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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: 5.7.E

interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating

Improving Shakespeare’s Repetition

Let’s help William Shakespeare with his use of repetition.

St. Patrick and Other Legends

How would real people feel about the legends that have been created about them?

Not Like The Others: Rivers

Students will determine which river is not like the others.

Not Like The Others: Cephalopods

Students will determine which cephalopod is not like the others.

Not Like The Others: Flowers

Students will determine which flower is not like the others.

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.

How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded

Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.

Squiggles Collection 3

Students start with the same squiggle and then draw on it, turning it into whatever they think it might be.

Create A Civ: Capital City

How are capital cities a combination of natural and human-designed features?

Not Like The Others: African Nations

Students will determine which country in Africa is not like the others.

Looking Closely at Holiday Photos

Let’s write from multiple perspectives using an old timey holiday photo!

Not Like The Others: US National Parks

Students will determine which US National Park is not like the others.

Thanksgiving Photo Writing

Starting with an old-timey photo, students will write from a particular item’s point of view.

Not Like The Others: Types of Diseases

Students will determine which of these types of diseases is not like the others.

Not Like The Others: Birds of the Desert

Students will determine which desert bird is not like the others.

Not Like The Others: Penguins

Students will determine which type of penguin is not like the others.

Not Like The Others: Microstates of Europe

Students will determine which of these tiny countries is not like the others.

Drawing Knots, Level 2

How to draw a more complex version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Not Like The Others: Types of Volcanoes

Which of these types of volcanoes is not like the others?

Not Like The Others: Types of Rocks

Which of these rocks is not like the others?

Not Like The Others: Snakes of the Rainforest

Students will determine which snake of the rainforest is not like the others.

Not Like The Others: Deserts

Which of these deserts is not like the others?

Not Like The Others: Rainforests

Which of these rainforests is not like the others?

Not Like The Others: Stars

How is each of these stars not like the others?

Not Like The Others: US States

How is each of these states not like the others?

Not Like The Others: Birds of the Tropical Rainforest

Which of these four birds is not like the others?

Create A Civilization: Currency

What type of currency will your civilization use? What symbols will be on it? Why are they significant?

Create A Civilization: Design A Flag

What makes for a good flag? What makes a bad flag?

Think Like A Historian

Here’s how effects be causes and causes can be effects!

Ultimate (or Inception) Tic Tac Toe

What if each square on a Tic-Tac-Toe board had another Tic-Tac-Toe board inside of it?

Writing About Art: The Scream

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

Inferring With Art: A Man

What’s going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What’s his job? And where’s his other boot?

Art Lesson: One-Point Perspective

Let’s give our students an art history lesson while teaching them how to enhance their drawings using one-point perspective.

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!

Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings

Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!

Self Portraits: Pointillism

Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.

The Pros and Cons of Producers and Consumers

Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer’s opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?

Not Like The Others: Natural Disasters

Students will determine which type of natural disaster is not like the others.

Not Like The Others: States of Matter

How is each of the states of matter not like the others?

Holiday vs Holiday (from a Mascot’s Perspective)

Want something to do during the holiday season that is both fun and involves thinking? Get students writing about what a snowman would think about Halloween or what a ghost would think about Thanksgiving.

Not Like The Others: Creatures of the Tundra

Students will determine which creature of the tundra is not like the others.

Not Like The Others: US Presidents

Students will determine which founding US president is not like the others.

Col – A Strategy Game

The first person to run out of regions loses in this strategy game.

Game: Notakto

What if you only played Tic-Tac-Toe with Xs and you could play on multiple boards?

Create A Civilization: Calendars

Why 12 months? Why 30ish days? Why 7 days in a week? Your civilization could organize a year in any way you want!

Improving Presentations 1: Watching The Greats

Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!

Create A Civilization: The River

The Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Seine, the Thames, and now… your river!

Using Creativity Tools To Develop A Learning Exploration: Step Three

In this video, Kathryn Haydon explains how she helped her students form activities to pursue their independent study.

Depth and Complexity: 👓 Multiple Perspectives

In this video, we introduce the 👓 Multiple Perspectives prompt of Depth and Complexity.

Creating A Realistic Flower and Pollinator

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

Historic Social Media

How would people from history have interacted online? Students will develop a conversation online between people involved in the same event from history.

Drawing Natural Curves Like Andy Goldsworthy

Teach students to draw, and then build on, natural curves using the style of artist Andy Goldsworthy.

How to Play Go

Ready to learn a 2,500-year-old Chinese board game? Let’s… Go!

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!

An App For A Historical Figure

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

Reduce Anxiety: Brain Plate (Tool 3)

Take away some anxiety with the tool Brain Plate.

Building Brush Bots and Art Bots

What if we turned a tooth brush into a robot… that could do art?

Teaching Empathy With Faberge Eggs

Terri Eicholz explains how she builds empathy in her students using the story of the Faberge Eggs.

Engineering: Build A Bridge

Using real bridges as their starting point, students will construct bridges out of straws and paperclips.