Grade 5

Your link to all the information that is important to you!

Remember our classroom rules.

 

If you come across any inappropriate material on the internet close the page you were viewing and tell an adult.  DO NOT SHOW YOUR FRIENDS. 

 

Math Links

A list of games for 5th graders.


Social Issues

The Cool Spot: The young teens spot for info on alcohol and resisting peer pressure.


Landforms

Landforms Trading Card Assignment

     Choose any four landforms from THIS LIST and create a trading card that goes along with it.  The trading card title should be the name of the landform.  The subtitle should be a brief sentence that summarizes what it is.  The description must include at least one, or two, facts about the landform.  You must choose 2-5 icons that represent the landform card. 

See an example of my card HERE.

View detailed instructions.


Start with the Layers of the Earth website.

A third grader created this informative PowerPoint about landforms.  

The Magic School Bus site that is all about volcanos, ecology, and weather.  

The surface of the Earth is made up of huge blocks of rock. When these huge blocks move, an earthquake happens!  Click here to learn more about Earthquakes.

The object of the game is to help the volcano erupt, while learning a few fun-tastic facts along the way.

What does the State of North Carolina require you to know about landforms?  Click here to find out!

Click on the legend in this map to see the landform regions.

What does the Water Cycle have to do with landforms? 

Here is another video showing how mountains are formed.

Another simple video showing the formation of mountains.

Remember, Delicate Arch?  It is my favorite place on earth!  Watch the video and go see it for yourself someday.  You'll understand why I love it so much.

Simple Machines

Learn and play with everyday simple machines HERE.

The Columbus Ohio Science and Industry museum has some interactive tools to learn about simple machines too!

Play a simple machines game HERE.

Create your own Rube Goldberg Machine.

The six simple machines.  A neat site with kids drawings.

What was Leonardo thinking?  Click here to view his mysterious machines. 

Where do you see simple machines in use?  Scholastic challenges you to investigate.

Bill Nye the Science Guy Videos.

(Check with me before viewing these in class, please.)

 


Weather

Latest info on Hurricane Hanna

What is a hurricane?Click Here to find out!

Check out this animated explanation of hurricanes!Click Here

Aim a Hurricane Game!

Check out this site too! Web Weather for Kids

Hurricane Scale and Safety

Hurricane Storm Science  lots of interactive activities on this web page.

Canadian Hurricane Center  An easy, straightforward site that explains more about hurricanes

Look what I found!  It's our friends, Tim and Moby, on National Geographic for Kids.

 Find out how hurricanes can be so destructive. Be sure to check out some of the other videos on National Geographic.

Create a hurricane game

Hurricane preparation game!

Agriculture

A timeline of American agriculture can be found here.

Where did your last meal come from?

Harvest of History Primary primary sources.

Harvest of History modules.

Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory "Kids Corner"

North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Kids World Web Page

A brief overview of North Carolina's agriculture is available on this web page.  

There is a wealth of information on North Carolina's agriculture here.

Condensed History of American Agriculture Timeline.

Food of 19th Century in the United States: 1800-1900AD

A History of American Agriculture

NC Dept. of Agriculture

Depression Video

Food Pyramid

MyPyramid Blast Off Game