Arts & Creative Expression · 5
3D Design and Sculpture Studio
Plan, construct, critique, and revise a three-dimensional artwork.
Activity detailsFifth Grade
Build understanding with hands-on 3D activities across upper-elementary subjects.
Arts & Creative Expression · 5
Plan, construct, critique, and revise a three-dimensional artwork.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Analyze causes, perspectives, geography, and turning points of the Revolution.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Use word relationships, including analogies, synonyms, and antonyms, to understand each word better.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 5
Compare how architectural forms carry loads and shape the look of a building.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Develop a claim with credible evidence, reasoning, and source attribution.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Link an opinion’s reasons and evidence with transition words and close with a fitting conclusion.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Analyze how an author’s viewpoint influences presentation.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Separate a mixture by particle size with a stack of sieves.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Compare two fractions of whole-number sets by partitioning each set into equal groups.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Make a line plot of measurements in eighths and use it to add or compare the plotted lengths.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Estimate sums of fractions with benchmark fractions and judge whether an answer is reasonable.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Show how a bill becomes law and how vetoes, overrides, and court review check each branch.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Explain how the first ten amendments protect individual rights in everyday situations.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 5
Represent numbers and images with bits and pixels.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Find an unknown base edge of a rectangular prism from its volume, height, and other base edge.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 5
Compose a melodic response that answers a call through repetition, contrast, contour, and dynamics.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Read the ordered pair of a located point by tracing it back to both axes.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Explain how events, people, and ideas in a history or science text are connected, using specific information.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Match each effect in a history or science text to the cause that produced it, and explain how the events connect.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Compare and contrast two characters by sorting what each does alone and what both do when they face the same challenge.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Compare and contrast how two characters respond to the same challenge, using specific story details.
Activity detailsExecutive Function Skills · 5
Monitor a long project at a checkpoint and revise effort where work is behind the plan.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Use evidence to identify changes that form new substances.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 5
Evaluate choices by comparing their effects on yourself now, on other people, and on yourself later.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Compare government, religion, work, and town life across the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Compare geography, economies, societies, and governance across colonial regions.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Use commas to set off introductory elements, names in direct address, tag questions, and items in a series.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Evaluate ways communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s land, water, and air from human impacts.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Find the volume of a solid made of two non-overlapping rectangular prisms by adding their volumes.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Model how decomposers recycle matter from dead organisms back to the soil and air.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Explain major constitutional debates, compromises, and unresolved inequities.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Plan fair tests and compare design solutions against criteria and constraints.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 5
Program movement with coordinates, loops, variables, and conditions.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Graph and interpret points in the first quadrant.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Use correlative conjunctions such as either/or, neither/nor, and not only/but also to join ideas.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Corroborate two historical sources by finding the details they agree on and judging which source was first-hand.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Find the volume of two stacked rectangular prisms by measuring each one and adding their volumes.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Graph daylight hours across the year to reveal seasonal patterns for places at different latitudes.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Divide decimals by whole numbers and powers of ten in context.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Add and subtract decimals in money and measurement contexts.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Multiply decimals using place-value and area reasoning.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Read, write, compare, and explain decimals through thousandths.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Use estimation and place value to place the decimal point in decimal products and quotients.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Round decimals to any specified place using benchmark reasoning.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Explain why delegates compromised on the Constitution and whose voices were left out.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Describe how the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere interact during real events.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Model how water is distributed and cycles through Earth systems.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Model movement of matter and energy among organisms and the environment.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Edit for conventions and revise for clarity, precision, and style.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Run fair drop tests of two egg-protecting designs and judge them against a criterion and a cost constraint.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Explain the push and pull factors and arrival process of immigrants who came through Ellis Island.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Analyze motives, exchanges, consequences, and differing perspectives during contact.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Write numerical expressions from word descriptions and interpret them without evaluating.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Analyze multiple accounts of one event and the point of view each account represents.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Use benchmark fractions to judge whether a claimed sum or difference is reasonable.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Check a classmate’s research notes against several print and digital sources, and correct the note that is wrong.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Interpret figurative language, word relationships, and shades of meaning.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Predict whether a product is greater than, less than, or equal to one factor before testing it.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Interpret fraction multiplication through layered area and volume models.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Solve fraction addition and subtraction problems in measurement contexts.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators by measuring hike legs on a common-unit ruler.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Interpret a fraction as the numerator divided by the denominator when sharing wholes equally.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Interpret a fraction times a whole number as parts of an equal partition of that number.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Find the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths by tiling it with unit-fraction tiles.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Trace how individual people who were enslaved, or kidnapped into slavery, resisted and worked for freedom.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Compare how a mystery and an adventure story approach the same topic through their genre features.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Build a mystery and an adventure on the same topic from their openings and endings, and explain how the genres differ.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Model how a change in the atmosphere, geosphere, or biosphere sets off changes in the other spheres of a glacier valley.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Model separation of powers, checks and balances, and civic participation.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Explain gravity’s effect on objects near Earth and in the solar system.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Use common roots and affixes to determine academic vocabulary.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 5
