Waples Mill Elementary School
11509 Waples Mill Road, Oakton, Virginia 22124 | 703-390-7700

Fifth Grade Student Resources

Math

Fractions

http://www.mathleague.com/help/fractions/fractions.htmhttp://www.aaamath.com/fra.html

 

Decimals

http://www.math.com/homeworkhelp/HotSubjects_decimals.html

http://www.mathleague.com/help/decwholeexp/decwholeexp.htm

http://www.aaamath.com/B/grade6.htm

 

Language Arts

All you ever needed or wanted to know about poetry

http://www.42explore.com/poetry.htm

 

Not sure where that comma goes? Check out this grammar website.

http://www.stufun.com/

 

Need to better your spelling skills?

http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html

 

Need to enhance your vernacular (vocabulary)?

http://www.vocabulary.com/

 

Writing 101

http://www.write101.com/

 

Social Studies

5th Grade Global Awareness & Tech Project web sites -

http://delicious.com/globalawareness

ABC-CLIO Social Studies Databases
http://www.socialstudies.abc-clio.com/MultiHome/Default.aspx
 

Mesopotamia

http://itss229.ed.psu.edu/k-12/edpgs/su96/meso/mesopotamia.html#student

Ancient Mesopotamia - http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/

Babylonia - http://www.livius.org/ba-bd/babylon/babylonia.html

Ancient India

http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/India/History.html

http://www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/india/eg_india_intro.html

http://www.atech.org/faculty/vyoung/03-India/Activities/index.html

http://www.hindukids.org/festivals/diwali_mm/index.html

 

Ancient Greece

BBC: Ancient Greece - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/main_menu.shtml

Odyssey - http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/

Ancient Greece for Kids - http://ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/AncientGreece.html
Ancient City of Athens - http://www.stoa.org/athens/
Adventures in Ancient Greece - http://www.mystery-productions.info/hyper/Hypermedia_2003/Miller/AM_hypermedia/Artifact/#
Ancient Greek World - http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/Index.html
Olympics - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/
Ancient Greece - http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Main_Page/
Virtual Museum Olympic Games - http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/olympics/
Hercules - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Hercules/
 

Medieval

All About Medieval Times - http://www.suelebeau.com/medievaltimes.htm

Medieval Europe - http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/

The Middle Ages - http://www.themiddleages.net/
Middle Ages, UK - http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/
Middle Ages, Interactive - http://www.learner.org/e xhibits/middleages/
 
The Tudors Joust! - http://www.tudorbritain.org/joust/
 

Renaissance

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

 

Science

 

Classification of Living Organisms

http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/classify/classify.html

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/

 

 

Cells

http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/13-cells.htm

http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/westmin/science/sbi3a1/Cells/cells.htm

 

Microscopes

http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/how_work/microscope.html

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/airjunk/index.html

 

Light (and color)

http://www.nelsonthornes.com/secondary/science/scinet/scinet/light/source/travel.htm

http://www.gelighting.com/na/home/gela/students/index.htm
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/color/
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/iconcolor.html

 

Sound

http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/kids/Problem_Board/problems/sound/how_sound_travels.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/subsecrets/sounds.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/barrier/boom/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lochness/sonar.html

 

Pendulums

http://muse.tau.ac.il/museum/galileo/pendulum.html

 

Oceans

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/regions/oceanfloor2.htm

http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/features.html

 

Let the River Run Silver Again (Shad project)

Fun with Shad! Includes Shad puzzle, quiz, crossword, fishing game called “Canoe Clobber Game”, Shad museum link, Shad festival link, and a bridging the watershed website link

http://www.ct.gov/kids/cwp/view.asp?a=2731&Q=314128

 

Shad pictures! Cool puzzle and games link on the left side, 5 th links down (includes picture puzzle, concentration, jumble, and ConnecTriva!)

http://www.ct.gov/kids/cwp/view.asp?a=2731&q=314126

 

Links to Shad and Connecticut, the Road to State Symbol, and Shad Restoration

http://www.ct.gov/kids/cwp/view.asp?a=2731&q=314142

 

Cool pictures!

http://www.potomacriver.org/living_resources/shad07.pdf

 

An adult Shad picture

http://www.potomacriver.org/living_resources/shad.htm

 

Miscellaneous Resources

 

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Use this resource to make easy and neat graphs. Take the kid-friendly tutorial, customize your graph's design, color, data, and labels, and then print or save your graph. Just follow the simple steps and you'll have your own graph in no time.

 

NASA’s website full of fun games and information, click on “For Kids” or “For Students”

http://www.nasa.gov/

 

Anything you could ever want to know—find it here

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/index.html

 

Games

 

Funbrain - A fun website full of educational games

http://www.funbrain.com/

 

Mouse TV has fun activities including decode-a-fact, magic number, Coconut's corner, craft project, jokes page, and guess the pictures. It's an educational website that is fun, too!

www.mousetv.com