GRADE FIVE - Curriculum Links
The Diamond Path Library offers some very helpful resources for students at Diamond Path.
- The library maintains its own list of links to sites relevant to Fifth Graders and our Fifth Grade curriculum. Visit the Library now: DP Library: Fifth Grade Links
- The library catalog home page also offers access to online databases such as Grolier's Online Encyclopedias, newspapers and magazines articles, and much, much more. Home access to these databases is made possible through MINITEX (a program funded by the Minnesota Legislature through the Minnesota Office of Higher Education) and District 196's paid library subscriptions. Accesss to these databases requires a user name and password. In September of every year, our media specialist sends a brochure home in every student's Friday Folder. As well as describing each database and how it's used, this brochure will give you the access name and password for each. You can visit the library Catalog page by clicking here now: Diamond Path Library Catalog
SCIENCE
- Interactives for Grade 5 Science -http://interactives4abteachers.wikispaces.com/Science+5
GRAMMER - HOMOPHONES
- Gamequarium -http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Readquarium/Vocabulary/Homophones/
- Quia - http://www.quia.com/jg/87619.html
- BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/recognising/homophones/
GRAMMER - ROOT WORDS, PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
- BBC Prefixes-http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/wordbuilding/prefixes/index.shtml
- BBC Suffixes -http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/wordbuilding/suffixes/ http://www.quia.com/jg/87619.html
- BBC Root Words - http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/wordbuilding/rootwords/
WORD STUDY - PLURALS
- Plurals ending in f and fe -http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/plurals/pl_4/plurals4.htm
- Mixed Plurals - http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/plurals/pl_7/plurals7.htm
- Plurals e and es ending - http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/plurals/pl_2/esplurals.htm
- Irregular Plurals - http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/plurals/pl_6/plurals6.htm
- Plurals y endings - http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/plurals/pl_3/yplurals.htm
- Plurals nouns ending in o - http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/plurals/pl_5/plurals5.htm
- BBC Plurals Rules - http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/plurals/pluralrules/index.shtml
KEYBOARDING
- Dancing Mat - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
GEOGRAPHY
- Geography for Kids -http://www.kathimitchell.com/geog.htm
- African American World - http://pbskids.org/aaworld/
- Kids Geo - http://www.kidsgeo.com
- Maggie's Earth Adventures - http://www.missmaggie.org
- Where Is That? - http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html
MATH
- Angles Game -http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year6/angles/home.asp
- Banana Hunt - http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/bananahunt/bhunt.html
- Hitting the Target - http://www.hittingthetarget.com/hittingthetarget.php
GEOMETRY
ANGLES
- Quadrilateral Quest -http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/amy/geometry/6-8/activities/quad_quest/quad_quest.html
- Crick Web- http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=quad
- Shape Facts - http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/information/shape_facts/shape_facts.htm
POLYGONS
- Math Dictionary - http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
- Math Magician - http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html
- Woodlands - http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/index.html
- Harcourt Publishing Math - http://www.hbschool.com/hspmath/na/index.html
- A+ Math Games - http://www.aplusmath.com/
- Math Baseball - http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html
- Tic Tac Toe - http://www.funbrain.com/tictactoe/index.html
- Change Maker - http://www.funbrain.com/cashreg/index.html
- Soccer Shootout - http://www.funbrain.com/fractop/index.html
- AAA Math -http://http://www.aaamath.com/
- Math Baseball 2 - http://www.prongo.com/math/index.html
- U.S. Mint - http://www.usmint.gov/kids/index.cfm?fileContents=games
- Math Football - http://www.funbrain.com/football/index.html
- Play Kids Games - http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/mathfact/mathFact.htm
- Math Counts - http://www.geocities.com/ljacoby_2000/math.html
- Math Cats - www.mathcats.com
- Math Mastery - http://www.mathmastery.com/cyberchallenge/
- Math Playground - http://www.mathplayground.com/
- Create A Graph - http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing.html
- Math Manipulatives - http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
- Cool Math - http://www.coolmath.com/
- Multiplication - http://www.multiplication.com/
- Gamequarium - http://www.gamequarium.com/multiplication.html
- Fun Brain - http://www.funbrain.com/math/
- A+ Math - http://www.aplusmath.com/games/picture/MultPicture.html
WEBSITES
READING
- Character Trading Cards: http://readwritethink.org/materials/trading_cards/
- Circle Plot: http://readwritethink.org/materials/circle-plot/
- Acrostic Poem: http://readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/
- Comic Creator:http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/
- Crossword Puzzle Creator: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/crossword/
- Idioms:http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/idioms/
- Flip Book: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/flipbook/
- Letter Generator:http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/
- Story Map: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/
- Mystery Cube: http://readwritethink.org/materials/mystery_cube/
- Plot Diagram:http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/plot-diagram/
- Postcard Creator:http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/postcard/
- Printing Press: http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=110&title=>
- Stapless Book: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/stapleless/
- Venn Diagrams: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/venn/
SOCIAL STUDIES
ANCIENT EGYPT