Fit needs, a savings goal, and wants inside a fixed budget and explain the tradeoffs.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 5
Plan personal hygiene routines that fit a growing body and an active day.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Gather evidence that matter is made of particles too small to see.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Interpret a fraction as division when a total length is split equally, including answers greater than one.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Explain how each Indigenous nation built homes suited to its own land and how the nation continues today.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Repair verb gaps in a passage with past, present, and future perfect verbs so that the time order stays clear.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Infer the push and pull factors behind one immigrant’s journey from the belongings they carried.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Analyze the diversity, sovereignty, and continuity of Indigenous nations.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Connect Industrial Revolution inventions to changes in work, production, and daily life.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Infer, determine main ideas, and summarize informational text.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Multiply a fraction by a fraction by taking part of a part of one full glass.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 5
Plan, test, and revise a hanging sculpture so its forms balance and move.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Locate places with latitude and longitude and compare a globe with a flat map projection.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Multiply multi-digit whole numbers by filling a lattice of digit products and adding along its diagonals.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Compare which decomposers reach buried leaves to explain how dead matter returns to the soil and air.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Solve word problems that add and subtract fractions of a cup in a pouring context.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 5
Predict how the starting order of a list changes how many steps a sorting algorithm needs, then test it.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 5
Decode binary signals into numbers and find a flipped bit in a message.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Make a line plot of fractional measurements and use it to redistribute a total equally.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Find multi-digit whole-number quotients using place-value reasoning.
Activity detailsExecutive Function Skills · 5
Plan, execute, monitor, and revise a long-term project.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Trace one family meal back to the U.S. regions that produced it and predict what a disruption in one region would change.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Determine two main ideas of an informational text and explain how key details support each.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Interpret a numerical expression by comparing it with its grouped part, without evaluating it.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Choose the material that fits a job by testing and comparing its properties.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Convert measurements within a given system and solve multi-step problems.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 5
Verify digital claims through source tracing, corroboration, context, and image checks.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Find and fix mismatched correlative conjunctions, then explain what a repaired sentence means.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Find the power of ten, written with a whole-number exponent, that turns one measurement into another.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Use volume as base area times height to find an unknown dimension of a rectangular prism.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Subtract mixed numbers with unlike denominators by renaming fractions and regrouping a whole.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Add measurements in mixed units and convert small units into large ones within a system.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Design a process to separate mixtures using physical properties.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Model how water moves among the ocean, air, land, and living things in a landscape.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Find and compare volumes of rectangular prisms by measuring edges and counting cube layers.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Integrate information from multiple print, visual, and digital sources.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements add to the meaning and tone of a text.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Compare a product to one factor by reasoning about whether the other factor is greater than, less than, or equal to one.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 5
Compose and revise a multi-part piece using rhythm, melody, form, and dynamics.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Use pacing in narrative writing by slowing important moments and speeding through minor ones.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Analyze how scenes, chapters, and events shape narrative structure.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Describe how a narrator’s attitude colors the way events are described.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Plot latitude and longitude positions from a ship’s log and find the entry that was recorded wrong.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Write and evaluate expressions with grouping symbols.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 5
Find and fix a frame whose spacing breaks the motion an animator planned.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 5
Recognize online warning signs and choose a safe way to get help.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 5
Plan the hygiene care a growing body needs away from home on a trip with its own activities.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Choose between a quick summary and a slowed-down version of each story moment so the key moment gets the most detail.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Place grouping symbols in an expression so that it evaluates to a target value.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Find whole-number quotients by filling an area model with partial quotients.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Model matter as particles too small to see and explain state changes.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Connect an invention to the problem it solved and to the change it brought to work, production, or daily life.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Generate and compare numerical patterns from given rules.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Use perfect verb tenses to show time order and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 5
Plan a simple budget and distinguish needs, wants, saving, and tradeoffs.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 5
