FIFTH GRADE

Fifth Grade Lesson Plans

Elementary School - early Middle School *Animal Kid's Corner* (upper row for older kids, lower row for younger.) *Preschool Animals* (movies and create activities) *Math Games * (many levels and topics, many kinds of games) *Nutrition for Kids* (food groups, information, other food games) *Seasons for Kids* (painting activities, matching games, winter, fall, spring, summer) *Grammar Games*(games, tutorial, verbs, adjectives, nouns, punctuation) *Dinosaurs* (games, activities, movies) *Geography* (8 levels of difficulty to choose from upon skill level). *Brain* (brain teasers, puzzles and more) *USA 4 Kids* (government, state facts, history, games and more) *Science* (Life Cycle, Plant and animal cell, movies, games) *Animals* (hundreds of articles and quizzes) *Health* (Games about the systems, digestion, skeleton)

Language Arts/English

I. Writing, Grammar, and Usage

• Literary Lingo (2008)
• Library Guide to the States (2006)
• Living the Life of a Famous Person (2002)

II. Poetry

• Positively Poetry (2007)
• Reading, Writing, Reciting Exciting Poetry! (1998)

III. Fiction and Drama

• An Adventure with Tom Sawyer (2008)
• Little Women (2007)
• Unearthing the Secrets of the Garden (2001)
• The Bard, The Globe, The Midsummer Night's Dream (2000)
• The Game is Afoot — A Study of Sherlock Holmes (1999)

IV. Speeches

• Speeches on the Not-So-Big Screen (2007)

V. Sayings and Phrases

History and Geography

World:

I. Geography

• Where in the Latitude are You? A Longitude Here (2003)
• Sand and Water (2000)

II. Meso-American Civilizations

• I AM a Researcher — "I"nca, "A"ztec, "M"aya  (2003)

III. European Exploration, Trade, and Clash of Cultures

• Eye on Exploration: Take a Second Look (2006)
• Geography in the Resource Classroom: Using Maps to Understand the Impact of the Meso-American Civilization and European Explorers (2003)
• European Exploration, Trade, and Colonization (2002)

IV. Renaissance and Reformation

• Four Armed Men From The Renaissance (2008)
• The Renaissance: The Rebirth of Ideas (2007)
• Reformation: Revolt and Redirection (2004)
• Ancora Imparo (1998)
• The Reformation (1998)

V. England from the Golden Age to the Glorious Revolution

• Kings and Queens, England: The Golden Age (2003)

VI. Russia: Early Growth and Expansion

• Russia and the Czars (2002)
• The Faces of Russia (2001)

VII. Feudal Japan

• Konnichiwa! Welcome to Japan (2008)
• Feudal Japan: It’s All Japanese to Me! (2005)
• Feudal Japan and the Geography of Japan (1998)

American:

I. Westward Expansion

• The Wild, Wild West (2001)
• Westward We Go! (2001)
• The Westward Expansion (1999)
• Westward Expansion and Spatial Awareness (1997)

II. Civil War

• Heroes of the War Era (2004)
• Realism in Music: The Underground Railroad (2004)
• The Plight of Four Million Newly Emancipated Slaves: Reconstruction 1865-1877 (2002)
• Reconstruction: A Time of Turbulence (1999)

III. Native Americans: Cultures and Conflicts

• Mesoamerica (2005)
• The Marvels of Meso-America: Aztec, Inca, and Maya (2003)
• Aztec, Inca, Maya (1997)

Fifth Grade Lesson Plans

IV. U S Geography

• Library Guide to the States (2006)
• Where in the Latitude are You? A Longitude Here (2003)
• Mighty Mississippi (1995)

Visual Arts

I. Art of the Renaissance

• East Meets West: The Art of Simplicity (2003)
• Colossal Structures and Sculptures (2002)
• Leonardo Lives On! (2002)
• Ancora Imparo (1998)

II. American Art: Nineteenth-Century United States

• Going West: The Artists Who Painted the Way (2002)
• Westward Expansion and Spatial Awareness (1997)

III. Art of Japan

Music

I. Elements of Music

• Music from the Renaissance (2006)

II. Listening and Understanding

• Music from the Renaissance (2006)

III. American Musical Traditions

• Realism in Music: The Underground Railroad (2004)
• The African American Spiritual (2001)

IV. Songs

• Fifth-Grade Core Songs (2006)

Mathematics

• Marvelous Math Mania (2005)

I. Numbers and Number Sense

II. Ratio and Percent

• What's Math Got to Do With It? (2004)
• Ratio and Percent (2004)

III. Fractions and Decimals

• What's Math Got to Do With It? (2004)
• Fiddlin' with Fractions (2004)

IV. Computation

• What's Math Got to Do With It? (2004)

V. Measurement

VI. Geometry

• Geometry: Planely Simple (2007)

VII. Probability and Statistics

• What's Math Got to Do With It? (2004)

VIII. Pre-Algebra

Science

I. Classifying Living Things

• Chaos Within the Living World? Not! (2001)
• A Class Act: The Classification System (2000)

II. Cells: Structures and Processes

• Cell-ebrate! Life (2005)

III. Plant Structures and Processes

• It's Not Easy Being Green: Plant Structures and Processes (2006)
• Planting the Seeds of Knowledge (2002)

IV. Life Cycles and Reproduction

• Teaching Life Cycles and Reproduction (2004)

V. Human Body

• The Human Body (2004)

VI. Chemistry: Matter and Change

• A Matter of Matter (2003)
• It's Still All about Matter (2003)
• Chemistry: Phase Changes — Heat and Matter (1999)
• What's The Matter? (1995)

VII. Science Biographies

• Spectacular Science Biographies (2006)
• Galileo: The Man of Disbelief (2005)
• Great Men of Science (2005)