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Lesson Plans - 5th Grade

Pin Guard

nerf soccer balls, ten plastic bowling pins-weighted, gym floor
LESSON_CONTENT: two teams of 5-8 players are best, can’t cross the center line when throwing, try to knock down the five pins on the other side, can’t purposely throw at players but players can guard the pins, if a player catches a ball without dropping it then

Plastic Flowers – A Science Experiment

Objective -
Collect and analyze data
Use a variety of different art materials and compare their visual and physical properties
Understand opacity in terms of opaque, translucent, and clear (transparent)
View examples of how light is used as a contributing element to works of art
(Optional) – Create a hypothesis and compare results to the hypothesis
Modeling:
Show the “Incredible Art Factory

Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil War

This lesson uses the book Meet Addy by Connie Porter to teach the characteristics of historical fiction, making inferences and using visualization, and Civil War history.

Escaping Slavery: Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Using the picture book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, students create a problems/solutions/events chart to help them understand the relationships between Clara’s problems and how she solves them.

Juneteenth Proclamation Jubilation

What took nearly 3 years to travel from Washington, D.C., to Galveston, Texas? Celebrate Juneteenth with a replica of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.