Welcome to the Grade 5 Web Portal
MATH
MATH - Geometry and Measurement
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Algebra Planet Blaster
Practice calculating equations with integers. -
Area
Demonstrate area of a triangle, parallelogram and rectangle
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Building 3D Shapes
NCTM site for recreating 3D unifix cube designs on paper
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Circles
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Congruency
Test yourself to see which shapes are congruent.
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Cube Nets
Identify which nets can make a cube
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Linear Measurement-Metric
Practice reading the ruler with centimeters and millimeters
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Measure Madness
Using a ruler to measure in metric units
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Measuring Angles
Interactive Games -
Measuring Angles
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Metric Measuring Conversions
Calculate metric conversions as fast as you can.
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Perimeter and Area
A quiz game for perimeter and area of rectangles
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Perimeter Practice
Reveal the picture by correctly finding the perimeter of a rectangle.
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Symmetry
Build symmetric designs with tiles. -
Symmetry Activities
Varied activities centered on symmetry.
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Tangram Game
Manipulate tangram pieces to make shapes
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Volume
Put cubes in a box to determine the volume of a 3D shape.
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Classify Quadrilaterals
Check your knowledge on shape quizzes.
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Quadrilateral Drop
Can you match the shape to the description?
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Polyhedrons
Explore solid figures.
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Cube Nets
Identify which square will make the net into a cube.
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Work with Polyhedrons
Count the faces, edges and vertices.
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Naming Polyhedrons
Look at top down and frontal views of Polyhedrons to name them.
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Standard Deviation Calculator
MATH - Games
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1)Grade 5 Math skills - Internet 4 Classrooms
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2) Rainforest Math
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3) 5th Grade Math Skills - By curriculum standard
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4) Harcourt Math Textbook
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5) Harcourt Math Glossary
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6) Funbrain-Math
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Rounding Decimals
One or two players use basketball to practice rounding decimals.
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Interactive Math Games
We like Power Lines!
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The Product Game
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A Broad Variety of Number Sense Math Games
Interactive
Fractions
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Geometric Shape Design
Build a design and then determine what is its fraction.
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BrainPop on Converting Fractions to Decimals
Watch movie and take the review quiz on fraction convertions!
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BrainPop on Mixed Numbers
Check out the how mixed numbers become improper fractions.
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Fraction Cafe
Visit the fraction cafe to see videos, take quizzes and learn about fractions.
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Fraction Simplification Calculator
Number Theory
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BrainPop on Prime Factorization
Watch movie and take the review quiz on prime factorization!
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Prime Factors
Create factor trees to find the prime factors of a number
Ratio, Percent, Probability
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Ratio Practice
A list of simple interactive ratio problems.
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Harcourt and Ratio
Text book problems that model ratio.
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NCTM Paper Pool
Look for patterns to determine the number of "hits" in a pool game.
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Skillswise: Ratio and Probability
Facts, games and activities on ratio and probability
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Decimals, Fractions and Percents
Challenge level
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AAA Math
Converting a Decimal to a Percent
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AAA Math
Converting a Percent to a Decimal
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Spy Guys Math
Video teaching on Percent
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Probability Experiments
E-lab for Harcourt Textbook using dice to look at frequency and possible outcomes
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Standard Deviation Calculator
statistics
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Binomial distribution calculator
Binomial distribution
Practice Test
All skills online practice
LANGUAGE ARTS
Persuasive Essay
Language Arts
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gorilla grammar
grammar
Language Arts
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Create your own...!
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Spelling, grammar, and more!
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Capitalization game
Need to practice capitals?
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Vocabulary
All kinds of vocabulary!
Thesaurus
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virtual Thesaurus
Great visual thesaurus
Spelling
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Spelling Time
Teachers can set up accounts and word lists for students
Poetry
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Calling all poets!
Create a poem! Lots of fun!
