor Multiple Jeopardy
Funbrain- What's the Point?
Fun based Learning- Graph Mole
Billy Bug and His Quest For Grub
Simple Coordinates Game
Math Quizzes- Greatest Common Factor
Math Quizzes- Finding the Least Common Multiple
Math Quizzes- Greatest Common Factor
Polygon Matching Game
Fraction Review
Fraction Quiz
Leon's Math Dojo
Cool Math
Math Playground -Prime Factorization
Place Value Game
Place Value Connect Four
Wheel of Fortune Numbers and Operations
Math Jeopardy
Exploring Nature - Fantastic Database with great illustrations and some
videos of animals, plants, etc.! Type in "Auburn" for the username, and
1234 for the password.
Birds of Prey - Great description and pictures for eight different birds of
prey from the Peregrine Fund.
Producer, Consumer, Decomposer - Sheppard's software
Food Chain -Sheppard's software
Biomes
Science
Electricity
Engineering Interact - Another site from the UK. Fun, interactive "Silicon
Spies" activity. Click here to see the course breakdown.
Blobz Electric Circuits - Fun site to practice symbols and read about
explanations of circuits.
Don't miss the last site, Star Light, Star Bright.
Smithsonian National Zoo - Great pictures and information about all
types of animals. You have to dig a little for the information.
San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes - Great information about various
animals.
Animal Pictures Archive - Search for animal pictures - don't forget to site
your source.
Neuroscience For Kids
Microscope Parts Quiz
Respiratory System
How the Body Works - This links to the main Body Works page. There
are movies, quizzes, and good articles about each body system.
Pathfinder for Kids - A link from the Indianapolis Marion County Public
Library about the respiratory system. Contains a links section with one or
two more good sites.
Rocks and Minerals
Rocks and Minerals Assignment:
Site #1 Difference Between Rocks and Minerals
Site #2 How Rocks and Minerals are Formed
Geology - Rocks, minerals, and the rock cycle from Windows to the
Universe. Great pictures and information.
Rock Identification - Use this guide to find out what kind of rock you
have. From ClassZone.
Human Body
Bones- Quiz on Skeletal System
Muscles- Quiz on Muscle System
Muscle Activity- Label the muscles
How The Body Works- Activities on how the body works
Digestive System - Organ system info
Digestive System- labeling
George Washington - Rules of Civility
Where Is That? - A Funbrain site for you to practice your state and
country locations and capitals of each.
Madder of Facts! - This practice is similar to a Mad Minute, but focuses
on states and capitals.
Know Your States - Click and drag the states to the correct place on the
map.
American History Maps - Find maps of American History from
ClassZone.
US Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Visit this site to learn all about
our country's currency. Click on Classroom for stuff for kids.
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government - Super site that covers our nation,
historical documents, government, how laws are made, election process,
citizenship, and symbols. Information and games.
Latitude and Longitude Quiz - After reading the lessons above, try this
quiz.
Lemonade Stand - Test your business skills with this simulation game.
Social Studies
Explorers
Enchanted Learning Explorers - This site has brief, easy to read
information, and most show a simple map of their voyage.
Adventure to the New World - This is actually designed as an
assignment, but the links are very useful.
Vikings from Smithsonian - Tour of the Vikings exhibit, and links to
information about Vikings.
Colonies
13 Originals - Thorough information and links provided for each colony.
13 Colonies - Clickable Map - Very basic information about each of the
colonies.
American Colonies - Quick overview of the facts of each colony.
Interactive History - Several activities from the PBS Colonial House
series.
Colonial Williamsburg - Outstanding site about the Colonial Williamsburg
site in Virginia.
Map of the Economy of the Colonies - Map from a textbook that has
products of the colonies.
A Colonial Family and Community - Online investigation about living
like a colonial family.
The Jamestown Adventure - An interactive simulation of colonizing
Jamestown.
Lewis and Clark - Try this interactive journey with Lewis and Clark!
Top 10 Founding Fathers - Short biographies of ten founding fathers
thought to have had the greatest impact.
Constitutional Convention - Contains biographies of each of the founding
fathers who were delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
The Road to Revolution - Answer questions as you navigate your way to
independence!
Maps101
Docs Teach- Primary source documents
INTERNET FOR CLASSROOMS - Internet 4 Classrooms site with links
to online activities for every subject! EXCELLENT!
Phil Tulga's Music Resources - Very cool, interactive activities that
combine music into language arts, math, and science.
Other
Funbrain - Lots of games to practice skills in all subject areas. Click
on your age.
ABCya- Many activities
ABCya- Word Cloud Generator
Kerpoof Studio- Make movies, cards and other projects
4kids.org
I Want To Learn- Lots of resources
Typing Web
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