5th Grade

 
Language Arts Short Circuit -- Fun game matching suffixes and prefixes to their meanings. Start with level 1 and work your way up to level 4.
Grammar Blast -- Great links for reviewing grammar and parts of speech.
Parts of Speech Links -- Use these links with the Parts of Speech lab activity, or check them out on your own to review.
Prefixes and Suffixes -- Use these links to practice using prefixes and suffixes.

Fish Tanks
Maggie's Earth Adventure Short Circuit
BBC Prefixes
BBC Suffixes
Cloze activities - more cloze activities
CNN stories -- Choose a topic, read news stories, and do activities using vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, and more.
Suffixes, Prefixes, and Base Words -- Vocabulary page from TV411.org that is great for review and practice using these language arts skills.
Subjects and Predicates -- Rags to Riches game finding simple subjects and predicates.
Power Proofreading -- Interactive practice on proofreading skills.
Reading Comprehension Connection -- Select a subject, then select Intermediate level before you begin the lesson.
Harcourt Reading Series Online Activities -- Lots of fun and educational activities that go along with the stories students read in class. Click on Grade 5 for 5th grade activities.
Reading Comprehension Online -- Practice reading passages and answering questions using this Texas Education Agency website.
Letter Generator -- Template for writing a business or friendly letter.
Brainchild.com -- Online practice for state reading assessments.
Comic Creator -- Write your own comic strip with this cool tool.
Vocabulary builder - for each vocabulary question answered correctly, 10 grains of rice will be donated to the UN's World Food Program.
   
Math

Geometry Links

Polygon Sides & Angles -- How many sides or angles are there in the polygon? Click the number to answer.

Polygon Matching -- Play this concentration game and try to match the polygon with its name.

Pentominos -- Choose 4 squares to remain empty, then try to put all of the colored shapes on the board without leaving any OTHER squares empty. Good luck!

3-D Boxes -- Calculating volume using 3-D shapes made of cubes.


Everything You Wanted to Know About Area & Perimeter -- Click on AREA. Then click on the rectangle, read and click next. Work through the levels starting at 1 and going until you finish level 3.

Flips, Turns, and Slides -- Make sure you read the directions before you begin this game!

3-D Shapes
-- Use this site for the lab activity about 3-D shapes.

FRACTIONS

Fraction Playground -- Fraction games on Math Playground.

Fraction Pizza -- Click Enter Activities, then either choose a level or start at level one and work your way through the whole game.

Fraction Frenzy -- Quickly match the equivalent fractions to advance to the next level before time runs out. See if you can beat Ms. Cuevas' high score of over 70,000!

Draggable Multiplication
Texas Online Assessment -- Practice test from the Texas Education Association.
Harcourt Math -- Interactive math games and tutorials from the publishers of our math books.
Math 4-6 -- Many different math games grouped by topic. Some only work at home.
Arcademic Skill Builders Grand Prix racing, fun games using basic operations
Rainforest Math -- Tons of math games in many different topics.

Decimals -- Click on one of the links below to practice with decimals.
Addition Subtraction Multiplication

Rounding Decimals - practice rounding decimals tenths, hundredths, and thousandths place values

Adding/Subtracing Decimals

Math Playground -- Lots of fun, interactive math games.
Arithmetic Workshop --word problems and general math practice
AAA Math -- Practice many different math skills and keep track of how many you get right.
Quia Math Journey -- Click on the type or types of multiplication, division, addition or subtraction you want to practice and start the journey!  
A+ Math -- More addition, subtraction, multiplication and division practice. Select the type or types of problems you need.  
Virtual Manipulatives -- Explore and practice different math skills with these games.  
King's Math Games -- Lists of games grouped by topic.  

Mean, Median and Mode -- Review and practice how to find mean, median, and mode.

 
     
Science Food Chain -- Read and learn about food chains, then click on Create a Food Web at the bottom to make one of your own.  

Electricity

Power Up! -- Explore electricity with Celldric and his cat, Eddison. Start in Celldric's house and work your way through.

Silicon Spies -- Go through training to become a spy and help the Silicon Spies foil Dr. Volt's plan to take over the power supply of Silicon City.

Power Discovery Zone -- Explore the Power Discovery Zone to learn about electricity, then try out your knowledge in the Games section.

Electricity Facts -- Great information on what electricity is and how it works. A site from Idaho Public Television.

 
Light and Sound Resources -- Great links to check out while studying light and sound.  
     
Social Studies

Where Is That? -- A game from Funbrain that allows you to practice states and capitals. Choose your level and get started!

 
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government -- Great website that explores the election process, historical documents, how laws are made, and even includes interactive games.  

Explorers Links

Zoom Explorers -- Click on the first letter of the explorer's last name, or browse explorers by years they traveled or area they explored.

Discoverers Web -- Scroll down to the list of pages on single explorers to find the person your explorer.

Explorer Quiz -- Quizzes over the explorers as well as other information.

Adventure to the New World -- This is a webquest designed by a junior high teacher, but the links on this page are very helpful.

Explorers of North America -- Scroll through the links to find the name of your explorer.

Kid Info Explorers Links -- A page full of web links about explorers. Click and learn!

More Explorer Links -- This page has more links to check out on explorers.

Explorers Database -- Great website with tons of information on many explorers. Check out the other links on the site, too!

 

Colonies

13 Originals -- Great information, links, maps and a timeline on the 13 original colonies.

13 Colonies -- Click on the colony on the map to read basic information about it.

American Colonies -- A chart of information on each colony, including founder, year founded, purpose, and interesting notes.

Colonial Williamsburg -- Great links to information about the colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.

Boundaries of the U.S. -- This is a cool animated map showing how the boundaries of the 50 states have developed and changed from 1650 to 1907.

A Colonial Family and Community -- Be a history detective! Follow this investigation of life as a family in colonial America.

The Jamestown Adventure -- Help colonize the new world in this interactive game.

Colonial House -- An interactive history website from PBS. Great links, activities, and information.

 
Lewis and Clark -- An interactive adventure with these famous American explorers.  

Revolutionary War -- Read a lesson then take a quiz to test your Revolutionary War knowledge.

American Revolution Videos -- Five different videos about the American Revolution from ClassZone.

The Road to Revolution -- Use your knowledge of the Revolutionary War to navigate your way to freedom!

 
     
Other

The Three CyberPigs: Privacy Playground -- How well do you know how to use the internet? In this game, you will learn about different things you will see on the web and what to do about them.

Disney Site - promoting safety using the Internet, do's and don'ts.

The Three Cyber Pigs: CyberSense and Nonsense -- Learn important lessons about when to believe or not believe what you see on the internet and internet etiquette (or netiquette).

 
Everest Expedition 2007 -- Track Mike on his voyage to scale Mt. Everest.  
Citation Machine -- Click on the format you need, then select the resource type you are citing and fill in the blanks.  
5th Grade Skill Builders -- Great site with lots of links to games for math and language arts.  
Survey  
All Subjects -- Links for practice in all subject areas.  
Sense-Lang Touch Typing -- Practice your keyboarding skills.

Keyboarding Games
-- Practice your typing skills by playing games. Some only work at home.

Keyboarding Practice
-- Select a drill to practice the keys you need to improve.

BlackDog's Typing Speed Test
-- Check your speed and accuracy with this short test.
 
 
 
 

Kids Click- great way to find all kinds of information

Google -search engine

 
Quality Information Checklist -- A quiz about the reliability of information on the internet.  
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