Test your knowledge with a game: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/PuzzlesQuizzes/Brainteaseregypt- Guardian's Egypt - http://www.mos.org/quest/mummymain.php
- Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology - http://academic.memphis.edu/egypt/egypt.html
- Odyssey Online - http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/MidElem_Home.html
MUMMIES
- Mummy Maker Game - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_mummy_maker.shtml
- Mummy Life - http://www.mos.org/quest/mummymain.php
- Mummification - http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/index.html
- Mummies Unmasked - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/9906/mummies/mummies.html
- How to Make a Mummy - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/mummy/
KING TUT
- King Tut Webquest - http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/wash/webquest/#Introduction
- National Geographic King Tut - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/tut/mysteries/journey.html
- National Geographic Kids - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0508/
- Discovery Kids - http://kids.discovery.com/fansites/tutenstein/interactive/hierogenerator.html
PYRAMIDS
- Pyramid Game - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_pyramid_builder.shtml
- Egyptian Mad Libs - http://www.neferchichi.com/madlibs.html
- Houses of Eternity - http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/index.html
- NOVA Online Pyramids - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
HEIFER PROJECT
- Heifer International - http://www.readtofeed.org
SCIENCE
- 3D Maps - http://www.nced.umn.edu/content/3d-maps
- National Park Video and River Facts - http://www.nps.gov/miss
- Urban Water Cycle - http://health.state.mn.us/water/urbancycle/
- Water Science - http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthrivers.html
- Fort Snelling - http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/hfs/tour/tour.html
- Explore St. Anthony Falls - http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/
- Historical River Vessels - http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/mpdf/incraft.html
- Dams and Lock Demo - http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/navigation/default.asp?pageid=166
- Watershed Game I - http://www.bellmuseum.org/ecogames.html
- Watershed Game II - http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/kids/
LANDFORMS/BIG RIVERS
- Deposition of the rocks of the Grand Canyon http://www.nature.nps.gov/views/layouts/Main.html#/GRCA/geo/dep/
- Stratigraphy of the Grand Canyon http://www.nature.nps.gov/views/layouts/Main.html#/GRCA/geo/dep/strat/
GRAND CANYON
- Interactive Rock Cycle http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/index.html
- MSA The Rock Cycle http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/K12/rkcycle/rkcycleindex.html
- Animated Rock Cycle http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/rock_cycle.htm
- Weather, Erosion, Deposition Scavenger Hunt:http://www.nisd.net/wanke/weathering/index.html
ROCK CYCLE
- Mackenzie - Peace River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_River
- Map of the Mackenzie River - http://www.wrigleyhotel.com/mackenzie-river.htm
- Fraser River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_River
- Map of the Fraser River - http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/rivers/fraser.htm
- Mississippi River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River
- The Mighty Mississippi - http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/river_profiles/mississippi.html
- Map or the Mississippi River - http://encarta.msn.com/map_701514720/Mississippi_(river).html
- Missouri River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_River
- Map or Missouri River - http://encarta.msn.com/map_701514723/Missouri_(river).html
- Missouri River Photographs - http://www.nps.gov/mnrr/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm
- Saint Lawrence River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River
- Amazon River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
- The Amazon River - http://www.mbarron.net/Amazon/
- Map of Amazon - http://encarta.msn.com/map_701510067/Amazon_(river).html
- Map of the Amazon River - http://www.mbarron.net/Amazon/bigmap.htm
- Parana River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paran%C3%A1_River
- The Parana River - http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/geography/paranariver.htm
- River Rhine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine
- Map of the Rhine River - http://www.rollintl.com/roll/rhine.htm
- Seine River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seine
- Danube River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube
- Map of Danube - http://encarta.msn.com/map_701511972/Danube.html
- The Volga River - http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/river_profiles/mississippi.html
- Senegal River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal_River
- Wonders : Niger River - http://www.pbs.org/wonders/Episodes/Epi5/5_wondr5.htm
- Niger River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_River
- Zaire Congo River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River
- Nile River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile
- The Nile - http://i-cias.com/e.o/nile.htm
- Map of the Nile - http://www.mbarron.net/Nile/bigmp_nf.html
- Ganges River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_River
- Map of Ganges - http://encarta.msn.com/map_701510677/Ganges.html
- Yellow River Home Page - http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~gleung/
- Yellow River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River
- Map of Huang He - http://encarta.msn.com/map_701513214/Huang_He.html
- The Yangtze River - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze
- Great Wall Across the Yangtze - http://www.pbs.org/itvs/greatwall/
- Digital Photos Gallery: Yangtze River - http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cu4w-kwsm/chin9601/fwb806.htm
- Map of Chang Jiang - http://encarta.msn.com/map_701517763/Yangtze.html
- Mekong - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong_River
- Map of Mekong - http://encarta.msn.com/map_701514607/Mekong.html
- Murray-Darling - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_River
- Murray River - http://www.murrayriver.com.au/history/
RIVERS OF THE WORLD
North America
South America
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia