Grade 5 teaching resources

Students investigate whether texts are written to persuade, inform, or entertain using detective-themed examples and text clues.

Students design a sustainable city by researching geography, planning urban zones, and incorporating green infrastructure, renewable energy, transportation, and resource management.

Students explore how transportation, density, green infrastructure, and walkability influence sustainable city design.

Students learn key electric vehicle vocabulary, compare design options, and make decisions based on intended use.

Students research a province or state and design a flag that represents its geography, cultural heritage, economy, history, and values.

Students compare two alternative design solutions by documenting criteria, pros and cons, and the reasoning behind their final selection.

This four-page French worksheet teaches students to describe people using vocabulary for height, hair, eyes, facial features, and clothing.

This six-page French worksheet helps students describe friends and people using physical and personality adjectives.

This four-page French activity pack teaches personality and appearance adjectives, question frames, vocabulary, reading practice, and dialogue prompts.

This 10-page classroom presentation introduces the origins, beliefs, traditions, and symbols of Día de los Muertos.

This three-page graphic organizer guides students in documenting oral histories through speaker information, cultural context, historical setting, key events, characters, themes, and quotations.

This four-page student activity pack guides learners through planning home crafts, creating supply lists, estimating costs, and sketching designs.

This three-page worksheet introduces Diwali, the Festival of Lights, and its cultural traditions among Hindu, Jain, and Sikh communities.

Students explore Quebec’s geography, French heritage, official language, cultural identity, architecture, traditions, and daily life.

Students measure the circumference and diameter of five round objects using string and rulers, then calculate ratios and their mean.

This six-page social studies resource introduces Newfoundland and Labrador through informational text, quick facts, reflection prompts, comprehension questions, and geographical inquiry.

Students explore the psychological concept of the uncanny valley by creating a digital collage that combines biological anatomy with inorganic elements.

Students audit their digital footprints across social media, email, search engines, and shopping platforms.

This six-page activity pack helps students analyze digital footprints, audience reach, privacy risks, and the consequences of online posts.

Students learn about pollution, habitat loss, conservation, and practical ways to protect the planet.

Students plan and draft a persuasive Earth Day letter about an environmental issue.

Students explore their schoolyard to identify natural elements, record sensory observations, and investigate habitats, biodiversity, seasonal changes, and human impact.

This Earth Day activity guides students through a schoolyard nature hunt focused on living and non-living elements, wildlife signs, textures, weather, and human impact.

This four-page printable journal guides students through mindful nature observations, gratitude reflections, and an environmental stewardship pledge.

This workbook introduces Earth Day and environmental stewardship through an informational passage, comprehension questions, reflection prompts, and a persuasive writing task.

Guide students through creating a specific personal promise to help the environment.

Students learn how Dr.

Students explore dupe culture, marketing psychology, and product value through viral skincare examples.

This four-page workshop introduces the double empathy problem and explains how communication differences affect neurotypical and neurodivergent people.

This four-page French activity pack helps students identify food and beverage vocabulary and distinguish between manger and boire.

This three-page Earth Day activity guides students in designing an invention from recyclable materials.

This three-page social studies pack introduces Vermont’s military heritage, the Vermont National Guard, Camp Ethan Allen Training Site, and Veterans Day traditions.

Students read passages comparing December winter in Canada with summer in Australia.

Students explore the history of the Winter Olympic Games from 1924 to 2026 through informational text, a KWL chart, timeline activities, and critical-thinking questions.

Students act out winter sports without speaking while teammates guess the activity.

Students learn to distinguish statements from questions and choose the correct ending punctuation.

Teach French winter clothing vocabulary through matching, sentence completion, categorizing, picture labeling, and guided writing activities.

Students practice matching French adjectives to winter clothing nouns for gender and number.

This winter-themed printable helps students practice addition facts through 20.

Students help a snowman shop for winter items within a $300 budget while calculating percentage discounts, final prices, totals, and remaining money.

This three-page winter-themed worksheet teaches capitalization rules using the M.I.N.T.S.

This four-page case study examines how Whistler can balance tourism-driven economic prosperity with protection of its alpine ecosystem.

Teach students how to use their eyes, ears, hands, body, brain, and heart to listen attentively.

This case study examines WeWork’s coworking-space business model, target market, value proposition, and relationship with SoftBank’s Vision Fund.

Students explore evaporative cooling, relative humidity, wet-bulb temperature, and human heat safety.

This five-page worksheet introduces students to the history and lasting impacts of residential schools in Canada.

This three-page worksheet introduces West Virginia’s military heritage, Air National Guard units, National Guard responsibilities, and community support for veterans.

Students reflect on their grade-level experiences and write an encouraging letter to incoming students.