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Fifth Grade Website Links
The following links have been compiled for your convenience. Each link will open a website that is not owned by the Auburn-Washburn school district.
USD 437 is not responsible for the content found on these websites. If you find a link that is broken or have concerns about a website please contact
the district .
| Language Arts |
Adjectives and Adverbs Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - A Quia game to
practice adj. and adv.
The Amazing Vocabulary Machine - Click New Word, then turn the adjective into an adverb. |
| Harcourt Trophies Resources - Links to activities for each story in the series. | |
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Grammar Blast - A variety of activities from Houghton Mifflin.
Quia Parts of Speech - Quiz over nouns, verbs, and adjectives. |
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| CNN stories - Read news stories and answer questions related to vocabulary in context, comprehension, drawing conclusions. Excellent! | |
| Spelling City - Type your own list in (or sign in with your teacher's information), and practice and play games! Turn on your sound! | |
| Sadlier Phonics - Complete the activities using your knowledge of letters, sounds, and words. | |
| Suffixes, Prefixes, and Roots - Excellent instruction and practice for these skills. | |
| Subjects and Predicates - Practice finding simple and complete subjects and predicates in this fun "Rags to Riches" game. | |
| Power Proofreading - An interactive site with several stories to practice proofreading skills, broken down by skill area. | |
| Puzzlemaker - Create crosswords, word searches, and more with your own vocabulary or spelling words. | |
| Harcourt Reading Series Online Activities - LOADS of cool reading and writing activities. | |
| Instant Poetry Forms - Choose your poetry form from the list of links provided. Then just add words to make the poem your own. | |
| Letter Generator - Use this tool to write a business letter or friendly letter. Prints from the site! | |
| Brainchild.com - Practice questions for online state reading test. There are several passages, go in and out to get a new one. | |
| Wordle - Create a word cloud at the Create page. |
| Math | Woodlands Junior School Shape Games - Practice with all kinds of shape activities from this collection of games. |
| Interactive Quadrilaterals - Manipulate a square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and kite to discover its properties. | |
| Funbrain Measurement - Practice measurement in centimeters or inches. | |
| The Ruler Game - Use this activity to improve your ability to read a ruler. | |
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Math Playground - A huge site with lots of interactive math activities.
Math Nook - Another site with a handful of fun math games. Several ads. |
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AAA Math - Online practice with many different math skills.
AAA Math - Second site. |
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| Quia Math Journey - Choose the type of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division you need to practice, then start your journey! | |
| A+ Math - More practice with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. |
| Science |
Sound
Parts of a Wave - Nice diagrams of crest, trough, and amplitude. Transverse and Longitudinal Waves - Simple animation of both types of wave. |
| Exploring Nature - Fantastic database with great illustrations and some videos of animals, plants, etc.!. | |
| Chain Reaction - Complete a food chain and test to see if your choices are correct. You have two types of food chains to select from. | |
| Birds of Prey - Great description and pictures for eight different birds of prey from the Peregrine Fund. | |
| Don't miss the last site, Star Light, Star Bright. | |
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Zoobooks Online - Find information for
animals featured in the Zoobooks magazines.
Smithsonian National Zoo - Great pictures and information about all types of animals. You have to dig a little for the information. San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes - Great information about various animals. |
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Respiratory System
How the Body Works - This links to the main Body Works page. There are movies, quizzes, and good articles about each body system. Pathfinder for Kids - A link from the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library about the respiratory system. Contains a links section with one or two more good sites. |
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Rocks and Minerals
Rocks and Minerals Assignment: Site #1 Difference Between Rocks and Minerals Site #2 How Rocks and Minerals are Formed Geology - Rocks, minerals, and the rock cycle from Windows to the Universe. Great pictures and information. Rock Identification - Use this guide to find out what kind of rock you have. From ClassZone. |
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Biomes
Enchanted learning (we don't have a subscription but you can use many of the resources on biomes) Website on Biomes A site about biomes for reasearch purposes The World's Biomes The world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptations of organisms to that particular environment. |
| Social Studies | George Washington - Rules of Civility |
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Where Is That? - A Funbrain site for you to
practice your state and country locations and capitals of each.
Madder of Facts! - This practice is similar to a Mad Minute, but focuses on states and capitals. Know Your States - Click and drag the states to the correct place on the map. |
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| American History Maps - Find maps of American History from ClassZone. | |
| US Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Visit this site to learn all about our country's currency. Click on Classroom for stuff for kids. | |
| Ben's Guide to U.S. Government - Super site that covers our nation, historical documents, government, how laws are made, election process, citizenship, and symbols. Information and games. | |
| Latitude and Longitude Quiz - After reading the lessons above, try this quiz. | |
| Lemonade Stand - Test your business skills with this simulation game. | |
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Explorers
All About Explorers - This has great information about explorers. NNDB Tracker - NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. |
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Colonies
13 Originals - Thorough information and links provided for each colony. 13 Colonies - Clickable Map - Very basic information about each of the colonies. American Colonies - Quick overview of the facts of each colony. About.com Colonies - A collection of links for each of the colonies. Interactive History - Several activities from the PBS Colonial House series. Passport to Colonial Times - Neat idea for an activity to investigate life in the colonies. Colonial Williamsburg - Outstanding site about the Colonial Williamsburg site in Virginia. A Colonial Family and Community - Online investigation about living like a colonial family. |
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| The Jamestown Adventure - An interactive simulation of colonizing Jamestown. | |
| Lewis and Clark - Try this interactive journey with Lewis and Clark! | |
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Top 10 Founding
Fathers - Short biographies of ten founding fathers thought to have had the greatest impact.
Constitutional Convention - Contains biographies of each of the founding fathers who were delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Revolutionary War - Take a quiz over the events in the Revolutionary War. The Road to Revolution - Answer questions as you navigate your way to independence! |
| Other |
INTERNET FOR CLASSROOMS - Internet 4 Classrooms site with
links to online activities for every subject! EXCELLENT!
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| Phil Tulga's Music Resources - Very cool, interactive activities that combine music into language arts, math, and science. | |
| Funbrain - Lots of games to practice skills in all subject areas. Click on your age. | |
| Free Touch Typing Program - Shows correct fingers. Choose the online version. | |
| NetSmartzKids - An online resource with interactive games and activities which teach Internet safety. |