Instructional Technology
Grade 5 - 1st Six Weeks
Below are ideas for technology integration that support the 1st six weeks grading period in Grade 5. Contact your Technology Facilitator for assistance.
| ELA | ||
| Word Wall Words | 5th Grade Word Wall Words Slideshow | |
| Unit 1 | The More I Change | |
| Lesson 2 | The Story Changes | |
| Curriculum activity: | Complete a story map and explain the significance of each element to the story. | |
| Technology idea 1: | Inspiration | |
| Use the template, Language Arts : Literacy Web for this activity. | ||
| Technology idea 2: |
This Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. |
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| Science | ||
| Unit 1 | Physical Properties of Matter | |
| Lesson 1 | Classifying Matter Using Magnetism, Electricity, and Conductivity | |
| Curriculum activity: | Classify matter based on its physical properties including magnetism, physical state, and the ability to conduct or insulate heat, electricity, and sound | |
| Technology idea 1: | BBC Schools Online Interactive Activities | |
| At the following link you will find various interactive activities to reinforce the concepts from this lesson. BBC Shool Revise Wise Science |
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| Technology idea 2: | Edclass activBook e483 "States of Matter" Students will create a dynamic table which, when they enter a temperature, it displays the state (solid, liquid, or gas) of a range of substances. |
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| Harcourt States of Matter Introduction Use this animation of states of matter to introduce the activBook reader lesson. |
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| Period Table with boiling and melting points -Use this website as a resource to locate boiling and freezing points of other elements to add to lesson. |
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| Unit 1 | Physical Properties of Matter | |
| Lesson 1 | Classifying Matter Using Magnetism, Electricity, and Conductivity | |
| Curriculum activity: | Each student will find five substances around their house. They will observe
and justify the classification of matter according to its unique properties on a graphic organizer. |
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| Technology idea: | Inspiration | |
| Students can use Inspiration to create their graphic organizer. | ||
| Social Studies | ||
| Unit 1 | Coming to America | |
| Lesson 2 | Where do You Live? | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students will learn
how the availability of natural resources, climate and topography divided the colonies into three distinct patterns or regions. |
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| Technology idea: | Discovery Streaming Videos already downloaded to your 5th grade student folder. | |
| Unit 1 | Coming to America | |
| Lesson 4 | Clash of Cultures | |
| Curriculum activity: | Create a tri-fold comparing English colonists, Africans and Native Americans during the early colonial period. | |
| Technology idea: | Use Microsoft Publisher brochure template to create the tri-fold. | |
| Unit 2 | Colonial America | |
| Lesson 1 | The Environment Connection | |
| Curriculum activity: | Create a graphic organizer that compares and contrasts how the colonists adapted the environ-ment to meet their needs and wants with the Native Americans. | |
| Technology idea: | Inspiration | |
| Use the template, Thinking: Comparison 2 for this activity. | ||