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Grade 5

• Strand 1

  • 5.1.A
  • 5.1.B
  • 5.1.C
  • 5.1.D

• Strand 2

  • 5.2.A
  • 5.2.A.i
  • 5.2.A.ii
  • 5.2.A.iii
  • 5.2.A.iv
  • 5.2.A.v
  • 5.2.B
  • 5.2.B.i
  • 5.2.B.ii
  • 5.2.B.iii
  • 5.2.B.iv
  • 5.2.B.v
  • 5.2.B.vi
  • 5.2.C

• Strand 3

  • 5.3.A
  • 5.3.B
  • 5.3.C
  • 5.3.D

• Strand 4

  • 5.4

• Strand 5

  • 5.5

• Strand 6

  • 5.6.A
  • 5.6.B
  • 5.6.C
  • 5.6.D
  • 5.6.E
  • 5.6.F
  • 5.6.G
  • 5.6.H
  • 5.6.I

• Strand 7

  • 5.7.A
  • 5.7.B
  • 5.7.C
  • 5.7.D
  • 5.7.E
  • 5.7.F
  • 5.7.G

• Strand 8

  • 5.8.A
  • 5.8.B
  • 5.8.C
  • 5.8.D

• Strand 9

  • 5.9.A
  • 5.9.B
  • 5.9.C
  • 5.9.D
  • 5.9.D.i
  • 5.9.D.ii
  • 5.9.D.iii
  • 5.9.E
  • 5.9.E.i
  • 5.9.E.ii
  • 5.9.E.iii
  • 5.9.F

• Strand 10

  • 5.10.A
  • 5.10.B
  • 5.10.C
  • 5.10.D
  • 5.10.E
  • 5.10.F
  • 5.10.G

• Strand 11

  • 5.11.A
  • 5.11.B
  • 5.11.B.i
  • 5.11.B.ii
  • 5.11.C
  • 5.11.D
  • 5.11.D.i
  • 5.11.D.ii
  • 5.11.D.iii
  • 5.11.D.iv
  • 5.11.D.v
  • 5.11.D.vi
  • 5.11.D.vii
  • 5.11.D.viii
  • 5.11.D.ix
  • 5.11.D.x
  • 5.11.D.xi
  • 5.11.E

• Strand 12

  • 5.12.A
  • 5.12.B
  • 5.12.C
  • 5.12.D

• Strand 13

  • 5.13.A
  • 5.13.B
  • 5.13.C
  • 5.13.D
  • 5.13.E
  • 5.13.F
  • 5.13.G
  • 5.13.H

TEKS ELA Standard: 5.6.A

establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 6

Founding The Colonies

13 colonies activities including a word search and task cards packed with facts. Plus, students will create their own colony with a name, story, and map!

Gr 1-8

Hero or Not A Hero?

Students will determine what makes a hero a hero.

Gr 1-8

Earth Day Worksheets

Worksheets for Earth Day! Featuring reading, writing, and math… with a pinch of Depth and Complexity.

Two Animals Switch Biomes

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

Gr 1-8

Student Introductions With Depth, Complexity, and Frames: Level Two

Once students know the prompts of Depth and Complexity, let’s take them much higher up Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Gr 1-8

Van Gogh Self-Portrait Tournament

Who will win the tournament of Van Gogh self-portraits!?

Gr 1-8

Zig Zag Cipher (Codes Part 3)

Let’s try a cipher that doesn’t substitute new letters or shapes. We just mix things up.

Gr 1-8

Think Like An Author: Hemingway vs Dickens

What if your students rewrote Dickens in the style of Hemingway and vice versa?

Gr 1-8

Analyze Paragraphs: Tomatoes

Three paragraphs about tomatoes. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8

Writing Sample: Moby Dick

A passage from Moby Dick to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Fall of the House of Usher

A passage from “The Fall of the House of Usher” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Welcome, Students!

A video to welcome students to Byrdseed.TV.

Gr 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8

Academic Love Letters

What if Kylo Ren wrote a love letter to Abe Lincoln or the Sahara Desert wrote one to the Moon?

Gr 1-8

Create A Civilization: From Hunter Gatherers to Farmers

What happens when your civilization suddenly has a surplus of food? Think of the possibilities!

Gr 1-8

Content Imperatives: Origin

Take students back to the beginning by using the Content Imperative ⏺️ Origin.

Gr 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Creating A Realistic Flower and Pollinator

Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.

Gr 1-8

An App For A Historical Figure

What kind of an app could have helped Abe Lincoln accomplish his goals?

Gr 1-8

Asynchrony: Developing At Different Rates (For Students)

For students! In some areas, a student may be shockingly advanced, while in others… surprisingly average. This is asynchrony in action.

Gr 3-8

Motivation and Moral Development

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

Gr 2-8

Hamlet Summary

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Think Like An Economist

How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8