Check whether a shared photo supports a claim by restoring its full frame, finding its first appearance, and captioning it.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Compare and order decimals to thousandths by lining up their place values.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Trace the energy in picnic foods back to the plant or alga that captured it from sunlight.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Judge which illustration adds meaning and tone that a picture-book page’s words never state.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Use the tenfold relationship between places to find a digit’s value after it moves places.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Use mass evidence to argue that plants get the materials for growth chiefly from air and water.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Use whole-number exponents for powers of ten and explain how multiplying or dividing by them shifts every digit.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Trace how one western valley’s land, economy, and Native nation changed decade by decade during westward expansion.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Source, observe, and draw supported inferences from historical letters and photographs.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Add and subtract decimal masses by balancing them with place-value weights.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Measure and use material properties to identify substances.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Interpret common proverbs and idioms and use them to describe situations.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Decide which quadrilaterals belong to a category by its defining properties, including shapes from its subcategories.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Classify quadrilaterals in a hierarchy using their sides, angles, and parallel lines.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Quote accurately when explaining explicit ideas and inferences.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Graph real-world data as points in the first quadrant and interpret the coordinates in context.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Explain how U.S. regions specialize and depend on one another through trade.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Draw on several print and digital sources to locate answers quickly and solve a problem.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Decide whether a change formed a new substance by testing if it can be undone.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Connect where and when key Revolutionary War events happened to the factors that decided them.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Divide a decimal length by a whole number by cutting it into equal pieces and measuring one.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Decide whether a government action crosses a right protected by the Bill of Rights and what the government must do instead.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 5
Choose the structural form that fits a site and a purpose, and explain how its shape carries the load.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Group words by shared Greek and Latin roots and use the root to work out a new word.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Show that Earth’s gravity pulls objects toward its center wherever they are.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Round decimals to a given place by finding every number that rounds to the same value.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Use lights of known power at measured distances to explain why a star’s apparent brightness depends on its distance.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Explain how each scene of a story fits into its overall structure.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Evaluate solutions a community can use to protect the air near a school from human pollution.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Use estimates to find a decimal product or quotient whose decimal point slipped, and fix it.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Model how matter cycles among plants, animals, decomposers, and the air in a closed system.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Show how Earth’s orbit around the Sun changes which stars appear in the midnight sky from season to season.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Examine slavery and resistance through age-appropriate, human-centered evidence.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Show that a plant builds its mass from water and air by growing it with no soil at all.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Find the area of a rectangle with mixed-number side lengths by adding the partial products of its parts.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Model patterns caused by Earth’s rotation, orbit, and positions in the solar system.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 5
Compare the efficiency of sorting algorithms by counting comparisons and swaps.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Integrate information from a text and a chart to answer a question neither answers alone.
Activity detailsGeneral · K-5, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5
Explore the interactive space playground! Click on objects to see them come alive with animations and sounds.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Use Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the daily motion of the Sun and stars.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Explain that a star’s apparent brightness depends on its distance from Earth as well as its true brightness.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 5
Plan stop-motion frames so spacing and timing tell a clear moving story.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 5
Protect personal information by testing what a stranger can see from an online profile’s settings.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Multiply a decimal by a whole number as equal decimal strides along a measured rail.
Activity detailsExecutive Function Skills · 5
Choose a study strategy that fits a kind of learning goal and space practice sessions before the deadline.
Activity detailsExecutive Function Skills · 5
Self-monitor study strategies by comparing predictions, results, and the strategies used.
Activity detailsScience · 5
Trace the energy in animal food back to energy that was once sunlight captured by plants.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Recognize that a digit in one place is ten times what it represents in the place to its right.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Build a triangle that fits a two-part description of its sides and angles.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Tell what a text says outright from what it implies, and quote accurately to support an inference.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Compare how two stories on the same topic develop different themes.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Compare how two texts develop related themes.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Interpret real-world coordinate points to find and fix a point that was graphed wrong.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Divide a unit fraction by a whole number, or a whole number by a unit fraction, on a trail map.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Classify triangles by both their side lengths and their angle measures.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Generate two numerical patterns, form ordered pairs from their terms, and compare the terms.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Compare how one exchange after contact affected people on both sides of the Atlantic over time.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Interpret division of unit fractions by whole numbers and vice versa.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Show how two people’s roles shape the words they choose to describe the same event.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Measure volume and solve problems with rectangular prisms.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 5
Debug a coordinate program with variables and loops by tracing it step by step.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 5
Evaluate safe, healthy, and responsible choices in realistic situations.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 5
Analyze how westward expansion changed the land, economies, and Native nations over time.
Activity detailsMathematics · 5
Add mixed numbers with unlike denominators by renaming to a common unit and regrouping into a whole.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 5
Sort word pairs by how the words are related, then use that relationship to complete an analogy.
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