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Probability Dice Game
Probability Dice Game
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Probability Dice Game
Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.
5th grade
Math
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Lucky Leprechauns!
Lucky Leprechauns!
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Lucky Leprechauns!
Explore the math concept of probability with your fifth grader on "lucky" St. Patrick's day this year!
5th grade
Math
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"Roots and Wings" Card
"Roots and Wings" Card
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"Roots and Wings" Card
Make an elegant Mother's Day card to celebrate the love and work in raising kids.
5th grade
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Black and White Pumpkin
Black and White Pumpkin
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Black and White Pumpkin
Halloween's the perfect time for a fun monochromatic art activity -- and a pumpkin's the perfect subject!
5th grade
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Compare Cotton and Nylon Absorbency
Compare Cotton and Nylon Absorbency
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Compare Cotton and Nylon Absorbency
Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.
5th grade
Science
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Create Animal Silhouettes and Patterns
Create Animal Silhouettes and Patterns
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Create Animal Silhouettes and Patterns
This art project encourages kids to look closely at their favorite animal and recreate texture, pattern and silhouette with easy to follow instructions.
5th grade
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Seeing and Understanding Empathy
Seeing and Understanding Empathy
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Seeing and Understanding Empathy
In this activity, your child will watch a video about empathy and practice speaking to someone with empathy. They will also discuss how empathy supports living in a community with others.
5th grade
Social emotional
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Design and Build a City
Design and Build a City
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Design and Build a City
Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.
5th grade
Science
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Rice and Peas
Rice and Peas
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Rice and Peas
Get your child cooking with this easy side dish from the Bahamas.
5th grade
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Make Ham and Sweet Potato Hash
Make Ham and Sweet Potato Hash
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Make Ham and Sweet Potato Hash
Sweet potatoes lend a creamy texture and peppery seasoning gives a spicy kick in this fall hash recipe.
5th grade
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Chicken and Sausage Gumbo with Okra
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo with Okra
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Chicken and Sausage Gumbo with Okra
This gumbo recipe is a yummy way to celebrate Black History Month, and get a little practice in measurement.
5th grade
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Watch Acids and Bases Produce Colors!
Watch Acids and Bases Produce Colors!
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Watch Acids and Bases Produce Colors!
Show your child how to concoct a simple duo of household ingredients that changes color as acids and bases are added!
5th grade
Science
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Seeing the Beauty in Small and Big Things
Seeing the Beauty in Small and Big Things
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Seeing the Beauty in Small and Big Things
Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.
5th grade
Social emotional
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Tapping and Hugs for Managing Strong Emotions
Tapping and Hugs for Managing Strong Emotions
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Tapping and Hugs for Managing Strong Emotions
Physical touch through tapping and hugging can be a wonderful way to regulate emotions. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will explore the power of tapping or hugging to help them calm down and relieve feelings of stress or anxiety.
5th grade
Social emotional
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The Mean, Median, and Mode Card Game
The Mean, Median, and Mode Card Game
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The Mean, Median, and Mode Card Game
Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.
5th grade
Math
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Create a Cube and Find Its Surface Area
Create a Cube and Find Its Surface Area
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Create a Cube and Find Its Surface Area
Make learning how to calculate surface area easy and fun using this simple hands-on approach.
5th grade
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Healthy Relationships With Each Other and With the Earth
Healthy Relationships With Each Other and With the Earth
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Healthy Relationships With Each Other and With the Earth
The Earth is always providing in so many ways! In this activity, children reflect on how the Earth gives and on their love for the Earth through discussion and letter writing.
5th grade
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Before and After Halloween Acrostic
Before and After Halloween Acrostic
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Before and After Halloween Acrostic
Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Barack Obama Crossword and Trivia
Barack Obama Crossword and Trivia
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Barack Obama Crossword and Trivia
Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.
5th grade
Social studies
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Right in the Middle
Right in the Middle
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Right in the Middle
Work on finding means and medians in this fifth grade math card game.
5th grade
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Read and Respond: A Civil War Letter
Read and Respond: A Civil War Letter
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Read and Respond: A Civil War Letter
Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.
5th grade
Social studies
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Wastepaper Basketball Math
Wastepaper Basketball Math
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Wastepaper Basketball Math
Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
5th grade
Math
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Stock Market Math
Stock Market Math
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Stock Market Math
This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.
5th grade
Math
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Make a Fistful of Slime!
Make a Fistful of Slime!
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Make a Fistful of Slime!
Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.
5th grade
Science
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Build a Tunnel
Build a Tunnel
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Build a Tunnel
In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.
5th grade
Science
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When the stock market opens each day, the numbers may rise or fall. But who can know? Predictions rely on probability and statistics, math skills that your fifth grader can learn the fun way. Our activities use basic items like dice or cards to put these essential math concepts to use. If you want more hands-on math activities, try our fifth grade data activities.