Grade 5 teaching resources

This four-page worksheet guides students through the classic trolley problem and related variations, including the footbridge dilemma.

This case study examines Venezuela’s political conflict, including opposing perspectives, constitutional debate, political tension, negotiation, and deadlock.

Students examine the Treaty of Versailles, including territorial changes, military restrictions, war guilt, and reparations.

This three-page framework guides students through analyzing the direct impacts, secondary effects, and unintended consequences of a proposed policy.

Students analyze Super Bowl commercials by identifying target audiences, persuasive techniques, memorable visuals, and consumer actions.

Students learn game theory, brinkmanship, Nash equilibrium, and mutually assured destruction through the Chicken Game.

Students examine how racial, economic, and geographic privilege can influence access to healthcare, housing, transportation, and higher education in British Columbia.

Students learn about Aaron Douglas and analyze his use of silhouettes, concentric circles, geometric shapes, and limited color palettes.

This four-page French activity pack features reading passages about autumn traditions in France and Quebec.

Students design a French café menu and perform a restaurant skit using food vocabulary, partitive articles, and polite expressions.

This four-page French activity pack helps students ask and answer questions about meals, food preferences, and beverages.

This four-page guide helps students develop argumentative writing through brainstorming, crafting strong claims, gathering evidence, and addressing counterarguments.

This six-page practice pack covers rectangle and square area and perimeter, composite shapes, missing dimensions, and grid-based shape construction.

Students identify definition, synonym, antonym, example, and inference context clues in spring-themed passages.

This three-page informational resource explains how Arizona’s climate, geography, military installations, and National Guard support military training.

Students design a gingerbread mansion blueprint using area, perimeter, geometric shapes, and measurement requirements.

This spring-themed poetry collection teaches students to write haiku, acrostic, and cinquain poems.

This seven-page April historical warm-up packet features significant events, including Dr.

This five-page journal guides students through daily emotional check-ins and reflective prompts about feelings, triggers, body signals, coping strategies, empathy, and relationships.

Students analyze baseball box scores and calculate mean, median, mode, and range using realistic player statistics.

This seven-lesson Core French unit teaches classroom objects, school subjects, schedules, routines, and favourite-subject expressions.

Students explore the Maple Creek dilemma, weighing the need for affordable housing against wetland conservation.

This four-page guide introduces common bank card fraud methods, including skimming, PIN theft, fake ATMs, and suspicious transactions.

Students categorize forestry, farming, and oil and gas practices according to their environmental effects.

This eight-page writing resource guides students through developing a balanced opinion essay about Halloween celebrations at school.

Help students review classroom routines and expectations with a lighthearted back-to-school pop quiz.

A six-lesson Core French unit on school subjects, classroom objects, routines, schedules, preferences, and daily school life.

This six-lesson unit develops French vocabulary for foods, drinks, meals, likes and dislikes, and ordering at a café.

This eight-lesson Core French unit introduces Grade 5 students to greetings, introductions, feelings, classroom instructions, numbers, colours, and simple conversations.

This six-lesson Core French unit reviews vocabulary and sentence structures from the year through games, dialogue practice, and a cumulative “Tout sur moi” project.

This two-week unit includes approximately 7–8 lessons on family vocabulary, descriptions, possessives, traditions, dialogues, presentations, review games, and assessment.

This approximately two-week unit includes seven scripted lessons teaching students to express preferences, ask questions, conduct surveys, and present personal interests in French.

This four-page financial literacy worksheet introduces credit, debt, interest, APR, principal, minimum payments, and credit scores.

Students investigate how bioluminescent organisms produce light and examine the potential use of glowing plants as sustainable streetlights.

Students explore how snowshoe hare feet and bird feathers inspire snowshoes and puffy coats.

Students explore the relationship between physical exertion and precision by collecting heart-rate and task-performance data.

This four-page classroom resource helps students explore allyship, inclusion, and ways to create safer environments for LGBTQ+ peers.

Students practice asking who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about family traditions, community celebrations, and historical statements.

This beach-themed activity pack integrates multi-step multiplication and division word problems with narrative reading, vocabulary, comprehension, and creative writing tasks.

Students analyze beadwork-inspired patterns to identify fractions, equivalent fractions, and repeating pattern units.

This literacy packet uses the legend of the Blarney Stone to build reading comprehension, story sequencing, vocabulary, and persuasive language skills.

This four-page resource introduces blackout poetry through definitions, a visual transformation example, success criteria, and a step-by-step process.

Students learn to calculate discount amounts and final prices using realistic Black Friday shopping scenarios.

This four-page science lesson introduces biomimicry through examples such as bird wings, kingfishers, burrs, and airplane design.

Students analyze a bobsled track to identify locations of maximum potential and kinetic energy.

This five-page lesson introduces students to AI-powered drones, 3D mapping, digital twins, and robotics in construction management.

This three-page activity helps students understand healthy boundaries and why they support personal wellbeing.

Students learn key friendship skills including respect, teamwork, empathy, kindness, sharing, apologizing, inclusion, listening, and helping.