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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.G

evaluate details read to determine key ideas

What’s In My Brain: Grass vs Mold

Two columns. One is an example, one isn’t. Can you figure out the hidden rule before the big reveal?

Gr 2-8

Main Idea and Details

Young students can use this big idea organizer to identify the main idea and support it with details.

Gr 1-2

Who has more power: the Queen Bee or the Hive?

Sometimes power is concentrated in one place. Other times it is spread out.

Gr 2-8

Comparing Characters

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

Gr 1-2

Hero or Not A Hero?

Students will determine what makes a hero a hero.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Lion vs Bear

We’re looking at carnivores vs omnivores.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Spain vs Germany

One column is an example. The other isn’t. Can your students figure out the hidden rule before the reveal?

Gr 2-8

Tournament of Not-So-Famous Inventors

Which inventor and invention will win the tournament?

Gr 2-8

Not Like The Others: Flowers

Four flowers. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Austin vs Los Angeles

We’re looking at capital cities.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Tree vs Tree

Let’s look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Crocodile vs Tree Frog

Is it a reptile or an amphibian?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Narwhal vs Penguin

We’re looking at the arctic vs the antarctic.

Gr 2-8

Domesticated Animals Tournament

Which domesticated animal will win the tournament?

Gr 2-8

Types of Energy Tournament

Which type of energy will win the tournament!?

Gr 2-8

Natural Disasters Tournament

Earthquake vs. hurricane. Tsunami vs. wildfire. Students set the criteria, argue their case, and crown a champion. Warning: it gets heated.

Gr 2-8

Van Gogh Self-Portrait Tournament

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

Gr 1-8

What Happens In Your Brain When You’re Worried or Afraid

Allison Edwards explains how blood flow in your brain affects your decision-making

Gr 2-8

Cooking In Space

Watch astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti cook a meal in zero gravity on the International Space Station.

Robot Writing: Volcano

Read three pieces of writing from three different robots about the same beautiful painting of a volcano. Who wrote it best?

Gr 2-8

Robot Writing: Acropolis

One painting of ruins. Three robots. Three pieces of writing. Who wrote it best?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain!? Japan vs Jamaica

Is it an island or an archipelago?

Gr 2-8

Discussing An Important Decision from History

How would people with two different perspectives discuss a decision from history?

Gr 2-8

Chess Variant: Monster Chess

What if you had really weak chess pieces, but you could always move twice?

Gr 1-8

Not Like The Others: Birds of the Desert

Four desert birds. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

Gr 2-8

Notice, Wonder: Ramses

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 2-8

Washington, DC – Mixed Up Paragraph

These sentences about Washington, DC got scrambled. Can you put them back in order using nothing but context clues?

Gr 2-8

Plant Adaptation Tournament

Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?

Gr 2-8

Tournament: 8 Wonders of the Solar System

Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?

Gr 2-8

Exploration Technology Tournament

Which of these pieces of exploration technology is most important? Most underrated? Most long-lasting?

Gr 2-8

Tournament of Ancient Inventions

Which of these inventions of the ancient world is most influential? Least useful today? Most taken-for-granted?

Gr 2-8

Animal Adaptation Tournament

Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?

Gr 2-8

Not Like The Others: Deserts

Which of these deserts is not like the others?

Gr 2-8

Not Like The Others: Mountains

Which of these mountains is not like the others?

Gr 2-8

Tournament of Presidents

So who was the strangest of these eight presidents?

Gr 2-8

Analyze Characters Using Philosophy

What is the Brick Pig’s philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Owl vs Eagle

Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.

Gr 2-8

Concept Attainment: Art

Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?

Gr 2-8

Analyze Paragraphs: Empire State Building

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

Gr 2-8

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 2-8

A Lunar Survival Mission

A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?

Gr 2-8

Thinking With Art: Head Down

One artist, two paintings. Notice details, compare, synthesize, then find a parallel in another creator’s work.

Gr 2-8

Not Like The Others: Charlotte’s Web

Four Charlotte’s Web characters. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

Gr 2-8

Investigating Christmas Trees

Start with facts about Christmas trees. Group them. Label them. Can you boil it all down to one big idea?

Gr 1-8

Improving Presentations 1: Watching The Greats

Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!

Gr 3-5

Content Imperatives: Contribuition

Pull on one thread and watch the whole topic move. Contribution asks: what single factor is quietly shaping everything else?

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: 📈 Trends

Has something been changing recently? What might be causing that? What are the effects?

Gr 2-8

Depth and Complexity: 🏛️ Big Idea

Let’s get students thinking big and focusing on more abstract ideas.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: 🌻 Details

Get kids focusing on the small, but essential, details of a topic.

Gr 1-8

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Gr 2-8

Reduce Anxiety: Brain Plate (Tool 3)

When a student’s brain is full of worries, everything feels urgent. Brain Plate helps them sort what’s real from what’s noise — and actually do something about it.

Gr 1-7

Romeo and Juliet Summary

Romeo and Juliet in just about five minutes.

Gr 1-8

Intellectual Intensity

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?

Gr 2-8

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

Take direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.

Gr 1-8