Force and Motion with Connects!

Fifth grade students learned about force and motion through many different experiments with connects.  They also learned about blueprints and designing cars.  These are pictures of students collaborating together to design their car.

James and the Giant Peach

As a class, we read James and the Giant Peach.  We used this book to study Fantasy genre elements and to learn reading comprehension strategies.  The Grasshopper in the story always used poems to descrive character traits.  Throughout the book, we talked about this.  After we finished reading the book, students created a character poster and wrote a poem about their character.

Summarizing Hand with Fantasy

Students have been working on plot and summarizing.  At the end of the unit, students created an educreation video.  Check these videos out:

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/timothy-britney/24325520/?s=TzADmf

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/deffeny-and-amaryana/24325484/?s=G3fdSu

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/aaliyah-and-dasharia/24325480/?s=OEcatZ

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/briana-maribel/24325434/?s=tMn7bt

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/rashawn-and-ahoki/24325477/?s=8UHf1b

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/olivia-and-tonys-summarizing-hand/24324886/?s=ZAgWfg

Rounding Decimals and Whole Numbers

Fifth grade students have been working on the math skill of rounding.  Students made educreation videos to teach other students how to round.
Click on the link to watch the video.

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/rashawn-aka-lil-oreo/24325118/?s=blMEe9

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/jab-redonda/24324881/?s=Dbpt6g

Anastazi Tribe

Students conducted research on ipads to learn about the Anastazi tribe.  After they researched, students used soil, straw and water to create bricks, like the Anastazi people did.

Egg Experiment

In science, we did an experiment to see what happens to an egg if you put it in vinegar.  Students went through the stages of the scientific method and developed a hypothesis to see what happened.

 

Marshmellow Science Experiment

We learned about the scientific method by doing the marshmellow science experiment.  In this experiment, we went through the stages of the scientific method and developed an experiment to find what happens to a marshmellow if you microwave it.  The students set the control of the experiment as the amount of time that marshmellows were left in the microwave.