Word Skills
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Word Games
Vocab builder and word games
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Word Central
Word of the day and online dictionary
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Fun Word Games
Voca development and word skills
Typing and Keyboarding
Readers Workshop
SOCIAL STUDIES
EXPLORATION
Interactive Activities
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1) Lewis and Clark Then and Now: Psychology of Explorers
Why do people explore? - video
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2) Why do people explore? - Interactive
Interactive timeline - FLASH
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3) Latitude and Longitude
Brain Pop
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4) Timeline of Exploration
Thinkquest
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5) Searching for Asia
Thinkquest
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6) Exploration Navigation
Thinkquest
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7) Why Explore? - Point by Point
Explore the four reasons
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Latitude and Longitude
Lesson and Game
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Christopher Columbus
Exploration: Independant Research
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Library Search Engine
Kid friendly sites only.
ADAPTATION
Native Americans 2
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1) Native American Housing
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2) Native Americans - Portal
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3) Facts about Native Americans
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The Plains People
Investigation
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Native American groups by region
Interactive Map
Native Americans 3
Iroquois-Northeast Woodlands Natives
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Facts for Kids
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Iroquois
Lots of reading about each tribe within the Iroquois Nation.
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Iroquois Facts
A bit on land, clothes, food, housing, story and flag.
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Iroquois Stories
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Iroquois Village
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Iroquois Oral Tradition-stories
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Iroquois Facts/pictures
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Good Iroquois Site
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Our Wiki
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Mary Jemison
After Indian Captive
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Iroquois Prayer
Shows what the native valued in their environment.
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Dreamcatchers
Objibwa Story
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Indian Games
Easy to read descriptions of games
Indians of the Northwest Coast
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General Information on Culture
Click on different aspects of culture to explore the NA life style on the Northwest coast.
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Northwest Coastal Crafts
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Totem Poles
History, stories and explanation of totem poles of the Northwest.
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Haida Language
Background information about the Haida Tribe's language.
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Native People of the Northwest Coast
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Tribes of the Northwest Coast
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Language of Salish Tribes
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Daily Life
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Encyclopedia Brittanica - Northwest Coast Indians
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Fact Monster: NorthWest Coastal Indians
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Northwest cultural info and pictures
Download PDF to see pictures and facts about NW Native Americans
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Nootka People's Culture
Broad information including government and comminity facts.
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Our Wiki
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Tlingit Art and Woodcarving
Kid friendly and has photos
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Haida Culture
Fifth grade level reading on housing, art and society.
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Cultural Aspects of NW
Very good reading level for grade five.
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Tote Pole Symbols and Colors
Includes images and the zodiac calendar.
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Haida food
Food of the Haida tribe
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Tlingit Religious Beliefs and Practices
Short text describing main parts of religion.
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Tlingit Beliefs
Student friendly and has photos.
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Virtual Museum: Potlatch
A virtual visit to a museum showing all about the potlatch tradition.
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The First Totem Pole
A story about the first totem pole.
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The Potlatch
One long paragraph of facts.
Life Round Here
SCIENCE
Living Systems
Variables
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Variables and Experiments
Outlines vocabulary such as independent, dependent, controlled experiment, etc.
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Foss Variables On-line Materials
Home-school connection activities for the Variables unit.
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Science Notebooking Guidelines
Guidelines for teachers on how to set up science notebooks.
Safely Search the Web
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ES HUB SEARCH
GREAT SEARCH ENGINE-webpath express
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The ISB ES Search Engine
The search engine just for ES students
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2) ES friendly search tools
Great starting place for research
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3) Ask for Kids
Great for searching for images
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4) Classroom Clip Art
Fantastic place for safe images
Classroom Blogs
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Rm 230 Blog
Blog for Mr. Dudash's students
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Blogging! It's Elementary!
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Blook on Blogging
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Blopera (Ms. Hahn)
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ISB ES Flickr
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list of explorers
list of explorers
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ESL 5
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Room 227's Blog
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Rm 226 Class Blog
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Rm 228 Class Blog
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Rm 231 Class Blog
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Rm 229 Class Blog
ES Music
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ES Music Portal
Great new ES music portal
Eco-Survey
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ES Eco-Survey
Let's win the contest! Take the survey!
Keyboarding Tools
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Free Typing Game
Practice your typing skills on this handy site.
Typing
Reading